User blog comment:Godisme/Die Standing/@comment-5605202-20121010192308/@comment-1393830-20121010194109

1. Kubo did not say that the arc would take place in an ice palace. He said the enemy base was an ice palace. If you are going to try and use my own words against me, at least read them first.

2. My point remains that the Gotei 13 went down with the greatest of ease, it is apparent that Kubo just wants to bring in the overpowered Royal Guard. I don't think you get what the destruction of Soul Society means. If Soul Society is destroyed, the entirety of the cycle of death is thrown off. There is no more balance. If Soul Society is destroyed then there is little point in having the Royal Guard step in as the Spirit King is useless now considering he is the king of something that no longer exists.

3. The info I wrote down was taken from an interview. Kubo does interviews all the time, hardly any of what he says in interviews ever comes true. Kubo admits that he speed writes all the time. He comes up with plots as he goes. That is why the pacing is so bad. He does not plan anything. The Forest of the Menos was an idea Kubo had that he had to cut because his planning was bad and he didn't have time for it.

4. My job is not to sit here and make up situations in which the Soul Society will win. I am a realist. I look at the situation and see an enemy army who is impractically strong, so much so that they are taking out every single Shinigami with such ease that it is laughable. But in the end, I know the good guys will triumph because this is a Shonen manga and Shonen manga are all about Good vs. Evil and good triumping over evil as well as the power of friendship. I know Ichigo is going to come in and wreck people because he is a giant plot device. The thing is that it does not make sense. Yamamoto was stated to be the strongest character in the series. It was said no Shinigami stronger than him had been born in over 1000 years. It was said that he had the strongest Zanpakuto in existence, one whose shikai was as strong as some Bankais. It was said the only reason he was not in the royal guard was because there was no one who could replace him. So if Juhabach took him out in a single attack, excuse me for looking at the facts that you have missed and saying that if Kubo wanted to actually have a sense of reality to his manga, then Juhabach is now the most powerful being ever and there should literally be nothing that could stop him, meaning that in reality, this manga should be over soon. But of course its not going to happen because Kubo comes up with ridiculous explanations as to how to make characters incredibly powerful in comparison to an already ridiculously powerful character.