User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 569 (You've been hit by / You've been struck by / Senbonzakura~)/@comment-6916556-20140220021034/@comment-24153155-20140221001641

I think too that a backstory must be squeezed in at some point. It's not that I don't like the beefed up versions of the Quincy, since they made for quite some surprises (and ohw, do I think this is the absolute best arc eva=D, but it's so hard to "believe" (yeah, I am aware this is manga ;) that these are just some humans with exceptional Quincy abilities. I got to think there might be different levels at which Quincy are able to concentrate Reishi, with the Stern Ritter (not including Yhwach) being the most powerful (like there are different classes, similar to being a Captain-level Shinigami or just a powerless spirit). And at other times, it feels like Yhwach picks out the strong/usable Quincy, makes them Sternritter, and kinda moves them around in the battlefield like chess pieces.