User blog comment:Godisme/Shades of the Bond/@comment-44061-20111130194255

I'll just say this, we have ichigo, 2nd shikai version and now 3rd bankai version. I'm pretty sure we have left the usual and common concept behind. Im starting to think this is going to far. Changing the look on ichigo every 5 min is just a lack of consistency. It doesn't help that there is no reasoning behind the changes. The fluctuating power lvl we have dealt with forever. It seems ichigo is undergoing a transformation into the next sogyoku rather then having a balanced character development. Then there is the Kugo issue. The idea of shinigami and fullbringers trading powers and all that, has created a situation where we cant figure out where one begins and the other ends. Kugo's importance as a character or "villain" isnt really constructed well. What I mean by that is that combat related everything he does seems to be a reflection or foil to push ichigo onward just like every other opponent he has faced. He made much more sense before there was this need to become a effective opponent for Ichigo that is largely based on unexplained concepts. Stealing Ichigo's fullbring, using getsuga tensho, now activating bankai though there is no clear understanding how. He is essentially human, cross of scaffold is his fullbring. He doesn't seem to be a shinigami any longer so how is there bankai with no zanpakuto and no shikai? Is it a result of his power replicating abilities? He couldnt have stolen shinigami powers from ichigo, he didnt have them back yet? plus they are powers he only has access to in his spiritual body. This whole arc has had numerous plot holes, confusing points and contradictions that are hard to wrap your head around, this is really only in relation to the fullbringer and substitute shinigami connection issue and in some part with the some fullbring powers. Other then that Kubo started out with a decent arc though it got choppy in the details.