Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28540184-20160524130044/@comment-28540184-20160525230435

Salubri wrote: Aizen not doing anything else would not be a plot hole. Before the arc Kubo only stated that Aizen would be seen, he was. There is no plot about Aizen being important or necessary, he was let out of prison he provided some help but ultimately isnt currently important to the story. Zaraki fought Yhwach and lost, Urahara didnt fight him either. Aizen's interests are his own and not in line with anyones thats been proven. Of course, there is no absolut need for Aizen to intefere in some way but as an author of a story you can't just let the former main villain survive and set him free in a storyline in which he is actually not inflicted just to "show" him. In my opinion, this would be some kind of bad storytelling and therefore some kind of plot hole. The result would be something like: "Yeah, we defeated Yhwach and actually didn't need your help at all (except for the part with the Black Coffin^^) and to free you was some kind of pointless. Well, I hope you had a nice time outside but there you go for the next 19998 years (or until the next villain shows up)". I agree with you that Aizen serves only himself in the end and would betray anyone as soon as he could but as I mentioned earlier: His interests are in line with the interests of the Gotei as long as Yhwach exists in his current state. Aizen has no interest in the father of Quincys being ruler of the world; I mean, basically he is stealing his job ! (:D) He even dicussed it with Shunsui in a short way. Furthermore, he still watches Ichigos progress with interest and is waiting for an opportunity to interfere in his own favour. I just believe that it would be vasted potential to let him sit right there.