User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/392: The Breaking Glaciers/@comment-44061-20100211021056

Lia you are spot on here. I Have been saying that accuracy of this for the longest. Aizen is overpowered with or without the Zanpakuto. There is no care for the story or the characters. Its all lets make the captains pointless now and in the future, by having him effortlessly beat bankai without release and overpower everyone. Wow great story telling here (Sarcasm). This chapter I found to be highly insulting what was the point of that, I almost preferred him overpowering everyone then that stunt he pulled. That wasn't a twist it was a joke a entire chapter that was pointless. I obviously didn't expect him to be defeated, injured yea, so what big deal then he can attack with bankai and whatever, but they couldn't get a justifiable hit on him, this didn't add suspense it just add aggravation. Now for your points.


 * This is my main problem with Kyoka Suigetsu, it has no range limit, no time limit. Supposedly you remain under its affect for over 100 years easy. Thats ridiculous and whats more stupid is that apparently all you have to do is see it. But when? He is very inconsistent on the release. He doesn't seem to say the release command until after the affect has taken place to show the unaware that it was an illusion in the first place. Then again there is no release command until after the fact. So how do you know if you are under its power? Apparently you dont. The use of the zanpakuto is inconsistent. When Aizen was revealed in the SS arc the critics en mass stated it was overpowered even then and we didn't see much of it. Now less then 392 chapters later we have seen enough to question and we in the know are all on board with the critic assessment. The only way to beat it is if you are blind.


 * The Ichigo thing made no sense. Im not gonna even justify his reasoning. He apparently is the only one not yet affected by Kyoka Suigetsu and he just stood there didn't say nothing didn't even really try to stop it. Ichigo is known for speed in bankai and he didn't do nothing. WTF


 * Your correct in the chapter making no sense. For it to have not been Aizen and just an illusion, yet with expressions of amazement, concern. He had an inner monologue and everything. Instead of doing all that the fake Aizen would have been better, instead of insulting everyone with a pointless chapter.


 * Also correct captains leaving themselves open to attack. So consistency and reasonable sense are sacrificed to make Aizen all powerful as well. Man it must be nice to have so many characters I can just throw away and make appear weak and useless. And yea that was like miles away, if it was Gin it would have made sense for that attack. I dont get this concept at all.

I think that what pisses me off most is that its no story progression. Its pure overkill. Then I have to hear about how Aizen is the best villain ever. How so where's the character development. If I was Zeus fighting an army of Ants that doesn't make me great. In any story there has to be some balance some form of ability to resolve the situation. The battles could seem hopeless but in truth tip either way. In every other battle in bleach we have seen this formulae until now. Battling Aizen is largely one sided. Totally in his favor. There is no point of fighting everyone is affected by his zanpakuto except Ichigo. Without the Zanpakuto he is effortlessly taking on captains and defeating their bankai like nothing. Who are we left with the power fluctuating noob, who has no idea what he is the middle of and can't bring himself to kill anyone even when they are trying to kill him. Least we already determined that Aizen can't be beat with force, and Ichigo is supposed to save use but thats all he uses. I fear for the continuation of bleach. These next two arcs could be Kon running from a bunch of Hollows as Aizen brings the armageddon for all we know.