User blog comment:Godisme/The Crimson Cremation/@comment-44061-20120329002716

I am surprised that I actually liked this chapter. The tone was slowed down and didn't seem forced with too much to fast as I felt was happening with the past chapters. I looked at some of the posts random users who don't commonly frequent the site left on last weeks blog, about this chapter because of impatience with this blog coming out. To say the least I was disappointed, most don't comprehend honor, integrity, loyalty, and respect. They watch and read manga/anime and don't know nothing of the culture that creates it and how it influences these concepts, especially in bleach. Having said that learning about Sasakibe was welcoming to learn that there was more to him then he let on, his skill overshadowed by his quite nature. We all wrote him off as weak cause we never saw him fight and there was that issue with ichigo defeating him so easy in the SS arc. Now we know he was probably just caught off guard by Ichigo's attack and he was certainly stronger and more skilled then he let on. He maintained his role as a lieutenant out of respect and loyalty to Yamamoto, when he could have struck out on his own many times over. Never even using bankai he learned so long ago until the day he died. We unfortunately will never know enough about this man. But we did learn enough to understand his personality, it's an admirable one. If nothing else is certain it's that he was cared for deeply by Yamamoto and I fear for anyone who stands in the way of that ancient powerhouse's vengeance for his lost friend.