User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/417: Deicide 19/@comment-1432572-20100826020731/@comment-1405841-20100826021623

That's how it will always end up, the strongest characters at the start will become much weaker than the main character further along in the story. Ah well, they still have the Royal Guard...and while people potentially believe they're not that much more powerful than the typical Gotei 13 Captains, I'm on the up and up and say...THEY'RE STRONG MOFOS! Besides, why introduce weaker characters than Aizen later on? Whole miles of land will be destroyed in the epic fights to come (even if Aizen dies soon enough).