User blog comment:Soulreaper1234/Why Do Ichigo & Aizen an Overpowered Hero & Villains?/@comment-44061-20100828163731/@comment-1405841-20100828173150

This is what makes me hesitant about trying to do Manga...most stories start off great, but as it progresses (and becomes a lengthy 400+ chapter series) suddenly you either raise the power of everyone or kill of the weaker characters. Salubri's right, what significance is everyone else going to have at this point? Ichigo's human friends are just powerful enough to handle the first set of enemies in any "invasion" or "infillitration".

The way I see it, most of the supporting characters (especially the human ones) are only good to take out the pawns and at the very most, a rook. Some of them are capable of taking on Espada but always end up the same way: just like Krillin (as I spell it). What do I mean there? Well Krillin is that little bald friend of Goku's who always is apart of every big fight, but only gets one or two hits in that probably do NOTHING and then in just one hit, he's knocked useless! Let's say all the human characters are Krillin+, as it takes a little more for some of them...but for Chad, as seen with Shunsui and later Nnoitra, it doesn't take much to knock these guys out and "leave them on the sidelines" while the big boys fight.

The Vice-Captains also follow this path, as they fight off Fraccion of their own level. Of course after that point, they're pretty much Krillin watching with their back on the ground and wounds up the yingyang. Then there's the Espada, while some were taken out with ease (Szyael and Zommari), others took some effort (Grimmjow, Nnoitra) and then the top 4 all became problems for the characters. It takes 2-4 people to beat just one of these guys back and then the victory is handed to them due to a fluke...a cool fluke with Hachi, a trick by Shunsui, and "you're useless" by Aizen. Of course after this point, Aizen turns every single character except for Ichigo into Krillin...then goes to "Destroy the Universe" after he made Ichigo feel like Gohan (who for the most part of the series, was weak and scared of everyone stronger than him).

And it's bad that he made every single Captain feel like Krillin, that's just sad...even Yamamoto! So what point are these characters going to be later? I'll tell ya: they'll get a slight power boost to handle whatever extra baddies show up in the future, but then they'll be put down AGAIN so that Ichigo can finish off the main baddie at the end. And that's just how it's going to play out...Kubo could KILL the weakened characters, but now he has so many Krillins that I don't know what he's going to do with them.