User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 654 - Deadman Standing/@comment-1210805-20151204063206

It's good to see Izuru again. I wonder how much more we'll see of him? This also gives me hope that Mashiro will surface again. The only time we've seen her since the time skip was when Kensei was training Hisagi, which was also the only time we've seen any of the Visored use their masks since the battle with Aizen. I can only assume they've been forbidden from doing so.

It seems strange to me that after going through the effort of bringing Aizen out, they've just left him alone in the Seireitei. Maybe he'll come to the Soul Palace with some of the other thus far unaccounted for characters, such as the Fullbringers.

I'm still annoyed that we haven't heard anything more about the Rukongai disappearances from the beginning of the arc. I'd completely forgotten about them until just the other day.