User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 637 - BABY, HOLD YOUR HAND/@comment-5551986-20150801225727

Even in the Gotei Mayuri is somewhat an enigma. He is good, but his intelligence lets him see a bigger picture, to be honest it seems like everything he does it for "the sake of sereitei" and his own personal research. I'm glad that both he and Kenpachi were together. Kenpachi loves to fight for the sake of fighting. He loves fighting, and on the opposite end of the spectrum Mayuri loves to research, two sides of the same coin. Mind over matter and matter over mind.

True enough Mayuri could have probably done lots of things with fewer casualties like blowing up his own men, getting Kenpachi injured, using Uryu and Renji as pawns, experimenting on Quincy, using the corpses of captains to fight and even Arrancarr. But what he done wasn't necessarily evil. The Gotei is there for the purpose of dying to exterminate great evil. Mayuri takes that literally, even when blowing up his own people the first time we met him, he was well within his rights to do so, they died because the Gotei believed Ichigo and chums a legitimate threat, they done their job, Mayuri done his, but in his own Intellectual way, the sacrifices were or never have been wholly in vain, because it has allowed things to progress as Mayuri chose and so far, hes only been defeated once.

I personally think, the old Yamamoto and the current Mayuri, were not so different in ideals from one another. Not taking into account the insane scientist part.

I agree with Mayuri's methods partly. If I could sacrifice people to win a war when it is their duty to fight and die in the first place, it isn't necessarily evil. Someones bound to die anyway, you've basically got a mini trolley problem on your hands.