User blog comment:Godisme/Die Standing/@comment-3428301-20121010160418

Hmm I can see the arc lasting longer than that but it's going to take either some epic Deus Ex Machina or huge amounts of BS. Unlike Byakua though I can kind of imagine seeing Yamamoto just stand there. First of all, he just exaused most of his power on the... Quincy who's name escapes me at this point, 2. he had just gotten his Bankai stolen by Jubach which is really damn demoralizing considering that that's the strongest weapon (arguably) a Shinigami has and giving them the most powerfull flame type and argueably the strongest current would be a blow to anyone's morale and fighting spirit.

Now for the backstory about the Gotei 13: Kubo is officially teasing us, he tells us that basically they used to be a bunch of bastards and that we just have to accept it, we get to backstory to it, to proof to the fact other than the word of the villain. I guess you could look to the first arc where we meet the (majority) shinigami and their reclusive atmosphere as proof of that but come on, we're talking about something that happened 1,000 years ago I'm not just going to take the word of one man for this without supporting evidence