User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 562 - THE VILLAIN 2 (Mask De Masculine is a Mexican luchador in a German army)/@comment-5693502-20131217161348/@comment-28861328-20131218063224

The problem with that argument, though, well pointed as it may be, is that with Aizen, we knew from the very start of the FKT battles what he was after. Destroying Karakura Town and making an Oken. We knew why Ichigo had to save everyone too. Because he is Karakura Town's Shinigami, and its his duty to protect it.

That's not the case here. The Quincy have no defined purpose. They're just killing randomly. Yhwach doesn't have a stated goal, or any implied goal for that matter. The villains he's presenting us are two dimensional, have basic and overused personality traits, and are, in general, not very likeable. With the Arrancar, you got emotionally invested in some of them. Grimmjow, Ulquiorra, Starrk, Harribel, Nel. You cared about them, sometimes, as much as you cared about the heroes. They were given deeper personalities, reasons for fighting, feelings and affections. These Quincy have none of that. You have Bambietta playing the role of the snobby brat, As Nodt playing the calm-collected nihilist, Bazz-B is the crazy guy in over his head, and Mask suffers from a superiority complex that rivals Byakuya's but that is IT.

And Yhwach, contrary to some around her, is not very interesting. He's Aizen 2.0 without the genuine fear that came with Aizen's name. He has the same "I have always known everything and I have planned for everything, and I knew you were going to do that because I planned that too" attitude Aizen had, with nothing to show for it other than a bull**** kill of the strongest Shinigami in history. That was not a plausible end to that fight whatsoever, but because its "Kubo's story" its seen as some sort of amazing feat. Its not. Yama-jii, who saw through Aizen's illusions, is suddenly shocked by a clone, who has Yhwach's powers, but is killed by Yhwach easily when he was just dominating the guy who had copied Yhwach's powers. I don't buy it. Not at all.

I hate it that I always seem like the party killer, the naysayer or whatever, but I genuinely like Bleach. So for me to see Kubo taking this half-assed route when there is so much potential for this story's conclusion is infuriating.