User blog comment:Godisme/Mute Your Breathe Friendship/@comment-1489595-20110625074255

I can't say I was creeped out by this chapter so much as surprised. What happened to Ichigo's friends and family was out of left field. This whole thing is like NOTHING Ichigo has experienced before. His enemy isn't just threatening to kill Ichigo's people, he has turned them into a threat Ichigo can't easily conquer with "Roar! Behold my vast Spirit Pressure!" Tsukishima hasn't stepped out to the front to face Ichigo personally, he has removed the very support network Ichigo depends on and turned it into a negative, a barrier that can't simply be smashed through with superior strength and a desire to win. Not, at least, without harming or killing the very people who give him the strength to win (protect) in the first place. For a boy of Ichigo's particular nature this is a deadly paradox.

Ultimately its this which makes Ichigo's current situation so interesting, not a new kind of power-up. We always see Ichigo win with some ridiculous new ultimate power...now lets see him solve this situation with 'just' the ordinary strength of a Full Bringer, or a teenage boy for that matter.