User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 323: The Shadow That Comes And Goes, Review./@comment-5840892-20130315192557/@comment-5840892-20130316050549

Obito being the masked man was I only figured out two weeks before it was revealed.

But i agree with you about Ichigo's mom, I saw that coming after the Vandenreich King left saying: "Farewell Ichigo Kurusaki, My Son Born in the Dark."