User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 496: Forward, Review./@comment-27337151-20160803065130/@comment-5894890-20160806010835

@Wrath Assuming your comment was to mine, I tried to reword my comment so it was more clear, but guess it didn't come through. Growth, as in personality growth, not power growth. Its meaningless if a character simply gets strong in terms of power. Their reason for fighting (protect soul society, etc) was barely even mentioned. To put it simply, this arc lacked a strong goal as well as emotion. The last time I was sitting on the edge of my seat for a Bleach chapter was when Genryusai Yamamoto was fighting. The reason I liked Nemu's fight was that she actually had a strong motive to fight (to protect her master), while surprising us with the fact that she is capable, and doing something we didn't expect. Most of the other fights were simply them fending off the intruder and surviving, most in which lacked a strong resolve. Well, I just learned a lot from the comments :P. I had no idea Kubo was the one being rushed, thus he had to rush Bleach. While that puts it into a different perspective, I honestly think Kubo could have finished in a much better way, reserved more panels from 'side fights' and used it towards Yhwach, for example: The miracle... where we see SEVERAL chapters of him getting back up. There isn't even a surprise towards it, it's just more like... "not again -.-". In my opinion, a panel of the captains seemingly exhausted from using a bunch of stuff, and then Byakuya, Hitsugaya, and Zaraki combining their last resorts (Bankai's) to try to take him down; proving almost futile would have been better than wasting time on a character no one really cares about.