In the Soul Society, Pepe has been soundly defeated, but as he tries to pick himself back up, Liltotto appears, with an expressionless gaze upon the man who just tried to kill her. Despite his pleas, Liltotto moves to devour him as his screams echo across the Seretei.
In the Palace of the King of Souls, Juha Bach stands confident as Tenjirou's attacks keep missing him. Seemingly locked in a stalemate since Juha Bach has no interest in attacking, while his enemies attacks never hit, despite his target remaining completely stationary. As Tenjirou stands perplexed at this, Senjumaru appears with a group of soldiers, who immediately try attacking, only to find their attacks somehow always miss. The answer soon reveals itself (SPOILERS: it is totally NOT another Sternritter with some ridiculous ability). Meanwhile, Ichigo and company are set to embark on their way to the Palace to try to end this "1,000 Year Blood War" once and for all.
In case you didn't pick up on that previous sarcastic spoiler, there is another obnoxious Quincy now with the ability to (at least) deflect any incoming attacks. This plot device of randomly introducing new Quincy with OP abilities has been a major detractor from this story arc for me, since there really is no background to the characters within the show, making them feel shallow and uninteresting, only serving as obstacles to the main story, rather than adding to it.
Each of these side fights, while serving some great action, has involved our favorite established side-characters facing off with a Quincy with little if any panel time previously. Bringing new characters out of left-field every time you want to surprise the reader feels random and makes each of the fights feel like an obstacle to impatiently wait for to end so you can hopefully move the main story forward, and it gets even more frustrating when those sideshows are followed up by even more sideshows. I'm hoping that by starting to get more into the main conflicts, that means we might be finally moving into the climactic battle we've all been waiting for.
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