Zach Goodier
Byakuya's back, folks, but if you're expecting him to finish his fight from the last battle, you're mistaken. This week's chapter is short, too short; however, it contains an important moment for both Byakuya and Rukia. Rukia, as I've stated before, has always lived in her brother's shadow, where he sought to protect her from harm, as Hisana wanted him to. However, this is an important chapter because Byakuya finally turns over the reigns, and decides that Rukia is strong enough now where she can fight this battle on her own. Oh, almost forgot... She finally has a bankai, however, the chapter ends with the release, and like with Renji's battle, we'll have to hold of another week until we might get a peek at it, and what its ability is.
Rukia has progressed in more or less the same fashion as I expected. I hadn't expected Byakuya to show up so early in this battle, but it's good that he did. Now that he's given his nod of approval to Rukia, I expect she'll be able to stand out more as a character in this final story arc. Moreover, it really parallels Ichigo's path during this arc, where they've both been accomplished (perhaps one more than the other), but they've both still felt very young and unsure of themselves next to the other characters. I've been loving how these two have really been stepping it up, and being on the home stretch for the series makes it the perfect time to do so. Hopefully we can dive right in next week and have this fight finished in a another couple of chapters so we can move the plot along some more, I'm still dying to see what Ichigo can do when he joins the fight.
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