Is it just me, or was this chapter a wasted opportunity? I mean, the beginning and end of it were the only parts that dealt with this new mystery that Kubo introduced, and everything else was just needless filler. I mean, I'm all for Kubo and his character interactions, but this reminded me of something I typed in an earlier chapter thread...
Quote from loosecannon504
At this point when you're near the end of an arc (Or in this case the end of the Arrancar Saga), you have to have every chapter advance the plot. Not advancing the plot when it's this close to the climax is basically having useless filler, as xshadow said. This whole interaction with the normal characters would've been fine had it not taken up the entire chapter. The interaction should have been around half a chapter, or 5-6 pages, cause then that would leave the rest of the pages to actually advance the plot.
It's like if you're watching a TV show and it's getting near the climax where you find out who the killer is, but then the writers decide to throw in some episodes with the remaining characters doing nothing but talk about the murders. Yeah, it has good interaction and brings in some character development, but when it's so close to the big reveal it seems so out of place to derail the story and switch it to something else that late in the story.
Just replace "near the end of an arc" and the stuff talking about the Arrancar Saga and it being so late in the story with "finding out more about this new mystery" and you've basically got the summary of this chapter.
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Quote from Klapzi
The cool part is that I never get tired of being deceived
Quote from tactics
Just because someone's head was chopped off doesn't mean they're dead. That's just silly.
maybe those guys are from the future 
