User blog comment:GokūBlack10/The Angry Ten-Tails: Bleach 578 & Naruto 674 — Review/@comment-117598-20140423161053

After the spoilers that showed 90% of the chapter, i honestly didn't expect that ending. And even then, it just seemed... abrupt. I'm a conspiracy theory guy so it felt like Kubo realized the battle has been 6 uninterrupted chapters and revealing Kenpachi's shikai was the most he wanted to showcase. There's still any potential future battles that he can reveal the full might of Kenpachi.

But considering the dwindling list of antagonists and the ton of protagonists that have still yet to make their presence known (Fullbringers, Isshin & Yoruichi, Urahara and his group, potentially Grimmjow, possibly the other Visored like Love and Hachi, as well as seeing Mayuri, Shunsui, Jushiro, Byakuya, Ichigo fight still) something has to come in and remove Kenpachi from the storyline for a while since he just bested the "strongest" Sternritter.

OR Kubo could just ignore him for 60 chapters to focus on the other characters and use the "he was lost" or "healing" during that time.

Who knows. The last 6 chapters I thought the fight would be over at the end of each. The one time last week I thought it could last another 2-3 since the spoilers showed the fight giving off that feeling of "its just getting started", of course Gremmy would die at the end of it. But, as any sort of positive criticism, Gremmy could still be alive and Kubo could salvage the ending for me. Either way, I wasn't overly invested in this battle so I don't mind it being over and moving on to another.