User blog comment:Silver-Haired Seireitou/Sake Time with Sei - Alternate Takes on the War/@comment-18812574-20140905203138

Holy crap, that is one review there Lastation. But ditto, you know. You put all my feelings into words. I honestly haven't even READ the stupid thing since Ichigo showed up to fight Candice... and that was a while ago.

Here are some things I've noticed:

1) Waaaaay overpowered characters, which means no suspense, no drama, nada. This is so different from the Fullbringer arc, which consisted of humans with a few basic abilities. Not over-powered, and you know what? It had suspense. We actually CARED whether or not Ichigo would be able to save his family/friends or save himself from his fate. It was PERSONAL, which is why it was so gripping. Wandenreich has none of that. Just some random baddies who show up with no good connection to the protags to kick ass, destroy the seireitei, yadda yadda. Pretty unbelievable, if you ask me.

2) Inconsistancies galore. Yeah, sure. We can believe that stuff said in the first couple of arcs were errors/they acquire new information that changes what they said earlier. Like in the Arrancar arc. In season 1 Ichigo barely wins against a Menos Grande and then, dun dun dun... there are MORE of them. And they have Zanpakuto? But this was more believable since Ichigo had been mainly acting on his own in the first part, and didn't have the know-how that the Soul Society did until later. But Kubo really stressed the whole "I am the last of the Quincy" element in the first part. (Until Ryuken showed up and it was revealed to be an inherited title.) Still, the whole "last of my kind" thing really added a lot more emotion and depth to Uryu's predicaments. I for one actually cared about the fate of the Quincy. But now that there are a half-billion half-baked half-clothed half-witted whatever-you-want-to-call-them running around, I don't give a shit. In fact, it would be a great favor if Kubo decided to kill them all now and save me the trouble of reading through a terrible last arc. Which might not even be the last arc.

3) Character design sucks. The only ones that really had any potential (for me, anyway) were As Nodt, Gremmy, and Jugram, (the whole "opposite of Yhwach" thing,) What happened to all that potential? Got bull-dozed by a error in judgement, and a guy who isn't supposed to have a bankai who has a bankai...

4) Speaking of which, what the hell is up with Kenpachi? He was cool enough WITHOUT a bankai, not that he really needed one. The whole backstory with Unahana was good... but before it got anywhere important she died. Yeah. Nice one there. She could have been so BA but instead Kenny HAD to have his bankai. ahgahrgaghagrhg

5) What happened to Kensei and Rose? Are they dead? Hell, we were just introduced to them a few arcs ago, and aside from some backstory and a few fights, haven't really seen what they can do or who they really are. So now they're gone. (Which is highly unbelievable, they'll probably show up in another 20 chapters or something. UNLESS:)

6) Kubo forgets them like he did the rest of all his plot set-up/characters. Lastation mentioned a lot of this. Fullbringers, Grimmjow, etc. After Ishiin's backstory was revealed though, I don't really mind as much. It would be better for him to leave them all alone than to screw up all their stories like he did with the rest of the plot. Leave some fodder for his devoted (*ahem*) fanon.

PROS:

1) There are two reasons why I'd keep reading this: One is that Uryu is looking like he's going to turn out as a villian. The other is we have no idea what will happen to Ichigo after he's achieved DB Ultimate Star-Destroyer mode. (Which I find hard to believe, even if it is Ichigo. Really? Ishiin lost his powers too you know and it took him 10+ years to get back to a captain's level.) And for both, I really don't like the way this is headed. Looks like a train-wreck in the making. In other words, I fear some sadistic and hugely depressing turn of events is at hand... (I can't watch!!!)

Anyway, there's my vomiting upon of the discussion thread. I didn't really put that much thought into this, and like I said I haven't got that far into the arc yet so this may all be old/contradicted news. But whatever.