Thread:Mangetsu20/@comment-5651818-20130517004602/@comment-4326112-20130517011250

Two different storylines. Wrath of the Archdemon, Children of Izanami, Shadow Games, and the War of Four are all connected in a singular storyline. ^_^ Furui is from that universe.

This one revolves around the Hell King coming in and dispatching Yamamoto and some key Canon characters. After that, Entei comes in and takes his place. Though granted the main character is the son of Ichigo, not really the new and old memorable characters that come to be introduced.

As for why Yamamoto failed...well its obvious that he can't do crap. He may be a tough old guy, but he failed to stop Aizen twice  first time he just sat there and watched from his cane, when he's obviously faster and tougher than his subordinates. The other time, he was just gullible and stupid, as all atypical samurai that he embodies are >.<) and failed to stop Ichigo when he plainly appeared and blasphemously stopped the execution, AND failed to kill his subordinates like he swore he would when he is undoubtedly stronger than the two of them put together.

Its not hard to make a reasonably stronger character, who's SMARTER than that old bag of bones -.-