DB's comment this week was pure gold.

"Dear Bounto, we are very sorry. Please come back."

Pretty much the same thing I've been thinking since these fillers began.


That said, I liked this one better than the previous ones because it looks like the start of a larger filler arc. It also seems like a relatively serious arc, and doesn't have any new crying kids in it.

I'm not worried too much about them "breaking with the manga". I remember back at the beginning of the bounto arc they made a bunch of changes like Rukia's comeback and Ishida's powers. But by the end of the arc, everything was put back the way it was supposed to before they picked back up from the manga.