I'm getting tired of watching Ichigo get his ass kicked. The guy has seriously no other merits than being tenacious. He's not even trying anything. It sucks that he must still win just because he's the main character and for no other reason because he puts no effort into gaining an upper hand. He has no new moves, no new tactics, nothing to show he has learned anything new... Of course he's not altogether alone with such a wretched dispotion but that hardly makes it any more okay.

Good for Ichigo that Ulquiorra is a sadist who keeps torturing him instead of killing so that he has all the time in the world to acquire the next out of nowhere powerup from his near death experience. After all, it would be bad if he had little time and would need to use his rotten brain to come up with something new to use against a tough opponent.

Though I suppose sometimes it's even a good thing because due to that we got Kenpachi's fight against Nnoitra.

Too bad I would still like to see Ichigo that fights because he enjoys fighting... He would kick as much ass as Kenpachi.