Well, when you think about a story logically, the first person to fight the main villain usually dies. It only makes sense. It gives development to the villain, showcases his abilities, and gives more incentive for the main hero to bring him down. This is the last arc and we just saw one of the captains who was most involved in the story die amongst others. I can't help but think that Kubo might pull out the stops here and kill off even more characters. It's hard to explain, but I won't be surprised by Kenpachi's fate either way. Logically, he could die in this fight here only for Ichigo to avenge him. Although, Kenpachi does have a lot going for him and he has a lot going for Kubo. No matter how bad the story ever got, Kubo could probably just draw Kenpachi in the corner of one of the panels and everything would be fixed again. My final verdict is that Kenpachi won't die simply because he is the favorite character of the story, probably by a wide margin. If Kubo were to kill him off, he would receive nothing but negative feedback for it and I doubt he's going to do that.

This post was edited by Juicy_J on Jul 25 2012 09:51am

He has been receiving negative feedback each chapter for... 1-2 years? now.... so not sure if he cares too much about more negative feedback. Although I agree, putting Kenpachi in the corner of each panel would be pretty sweet.

Well of course he gets negative feedback, but if he kills Kenpachi, the negative feedback would go from "you suck Kishi, what the hell was that?" to "wow, fuck you and your retarded ass manga, Kishi. Die."

Byakuya died...*sniff*...i'm not crying....much

i dont think that counts as logic but rather just a "popular" pattern used in writing and may not even be the "norm". any who what i am saying is many fought aizen and the only one to die was gin(for all we know its him who saved ichigo lulz)

the dude with the boss says it "APPEARS" byakuya has died and we all thought kira had died too but rose seems to think otherwise

death in this manga is quite rare for the shinigamis of note

kenpachi death would be really significant in that all the other captains/liet would be like "oh shit just got real" because kenpachi is prolly second only to 1st and 8th captain(just a guess based on his shikai) in fighting without a bankai

but just going by this manga's history death wont befall kenpachi even though its the last arc



from the same people

This post was edited by Charity on Jul 25 2012 03:37pm

Ohhhh fucking knew it, Zaraki gonna fuucckkk some bitches up

i refuse to believe it....i think it's a plot twist or something....byakuya will come back....i hope. that death was way to insignificant and quick for it to kill byakuya.

It would be hilarious if in a few chapters they'll reveal that every captain went through hollowfication and byakuya will use his hollow powers. xD
I agree with the poster above me. Byakuya was "killed" way too quickly. He had more potential than that. He had deathgod magic up to 80s or something and his flashstep was rivalled by few.

Banki?

whats a Banki

I also hold the possibility that Byakuya isn't dead. He can probably take more punishment than that.