I remember about a year ago going through Bleach again, well, through the Aizen stuff again.
Only espada fights that were decent were Grimmjow and the one Rukia fought (and even that is a stretch). The science one was entertaining enough once Mayuri came along.
Banzai guy was the weakest one in actual Hueco Mundo, as it was two guys standing around, talking about how the move they made gave them the advantage. It's like making the game of chess and making it into a fight for life or death, but the game is even more boring to watch.
Noitra was just a boring fight of who could slash harder than the other.
Ulqiorra was him dominating Ichigo the whole time until Ichigo got his super asspull, and switched who was curbstomping who.
Barrigan had an interesting concept, but was so OP that the way he had to die was stupid.
Harribel had no fight like Yammi.
Then Stark, which had a super anticlimactic end. Number one my ass, you got OHKO by a captain, in his Shikai.
Worse of all was that the above mentioned would look amazing by the Aizen battle standards.
I think the best part thinking about it now is how the Arrancar fights were infinitely superior to the Sternritter battles, especially considering all but two Espada didn't have fully fleshed out fights, where a number of the Sternritter were just tossed aside, and had terrible fights.
Bambietta: Fox gets power-up by getting his human form back for some reason. Bambietta can't do shit and dies.
Mask: The fight that I should've loved, but brooding Renji makes his Debut and isn't affected at all. Guy was interesting, but even his charisma couldn't take away the tediousness coming out from Renji
Fear guy: "I am made of Ice, Fear no affect me but brain function still well"
Imagination Guy: "Me Kenpachi, cut, slash, black hole no affect me, now I use shikai whose affect increase ratings and make fanboys piss their pants"
Zombie girl: 'Semen Zombies make me wet"
Overkill: "I am bfsjaogfsajjgs" Fried to death
Three random nobodies "Kenpachi bored"
Other Sternritter: "Oh no, power taken away. Why we trust obvious evil person who doesn't care about us? Why did we even follow him? We shall curse his name and now do nothing since we have no power"
We are in the Deicide 2.something, where the name actually makes since. I suggest the chapter titles be called Deicide: Is the Soul King dead for sure yet? Or Deicide 2.0: Battle of the Gods (Aizen v Juhabach, who will become the God of trolls).
I think were still in the beginning of "FKT" of this arc , the elite sternritters with hashwalth are like espada 1-5 , so we still have those fights ,, all the previous sternritter fights are like espada 6 and below …