@nobody:
Guys, the crappy afterlife in Soul Society is totally a metaphor for… letting everything go after death! Being at peace and not needing anything! Yeah! It's so DEEP, don't you understand?
! Nevermind that the Rukongai citizens have shown discomfort several times and complained about their situation
Makes Rukia calling Soul Society a "peaceful place" at the beginning totally hilarious, by the way
"So you resolved your issues that tied you to earth as a ghost. Now you'll move on to this place where everything's better. Except for your living situation being equivalent to that of a farmer in the middle-ages. And you'll be alone, wandering in search of your deceased loved ones for possibly all eternity. And the gods who reign over your soul don't give a fuck about you or those billions who came before you. But I don't wanna spoil the fun!"
When Mayuri wasted that random district, did those souls go back into the reincarnation cycle, or were they destroyed for good like how when Hollows are killed by Quincies?