Glad that Menos was defeated defeated, but just retreated. Kind of like Grand Fisher, to come up again later when are heroes are more suited. The fight here was mostly lame, but I do like how they built up the resolution earlier by first showing how Ichigo's spirit energy flowing out affected Chad & Orihime. While I was more sour on the fight though, I did like Ishida's resolution here, him helping Ichigo made sense with the explanation given about their powers in the earlier chapter, and it meshed well with his internal monologue at the same, makes sense that he was shifting the blame to the Soul Reapers when he was the one feeling guilty. Him saving Ichigo and his monologue did a good deal to make him more likable after this stupid contest.