kevin_video said:
Looking at the votes, I can see that it's very hard to please everyone.
This is getting back to old Bleach, minus the whole loss of eyes thing. Admittedly, while that's probably going to be effective, making him wear a blindfold would have worked too.
AS ginjou said(from the obvious fact that he most likely observed ichigo for a long time), Ichigo best trains and thinks under EXTREME circumstances.
AS for votes - meh, any chapter with no "omg action" gets labeled as "nothing happened". Character development and suspense build up also get labeled as "nothing happened.". Add to that "omg bring back teh soul sousajety" crowd and generic biased people and you have the votes as they are.