I agree that KT is taking an axe to a number of background setting bits.
OTOH... hm. It's not so much that there is no foreshadowing at all, or that there is lots of foreshadowing. But a number of background bits are now coming back to bite us with an unanticipated explanation that casts the whole thing in a much darker light. Why is it illegal to the point of a possible death penalty for shinigami to transfer their powers to the living? Why has Yamamoto always been by-the-book and legalism for as long as we have known him? Why has Ishida Ryuuken always wanted his son to give up being a Quincy? Why are people scared of Unohana? Why did the shinigami apparently kill all the Quincy?
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OTOH... hm. It's not so much that there is no foreshadowing at all, or that there is lots of foreshadowing. But a number of background bits are now coming back to bite us with an unanticipated explanation that casts the whole thing in a much darker light. Why is it illegal to the point of a possible death penalty for shinigami to transfer their powers to the living? Why has Yamamoto always been by-the-book and legalism for as long as we have known him? Why has Ishida Ryuuken always wanted his son to give up being a Quincy? Why are people scared of Unohana? Why did the shinigami apparently kill all the Quincy?