wow! that was a nice fight and ichigo released his vizard form! that flashback almost made me cry tho since...i dunno things like that do all the time...
and we see that kifune is EVIL! i'm guessing more than kifune and amagai will end up killing each other so they wont effect the non-fillers
discuss.
I liked the fight as well (for some reason it pumped me up - it must have been the music

). I'm not sold on the idea that Kifune is evil (yet). If you take off his glasses and mess up his hair he would look very similar to the boy that is supposed to marry Lurichio. Its possible that Kifune is his older brother, and his association with the villain may be his way of trying to protect his brother (speculating).
UrusaiBaka you may be right about them killing each other, but I hope that's not the case since if it is then you just spoiled for everyone that reads this thread.

Question is what is their next step? Are they going to go the path of getting members of Soul Society to fight Ichigo again (squad 3 vs Ichigo)?