Bleach 417

Summary:

Short one, since not much happened.

Ichigo  is back, he's extremely cool and calm. He's a little taller and his hair is a bit longer, probably due to the extended time, I'm not sure. Aizen says he's disappointed in him, for even if he was suppressing his reiatsu, to feel nothing is impossible. Ichigo request that they change locations but Aizen begins saying it's not necessary and that only a person strong enough to fight him can suggest such things. Ichigo grabs him by his face and flies him off to somewhere secluded, surprising Aizen completely.

Review:

I love the new Ichigo, calm and collected and rather cool looking. I can't wait to see an actual fight.

Bleach 416

Summary:

Gin talks to Aizen about past, Aizen kills gin, Rangiku remembers stuff and runs to Gin who is pretty much dead. He's glad he said sorry he says. Short summary, but that's all that happened. At the end, Ichigo is back in new bankai form! ooo

Thoughts:

BOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I wanted Gin to be alive, I liked him, I liked his abilities. I am annoyed with that KT decided to do with Gin, it's so petty. I would have loved to see him just wanting power and overtaking Aizen for that reason alone. I wanted him to be a true psychopath, that would be cool; however, that's not the case. As far as Ichigo goes, yay. He's in a new form, hopefully the fight wont drag out for another month or two and we'll be able to see a dead Aizen and a flash forward.

Naruto and Bleach

Being as there is a festival the new bleach and naruto chapters will be out next week. Since I'm not actually reading much besides those two manga at the moment. I'll be posting next week. Perchance I should have timed my return a little better.

Bleach - The Approaching Breath of Death, the King Who Rules Over Death! - 275 - review/summary

Summary:

Hitsugaya uses Hyouten Hyakkasou, it's a basic technique but it's very powerful. He can use it safely now though because his bankai isn't as powerful as it was, which is evident in the 1 and a 1/4 flower behind his back. Black clouds roll in and a huge hole opens  where mass amounts of snow falls, Harribel uses cascade but it's helpless, the water turns to ice and shatters. Snow falls and as it hits her and the ground flowers sprout, and she becomes encased in ice.

The second half of the show focuses on Soi Fon and Baraggan, who, after Ulquiorra, is my favorite espada. Soifon and pathetic Omaeda attack him to ill effect. Soi Fon's kicks are slowed as she approaches contact with Baraggan, as he has the ability to control time/age. They fight a bit, he touches her shoulder which leads to her arm breaking. They devise a plan and when it would seem it would work, Omaeda, pathetic as he is, abandons Soi Fon and runs to hide. Sure he was in danger of dieing, but it's for his captain and the better good!

Omaeda comes back when Soi Fon is obviously about to be killed. Baraggan says that they're prepared to die and decides to release!

Once he comes out of release he touches down on the building, instantly it begins to decay. He uses respira which is pretty much a black/purple fog of death. It's quick enough to keep up with Soi Fon and it braises her hand. The skin on her hand and arm begins to deteriorate. She screams for Omaeda to cut off her arm and he comes and does so. The arm falls on the ground and the bones deteriorate. 

Thoughts:

Great episode. I love baraggan, he's my second favorite character. I find him cooler than Ulquiorra when it comes to attacks, but I prefer Ulquiorra's personality. Baraggan is ridiculously arrogant and "superior". He speaks a lot of death and such but he's a bit hypocritical.

Bleach - Episode 274 - Hitsugaya's Desperate Frozen-Heavens Countless Ornate Entombment! - Review and Summary

Summary:

The majority of the episode was focussed around Harribel and Hitsugaya. Harribel releases and fires some water at Hitsugaya, who turns it into ice. When Hitsugaya attacks back Harribel turns his ice dragon into water and attacks back surprising him, using her special technique, cascade.

Hitsugaya attacks again, Harribel turns his ice into water, then Hitsugaya appears behind her and turns the water back into ice and slashes at her. Encasing her in ice. There is a short break from Hitsugaya and Harribel's fight and we see Kyoraku and Spark who are pretty much fake fighting. Kyoraku gets Spark to use his cero, which is a nice deep blue.

Then we go back to the right between Hitsugaya and Harribel who uses her cero, which interestingly enoug she fires with her sword.

Hitsugaya shields himself using the wings of his bankai. When Harribel catches back up to him she tells him no more running. He informs her he knows they're both waiting for the area to fill with water but says after that he doesn't need to wait, just when it look like he's about to go all out, he looks down and notices all the injured and decides against it, instead he uses sennen hyoro and encases her in ice, but of course that doesn't work and she turns it all into ice and uses cascade again, except this one is much more powerful since there was a lot more ice to be made into water.

Hitsugaya uses ryusenka and turns the massive cascade into ice, which takes a lot out of him. He crashes down to the ground, his wings barely holding. Harribel comes saying he made a sacrifice but then cold air comes, his wings reform, black clouds roll in, and Hitsugaya says the heavens are under his control. Hyoten Hyakkaso!! TO BE CONTINUED...

Thoughts:

Great episode, I love Hitsugaya and it was nice seeing him fight with the majority of his abilities. Harribel is great fun to watch to, I like her character. I can't wait till next week, whilst I did read it, I really would love to see it.

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Bleach - 273 - Fury of the Shark! Halibel Releases - Review/Summary

Summary:

Very early in the show Yammy releases, showing that he's number 0, the strongest espada. He turns into this weird giant humntipede (human/centipede). He's extremely resilient in this form. He's the only espada that can increase his reiatsu by simply sleeping and eating, which is a little weird. We then go back to Karakura town where Soi Fon and Hitsugaya are having some trouble fighting. Harribel unzips her top to show she is number three. She begins attack Hitsugaya. She releases and attacks him cutting him in half, but really it's just an ice clone.

There is a small comedy moment when Soi Fon and Omaeda are against Baraggan. Omaeda goes on about how they need to release their true strength because when in the real world their reiatsu is cut; however, we find out that the restriction was never placed. The episode ends with Hitsugaya telling Harribel to not under estimate them.

Thoughts:

Well, I already read this. I wasn't really looking forward to reading this. I only really cared about Ichigo going full hollow. It's not bad though, just was pretty boring to me. Not much progression was made at all, I hope they don't start fillers soon.

Working

This week I will be watching another anime besides Bleach. Which will be Working!! It seems pretty interesting. Hopefully it will be.

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Bleach 405 - Deicide 7 - Review/Summary

Summary:

Matsumoto is running to the fighting area to see Gin is how it starts, then we go to the main story. Ichigo is on the ground and Gin tells him he should run. Urahara attacks Aizen with a low level kido attack. Aizen figures out it's just a distraction as Yoruichi burst through the attack and goes after Aizen. Aizen grabs her hand and Yoruichi punches him using Shunko.  He says she can't defeat him. Urahara comes into battle and starts using some cool benihime attacks, that entrap and set him ablaze. Isshin appears behind him and uses Getsuga Tensho.

Thoughts:

I was hoping that his father would say Getsuga ----- something else, so it'd be like their zanpakutous are brothers or related vs being the same Getsuga Tensho is such a boring attack, powerful, but boring. I enjoyed it though. Liked seeing Urahara's attacks.

Bleach 272 - Ichigo vs. Ulquiorra, Conclusion! - Review/Summary

Summary:

Rukia, Sado, and Renji are cotinueing their fight with Rudobon. They come up with a plan and attack him. Sado and Renji attacked him, bringing attention off Rukia, who used frozen tree and froze him. Within moments of him being frozen Yammy burst out of from inside and pretty much smashes Rudobon in the process. Yammy is biggger than he was before because he's very upset. Suddenly Ichigo's cero burst through the ceiling. Rukia questions if this is Ichigo's reiatsu.

We go back up to the top and Ichigo is pretty much gone. Ulquiorra's body is in pretty bad shape. All that's left was an arm and his head on his torso. Ichigo tosses him and then walks over and gets ready to stab him through the throat. Ishida grabs his arm saying that he's not going to be himself if he does it. FH Ichigo gets pissed and throws his zanpakutou through Ishida whose knocked back. He then keeps repeating that he has to help them. Orihime starts blaming everything on herself.

Ichigo begins to fire a cero at Ishida but Ulquiorra comes back and cuts off one of his horns causing his cero to circle around and explode. Ichigo's mask also breaks and he passes out. A light appears above Ichigo and turns into a tornado and then dives into Ichigo's hole that's in his chest. Then he wakes up. He feels bad for what he's done.

Ulquiorra passes him his sword and says he wants to finish the fight but Ichigo yells for him to cut off his arm and leg to make it fair. Not to long later Ulquiorra begins to disappear into what looks like black smoke. His internal organs were all damaged and he didn't have much time left. A flashback begins of Orihime and Ulquiorra talking about her heart. He reaches out to her and ask her if she's scared like he did before. Orihime begins to cry and answers that she's not scared how she did before. Ulquiorra has some inner dialouge and says he sees where he heart was. It was in his hands. Then he fully disappears

Thoughts:


wahhhhh. I loved Ulquiorra. I know he died like ages ago becasue I read it but that doesn't make it any less sad. The anime was sadder than the manga. Why couldn't Ulquiorra be like Grimjow? We don't know he's dead and we're not sure he's a live! Overall I liked the episodes, even if the latter part was depressing.

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Bleach 404 - Deicide 6 - Review/Summary

Summary:

Aizen starts speaking to Yoruichi, Urahara, and Isshin, about how he's going to kill them pretty much. There is some mild comedy about Yoruichi's shoe which dissapeared wich much have been special because her whole leg didn't get cut off when Aizen countered in the last chapter.  Yoruichi waits for Aizen to attack and when he does she is surprised by it. A huge pillar of whatever happens when he hits her and we cut to Ichigo and Gin.

Gin comes up behind Ichigo telling him that he's open but that he should just relax and watch the fight, saying that since Aizen gone all hyogoku there is no hope.  Ichigo says that he doesn't know what'll happen to him with Aizen like that. Gin taunts him saying he's admitted he'll be dead and has given up.

Gin begins to attack Ichigo with his uber long sword which goes back to normal size in at instant. He uses a new attack which, if we go by it's name, extends multiple swords. This prompts Ichigo to go hollow. We then see Kira lying on the ground and Rangiku running to see gin.

Thoughts:

Slow moving but good chapter. Aizen didn't really say anything exciting or new to really justify the lack of action but it was still a good chapter. I'd like to point out that in my last post about the bleach manga, the last picture showed Aizen fused together with his sword. Exactly what happened this week? He's suddenly unfused with it with no explanation as to what just happened? Gin and Ichigo's fight was okay for me. I really love Gin and I'm happy to see him fight now. His personality is just fun. Kira in this chapter I don't mind but Rangiku I don't like very much. I haven't been much of a Rangiku fan since I first started watching bleach. I don't know what it is about her, but I don't get why she's so high rank when she really doesn't seem to be that strong. Then again I haven't seen many strong people from Toshiro's squad except for Toshiro himself.

Oh well. Next week I feel it's going to be a talk chapter with Aizen and Isshins crew, and Rangiku and Gin. Not really looking forward to it, unless there are some new revalations. Hopefully Rangiku doesn't go there and go all. "we were friends!" That'll really get to me.

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Bleach 271 - Ichigo Dies! Orihime, the Cry of Sorrow!

Summary:

The first five minutes of the show go over what happened last week. Ichigo getting beaten up, Inoue and Ishida seeing Ichigo get a hole blown into his chest. Ishida begins to fight with Ulquiorra but to no avail. Ishida is easily bested. Inoue sat around saying "kurosaki-kun, kurosaki-kun, doushiyo, doushiyo" over and over. Really got to me. Eventually full hollow Ichigo pops up when Inoue says "Kurosaki-kun save us" and then bam! The action starts.

FH Ichigo is ridiculously strong, as expected. The first thing he does is shoot off a cero at Ulquiorra. Ulquiorra's cero is bested and he just can't beleieve it. FH Ichigo does it again and Ulquiorra is yet again in disbelief. He brings out his trump weapon, Lanza Del Ralampago, basically a nuke in spear form. His first shot missed and did a shit load of damage to the area behind FH Ichigo, FH Ichigo starts to really attack Ulquiorra who is in shock that he just used Sonido, the hollow way of quick moving. Ulquiorra beings fighting with his Lanza Del Ralampago which FH Ichigo destroys with one hand. After he breaks the spears he makes a slash and pretty much defeats Ulquiorra, then he does something not Ichigo like and fires a point blank cero to kill him.

Thoughts:

I read it but it doesn't compare to watching it! FH Ichigo is for the win! He's ridiculously powerful. I really wonder how strong he is in comparison with hogyoku Aizen. Maybe around the same? All I know is it's ridiculous. The episode was fantastic, I've been waiting for this moment for a very long time. Sure we got to see FH Ichigo during the last filler arc but it doesn't compare to the REAL FH Ichigo.

I feel sorry for Ulquiorra, but not reall. I really liked him, I like green.

So the next episodes, if there are to be no fillers, should deal with Fake Karakura. Can't wait!

FH Ichigo's beauty shot lol.

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Bleach - Deicide 5 - Chapter 403

Summary:

This chapters starts with the massive explosion of Aizen's own reiatsu. Everyone is shocked by the attack but Urahara tells them basically that, that's not all it'll take. Aizen comes back in his new weird alien looking fully Hogyoku and says that if  he wasn't his new self that he would have been defeated. Urahara draws his sword and Isshin attacks Aizen, who by the way, is of course very fast. They manage to get chains around his and race to either side. Aizen takes this as childs play saying "what mockery is this"! This made way for the entrance of YORUICHI!!! Who lands on top of him blasting him with what looks to be her signature, shunko. Awesome explosion, probably the best entrance I've seen. Of course nothing is over because this is Aizen we're talking about. He comes back and attacks Yoruichi taking some of the frabric off her foot. it ends with Aizen saying he's going to crush each one of them. Also he's still evolving, on the last page his sword is merged with him.

Thoughts:

Lovely chapter, love the action, and I loved Yoruichi's entrance. Easily one of my favorite entrances, and I'm not just saying that because I love Yoruichi. It was a very entertaining chapter. I'm just wondering when is Aizen going to stop evolving. Can't wait till next week.

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Bleach 270 - Beginning of Despair...Ichigo, the Unreachable Blade

Awesome episode. So the first few minute of the episode are the ending parts of the last episode. So we see Ulquiorra breaking the ceiling and talking to Ichigo and such. Then the action starts! Unlike the last episode this one was completely focussed on the Ichigo and Ulquiorra fight, which was great. Ulquiorra pummels Ichigo the whole episode. Ichigo didn't have a chance at any point to do anything besides get hit and thrown around. Ulquiorra starts throwing his green spears at Ichigo and Ichigo seems momentarily happy or maybe it was hopeful, that he was able to see and doge one, the other he almost dodge but not quite.

Ulquiorra even tells him to use his strongest attack while in hollow form, which by the way, does absolutely nothing, it all got reflected. This lead to Ichigo getting pummeled even more. Ulquiorra uses a black cero that was imensly strong and continues to throw around ichigo through things and such. Ichigo is frightened by Ulquiorra's strength but not enough to the point where he will give up. He must win, he says. Ulquiorra gets pretty annoyed by this point and tells him he's an ignorant man in despair and then goes into his second release. AWESOME! Then he pummels Ichigo some more. Ishida and Inoue feel the reiatsu, which is a very pretty black and green. Ichigo gets pummeled and pummeled some more. That was basically the episode, Ichigo getting beat up.








Inoue and Ishida get to the top finally and see Ichigo with Ulquiorra's tail wrapped around his neck. Ulquiorra says it's perfect timing and blast a black cero at point blank range into Ichigo's chest leaving a hole! This is where the real action starts.

Can't wait till the next episode. The next episode just has to contain. FULL HOLLOW ICHIGO!!!! Excitement! Sure I read it but I just want to, have to, see it!

Bleach - Deicide 4 - Chapter 402

So I loved this chapter. I love Kisuke, he's one of my favorite characters if not my favorite character. I've been dieing to see him fight and finally he has!

Kisuke appears and after a short talk Aizen stabs him. Kisuke; however, used his balloon replacement which Aizen thought he wouldn't use since it's a "cheap trick". Whatever Aizen! Being able to control all aspects of a persons senses is probably a cheap but deadly trick.

From here on we get to see some cool kido techniques from Kisuke. I really enjoy when characters fight like this. It's a nice little break from "BANKAI! SLASH SLASH"  It was pretty fun to watch.

Kisuke binds Aizen then attacks him. I really do enjoy fights where no draw of the sword is necessary! After the smoke clears we see a new Aizen! Doesn't seem to be fully complete. Aizen gives Kisuke one hell of a slap when he gets back. Kisuke tells Aizen that he's become careless because of his new power, and Aizen agrees. Kisuke surprises him informing him that he's just sealed off the reiatsu that flows out of his palms. Meaning he will be attacked by his own reiatsu. Overall great chapter, I can't wait until next week. Aizen will be alive and hopefully we get to see a bankai out of Kisuke, that would be quite cool.

Ichigo and Gin made no advancements but both seem taken aback by Kisuke's strength. Hopefully next week doesn't focus back on Ichigo and Gin I want to see more of Kisuke and Aizen! Aizens new form looks like some weird hollow by the way.

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Bleach - Ichigo and Uryuu, bonded back to back

First off, I don't get the title. They were not fighting side by side or back to back. They were in two separate but close areas. For the majority of the episode I was wondering when is the real fight going to begin. When?! Ishida's fighting with Yammy was lack luster. I don't like Ishida that much, he's relativly weak, but he uses strategy which redeems him. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to just see a bunch of strong characters with absolutely no strategy, that gets tiring, but I do wish Ishida was just a little more powerful.

Okay so the episode starts off with where it left off, with Ishida making his entrance and shooting Yammy in the shoulder. Yammy is imensely strong as seen in current manga, albeit in his released form, still I feel it's not sufficent enough of an excuse to pardon his expression. Really it was that painful? Ishida's arrows aren't that powerful. He relies more on strategy, placing, and multitude. Why this arrow has left Yammy in pain surprises me. Maybe it's surprise I'm seeing.



Ishida fightings with him on a floor below Ichigo and Ulq. and beats yammy by luring him into sprenger. The large explosion leaves Yammy in a beaten but not out state. Ishida warns him to not move, but he does anyway and steps on a mine and is sent down through several levels to the basement.

Rukia is still fighting forever multiplying guy and is having a very hard time.  She got easily tired out but luckily for her and us, because we all love Rukia, she gets help. From Renji and Sado. That's all that we really see of this fight. I would have prefered to see more of this and less of Ishida vs Yammy. It was just frustrating for me.  I probably could have done without Inoue too. She didn't do much this episode besides say. "Ishida-kun" and "Kurosaki-kun" It seems to be the only things she knows to say. Is she like two years old? I can't take with KT is doing with her in the anime or the manga. She's so powerful yet so emotionally weak not to mention she has an inferiority complex. Get over it! Unleash your true power, and move on from Ichigo!! Is all I can think. I yell at my screen sometimes.

Anyway, the real highlight of the show came and went rather quickly, it was enough for me though. I was happy. Ichigo finally went hollow, and began to really go for it. Ulq relized it was time to break the ceiling and release. Espadas 4 and up can't release within Las Noches. Then we got some kickass fighting. Not really, more like kickass Ulq's release, which was enough for me.

The green and black weird freaky rain was a nice effect and when it was over. BAM ULQ.
And that's how it ended. Now lets see some pictures of Inoue throughout the episode. One of them within two minutes of it starting and the other in like 10-15.

Why this weird expression of Huh and what? The second one is when she's watching Kurosaki. I can't stand it! She could go around and reject something ever existed. Reject ulq and he's gone, but whatever, hopefully KT makes her more interesting or makes her not so emotionally pathetic.




That's all

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