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.

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 - Chapter 406 - Deicide 8 - Review/Summary

Summary:

Isshin's huge getsuga tensho leaves Aizen bleeding but he has no real damage. He says to them it's time they understand his power. There seems to be a surge or reiatsu behind Ichigo, who looks back, and it's over for the trio. Instantly bested. Gin says some words that put Ichigo down even further, and Aizen shows up just when Gin was pulling out his sword. Gin says he was just trying to test him.

Aizen says the chrysalis stage is over, and for the first time in a few chapters we see his face again. Now he will be able to see the downfall of soul society with his eyes, he says. they open the gate and begin to leave. Aizen says he'll eat Ichigo.

Thoughts:

So Aizen couldn't see the whole time he was inside that chrysalis, interesting. I wish there was more of an explanation with Isshin's getsuga tensho, something on it, anything. Aizen seems so god like and Ichigo seems so pathetic now, it's kind of annoying. He's like a male orihime atm.

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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 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!