Bleach

[Kaylia]

Agreed, and I'm sure he's saving it for some rainy day or whatever, like he did with the Pendulum arc. He could always do the flashback thing again with certain things, cause in all honesty that was one of my favorite-recent parts of the story.

This arc made me realize how much I don't care about Ichigo. I thought it was much better than everything we have seen in the last year.

[BRP]

The flashback chapters were good. This is almost always the case for most shonen.

Why?

The author is telling a story with an ending which usually shakes the world(hence the setting of the present). This is the exact opposite of what you'd get from a terrible manga: an unending story with nothing of consequence*. Just the fact the author knows what hes doing makes the story quality go all the way up.

*: mini-bosses dying(or not, in the case of Bleach) and POWER-UP do not count.

[CrimsonAngel]

What episode # did the bount arc end?

it end on episode 108 or 109, and also to gandorf the karia vs ichigo fight isnt worth watching, it sucks ballz... mr.garrison

[Sqwunk]

I'm sure we wil get more flashback stuff when Ichigo's dad comes into the story again, which i am certain will happen at some point

This is what I've been waiting for. Also possibly Uryuu's father also, but idk, he seems like he'd be the same annoying person as his son, or worse.

[Serif]

Don't forget the chick from the SS Arc that helped them get in with her cannon.

I bet when Aizen and them re enter SS she will help out too! Or I hope so

[Souj]

why would he go back to SS?

and I dont think Ishida's dad is anything like him. at least from what weve seen from him, he's quite the opposite.

[Eaglestrike]

why would he go back to SS?

and I dont think Ishida's dad is anything like him. at least from what weve seen from him, he's quite the opposite.

He still has the "I'm so much better than you." personality from what I recall.

[Souj]

He still has the "I'm so much better than you." personality from what I recall.

well, that's also 90% of bleach characters.

[Xno Kappa]

well, that's also 90% of bleach characters.

Until i show you mah true powa!!!1

[Souj]

Until i show you mah true powa!!!1

Your true power is nothing for my true power!

[Serif]

why would he go back to SS?

Tadaa~

[Draggy]

if he is going to defeat everyone anyway, he may as well smash the pillars and bring it back, easier that way

[Souj]

Tadaa~

forgot that apparently.
I see it now... when #1-3 are defeated, aizen will go to soul society with gin and tousen. he will meet resistance and he will say " hehe heres some more espada you didn't know about! but theyre stronger then all the others! and then they will fight for a billion chapters while the story continues to not progress.

if he is going to defeat everyone anyway, he may as well smash the pillars and bring it back, easier that way

but that would make sense and only take a chapter to cover.

[Draggy]

sorry D: i forgot it doesnt use easy, logical solututions

[Drex]

if he is going to defeat everyone anyway, he may as well smash the pillars and bring it back, easier that way

BUT IT'S THE ONLY WAY

[CrimsonAngel]

I just noticed something in all of the filler arks there always people from the movies in the back ground, like in episode 204 when there in the dinner senna from memorys of nobody is over ichigo's shoulder. god it takes me a long time to notice this crap. -_-

[Serif]

Spoilers for this week's manga:

Spoiler: show

To put it simple,
Yammy's hand were recovered, now he participates in battle. He kills those who bully Orihime. When he about to aim Orihime, Ishida appeared and shot an arrow to Yammi's shoulder but his shoulder was too hard that the arrow couldn't go through. When Yammy turns back, Ishida already set a landmine and Yammy went boom (seems like the landmine was from Mayuri)

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[Khalil]

Yay, more filler fights!

[Scythiroth]

Bleach's filler has got to be the worst filler ever made for any anime. How can you just take all of these characters out of big important storylines and throw them back into the real world as if nothing happened? -_- Not even once, but TWICE now.

I already said I was done with this anime before, and yet I keep watching it. Something is wrong with me.

edit: Screw it, I refuse to watch this filler. First episode I have actually stopped in the middle of. >.>

[Nuriko]

207 "12th Division's New Captain, Urahara Kisuke"
"Jū ni ban tai shin taichō, Urahara Kisuke" (十二番隊新隊長、浦原喜助) February 17, 2009 —
208 "Aizen and the Genius Boy"
"Aizen to tensai shōnen" (藍染と天才少年) February 24, 2009

Personally, I don't mind 2 weeks of filler (which I won't watch anyway) if it's only going to be 2 weeks. Obviously, it's just a short break to allow the manga to move forward 2 weeks after it had a break earlier this month itself.

From the look of episode titles coming up, we're in for a lot of filler back story, which, if done well, could be really entertaining. It was the first 2 Pendulum chapters that introduced Kisuke as the new captain, and now it looks like we get 2 whole episodes of it (206-207). Aizen and the Genius Boy (208 ) should refer to him meeting Gin which had all of 2 pages in the manga. I'm holding out hope for a lot of quality anime episodes coming up after this short filler break. So long as they don't break from anything they did in the manga, anything they add should be pretty cool. I hope it's similar to the Ikkaku flashback ep in the beginning of the Arrancar saga where the anime showed him training with Renji, fighting alongside Kenpachi and ultimately learning his Bankai. All stuff not in the manga, but separate enough to be fun and not break from anything they did in the manga.