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[Draggy]

Chapter was okay

also, page before, you forgot this one for Bount Arc Quality Animation

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[Nuriko]

I liked the chapter overall. I could have done without the comic relief also, and Hitsugaya wanting to drop everything to go fight Aizen...seemed sort of out of place when his fight with Halibel wasn't over yet, but seems it was just in there to start a fight with Hyori (which given her personality, makes sense that they'd fight). Anyway, I'm curious about the Hacchi/Soi Fon relationship now since she was just a child when he got turned into a vizard. And I'm betting the whole "age touching kido" thing is a lead up to Hacchi using the forbidden technique to stop time around Barragan similar to what Tessei did in the Pendulum Arc to freeze the progress of hollowfication.

Oh, and the Tousen/Hisagi confrontation is sort of interesting I guess considering what we know of how Hisagi fears his zampaktou. But maybe I'm reading too much into that.

[TummieGaruda]

Did you think that age cannot touch kido?

Oh come the fuck on, are you serious? Fucking lame.

He'll probably bust out some forbidden reverse aging kudo that neutralizes his aging lol.

[Souj]

Anyway, I'm curious about the Hacchi/Soi Fon relationship now since she was just a child when he got turned into a vizard.

with this, I had the thought that she might have been sent to assassinate them, but failed horribly, or she blames them for taking her yourichi away

[Nuriko]

with this, I had the thought that she might have been sent to assassinate them, but failed horribly, or she blames them for taking her yourichi away

Hmm maybe. I wonder if there's any coincidence that Hacchi and her VC are both overly large guys. Maybe she has a thing for larger men and Hacchi denied her back in the day so she refused to acknowledge his existence. Ok probably not, it's more likely what you said (or both) since Hacchi says "I'm not surprised you don't think well of us", possibly meaning he realizes she blames them for Yourichi disappearing, but who knows.

[killerx]

Bleach -98 page 17 | One Manga calling it now hes going to freeze time and fuck him up

[Nuriko]

Yup, that's exactly what I was referring to.

Hacchi: How can something age when time is frozen?

[CrimsonAngel]

You know thinking about Renjis zanpaktou in the filler wouldn't it make sense that the monkey is a girl, didn't Mayuri change its gender for him in one of the shinigami cup thingys? (I think im over analyzing this a bit...)

[Guitarman]

You know thinking about Renjis zanpaktou in the filler wouldn't it make sense that the monkey is a girl, didn't Mayuri change its gender for him in one of the shinigami cup thingys? (I think im over analyzing this a bit...)

you're thinking too much into it. Kubo by his own admittance doesn't remember half of what he writes. At the very beginning, Byakuya in a soliloquy says "of the 4 noble houses blessed with far greater spiritual power, only one child in a great number of generations can use it(bankai), that is..bankai". And yet everyone and their grandmother can pop one off lately.

[nivlakian]

you're thinking too much into it. Kubo by his own admittance doesn't remember half of what he writes. At the very beginning, Byakuya in a soliloquy says "of the 4 noble houses blessed with far greater spiritual power, only one child in a great number of generations can use it(bankai), that is..bankai". And yet everyone and their grandmother can pop one off lately.

If I'm not mistaken, Byakuya made that comment to Ichigo during their fight in that execution area. Assuming that's the case, it seemed out of place considering he fought Renji earlier and saw him use bankai. Byakuya should also be aware that the majority of captains have bankai and yet they don't all seem like they could be part of the noble families. Up until that point when he made the comment, we saw Mayuri, Tousen, Komamura, and perhaps Hitsugaya use their bankai.


Edit: What I'm saying is, the comment Byakuya made seemed invalid from the moment he said it. Also, other than captains and former captains (who by now we probably come to expect have a bankai), only Renji, Ichigo and Ikkaku have it. So, it shouldn't seem that everyone has one lately when they were expected to have one long ago.

[Souj]

a super saiyan is born only once every 30,000 years!

[Sho]

Speaking of Bankais, I have the strangest feeling Hisagi will achieve his now. Then later become a captain.

[Guitarman]

I've thought about that. I see him turning into a grim-reaper lookalike, complete with a single oversized scythe.

[kuronosan]

Bank on Hisagi getting bankai. He already won his fight against Findol, then got pummeled by Allon. Now he's weakened and up against Tousen with Komamura. Hisagi may not win, but he'll definitely have bankai and surprise Tousen. It was kind of hinted at back when he released that he was higher than just captain level.

I'm just not fond of the repeated formula of "haha you thought your power was better/immune to mine?" followed by "haha but check out my hidden power that you didn't anticipate" that's been happening. It doesn't build up any suspense. You know at this point that Hacchi is probably going to own the shit out of Barragan with kido. The only unknowns to me are Starrk, Halibel, and to a degree, Tousen. Aizen will continue standing there, Gin has no opponent, Wonderweiss is going to destroy Mashiro because she's bragging about winning and then he'll fight Kensei... I mean... where's the suspense?

[Sho]

Bank on Hisagi getting bankai. He already won his fight against Findol, then got pummeled by Allon. Now he's weakened and up against Tousen with Komamura. Hisagi may not win, but he'll definitely have bankai and surprise Tousen. It was kind of hinted at back when he released that he was higher than just captain level.

I'm just not fond of the repeated formula of "haha you thought your power was better/immune to mine?" followed by "haha but check out my hidden power that you didn't anticipate" that's been happening. It doesn't build up any suspense. You know at this point that Hacchi is probably going to own the shit out of Barragan with kido. The only unknowns to me are Starrk, Halibel, and to a degree, Tousen. Aizen will continue standing there, Gin has no opponent, Wonderweiss is going to destroy Mashiro because she's bragging about winning and then he'll fight Kensei... I mean... where's the suspense?

Never is any really.

[kuronosan]

Partial spoilers this week (no chapter next week):

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Hacchi explains how Barragan escaped Soifon's attack, which means it must have been deadly enough to avoid. He uses a series of barriers to push the two of them closer to Barragan. She charges another blast and fires it through a narrow opening in Hacchi's barrier. Hacchi closes the barrier and Barragan + a big nuclear blast are both contained inside.

[Guitarman]

Bleach Episode 231 | Watch Bleach Episode 231 Anime Show online

new episode of the zanpakuto filler. Still fairly interesting, but already it's falling into the same plotline we've seen a dozen times before. Rukia goes off being a dumb bitch, ichigo has to go save her, again, yada yada.

[Serra]

I knew there was no chance of this happening, but I would have loved if this was a soul society problem and we didn't see Ichigo get involved at all.

[Xno Kappa]

You would've figured Zaraki would have been happy as shit to go in and start owning all the Zanpaktou spirits but for the sake of suspense they're saving his appearance.

[Souj]

so who's zanpaktou is skinny lightning spear guy? only person who I can think of that is unnacounted for is Unohana and Isane. It really doesnt look like how Unohana's would look, and Isane's zanpaktou's name translates into "Frozen Cloud" so that doesnt fit either. and we havnt even seen cloaked guy do anyhting at all. didnt even make an appearance this episode.
oh, guess lightning spear guy could be Yamamoto's VC