Bleach

[Furoris]

from dattebayo's new press release post

Do you watch Bleach? Then you better read this.

2010/05/24

Why hello there you wonderful fans you. It's interactii here, and when I come down out of nest to personally write you a PR, you know what's up. It's news.

We all knew that the good times couldn't last forever. We are seeing more and more news pop up about how Bleach may become simulcast on Crunchyroll, and we want to prepare you.

If and when Crunchyroll obtains a streaming license for Bleach, DB will drop it. We've considered all the options, and there will be no point in continuing to work on it in its current form.

When I co-founded DB in 2004, the fansubbing world was a very different place. It was very childish, very insincere. We had fun fighting the speedsubbers who grappled for a moment of fame. We helped change subtitling processes, some of which are now used in professionally produced anime. We raised some money for charity, which is still the best thing I think we ever did.

DB came along at just the right moment in fansubbing. It has existed through the moments I feel were fansubbing's zenith. Now fansubbing is clearly in its decline, as it has been for two years now, replaced by legal alternatives.

We know how many of you were disappointed when we dropped Naruto. At the time that happened, we tried hard to be involved with the subtitling process at Crunchyroll, and made an impressive amount of progress, but it was not to be. And you all adapted: you got used to the "cripes" and other idiosyncrasies of the Viz translation, you weathered Hidan's transition from a raging foul-mouthed psychopath to just being kind of rude. I'm sure only a very small number of you gave up the show once we did.

We do not know if we can continue to be involved in bringing you Bleach. We want to be, though. We also want to support legal options for anime viewing.

Right now Crunchyroll is forming a petition on their site with the goal of presenting it to TV Tokyo in an attempt to convince them of the user support they have for obtaining a streaming license for it.

DB, and I personally, would like you to lend your support to this effort, but we'd like you to do a bit more. We'd like you to add in that you'd like us to work on it. Every week almost 200,000 of you download our Bleach releases, twice as many as Crunchyroll would like to see answer their petition. If you all came together and made known your desire to have DB continue to work on Bleach, it makes a compelling case. If nothing else, no one can say we didn't try. You can show your support by typing it in the "additional comments" field on the petition, and also by registering on their site and posting in the thread which I have linked to below.

What will it mean if we do? Will we be involved? Only time and your support can tell.

Crunchyroll Bleach Petition

Crunchyroll Forum Post Regarding Bleach

And despite timecop's sincere wishes, we aren't shutting down after we drop Bleach.

P.S. Dropping Bleach is not up for debate, please don't spam feedback begging us to reconsider.

TL;DR Crunchyroll is trying to get official bleach simulcast, and DB is trying to become official employed translators.

[Guitarman]

http://www.animecrazy.net/bleach-episode-272/141440

[Souj]

This part of Bleach is what I hate a lot. It is an actual plot hole, and terrible terrible character writing. Why the hell did Ichigo/Orihime/Ulqiorra all act the way they did when it makes absolutely zero sense, and was not foreshadowed in any way, nor was it ever explained.

[Guitarman]

ulqiorra was supposedly developing a heart as he died, and ichigo was has a strong sense of right and wrong that goes overboard. orihime has always been a dumb cunt, so no change there. it's juts hard to tell all this because of the shitty writing.

next chapter is released yammy and the top 3 espada fights.

[CrimsonAngel]

This part of Bleach is what I hate a lot. It is an actual plot hole, and terrible terrible character writing. Why the hell did Ichigo/Orihime/Ulqiorra all act the way they did when it makes absolutely zero sense, and was not foreshadowed in any way, nor was it ever explained.

Well ichigo has always had a curved self-righteous style when fighting, and he hasn't liked his hollow cutting in even when he fought Byakuya. And who knows what happened with Orihime and Ulqiorra during the 5 or 6 days she was held captive. Wait... which plotholes? or was my semi-valid reasoning towards the ones you were adressing?

Guitarman posted while I was typing and came up with the same Ichigo Righteousness theory, so that is probably a probable answer to that one

[Scythiroth]

What a boring episode, at least captains are showing up next week.

[bechyni]

At least the story is progressing at a decent speed and the episode wasn't that bad

[Deadgye]

I can't remember the last episode of bleach I watched.. I think it was the one where they did a filler during a filler. Something tells me I'm making that up, but it's bleach so I can never be sure. Not many other animes go from the middle of a giant rescue with a bunch of battles to "In another time, in another place, all the main characters are over here doing stuff completely unrelated to the last episode. Is this a filler, or did we just not feel like animating them returning back? Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z- with swords!"

[Mythe_Seraph]

cool we get it, next time, don't post

[Serif]

Brief Spoiler

Spoiler: show

A rough translation of the script from czeliate@BA

WHAT!? Did I see something wrong? Isshin(papa) uses getsuga tenshou?

spoiler says something like:
Rangiku still running
You're not fully recovered! kira cries

isshin, urahara and yoruichi continues to fight Aizen

Gin : ichigo u are soo weak? trying to escape?

papa uses getsuga tenshou (!)
(dunno this part) Ai-chan got cut?

http://i47.tinypic.com/j81dva.jpg

[Draggy]

Translated spoilers:

Spoiler: show

KIRA TRIES TO CALL OUT TO MATSUMOTO BUT A WOUND OPENS UP AND HE CAN'T GET HIS VOICE OUT.

SHE'S BEEN HEALED BARELY ENOUGH TO KEEP HER ALIVE, BUT HER TREATMENT WASN'T FINISHED.

GIN SAYS TO ICHIGO, "HOW BORING. SO WEAK? YOU WERE SCARIER BEFORE. YOU SHOULD RUN AWAY.

SCENE CHANGES TO AIZEN.

AIZEN WATCHES URAHARA AND YORUICHI IN CONVERSATION. URAHARA ASK WHAT HE'S LOOKING AT.

AIZEN SAYS SOMETHING TO THE FACT THAT EVEN URAHARA'S CONVERSATION IS A TACTIC TO DISTRACT HIS ATTENTION.

NOT EXACTLY SURE WHAT HE'S SAYING HERE, BUT IT'S SOMETHING ABOUT LEAVING URAHARA BACK IN SS AND TAKING AN INTEREST IN HIM SINCE HE'S ONLY BEING WHOSE INTELLECT SURPASSES HIS OWN.

URAHARA SAYS HE OVERESTIMATES HIMSELF AND UNLEASHES HADOU 32, YELLOW FIRE FLASH. USING THAT AS A SMOKE SCREEN YORUICHI APPEARS IN FRONT OF AIZEN.

AIZEN READS HER MOVE, BUT SHE USES SHUNKOU AND HE'S SLAMMED INTO THE GROUND.
YORUICHI PURSUES HIM, BUT AIZEN HALTS HER LATER ATTACKS.

URAHARA TAKES OVER AND HE SHOOTS OUT SOMETHING LIKE A NET FROM THE TIP OF BENEHIME TO ENTANGLE AIZEN. HE THEN USES THE "ROSARY TIE" TECHNIQUE TO MAKE THE NET EXPLODE.

AIZEN SAYS, "YOU THINK SOMETHING LIKE THAT..." AS THE BLAST DISPERSES ISSHIN APPEARS AND USES GETSUGA TENSHOU TO SLASH HIM.

[kuronosan]

And spoiler pics to go with it:

Spoiler: show

http://i47.tinypic.com/j81dva.jpg
http://i45.tinypic.com/2z6s4gn.jpg
http://i50.tinypic.com/2jc7y93.jpg

[Dantrag]

We know it's not going to do shit to Aizen, this is going to be a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ong ending to this arc....

[CrimsonAngel]

Well I don't know, he is still all cracked up from yoruichis punches. so it may do something to him, it just won't matter in a chapter or two

[Souj]

Well ichigo has always had a curved self-righteous style when fighting, and he hasn't liked his hollow cutting in even when he fought Byakuya.

Vs Byakuya it was different. when he was fighting Byakuya, it was to defeat Byakuya's pride. Byakuya being beaten not by Ichigo would have made that point null and void.
Vs Ulquiorra, he spent the entire fight saying he's not fighting because he wants to win, but because he has to.
Bullshit logic that makes no sense even to the character and his situation = plot hole.

And who knows what happened with Orihime and Ulqiorra during the 5 or 6 days she was held captive.

Thank you for proving my point. I believe I covered this exact thing in my post. Something not foreshadowed, shown, explained, or even slightly hinted at. In fact, every time we had seen Ulq/Ori together, he's always done opposite of anything pertaining to caring for her.

Wait... which plotholes? or was my semi-valid reasoning towards the ones you were adressing?

yeah...

ulqiorra was supposedly developing a heart as he died

I gotta say... I got nothing of the sort out of that, just that he finally understood the human heart.

either way, the only answer is

shitty writing

And to change the mood of this post because I don't feel like responding to any retort to it:


Aizen is obviously taking damage, because his blanket is cracking. The only problem is...Once it cracks enough to completely brake down, it will most likely lead to another just as planned. "haha thank you for breaking this for me! now I can unlock the true, true potential of the Hogyoku!"

[kuronosan]

Sorry, Souj is right here.

[Metta]

Aizen is in a cocoon and will now turn in to a beautifull butterfly.

[Sho]

Translated spoilers:

Spoiler: show

KIRA TRIES TO CALL OUT TO MATSUMOTO BUT A WOUND OPENS UP AND HE CAN'T GET HIS VOICE OUT.

SHE'S BEEN HEALED BARELY ENOUGH TO KEEP HER ALIVE, BUT HER TREATMENT WASN'T FINISHED.

GIN SAYS TO ICHIGO, "HOW BORING. SO WEAK? YOU WERE SCARIER BEFORE. YOU SHOULD RUN AWAY.

SCENE CHANGES TO AIZEN.

AIZEN WATCHES URAHARA AND YORUICHI IN CONVERSATION. URAHARA ASK WHAT HE'S LOOKING AT.

AIZEN SAYS SOMETHING TO THE FACT THAT EVEN URAHARA'S CONVERSATION IS A TACTIC TO DISTRACT HIS ATTENTION.

NOT EXACTLY SURE WHAT HE'S SAYING HERE, BUT IT'S SOMETHING ABOUT LEAVING URAHARA BACK IN SS AND TAKING AN INTEREST IN HIM SINCE HE'S ONLY BEING WHOSE INTELLECT SURPASSES HIS OWN.

URAHARA SAYS HE OVERESTIMATES HIMSELF AND UNLEASHES HADOU 32, YELLOW FIRE FLASH. USING THAT AS A SMOKE SCREEN YORUICHI APPEARS IN FRONT OF AIZEN.

AIZEN READS HER MOVE, BUT SHE USES SHUNKOU AND HE'S SLAMMED INTO THE GROUND.
YORUICHI PURSUES HIM, BUT AIZEN HALTS HER LATER ATTACKS.

URAHARA TAKES OVER AND HE SHOOTS OUT SOMETHING LIKE A NET FROM THE TIP OF BENEHIME TO ENTANGLE AIZEN. HE THEN USES THE "ROSARY TIE" TECHNIQUE TO MAKE THE NET EXPLODE.

AIZEN SAYS, "YOU THINK SOMETHING LIKE THAT..." AS THE BLAST DISPERSES ISSHIN APPEARS AND USES GETSUGA TENSHOU TO SLASH HIM.

LOL I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE.


ALSO SOUJ WINS.

[Shnaklaha]

Spoiler: show

Wait wait wait, so you're telling me that in the spoilers, isshin is able to use Getsuga Tensho? So, ichigo's trademark move that kubo traded for his "super speed" with bankai for, is no longer a unique move, and his father can use it? Gee, I wonder how they're going to kill aizen.... "Let's go Dad!" "Alright Son!" *together* "TENGEN TOPPA GETSUGA TENSHOOOOOO" (or actually if that reference didn't work, father son kamehameha)

[Dantrag]

Spoiler: show

Wait wait wait, so you're telling me that in the spoilers, isshin is able to use Getsuga Tensho? So, ichigo's trademark move that kubo traded for his "super speed" with bankai for, is no longer a unique move, and his father can use it? Gee, I wonder how they're going to kill aizen.... "Let's go Dad!" "Alright Son!" *together* "TENGEN TOPPA GETSUGA TENSHOOOOOO" (or actually if that reference didn't work, father son kamehameha)

Spoiler: show

no no, Gohan(Ichigo(Gohan)) will be in partial hollow stage(SSJ2) and instead of the usual just swing and the blast comes out he'll be holding it there and since he'll be wounded(from Gin injuring his left arm) his blast will seem somewhat weak and Aizin will be countering it with his own kamehameha wave. Then Issin will come back(he's died and is now in ghost form) and grab Gohan's sword helping him with his power and creating the largest Getsuga Tensho we've seen yet... Until we see Ichigo go SSJ4 of course.