Bleach

[Serra]

Doubt she has Bankai (unless they're giving it away now), but it's about time Ukitake moved on and got a VC.

I'm with Souj, doubt any of the continuity of Ichigo obtaining his powers the same way as the first time will be addressed unless it's a new sword Urahara made just for this -- which raises the question, it took him 17 months to make one for Ichigo, but how many years did Ishin have to go without any powers >.>;

[Souj]

http://images.wikia.com/bleach/en/im...oteiFlower.jpg

Kenpachi is too manly for a flower!

[Insanecyclone]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lsn2tT5yTc

[Sho]

<Aizen cockblockin'>

I remember roffling so hard when I saw that the first time. Was like "Aizen stops everything, even hype music. Bitches don't know."

[Xno Kappa]

Fuck the haters this chapter was awesome. I'm guessing the sword Rukia stabbed Ichigo with is a construct of Urahara specifically for his powers. That way Kubo doesn't have to go through the whole relearning Zangetsu nonsense. It doesn't necessarily have to be anyone's power. We'll have to wait two weeks for the next chapter.

[arus2001]

My only gripe with the new Rukia look is she looked way too much like the girl in the current anime filler. In fact, I even thought it was her at a glance. Just take her pants off and put those little arm warmers on her legs and you'd be set.

[liggy 0]

Yep, I called it. Bleach v2.0 START.

Spoiler: show

Rukia as vice captain now is an interesting development. I wonder what other changes have happened in Soul Society in the last 17 months.

isnt it like decades since time moves differently over there?

[arus2001]

I can't remember if it's so much a matter of time moving differently as it is traveling through the precipice world potentially offsetting time (and never seemingly backwards).

[Tymon]

Now what I want to see, is how strong a Fullbringer is against a Shinigami.

We have literally nothing to go on there, or how powerful they are in comparison to anything but themselves.

Ginjou talked about nearly being killed by a falling chandelier.. Ichigo was thrown into mountains at hundreds of mph and wasn't hurt.

I'll laugh if Ichigo just completely dominates them because of the natural gap between their powers.

[Guitarman]

So... Is his Shikai now his normal mode? and he now has a new Shikai and Bankai?

If i'm understanding you right, he's always in shikai, because he's got so much reiatsu it keeps his sword in shikai form. At least that's how it was explained waaay early on. Obviously his shikai changed a bit, so maybe his bankai won't be 100% useless either.

Edit: I'm wondering if Ichigo's new look will be explained away because of whose powers he took. His old form was taking Rukia's powers, this time, his dad's maybe?

[fantasticdan]

Now what I want to see, is how strong a Fullbringer is against a Shinigami.

We have literally nothing to go on there, or how powerful they are in comparison to anything but themselves.

Ginjou talked about nearly being killed by a falling chandelier.. Ichigo was thrown into mountains at hundreds of mph and wasn't hurt.

I'll laugh if Ichigo just completely dominates them because of the natural gap between their powers.

I'm extremely hazy on the bleach storyline at this point, but isn't Ishida equivalent to a captain or something by now? And he got one shotted by Ginjo, twice.

[Tymon]

I'm extremely hazy on the bleach storyline at this point, but isn't Ishida equivalent to a captain or something by now? And he got one shotted by Ginjo, twice.

Well, both times weren't exactly a fair fight.

He is at captain level, though. He has been for a while.

[Xno Kappa]

Just reread the whole arc and it seems it's indeed, at least Rukia's reiatsu that was the catalyst to give Ichigo back his powers.
http://www.mangareader.net/bleach/449/2

Really looking forward to see how all this pans out and hopefully bothers giving an explanation for everything.

[kuronosan]

This'll be funny when Ichigo goes to wreck them and some Aizen 2.0 comes in and saves the fullbringers.

It's also funny how this is basically a copypasta of the Bount arc... but I'm happy to say Bleach, at least for me, is back on track.

[Xno Kappa]

Another thing I noticed rereading the whole thing, Ishida constantly doubts whether or not the person who attacked Inoue was the same individual who attacked him. We love to knock Kubo for his story-telling but all the hints were there that it wasn't Tsukishimablahblah that attacked him.

[Xno Kappa]

Oh and if anyone is still wondering, Tsukishima is not the previous 4th squad VC.
http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Seinosuke_Yamada

A lot of Bleach's story is pretty solid actually, the problem with Kubo is that he does shit in a round-about way like explaining his nonsense through databooks the average reader doesn't give a shit about.

[Insanecyclone]

Oh and if anyone is still wondering, Tsukishima is not the previous 4th squad VC.
http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Seinosuke_Yamada

A lot of Bleach's story is pretty solid actually, the problem with Kubo is that he does shit in a round-about way like explaining his nonsense through databooks the average reader doesn't give a shit about.

Oh well. It would have been a nice reveal if he was. Yeah the story is the only thing keeping my glued to this. I dealwithit.jpg on the trolling and move on to figuring out shit, like I was hoping on the 4th squad thing.

[arus2001]

I wouldn't say that rules anything out. Not like he couldn't lie about his name to others or anything. Though, I guess we can put it in the "Ichigo looks like Kaien" bucket if nothing more comes of it.

[CrimsonAngel]

Im still wondering how Tsukishima and Ginjo even knew about Rukia's rescue or Ichigo defeating Aizen personally

[Serra]

Does he ever mention it or was it just Inoue and Chad who brought it up? Since it's never really explained how he inserts himself into people's memories, he might have no idea about those fights/events.