Bleach - 58 November 15
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Short Summary:
Ichigo calls for Byakuya’s ban kai once again, and this time Byakuya complies. The petals rush forward to Ichigo, but he’s able to dodge it for long enough to direct another Getsu Gatenshou at the captain. Byakuya easily blocks it, and Ichigo looks as if he’s drowned in petals. After the dust clears, a bleeding Ichigo gets up and realizes that using only an initial release to try to win against ban kai is impossible. The sixth division captain hears Ichigo implying that he’s achieved ban kai, which Ichigo immediately confirms as true. As Ichigo powers up to his ban kai, Byakuya thinks about how hard it is to get to ban kai, and how impossible it should be for someone like Ichigo. After an explosion and a whirlwind, we finally get to see Ichigo’s ban kai form: Tensa Zangetsu. Dressed like Zangetsu’s human form, Ichigo now wields a thin, black sword. Byakuya continues to underestimate Ichigo, so Ichigo appears right in front of him, holding a sword to the captain’s neck. Meanwhile, Sado, Ishida, Inoue, and Ganjuu have gotten close enough so that they can see and feel the power of the fight. Elsewhere in Soul Society, Hitsugaya and Matsumoto, trying to get to the bottom of all this, have reached the Central 46 Chambers, only to be barred from entering. Also, Hinamori is now healed and on the move. Back at the main fight, Byakuya notices that Ichigo is fast, but still thinks that it can’t be ban kai, so he calls forth his petals to envelope Ichigo again. Ichigo dodges several times, and then appears right in front of Byakuya for a slash, but it’s blocked by more petals. Both of them notice that the petals are having trouble keeping up, so Byakuya increases their speed and Ichigo increases his. However, Ichigo is unable to dodge one of the waves, so instead he cuts down all of the petals and moves to Byakuya’s backside in a flash. The captain turns around in time to miss being hit in the back, and catches Ichigo’s blade in his hand. By this point, Byakuya has realized that Ichigo’s ban kai takes its power and compacts it so that Ichigo can move and attack quickly.
This episode has a lot of extra bridging-the-gap material that wasn’t in the manga. We only cover two and a half chapters, from mid-161 to the end of 163 because they threw in some humorous moments with Sado, Ishida, Inoue, and Ganjuu and showed what HItsugaya, Matsumoto, and Hinamori are up to. I can appreciate most of the new scenes, especially the Hitsugaya and Matsumoto ones because they show that something else is going on beyond the battles. However, they also used several flashbacks of Hinamori and later Ichigo (during his powerup scene) that just seem like wasted time.
Of course all of those are minor complaints because, in this episode, Ichigo finally uses his ban kai. Showing how powerful he’s become and how badass he looks, Ichigo more or less defeats Byakuya’s Senbonzakura. Byakuya doesn’t really help his own cause, constantly underestimating Ichigo until the end of the episode when he realizes what Ichigo’s ban kai does. But the fight’s far from over, and there’s plenty of surprises left in store for us.
ALEX at 10:30 am on November 15th, 2005
oh meh goodness!! so AWESOMEE!!!
can’t wait for the subbed to be out!! =))
BLEACH forever…
lol
Zoof at 10:30 am on November 15th, 2005
let me be the first one to say….
HOLY ****!!!!!
marcel at 10:37 am on November 15th, 2005
byakuya here i come!!!BANKAI!!
bellatora at 10:40 am on November 15th, 2005
How does this show just become more and more awesome? Really, it’s just crazy.
VeRi at 11:14 am on November 15th, 2005
from the screen caps, i liked the manga’s bankai’s of ichigo’s better then the anime because his sword looked more curved in the manga then the anime :/
rez at 11:20 am on November 15th, 2005
Yeah true, in the manga his sword looked better indeed. But nonetheless a great episode, I really like the way they animated the fight.
F.A.I.T.H at 12:40 pm on November 15th, 2005
Nice review. Gives me a good gist of the episode. Looks like there’s more action and err…action in store for us Bleach fans. XP
Blade at 12:58 pm on November 15th, 2005
I actually like the pacing done in the anime, the switch to Hitsugaya arriving at the center seemed to abrupt in the manga almost like a jumping to an entirely different story. I’m sure there were hints dropped in the manga here and there, but they are far from memorable and don’t add to the whole “we have a conspiracy” going on that the anime is delivering…
Enter4None at 2:33 pm on November 15th, 2005
Wow, the pace is now insane! it’s almost 5-7 chapters from manga per episode of the anime! …it would be a shame to have fillers in 20 more or less episodes when the series is currently at it’s peak.
Note that Pierrot studios does the anime for both Naruto and Bleach…nd look how Naruto is doing with the fillers.
Fury at 2:58 pm on November 15th, 2005
man i cant wait to download this episode OMG it looks so good from the screen caps too. By the way even though studio pierrot does naruto and bleach, the filler are bassed on the director, and bleach director should have enough sense of bleach to know what we expect in a filler.
Fury at 3:00 pm on November 15th, 2005
by the way hinamori and hitsugaya appearing in the episode means taht bleach will indeed continue with the “TWIST” that we manga readers are all expecting as well has the advancement of the series
Anza at 3:34 pm on November 15th, 2005
Ichigo’s bankai makes him look like a Swordmaster from FE, which is outright kickass, god I’d love to see a swordmaster like that in FE, Ichigo wins points from awsomeness this episode, you can just tell that Byakuya is so screwed.
Mike at 6:02 pm on November 15th, 2005
And yes folks, it is about time that Ichigo finally does something -.-;
Episode was one of the best although Ichigo wasnt drawn as good as the manga.
RionZ at 6:13 pm on November 15th, 2005
Also during ban kai, that I’ve seen in the manga, Ichigo’s eyes look more vicious, if you know what i mean, but nonetheless it was a great episode i was waiting month’s for.
shojo at 6:33 pm on November 15th, 2005
The long anticipated Ichigo vs Byakya battle! This episode is incredibly awesome, the fiercest and coolest action fight I’ve ever seen in Bleach, definitely looking forward to the upcoming ep.
acidflower at 7:55 pm on November 15th, 2005
Beeauuutiful!!! Thanks for the summary and screencaps. Much appreciated!
MRain65 at 8:51 pm on November 15th, 2005
Thanks for the summary. I’m glad the animators are taking their sweet time building up to the climax of the story, so that *spoilerspoiler* will be that much more impressive and powerful. Besides, these are the episodes we’ll be watching when Bleach is mired in mediocre filler eps, so it’s good that they’re not just barrelling through. I do agree that the constant flashbacks can get a little tedious; I /like/ the fact that Bleach has a cast about forty strong, and I don’t need my hand held to keep track of who’s been up to what.
RionZ at 9:23 pm on November 15th, 2005
Anyone else hear about the new Bleach OVA series after the soul-society arc?
yeah, it’s filler, but from what I’ve heard, it’s gonna be good.
HINT: It involves a lot of your fave Shinigami characters from soul-society, and they go on this adventure or something. Damn, i wish i still had a link or something.
Zaraki Kenpachi at 9:51 pm on November 15th, 2005
Simply great!!! Now only for Byakuya to be deafeated…..
Taurus at 9:56 pm on November 15th, 2005
Jeez im so far away back