Bleach - 186 September 3
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Summary:
Having now seen the bakkoutou, Yamamoto explains that the Kasumiooji family has been producing swords for generations and has kept the forging process a secret. Because of what’s been going on, he orders the Kasumiooji estate to be stormed and leaves Byakuya in charge. This leads to a halt in the fighting between Rukia and Rangiku, but the peace is short-lived because they soon come under attack by Kasumiooji family assassins who are all wielding bakkoutou. Another set of assassins attack Ichigo and Shuu, and after Rukia catches up, Ichigo decides to have her and Shuu go on ahead while he fights. The rest of the Shinigami meanwhile start to overwhelm their opponents, and with some help from Soi Fon and Yoruichi, they capture the workshop where the bakkoutou are forged. This leaves Kumoi with little in terms of options, so he decides to take Rurichiyo hostage.
Ichigo, however, finds them and quickly takes down the remaining guards, but he’s stopped because Kumoi threatens Rurichiyo’s life. When Kumoi refuses to reveal what his real objective is, Rurichiyo speaks for him and reveals that he plans to destroy the order in Soul Society and take power as head of the nobles. Hearing this pisses Ichigo off, but everything gets interrupted when Amagai suddenly appears. He surprisingly steps in between Ichigo and Rurichiyo, and after slaying Kumoi in one swing, he collects all the eyeballs from the used bakkoutou. Amagai then creates a blinding light and proceeds to disappear with Rurichiyo. Once Amagai is gone, the dying Kumoi wonders aloud why this happened since he had done everything that Amagai had told him to. As it dawns on Ichigo and company that Amagai was working with Kumoi, Amagai meanwhile has taken Rurichiyo to Yamamoto.
I had been wondering how they were going to get rid of Amagai at the end of this arc if he had remained a good guy since it could have potentially screwed up the manga story. I guess he could have stuck around like Ririn and friends did, but for now, it looks like that won’t be a problem because Amagai’s going to be the final boss after all. I have to say though that a part of me thinks that the writers could try to pull another reversal or something, but maybe I’m just too used to all the plot twists in CODE GEASS. In any case, I suspect that this revelation means that the anime original arc won’t be able to finish before the new season begins next month, and if that is indeed the case, then they probably won’t be returning to the manga story until next year. A preview for next week might have hinted at what direction the story is going, but there was actually none this week. If this story does continue on though, what I really hope they cut down on is the use of the Kasumiooji family assassins who remind me of zombies with the way they get back up. I groan every time they appear because it’s just a waste of time for Ichigo and company to be fighting them.
Lawrence at 8:02 pm on September 3rd, 2008
first XD
VT at 8:05 pm on September 3rd, 2008
It’s a real shame if Amagai does become the final boss, but you’re right… I don’t understand how it could resolve otherwise :\ Will wait for the subs, but I guess we won’t know till next week :\
Choko at 8:08 pm on September 3rd, 2008
omg! amagai turns on everyone!! thats just great, i liked amagai, oh well to bad.
Chimasternmay at 8:27 pm on September 3rd, 2008
omg haha i haven’t watched it yet but, just Skip-ed watched it,so i know know the details, but that last Pic is making my theory more true, that Captain X-LongBeard or whatever is EVIL.. so is Amagai i guess
Also man when Ichigo confronted the Monkey King i thought there was gonna be a nice fight cause finally u get to hear Ichigo’s battle song. but that dam Amagai…
DAI at 8:32 pm on September 3rd, 2008
Good
Lawrence at 9:12 pm on September 3rd, 2008
Booooooo Amagai will definitely die
cuz in the manga
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bob at 9:54 pm on September 3rd, 2008
Lawrence, this filler is after the espadas arc.
Panther at 10:09 pm on September 3rd, 2008
Lack of substance is lack of substance. Boo for Bleach fillers. Please return to the main storyline, BLEACH.
paul at 10:10 pm on September 3rd, 2008
the 1st captain is the man pulling the strings
redX at 10:37 pm on September 3rd, 2008
i dont even know how they are even going to go back on the manga story….this arc had such a random introduction and they didn’t even explain it =_=
panaghoy88 at 10:52 pm on September 3rd, 2008
Captain Commander and Captain Amagai working together? Kinda expected it but I can’t tell because the last scene says a lot of things. Maybe Amagai is bargaining to the commander or they both have a scheme. Lurichiyo’s involvement in their plan is anyone’s guess. I’m guessing there’s going to be a split in the 13 squads because of the commander’s blurry actions and a rebellion. Hoping at least the commander gets killed he’s a douche bag.
iron keg at 11:00 pm on September 3rd, 2008
man i might get tell off for this but this bleach filler arc was’nt what i thought it wud be kinda imitating the whole aizen thing with the captain being the evil one and stuff well for right now D.gray-man kicking asss anime wise and manga LVL4 coming next WEEK YOSHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Justin Olbrantz (Quantam) at 11:01 pm on September 3rd, 2008
Okay, so, I’m currently in the Bount arc of this. Do they ever get back to Aizen and company in the anime? I heard they covered that in the manga right away.
Jynn Cross at 11:37 pm on September 3rd, 2008
i now understood what they did with the esapada arc they needed to finish this arc because the other arc is more interestin that this filler arc hoply amagai isn,t bad in the end need to watch the subbed version to confirmed what happened cuz that came has suprise to me .
Kaitune at 12:05 am on September 4th, 2008
@Lawrence
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Chimasternmay at 1:26 am on September 4th, 2008
@Justin Olbrantz (Quantam)- oh ya in the Manga its right a away, but the anime just adds another adventure of sort fo let the manga get further ahead.. butu should watch that arc too, its alright, tho the beginning may piss u off. u know the 3 dolls acting like enemy just like what happened in Yu Yu Hakusho lol…
Chimasternmay at 1:33 am on September 4th, 2008
i just hope that when this whole arc is done and over with, we will get a chance to understand the time/plot-line better…
Also this was like the first time i actually noticed the people in the back of captains and i saw this…
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/Bleach/Bleach%20-%20186%20-%20Large%2018.jpg
…i was all like who ta F are those girls on the right and the other wired looking dudes lol
Mr.K at 4:28 am on September 4th, 2008
This is obvious… almost to obvious… this arc is now dragging on although I will admit its better then the bount arc. But I think I already know what is going on.
Captain Commander Yamamoto is a good guy but this is a last test…
Remember when he planted the fake menos a while back? That was a test to see what would happen in a decisive situation.
Then waiting so long before he allowed the squads to look into the Kasumi-Ooji caused them to doubt the decisions of the captain commander and those who were close to ichigo started to fight against other squad members.
This is the final test… How would the squads react and act if a captain or multiple captains were to betray everyone in the middle of conflict. He wants to see how they would handle the confusion.
I think this whole arc was a conspiracy to begin with. Luri-chan was never in danger and this was all a test…
It will be interesting to see if this holds through… I hope not I do enjoy plot twists ever so…
panaghoy88 at 6:11 am on September 4th, 2008
@Mr.K
I don’t think this is a test. Remember Captain Amagai killed the evil old guy. In a test someone might get hurt but not to an extent that someone gets killed. Amagai obviously assassinated the guy to shut him up. Amagai’s hiding and plotting something and that involves Yamamoto and Lurichiyo. Kifune was chosen by Amagai too and Kifune turned out to be involved. Remember the old guy said that ,in the subs anyway, Commander Yamamoto promised that no one will infiltrate the mansion and he’ll be protected he said that Yamamoto was a traitor. When Renji brought the Bakotou weapon to Yamamoto he immediately ordered the mansion to be raided because Yamamoto doesn’t want to be caught. When the old guy was dying his last words were: ‘I did everything he ordered me to do’. This might refer to either Yamamoto or Amagai.
force at 7:44 am on September 4th, 2008
Urahara learn to Yoruichi how to destroy the barrier made by the Royal family to the Kasumi oji smithy so learn it to Soifon but how did he knew ?