Bleach - 228 July 14
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Summary:
Ichigo has come with all the female Shinigami to the beach after their Soul Society pool got destroyed by Byakuya. Renji and some of the other guys have come along too, as have Inoue, Sado, and Ishida. With everyone gathered, Ukitake announces a seaside art contest with a cash prize, and several of the Shinigami are enticed enough to participate, including Rukia and Byakuya. It’s Kiyone and Sentarou who inadvertently end up building a sand coffin around a sleeping Ukitake that judge Unohana thinks are the winners though. All of this is interrupted when a monster suddenly attacks and captures Nanao and Isane. Unohana isn’t surprised because she had heard of a strong Hollow here, they have a hard time fighting it because it can absorb spirit attacks. A second one then appears, but fortunately Yoruichi and Soifon show up and are able to use direct attacks to take both down. Afterward, Ukitake wakes back up and, with the other captains who knew about this, explains that this was actually all part of the watermelon splitting activity. These particular watermelon monsters were created by the Research and Development Institute to fight Hollows, and Ichigo and company have several more to take out.
Preview
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As a fun fanservice episode, I think this worked quite well. Even though I was familiar with the omake chapter from volume 29 of the manga, I found the Ukitake coffin joke to be hilarious and really couldn’t stop laughing at how they did it here. Hitsugaya serving as basically an ice machine was pretty amusing too. And as expected, there was plenty of cleavage and revealing swimsuits, and they even kept in the breast buckets joke and added tentacle monsters. So I really don’t have much to complain about this, and I suspect that a fun episode like this will look really good when we’re deep in the anime original stuff that’s coming soon.
Speaking of coming soon, it looks like next week will be another one-shot about Keigo’s sister Mizuho (we already had one back in episode 133), and the new ED should start the week after that, probably along with the new anime original arc.
Pachi at 9:22 pm on July 14th, 2009
Buen resumen tengo que ver la version subtitulada gracias omni
xxxchaosqueen75xx at 9:34 pm on July 14th, 2009
I’m just glad that they base something on a manga chapter.
Chrome at 9:35 pm on July 14th, 2009
Well this episode was good but does anyone know what the anime original stuff will be or no clue out there? what i would really want to see animated some day if they ever make it manga wise or anime wise how ichigo’s father ended up being a shinigami and how he lost his power i would watch that for sure wouldn’t anyone who likes the show well thanks for reading this post.
Silivious at 9:53 pm on July 14th, 2009
Lawl, that was quite entertaining. XD
Maka at 10:11 pm on July 14th, 2009
ikkaku LOL
Exia at 10:12 pm on July 14th, 2009
I always thought that some of those girls were guys in the series…
Kaitune at 10:15 pm on July 14th, 2009
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/Bleach/Bleach%20-%20228%20-%20Large%2023.jpg
Sometimes I seriously wonder if these two are actually siblings… (Rukia probably took her crappy rabbit drawing style from her Onii-sama.)
Stigmata25 at 10:21 pm on July 14th, 2009
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/Bleach/Bleach%20-%20228%20-%20Large%20Preview%2003.jpg
Come to me my X-Men
starss at 10:22 pm on July 14th, 2009
It sounds like the next Ikkaku episode will be anime original, but I never read any of the omake chapters, so I can’t say for sure.
So. Bleach now has a proper Beach Episode.
I’m glad they incorporated the swimsuits of the female characters from that one illustration that has been circulating over the net for ages! 
Plus, the Hollow being a watermelon was clever, and they even had it being pretty pervy!! Come on… it grabbed three of the women, but ditched Renji? 
Despite the fanservice being a definite plus, just the way everyone appeared together seemed very awkward. In a canon ep, Byakuya wouldn’t be caught dead playing with his sister on a beach! Also, by the way this ep wrapped up, I was expecting it to be a two-parter, but the preview showed otherwise… which made the To Be Continued label very confusing. Oh well.
starss at 10:22 pm on July 14th, 2009
Oh… and no matter how you think, Isane… you looked yummy.
God~Knows~ at 10:28 pm on July 14th, 2009
Delicious episode
brianleung8912 at 10:35 pm on July 14th, 2009
Male characters:
Swear all the vice captains are ripped… even more so than the captains
Female characters:
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm… more Nemu wudav been better >:) (Y)
Eliskuya at 10:43 pm on July 14th, 2009
byakuya’s hair reminds me of my own http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/Bleach/Bleach%20-%20228%20-%20Large%2010.jpg
Gundamaniac at 11:35 pm on July 14th, 2009
ok…………. Bleach and tentacle monsters just don’t mix together
c00lpuPPy at 11:39 pm on July 14th, 2009
byakuya in modern clothes. hmmm
Awaken at 11:43 pm on July 14th, 2009
Haven’t even watched this episode yet and I can tell this will be the BEST BLEACH EPISODE EEVVVAAAAAAA!!!!
Ariel at 11:52 pm on July 14th, 2009
i hate these bleach fillers >_<
Karis at 11:58 pm on July 14th, 2009
Hey, you didn’t post any pictures of Nemu in her school mizugi at all >:( that is just cold.
Bass at 12:46 am on July 15th, 2009
Fanservice ftw.
I guess this episode explains the coloured spread in the manga from the past, since they’re wearing the same outfits.
Sailor Enlil at 12:56 am on July 15th, 2009
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/Bleach/Bleach%20-%20228%20-%20Large%2019.jpg
Is this some kind of new dildo or something? :O
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/Bleach/Bleach%20-%20228%20-%20Large%2024.jpg
lol shameless plug