Bleach - 237 September 15
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Summary:
After the remaining captains have Ichigo explain what he learned, they bring in Renji, but Renji doesn’t know much because his Zanpakutou spirits don’t remember anything. Ichigo then goes to visit Rukia who’s still recovering, and he knows that she’s worried about Byakuya, so he tells her to leave it up to him. Around this time, Ikkaku finds Ichigo and wants to talk with him. Elsewhere in Soul Society, Oomaeda finds some guards knocked out, but before he can investigate, his men get beat up by two Zanpakutou spirits. One of them is his own Zanpakutou, Gegetsuburi. The two start arguing and are about to fight when Ichigo and Ikkaku arrive, and they accidentally knock Oomaeda out in the process. It turns out that the other Zanpakutou spirit is Ikkaku’s Hoozukimaru, and the two immediately start fighting.
While those two battle, Gegetsuburi turns his sights on Ichigo since Muramasa had told the Zanpakutou spirits earlier that he’d like to capture Ichigo alive. Ichigo, however, is easily able to handle Gegetsuburi and knocks him out. Ikkaku meanwhile has a hard time against his Zanpakutou after Hoozukimaru initiates bankai, and he doesn’t want Ichigo’s help. He’s unable to continue their battle though after Soifon, Ukitake, and Kyouraku suddenly show up with a group of men. As a result, Hoozukimaru creates an explosion around him and escapes during the confusion. The Shinigami are still able to capture Gegetsuburi though, and Ukitake sends him to Kurotsuchi. Ichigo doesn’t stick around and instead tries to pursue Hoozukimaru, but he gets stopped when a wave of Senbonzakura’s blades come flying at him. Ichigo is able to defend himself by using his own bankai, and afterward, he sees Byakuya standing on a nearby rooftop.
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They spent a bunch of time this episode on jokes and comedy, so things didn’t really get exciting until the final third of the episode. That latter part had some nice choreography in the Ikkaku vs. Hoozukimaru battle, and I laughed when Ichigo was able to take care of Gegetsuburi with one attack (I transferred my dislike of Oomaeda onto him). At least Ichigo was fighting at his appropriate level of power there, since often it feels like he’s fighting at the level of the opponent. Along those same lines, it was also nice to see him be able to fight through Senbonzakura’s blades with his bankai speed - I wish we saw that kind of speed more often. Speaking of which, it looks like they’re trying to portray Byakuya as maybe a traitor or at least as someone working with the Zanpakutou spirits, but I’m sure there’ll be a good reason for it since he’s too liked a character to be an antagonist for long. I’m more curious about why they show Menos Forest Gillians in the preview for next week - maybe Muramasa has some connections to Hueco Mundo after all, perhaps even to the previous anime original mini-arc.
Jerico at 11:01 pm on September 15th, 2009
oh my its out nao o.O
Seo Entertainment at 11:13 pm on September 15th, 2009
Oh man…it’s already out?? I’m always 2 or 3 days late…
starss at 11:15 pm on September 15th, 2009
*does Second (I think) Comment Dance*
Heck at 11:22 pm on September 15th, 2009
Fourt!! hahaha nice
Panther at 11:26 pm on September 15th, 2009
Byakuya, the antagonist? The bishie that must not be left out of all threads on bishies in shounen anime discussions? Naaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh.
ssj4jw at 11:32 pm on September 15th, 2009
They need to think of new names for these episodes. Soi Fon came at the very end of the episode. Bet next week will have very little about Haineko and Tobiume.
JLaP at 12:00 am on September 16th, 2009
“Crap hit the wrong one.
–>Yup. But its just Oomaeda, no one care”
Amen to that
Chakra at 12:07 am on September 16th, 2009
byakuya suprised me a little bit…. but why would he want to do that unless he made an agreement with them somehow i feel like it has something to do with rukia as for the wielder of muramasa i hope its not that guy form that previous arc it would make sense.
Anonymous at 12:32 am on September 16th, 2009
Isn’t Hoozukimaru supposed to be incredibly lazy? Or did they drop this for the filler arc so that he could fight even without Ikkaku forcing him to?
Keroro22 at 2:29 am on September 16th, 2009
Freaky, he looks like Saix from Kingdom Hearts II!
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/Bleach/Bleach%20-%20237%20-%20Large%20Preview%2001.jpg
Chimasternmay at 2:49 am on September 16th, 2009
i guess another battle between Ichigo and Byakuya coming, well it wont be the same as the last one still would be interesting, been dying to see him do petal attacks.
Sarabjeet at 3:16 am on September 16th, 2009
Awwwww man i forgot to put on DL before coming to office…..
now whole day i’ll be wondering about it
Deathdakid at 3:48 am on September 16th, 2009
Thanx to the directors, they new Oomaeda is an unpopular character which is why they buried him and making Ichigo fight gegetsuburi instead. I like also like how gegetsuburi was defeated this quckley and early in the arc. This is better to get his fight out of the way at prepare for some other serious zans to fight now.
kaineng at 4:10 am on September 16th, 2009
this is getting interesting, but then did byakuya then lost to his zanpakuto within the time after he was lost? or not would he even bother to go against Soul Society? well well, got me thinking, hope it gets better…
unohana anyways, is just… no I wouldn’t bother to offend her in any other way, even if is the past, now, or the future…
Phoenix Seikun at 4:35 am on September 16th, 2009
Wow, this is getting more interesting..
Actarus at 7:06 am on September 16th, 2009
Unohana must be very strong, cause more than a couple of times other taichou seems scared by her…
ferggggg at 9:04 am on September 16th, 2009
Wait are we going to be seeing Ashido again? Funny how they’re showing the Ashido episodes right now in the dub.
force at 12:17 pm on September 16th, 2009
Ichigo is going to have trouble with the Zanpaktous trying to capture him
chad001 at 3:48 pm on September 16th, 2009
…Zanpaktou are supposed to be a reflection of the their shinigami’s inner selves right?… Lol… so it makees sense that Masumoto’s and Hinamori’s swords are fighting over Toshirou’s sword….
jlyn101 at 3:53 pm on September 16th, 2009
i kinda like the ikkaku-houzukimaru part. brings back memories…
well, as far as the story goes, the plot thickens…