Similar Happenings November 14
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With the title, I’m referring again to what’s happening right now in the anime with Byakuya vs. Zaraki. It’s not exactly the same (obviously different circumstances and no Yammy between them in the anime), but the general banter and rivalry/conflict is there. I’m curious to see how the animation team hey will treat this part of the manga when they finally get around to animating it, i.e. will they refer back to the anime original battles or just ignore it as if it didn’t exist in the same timeline. Anyway, it’s good to see that at least Yammy is getting shown to be the weak loudmouth that he always seemed to be. As for the other part of the chapter, I guess Ichigo’s explanation clears up why he’s only got a scrap of his normal bankai clothing on, but I really hope this isn’t the reason he was unable to summon his mask earlier (basically, if you throw in that kind of an obstacle, don’t resolve it so easily). If it is though, then Unohana bringing him back up to full strength plus Ichigo’s relatively poor showing against Yammy should mean that Ichigo is due to have a cool scene once he arrives in Karakura Town. Hopefully the break next week means that we’ll get some quality chapters in the coming weeks.
paul at 12:05 am on November 15th, 2009
yami being #0 is pretty weak
Mcw88 at 12:06 am on November 15th, 2009
Man, i was really enjoying the arrancar arc (lol that sounds funny) before #1 & 3’s poor showing and ichigo’s entrance. Ichigo just made everything more generic - at least w/o him who might win and who might lose becomes somewhat less predictable.
pierce at 12:09 am on November 15th, 2009
The Espadas are weak, too weak. The recent battles feel so one-sided. We all know from the very beginning that Ichigo has immense reatsu, so it wasn’t a big shock when they reveal that he’s only at half strength. If I recall correctly, Aizen once said he has twice the reatsu of a normal captain. Maybe Kubo-sensei needed some kinda reason for Ichigo to power-up even more to match Aizen, but even then I doubt Ichigo can win.
sad at 12:15 am on November 15th, 2009
Espadas and Vizards are both weak as shit. they were hyped to heavens and back but look what they have done; Zero. They haven’t achieved shit so far and now that all Espadas are gone, I don’t know what else is there to fight for Aizen.
Kozue at 12:21 am on November 15th, 2009
I think that Ichigo lost the ability to have ‘cool scenes’ when he started gaining every new power there is. Being a human, Shinigami, Vizard, Hollow, Arrancar is just.. pathetic in itself, and completely uninteresting for me, personally. I really hope that Ichigo gets blown away by Aizen, or at least, drag it out longer than him just beating him after a, most likely, unimpressive fight. I always say this, but I miss when Ishida was toe to toe in rivalry with Ichigo. Anyway, the scene where Byakuya and Kenpachi both look back at Yammy with ‘.. Wut?” faces. Pure win. I love how they’re making Kammy to be a stepping stone in their own squabble.
damian at 1:00 am on November 15th, 2009
The Espada were hyped by the fans more than the series itself; it was obvious these Espada would be shit since they werent the army he wanted, he wanted an army of Vast Lorde which are the only type of Hollow/Arrancar SS was ever truly scared of.
bleh at 1:14 am on November 15th, 2009
lame antagonists and nothing really happening
Grant at 1:15 am on November 15th, 2009
To be honest I’m just resigning myself to a lot of this. Zaraki and Byakuya will kill Yammy without the trouble number 0 should give them (which I still think was just plain stupid). Ichigo will kill Aizen. Unohana is essentially the cleric of the group, but without the useful spells for handling the undead. Hope the fight’s at least flashy.
Cheshire Lion at 1:24 am on November 15th, 2009
Maybe Yammy was just lying about his strength? Noitra gave him a little bit of trouble and he was number 5. If Yammy is actually stronger than all of the rest then he should at least make Zaraki take his eye-patch off.
Although, the Arrancar have proven to be really disappointing all around. Jaggerjack and Ulqiorra are the only ones to have provided even a single quality fight in the whole series. Maybe Barragan as well. For people with such difficult names to spell they really have been lame enemies.
Ence at 1:42 am on November 15th, 2009
My guess is that either he will have difficulty and/or end up seeing Aizen’s shikai, thus making it difficult despite all his “upgrades”.
Pw3age at 1:58 am on November 15th, 2009
I always knew Yammy was the loudmouth that would die first. Actually hoping for some plot twist by LOLKUBO so Yammy can pull of some epic move that forces Zaraki to learn Bankai of some sort.
Hey, it’s possible. This is LOLKUBO we are talking about.
nutsy at 2:17 am on November 15th, 2009
this whole zaraki+byakuya combo remind me of one piece where zoro n luffy had a short fight…it’s during albasta arc i think…sigh…
BROOKLYN otaku at 2:18 am on November 15th, 2009
you know, they always say “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” but i gotta say, i knew since day one when the espadas where introduced that they were ALL weak ass bitches!! hahahahah ichigo is soooooo strong!! i love it
Highman at 2:38 am on November 15th, 2009
Told ya so, Bitches! Espada are underrated as ever.
vincent at 3:15 am on November 15th, 2009
you know this scene reminds me a lot of the one in one piece where zoro and luffy fight against each other in the bounty hunter island and the girl that changes her weigh and the guy with the explosive body go ahead and try to get in the middle of it…
blinx01 at 4:32 am on November 15th, 2009
It’s all seeming a little predictable at the minute.
Surely there’s going to be a moment where the tide turns and Yammy gives them both a run for their money, otherwise, surely he wouldn’t be #0.
Can’t see Ichigo beating Aizen either, not unless he’s learnt to control his beserker release. More likely than not, Aizen will achieve his goal, open the King’s domain, and then that’ll be the next arc, at the same time, introducing the characters who in the past have been promoted from Captains to the Royal Guard.
Splash at 8:45 am on November 15th, 2009
The only thing I didn’t like about the whole thing was Aizen 1 shotting Halibel. She was very popular and never really got her chance to shine and show what she really could do.
knight of one at 9:40 am on November 15th, 2009
Cool. But i feel that Tite Kubo making Ichigo’s sudden outburts as Deus Ex Machina to negate his shortcomings.
SIMPLY RED at 10:04 am on November 15th, 2009
its funny that all of a sudden nothing productive is happening Unohana and Ichigo’s discussion is irrelevant whether or not Ichigo’s power is in half, he always gets his power up the more important issue is the new mask,how does he get it to work ? thats the discussion they are supposed to be having or is he just going to fight aimlessly again only shooting the lunar moon fang and where is Rukia in all of this Ichigo just forgot about her like that. As for Yammy kenpachi needs to finish him already its getting boring whether yammy is number or not he is still as stupid as ever the only vast lorde Aizen created is probably is Wonderweiss the rest and thats because he was created by Aizen himself not the other espadas.
Lump at 3:06 pm on November 15th, 2009
bleach and quality chapters in the same sentence? madness