The Bleach Fan Club

[-Lapras-]

I doubt I'll rewatch much of it, probably until the Bounts turn up. I forgot how funny the beginning eps were, Rukia not knowing how to use a straw and Chad fighting the hollow, blind.

[Pokestick, good times.]

Back when Bleach was an actual Urban Fantasy series with legitimately creepy hollows.

[-Lapras-]

Seeing the old art style is pretty cool as well, really miss Bleach's pre stylised look, especially Rukia's old appearance.

[Pokestick, good times.]

There wasn't just as much Kurosaki-Kun either :D
I mean, even that's something.

Kurosaki-kun.



Kurosaki-kun.

Kurosaki-kun.




Kuro-Ok, I'll stop now.

[minchan]

Well this is interesting. Viz romanizes that guy's name as Asguiaro Ebern in the March 5th, 2011 issue of Shonen Jump Alpha.

Allow me to introduce myself.

The name's Ebern.

Want my full name?
It's Asguiaro Ebern.

So um yeah. I dunno what's with that... They do weird things with names though... Hmm...

[I like Pokemon (...)]

Originally Posted by minchan

Well this is interesting. Viz romanizes that guy's name as Asguiaro Ebern in the March 5th, 2011 issue of Shonen Jump Alpha.



So um yeah. I dunno what's with that... They do weird things with names though... Hmm...

Spoiler:

You mean Ivan? Bleach.wikia puts his name as: アズギアロ・イーバーン in Katakana, or Azugiaro Iibaan. I think the scanlators went with "Azgiaro Ivan", while Viz went with "Asguiaro Ebern", even though they're both technically correct.

Asguiaro gets me nothing on its own.
Ebern is a town in Germany.

Soyeah

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SMILE!Cookie cake for you!

[Pokestick, good times.]

It'd make sense for it to be the more German-sounding one. A Spanish- and German-sounding name for an Arrancar-Quincy kind of guy.

Animu:

Spoiler:

This week's episode:

Fullbringer and Shinigmai fight.
Fullbringer boasts about their power.
Shinigami turns out to be stronger than expected.
Fullbringer: "...impossible"

It's not taking as long a time as I thought these fights would though, so that's cool. There were a couple of scenes in here that I enjoyed seeing animated, too.

The anime is flying by now, can't wait to see more Tsukishima-Byakuya action but it looks like it's is nearing its final boss fight VERY quickly.

Lots of stuff this chapter! :D

[I like Pokemon (...)]

Manga

Spoiler:

I don't quite understand what Yamamoto did... Break the protective barrier?

"Easy to guess"? So I assume Yama probably already knows who would want to wage war on SS. Since they're Quincies, then Yama might know that not all of them were eradicated.

bleach.wikia defines the Shakonmaku as "The dome-shaped reishi barrier that surrounds Seireitei." in case anyone wondered what it was.

"They can bankai." It SOUNDS like "they can use Bankai", but from what we've seen with Ivan/Ebern, he might mean "they can STEAL bankai". If Yamamoto knows stuff we don't, he might have already known that they were trying stuff with Bankai.

"This shadow only hides the chosen ones." Yay, cryptic. Might have something to do with "True Bloods" that was mentioned earlier, or something.

Ohlook, the ice palace thingy.

"You kidding me, who would bow before someone like you?" Reminds me a LOT of Grimmjow V Ulquiorra.

Oh look, an arm was cut off. Was it Zam that had the list?

So...yeah. Retreat. Probably going to focus on Ichigo's reaction to Ivan, and him telling Ishida/Chad/Orihime(/Urahara?).

[-Lapras-]

I did not notice the 2nd Bleach concept cover album had been released. I liked the first one better tbh.
For anyone that cares I'm sure you can find the rest through that.

[Zameric]

Manga 484

Spoiler:

I'm laughing a bit at how MangaReader's source for Bleach is all messed up.
I guess they hadn't fully prepared for all the traffic they would get since MangaStream and MangaFox were visited by Viz.
But of course, I'm only laughing about it since I already read this week's chapter.

Ok, so we finally learn that Ivan/Ebern is connected to Vandenreich.
Which means that they're most likely Quincies, too.
But Sasakibe's hopefully not dying words have thrown in a nasty wrench...

And with an addition to Kubo's demented fetish, we get to meet the leader of Vandenreich!
But really, is that going to get another arm? A prosthetic might be cool.

I've updated Kubo's Arm Collection with two new additions.
There's a link on the first post; but be warned, it contains spoilers.

[RASENCERO]

Slow pace is slow.

Funny how we all instantly thought of adding to the list of Kubo's arm collection. If anyone is bored/procrastinating, we should do a count of right and left arms and see if there is a pattern to it. XD

Spoiler:

But I do like the development though. It it still quite mysterious, besides the "we want war" part. People behind wars usually have a hidden motive or a secret agenda.

Ban Kai for ALL the characters! They either stole it or developed a similar power.

Those scans, about what is coming, were pretty interesting.

Edit:
No Bleach this week?

Also, this ain't finished:
The Bleach Hurt or Heal Game!
Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto - 19
Suì-Fēng - 22
Ichimaru Gin - 21
Retsu Unohana - 22
Sōsuke Aizen - 0
Byakuya Kuchiki - 24
Sajin Komamura - 21
Shunsui Kyōraku - 27
Kaname Tōsen - 0
Tōshirō Hitsugaya - 24
Kenpachi Zaraki - 29
Mayuri Kurotsuchi - 22
Jūshirō Ukitake - 30

-1 Hitsugaya
+1 Kyōraku

[Pokestick, good times.]

Herro, back after thirteen days of not visiting this thread.

MAL seems pretty serious about this Bleach ending thing. On Bleach's page, it says the series is 366 eps long. Which means it'd end in eight days :V

[-Lapras-]

I guess no other channel picked it up, hopefully it won't stay dead forever.

[SwiftSign]

The anime is ending? :O

Episode 365:

Spoiler:

I really don't like Kugo, he's an enemy who never really made sense... Also I feel like they're throwing too many parallels with him and Aizen (the Arrancar/Shinigami vibe, the purple wings in his Bankai form). Boring.

Fullbringers had some real potential for interest and most of them are just so boring. The girl (Riruka?) is the only one who has revealed any kind of special secret power, but if there is only one episode left I doubt we'll learn anything about it anyway.

[Pokestick, good times.]

I've yet to see this week's episode, but having read the manga I agree, especially on the Kugo part :P

[-Lapras-]

Chapter

Spoiler:

Guy who's only real scene in the show was getting third party facepalmed by Ichigo back in the SS arc is dead.

Nel's back hopefully we'll get some more adult Nel scenes

When one big bad moves out of Hueco Mundo the next one moves in.

Totally non sadistic fanservice page Harribel chained up like a slave. Kubo showin ghis dark side again.

[I like Pokemon (...)]

Spoiler:

I DEFINITELY think that this is one of the best chapters so far. By quite a bit.

"If you're going to sit down then I guess you won't need your legs."<- Badass. Though personally, I'm not a fan of villains killing their own forces, it definitely is something to show about his own power both in terms of how he inflicts fear, and how many soldiers he must have, of that level.

Is it just me, or has Kubo's drawing improved in general? I like how he's varied quite a bit, from the dark and serious drawing of the new antagonist, and Orihime/Ichigo's cute/round shapes.

So Ishida's getting closer to Ichigo? I guess that puts the decision of which side he'll stick with (since there is still plenty of evidence that Quincies are the core villain group); most likely he'll stay with Ichigo.

OH MY GOD SASAKIBE DIED THE MOST SHOCKING TWIST EVER.

It's a shame they didn't know how many intruders there were, that killed 106 soldiers in 3 mins.

And of course, Ishida/Ichigo's analysis of things.

NEL! It would be nice for him to explain what happened with her!

Wow, "Are you a prophet?" "No." "Then stop guessing the future." *KILL* And Ivan too. Man, people are dying all over the place today.

Arrancars? Haha, looks like everyone was right. I think that was actually good writing on Kubo's part.

And Harribel! What wasn't good writing is that he showed NOTHING of her after she got slashed that suggested that she went to Hueco Mundo at all, even if the database books said so.

Definitely a nice, dense chapter, filled with tons of information. The villain is an ******* who kills and tortures in person, the Quincies are really going all out to beat Soul Society by taking over Hueco Mundo - though how will they do it exactly? Aizen split Soul Society practically in half, and he managed to do jack squat.

And with Harribel captured, and Nel escaped, I think we'll be seeing Grimmjow in the future too - perhaps he also managed to escape, but not into the real world. And he's not likely to fight back against the Vandenreich just yet because he knows that if they have Harribel, then he has no chance.

[Pokestick, good times.]

Great chapter o3o

My thoughts are already covered though.

[Truality]

Latest chapter:

Spoiler:

Why oh WHY did Ivan die? Wasn't he supposed to be a primary antagonist in this arc? Or am I not getting something right?

Big bad boos looks like a bulky version of Zangetsu ossan to me.

The rest is already said.

And wait, what. Anime is ending? Haven't watched anime eps in a while, might do it now.

[minchan]

This is like complete and utter mindf*ck.

Spoiler:

So I guess Sasakibe is dead huh. Well umm hey at least he was a character most people forgot really easily and didn't really care too much about...? Umm. Yeah. Sucks to be him.

I'm more interested in HOW THE HELL NEL CAME CRASHING DOWN TO EARTH. It's kinda convenient that it was already said (in some interview or something...?) that she was gonna appear but hey I didn't expect it to be this soon... XD

I guess the other espada didn't just automatically die after the Aizen fight after all... ; Wish there was more to go on than just that though... =P

Anyway what exactly happened to Harribel anyway...? I'm so confused... >.< (Yeah uhh nothing new there. LOL)

I wish Nel wasn't cut off mid sentence... Damn troll Kubo. =/

Sorry for my inactivity... With last week having no chapter and school and life being really rough I haven't had a chance to come by. >.<

Here's some free cake for all of you guys, in hopes you'll forgive me... XD

*gives cake to everyone*

YAY CAKE.

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The Bleach Hurt or Heal Game!
Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto - 18
Suì-Fēng - 22
Ichimaru Gin - 21
Retsu Unohana - 22
Sōsuke Aizen - 0
Byakuya Kuchiki - 24
Sajin Komamura - 21
Shunsui Kyōraku - 27
Kaname Tōsen - 0
Tōshirō Hitsugaya - 25
Kenpachi Zaraki - 29
Mayuri Kurotsuchi - 22
Jūshirō Ukitake - 30

+shirochan =P
-yamamoto just coz

[-Lapras-]

It seems she's just been captured. The dude said something like

Spoiler:

he's got as many Arrancars as he needs, I presume he's using Haribell DNA to create super his Arrancar crossbreed things.

[RASENCERO]

This weeks chpt was great! Not much to say that Ilpy didn't cover already...
Ilpy, Y U cover all of our thoughts so thoroughly!?

Originally Posted by Tru

Spoiler:

Big bad boos looks like a bulky version of Zangetsu ossan to me.

Spoiler:

I thought so as well, for a split second I even thought it was Ichigo's new version of his inner world or something.

Originally Posted by -Lapras-

Spoiler:

he's got as many Arrancars as he needs, I presume he's using Haribell DNA to create super his Arrancar crossbreed things.

Agreed, though I do believe there is a little more to it then just this.


The Bleach Hurt or Heal Game!
Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto - 18
Suì-Fēng - 22
Ichimaru Gin - 21
Retsu Unohana - 22
Sōsuke Aizen - 0
Byakuya Kuchiki - 25
Sajin Komamura - 21
Shunsui Kyōraku - 27
Kaname Tōsen - 0
Tōshirō Hitsugaya - 24
Kenpachi Zaraki - 29
Mayuri Kurotsuchi - 22
Jūshirō Ukitake - 30

Byakuya + 1
Tōshirō - 1

Originally Posted by minchan

*gives cake to everyone*

YAY CAKE.

Nom nom nom.
...
You are forgiven. XD

[I like Pokemon (...)]

Originally Posted by Truality

Spoiler:

Why oh WHY did Ivan die? Wasn't he supposed to be a primary antagonist in this arc? Or am I not getting something right?

Spoiler:

Apparently not; he's just the guy who introduced the villains. Which really makes me think "Who else has he newly introduced that could be killed soon?"

Originally Posted by RASENCERO

This weeks chpt was great! Not much to say that Ilpy didn't cover already...
Ilpy, Y U cover all of our thoughts so thoroughly!?

Hehe, I'm just that analytical? :3

Originally Posted by RASENCERO

Agreed, though I do believe there is a little more to it then just this.

I would replace "DNA" with "Reiatsu", but besides that, virtually the same.

The Bleach Hurt or Heal Game!
Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto - 18
Suì-Fēng - 22
Ichimaru Gin - 21
Retsu Unohana - 22
Sōsuke Aizen - 0
Byakuya Kuchiki - 25
Sajin Komamura - 21
Shunsui Kyōraku - 27
Kaname Tōsen - 0
Tōshirō Hitsugaya - 23
Kenpachi Zaraki - 30
Mayuri Kurotsuchi - 22
Jūshirō Ukitake - 30

-1 Hitsugaya
+1 Zaraki

[minchan]

The Bleach Hurt or Heal Game!
Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto - 17
Suì-Fēng - 22
Ichimaru Gin - 21
Retsu Unohana - 22
Sōsuke Aizen - 0
Byakuya Kuchiki - 25
Sajin Komamura - 21
Shunsui Kyōraku - 27
Kaname Tōsen - 0
Tōshirō Hitsugaya - 24
Kenpachi Zaraki - 30
Mayuri Kurotsuchi - 22
Jūshirō Ukitake - 30

Same as before because you're all mean for trying to kill off Shirochan.

=P

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About Harribel... Hmm I see.

It's kinda confusing to me... XD Most stuff kinda is. =P

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The chapter seemed to contain a LOT more than most recent ones... ;

[Zameric]

Hey everyone. Sorry that I haven't been on much lately.
Just been busy with school and family and crud.
I'm really likin' were Bleach is heading, plot wise.
But I'm sad to hear that the anime seems to be coming to an end, for now. Right?

Latest manga chapter

Spoiler:

Two big twists in the chapter this week.
First Nel falls from the sky (I'm assuming from a Garganta) and lands on Ichigo, to ask for help.
Then we learn that Harribel is now a damsel in distress! D:
If that sick ******* has or does lay a perverted finger on her, I'll decapitate him! You with me, MC?
Like everyone else, I'm just wtfing here...How could this have happened?
And apparently the leader of Vandenreich is making some kind of Arrancar Quincy hybrids? o.0
It's just so much info right now, it has me on the virtual edge of my seat!
I can't wait for the next chapter, even though I'll have too.
But the wait is already half over, so that's good! :D

The Bleach Hurt or Heal Game!
Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto - 16
Suì-Fēng - 22
Ichimaru Gin - 21
Retsu Unohana - 22
Sōsuke Aizen - 0
Byakuya Kuchiki - 25
Sajin Komamura - 21
Shunsui Kyōraku - 27
Kaname Tōsen - 0
Tōshirō Hitsugaya - 24
Kenpachi Zaraki - 31
Mayuri Kurotsuchi - 22
Jūshirō Ukitake - 30

I give Kenpachi Zaraki 1 point to give him one more point than Ukitake.
I take 1 point from Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto because it seems like he's going to be the next to go.