The Bleach Fan Club

[Pokestick good times.]

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It's not like she was a captain anyway, so who gives >_>

I like that about Japanese, that one word can mean so many things.

 

[Merciless Cremator]

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Anime
Just wow...your shinigami clothes go white when you lose power, it seems.
Ichigo got his powers back...again.
Honestly, I like even more now because of this Arc.

Manga
Renji isn't a captain...crap.
Well everyone had a few changes during the break.
The sooner Ichigo ends these two, the better.

So how is everyone?
Anyone not going to college or something?
Good luck to everyone who is.

Edit: Zam is having problems getting here. So until he gets it fixed, he'll be missing for a bit.

 

[I like Pokemon (...)]

Remember those Battle Data Charts that most of us have made? I decided to play around with the numbers a bit. I'll rank everyone based on each stat and the total; I'll calculate the "average rank" of everybody, and I'll also calculate the area of each chart. I'll do the same for the Canon Gotei 13 as well.

Ranking:

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An image comparing all the numbers of everyone's charts. They are ordered by squad then rank (which is why Rasen and Cyber both come before smile!).

Before I rank everyone by each stat, I want to do some averaging – to see what the average member's total would be, and if each stat was equal, what each stat would be. We have 2 members with quite low averages (because they aren't Captains) – CyberBlaziken and Kamiya-chan. However, we also have Zameric who (being Head Captain) is quite a bit above everyone else. When we average out their total, we get 470 (473 rounded down) which is just below a weak captain. But if we average each of the stats, and round them up and down to the nearest multiple of 10 (so we get numbers like 90, 80, 70, etc.), the total becomes 480 – which is a weak captain. So because they kind of average out, I shall keep them in.

So if we take the average of all eleven totals, we get 490 (486.36). If the stats were all equal, they would be about 80 (81.06), but perhaps with one 90 stat somewhere. It doesn't add up exactly because I've rounded quite heavily, but you get the point. From here, we can compare how everyone does against the "average". As a note, the 80 figure will be called the "Rounded Average" for comparison.

Offense:

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1. Zameric (100)
=1. Merciless Cremator (100)
=1. Live_Wire466 (100)
=1. Minchan (100)
5. Rasencero (90)
6. Graceful (80)
=6. Pikapal642 (80)
=6. Kamiya-chan (80)
=6. CyberBlaziken (80)
10. I like Pokemon (…) (70)
11. smile! (60)

Total Offense: 940
Average Offense: 90 (85.45)
Rounded Average: 80 (81.06)
Number of people above Rounded Average: 5
Number of people equal to the Rounded Average: 4
Number of people below Rounded Average: 2

Quite simply, all I did was rank each member by their offense. If anyone shared the same spot, then they have an = next to their rank, and are ordered by the squad that they're in.

As a club, Offense is one of our strongest stats – in fact; it is the stat with the most number of 100s in it, with four. However, we have only one person with 90 (Rasencero), and a lot of people with 80. We just about make it to the round-off mark, though, and round up to 90.

Defense:

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1. Zameric (80)
=1. Graceful (80)
=1. Smile! (80)
4. Pikapal642 (70)
=4. Minchan (70)
=4. I like Pokemon (…) (70)
=4. Rasencero (70)
=4. CyberBlaziken (70)
9. Live_Wire (60)
=9. Kamiya-chan (60)
11. Merciless Cremator (50)

Total Defence: 760
Average Defence: 70 (69.09)
Rounded Average: 80 (81.06)
Number of people above Rounded Average: 0
Number of people equal to the Rounded Average: 3
Number of people below Rounded Average: 8

Defence is by far our worst stat – it is 70 points below our second worst stat! We have no one with more than 80 defence, and five people with 70 Defence, with more people having a Defence below the Rounded Average than equal to and above it.

Mobility:

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1. Merciless Cremator (100)
=1. Live_Wire466 (100)
=1. Pikapal642 (100)
4. Zameric (90)
=4. Kamiya-chan (90)
=4. Smile! (90)
7. Graceful (80)
=7. I like Pokemon (…) (80)
9. minchan (70)
=9. Rasencero (70)
=9. CyberBlaziken (70)

Total Mobility: 940
Average Mobility: 90 (85.45)
Rounded Average: 80 (81.06)
Number of people above Rounded Average: 6
Number of people equal to the Rounded Average: 2
Number of people below Rounded Average: 3

Oddly enough, our total for Mobility is exactly the same as our total for Offense – but this time, despite having one fewer 100, we have two more 90s, and half as many 80s – though we have those three 70s. Overall, we're quite fast and offensive, it seems. Also, Mobility is the only stat that doesn't have a 60 or lower.

Kidou/Reiatsu:

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1. Graceful (100)
=1. Minchan (100)
=1. Smile! (100)
4. Zameric (90)
=4. Live_Wire466 (90)
=4. Kamiya-chan (90)
=4. I like Pokemon (…) (90)
8. Rasencero (80)
=8. CyberBlaziken (80)
10. Pikapal642 (70)
11. Merciless Cremator (60)

Total Kidou/Reiatsu: 950
Average Kidou/Reiatsu: 90 (86.36)
Rounded Average: 80 (81.06)
Number of people above Rounded Average: 7
Number of people equal to the Rounded Average: 2
Number of people below Rounded Average: 2

Our strongest stat – if only by 10 points. Here, more than half of us are stronger than the "Rounded Average" with seven being the highest out of all of our stats. With only two people equal to, and two people less than the Rounded Average, we seem to be Kidou Masters 8D.

Intellect:

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1. I like Pokemon (…) (100)
=1. Rasencero (100)
3. Merciless Cremator (90)
=3. Graceful (90)
=3. Minchan (90)
=3. Smile! (90)
7. Zameric (80)
=7. Live_Wire466 (80)
=7. Pikapal642 (80)
10. Kamiya-chan (70)
11. CyberBlaziken (60)

Total Intellect: 930
Average Intellect: 80 (84.55)
Rounded Average: 80 (81.06)
Number of people above Rounded Average: 6
Number of people equal to the Rounded Average: 3
Number of people below Rounded Average: 2

As a Gotei 13, we seem to have quite high Intellect – having the most 90s in a stat (tied with Kidou/Reiatsu). However, with only 10 less total than Offense, we fall just below the rounding –up mark. It's also the stat that Zameric scores the lowest in – 7th place.

Stamina:

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1. Zameric (90)
=1. Merciless Cremator (90)
=1. Pikapal642 (90)
4. minchan (80)
=4. Rasencero (80)
=4. CyberBlaziken (80)
7. Graceful (70)
=7. I like Pokemon (…) (70)
9. Live_Wire466 (60)
=9. Kamiya-chan (60)
=9. Smile! (60)

Total Stamina: 830
Average Stamina: 80 (75.45)
Rounded Average: 80 (81.06)
Number of people above Rounded Average: 3
Number of people equal to the Rounded Average: 3
Number of people below Rounded Average: 5

Stamina is our second worst stat, being 70 points above Defence (our worst stat), and 100 points below the next-highest stat (Intellect). This is because we have no one with 100, but we at least have three 90s.

Totals:

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1. Zameric (530)
2. minchan (510)
3. Graceful (500)
4. Merciless Cremator (490)
=4. Live_Wire466 (490)
=4. Pikapal642 (490)
=4. Rasencero (490)
8. I like Pokemon (…) (480)
=8. Smile! (480)
10. Kamiya-chan (450)
11. CyberBlaziken (440)

Total Total: 5350
Average Total: 490 (486.36)
Number of people above Average: 3
Number of people equal to the Average: 4
Number of people below Average: 4

And so we come full circle. With just one person more that is below Average, than above Average, we just about make the round-off point up to 490.

Stat averages:

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If we take the stat average throughout (90/70/90/90/80/80) we find that this total (500) is just 10 points above the average Total (490). The stat that is the furthest from the rounding-off point, Intellect, can be dropped down a bit to make it fit the total:

Offense: 90
Defence: 70
Mobility: 90
Kidou/Reiatsu: 90
Intellect: 80
Stamina: 80
Total: 490

Quite interesting, no?

Rank Average:

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One thing I wanted to test out was what our average ranking is. For example, Zameric ranked: (1 [Offense] + 1 [Defence] + 4 [Mobility] + 4 [Kidou/Reiatsu] + 7 [Intellect] + 1 [Stamina] = 18) (18/6 = 3) so his ranking would be 3rd. What this means, though, is that a 90 Offense is different to a 90 Defence – the former would give you a rank of 5, the latter would give you a rank of 1.

On the left is their Average Rank after rounding, in the ( ) is their Average Rank before rounding (if two people have this equal, then they have an = besides the rank after rounding), and in the [ ] is their Stat Total.

3. Zameric (3) [530]
4. minchan (3.666…) [510]
4. Graceful (4.1666…) [500]
5. Merciless Cremator (4.666…) [490]
5. Pikapal642 (4.8333…) [490]
=5. Smile! (4.8333…) [480]
5. Live_Wire466 (5.1666…) [490]
=5. Rasencero (5.1666…) [490]
6. I like Pokemon (…) (5.5) [480]
7. Kamiya-chan (7) [450]
=7. CyberBlaziken (7) [440]

Smile!'s Rank Average is quite an interesting case – being above two people who have a higher total than he does.

A higher rank is not necessarily better than ranking low, though. For example, when you compare MC's chart with Rasen's chart, MC specialises towards 4 stats, while Rasen is more generalised towards them all.

I did exactly the same for the Canon Gotei 13 too. The only thing is, is that we have fewer stats (and not all of them are Captain stats), so I can't compare us to the Canon Captains.

Canon Gotei 13:

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A single image is so awesome. One thing to note – in the English translation, Kenpachi gets 199 Offense, instead of 100, to make up for his 0 Kidou/Reiatsu. I've simply rounded it to 200 – this will definitely affect the results.

Just like before – the average Captain's total, as well as what the Rounded Average for each stat. It should be more interesting, because we now have a greater range of stats, as well as more stats (13 pieces of data, instead of 11). The average Captain has a total of 500 (498.46) [or 490 (490.77) if you have Zaraki with 100 Offense], with each stat having 80 (83.08) [or 81.79], but can probably get either a 100, or two 90s to make up for the bit taken off when I rounded. Just like before, I'll call 80 the "Rounded Average".

Offense:

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1. Zaraki (200)
=1. Yamamoto (100)
=1. Unohana (100)
=1. Aizen (100)
=1. Komamura (100)
6. Byakuya (90)
=6. Shunsui (90)
=6. Ukitake (90)
9. Soi Fon (80)
=9. Gin (80)
=9. Hitsugaya (80)
12. Tousen (70)
=12. Mayuri (70)

Total Offense: 1250 [or 1150]
Average Offense: 100 (96.15) [or 90 (88.46)]
Rounded Average: 80 (83.08)
Number of people above Rounded Average: 8
Number of people equal to the Rounded Average: 3
Number of people below Rounded Average: 2

For the Total Offense and Average Offense, the numbers in the [ ] brackets are if you count Zaraki as having 100 Offense.

Like us, Offense is one of their greatest stat – partially because of Kenpachi's 200 stat. Even without that, though, it is still the stat with the highest total, with more than half of the Gotei 13 having an Offense stat greater than the Rounded Average.

Defence:

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1. Yamamoto (100)
=1. Komamura (100)
3. Aizen (90)
=3. Shunsui (90)
=3. Ukitake (90)
6. Gin (80)
=6. Unohana (80)
=6. Byakuya (80)
=6. Hitsugaya (...) (80)
=6. Zaraki (80)
11. Tousen (70)
=11. Mayuri (70)
13. Soi Fon (60)

Total Defence: 1070
Average Defence: 80 (82.31)
Rounded Average: 80 (83.08)
Number of people above Rounded Average: 5
Number of people equal to the Rounded Average: 5
Number of people below Rounded Average: 3

The Canon Gotei 13 is quite defensive, and quite a lot of people have high in both Offense and Defence. Only Unohana, Soi Fon and Kenpachi having 20 points different- everyone else has either 10 points different, or are equal.

Mobility:

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1. Yamamoto (100)
=1. Soi Fon (100)
3. Aizen (90)
=3. Byakuya (90)
=3. Shunsui (90)
=3. Hitsugaya (90)
7. Gin (80)
=7. Tousen (80)
9. Unohana (70)
=9. Ukitake (70)
11. Zaraki (60)
12. Komamura (40)
=12. Mayuri (40)

Total Mobility: 1000
Average Mobility: 80 (76.92)
Rounded Average: 80 (83.08)
Number of people above Rounded Average: 6
Number of people equal to the Rounded Average: 2
Number of people below Rounded Average: 5

Along with Defence, Mobility has the fewest 100s, with only 2, and the most 40s (the lowest stats used, excluding Kenpachi's Kidou/Reiatsu).

Kidou/Reiatsu:

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1. Yamamoto (100)
=1. Unohana (100)
=1. Aizen (100)
=1. Shunsui (100)
=1. Mayuri (100)
=1. Ukitake (100)
7. Byakuya (90)
=7. Tousen (90)
=7. Hitsugaya (90)
10. Gin (80)
11. Soi Fon (60)
12. Komamura (50)
13. Zaraki (0).

Total Kidou/Reiatsu: 1060
Average Kidou/Reiatsu: 80 (81.54)
Rounded Average: 80 (83.08)
Number of people above Rounded Average: 9
Number of people equal to the Rounded Average: 1
Number of people below Rounded Average: 3

The Canon Gotei 13 is excellent at Kidou – having 6 people with 100s. Even with Kenpachi's 0, they still get a good total.

Intellect:

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1. Yamamoto (100)
=1. Unohana (100)
=1. Aizen (100)
=1. Mayuri (100)
=1. Ukitake (100)
6. Byakuya (90)
=6. Shunsui (90)
=6. Tousen (90)
9. Gin (80)
=9. Komamura (80)
=9. Hitsugaya(80)
=12. Soi Fon (60)
13. Zaraki (50)

Total Intellect: 1120
Average Intellect: 90 (86.15)
Rounded Average: 80 (83.08)
Number of people above Rounded Average: 8
Number of people equal to the Rounded Average: 3
Number of people below Rounded Average: 2

There's definitely a correlation between Kidou/Reiatsu and Intellect. Everyone with 100 in Intellect has a 100 in Kidou/Reiatsu. The only 100 Kidou/Reiatsu with 90 in Intellect is Shunsui. After that, everyone has the same Kidou/Reiatsu and Intellect, except for Komamura (50:80), Hitsugaya (90:80) and Kenpachi (0:50).

Stamina:

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1. Soi Fon (100)
=1. Komamura (100)
=1. Zaraki (100)
4. Unohana (90)
5. Gin (80)
=5. Aizen (80)
=5. Hitsugaya (80)
8. Byakuya (70)
=8. Shunsui (70)
10. Yamamoto (60)
=10. Tousen (60)
12. Mayuri (50)
13. Ukitake (40)

Total Stamina: 980
Average Stamina: 80 (75.38)
Rounded Average: 80 (81.15)
Number of people above Rounded Average: 4
Number of people equal to the Rounded Average: 3
Number of people below Rounded Average: 6

Stamina is their worst stat – in fact, it's the only one which doesn't have a total greater than 1000. It has the third least amount of 100s (after Defence and Mobility), as well as the most 60s.

Totals:

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1. Yamamoto (560)
=1. Aizen (560)
3. Unohana (540)
4. Shunsui (530)
5. Byakuya (510)
6. Hitsugaya (500)
7. Zaraki (490)
=7. Ukitake (490)
9. Gin (480)
10. Komamura (470)
11. Soi Fon (460)
=11. Tousen (460)
13. Mayuri (430)
[14. Zaraki (390)]

Total Total: 6480 [or 6380]
Average Total: 500 (498.46) [or 490 (490.77)]
Number of people above Average: 5
Number of people equal to the Average: 1
Number of people below Average: 7

Once again, we come full circle anyone dizzy yet?.

Another kind of interesting thing to note is their total – 6480. If we had a Head Captain with 600, and 12 Captains with 490 (never happening, but hypothetically…), then it would have the exact same total/Average. Alternatively, a Head Captain with 600, and 12 Captains with 470, would mean that altogether; we have an average of around 480.

Stat Averages:

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Luckily, none of the numbers end in 3 or 4, so I can very easily round entirely up or down, and still get a nice, good total at the end.

Offense: 100 (or 90)
Defence: 80
Mobility: 80
Kidou/Reiatsu: 80
Intellect: 90
Stamina: 80
Total: 510 (or 500)

Almost perfect.
Quite interesting, no?

Rank Averages:

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I think because the Canon Gotei 13 have a much larger spread of data, the rankings will be more separate (for example, the Club Gotei 13 had five people ranked 5, but they were almost all because of rounding). In this, I will be counting Zaraki as having 100 Offense (and therefore sharing a rank with Yamamoto and co.)

2. Aizen (2.333…) [3]
3. Yamamoto (2.5) [5]
4. Unohana (3.666…) [3]
5. Shunsui (4.5) [1]
6. Ukitake (5.5) [2]
6. Byakuya (6) [0]
=6. Komamura (6) [3]
7. Hitsugaya (6.5) [0]
8. Zaraki (7.5) [2]
8. Gin (7.666…) [0]
8. Soi Fon (7.8333…) [2]
8. Mayuri (8.1666…) [2]
9. Tousen (8.8332…) [0]

Like for us, on the left is the rank after rounding, in the ( ) is the rank before rounding, but in the [ ] is the number of 100s.
Ah – despite having the same total as Yamamoto, Aizen scores higher here because he was always in the top 5 – while Yamamoto was 10th because of his low stamina, despite being 1st in everything. I guess this shows that the more well-rounded people score higher – that is, as long as they have 100s practically everywhere. And Byakuya and Komamura have exactly the same ranking, despite Byakuya having 40 more points.

The reason why this disagrees with my previous "lower rank means more well-rounded" is simply because of the massive range in stats. Aizen and Yamamoto are just so high that they simply specialise in everything.

Sorry if I hurt anyone's brain…


One thing that I figured would be quite interesting is the areas - for example, just because a person has a high total, doesn't necessarily mean that the amount that they cover is the best.

The meaning behind the areas is quite interesting – it doesn't necessarily mean you're "more powerful" or "more dangerous" or "stronger" just because you have a higher area. It just means that you have really high stats that are closer together – one thing I found out was that having, say, a 100 Offense and 100 Defence would give a higher area than 100 Offense and 100 Mobility (assuming all the other stats remain the same)

Areas:

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How I'm calculating the area:

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There's maths, so I'll try and make it as simple and easy to understand as I can.

Each chart can be split into 6 triangles – the centre angle of each triangle is 60 degrees (because we split the centre into 6 equal pieces, so 360/6). The lengths of 2 of the sides of the triangles are the amount that the person has in each stat. And if we know 2 of the lengths of a triangle, and the angle that they meet, we can calculate its area using a formula.

For example, one of the triangles we can calculate using Zameric's chart, is the Offense-Defence triangle. The length of the Offense is 100, the length of the Defence is 80, and the angle that they meet is 60 degrees. I just have to plug it in to my formula:

The formula is A*B*(Sin60)/2

Where A is one of the lengths, B is the length next to it (so Offense/Defence, Defence/Mobility, Mobility/Kidou-Reiatsu, Kidou-Reiatsu/Intellect, Intellect/Stamina, and Stamina/Offense).

So you have to calculate the area of each of the triangles (the six that I just listed), and add them together (with a bit of playing around, you can make the calculating easier for yourself. Or just ask me to do it for you).

The only thing is, Sin60 is an irrational number (the square root of 3 divided by 2 = SQRT3/2), which means the area will be irrational, and will have a bunch of decimals. So, I'm going to ignore that little "square root of 3" sign, and instead of multiplying by "sin60", I will be dividing by 2 (which means the actual equation is A*B/4) – which means all areas are actually smaller than what they physically are, but they're still proportional to each other (but it means that saying "I have 60 more area" isn't TECHNICALLY correct, it's "60*SQRT3").

So if you wanted to calculate the area of a chart, and wanted to compare it to the areas of these charts, you just multiply 2 adjacent lengths together, and find a quarter of that result, and do this for every stat pair.

Specialised versus generalised:

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Before I do the actual charts, I wanted to see – assuming the same total, does the number of 100s, or even the spread of stats matter at all?

With a total of 480, we can either have:

80/80/80/80/80/80 – or zero 100s
100/100/70/70/70/70 – two 100s (would this be different to 100/70/100/70/70/70, or even 100/70/70/100/70/70?)
100/100/100/60/60/60 (three 100s– is this any different to 100/60/100/60/100/60?)
100/100/100/100/40/40 (four 100s – is this any different to 100/40/100/100/40/100?)

And, well, I can't have any more 100s XD. The reason why I don't have one 100, is because the other stats would be 76, which while I could do, it wouldn't be legal according to Zam's charts.

Does the number of 100s matter, if the total is the same? What about adjacent 100s, compared to spread out 100s? Just a note, "adjacent 100s" are two or more 100s that are next to each other, "semi-adjacent 100s" are 100s that only have one non-100 number between them, and "non-adjacent 100s" are 100s that have two or more non-100 numbers between them on both sides.

80/80/80/80/80/80 – or zero 100s
Area = 9600

100/100/70/70/70/70 – or two adjacent 100s
Area = 9675

100/70/100/70/70/70 – or two semi-adjacent 100s
Area = 9450

100/70/70/100/70/70 – or two non-adjacent 100
Area = 9450

100/100/100/60/60/60 – or three adjacent 100s
Area = 9800

100/60/100/60/100/60 – or three semi-adjacent 100s
Area = 9000

100/100/100/100/40/40 – or four adjacent 100s
Area = 9900

100/40/100/100/40/100 – or two adjacent 100s and two semi-adjacent 100s
Area = 9000

…Wow. It might not look it, but there is a big difference there. There's a ten per cent increase from the last one, to the second last one – and they have EXACTLY the same number of 100s! The only difference was that having them next to each other got a higher result.

With only two 100s, having adjacent 100s got a higher area than having two semi-adjacent or non-adjacent.
With three 100s, being adjacent got 800 more points than semi-adjacent.
And with four 100s, having them altogether gets the highest area. So it looks like from the results, to get the highest area, you should specialise in a few stats that are next to each other.

Club Areas:

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Finally, the areas of everyone in the club. Next to them, I have the stat total for comparison.

1. Zameric (11, 675) [530]
2. minchan (10, 775) [510]
3. Graceful (10, 425) [500]
4. Rasencero (10, 000) [490]
5. Pikapal642 (9900) [490]
6. Live_Wire466 (9750) [490]
=6. Smile! (9750) [480]
8. I like Pokemon (…) (9650) [480]
9. Merciless Cremator (9625) [490]
10. Kamiya-chan (8400) [450]
11. CyberBlaziken (8025) [440]

Something I found VERY interesting was that smile! and Live had same area – but smile! has 10 fewer points. Also, MC has that 490 total, but both smile! and have a larger area than him. It's all to do with the way that all the stats were distributed- something which would be unique to each person.

Canon Areas:

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And for the 13 canon captains:

1. Aizen (13, 025) (560)
2. Yamamoto (13, 000) (560)
3. Unohana (12, 150) (540)
4. Shunsui (11, 700) (530)
5. Zaraki w/ 200 (11, 450) (490)
6. Byakuya (10, 800) (510)
7. Hitsugaya (10, 425) 500)
8. Ukitake (9750) (490)
9. Gin (9600) (480)
10. Komamura (9500) (470)
11. Tousen (8850) (460)
12. Soi Fon (8600) (460)
13. Mayuri (7550) (430)
14. Zaraki w/ 100 (6950) (390)

No surprise that no one has the same area.

Bonus:

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I wanted to see the ratio of the area compared to the total. Or simply, who is using their stats to get the most area they can?

Club:

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1. Zameric (22.03)
2. minchan (21.13)
3. Graceful (20.85)
4. Rasencero (20.41)
5. smile! (20.31)
6. Pikapal642 (20.20)
7. I like Pokemon (…) (20.10)
8. Live_Wire466 (19.90)
9. Merciless Cremator (19.65)
10. Kamiya-chan (18.67)
11. CyberBlaziken (18.24)

Canon:

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1. Zaraki w/200 (23.37)
2. Aizen (23.26)
3. Yamamoto (23.21)
4. Unohana (22.5)
5. Shunsui (22.08)
6. Byakuya (21.18)
7. Hitsugaya (20.85)
8. Komamura (20.21)
9. Gin (20)
10. Ukitake (19.90)
11. Tousen (19.24)
12. Soi Fon (18.70)
13. Zaraki w/100 (17.82)
14. Mayuri (17.56)

Both together:

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Because the numbers for this are a lot less broad than the totals or the areas (both of which we would just be a chunk in the middle), I decided to put the Area per Total together. Bolded are the Canon Captains:

1. Zaraki w/200 (23.37)
2. Aizen (23.26)
3. Yamamoto (23.21)
4. Unohana (22.5)
5. Shunsui (22.08)
6. Zameric (22.03)
7. Byakuya (21.18)
8. minchan (21.13)
9. Hitsugaya (20.85)
=9. Graceful (20.85)
11. Rasencero (20.41)
12. Komamura (20.21)
=12. smile! (20.21)
14. Pikapal642 (20.20)
15. I like Pokemon (…) (20.10)
16. Gin (20)
17. Live_Wire466 (19.90)
18. Ukitake (19.90)
19. Merciless Cremator (19.65)
20. Tousen (19.24)
21. Soi Fon (18.70)
22. Kamiya-chan (18.67)
23. CyberBlaziken (18.24)
24. Zaraki w/100 (17.82)
25. Mayuri (17.56)

Looks like we do kind of spread out a bit.

…Yeah, now I'm bored again.

I think maybe later I'll make some charts that show correlation between stats – like how with the Canon Gotei 13, if you have a high Intellect, you have a high Kidou/Reiatsu rank.



And yeah, as MC said, Zam can't get on PC forums for some reason.

 

[-Jared-]

0____0 Woah, that must have been a lot of work!

It was very interesting, though. I liked seeing, objectively, how we all rank. I noticed that I seem to be pretty much average in everything except Mobility and Stamina, which I realized, in reality, should be the opposite of who I really am. XD

thank you for typing this up Ilpeh. It was really interesting!

 

[Pokestick good times.]

Anime.

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Animation a bit strange this week. Seems like they're being all artsy, having smudgy lines and more shades. The episode is also made a little bit different than they usually do. The dramaturgy of this episode, and well, the prevous two ones too, has been changed. They're trying something new - which they seem to be doing all the bloody time this arc :P

All in all, it feels like I'm watching something made by gainax xD

As much as I dislike how flashbacks are pulled of in Bleach, being all long and unneeded (especially those going back to something that has happened fifteen minutes ago), I found the Kageroza(?) backstory interesting. It's a man who has been neglected every time he's attempted something. Yeah, that totally makes everything he's done OK.

Ichigo's hollow IS still there? Ah come on. I mean if going by the logics of this filler, yeah, it makes sense, but my entire brain says "no".

*cool surrounding scene*

SO THAT's what they've been spending all their animation funds on this episode.
I guess having scenes of the kind that Kubo wouldn't make is tempting to them, so OK. Sure.

YORUICHI IS BACK! :D

More fancy zooming. If they can do it here, why does it look so awkward otherwise?

...OK, that third one didn't look as good. Now they all look like paper figurines.

And... Nel? I wouldn't say she had THAT of a huge role, but oh well. Still loving the credits.
Ahhh... Fighting the Espada. I actually liked those days... All that good, tasty animation...

And from the looks of it, Kageroza and Nozomi will in fact fuse next episode.

Urahara and Kon xD

And nice work on the charts (b'-')b

 

[Weeaboo Name]

I thought the art was a bit strange this week, I think they should have kept bishie Ichigo from last week (or the week before) tbh. I guess they're playing with animation in this filler arc to work out what they want to do with the fullbring arc.

 

[Zameric]

It's a miracle, I can get on PC today and it's not slow at all!! :D
I can't believe I PC wouldn't even load for me, for a whole week. >.>
Looks like you all did already without me, though. :p
Thank you ILP and MC for letting the club know I was having problems.

Anime.

Spoiler:

Ichigo's hollow IS still there? Ah come on. I mean if going by the logics of this filler, yeah, it makes sense, but my entire brain says "no".

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Yeah, it is kind of stupid, just right after Kisuke said that they wouldn't be able to restore Ichigo's Hollow powers...
But maybe Kubo wouldn't let them write off Hichigo that easily.
I wonder what name Kubo refers to Hichigo with...does he use Hichgio personally?

 

[Pokestick good times.]

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Anything for a good plot twist. Ichigo needs something to be wary about now that his powers are permanently back (until they disappear again) ;D

And I think the most official name is "The Hollow within Ichigo's conscience". Rolls of the tongue, doesn't it?

 

[I like Pokemon (...)]

0____0 Woah, that must have been a lot of work!

It was very interesting, though. I liked seeing, objectively, how we all rank. I noticed that I seem to be pretty much average in everything except Mobility and Stamina, which I realized, in reality, should be the opposite of who I really am. XD

thank you for typing this up Ilpeh. It was really interesting!

Thanks, I'm glad to see you enjoyed it ^.^

The hard part was just the write up. Getting the data and organising it by Offense/whatever, even calculating the areas was easy. But writing took time x.x

And nice work on the charts (b'-')b

Thank you 8D

It's a miracle, I can get on PC today and it's not slow at all!! :D
I can't believe I PC wouldn't even load for me, for a whole week. >.>
Looks like you all did already without me, though. :p
Thank you ILP and MC for letting the club know I was having problems.

Welcome back!

And I think the most official name is "The Hollow within Ichigo's conscience". Rolls of the tongue, doesn't it?

HIchigo himself says "I have no name!" at least a few times. I'm not sure if it was Kubo himself that refers to him as "The Hollow within Ichigo's conscience", but at the very least, it's a descriptive title.

I just call him HIchigo simply because I don't want to type out "H. Ichigo", or "Hollow Ichigo", or "Hichigo" as a word (I think Ogihci is used sometimes).

 

[-Jared-]

I didn't notice anything weird about the animation this week. 0__o I guess I'm not very observant. XD

I just call him HIchigo simply because I don't want to type out "H. Ichigo", or "Hollow Ichigo", or "Hichigo" as a word (I think Ogihci is used sometimes).

I typically call him Hollow Ichigo, mainly because I have no qualms about typing it out. XD

Anime:

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I like that Kon is getting some character development here. I always wished he would get a little time in the spotlight. ^__^

So Ichigo's power's are still unstable. Just like before! :D

And the scene is set for an epic Captain vs. Captain battle! I can't wait. XD

Manga:

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Wait, he mentioned Hanatarou? It has been AGES since we even heard of him. I would have thought Ichigo would have forgotten about him as well. XD

Old Man Tsundere strikes again! XD I almost guarantee, when he shows up again and if it is when he is talking to Ichigo, he'll revert to "Psh, it was nothing" mode. XD

So Ginjo was the Substitute...hmm...And I still wanna see where Tsukishima has gone. They are really playing up Ginjo as the big bad here. :|

 

[Weeaboo Name]

Manga. I seriously thought

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Ginjou would be gone and forgotten in a few chapters time, seems I was wrong about that one.

Anyway, Ichigo's base stats have all gone up it seems, the whole fullbring arc did have some other meaning other than introducing a couple of characters and padding out time.

Seems interesting for once, keep it up Kubo.

 

[Pokestick good times.]

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Using old images for all the characters, a nice touch actually. Hanatarou... sure. Why not.

...Wait. That doesn't sound like anything Soul Society would do. At all.
Oh, ok, Ichigo changed it all by "fighting". Actually makes it all worth it somehow :V

Ginjou, the old substitue shinigami. How old is he really?

And where the hell is Tsukishima.

 

[I like Pokemon (...)]

LOL D Gray Man made me completely forget about the manga /bad fan.

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It feels like we're going back to short chapters again :/ I suppose though, that's because quite a few pages were just SLASH SLASH again. I guess it can't be helped; Kubo is still Kubo.

Ginjou completely shat his pants when Ichigo said "I missed. I won't again."

I like how Ginjou mentioned that it was his training that made him stronger - not only does it kind of show an irony in how the villain made the hero stronger (despite Ginjou not being a villain at the time), but it also doesn't make Ichigo's new strength PURELY because of the reiatsu.

Wow. That is definitely a lot of reiatsu. I wonder if they all just kind of gave a tiny amount, and it all built up together (because it's - what - 10 captains, 13 Lieutenants, at least 4 ex-Captains (Urahara, Isshin, Yoruichi and Shinji), maybe the rest of the Vaizards (which would make that 4 more captains, and 3 more Lieutenants). And Hanatarou. God damn.

Ah, so Ginjou was that Substitute Shinigami. At the very least, this arc isn't entirely ******** - Ukitake mentioned this when he gave the badge to Ichigo. Now, remember when Ginjou was explaining Tsukishima to Chad? There was a mention of a substitute Shinigami - perhaps Ginjou was talking about himself? Don't forget, he was Tsukishima-fied, so the story would be slightly off the truth.

Which might also mean that Ginjou has shinigami powers in addition to Fullbring powers. If so, this could be a good "final fight" (though what happened to Tsukishima?).

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Old Man Tsundere strikes again! XD I almost guarantee, when he shows up again and if it is when he is talking to Ichigo, he'll revert to "Psh, it was nothing" mode. XD

Spoiler:

Aha, Old Man Tsundere indeed.

Spoiler:

...Wait. That doesn't sound like anything Soul Society would do. At all.
Oh, ok, Ichigo changed it all by "fighting". Actually makes it all worth it somehow :V

Spoiler:

Yeah - it seems that Soul Society are at the very least, more relaxed to Ichigo. Whether or not that means Substitute Shinigami will be seen more often, might be a possibility. Alternatively, this could be one of those "Ichigo's a special case".

 

[Pokestick good times.]

Spoiler:

And from the looks of it, Urahara is definitely "forgiven" for what he was falsely accused of, by now. If he wasn't already after Aizen's betrayal.
I wonder why he's still exiled, running his little candy shop, though.

 

[MeltyShard378]

Spoiler:

Ginjou: Running awayyyyyy Ichigo: Oh no you don't.
Wait, if Ginjou was a substitute shinigami... he could be a normal/fullbringer human with shinigami powers?

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And where the hell is Tsukishima.

Spoiler:

Yeah, seriously. Did he ditch Ginjou or is he planning something? I mean, it would be pretty stupid if he was just standing on the sidelines doing nothing...

 

[Pokestick good times.]

Spoiler:

Maybe he just like, died.
That would be kind of lame.

 

[Zet]

Spoiler:

Ginjou was only human but he must have had some spiritual power to be made a substitute shinigami. But I'm guessing he left because he started developing his fullbring.

 

[I like Pokemon (...)]

Spoiler:

And from the looks of it, Urahara is definitely "forgiven" for what he was falsely accused of, by now. If he wasn't already after Aizen's betrayal.
I wonder why he's still exiled, running his little candy shop, though.

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I thought it wasn't revealed that Urahara and the Vaizards were innocent up until the TBtP arc? In which case, they would be forgiven then, not when Aizen betrayed (hundreds of chapters ago), right?

And it's Urahara. He would probably prefer being the "the man on Earth" that supplies stuff like Soul Candy, giving info, etc. Plus, something tells me he's grown to enjoy his lifestyle.

Spoiler:

Ginjou: Running awayyyyyy Ichigo: Oh no you don't.
Wait, if Ginjou was a substitute shinigami... he could be a normal/fullbringer human with shinigami powers?

Yeah, seriously. Did he ditch Ginjou or is he planning something? I mean, it would be pretty stupid if he was just standing on the sidelines doing nothing...

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Erm... I think so, yeah. He's obviously got Fullbring powers - we've seen him use it a few times at least. And from what Hitsugaya says, he was a substitute shinigami (though looking at it again, maybe he can't or doesn't use those powers anymore?)

As for Tsukishima, well, a lot of characters have "disappeared", like Nel and co., Grimmjow, etc.

Spoiler:

Maybe he just like, died.
That would be kind of lame.

Spoiler:

Lol, it would be.

Spoiler:

Ginjou was only human but he must have had some spiritual power to be made a substitute shinigami. But I'm guessing he left because he started developing his fullbring.

Spoiler:

Perhaps the reason why he left is tied in with why he hates Ichigo so much? My first thought would be something to do with Isshin - but they've made no reaction of knowing each other like that so far...

 

[Pokestick good times.]

Spoiler:

Revealed to the reader, yes. But SS should still have been able to figure it out when it turned out Aizen had fooled them all with hypnosis hax. I hope.

And Bleach wouldn't be the same without Urahara in his regular outfit, so I don't think Kubo would change that anyway :P

***

But yeah, a simple way to get rid of a character that you don't really want to be there is to just not show them anymore, and hope nobody notices. Like every single Arrancar, Ganju, (and all the characters introduced in Bount arc).

But I think we'll see Tsukishima soon enough. As well as the other Fullbrings. As well as Chad, Ishida and Inoue.

 

[I like Pokemon (...)]

Spoiler:

Revealed to the reader, yes. But SS should still have been able to figure it out when it turned out Aizen had fooled them all with hypnosis hax. I hope.

And Bleach wouldn't be the same without Urahara in his regular outfit, so I don't think Kubo would change that anyway :P

***

But yeah, a simple way to get rid of a character that you don't really want to be there is to just not show them anymore, and hope nobody notices. Like every single Arrancar, Ganju, (and all the characters introduced in Bount arc).

But I think we'll see Tsukishima soon enough. As well as the other Fullbrings. As well as Chad, Ishida and Inoue.

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I was under the impression that all flashbacks were done "out loud".

You're right there. Then again, it seems Komamura and Byakuya have slightly different haoris than normal - so perhaps Soul Society is being more fashionable.

Not every single Arrancar. I think only Gantennbaine (the orange-afro-haired Privaron that Chad fought), Grimmjow, Nel and co. and... that's it I think, are the only Arrancars that we don't know what happened to. Dordonni and Cirucci were killed by the exequias, and we saw all the Espadas deaths at least. Some Fraccions might still be unknown, though...

And yeah, we'll probably see the other Fullbringers soon, or at least have a mention to them.