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Suspicious Lump
Mar 11, 2004

dordreff posted:

Well, when two shinigami love each other very much...
Yeah I just realised this as well. What the gently caress... hahaha he got it because some captain saved him.

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IceBorg
Oct 23, 2012

I KINDA DOUBT THAT!
Read the last chapters in row and take a drink every time a chapter ends with a suprise character appearing.

It's like the only chapter endings Kubo can do now. Where are the the mysterious foot endings Kubo? I missed those.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Man are you going to be surprised when we meet the true Quincy F: The Foot.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007

IceBorg posted:

Read the last chapters in row and take a drink every time a chapter ends with a suprise character appearing.

It's like the only chapter endings Kubo can do now. Where are the the mysterious foot endings Kubo? I missed those.

The last chapters? Manga usually try to close a chapter with a hook, but Kubo has relied very heavily on sudden character appearances and power-ups in that role for Bleach's entire run.

Arsonist Daria
Feb 27, 2011

Requiescat in pace.

Tunicate posted:

Man are you going to be surprised when we meet the true Quincy F: The Foot.

I didn't know Kubo was such a fan of ICP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU3HVDg8_Y8

Advice
Feb 17, 2007

Je veux ton amour
Et je veux ton revanche
Je veux ton amour
I don't wanna be friends

Fhqwhgads posted:

I thought the short haired jobber captain had it as a tattoo and Hisagi looked up to him so much (in the TBTP arc) that he got that tattoo out of love/respect/whatever. Ooh, I wonder if that'll come in to play here and Hisagi will break control with ~the power of love~ or whatever for the captain jobber, show his bankai, and be the one to off L.

I just want to see his bankai, I thought it was implied he had one?

Sort of? Kensei made him train super hard against Mashiro and while the fruits of that labor were never shown, it's kind of a pointless scene if he didn't get anything from it.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
So, anyone remember how Ichigo was constantly criticized because he could only use his mask for like 5 seconds at a time while the rest of the vaizards could do so for much longer? Then it turned out that meant they could keep them out for a while if they were just chilling and not fighting, so only Mashiro could really use hers at all. I'm guessing all the vaizards simply became more genre-savvy, and realized that their dumb masks wouldn't make any difference so they shouldn't even bother.

Laughing Zealot
Oct 10, 2012


Speaking of Mashiro, have we seen her at all during this arc?

hagie
Apr 6, 2004

All sensitivity has long ago atrophied
Way back at the beginning during the 1st invasion where bankais were stolen.

She was asked to fight Hisagi to get him to reveal his bankai.

Tenzarin
Jul 24, 2007
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Taco Defender
That's when she died, off screen.

Wes Warhammer
Oct 19, 2012

:sueme:

Wait, can Hisagi actually use Senbonzakura's abilities? Or is it just being used as a regular sword now?

sharktamer
Oct 30, 2011

Shark tamer ridiculous
How the hell are we supposed to know?

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

sharktamer posted:

How the hell are we supposed to know?

new thread title spotted

Darth TNT
Sep 20, 2013
New chapter is up.
:allears: Mayuri.

It took death before Kensei stopped jobbing.

Huzzah!
Sep 15, 2007

Malnutrition is scarier than any beastie.
Goddamn Pepe's face, great. Also, Mayuri invented the cure for love. Ghost science is fascinating.

Wittgen
Oct 13, 2012

We have decided to decline your offer of a butt kicking.
All the faces are amazing.

Cynic Jester
Apr 11, 2009

Let's put a simile on that face
A dazzling simile
Twinkling like the night sky
All I want from Bleach now is a Mayuri-Kenpachi buddy cop movie with Aizen as the antagonist.

hagie
Apr 6, 2004

All sensitivity has long ago atrophied
Looks like some one is about to get eaten

and not in the fun porn way.

So what is pac-man Quincy's power other than eating?

Lamebot
Sep 8, 2005

ロボ顔菌~♡
With a mouth like that she probably could chew some mean dip.

|Ziggy|
Oct 2, 2004

hagie posted:

Looks like some one is about to get eaten

and not in the fun porn way.

So what is pac-man Quincy's power other than eating?

Probably absorb powers of whoever gets eaten.

TenaciousJ
Dec 31, 2008

Clown move bro
I hope Kubo continues to give us amazing reaction faces instead of diagonal slashes. I'm so glad I'm alone in the office today because Pepe's face got a big reaction from me.

I think I'd be ok with Mayuri just co-opting all this Quincy bullshit and becoming the villain through his zombification blood.

Rigged Death Trap
Feb 13, 2012

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Mayuri :allears:
So good he is making the jobbers job others.


Why didn't they display this amount of skill when they were actually alive and with their senses? Even Captain kiddo got a skill boost from death.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Mayuri :allears:
So good he is making the jobbers job others.


Why didn't they display this amount of skill when they were actually alive and with their senses? Even Captain kiddo got a skill boost from death.

Zombies don't waste time explaining their powers.

hagie
Apr 6, 2004

All sensitivity has long ago atrophied
I am slightly disappointed that Pepé was kinda worthless. When I first saw him I expected something much much more sinister. I expected a control of some type but not obese Cupid.

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


^SHTPSTS

Gary’s Answer
At the rate these Sternritter off one another, it seems like everyone should have just ditched Seireitei and let them go all Survivor on themselves. All the captains could be in the king's realm fighting bach right now and these idiot pseudonazis would finish themselves off.

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007

hagie posted:

I am slightly disappointed that Pepé was kinda worthless. When I first saw him I expected something much much more sinister. I expected a control of some type but not obese Cupid.

I get the feeling Kubo's just revising/truncating poo poo left and right either out of pressure from his editors or a need to get things over with already. That mustached Quiny managed to shoot Kyoraku's eyeball out and got clowned off-screen, I'm still steamed about that.

Coffee Mugshot
Jun 26, 2010

by Lowtax
I really like seeing Mayuri and Byakuya interacting with one another, good chapter.

Arsonist Daria
Feb 27, 2011

Requiescat in pace.
I hope Mayuri mops up this stupid mess from here on out, just going around cutting people off at the knees with ghost science.

MonsterEnvy
Feb 4, 2012

Shocked I tell you
Well Giselle is still alive. She was stabbed but she can get cut in half and live so she is no doubt still active.

Arsonist Daria
Feb 27, 2011

Requiescat in pace.

MonsterEnvy posted:

Well Giselle is still alive. She was stabbed but she can get cut in half and live so she is no doubt still active.

This is New Bleach, where people live from diagonal slashes but also die at will. Chaos reigns.

Coffee Mugshot
Jun 26, 2010

by Lowtax

Lumberjack Bonanza posted:

This is New Bleach, where people live from diagonal slashes but also die at will. Chaos reigns.

That wasn't a Diagonal Slash (TM), she got momo'd

Arsonist Daria
Feb 27, 2011

Requiescat in pace.

Voted Worst Mom posted:

That wasn't a Diagonal Slash (TM), she got momo'd

Well yeah, I'm just saying all bets are off these days

Plus, knowing Mayuri, his sword contained ghost ebola and Jizelle is coughing up organ paste

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


Captain Ghost Zombie #1 picked up Senbonzakura after he punched out Hisagi and stabbed her with it.

slev
Apr 6, 2009

Kubo does seem to be trying to move things along at a reasonable pace, otherwise I'm pretty sure he would have shown jobber zombie captains vs zombie arrancar for 5 chapters.

Zogundar
Dec 5, 2007

Oxxidation posted:

I get the feeling Kubo's just revising/truncating poo poo left and right either out of pressure from his editors or a need to get things over with already. That mustached Quiny managed to shoot Kyoraku's eyeball out and got clowned off-screen, I'm still steamed about that.

Ditto.

It almost seemed promising for a time but these last few chapters have seen the Sternritter getting steamrolled more than ever. The situation is so favorable for the protagonists such that there isn't really any tension left. Lately it seems the Sternritter have to use their Vollstandig just to break even (And usually not even then.) Meanwhile I've lost track of how many Shinigami are holding on to one or more power ups. Under what circumstances are characters like Kyoraku or Urahara going to be forced to use their Bankai when Byakuya can beat three Sternritter without using his Shikai? What was the point of hinting that Pepe was dangerous and feared even among the Sternritter when he couldn't go one chapter without getting punched in the face? He even uses his trump card almost immediately!

..And it feels like there is no point to any of this since the real struggle has moved to the Soul King's Palace. On top of that, at least in the arc with Aizen, once he finally ran out of mooks he regained some of the momentum when he steamrolled everyone. But Yhwach has already left the building. And the character I most want to finally win a fight before the series ends went with Ichigo where the only opponents are people he will almost certainly job against. :doh:

Syrant
Jun 28, 2006
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First 9
This chapter is so loving I can't help it, I laughed like a bastard at the 'My zombies don't know love' bit but I'm a Mayuri fan.

Edit: AND HIS SHOES, oh god. This is amazing.

Syrant fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Sep 11, 2014

Tenzarin
Jul 24, 2007
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Taco Defender
If they are all ghosts, why do they even have blood?

Syrant
Jun 28, 2006
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First 9
Well, Ukitake has had Tuberculosis the entire manga. Best not to question it.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007

FuturePastNow posted:

Captain Ghost Zombie #1 picked up Senbonzakura after he punched out Hisagi and stabbed her with it.

Nah, that was a flashback. Mayuri finished off Giselle before coming to help Byakuya. I know it is hard to tell in blank white background land, but the Mayuri vs. Giselle and Byakuya vs. the power of love fights happened in different places.

Edit: ^^^ That would be ghost tuberculosis, caused by a ghost bacterial infection in ghost lungs. It was not ghost infectious though, I (ghost) guess?

gimme the GOD DAMN candy fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Sep 11, 2014

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Arsonist Daria
Feb 27, 2011

Requiescat in pace.

Serious Frolicking posted:

Nah, that was a flashback. Mayuri finished off Giselle before coming to help Byakuya. I know it is hard to tell in blank white background land, but the Mayuri vs. Giselle and Byakuya vs. the power of love fights happened in different places.

Edit: ^^^ That would be ghost tuberculosis, caused by a ghost bacterial infection in ghost lungs. It was not ghost infectious though, I (ghost) guess?

:iiam:

Too bad Mayuri is too busy figuring out how to weaponize hallucinogens to whip up some ghost penicillin.

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