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yaay posted:it's great how 17 months is supposed to be a meaningful amount of time now, given the scale we've long since been given of immortal shinigami several hundred years old who supposedly take a century to master bankais and such. I like to imagine that, pre-Ichigo's invasion SS as a whole was complacent as hell.
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| # ? Sep 21, 2011 23:19 |
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Sable Stormfront posted:And just as predicted, the Fullbringers are total scrubs who pose neither threat nor challenge to anyone. This is actually a welcome change, I think.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 00:01 |
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brc64 posted:This is actually a welcome change, I think. Oh definitely. Far better than watching the supposed elite of SS get repeatedly pounded by Espada and Aizen. It's good to see them actually appear powerful and competent.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 00:11 |
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Yeah, but why is Kubo making them so powerful? That just means Ichigo is going to become even more powerful shortly than he was when Aizen was defeated, and they're going to have to fight Squad 0 or something retarded. They need to create a bunch of random new villains stronger than Aizen now.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 00:18 |
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Fuzzy Pipe Wrench posted:I like to imagine that, pre-Ichigo's invasion SS as a whole was complacent as hell. This is what I like to think too. Before any of the Aizen business, there was no reason for a captain or most of the vice-captain's to be training their asses off every day because the most powerful opponent they ever fought was a menos grande. Since Ichigo came around and Aizen went God-mode, it gave a lot of the high ranking soul-reapers a good kick in the butt as to how little they'd been doing and knowledge and experience of just how powerful some foes could be. For example, frost-midget who's new purpose in life is to become strong enough to never stab Hinamori again or Renji to somehow make his bankai not the most useless one ever. My main hope for this time-skip is for Hisagi to somehow have a bankai now. Although I did laugh about Renji's quip that Hisagi brought back a motorcycle from the living-world and got busted by the captains for tearing up the streets. I could only imagine how that affair might have gone down.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 00:20 |
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Don't most sword ghosts spend at least some time in the real world, though? That was supposedly the entire point of their dumb afterworld society. Hisagi's bankai is a fairly large, sort of pointy rock. No special powers, just a rock. Hisagi would still bemoan his terrible fate of having such a deadly weapon.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 00:33 |
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Xenoith posted:Yeah, but why is Kubo making them so powerful? That just means Ichigo is going to become even more powerful shortly than he was when Aizen was defeated, and they're going to have to fight Squad 0 or something retarded. They need to create a bunch of random new villains stronger than Aizen now. Squad Zero.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 01:24 |
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Reiche posted:This is what I like to think too. Before any of the Aizen business, there was no reason for a captain or most of the vice-captain's to be training their asses off every day because the most powerful opponent they ever fought was a menos grande. Since Ichigo came around and Aizen went God-mode, it gave a lot of the high ranking soul-reapers a good kick in the butt as to how little they'd been doing and knowledge and experience of just how powerful some foes could be. For example, frost-midget who's new purpose in life is to become strong enough to never stab Hinamori again or Renji to somehow make his bankai not the most useless one ever.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 02:37 |
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Metal Meltdown posted:Squad Zero. Oh gently caress, maybe the Xcution is Squad Zero, having lost their shinigami powers [somehow, probably a hoagie or something] they discovered fullbringing? That would explain how and why they know Isshin. I know they said they were human but early early early in the series wasn't Rukia at risk of 'becoming' human because of getting too emotionally involved with Ichigo and pals? Then again they aren't the most honest bunch. Purely speculation, but  for this chapter. Good one, Kubo, I can't freaking wait for next week.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 02:42 |
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Reiche posted:This is what I like to think too. Before any of the Aizen business, there was no reason for a captain or most of the vice-captain's to be training their asses off every day because the most powerful opponent they ever fought was a menos grande. Since Ichigo came around and Aizen went God-mode, it gave a lot of the high ranking soul-reapers a good kick in the butt as to how little they'd been doing and knowledge and experience of just how powerful some foes could be. For example, frost-midget who's new purpose in life is to become strong enough to never stab Hinamori again or Renji to somehow make his bankai not the most useless one ever. You know there'll be anime filler based off that.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 02:49 |
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Elysiume posted:Based on how much they were making GBS threads their pants over the Menos Grande early on, it seems like they were fighting only scrub Hollows except on really, really special occasions. Yea, the Menos tended to stay in their forest, content with milling about until one snapps and starts devouring the others. The only reason the Menos really started showing up is because they had been summoned, by Ishida or Aizen and the Arrancars.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 02:59 |
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Omglosser posted:Oh gently caress, maybe the Xcution is Squad Zero, having lost their shinigami powers [somehow, probably a hoagie or something] they discovered fullbringing? That would explain how and why they know Isshin. I know they said they were human but early early early in the series wasn't Rukia at risk of 'becoming' human because of getting too emotionally involved with Ichigo and pals? Then again they aren't the most honest bunch. Purely speculation, but I do see that captain of Urahara's squad before him who got promoted being snuck past us, though. We never saw her face, so we'll probably meet her before we know who she is.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 03:01 |
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I can't look at the first colored page without wanting to punch Ginjou's smug face.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 03:01 |
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Xenoith posted:Yeah, but why is Kubo making them so powerful? That just means Ichigo is going to become even more powerful shortly than he was when Aizen was defeated, and they're going to have to fight Squad 0 or something retarded. They need to create a bunch of random new villains stronger than Aizen now. Squad Zero and the Spirit King are pretty much guaranteed to be the next arc after Fullbringers. Just saying.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 03:07 |
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Dickeye posted:Squad Zero and the Spirit King are pretty much guaranteed to be the next arc after Fullbringers. Just saying. The manga was supposed to go on for another decade. I don't think it will last that long, but that is the endgame so it probably won't happen just yet. I'm guessing that whatever the hell Ginjou is after will lead to the next arc. We still don't know how he lost his original sword ghost powers, much less why he wants Ichigo's. Well, that or Double Hell.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 03:23 |
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He wants them so he can be stronger. There's not that much of a mystery to him. Or if there is nobody seems that bothered about it. He's a loving mid-boss, nobody asks Balrog what his motivation is.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 04:47 |
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Serious Frolicking posted:The manga was supposed to go on for another decade. I don't think it will last that long, but that is the endgame so it probably won't happen just yet. I'm guessing that whatever the hell Ginjou is after will lead to the next arc. We still don't know how he lost his original sword ghost powers, much less why he wants Ichigo's. Well, that or Double Hell. I think in an interview after the Aizen resolution, Kubo said that he had two more arcs planned: a small arc and then another long arc. I think the long arc was supposed to be the length of the whole Hueco Mundo saga, which means pretty loving long. I don't think it meant 10 years, but we're on chapter 41 of the "small arc" and accounting for all the breaks, it's been almost a year since the end of the Aizen saga. In the time it takes to wrap this arc up, the next "long arc" might push it close to 10 more years.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 06:56 |
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Slowpoke! posted:I think in an interview after the Aizen resolution, Kubo said that he had two more arcs planned: a small arc and then another long arc. I think the long arc was supposed to be the length of the whole Hueco Mundo saga, which means pretty loving long. I don't think it meant 10 years, but we're on chapter 41 of the "small arc" and accounting for all the breaks, it's been almost a year since the end of the Aizen saga. In the time it takes to wrap this arc up, the next "long arc" might push it close to 10 more years. In another interview with Kubo he explicitly stated he expected 10 more years, though.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 07:10 |
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What happened to the Renji from 400 chapters ago that would swing a sword at a defenseless Rukia?
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 07:26 |
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Well, you see, they were childhood friends, so
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 07:55 |
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I'm still happy Rukia got promoted. I wonder how pissed off Kiyone and Sentarou are, now? Maybe they're even more exclusively hand-and-foot for Ukitake now (if he didn't die of Spirit TB)? I thought this was clever but it would've been much better if Aizen were in Judas' place in the lineup.  Artist DA is here. Syrant fucked around with this message at Sep 22, 2011 around 12:34 |
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Woops.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 12:34 |
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Syrant posted:I'm still happy Rukia got promoted. I wonder how pissed off Kiyone and Sentarou are, now? Maybe they're even more exclusively hand-and-foot for Ukitake now (if he didn't die of Spirit TB)? I forget, are those two actually the joint vice-captains? Because I don't remember them doing anything ever.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 19:16 |
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Reiche posted:I forget, are those two actually the joint vice-captains? Because I don't remember them doing anything ever. Joint 3rd seats that were the acting lieutenant while the position was vacant.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 19:21 |
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Kraus posted:Joint 3rd seats that were the acting lieutenant while the position was vacant. Ah okay, that makes sense allowing Rukia to take the lieutenant position.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 19:34 |
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King of Solomon posted:In another interview with Kubo he explicitly stated he expected 10 more years, though. Yeah and I have a feeling the Zero arc is going to take a long-rear end time. That's coming up once this is done.
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Xenoith posted:Yeah, but why is Kubo making them so powerful? That just means Ichigo is going to become even more powerful shortly than he was when Aizen was defeated, and they're going to have to fight Squad 0 or something retarded. They need to create a bunch of random new villains stronger than Aizen now. Yama could have probably beaten Aizen without his "stop hitting yourself" plot armor and Ichigo's Dad had him on the ropes before his nonsensical string of gumball based powerups. All of Squad Zero would have to be at least at that base level to be the least bit useful against Ichigo / Daddy / Urahara / Yoruichi / Yama / all the Captains now that they've actually started training. Then Ichigo can get random pointless powerups to fight "that thing" and there's your arc.
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| # ? Sep 22, 2011 23:24 |
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Xenoith posted:Yeah, but why is Kubo making them so powerful? That just means Ichigo is going to become even more powerful shortly than he was when Aizen was defeated, and they're going to have to fight Squad 0 or something retarded. They need to create a bunch of random new villains stronger than Aizen now. To me it's not so much about making the SS crowd powerful as making the Fullbringers look tremendously overconfident in their abilities when really the only person the SS guys need be concerned about is Ginjou. It's a really pleasant change from the old shounen trope of pulling out another group of super powerful bad guys that completely outshine the last despite the last group apparently being the strongest dudes ever. We're also seeing some characters we haven't seen for a while get some love without poo poo dragging on, and these chapters are actually something I'm looking forward to seeing animated later on because the scenes are great.
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| # ? Sep 23, 2011 00:00 |
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Not to mention they're bound to have countless mooks for Ichigo's weakass friends to fight when they tag along. If it really is the last arc, it'll probably be no-holds-barred so there's no problem with each captain who gets their own fight to be up against the ropes and near death. And it's gonna take a serious opponent to put people like Ukitake, Shunsui, and hopefully Unohana on blast like that.
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| # ? Sep 23, 2011 00:03 |
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Mangareader 466 EDIT: Mangastream Vagrancy fucked around with this message at Sep 28, 2011 around 14:45 |
| # ? Sep 28, 2011 13:54 |
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Hitsugaya you can't catch them monologing you're supposed to be the dumb one
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| # ? Sep 28, 2011 14:06 |
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Heh. Yukio's got a Power Glove. 
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| # ? Sep 28, 2011 14:11 |
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I guess the Gotei 13 took a class in psychology or something.
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| # ? Sep 28, 2011 14:19 |
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Who the hell is this Renji clone? I can't hit women, killing a woman would make me scum. Sure didn't ever seem to be an issue for him before. I really do love how 17months is suddenly an extraordinary training period for a group of people who it has been stated wield weapons that take centuries just to barely master.
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| # ? Sep 28, 2011 14:32 |
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Gyges posted:Who the hell is this Renji clone? I can't hit women, killing a woman would make me scum. Sure didn't ever seem to be an issue for him before. Motivation, mostly. No real point in leveling to 99 if there's just Caterpies for most of your life.
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| # ? Sep 28, 2011 15:51 |
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Goddamn. Hitsugaya owns.
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| # ? Sep 28, 2011 16:09 |
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Gyges posted:Who the hell is this Renji clone? I can't hit women, killing a woman would make me scum. Sure didn't ever seem to be an issue for him before. Its not that weird, he obviously regrets what hes done in the past and changed because of it.
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| # ? Sep 28, 2011 16:12 |
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That's what I got too. Character building and all that. It isn't very good character building, as we don't see Renji, thinking about what he did and arriving at a different conclusion, but it is character building. It hasn't happened very often so I don't blame you guys for being surprised. In other news, hey! Hitsugaya's being cool in more ways than the obvious! Good on him!
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| # ? Sep 28, 2011 16:32 |
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resurgam40 posted:In other news, hey! Hitsugaya's being cool in more ways than the obvious! Good on him! Character growth!!
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| # ? Sep 28, 2011 17:14 |
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I was kind of bummed Yukio went down so hard. Guy dressed dapper as gently caress. With him gone though, I'm pretty sure we're going to see Rukia not have to brutally put Riruka down and they can both get out and Riruka can introduce Rukia to the world of donuts.
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