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Mulderman posted:That was so goddamn stupid. Just make the guy really REALLY weak against air or spirit particles or something. He might be able to make substances toxic, not make a person weak to a substance. So if he did that it might affect everyone else.
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I really found myself cheering for the Quincy there, they just looked so interesting and Squad Zero needs to eat some casualities already. Oh well.
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Oct 23, 2014 22:35
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So even JoJo was worthless in the end. His hinted specialness compared to the other useless mooks amounted to a forgettable speedbump. This is more painful to watch than the 2008 Detroit Lions. 
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Oct 23, 2014 22:38
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The most Bleach fight in recent history. Guy loses 100% because he described his powers smugly. Had he just stayed quiet Nimura would have handily died with no problems. Deceiving the audience with close freeze frames and bold text when characters learn horrifying details about their supposed demise only to have a handy backup plan that reveals they were never in any danger and they knew it. End this poo poo already so I have one less thing to read every week.
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Oct 23, 2014 22:59
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It's all a setup to show they have a zombie cure.
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Oct 23, 2014 23:03
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Kenpachi already revealed at the beginning of this arc that the quincy all love talking long enough for you to shish kabob them.
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Oct 23, 2014 23:05
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The best part is that the previous chapter made it seem like lips aizen survived the sword that isn't made of silly putty because he had some special power. Nope! He didn't die when cut because he didn't die when cut.
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Oct 23, 2014 23:13
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Serious Frolicking posted:The best part is that the previous chapter made it seem like lips aizen survived the sword that isn't made of silly putty because he had some special power. Nope! He didn't die when cut because he didn't die when cut. He was 35μg short of the LD50 for extra-sharp sword.
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Oct 23, 2014 23:14
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Still loving everyone's bewilderment at A loving SWORD?! being effective. This guy should just cut YWACH down right here.
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Oct 23, 2014 23:46
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Tonfa posted:Still loving everyone's bewilderment at A loving SWORD?! being effective. This guy should just cut YWACH down right here. Th-they're never effective! They're just barely better than kido!
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Oct 23, 2014 23:47
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Swords are just embodiments of the characters spiritual power, after all. Uh, except when they're tools created and graded by a spirit blacksmith who could make them all faceless one-hit-kill monsters if he wasn't worried about going out of business. The business that, uh, that he doesn't get any kind of payment for.
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Oct 24, 2014 00:10
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Teamwork? Woah. First they start using swords. Then they start helping each other during battles. These squad zero guys are breaking all the rules.
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Oct 24, 2014 00:14
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Wittgen posted:Teamwork? Woah. First they start using swords. Then they start helping each other during battles. These squad zero guys are breaking all the rules. They're an unstoppable force by virtue of not being total morons.
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Oct 24, 2014 00:48
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Advice posted:The most Bleach fight in recent history. Guy loses 100% because he described his powers smugly. Had he just stayed quiet Nimura would have handily died with no problems. Deceiving the audience with close freeze frames and bold text when characters learn horrifying details about their supposed demise only to have a handy backup plan that reveals they were never in any danger and they knew it. I actually liked that, because the squad zero guy even said "Thanks for the explanation." I laughed a bit at that.
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Oct 24, 2014 01:03
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It's somewhat fitting that if you are a shinigami who actually knows what the gently caress you are doing, you are kicked out of the club. Mayuri's constant smug loving around is the only thing that keeps him in the loser patrol, I swear.
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Oct 24, 2014 01:03
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Nilbop posted:Swords are just embodiments of the characters spiritual power, after all. To be fair, it's so sharp that it cuts through anything like butter. If you had anything but perfect control you'd end up cutting yourself. Plus it has to be carried in a huge backpack of jelly. Like he explicitly called that out as why it's a failure, you can't carry it around, it's unfeasible to ever use. The 'put any blacksmith out of business' part was something people call a joke.
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Oct 24, 2014 01:20
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Mayuri was telling Ishida about how much quincy ramble on and talk too much and end up losing because of it way back in the soul society rescue arc, so Kubo is just being consistent.
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Oct 24, 2014 04:20
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KittyEmpress posted:To be fair, it's so sharp that it cuts through anything like butter. If you had anything but perfect control you'd end up cutting yourself. Plus it has to be carried in a huge backpack of jelly. Any high level bleach character is capable of cutting any other high level bleach character in half, unless there's a huge reiatsu gap. Making the sword super sharp doesn't really make much of a difference.
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Oct 24, 2014 05:45
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Prison Warden posted:It's somewhat fitting that if you are a shinigami who actually knows what the gently caress you are doing, you are kicked out of the club. Mayuri's constant smug loving around is the only thing that keeps him in the loser patrol, I swear. Loser patrol? Mayuri has only ever lost to Ishida. In fact, Mayuri was the first captain to lose to a quincy. He was years ahead of his time.
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Oct 24, 2014 06:26
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I haven't read the new chapter yet, but I'm getting a very bad feeling that we won't be returning to Mayuri's Crazy Ghost Science Fun Time in Soul Society for a while.
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Oct 24, 2014 08:21
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Again, the "Domination" dude without his face shown almost certainly survived having a sword shoved through his head somehow and probably is manipulating the whole fight or something. Unless Kubo is pressed for time and realized he didn't have time to give the guy a fight.
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Oct 24, 2014 11:53
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This all just seems like a set up for Yhwach's right hand guy to use his balance power. I like to imagine it's going to do something really stupid like force the royal guard to play on the Quincy team.
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Oct 24, 2014 11:59
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slev posted:This all just seems like a set up for Yhwach's right hand guy to use his balance power. I like to imagine it's going to do something really stupid like force the royal guard to play on the Quincy team. "Well, Teams have to be balanced. Since you've killed like all but 2-3 of us and there's like 6 of you, my power instakills half of you."
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Oct 24, 2014 12:37
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:They're an unstoppable force by virtue of not being total morons. So many bleach fights have involved people deciding that they were going to have a one on one fight and asking their allies to stay out of it, only for them to either get chumped or to end up just barely scraping through it alive. It's strange that it's a new and refreshing thing to see people who actually work together to overcome something. Has there been any other time in bleach where people have worked as a team?
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Oct 24, 2014 13:01
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lohli posted:So many bleach fights have involved people deciding that they were going to have a one on one fight and asking their allies to stay out of it, only for them to either get chumped or to end up just barely scraping through it alive. It's strange that it's a new and refreshing thing to see people who actually work together to overcome something. I mean they lost but w/e
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Oct 24, 2014 13:10
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The captains teamed up pretty well to stab Hinamori
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Haja holy poo poo I just noticed Div 0 are Actually Teaming Up. Im Too used to lone wolf battles for me to notice.
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Oct 24, 2014 14:39
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Fabricated posted:Unless Kubo is pressed for time The series has had that feeling since not long after the hiatus ended. It seems to be increasing in terseness at an exponential rate. I only wish there were some way to confirm the all but certain feeling I have that he's being forced to wrap it up due to tanking ratings. I imagine that's something that polite Japanese society just won't allow for. I could be totally wrong (In which case by all means, someone correct me) but I get the impression that say, an American artist that gets gypped out of doing things their way is a lot more likely to speak out about how they were totally screwed by the system than a Japanese one.
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Zogundar posted:The series has had that feeling since not long after the hiatus ended. It seems to be increasing in terseness at an exponential rate. It's kind of bad form to talk about the internal workings of corporate politics in Japan and America. Even if it's fair criticism, you'd hate to burn any bridges unless you really, really got hosed over and wouldn't want to work with them again anyway. Pretty sure Kubo wants his work published in Shonen Jump forever. I'm sure Kubo is being given adequate time to finish poo poo. Even if Bleach has fallen far from what it once was, it's still reasonably popular. Kubo might just be ready to wash his hands of the whole thing, and I couldn't blame him.
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Fabricated posted:Balance? If it's something like that it'll be a Jojo-ish power where it's like I'm sure it's something like "because 90% of our forces have been getting steamrollered, the battle is pretty much entirely in your favour, by tipping the scales to my sside, I now get ten billion times more powerful" or something. I know it's Kubo, but I HAVE to beleive that Yhwch's grand strategy of "send all of our weak-rear end minions into the woodchipper" is part of some actual grand plan and not just loving idiocy. Also, where is Ishida right now? Didn't he go with Ichigo's weird uncle's group?
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Zogundar posted:The series has had that feeling since not long after the hiatus ended. It seems to be increasing in terseness at an exponential rate. It's really weird, it feels kinda rushed, but at the same time the regular pacing back during the Hueco Mundo arc was glacial, and the hiatus that you're talking about was more than a year ago. If they're trying to rush him to the ending, they're not doing a very good job. Bleach still has bad ratings, but they're not as bad as they were during the Fullbring arc. It's staying just ahead of stuff that's actually getting canceled, at least. It seems to me that editorial talked to him about wrapping it up and made him take that hiatus to plan it out, but then he's been under less pressure since then because none of the new series are actually staying around to replace him. And if Bakuman is to be believed (the only semi-reliable source for internal Shonen Jump gossip) then Kubo has a notoriously lenient editor, so he just does whatever he wants unless something severe happens. Like, for example, Bleach's anime getting canceled, which is what really spurred the hiatus in the first place. It doesn't have an anime to get canceled anymore, so unless it seriously tanks in the ratings again, it's just gonna keep going for as long as possible. As far as him getting screwed financially, while he's not making Oda money, Bleach is still really popular in America. I'm sure he's doing just fine.
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Prison Warden posted:I'm sure it's something like "because 90% of our forces have been getting steamrollered, the battle is pretty much entirely in your favour, by tipping the scales to my sside, I now get ten billion times more powerful" or something. I know it's Kubo, but I HAVE to beleive that Yhwch's grand strategy of "send all of our weak-rear end minions into the woodchipper" is part of some actual grand plan and not just loving idiocy. He's been doing this for a long time, and his strongest soldiers are getting killed off, and each of their powers is going back to him. Basically this whole thing is an elaborate suicide attack for everyone else. If they beat the shinigami and do whatever the gently caress they wanna do to the soul king the hard way it's gravy. If all of his forces get wiped out, well, he's pretty much a god at that point and he cleans up himself. Which is what is going to happen.
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He will clean up, then Ichigo will start showing off and pull a few random powerups out of his rear end. Urahara may well pop in to actually end it, though.
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Kubo talks about nothing but Monster Hunter and Dragon Quest on twitter, so maybe he just wants to end Bleach so he can play those all day.
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slev posted:Kubo talks about nothing but Monster Hunter and Dragon Quest on twitter, so maybe he just wants to end Bleach so he can play those all day. gently caress, I'll hunt some gigginox with Kubo.
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Zexerous posted:gently caress, I'll hunt some gigginox with Kubo. His character will no doubt be far more fashionable and good looking than yours.
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chumbler posted:His character will no doubt be far more fashionable and good looking than yours. He'll have the best looking mixed sets I imagine.
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Begemot posted:Like, for example, Bleach's anime getting canceled, which is what really spurred the hiatus in the first place. It doesn't have an anime to get canceled anymore, so unless it seriously tanks in the ratings again, it's just gonna keep going for as long as possible. For some reason I either never knew or completely forgot that even happened.
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The newest volume of Bleach came out recently, and it was the number one or two top selling comic, I believe. It was probably a slow week, but I don't think Bleach is doing truly awful. It's probably just doing badly enough that Kubo can cancel it and move on.
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