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Prison Warden posted:May as well do this for this thread too. 140 posts of shameless Kubo apologism.
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2013 23:54 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 20:19 |
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Yeah, the pacing there left a lot to be desired. Maybe Kubo was under pressure to finish the arc quickly, but seeing Ichigo just stand there and whack Aizen with one big gently caress You attack (that didn't even kill him!) was kind of a let down.
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# ¿ Mar 24, 2013 02:47 |
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Scyantific posted:Has this been explicitly confirmed exactly? All I know is that Isshin is from the Shiba clan, I don't remember them saying anything about being an immediate brother to Kaien. Isshin is from the "branch" family of the Shiba clan, not the "main" family, whatever that means.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2013 08:45 |
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http://www.mangapanda.com/bleach/531 It's up. Hooray! Engetsu! But oh no! Aizen!
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2013 12:29 |
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tsob posted:Chad's fights have become so rushed you literally can't even see them anymore. I dunno about that. The Vandenreich DEFINITELY know about Ishida, considering Opie mentioned him (saying it was "impossible" that his arrows were stronger than Ishida's, which is enough on its own), and the way Ishida was so dodgy about going to Hueco Mundo in the first place... I mean I'm sure Ishida and Ryuken aren't evil, but I think they might know something here. if they didn't, and it was just like "here we have two good Quincy who have no idea about all these a-hole nazi quincy", those two would've shown up by now to be all "Who the gently caress are these guys!?"
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2013 04:45 |
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MadHat posted:From what we now know he most likely was referring to being the last Pure Quincy. Especially considering that it now looks like Ishida isn't a pure Quincy, that'd make sense.
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2013 09:18 |
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Ichigo's mom owns.
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2013 10:24 |
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2013 10:31 |
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Lyrai posted:How does Tousen know what color is? Bear in mind, he called it the complete opposite of what it is.
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2013 11:40 |
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Syrant posted:This is clearly an advanced technique Masaki is using, it comes right out of Zaraki's guide to hitting poo poo you can't see or keep up with. Ichigo did the same thing against Grand Fisher.
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2013 12:10 |
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Batmasterson posted:but at some point you would think Aizen would get annoyed to a point where he just decides it wasn't working out and kill him. He did. He blew him up.
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2013 09:00 |
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Didn't Kubo mention in that interview that Rangiku's past would be elaborated on in this arc? With her being Isshin's former lieutenant, I'll be surprised if we don't find out what was going on with that, maybe straight from Aizen.
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2013 03:54 |
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Serious Frolicking posted:Not much ever happens in these threads aside from speculation, pedantry, terrible jokes, and people wanking to their favorite characters, usually Kenpachi or Mayuri. Ichiruki vs Ichihime all loving day. It's horrible.
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# ¿ Apr 7, 2013 11:27 |
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Kild posted:Some dude made a list of foreshadowed and easily missed things. I formatted it a bit better and added a couple comments. Do I spot another purveyor of bleach.bugs3.com?
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# ¿ Apr 10, 2013 15:02 |
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It's a site where I've seen a bunch of these theories and connections and stuff before. Guess it's just a coincidence, then.
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# ¿ Apr 10, 2013 15:09 |
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Yeah, I think that's just a recurring motif with the Quincies, I think Ishida's third bow came out of a badge that looked the same way too.
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# ¿ Apr 11, 2013 11:22 |
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I'm starting to think Ryuken's whole "I only give a poo poo about her 'cause Quincy futures and I am stoic" line was bullshit.
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2013 12:24 |
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What exactly would've stopped Aizen from just insta-loving Barragan with that level 90 kido he loves throwing around? Seems like it hits a little too fast for Barragan to age it to death.
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2013 05:59 |
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Hitting Aizen at chest height would be roughly equivalent to sending it straight over Momo's head, so maybe she just whiffed and Aizen said some bullshit, just because.
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2013 07:44 |
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Serious Frolicking posted:Wasn't Komamura's sole win against a fraccion? Dude is the biggest chump among the captains, though of course that still leaves him miles ahead of Chad, King of the Chumps. Komamura is so cool, it bums me out that he exists just to get punked constantly. Thoren posted:
Not so much defeated off-panel as "shot in the back by a dude they all thought was dead." Even Urahara got owned by that one.
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2013 06:30 |
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Ichigo's parents are so drat cool, he better start acting cool after this arc. So I wonder if Urahara was about to say "until she gives birth" or "until she dies" right here.
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2013 12:26 |
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So Urahara injected the Visoreds with Quincy arrows to stop them from undergoing Soul Suicide? I thought the implication was that he used his Hoagie to do that.
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# ¿ Apr 24, 2013 00:58 |
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SpazmasterX posted:The Hougyoku wrote itself out of existence when Ichigo defeated it/Aizen.* I'd be okay with it if the reality of the situation was Kubo was like "whoa what the gently caress was I thinking this thing is dumb as hell" and never mentions the Hogyoku again. vvvvv He's implying that it erased itself from existence entirely, past and future, after Ichigo beat Aizen. MJeff fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Apr 24, 2013 |
# ¿ Apr 24, 2013 01:04 |
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Bleach 536 @ mangapanda. I think my favorite part of this one was Ryuken and Katagiri. MJeff fucked around with this message at 08:46 on May 8, 2013 |
# ¿ May 8, 2013 08:37 |
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Kild posted:Whats up with Isshin powering up or is that someones silhouette? So who killed Masaki? Soul Society or the Quincy or maybe Katagiri I'm gonna guess a Quincy like YWACH so her soul is completely gone with no chance of resurrection.
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# ¿ May 8, 2013 09:55 |
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Fhqwhgads posted:I thought that at first, too, but if that were the case, wouldn't Grand Fisher have mentioned something to that extent when they fought again? Wasn't it a plot point that Grand Fisher's memory was kinda lovely?
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# ¿ May 9, 2013 02:18 |
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Zogundar posted:You know what I'd like to see to facilitate further exposition to fill in the blanks left in this flashback? Seems possible enough to me. I mean she was pretty obviously introduced so we could learn who Ishida's mom is, but hopefully she'll play some kind of role here.
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# ¿ May 9, 2013 06:18 |
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If Isshin is saying he regrets being able to protect Masaki from White, I think what he would mean was "I regret not being able to protect her from being attacked by the Hollow that almost caused her to commit Soul Suicide and forced her to give up on her life as a Quincy." Which is a pretty reasonable thing to regret.
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# ¿ May 9, 2013 12:59 |
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I'm like 95% certain it's just constructs made of ash that take the form of people the Bankai's holder has killed, getting the image from the Bankai holder's memories. YWACH point-blank said to Yamamoto after he stole the Bankai, "shall I revive your own soldiers and have them attack you?" The whole part where the ash zombies look like someone is probably just to psych the opponent out and it seemed to work pretty well on Loyd Royd!
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# ¿ May 11, 2013 08:25 |
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Rigged Death Trap posted:It's not literal zombification/resurrection. Yeah. Like I said, I think it's mostly a psychological thing.
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# ¿ May 12, 2013 10:18 |
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Ishida. Stop being a villain. Stop. Stop it, Ishida.
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# ¿ May 15, 2013 08:42 |
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Yeah there's obviously sabotage afoot here, but we'll probably have to put up with an inordinately long time of Ishida pretending to be a bad guy and at least one Ichigo vs. Ishida fight (this might be the entire point!) before Ishida tries to shoot Juhabach in the back of the head as revenge for his mother, fails, and reunites with Ichigo for a chapter called THE UNITED FRONT [quincy brothers hate you mix] or whatever.
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# ¿ May 15, 2013 08:56 |
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Yeah, Mangastream makes it sound like he spent the time between regaining his reason and regaining his powers picking which Quincies to off, almost. At any rate, I have a subscription to SJ, so in a week or so, I'll see if it corroborates. Gyges posted:Edit: And the Mangastream translation answers the question. Congratulations on specifically pissing on the last Quincy and his Omnipowered friend. I imagine their widowers are pretty mad too! Oh man, Ryuken calling himself "The last Quincy" is so much sadder now. MJeff fucked around with this message at 13:08 on May 15, 2013 |
# ¿ May 15, 2013 13:06 |
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Wittgen posted:I don't think they could do anything about it. If I'm remembering the Quincy invasion correctly, the Quincies just appeared out of nowhere and then disappeared back into nowhere. At least, from the Shinigami's point of view. The shinigami not knowing diddly about Quincy space is a viable answer. It is possible that Isshin only knows from comparing notes with Urahara and Ryuken and the rest of the Shinigami don't know jack poo poo about Juhabach coming back. On the other hand, Mayuri did rather pointedly say at the start of the arc to Yamamoto that "THIS IS BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T KILL THAT JAGOFF ALL THOSE YEARS AGO", almost definitely referring to Juhabach. It's hard to say how much Mayuri and Yamamoto knew about the situation though. loving magnificent. By the way, it's worth noting, that Juhabach might be able to revive all the Quincies whose powers he jacked with Yamamoto's bankai. So. Y'know. Get ready to watch Ishida and Ichigo forced to fight ash zombie versions of their moms at some point!
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# ¿ May 15, 2013 23:50 |
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The main reason her sword hasn't shown up is "Kubo wants to focus on hand-to-hand combat when Yoruichi shows up", obviously, probably with a backup reason of "when he does reveal her sword, he wants it to have a hell of a lot of meaning behind it.", same as Urahara's Bankai. I mean, so what if she had used it against Aizen? It wouldn't changed that she got owned offscreen and didn't show up again for the rest of the arc. At least if she uses it in this arc, she'll probably get to beat the crap out of a Quincy. Maybe the one that jacked Soi-Fon's bankai. Yes, probably that. I'm betting on that.
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# ¿ May 18, 2013 02:52 |
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Akett posted:I recall people in the last thread discussing that in the most recent databook it's explained that he found Starrk and Lillinette's hearts. Or something stupid to do with them. I guess the reason Kubo never mentioned it again is it became rather irrelevant when Starrk was killed. A possibility that Kubo could BS his way into bringing back Lillynette and Starrk is never irrelevant.
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# ¿ May 19, 2013 03:09 |
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Rainbow Pony Deluxe posted:So are the Nazis at least letting Haribel get weekends off? Hell, is that even a sanitary workplace for extracting quincy/hollow breeds? Is that what they're doin' with her? I thought she was just chained up in Ywach's
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# ¿ May 22, 2013 09:02 |
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WOW THAT'S A LOT OF STUFF. Ichigo: kinda lame in that he went back and dealt with the Asauchi INSTANTLY, but I guess the whole point of it was supposed to be Ichigo having a clear enough mind to be able to find Zangetsu, and last time he was ~plagued with doubt~ over what Ywach had told him or something? Whatever. I guess it's good that we're not wasting a lot of time with this. Apparently Zangetsu changed appearances again. I wonder if this is the first time Ichigo's seen Zangetsu since he did the Final Getsuga Tenshou. Hitsugaya: Also, shouldn't he still have a Shikai? I'd think working on that'd be a little more important than "starting over" with some basic kendo poo poo. Kensei, Mashiro and Hisagi: Oh, I knew that fucker had Bankai. Also, Kensei is pretty baller but I question his logic of "they can steal our Bankais so we need more people to be using Bankai." I mean, I guess I get it - without Bankai, they can't lose, but he's kind of ignoring the problem that the more people that can use it, the more potential resources they're literally handing over to the enemy. Also, Mashiro continues to be great. SUPER VICE CAPTAIN. Komamura: Oh man are we gonna get Komamura's backstory? I wanna see what made him decide to be a Dog Grim Reaper and what kinda awesome dog powers he gets to compensate for losing his Bankai. I bet that huge dog dude has a story too. This is awesome. Kuroyama posted:Who am I kidding, these are all gonna be resolved off-screen so we can focus on Ichigo again. I actually kind of doubt that! Kenpachi got his due, and this is the last arc and Kubo's last chance to get out everything he wants to do with these characters. I think he's gonna see all of these through.
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# ¿ May 22, 2013 11:38 |
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SpazmasterX posted:Because then you're basically forced to try and become a Captain. Ikkaku kept his hidden because he enjoyed following Kenpachi. In Hisagi's case, he's afraid of his own sword. I believe I recall him saying as much before he released it against that one Arrancar. I wouldn't call his feelings unjustified because Kazeshini is kind of a loving scary name.
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# ¿ May 23, 2013 01:52 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 20:19 |
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I believe it's Yamamoto who he owes a debt to - he owes him for taking him in. We'll probably find out the circumstances of that now. I imagine he did something to get kicked out of Dog God's cave, Yamamoto took him in, and he became a Shinigami to repay him.
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# ¿ May 23, 2013 05:08 |