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Mar 22, 2013 16:01
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|Ziggy| posted:What? Rushed? Are we reading the same manga? It may not feel rushed because Kubo's pacing is so slow that things happen at a geological timescale, but when you break it down into actual events that occur not much happened. Thats why it may take you an hour and a half to digest a volume of One Piece or something but you can blaze through an entire Bleach volume in like ten minutes.
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Mar 31, 2013 23:23
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Thoren posted:I always imagined Isshin, Masaki, and Arrowdad having their own magical ghost-realm adventures before the series began. That could happen between now and Ichigo being born. I'm assuming Masaki got out of high school before she became teen-pregnant at least.
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Apr 7, 2013 23:38
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Yawgmoth posted:If kubo puts grimmjow in a pink polo I will never* forgive him! A man, wearing pink? How bizarre!
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Apr 17, 2013 05:25
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coreycoryecorey posted:Who do I have to mail all my money to just to get Kubo to make the story, going forward, all about Urahara and all the cool stuff he has done/is doing? I think that's basically the whole plot though???
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Apr 17, 2013 23:49
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yeah, Kido is really underusedZogundar posted:Unless it has a similar limitation that Soifon's Shikai has and simply doesn't affect you as long as you have more than 40 Hit Dice This is wrong specifically because if this was DnD, kido users would be insanely overpowered. Like, Tessai could defeat Butterflaizen with both arms tied behind his back.
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Apr 19, 2013 02:16
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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. Hey at least Chad is Bleach's Krillin, in that he is strong theoretically and has at least won a fight or two against worthless chumps. At least he isn't this series' Yamucha (Renji)
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Apr 19, 2013 05:13
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Are Masaki and Ryuuken that closely related? I got more of an impression that she was from an entirely separate Quincy family, so they are probably related in the way that most royal families in europe, say, are but no more than that. Maybe Quinces ascribe to the Targaryen method of keeping their blood pure.
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Apr 21, 2013 04:31
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SpazmasterX posted:The Hougyoku wrote itself out of existence when Ichigo defeated it/Aizen.* Funnily enough, Ichigo defeating Aizen happened after his dad stopped being a shinigami. In fact, it happened years later. Ichigo might be the super powerful protagonist but I find it hard to believe he defeated Aizen before he was born.
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Apr 24, 2013 01:05
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I always assumed that Nemu was an artifical person. like a mod-soul fused into a gigai, or since she's a ghost, just an ambulatory mod soul of some kind. Then again I thought that Ururu was something similar, since that would fit with Urahara and would give her a neat backstory and poo poo, but that would count on Kubo actually giving two fucks about his old characters and I guess she and Jinta have weird inexplicable powers for no reason and she occasionally acts kinda like a robot for no reason and hey remember Don kanonji? Man, I do. He was cool.
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May 18, 2013 02:37
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Look, whatever else, that panel of all the Asauchi loving bowing to Ichigo is awesome.
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May 22, 2013 18:02
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hagie posted:Well haven't they hinted that he made a ton of this other poo poo that has turned out to be Division 0's brainchild? Or did I make too many assumed implications? Forgive me if I'm misremembering, but I honestly can't think of anything he specifically was credited for that have turned out to not be his own inventions. The Hougoku is the closest I can think of being an exception, since Aizen made his lovely one first, but even then Urahara didn't know about that when he made his own baller one.
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May 23, 2013 19:33
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Serious Frolicking posted:Well, there are the guys who think that because Kubo makes use of old plot hooks that he had everything planned out from day 1. They are idiots. I think it's clear he had some stuff planned out from very early on, Isshin's past is probably one of those things. You can usually tell because when he hasn't planned stuff out, thats when he starts to flounder and start writing like a monkey headbutting a typewriter. (ie, most of the time).
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May 23, 2013 21:06
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What I got from it was that Ichigo's hollow/shinigami powers are one and the same. He's been using his shinigami abilities all this time (he's been using his hollow powers to, remember). But he's been getting these powers not through understanding of himself and all that poo poo but because Yhwach basically gave them to him. Hell, his inner hollow even outright SAID at one point "I am Zangetsu!"
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Jun 5, 2013 14:39
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Wrist Watch posted:Edit: As for his Father, Engetsu vs Zangetsu and their abilities, I'm guessing Shinigami don't actually have kids, we've never seen any, so its very possible that in such a situation Isshin passed on *his* same/similar abilities to Ichigo. I bet Isshin's bankai is very similar to Tensa Zangetsu. (we know that it's "hard on his body" and being injured would make it difficult or impossible to use) I pretty much agree with treeboy's assessment of this. It's not that Ichigo never had shinigami powers, he pretty obviously did, but he was accessing them in a loving bizarre, unusual way and his inner Quincy was just jerking his chain this whole time. But Treeboy, shinigami do have kids, we've seen Byakuya's father/grandfather on occasion and he was a shinigami captain, though he is presumably dead now.
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Jun 5, 2013 20:54
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Rynder posted:Also I can already imagine that "Number One" would be playing as he pulls out the swords Glad to see I'm not the only one. Man, I loved whenever they used that. You need the lyrics though, come on! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XQzfpCu3SA And gently caress you all, I like the new swords.  I actually prefer the shorter one, it is just a loving cleaver. It's simple and fits perfectly with Ichigo's entire fighting style and personality.
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Jun 19, 2013 15:52
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They are all japanese swords, here are some oddities by division, any I don't mention are just katanas. 1)Genryuusai, who hid his katana inside a walking staff. 2) Both Soi Fon and Yoruichi have wakizashi. 3) Gin had a wakizashi. 4) Unohana's sword is a little long, but it's a katana. 5) Everyone in 5th division is boring. 6) Also boring 7) Tetsuzaemon has a tanto. 8) Nanao has a tanto or wakasashi up her sleeve. Shunsui has both a katana and wakasashi even in sealed state. Lisa's sword is pretty long, like a nodachi. 9) Kensei has a wakasashi. 10) Hitsugaya's sword is pretty long, it is so long, in fact, it is taller than he is. This is mostly because he is a titchy dwarf, but still, it's kinda long. 11) Kenpachi's shikai is always in release state, because he is Kenpachi  who knows what the gently caress it looks like normally. Ikkakku weilds the sheath of his zanpakutou too, and stores poo poo in the hilt, but it's still just a katana. 12)Urahara, whose zanpakutou is a cane, though back when he actually was a captain, it was just a normal sword. So yeah. The only people who don't have katanas are Arrancar, and their swords are probably in the equivalent of permanent shikai release anyway so...
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Jun 20, 2013 05:02
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treeboy posted:Uryu and Ichigo are the same age right? could Soken have died the same time as his mother and Ichigo's did? They both look "young" in those flashback chapters It's possible, sure. It'd explain why, even an old Master Quincy could possibly be killed by three hollows, short of them being adjucas or something. Why would Yhwach take a pureblood Quincy powers? But then, Uryuu having Quincy powers is also kind of an anomaly, maybe the two could be connected? I think recently has been the most active this thread's been in ages.
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Jun 21, 2013 20:21
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tsob posted:Konamura busts through the wall as a dog-dragon mid-way through to chomp one in half, but I know that'll never happen, even with Kubo's recent turn for the better. I've been enjoying this manga a lot recently, but if Komamura doesn't become Falcor I will hate Kubo forever.
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Jun 22, 2013 03:07
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Didn't you know? 
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Jun 24, 2013 03:53
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treeboy posted:Renji gets a fur collar/jacket with a weird skull pauldron and a glove. Also some people like Hitsugaya get the wings or whatnot. I suppose you could count Soifon too since her bee-missile thing covers her arm i believe? Soi Fon gets a armoured coat with her bankai too I believe.
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Jun 24, 2013 16:16
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The_Frag_Man posted:I don't like the Quincy alphabet warriors. They are all super lame. They suck. What the hell is Kubo thinking? Yeah I agree. I'm not saying that they won't grow on me or turn out to be cool, but the Espada, the Visored and the Gotei 13 caught my imagination straight away. I can think of maybe one or two of each who sucked in the end, but Ghost Nazi squad are just kinda a lame duck.
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Jun 27, 2013 19:08
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Rynder posted:Confirmation that we're skipping the last guard's training. Didn't that already happen? With Tessai's forbidden kido that only the high ups of the Kido corps knew. like that one spell that literally allows time travel.
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Jul 2, 2013 00:35
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Walking on air is just a thing all shinigami can do, all the time. I think they mention during Soul Society that Shinigami are trained in four areas: Swordsmanship, Martial Arts, Kido and Footwork. The footwork, as far as we know, only contains Shunpo, it'd make sense it it also includes standing on air. I think the only reason no one flies during Soul Society probably has something to do with that weird barrier in the Seireitei.
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Jul 3, 2013 03:49
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Batmasterson posted:The item in the barrier is the Quincy device used to steal bankais. This. I mean, I know this manga's plot is a thin gruel sometimes, but at least make an effort to keep up guys
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Jul 3, 2013 16:41
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What gets me about these girls is that Kubo has literally done this same thing a million times already. Introduce the cadre of badguy girls. And they are always the same loving people! There is always Cheery, Pedobait, Double D's and the Haughty One. I get that Shounen manga have nice archetypes that show up all the time rather than actual characters, but reusing the same ones all the time in the same configuration in the same arc in the same manga is a little obvious. the Sternritter honestly feel like self parody (of the Arrancar/Espada, mostly) but I doubt Kubo is self aware enough for that.
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Jul 3, 2013 18:37
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Half of Dracula posted:Aren't those newly introduced Quincy girls the exact same character designs as the Sword Five? I'm pretty sure they're the same people. Not QUITE.  
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Jul 4, 2013 04:52
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The Akward Silense posted:It seems like squad 10 is always doing paperwork. I think squad 10 is the paperwork squad. Also Squad 6's last two Captains have been Kuchiki, it may be a family/ Soul Society tradition in the same way the captain of the Covert Ops division being a Shihouin was. Captain tuberculosis seems to be the go to guy for detectiving/internal affairs type stuff too. Most squads seem to have some kind of little thing they do, actually, even if documented specialisations are rare.
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Jul 13, 2013 02:06
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|Ziggy| posted:We already have one Renji. We don't need two. Yeah Chad is that dude who is nominally powerful, but just gets chumped to show how powerful someone is. he's their Worf. Renji is just a big loser, he's more of their Yamucha. It's a real shame because I legitimately think Chad is really cool. He'd be a hell of a more interesting protagonist than ichigo, that's for sure. Kubo just seems to hate him, I guess. I did find it fuuny that for ages Chad's powers were hinted to be solely hollow-like in nature and he is half mexican.
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Jul 24, 2013 20:52
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Silver2195 posted:Renji. Having a hero who loses all the time would be different at least.
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Jul 25, 2013 04:59
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Lamebot posted:theres even a rogue agent arc in both Speaking of, I know it's filler, so we can't blame Kubo on this one, but the Bount arc starts off pretty much identically to Chapter Black. there is a small team of "bad guys" who the heros fight, who all have unique, conditional style powers, and the it turns out those dudes aren't the bad guys at all. They were just hired by the main character's mentor (Genkai, Urahara) to prepare them for the REAL badguys of the arc (the Bount, Shisui's dudes). The difference being that Chapter Black was loving awesome and the Bount arc sort of blew. Well, in the timeframe it was released it did anyway. On average it probably fares a whole lot better now we have more Bleach to compare it to.
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Jul 27, 2013 04:31
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LanceKing2200 posted:If you think that's bad, check out their video of Cloud's buster sword from FF7. It's so heavy that one person can't even lift it effectively, so for the demonstration they basically have two people hold it up and drop it on whatever they want to cut. Well... it is designed to be wielded by super SOLIDERs after all. They even say in game that Sephiroth is the only person who can use his sword effectively.
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Aug 21, 2013 02:05
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BlitzBlast posted:That's probably counting bonus chapters. There is the -14 chapter with Hitsugaya, what else?
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Aug 22, 2013 04:01
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pixaal posted:Turn Back the Pendulum was all negative chapters. Yeah but it still counted as part of the series proper, I think, whereas those ones were extra chapters for some weeks? fake edit: Actually, checking, turn back the pendulum is 12 chapters, but only takes up chapter 316. The next two chapters both take up 317, so both counts are WAY off. Realedit: Looking back, the pilot chapter is way different than what we got, holy poo poo. Rukia as a tiny person living in Ichigo's coat (and taking a bath in a teacup) and she is specifically said to be from Soul Society's "Far East" division. Hollows can disguise themselves as humans and Orihime dies. Weird. Rohan Kishibe fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Aug 22, 2013 |
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Aug 22, 2013 04:32
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Gaseous Snake posted:The idea of a "far East" division makes me want a Western division full of shinigami cowboys and gunslingers. Yeah, I've been wanting international soul societies from day one. I imagine American SS is more Native American, given how long lived these ghosts are. Oh and it specifically says in the pilot that once you become a hollow, you are SOL and the only way to stop you from being a horrible pure evil monster is to permanently destroy the hollow's soul, so the whole purification and Quincy stuff is out and the afterlife in Bleach Pilot is even more nihilistic and depressing. It's also a flat 60 years till you reincarnate. Boom.
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Aug 23, 2013 01:33
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Zogundar posted:Wait, so is the soul destroyed destroyed and it's Shinigami/soul people that reincarnate after 60 years Yup! Once you become a hollow you are hosed.
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Aug 23, 2013 03:47
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brc64 posted:But then I thought people lost their memories when they died. Nope! I think the only people who ever "lost" their memories when they died were Rukia, and maybe Renji and Hitsugaya etc. And they didn't so much lose their memories of being alive in as much as they died so young that they don't have any memory of being alive at all.
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Sep 18, 2013 22:49
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Rauri posted:Some of them have aged (Byakuya was a kid in Turn Back the Pendulum) while others appear to stay the same age for whatever reason. I think they just age really slowly. Byakuya was, what, 15ish in Turn Back the Pendulum and he's probably the equivalent of mid twenties now? We saw that Yamamoto was a young(er) man once a thousand years ago and his Lietenant too. Kenpachi was a kid, Gin, Rukia, Renji etc were all youngsters. Yachiru was a baby. Hitsuagya doesn't seem to have aged much, but to be fair he's only been in the Gotei 13 since around the time Ichigo was born. If Byakuya has aged maybe 10 years in a hundred, the entire time Hitsugaya has been with the Gotei 13 is like 2 years of aging, tops. The only ones who don't seem to have aged AT ALL are maybe the Visored and the Royal guard. It's harder to get a fix on how old Squad Zero were supposed to be before they "retired", but the guy who created Zanpakutou is certainly older or around the same age as Yamamoto for sure. But I'm willing to write both of those cases off as weird hollow fuckery and Spirit King bullshit respectively. Maybe Urahara and Yoruichi, but they were adults before Aizen pulled his bullshit, so it's harder to get a read on how they aged due to Anime. And then you have Ywach, but he was, like, a double ghost or some poo poo so who knows/cares? Rohan Kishibe fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Sep 19, 2013 |
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Sep 19, 2013 03:20
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Episode 61, I think.
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Oct 5, 2013 04:48
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Harry posted:Unless you were part of some mirc group, AMV's were probably how you saw a lot of anime anyway. I was strictly TV only until around 03 or so I think? Whenever Naruto was still in it's chuunin exam arc, and I discovered torrents. I remember Sci-Fi used to show anime movies late on a Thursday night. Staying up to watch Akira and stuff by Satoshi Kon. Then getting up at 5am on a Monday to watch NGE. Good times.
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Oct 8, 2013 02:38
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