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NikkolasKing
Apr 3, 2010



Also I think somebody was asking earlier about the English dub?

Something I only learned recently was that the dub VA for Urahara, Michael Lindsay, died a few years ago.

Really sucks. He was one of my favorite characters and when the dub switched up a ton of VAs, they kept him on as Urahara. I wonder who will replace him.

Anyway, RIP.

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ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
Aizen was good during SS (his reveal) where he was the Secret Boss and in the Quincy arc (Chairzen) where he was the teammate nobody wanted.

He was pretty boring in the arc where he was actually the main villain.

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

Aizen in chair is truly the best Aizen

Doc Fission
Sep 11, 2011



Kaiser Mazoku posted:

Izuru fuckin executing that bird dude in cold blood. Wish we saw more of that from him.

God, I forgot how much I love Kira too. Ice cold anxiety cyborg goth, probably gay. A character anyone can relate to.

I think I'm gonna start a manga reread in preparation to follow along with the anime release. If I do I'll probably spam the poo poo out of this thread so sorry in advance.

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

Kaiser Mazoku posted:

Izuru fuckin executing that bird dude in cold blood. Wish we saw more of that from him.

Come to think of it dude fights Bird God Quincy in the Quincy arc too.

What does Kira have against birds???

Hidingo Kojimba
Mar 29, 2010

NikkolasKing posted:

The Fullbring Arc.

They had interesting powers, more than just Big Energy Attacks or whatnot.

Sadly having creative powers < big energy attacks so all the Captains destroyed them and that was that.

I’m still mad we didn’t get a really good Chad fight out of the Fullbring arc.

lezard_valeth
Mar 14, 2016
Opposite to the current topic, the one anti-hype character that I was always bored to see was Ikkaku.

His sword can turn into a spear that can fold 3 times, wow.

And then his bankai is 2 big swords that get powered up as he gets beat up but he can't take a beating.

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

Ikakku rules

hiddenriverninja
May 10, 2013

life is locomotion
keep moving
trust that you'll find your way

ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:

Come to think of it dude fights Bird God Quincy in the Quincy arc too.

What does Kira have against birds???

birds are an affront to gravity

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

SyntheticPolygon posted:

Aizen in chair is truly the best Aizen

:haibrow:


:haibrower:

Doc Fission
Sep 11, 2011



it's me I'm the thread Division 11 stan here to say Ikkaku does rule :colbert:

He also just happens to be one of countless jobbers. It's an overinflated market in Bleach.

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

Doc Fission posted:

it's me I'm the thread Division 11 stan here to say Ikkaku does rule :colbert:

He also just happens to be one of countless jobbers. It's an overinflated market in Bleach.

Gotei 13 Jobbers Union Local 11

SalTheBard
Jan 26, 2005

I forgot to post my food for USPOL Thanksgiving but that's okay too!

Fallen Rib

lezard_valeth posted:

the one anti-hype character that I was always bored to see was Ikkaku.

How does it feel to be all wrong and poo poo

SerSpook
Feb 13, 2012




thread, i have a confession to make

i never actually finished bleach. i gave up on the thousand year blood war arc sometime around ichigo climbing a tower several times in a row. i am super excited to see chair aizen actually do something, and i hope the version of this arc i see will actually be the good version

Brightman
Feb 24, 2005

I've seen fun you people wouldn't believe.
Tiki torches on fire off the summit of Kilauea.
I watched disco balls glitter in the dark near the Brandenburg Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like crowds in rain.

Time to sleep.
I can't wait until we get to the zanpaktou that's just very sharp.

Regalingualius
Jan 7, 2012

We gazed into the eyes of madness... And all we found was horny.




SerSpook posted:

thread, i have a confession to make

i never actually finished bleach. i gave up on the thousand year blood war arc sometime around ichigo climbing a tower several times in a row. i am super excited to see chair aizen actually do something, and i hope the version of this arc i see will actually be the good version

Same, except I bowed out right when that flashback mini-arc in the middle of Hueco Mundo happened

PringleCreamEgg
Jul 2, 2004

Sleep, rest, do your best.
Bleach gave us chapter titles like ‘Satan From Orbit’ and ‘Spit On Your Own God’ and from this we can conclude Bleach is good.

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

PringleCreamEgg posted:

Bleach gave us chapter titles like ‘Satan From Orbit’ and ‘Spit On Your Own God’ and from this we can conclude Bleach is good.

I didn't know "deicide" was a word until Bleach lmao

Sydin
Oct 29, 2011

Another spring commute

Lib and let die posted:

Gotei 13 Jobbers Union Local 11

The real reason Yumichika won't show his shikai off is because it's way too busted to qualify for membership and he really doesn't want to lose the benefits package they negotiated.

Electric Phantasm
Apr 7, 2011

YOSPOS

PringleCreamEgg posted:

Bleach gave us chapter titles like ‘Satan From Orbit’ and ‘Spit On Your Own God’ and from this we can conclude Bleach is good.

On one hand it sucks the anime didn't use them, but on the other hand the title cards are incredibly slick.

Sydin
Oct 29, 2011

Another spring commute

PringleCreamEgg posted:

Bleach gave us chapter titles like ‘Satan From Orbit’ and ‘Spit On Your Own God’ and from this we can conclude Bleach is good.

Last Celebration
Mar 30, 2010
drat, I haven’t watched the Bleach anime in forever but Number One is probably one of the most hype main character themes I’ve heard in a while.

Also sometimes this series really catches me off guard with its humor, I don’t think I expected Ichigo to get into an argument with a lesbian because of him lying about borrowing her porn. Stop lying about being horny Ichigo, just admit it.

Delphisage
Jul 31, 2022

by the sex ghost
I have managed to get 161 chapters into Bleach so far! Has the anime started yet from where I'm reading?

Schubalts
Nov 26, 2007

People say bigger is better.

But for the first time in my life, I think I've gone too far.
The original anime covered everything but the final arc. You have hundreds of chapters before hitting the current anime's content

Delphisage
Jul 31, 2022

by the sex ghost

Schubalts posted:

The original anime covered everything but the final arc. You have hundreds of chapters before hitting the current anime's content

No, I mean the start of the anime, not the start of this currently adapting arc.

Fat and Useless
Sep 3, 2011

Not Thin and Useful

Delphisage posted:

No, I mean the start of the anime, not the start of this currently adapting arc.

Hell if I remember what 161 was but the anime covers everything and some filler.

480 is the first chapter of this running arc.

edit: 161 is bankai time, so episode 58

Fat and Useless fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Oct 16, 2022

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012

Last Celebration posted:

drat, I haven’t watched the Bleach anime in forever but Number One is probably one of the most hype main character themes I’ve heard in a while.

Also sometimes this series really catches me off guard with its humor, I don’t think I expected Ichigo to get into an argument with a lesbian because of him lying about borrowing her porn. Stop lying about being horny Ichigo, just admit it.

When did that happen?

Thoren
May 28, 2008
Is the anime getting any new content or is it staying faithful to the manga?

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Thoren posted:

Is the anime getting any new content or is it staying faithful to the manga?

I think they said somewhere that there would be some edits, but I'd expect it to be largely the same.

Regalingualius
Jan 7, 2012

We gazed into the eyes of madness... And all we found was horny.




I finally bit the bullet and got a subscription to the SJ app so I could reread the manga from the beginning, and man, it’s been a blast seeing all of the panels I had burned into my brain again

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

I love Ichigo and all his friends.

Kild
Apr 24, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvCw_NF8VaI

is always ftw

Doc Fission
Sep 11, 2011



I also started rereading the manga from scratch and now I'm on chapter 145 on the Shounen Jump site. Here are some observations.

  • I have never really enjoyed a shounen protagonist in my life and unfortunately Ichigo was never an exception for me. Kid is kinda mid but all the teens are still pretty great. I forgot how much of the manga is just, like, an extended Scooby Doo bit until Byakuya shows up.
  • You can really deeply feel the growing pains of the early 2000s official manga translation game. The original translation for the Gotei 13 is the "Court Guard Squad" which is wild to read consistently. I wonder if they revise some of this clunkiness in later chapters?
  • It's fun seeing in the splash pages how much KT clearly loves like, Swinging London and Cool Britannia poo poo. Obviously this is canonised in Burn the Witch but this dude really loves mod fashion.
  • The lore creep is pretty funny tbh. Rukia tells ghosts IT'S FINE YOU'RE GOING TO SOUL SOCIETY YOU'LL BE HAPPY THERE (smash cut to 50 chapters later where you learn you can be simultaneously famished and a peasant and dead)

The SS arc really does not let up once and is extremely rewarding. Renji had a bright future once. Nothing but respect for my baboon wolf guy or whatever

Last Celebration
Mar 30, 2010

TheKingofSprings posted:

When did that happen?

I’m bad with arc names but it’s the one after SS, when Ichigo’s training his hollow limit break (fullbringer?) with those other guys while washing dishes.

NikkolasKing
Apr 3, 2010



TheKingofSprings posted:

When did that happen?

Last Celebration posted:

I’m bad with arc names but it’s the one after SS, when Ichigo’s training his hollow limit break (fullbringer?) with those other guys while washing dishes.

It was Lisa the Visored. Don't think she's a lesbian though becauee she was Shunsui's previous love interest before Nanao.

The Visoreds were the best, most squandered thing in all of Bleach. I loved Shinji and Hiyori's introduction, even though I'm not at all sure how Shinji looked young enough to get into Ichigo's high school....

I'm still made they swapped out Hiyori's first dub VA for Laura Bailey doing a generic Laura Bailey voice. This lady was perfect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmW1uGXuLOA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVqs5oa8CdY

NikkolasKing fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Oct 17, 2022

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

Doc Fission posted:

I also started rereading the manga from scratch and now I'm on chapter 145 on the Shounen Jump site. Here are some observations.

  • I have never really enjoyed a shounen protagonist in my life and unfortunately Ichigo was never an exception for me. Kid is kinda mid but all the teens are still pretty great. I forgot how much of the manga is just, like, an extended Scooby Doo bit until Byakuya shows up.
  • You can really deeply feel the growing pains of the early 2000s official manga translation game. The original translation for the Gotei 13 is the "Court Guard Squad" which is wild to read consistently. I wonder if they revise some of this clunkiness in later chapters?
  • It's fun seeing in the splash pages how much KT clearly loves like, Swinging London and Cool Britannia poo poo. Obviously this is canonised in Burn the Witch but this dude really loves mod fashion.
  • The lore creep is pretty funny tbh. Rukia tells ghosts IT'S FINE YOU'RE GOING TO SOUL SOCIETY YOU'LL BE HAPPY THERE (smash cut to 50 chapters later where you learn you can be simultaneously famished and a peasant and dead)

The SS arc really does not let up once and is extremely rewarding. Renji had a bright future once. Nothing but respect for my baboon wolf guy or whatever

Renji may be a loser that never does anything interesting or fun after his first arc but his fight with Byakuya is genuinely one of my favourite parts of the comic so I will always respect him.

Draga
Dec 9, 2011

WASHI JA!
Superchunky From Hell is still the best chapter name.

NikkolasKing
Apr 3, 2010



SyntheticPolygon posted:

Renji may be a loser that never does anything interesting or fun after his first arc but his fight with Byakuya is genuinely one of my favourite parts of the comic so I will always respect him.

(I guess manga ending spoilers...?)
Kubo, like KIshi, seemed to feel the need to pair everyone up at the end. But at least with Kubo, Renji and Rukia being a couple made a lot of sense and I'm happy that became canon.

Even though the relationship he establishes for them in SS is blatantly something he made up after Renji's actual introduction....

Kaiser Mazoku
Mar 24, 2011

Didn't you see it!? Couldn't you see my "spirit"!?
Quincy Archer Hates You

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Doc Fission
Sep 11, 2011



SyntheticPolygon posted:

Renji may be a loser that never does anything interesting or fun after his first arc but his fight with Byakuya is genuinely one of my favourite parts of the comic so I will always respect him.



Sick af imo. I love my jobber boyfriend

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