If that's all they were gonna do they may as well have shown up in their pajamas.
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Tite Kubo's Bleach Manga Nears Ending
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If that's all they were gonna do they may as well have shown up in their pajamas.
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wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Rukia easily deserves captain seat.
She has bankai, beat an espada, and beat a sternritter. Also her captain died leaving a vacancy, which happened when she was vice captain.
What more do you want? There are like 500 characters in this manga so accomplishments get spread out pretty thin.
She has bankai, beat an espada, and beat a sternritter. Also her captain died leaving a vacancy, which happened when she was vice captain.
What more do you want? There are like 500 characters in this manga so accomplishments get spread out pretty thin.
ShockingAlberto
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Yea, I don't think so either. Then again , Bleach power levels
But she was the vc of Squad 13 so it makes sense.
Frozenprince
Banned
Bleach's biggest issue has always been it's power levels not making any sense at all.
It makes every fight a mess.
It makes every fight a mess.
Yea. It's super sloppy
Frozenprince
Banned
We all know the end is gonna be Y-totally not Jesus but no really he's Jesus showing up and killing a few Captains only for Ichigo to bitch slap him into space and end it with a panel that's basically the same as the first time he and Rukia saw each other and say something stupid like "Hey" while smiling at each other and that'll be the end.
Aizen will use his Bankai to like, warp spacetime to get Ichigo there or something.
Aizen will use his Bankai to like, warp spacetime to get Ichigo there or something.
The Silver
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Rukia's bankai is pretty broken, AOE absolute zero attack aint nothing to fuck with.
ShockingAlberto
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Stronger Getsuuga Tenshou > Less powerful Getsuuga Tenshou
it's pretty clean and simple
God Dayumm
Banned
There are many futures, so both of those outcomes and more are possible
Septimus Prime
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It also changes colors, from white to black to (I assume) blue.
Frozenprince
Banned
Well it would be if Kubo didn't just think "Absolute Zero" just meant "really really cold".
It's also kinda bullshit that the two that died, died.
Komamura was one of like, 3 characters this arc to actually get character development and they killed his ass off-screen.
Dog Captain got robbed, I thought he had a really cool story in this arc.
Yeah I saw that part, I was left sitting there wondering "was that it?". I mean they went all the way there in their battle gear, weapons ready, just to deliver a damn stick.
I wanted to see them fight basically since everyone else was getting their asses handed to them, I didn't realise at the time there wasn't that many chapters left.
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Yeah I saw that part, I was left sitting there wondering "was that it?". I mean they went all the way there in their battle gear, weapons ready, just to deliver a damn stick.
I wanted to see them fight basically since everyone else was getting their asses handed to them, I didn't realise at the time there wasn't that many chapters left.
Everyone keeps talking about Aizen's bankai but I really wanted to see Isshin's
Frozenprince
Banned
I also love Iba getting to be a Captain despite quite literally never being in a single on screen 1-1 fight.
Like, we've never even seen what his Shikai does let alone Bankai.
His supposedly was some kind of blood manipulation too.
Sounded awesome. But he and Ryuken kinda did... well jack shit nothing so.
Like, we've never even seen what his Shikai does let alone Bankai.
His supposedly was some kind of blood manipulation too.
Sounded awesome. But he and Ryuken kinda did... well jack shit nothing so.
The Silver
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since this thread doesn't have nearly enough Aizen bankai posts.
*Ichigo is hanging out with his friends when time stops and Aizen appears before Ichigo*
Aizen: hello Ichigo.........haven't you ever wondered why I never used my bankai?
Ichigo: wha...what the hell is going on.....what are you doing here.....why are you bringing this up?
Aizen: let me rephrase that question. what makes you think I haven't been using my bankai this entire time, since the day you were born?
Ichigo: *shocked face*
Aizen: Bleach
The End.
*Ichigo is hanging out with his friends when time stops and Aizen appears before Ichigo*
Aizen: hello Ichigo.........haven't you ever wondered why I never used my bankai?
Ichigo: wha...what the hell is going on.....what are you doing here.....why are you bringing this up?
Aizen: let me rephrase that question. what makes you think I haven't been using my bankai this entire time, since the day you were born?
Ichigo: *shocked face*
Aizen: Bleach
The End.
It's a gun that shoots out GTs
ShockingAlberto
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ywach's last act should have been to write a future where Inoue can be a normal, independent person without needing Ichigo
Yeah that blood manipulation thing sounded kinda cool, like some of Urahara's skills. We did at least a get taste of it in the flashback I guess and that flashback itself was awesome I thought.
Oh yeah that's the other thing, he does GT as well but we never found why exactly, his sword wasn't even released the few times he did it. I forgot if Ichigo could do that earlier on.
Oh yeah that's the other thing, he does GT as well but we never found why exactly, his sword wasn't even released the few times he did it. I forgot if Ichigo could do that earlier on.
yanipheonu
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I mean, she does live independently on her own, staying strong after the death of her brother.
Independent =/= Cannot be in love.
God Dayumm
Banned
You remind how Inoue was a bubbly but cool character at the beginning and became a total ditz after the arrancar invasion. Sad
I'm thinking based on whatever outline Kubo had that Renji was supposed to be captain of Squad #6 now. Remember, Byakuya was basically killed off by As Nodt and only came back through what had to be meddling.
You know Rukia, we really are the Bleach.
Septimus Prime
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Didn't Isshin imply that he was also able to use Final Getsuga (which Ichigo should have used against Yhwach)? I imagine he and Ishida Sr. geared up and traveled together, in case they ran into opposition while getting to Uryu, but they didn't run into any fights along the way.
Yeah - there have been a very number of NOT NORMAL things happening to Orihime since the start of the manga.
(Though to be fair, she was always weird. And didn't she say in the beginning of the manga that 10 years later she'd be an evil robot tank?)
Zoe
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Rukia and her sister arrived together, but her sister abandoned her because it was too hard to care for a baby.
Hisana was still a peasant when she married Byakuya.
DriftingSpirit
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I think Rukia is deserving of her new position.
Yeezus H. Christ
Banned
Wtf could've happened in those ten years, didn't hitsugaya just say there were 10 years of uninterrupted peace haha
Peroxide.
Chained Prometheus
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Kinda like how Rukia became pretty much irrelevant after the Arrancar Arc, how Chad was permanently established as Life's Punching Bag and so on and so forth? And of course, how Ichigo went from being a Shakespeare-loving punk with a heart of gold to possibly the most generic shonen protagonist ever?
It's all on Kubo's inability to properly develop the main characters and how he just let himself get more and more lost in the sea of side-characters he kept coming up with. Orihime just has the bad luck of being the character that's canonically confirmed to be romantically interested in Ichigo in that whole larger problem. Hence why Kubo just started defaulting to all those "Kurosaki-kun"s in the Arrancar Arc.
And actually, one detail about Orihime that I always found interesting was how she was really the only one of the main crew that had literally no experience in combat when the series starts. Ichigo and Chad got in fights with other punks during middle school, Ishida was trained since his childhood to be a Quincy, Rukia and Renji are veteran shinigami. Orihime, in contrast, is a relatively ordinary young woman whose main struggles up to that point have primarily just been living on her own after her brother died.
There's a ton of potential with that kind of set-up for a character and while I noticed that Orihime was more confident than she previously had been in the Arrancar Arc during her team up with Ichigo in the previous round against Ywach (in which they ultimately got rekt), it's a damn shame that Kubo couldn't handle that sort of character potential nearly as well as he could have.
Why WSJ rush Kubo to complete Bleach, only to have him continue it. Like what?
SkywardBeam
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You don't necessarily need to have a Bankai. You can also become captain by defeating a captain in a 1-1 battle with at least 200 witnesses of said division (like Kenpachi) or having the personal recommendation from at least six captains and the approval of at least three of the remaining seven captains. I could imagine Iba and Isane became captains this way.
Bleach has been such overwhelmingly confounding crap for so long that it's erased details like that from my memory. :/
Oh right
I would love this so much. Please let this happen.
Frozenprince
Banned
Which strikes me as weird as to why Ikkaku and Renji didn't get promoted over them though. Considering they do have Bankai, AND have leadership experience.
Septimus Prime
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Their captains are still around.
You can be promoted to be captain of other divisions. Gin was Vice Captain of Squad 5 but made captain of Squad 3, for example.
Septimus Prime
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Not this round of promotions, it seems.
Unohana -> Isane (Squad 4)
Komamura -> Iba (Squad 7)
Ukitake -> Rukia (Squad 13)
It's all directly upward from the squads that lost their captains. The only exception seems to be Lisa, who is taking Squad 8 because Kyoraku moved to Squad 1 as Captain Commander.
It probably sucks for the lieutenants who lost their captains but had the Vizards replace them, like 69 Face. They might never get their chance now.
The Silver
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I dont remember Iba ever doing anything, do we know what his shikai does?
Septimus Prime
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I would imagine every squad has its own specialization (like 12 is the science squad), so they're all basically different divisions of the organization. You wouldn't promote a Marketing manager to run Art, for example.
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