Bleach 104 Discussion

[Kraco]

Although Hitsugaya is pretty cruel, seeing how headphones kept all of his subordinates alive and wanted to stop Kariya too...

I don't know if he actually was cruel as such. He was normal. When you fight a tough axe wielding guy with a sword, you better be ready to deal fatal blows unless you want to receive one yourself. I'm always happy when I see fights that are realistic in that respect (although of course there was little realism as such in that fight). Headphones just doesn't enjoy or want to kill young weaklings; and weaklings those bulk shinigami indeed seem to be; I would probably fight better with my katana than those dudes...

[dragonrage]

I just caught up on Bleach, and the fight between the old bounto and creepy captain was awsome, putting aside that I dislike him. You gotta appreciate his personality, he is quite a perplex guy.

The fight between Ishida and the annoying lady was not imperssive. I thought she should have died when Bakuya used sen bon zak (sp) to save Rukia. She is just a space filler after all. Nothing really deep about her and I personally thought that she was a coward from the start, it was just a gut feeling that I had ever since I saw her.

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Skipping ahead to this episode and bypassing everything that happened between Kariya and Ichigo.


I say this episode was alright. It was not great but it was not a total waste either. It was annoying as hell to watch in the begining, I mean just looking at Toshiro and Masamoto running around was a real annoyance. I mean they are both masters or Shunpo (sp). Why were they taking there time in running around like they didn't have a care in the world.

What really bugged me though is that everytime Hitsugaya caught up to a group that was defeated he had to hold one of the fallen shinigami's in his hand and ask if you were ok. That just really irritated me. But for the grand finally amazingly Hitsugaya finally remember that he can use shunpo and finally realized that only a strong person such as a captain can defeat a bounto like this.( It is not what he said what I felt that is what was implied from the episode/ arc structure) and was mysteriously able to caught up to the bounto in a matter of seconds.

The fight was pretty decent. I didn;t think Toshiro was cruel, just doing his job and reacting normally to the situation that was presented to him. We finally got to take a closer look at how his bankai works and there is alot that is left to be wondered or questioned about it. I can say this though Controlling an ice dragon is pretty damn cool, making all that useless running around worth it.

I felt kinda sad for Koga, he was a loyal and honorable character, but we all must walk the path that we have chosen. He fought well but die in a really lonely state, pretty sad really. He was the only bounto that I really even took an interest in.

Well on to the next one. Shiny head is in it and for the most part when he is in something it is quite funny, but this also hits that it would just be another episode to take up space. But it should be interesting.

[Mizuchi]

@Kraco

headphones didnt want to fight, as he said many times throughout the series, and a good life may have been spared if toshiro took the time to ask him what his goals were like ichigo does to every person he fights.

Anyone else notice the disappearing square things behind toshiro as he kept using his power? Maybe his bankai is limited to a certain number of uses per battle?

[DDBen]

I was very disappointed in this episode as it makes headphones entire part in this arc worthless. I mean his death seemed meaningless and on top of that the "core" form of the foll was idiotic. So your telling me a doll that has been by far the most powerful one we have seen upto this point just turns into a normal axe... If it talked or had ANY kind of ability I would have been ok with it but no it was a large heavy axe....

Animation was terrible but hey on the plus side only one o Bounto left and then were done with this arc.

[redcat]

Anyone else notice the disappearing square things behind toshiro as he kept using his power? Maybe his bankai is limited to a certain number of uses per battle?

i noticed that too. i guess the filler writers were too lazy to explain it in any way.

[UChessmaster]

only one bounto to go!!! ^ ^

kinda off-topic: does anyone has the full version of the new ending? i love that song

[Animeniax]

The end song isn't bad but why does it sound like Michael Jackson is singing in Japanese?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY_7L4wadqQ

As for the rest of you, there is only one more Bount, but if you think that's the end of fillers, you're probably wrong, its just the end of this filler arc.

[DarthEnderX]

Oh god, you might be right.

This arc ending is only a good thing if the next arc is either not filler, or another long filler arc. It could turn into a bunch short crappy miniarcs like naruto, and then I'll be wishing this arc had gone on forever.