New Bleach chapter out
Kubo is not wasting time on these chapters. This arc is already moving along at twice the speed of the FKT arc. And nii-sama! And Renji!
Kira's fate is still up in the air - I won't call dead until I see a funeral or the body. But we can call it shounen-death. In the meantime, the chapter opens with talk that I assume will excite Rose/Kira shippers everywhere (talk about the opposite of Kira's last taichou-fukutaichou relationship, eh?) Still, Rose mad is kind of a funny not-terribly-threatening sight to behold to me.
But. But.
The other captains are also setting up for their fights. I'm not too worried about Hitsugaya since he's a Japanese favorite, and he's been working hard on himself since the end of the last war - I imagine he has a few new tricks. I don't care one way or the other about Soifon, honestly. Komamura... I wonder if Komamura will make it out of that battle? I think he might be one of the ones who goes down, especially because of his relationship to the soutaichou.
AND RENJI-AND NII-SAMA, FIGHTING IN TANDEM.
I will ignore the immense feeling of dread this gives me, Outside of Bleach movies and filler episodes (in other words, within canon_) it's exceedingly difficult if not impossible to think of a time they've fought side by side. So there's something significant about this, plus it looks like they're paired up with that deadly Quincy-thing that looks like Yo-Landi from Die Antwoord (and the Quincy equivalent of Yammy, apparently). I really, really hope this battle goes okay for both of them. And I will go on pretending that it will, though I suspect in one way or another it might not.
Ugggghhhh Kubo.
I'll learn the Quincies names as they become more important to the arc; I'm not disregarding them but, much like the Espada, it took a while and a few individual fights to let the names settle in my head. We'll see what happens. Ichigo's not going to be happy when he comes back, is he?
Kira's fate is still up in the air - I won't call dead until I see a funeral or the body. But we can call it shounen-death. In the meantime, the chapter opens with talk that I assume will excite Rose/Kira shippers everywhere (talk about the opposite of Kira's last taichou-fukutaichou relationship, eh?) Still, Rose mad is kind of a funny not-terribly-threatening sight to behold to me.
But. But.
The other captains are also setting up for their fights. I'm not too worried about Hitsugaya since he's a Japanese favorite, and he's been working hard on himself since the end of the last war - I imagine he has a few new tricks. I don't care one way or the other about Soifon, honestly. Komamura... I wonder if Komamura will make it out of that battle? I think he might be one of the ones who goes down, especially because of his relationship to the soutaichou.
AND RENJI-AND NII-SAMA, FIGHTING IN TANDEM.
I will ignore the immense feeling of dread this gives me, Outside of Bleach movies and filler episodes (in other words, within canon_) it's exceedingly difficult if not impossible to think of a time they've fought side by side. So there's something significant about this, plus it looks like they're paired up with that deadly Quincy-thing that looks like Yo-Landi from Die Antwoord (and the Quincy equivalent of Yammy, apparently). I really, really hope this battle goes okay for both of them. And I will go on pretending that it will, though I suspect in one way or another it might not.
Ugggghhhh Kubo.
I'll learn the Quincies names as they become more important to the arc; I'm not disregarding them but, much like the Espada, it took a while and a few individual fights to let the names settle in my head. We'll see what happens. Ichigo's not going to be happy when he comes back, is he?