Bleach 96 Discussion

[Yukimura]

Lol, another op bread crumb. My theory is that the makers of Bleach hope to avoid a Naruto Effect, and thus are dropping little hints to manga readers that they know what's going on in the real story.

Anyway, this ep was good, Kariya's barrier being overpowered was good since it makes him less broken. Though him reading Ichigo's moves is slightly less reasonable, since Ichigo is supossed to be so fast.

As to Ran'Tao....if losing her Shinigami powers and having to use tricks to make up for it lets her make entrances like that...imagine what she was like with her powers intact.

[UChessmaster]

If Ran tao lost her powers... shouldn`t her clothes be all white?

[dragonrage]

They once sealed Ichigo's powers and his cloths didn't turn white. Although they almost killed him in the process of losing and regaining it. It was awsome.

I wanted more action. It was cut short way to early. Ran Tao, looks pretty hot for an old woman (another tsunade). They would have owned the bounto leader if there were no interuptions.

Well lets see if the next episode is worth while. Despite everything it was pretty good. Not bad, not bad at all. "Bull" what a nice name for a gang. They might be fun to watch.

edit :grammar

@below : oook?

[.noname.silent]

yea, but ran tao doesnt need to use chakra to keep herself looking like a whore.

[FrogKing]

Yeah, overall the episode wasn't that bad (for a filler), but they sure are milking the story for all it's worth. Was it just me, or was the animation especially of poor quality in this episode? In the fight between the three, I felt like Ichigo was drawn very bad especially his face. Hope the introduction of Ran Tao will bring this filler-arc to a conclusion soon.
Shinigami Cup Golden was classic this week. Had me laughing pretty hard. Glad to see them go back to a more twisted humor approach.

@.noname.silent: LOL, i was thinking something similar about Ran Tao and the aging process, dattebayo.

@Darth:

Another character I didn't recognize during the OP.

Nice catch. So, have we only seen 2 OP characters or have I miscounted?

[DarthEnderX]

It's a different picture every week. But it's usually old characters doing things like standing around. But twice that I've seen it wasn't a character I recognized.


I really don't think this arc is anywhere near over yet.

I mean, there's the thing the Bounto are gathering up the gangs for. Which is, who knows what. Ran Tao just got introduced. There's the rogue shinagami that you KNOW is gonna fight Kenpachi.

I expect the other 3 bounto to end up having 1 on 1 fights with various captains. Shinagami vs. Kenpachi. Then headphones and Kirayia probably fighting Ichigo and Ishida in some fasion.

And honestly, I don't think Ran Tao is a goodguy. It almost feel like, whatever the Bounto are doing is according to some plan of hers, even though they don't realize it. I get the feeling she's gonna end up being the final villain of this arc.

[Kraco]

Hmm... That's an interesting theory about Ran Tao. I hope you are right! That would be a nice twist. Certainly she would have a reason to rebel against the shinigami who kicked her out as a scapegoat.

But the traitor shinigami against Zaraki? Come on. Kenpachi would beat that whelp in three seconds with his eye patch still on. Kenpachi against Headphones would be better.