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I actually kind of like it. So many flashy pretty abilities, such odd powers from various shikai and bankai.. I find it to actually be kind of interesting to see something that isn't a massive spiked club, a giant sword, a gun, a magical bladestorm of doom, etc, to see something that is just a regularly shaped katana backed with amazing strength and speed is certainly a tad more bad-***(especially for now without the "Onoz I am scared of my hollow side/scaring my friends/ dying without beating the bad guy") but also kind of interesting and unique.. We can take the pokemon route with everyone elses Zanpakutou, it is interesting to see Ichigo remain relatively to the point.

I want Aizen to use more Kido; that might make it interesting. Anyway, Ichigo is currently too cocky for this fight to end in his favor.

"I'm better than you" is so boring that I want to throw my computer.

I wouldn't think Ichigo is arrogant. It boils down to facts, and fact is that Ichigo is currently stronger than Aizen. Aizen threatened his friends and Ichigo must now beat his ***** He strikes me as rather apathetic as it stands.

Overall this was a rather cool chapter, but it's too easy. If this was all it took to beat the villain that kicked just about every character's ***, yeah, well, we might as well continue reading Bleach with Ichigo as a main character in the position of Captain Commander...

I don't think he is really apathetic. He is just maintaining a relatively emotionless composure, to some extent taking satisfaction in the fact that the person who claimed to control his life is now shocked, scared, confused that things are not going exactly as he had planned. What had before for Aizen was a puppet and at worst an inconvenience is now unexpectedly putting a stop to his entire plan.



It always boils down to something like this in almost everything.
- I am Stronger than you.
- I am faster than you.
- I am smarter than you.
- My powers have a more hax ability than you.
- I have more people on my side than you.

Its boring because you continue to think about this pattern in most serious anime and manga.

All I can really say about this chapter is "Yawn". =/

Plot goes so slow that it'll probably start going backwards again.

That's a "cue flashback" prediction, just in case it was too subtle.

You have to admit, that first panel Spoilerthat we see Aizen's skull pushed out of his face was a pretty damn badass One Winged Angel.

It went downhill from there, yeah, but I still liked most of this chapter.

Edited, Sep 9th 2010 10:00pm by IDrownFish

This is why I read Bleach. Not for the plot. Not for the action.

I read for the asspulls.

I'd like Ichigo to decide that he doesn't want another Aizen incident, and rationalizes that him becoming a god and policing all sides of the equation is the only way to keep it from happening again. Fast forward several years to an apocalyptic wasteland and a new generation of (Insert new word for Shinigami/Human/Hollow hybrids) try to regain the world from his now iron fist rule. Not turn him into an antihero, or "I was being controlled by Blahblahblee" or anything. I want Ichigo to have a face-turn and be evil.

But what'll really happen is he'll have defeated Aizen, and his powers will "disappear" until the next Big Bad shows up and he has to train to regain his power again, but have some imposed limit to prevent him from using MuGenshou again until the very end, but THIS time it won't work/will work but won't drain him like last time so he'll be open for yet ANOTHER power upgrade when training with Goku.

Worst possible ending? Besides the random gotcha conclusion and using Kisuke as a finisher as a form of fan **** since he's so popular, I think Kube did two very awful things. First, he had Aizen sealed, which leaves room for him to return--please no. Second, he seems to have taken a different turn with Ichigo's new power. From the previous ambiguous and terrible explanations it seemed that Ichigo lost his shinigami powers in exchange for this new power, that is that he rose above his old self. Now it seems like he may have lost it all, and we're going to have another eye twitchingly painful regaining-his-power arc.

Oh, it makes me sad. I don't even know what to say. :(

So... shouldn't he be all hollow now?