Well I'll start things off with the new episode of Bleach tonight. Unless things change it will be the second the last episode shown for a while. I keep checking the schedule hoping that they update it and place Bleach back into the schedule. Otherwise we are just going to have reruns to watch until they remember that they taking off their best show.

It was episode 51 of Bleach and Rukia's flashback is over. In fact a lot of time apparently passed since that episode as it is another day a later now. And because it is everyone is gathering for the showdown that is going to happen. Rukia is getting taking to the execution grounds, which is probably going to take a long time. Hitsugaya and Ichimaru are walking somewhere unknown with their Vice-Captains. Byakuya decides to leave for the grounds revealing a picture of what looks like Rukia, but I'm pretty sure is her sister. Which is funny how the two look nearly identical.

The Vice-Captain Iba shows up and talks or rather listens to his Captain speaking before Tousen appears with his Vice-Captain. Those two then take off and go somewhere. And then we see Kenpachi along with his Vice-Captain and Ikkaku and the other two who's names I can't remember. And Orihime is riding on his back like Yaruchiru which was funny to see. They find Uryu, Ganju and Chad via the ceiling and take them with them. At which point Kenpachi is running with a lot of people now. It was funny though seeing Yaruchiru tickling Orhime for no reason, she is just completely random like that. The girl makes no sense one minute and then is serious the next.

Either way, Kenpachi comes to a dead end thanks to Yaruchiru's bad sense of direction. Though given that Tousen and the other three are there it makes you wander if she did not do it on purpose just so that Kenpachi had a fight. But they come out after Kenpachi tells them to stood hiding and the rest leave on his command. He wants to of course fight them all alone. They all agree except for Ikkaku and the other one that Ganju fought a while back. They show up as the two Vice-Captains are about to fight Kenpachi. The four then leave to fight elsewhere while Tousen and the other Captain fights Kenpachi.

Kenpachi takes a full hit from both of them and then laughs it off like his was with Ichigo aside from the fact that they can actually wound him. It is hard to know how much this is Kenpachi boasting, but he does seem like he can match them even though neither have pulled out their Bankai's yet. But given that Kenpachi is fighting with his power tied, he would be able to increase when they did pull out their Bankai. So it is going to be a real question, is Kenpachi that crazy powerful to take two Captains.

The episode ends with Renji apparently finished with his training and walking off. He asked Yoruichi if Ichigo will make it in time and complete his Bankai. She then goes off about instinct which eventually winds to her point that she believes that Ichigo knows he has it somewhere and will find it. It is just a matter of instinct. And then we get to see a really bloodied up Ichigo, who has apparently taken a beating from fighting Zangetsu. With all of the blood he looks pretty crazed and vicious at the moment. And he is handling multiple Zangetsu's on top of that. So Ichigo has changed quite a bit in the single day. And obviously, it is Ichigo so he'll make it in time. Though he'll need to get healed from all of the injuries that he has sustained from the fighting.

It is pretty much a standard in anime that you politely wait for someone to finish their long winded speech before you attack. Though Ichigo does not always follow that rule. And if you look at it Bleach does not always follow it. When Renji was boasting Ichigo took a swing at him while he was talking. Ichigo fights like a street fighter, there is no waiting or pausing. It is killed or be killed. So if you take the time to go talking you're going to get hurt. Ichigo makes frequent comments about it through the show how his enemy could have attacked him but waited. And Uryu interrupted that one Shinigami the Wind Scythe guy while he was talking by destroying all of his spinning blades. But it is also more so that people just talk before fighting or during their fight.

Oh at the end of the preview for the next episode Kon made a comment about how the Golden Soul Reaper book was going to start up next time. I don't know if it means anything, but I'm hoping that it is Golden Shinigami Cup. I don't know when they started it on Bleach, but it would be awesome if Viz kept them in the episodes. They are great clip at the end up the episodes. It is like reading the manga, having that footnote that is meaningless but leaves on a pleasant note.