Bleach Club

[FF Ace Cid]

Wait to start over, alright.

As for the test, I had already read it, I had just wondered when it would be, and how I would be taking it, so thank you for telling me it would be in the next year. I just hope that's not too far away.

[Andromeda]

I don't believe that Xeim has determined a length of time between one test and the next. However, as Shadow said it will be as long as it needs to be since its a RP. So once the current test is completed the next will begin shortly after. That said, I think further discussion of the RP probably should occur in the OoC thread instead. Especially with the rather spamish posts that the last few posts were.

Well it was episode 50 last night. There are only two more episodes left before they have new episodes once again. I did not really bother with the episode since it was the filler episode with Kon and everyone back in Karakura Town. It is pretty boring to watch after the first time. Though even the first time I was annoyed to see it since it was interrupting the flow of the story that had been proceeding. But I should be used to not by now since it will be happening more soon enough. At least the Bount Arc will feel like a real arc from what I hear.

I picked up two more volumes of the Bleach manga a little while back. It had been a while since I did that so it was about time. I'm almost caught up anyway, so its not like I'm in a big rush. I have 5 or 6 volumes left to get. They are into the Arrancar Arc now. But on to something that I noticed when I was reading. Its nothing that I should be too surprised by, but seeing as the manga was so closely followed by the anime I was a little surprised. The fight between Hitsugaya and Ichimaru in the anime took up half of the episode. However, in the manga it was maybe half a chapter. It was surprisingly short. Hitsugaya pretty much went straight to Shikai and iced Ichimaru's arm. At which point you know what happened afterwards. All of the swordplay between that and Hitsugaya knocking out Momo was added by the anime. It is just something I come to expect from Dragonball Z that notoriously lengthened fights from the manga version. Though all the same it is only one of a few divergences from the manga that I have seen. So all in all it pretty good.

Oh and oddly enough that most recent list still is missing Urahara from it. In an interesting note on that. Urahara told Yoruichi that Ichigo's "gifts are greater than my own". Its a strange phrase, but implies that are some point that Ichigo will exceed Urahara's strength. Though he could simply be talking about the hollow inside him. I don't know if Urahara had that much foresight and awareness to see the hollow that would cause the eventual Hollowification. I would not be surprised since Aizen talked about it and Urahara being in charge of the 12th Squad and having that orb or whatever it is already did his own research on the subject. I know Urahara knows about the Vizards. But its had to know if he was thinking of Ichigo with or without the hollow powers that would make him stronger than Urahara. Its obvious that with the hollow he has surpassed Urahara, but he could just simply be speaking to him as a regular Shinigami. Either way it could be a way to judge Urahara's power.

[Andromeda]

Final Form Uryu up at 3rd huh? Its hard to imagine that Uryu could beat Aizen given his Zanpukto's abilities, but in a fair fight I would imagine that Uryu would certainly be able to put up a strong fight. Though Uryu's form is only good in an environment that has a high amount of spirit particles. I would imagine that in the real world that level of spirit particles would be difficult to come by and require more effort or time to gather. I don't doubt that he could still find that amount that he used, but it is much more dispersed in the real world than the Soul Society. I guess that Houko Mundo would be similar in construction to that of the Soul Society in being made of spirit particles.

I wonder if normal Uryu could pull off the same thing, but just on a smaller scale. He already pulls in spirit particles from the air. Pulling out of the solid matter that creates the Soul Society is probably more challenging, but I doubt it would be impossible. Though there might not be much of a benefit to it unless it provided a large boost in power as a result.

Well Bleach reruns are over now. Next week starts up AS "Season Two" of Bleach or new episodes. It is actually season three of Bleach, but yeah. Excitement for me and those that watch it on AS. I get to return to make normal duties of doing an episode summary each weekend. ^^; I can't wait to see Ichigo use his Bankai and fight Byakuya. I can't wait to see the Bount Arc too knowing that we are getting closer to the Arrancar Arc. I want to see the Arrancar Arc and all of the Vizard goodness.

[Rasler]

Update to the Character strength listing

Some formatting changes, mostly updated to the new [spoiler] tag. Rank 14 remains as the old [spoil] tag because the [list] tag doesn't work in the [spoiler] tag, apparently.

Extended notes for Aizen, Orihime, and Privaron Espada.

Demoted Rukia by 1 rank, promoted SS lieutenants by 1 rank

Added Ganju, Kukakku, SS 3rd-5th seats

http://thefinalfantasy.net/forums/sh...&postcount=859

[Andromeda]

Well I've been pretty late on this. I've already seen three new episodes of Bleach and I have not said a thing. Though I think a lot of the times I wanted I was either busy or the forums were having issues. Either way I won't make a summary for each episode. I'll just go over this last weeks and maybe some of the things from the previous episodes.

This week was following up right after Ichigo took out the three Vice-Captain's catching Renji. He then blocks an attack from Byakuya and things pick up from there. I get the see the cool bit with Ichigo cleaning the three Vice-Captain's clocks. You can really tell that he is on a completely different level now. Just like the one Vice-Captain said, he was not even using his Zanpukto and he beat them with one punch each. He smashed the guy's mace or whatever. Ichigo really proves how much of a level gap there is between Captains and Vice-Captains. I would imagine that the other Captains would have been able to do similar feats.

But then after some word between Ichigo and Byakuya things change to others in the group. You get to see Renji and Rukia and Rukia finally get put in her place. She keeps taking on everything as though she should be holding up the world and Renji finally tells her to share the burden. It was a great scene and I think Rukia will be a little different coming out of it now. Hopefully, she won't be suicidal or accepting of her fate anymore.

Then we get to see Yamamoto and the two Captains stare at each other. Yamamoto takes out Nanao pretty easily, which is apparent. Though the way that he does it very cool to watch. He just scared her into submission with his pressure. Kenpachi had a similar effect on Ichigo. So it was cool to see it happen again.

After a lot of staring Yamamoto finally does something and pulls out his Zanpukto. Figures that his sword is in the staff. He is also not the weak old man that he likes to put on airs about. Though it was pretty obvious that if he was in charge that he was not weak. But it just proves how strong that he actually is and he has not even gone Bankai yet.

Then there is a short bit with Yoruichi and Soi Fon. They seem to have a past and it will be interesting to see what Yoruichi will do seeing as she does not have a Zanpukto.

The fight that Zaraki had with Kaname was pretty cool to watch. I guess it just goes to show how powerful Zaraki truly is. He pretty soundly beat the Captain. It makes me wonder where in his strength that he actually does lie with other Captains. I always got the feeling that Zaraki was the weakest since Ichigo defeated him at full strength and Ichigo would be going up against Byakuya who would be stronger than Ichigo. So it always seemed odd. But Zaraki is obviously not at the bottom. Though in a fight would Byakuya or Zaraki win? All those pedals and the way Byakuya fights could make him the victor, but Zaraki does not even care about pain.

[Andromeda]

I don't have a lot of time right now, but forgive the double post. I had to say this now. Bleach: Memories of Nobody just got announced for a theatrical release in the US for this summer. They said that it was going to be a limited release. So unfortunately if it is anything like Paprika or Cowboy Bebop the Movie it will be difficult to see without going to a major city. However, it is still awesome that they are actually going to be showing it in theaters.

The English DVD of the movie is coming out this Winter. I was hoping for the movie much sooner since we will be out of the Soul Society arc in a couple months. But I can wait if we are getting a theatrical release. Now I just have to find out how many theaters it is coming to.