Quote Originally Posted by Andromeda
On the note of Rukia, she almost immediately goes into her shinigami form in the Arrancar Arc when she arrives, but in the Bount Arc all she has been doing is kido attacks. They were fighting a water doll, her Ice Zanpukto would have stopped them so fast they would have not had anything that they could do against them. But she does nothing and just sits on their hands letting them all almost get killed a couple of times. Rukia really could have saved them in that fight, but refused and played the idiot.
Was that the discussion bait? ^^; I'm going to comment on it even if its not...

One reason Rukia didn't use her zanpakuto in that arc is that it was filler and her zanpakuto hadn't been shown in canon anywhere before hand. If Bleach started introducing canon in the middle of filler it'd end up like the Naruto anime...and we don't want that to happen. Her zanpakuto might not have even been developed at the time that first aired...but I could be wrong since I was never following the manga.

Plus, at that point, isn't she still recovering from her ordeals during the previous arc? I don't know, its been a while since I watched that segment, so I have trouble remembering.

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But wow, what happened to this club? No one's posting! I understand that both the American and Japanese have their heads smack in the middle of filler arc, but really. >_> You could at least complain about the filler. xD