Bleach Club

[Xeim]

Gosh Evangel you're killing me! D: I've seen the latest episode and I honestly don't know what this "detail" is, haha. Wanna PM me or something about it? I agree that the new arc is good for filler, though.

And yeah Sato, you're welcome to join the club. I'll stick you in the member's list right away.

So I still have homework, but I've collected some ideas for the Rp that I'll post in the OOC. Please comment on them. I don't know when I'll be free to make RP posts, but I'll certainly pop in to plan and guide things. I'll try to drop in and give status updates as much as I can. I can't just come back all at once, I have to work back into it. It's been a long time and I'm not the type to dive into the pool as soon as I get there. I have to ease myself in. So please bear with me for a while, guys.

[Evangel]

Lol, O.K. Xeim, I'll send my idea concerning the "Detail" to you later today with the info on my second RP character.

But yea, I think this filler arc is going to be very good and will get a good reception as being canon.

[~FANTASY-ENDER~]

"You've got a whole lot to look forward to Fantasy X, don't join the Bleach club or talk to ANYONE until you've made it to around episode 50ish."

-Sin

Well I guess I am able to join this club finally (if that is ok with you all), well I've seen up to episode 63 of the Bleach series. My question what do you guys actually do on this thread besides talking about the last bleach episode? Please give me some info thanks.

[Andromeda]

Well not a lot lately. ^^; I used to post about the episodes that aired on Adult Swim, but I sort of whatever'd it or something. Don't really know why I stopped. We used to talk about some of the less explained areas of the series since they are more open to interpretation and discussion. Beyond that we have the RP as well.

I guess the run down is that Japan in on 232 for Bleach in a filler arc that is better than the Bount Arc >.> and the US is on 142 for Bleach in the end of the Arrancar Arc and getting to the Heuco Mondo Arc. Anything more than that would end up be spoilers. A little weird that I'm not the furtherest behind on Bleach anymore.

[Sinister]

Kisuke versus Aizen. You know it will happen.

Spoiler: particularly those of you who are reading the manga

How do you think it will turn out?

-Sin

[Sinister]

I'm still of the opinion that Gin will kill Aizen, in the end. I really doubt Aizen is the main villain. He wants to be the king of heaven, but who has the holy zanpakuto? Whose zanpakuto is nothing more than an illusion? Gin frequently taunts Aizen. Rukia hated Gin and said he made her feel sick. She thought nothing of Aizen.

Considering that, Urahara might possibly defeat Aizen. That would be the best way to end Aizen, imo.

Spoiler: We also have to consider that the people are fighting Aizen in waves of increasing strength. The fact that they left Urahara to the last after Yama-jin, Ichigo's father and Shenji, speaks volumes.

[Andromeda]

That would certainly be amusing to see, but that would have to say quite a bit about Gin's hidden talents or something be even more dangerous than Aizen. It would be an interesting twist, though I'd suspect that a lot of fans would probably find Aizen's end coming at the hand of Gin to be a little disappointing after everything that has happened.

I think just about anyone would get the feeling from Gin. He has a presence that does not really set will with others. It would be pretty easily for Rukia not to sense anything wrong from Aizen considering his abilities. The reason he is so dangerous is because it is impossible to break through his illusions once you're under them.

That said, Aizen is a pretty big cheat with some difficult to believe things.

[Sinister]

I didn't want to do this but I'm going to have to post almost exclusively in spoiler tags. If you still don't believe me...then look.

Spoiler: The Chapter's name is deicide Aizen considers himself a god... And Gin's zanpakuto...Kamishini no Yari...what does that mean again? oh yea...God-killing lance.

[Andromeda]

Welcome to the club, S! Xeim's not here and hasn't been for long enough that by the position I hold as mod of the Clubs I remove her from her position as club leader on the grounds of very long period of inactivity with no communications to the reason or cause.

For now I'll just make everyone with the ability to accept new members. Like Shadow very bluntly, it's only Sinister, Shadow and myself plus S now. So welcome and enjoy your stay. ^^

We are needing a new topic of discussion. This will be probably a bit of spoilers talk, but Tite's been putting the "ax" or sword in most cases to a lot of named cast members recently (though there really is only named cast members at this point, there's no extras). Anyone that's read enough Shounen Jump knows that authors are pretty hesitant about actually doing the deed and killing a character off. So with the long list of severely wounded shinigami, who do you think is going to survive and who is going to actually die for good?

[SOLDIER #819]

No one dies in Bleach, for good or for worse. No doubt in no small part due to marketing. Judging by how much airtime a captain like Hitsugaya gets just for being popular, they probably won't want to eliminate any precious commodities. They just phase them out without reason for long periods of time, like with Nel or even parts of the main cast.

By the way, didn't Byakuya make a metaphor about a monkey trying to reach the moon? And then afterwards, Ichigo... yeah. Though that's a bit easier to connect than something as generic as god-killing.

[Andromeda]

This is true enough S. There is a good chance that all of the named characters won't end up dead. It is the way that Shounen Jump goes, but there's a lot of people laid out from attacks. You'd hope that at least some of them would kick the bucket finally. It's like what's the point of making a wound look really dramatic and fatal when they are just going to be fine.

How about this, if you don't think anyone will end up dead, who do you want to see die from this encounter? You can provide your reasons and what not.

I think Yamamoto looks like he's got a good chance of not making. It's unclear, but seems like after what he did that himself surviving may not be possible. But then again, Chad made use of life energy during his fight with the Captain in the Soul Society arch and didn't end up dead eventually. I guess he used just enough not to die, but to be almost dead.

There's a big difference between all dead and mostly dead. >.>

[SOLDIER #819]

You'd think Chad would have wound up dead from that encounter with Uquichikitabanana (#5?) in Hueco Mundo, but he's still alive, haha. Same with Rangiku and Momo. Luckily there are two people with the ability to more or less resurrect the dead.

Don't really want to see anyone die though, honestly. It wouldn't really do anything for me. None of them have enough importance by themselves (other than parts of the main cast) to really move me... those that do I wouldn't wanted them to die. Kubo just needs to prioritize who gets screen time or nothing will ever get done. There have been some good developments, but given the length of this arc they are really few and far between. The Soul Society arc really set the bar, but he never quite picked up from where he left off thereafter...

Maybe Aizen will become God and draw all of this out even longer. Wouldn't that be great! I don't mind the series continuing... I just wish he went somewhere with the characters.

[Andromeda]

Well it was made clear near the end of the Soul Society Arc that Aizen's Zanpakuto was not perfect. It was near perfect, because Unohana took a long time for her to realize that it was a fake. But she eventually figured it out and learned the truth. The ability is still really cheap. He can do what ever wants with it. And if he had been the proper I'm going to remove all of the obstacles then he could have totally abused his power and wiped them all out without even blinking an eye. And if his Bankai is just an extension of that, he probably could have pulled it out and took everyone down without any problems at all. But he wasn't as smart and scheming as he is meant to be. If happened it'd all be over and there'd be no show though. So I guess it can't be helped.

Luring the captains over to Heuco Mundo is definitely the smartest thing he did recently. The funny thing is that it is hard to know how much Tite actually planned that far out or just made up when he was like the captains need to be there and Aizen needs to have planned that as well. It's hard to know with no hints to it before hand. Considering the way his character is built it is supposed to be expected that he'd plan that out. So it becomes reasonable, but still makes you wander, especially with everything he's spouting lately. The man loves to talk though, probably one of his more glaring flaws. But I guess when you know that you're stronger than anyone else you can afford to waste time on idle chatter as you regale people with your master plan.

I'd like to know how he created hollowifications though of Shinji and the others in the past. Because it seemed like he was in charge of that as well. I guess if he's been experimenting with hollows it would make sense.

Makes you wonder how he created everything the castle in less than 3 months. Unless he had been paying secret trips to the place long before he left.

[SOLDIER #819]

Yeahhh, I'm hoping that they explain his zanpakutou in more detail. If it was as good as it seemed then he probably wouldn't need something like the hougyoku. I just hope they flesh out its limitations... because as it stands all it's really good for is letting people get hit in the back. I'm not even sure what they mean by ceremony. You'd think that Ichigo would be hypnotized by now. It didn't seem as if it took too long to hypnotize those hollows.

I think Kubo can plan pretty far ahead. His delivery and what he delivers isn't as great as it was when we were first getting to know everyone. Now that everything's out in the open he doesn't have that many tricks left, I guess. Aizen does talk a lot though... well, it's more like he just taunts people a lot. It's supposed to be sadistic of him maybe, pissing everyone off before he takes them out. Although he hasn't really managed to kill all that many people yet... haha.

I think those hollowifications were just failed experiments. If left alone they would have all lost their minds, so it seems like it had failed. It was Urahara and his Hougyoku that allowed him them to keep their psyches intact despite it all. It seems that turning someone into a hollow isn't all too hard (as Urahara proved with Ichigo), but it's much harder to mix them together.

The castle thing... I get the feeling that he had already taken over the majority of Hueco Mundo a long while before. Again, it's an issue of lifespan. I don't remember what Ichimaru and the blind dude looked like when they met with the #2 espada, but even if they were older it still could have been a century... lol. A good amount of time should have elapsed though, as there seemed to be quite a few changes in Hueco Mundo. Like with Nel, or the original Espada who were renumbered.

[Andromeda]

Well when Aizen and Ichigo first met in the Soul Society he was regaling them with a long story of his plan and what not. And even after that all he did was block everything with a finger or hand. I don't believe ever drew his sword and even if he did there would never be the case that he'd need to use the trick on Ichigo to actually beat him. There was plenty of time that he could have done it.

And we don't know how long ago Isshin is from. We just know that he is a former captain and is acutely aware of the situation despite not being active for a while. I don't know where he get his information from, but I'm figuring since Urahara helped him with his body I think or they're at least chummy that Isshin gets his info from Urahara. It is a good question though if Isshin is under the effects of the zanpakuto or not.

I'm curious to know what the abilities of Isshin's Zanpakuto are supposed to be since we've only seen him use his sealed form so far. It'll be interesting to see what he can be like when he actually gets serious. It's funny how so many of the captains sand bag their opponents even though they could totally win with a bankai move. Makes me wonder if Tite just doesn't know what to do with their bankai.

As for the Arrancar and Espada. It is really difficult to know. If most of them were made before they even had the betrayed the Soul Society then Aizen would not have been able to make them with the Hyougoku. Though if the reverse it could be possible, but I don't think he would have had the time.

It seems more likely that it all existed before Aizen left the Soul Society and he had been creating it all slowly for years. It would make sense due to the fact that the arrancar would had to get used to their new powers to be able to control them to the extent that they do. It just seems so strange that with all that power running inside their that nothing ever happened before then. It was all perfectly secret and no one said anything.

The only thing that lends credence to everything is that it is made fairly clear that someone is making arrancar in the chapter of the manga after Ichigo defeats Grand Fisher. They show Grand Fisher getting made into an arrancar. That is the only clue to the things going on, which is actually never shown in the anime.

[Andromeda]

Oh good news for those wanting to see legal and official subs of Bleach. They are going to be available on crunchyroll as they apparently sign a deal with them. They get the immediate release of them to the paying members and then a week after the non-paying members get to see it. So that should help to make it easy to catch up between Hulu and Crunchyroll.

Well the Hougyoku is not a requirement for becoming arrancar or vizards. Isshin said that there was such things as natural arrancar. So it would certainly mean that it is possible to just become one on your own. For a hollow is very challenging to become one because you have to reach a certain level I'm pretty sure before it can even be possible and that level require you to constantly feed on others similar to you. For a shinigami it is probably less trouble do to power wise, but with the structure and laws that they have in place it probably is difficult to achieve. And if you do achieve it you'll be killed or kicked out of the Seireitei probably since you'll be looked at as something not a shinigami.

Yeah, the whole afterlife is a little on the strange side. Since aging is pretty much pointless. They do however seem to have normal bodies that are just constructed out of reishi and not carbon. So they are stronger and more durable. However, they have frequently said that in a vague manner re-incarnation does exist since souls migrate from the human world to the soul society and back to the human world. The thing that doesn't make a lot of sense is how people are born in the soul society, because that has been said to happen as well. So it is a little weird. Because I believe that Byakuya was actually born in the Soul Society.

[Andromeda]

This is an open invitation to all that wish to participate in the open beta testing of a new Club/Social Group Project.

A brief explanation of the project: the social group format that currently exists as a separate group where members can create threads and post freely will be recreated within the Club Forums through the use of Sub Forums individualized for each Club or Social Group.

That is the short of it, here is the longer version please read everything before making your decision so you understand what it going to happen.

What we’re going to be doing is running a base model of the final fully feature product that we have envisioned. It will have all of the basic functionality we want, but it will lack all of the bells and whistles that we want to add to make things more robust. The beta test will be a way for us to get things started to see how people like it and where we can make improvements. Even without the bells and whistles it can still functional fully as intended, as a Club or Social Group. Everyone that participates will be able to provide feedback and suggestions on additional features to add to make it something that everyone can enjoy.

The base model is pretty simple for now, but as we have the time available to make the mods needed to it things will grow and you’ll be able to test out the new stuff we add. What the base model will be is a sub forum located in the Clubs Forum of the main forum. There the sub forum will be given whatever name the group that participates wants along with a brief description. With the sub forum you’ll be able to continue discussions and talk as you have previously in the social groups. This will mean that the clubs rules from before will be relaxed significantly more than they ever have to accommodate the posting environment of the social groups.

The club forums will become a “Main Club Forum” which will be the hub for all of the groups. The main club forum will be used as a “front desk” for the groups or as I like to call it a job fair. Each group will have a thread where forum members wishing to join will sign up and you’ll be able to look at your applicants. All requests for giving forum members access will go through me first and I’ll handle the work.

So that is how things will work for the beta after the setup. The creation of a sub-forum for your group will be very similar to how clubs are made. You will make a post in the registration thread of the club forum requesting a sub-forum for your group. Do note that if your social group or club already exists it will be automatically approved all you’ll be doing is giving me the necessary information to fill out to personalize your sub-forum to your group. If anyone wants to make a new group in the sub-forum that doesn’t already exist then it will go through an approval process that you see happen in the thread currently. You’ll want to read the main post to see the form that you’ll need to fill out since it’ll be different from the norm as well as necessary so you can have your sub-forum read the way you want it.

Now to answer why you would want to do this if it is going to be mirroring the social groups. With this move to the club forums as a sub forum you’re threads and post will appear in the main forum providing greater visibility to your group as a whole (such as the “new posts” and “posts in the last 24 hours”). This can help to promote and increase your own group’s interest and activity in the forum. Your social group will no longer be hidden in a specialized area that does not even provide updates or notices to its members. All of the features you use in the forums will be available for you to use such thanks, new posts in your User CP and forum subscriptions.

I want to take a little time to explain what we want to eventually make the final product of this to look like. The plan will be to allow the sub-forums to be customized with icons and images that represent the groups. They will also be available to be listed in your own profile like inventory items are so you can show off and advertise for your own groups. You’ll be able to select which ones you want to display just like items. Some of these features will require us to create our own mods to have it happen as they don’t exist. So it should be understandable why they won’t be available at the start.

As said before, any additional features can come from the suggestions and ideas you give us. We won’t be able to promise to do everything, but it will never hurt to give every idea you have. We’ll let you know if it is possible and if we will try it out. Anything new we do will be run through the beta testing groups until we hit an end point that we feel it is finished.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact me through PM or responding to this in here. I’ll answer everything that I am able to do.

This does open immediately and there will be no limit on how many groups we accept into beta testing. There will also be no time limit on joining the testing. It will always be open unless we deem it unsustainable or the project fails. Please check the Club Forums for further updates and work for the beta testing.

Thank you for your time and sorry for the intrusion.

[Andromeda]

Alright, so since we don't have an official leader right now let have the four of us decide what we want to do. We can stay a club thread or we can become a club forum. About the only difference will be that we can have more divide and individual discussions rather than a single one all in one thread. So what is everyone's thoughts on it?

I'm fine either way I just wanted to have a discussion about it.

Soi Fon shows off her Bankai this week and next week for those waiting on Crunchyroll. It should be some pretty exciting stuff to see since it'll be the first Bankai that we've seen in so long. It feels a little too long to way for something like, but considering up until this point the only people that have been fighting have already shown off their bankai.

[Xeim]

Yeah, basically what Andromeda said. There hasn't been a lot of activity lately, sadly. You CAN talk about anything BLEACH related from fanfics and fanart to metaphorical interpretations of stuff you seen in the show/manga, people just don't. ^^;

There's also a list of activities in the first post that we've worked on at one time or another. If you ever feel like posting for one, feel free.

Of course, if you're an RPer there's the RP. Speaking of the RP, I'm getting that info for the next arc together and it shouldn't be long before it's in a postable form.

But anyway, welcome to the club. I'll put you in the member's list now. ^^

[Evangel]

The current filler is way better than any other. We get to learn more about Soul Reapers and Zanapkutou. It may be a filler but I think it should be considered canon.

[Andromeda]

I think it might be a little too far to consider it something possible to being canon. The entire arc is just a big fan fic or fan service, meaning that it gives what a lot of fans have been wanting for a while. To see what everyone else's Zanpakuto manifestations are beside Ichigo, Renji and Hitsugaya. Though I think all of them being human is inaccurate. I think a lot more of them would be animal in nature. So I have my doubts if you could even think of the ones appearing as being true representations of their Zanpakuto. Some definitely, but the rest I don't think so.

Its a better and more interesting idea than the Bount Arc, but it is still filler and I'm not really going to think of it being canon or possibly being canon. I'll stick to the manga.

[Ryu-Kentoshii Hirokima]

May I join this Bleach Club, please?

[Xeim]

Your grammar is either commendable, or you just got lucky. If you dunno whut I'm sayin', then you got lucky. xD

But yeah, you may to join. I hope that your above post is the ONLY one line post you ever make in this club, however. =P

Since you haven't already, why don't you tell us what you know about Bleach. Are you a fan of the adult swim version? The Japanese version? Do you read the manga? That sort of thing.

[Evangel]

"Bleach: Memories of Nobody" is going to be on TV this Saturday on Adult Swim at midnight, eastern time.

[Andromeda]

Again? Well this is annoying. I wanted more Bleach episodes, but looks like I'm going to be losing that along with Moribito. Why can't they air during a block of time that isn't priemeres?

AS Bleach has passed up the US released manga now. The manga got a jump with all of the fillers, but they don't release manga nearly as fast as the episodes. So it was bound to happen. Nel just appeared this week. And we are in the new opener After Dark as well. Which means in like 20 odd episodes will be getting back to some filler. Though it does make me wonder how long AS will keep running two episodes of Bleach. I suspect their movie is a method of extending their run before they hit critical limit.

[Angantyr]

Am I still part of this club? If so I apologize for my absense, I kind of took a break to watch some other anime and have only recently come back and I have a lot of catching up to do. I'm at episode 185 with the little girl though I think it's nearly finished. I'm not too sure on whats going on and I think I may have skipped a few episodes. Forgotten most of the names sadly xD.

[Xeim]

Angantyr: Yes, you're definitely still part of the club. ^^ Don't worry about any gaps in knowledge, I can't keep their names straight half the time either. Heck, I don't even remember the episode you're talking about. ^^;; Don't hesitate to post about any little Bleach related thing, since as you can probably see, we're lacking in the activity department. =P Of course, everyone seems to disappear after I tell them this, which doesn't help, haha. x_x

I'm almost asleep at my desk here, so forgive me for not having anything interesting to bring to the table. I didn't want to forget to respond, though. ^^;;

I've downloaded this week's bleach, but I've yet to watch it. This filler arc is considerably better than the others, though. I'm enjoying it, but I do want to get back to Ulquiorra and the other fights at hand.

How long has the Hueco Mundo arc been running now? =P Some ungodly amount of time, I'm sure...

[Andromeda]

It's difficult to even call things being in arcs at this point. Heuco Mundo lasts for a while, but then it goes back to Karakura Town and then goes back to Heuco Mundo and then back to Karakura Town. Things are happening in two different places at the same time. ^^; Though I wonder what is going to happen with all of the Captains currently in Heuco Mundo. It's been a while on them.

But as Evangel said they ran Bleach movie 1 last weekend. So no new Bleach. Though I think movie 2 is getting a release soon. So that will be really fun to watch. I've got to pick up season 3 sometime on DVD even though they are asking like 15 more than the last two sets. Which is really annoying. I want to watch Uryu fight and I want to watch the Ichigo and Byakuya fight again.

[Angantyr]

Good to hear.

Spoiler: I'm up to the 188, the Episode where Agami(?) has proven to have betrayed them and is out to kill the Captain Commander and Ichigo has come to stop them.

Unlike before this time I'll probably watch it over time rather than watching in one sitting as there's other series I want to watch and I often get annoyed at having to wait for one episode per week. I'll probably do the same with Naruto as well though I kind of want to catch up on that more.

[Josh_R]

I would like to join this club so how exactly do I go about doing that..