「Everything but the Rain "June Truth" / The Blade Is Me」
You have two Zanpakuto inside of you, and both of them are gigai.
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Bleach may be ending it’s return for now, but this double episode made for a great stopping point. Not only did we get a good idea of what happened to Ichigo’s parents, but we finally got Ichigo’s [...]
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Ichigo is heading off, but Isshin asks a fair question: how will he get back? That’s answered by Mera, who appears and spirits him back to Hououden. There, Nimaiya allows Ichigo to re-take the Asauchi [...]
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After finishing the first of this week’s two-episode finale, I maintain that an entire arc devoted to how Ichigo’s parents met and fell in love would have been just fine with me. And indeed, the [...]
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「Everything But the Rain」
Not as good as Everything But the Bagel, but almost as good as Everything But the Elote.
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I gave up on Bleach twelve or thirteen seasons or so into its run because it kept stalling on anime-only filler arcs, most of which were hot garbage and almost never masked the fact that they were [...]
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On the positive side, Ichigo finally gets the chance to talk things out with his father. I half expected that Ichigo had been dropped into some alternate dimension, but he really was just sent back [...]
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What a conclusion to that fight. I was curious how they would get to what seemed like an expected end. There just didn’t seem any way for Unohana to get through this alive. But in a sense, that’s [...]
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In the depths of Muken, Unohana takes Zaraki to the brink of death over and over and over again. She recalls their first encounter centuries ago, when she found herself beside a mountain of bodies [...]
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We are absolutely in a training arc right now. And it really says everything about how dire the situation is that Kenpachi is the one getting the most focus when it comes to training in this episode. [...]
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Ichigo is healing up nicely in Kirinden, to the point that when Kirinji strikes him and he doesn’t die, he’s deemed healed enough to head to the next palace. Renji, not one to be left behind, also [...]
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This might be the first time the Bleach anime has had a chance to breathe since this sequel has started! It really has just been non-stop action and conflict the whole time. Things started up with [...]
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In the aftermath of the Quincy invasion and subsequent withdrawal, triage operations underway. Lieutenant Kotetsu tearfully asks Captain Unohana if it was really the right call to remain in the Squad [...]
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「"The Shooting Star Project (Zero Mix)"」
Towa Tei vs. Captain Jack Extended Christmas Eurodance Club Zero Mix - UK Radio Edit Version.
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Wow...that was an episode. Seriously, Bleach deserves all the credit in the world for how amazing this return has been. The last two episodes especially have just been a fantastic ride. It’s not very [...]
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The last battle between the Gotei 13 and the Quincy looked a lot like the current one, only in reverse. Yamamoto’s thirteen captains back then were vicious, savage killers who made quick work of the [...]
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