The Bleach Manga ThreadAlright here's a new thread for Bleach Manga, please keep it on topic
(that means no talking about the old thread, unless someone knows exactly what happened. Whats happened happened, nothing to do but to move on.)
This thread is for the people that read the bleach manga to discuss it freely with...
The Bleach Manga ThreadAlright here's a new thread for Bleach Manga, please keep it on topic
(that means no talking about the old thread, unless someone knows exactly what happened. Whats happened happened, nothing to do but to move on.)
This thread is for the people that read the bleach manga to discuss it freely without worrying about spoiling plot elements to those who do not read the manga in the other bleach thread.
Except for the fact that Yusuke set himself up to win in more than one way. He didn't have to win the tournament to win in the end. He just had to keep the other demon lords from taking over. Anyone but those 2 win in the end and his goal is accomplished. He did pretty good for a 15 year old kid vs a centuries old lord of demon world with heightened senses and highly advanced magic.
I'm not sure where kubo will go with it. The whole losing powers thing was more or less a "death". Just wouldn't make much sense to do it again.
Except if he died he'd just live on as a captain in SS.
I honestly hope Kubo pulls something crazy out of his hat as he does every now and again.
But I don't want to see Ichigo get a "win" yes Quincy people will die one way of the other, but a happy ending isn't what I'm looking for here.
True, Yusuke did win without winning. It was still a change in the formula of 'just got to be stronger than everyone else'. Another really big manga that ends next week just had its main character lose his final fight as well. And that manga had been running for 21 years. *Spoiler* Grappler Baki *end spoiler*
In reply to crazy4AWDs, #13142:
I keep hoping for one more crazy twist like the Aizen deal. We'll see if Kubo means something with this arc, or if he just wants to close the show.
I'm sorry, what part of the Aizen saga was a crazy twist?
how about the part where it never seemed to end?
Kubo? Dragging things on way beyond their natural end?
Yeah, unexpected twist!
YEAH RIGHT!!!
Aizen being the villian. It was pretty cool and out of no where.
Aizen being the bad guy back in the Soul Society arc was a HUGE twist - it came out of nowhere!
Did it?
I guess it was kind of a throw off at the time. That's pretty much the only part that was a big twist. And to be honest the "only member of the group who dies under suspicious circumstances but is actually alive because he faked his death and was the evil emperor of run on sentences all along" was a twist for Bleach, but that's actually a fairly common plot line.
Kubo did a good job with it. He introduced Ichimaru Gin very early on and had him antagonizing Ichigo from the start and he really painted Aizen as fairly weak among the captains. So, with predictable shonen story lines I kept expecting Gin to be the bad guy.
Gin was my favourite through-out, and I always knew he was double agenting, despite being a sociopath
I say Tousen was kind obvious. Strong blind guys always turn evil if it means being able to see again.
There was no real suggestion prior to the reveal that he would get his sight back. I think that was just Kubo covering up a potential plot hole given Aizen's ability. He obviously saw it coming from a reasonable distance though so he managed to do it halfway convincingly. Tousen's motivations as a whole were pretty weak though so swings and roundabouts there.
Well no, nothing suggested that.
But as a rule of thumb, blind guys do something evil to get their sight back and then die tragically shortly afterwards.
To TV Tropes?
What else has that happened in? I've only seen it in bleach.
Post edited 8/19/12 4:55PM
Sorry guys, I don't keep a list of "Blind guys who turned evil for new eyes then died" list on me. I've seen a few thousand unique series, can't remember much from them.
But usually any series with a blind fighter... Heads more or less into that territory.
No worries, he'll be back.
Presumably to explain just how monster quincies were hiding the world he controlled and he never noticed. But more likely how he actually did notice them but "insert generic reason here" which is why he didn't fight them.
He'll probably somehow or another break out in all the mayhem and help in the fight against the Quin.
Aiki is an example against that. the main bad guy wants to fight strong guys, not get his sight back
Aiki is a horse of a different color.
That series is so blatantly cool and silly that it doesn't follow any preformed molds. It just dose what it does and does it well.
And if I cared to argue semantics he's not technically blind... or the main bad guy anymore... or a bad guy.
Post edited 8/21/12 1:58PM
Nah the two double bladers still have to strut there stuff.
Byakuya never struck me as BA.
Honestly he always seemed lower down on the list of captains, probably around Hitsugiya.
The captains I expect big things from are:
Yama-jii
Kenpachi
Kyoraku
Ukitake
Unohona
And I expect to see something suitably BA from Shinji of course.
Byakuya was up there for multiple reasons mainly for being the end boss of the Soul Society arc, and for shutting Tsukishima up. He certainly deserves the top half more than Unohana, who, though awesome, isn't a fighter. If she was going to fight, she'd have done so by now.
That's not entirely true. Being a good healer doesn't necessarily preclude someone from being a good fighter, but it does work to keep them from getting into fights. She is the only captain we know of who is even the least bit capable as a healer, so it makes total sense that she would avoid fighting unless it's absolutely necessary; without her anyone who gets seriously injured is more or less fucked unless Orihime happens to be nearby, and in all cases where she had the option of fighting, Orihime was elsewhere.
She let the Exequias go when her subordinate was right behind her. Her subordinate could have healed Chad while Unohana was fighting the Exequias. Also, her Bankai is not one even remotely designed to fight. Its main ability thus far is eating people, whereupon its stomach acid heals those it ate. She's at even more of a disadvantage than Kenpachi, because, though he doesn't have a Bankai, makes up for it with an obscene amount of natural strength, one that is unmatched by any of the regular Captains.