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Summary:
After the remaining captains have Ichigo explain what he learned, they bring in Renji, but Renji doesn’t know much because his Zanpakutou spirits don’t remember anything. Ichigo then goes to visit Rukia who’s still recovering, and he knows that she’s worried about Byakuya, so he tells her to leave it up to him. Around this time, Ikkaku finds Ichigo and wants to talk with him. Elsewhere in Soul Society, Oomaeda finds some guards knocked out, but before he can investigate, his men get beat up by two Zanpakutou spirits. One of them is his own Zanpakutou, Gegetsuburi. The two start arguing and are about to fight when Ichigo and Ikkaku arrive, and they accidentally knock Oomaeda out in the process. It turns out that the other Zanpakutou spirit is Ikkaku’s Hoozukimaru, and the two immediately start fighting.
While those two battle, Gegetsuburi turns his sights on Ichigo since Muramasa had told the Zanpakutou spirits earlier that he’d like to capture Ichigo alive. Ichigo, however, is easily able to handle Gegetsuburi and knocks him out. Ikkaku meanwhile has a hard time against his Zanpakutou after Hoozukimaru initiates bankai, and he doesn’t want Ichigo’s help. He’s unable to continue their battle though after Soifon, Ukitake, and Kyouraku suddenly show up with a group of men. As a result, Hoozukimaru creates an explosion around him and escapes during the confusion. The Shinigami are still able to capture Gegetsuburi though, and Ukitake sends him to Kurotsuchi. Ichigo doesn’t stick around and instead tries to pursue Hoozukimaru, but he gets stopped when a wave of Senbonzakura’s blades come flying at him. Ichigo is able to defend himself by using his own bankai, and afterward, he sees Byakuya standing on a nearby rooftop.
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They spent a bunch of time this episode on jokes and comedy, so things didn’t really get exciting until the final third of the episode. That latter part had some nice choreography in the Ikkaku vs. Hoozukimaru battle, and I laughed when Ichigo was able to take care of Gegetsuburi with one attack (I transferred my dislike of Oomaeda onto him). At least Ichigo was fighting at his appropriate level of power there, since often it feels like he’s fighting at the level of the opponent. Along those same lines, it was also nice to see him be able to fight through Senbonzakura’s blades with his bankai speed – I wish we saw that kind of speed more often. Speaking of which, it looks like they’re trying to portray Byakuya as maybe a traitor or at least as someone working with the Zanpakutou spirits, but I’m sure there’ll be a good reason for it since he’s too liked a character to be an antagonist for long. I’m more curious about why they show Menos Forest Gillians in the preview for next week – maybe Muramasa has some connections to Hueco Mundo after all, perhaps even to the previous anime original mini-arc.
oh my its out nao o.O
Oh man…it’s already out?? I’m always 2 or 3 days late…
*does Second (I think) Comment Dance*
Fourt!! hahaha nice
Byakuya, the antagonist? The bishie that must not be left out of all threads on bishies in shounen anime discussions? Naaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh.
They need to think of new names for these episodes. Soi Fon came at the very end of the episode. Bet next week will have very little about Haineko and Tobiume.
“Crap hit the wrong one.
–>Yup. But its just Oomaeda, no one care”
Amen to that
byakuya suprised me a little bit…. but why would he want to do that unless he made an agreement with them somehow i feel like it has something to do with rukia as for the wielder of muramasa i hope its not that guy form that previous arc it would make sense.
Isn’t Hoozukimaru supposed to be incredibly lazy? Or did they drop this for the filler arc so that he could fight even without Ikkaku forcing him to?
Freaky, he looks like Saix from Kingdom Hearts II!
https://randomc.net/image/Bleach/Bleach%20-%20237%20-%20Large%20Preview%2001.jpg
i guess another battle between Ichigo and Byakuya coming, well it wont be the same as the last one still would be interesting, been dying to see him do petal attacks.
Awwwww man i forgot to put on DL before coming to office…..
now whole day i’ll be wondering about it
Thanx to the directors, they new Oomaeda is an unpopular character which is why they buried him and making Ichigo fight gegetsuburi instead. I like also like how gegetsuburi was defeated this quckley and early in the arc. This is better to get his fight out of the way at prepare for some other serious zans to fight now.
this is getting interesting, but then did byakuya then lost to his zanpakuto within the time after he was lost? or not would he even bother to go against Soul Society? well well, got me thinking, hope it gets better…
unohana anyways, is just… no I wouldn’t bother to offend her in any other way, even if is the past, now, or the future…
Wow, this is getting more interesting..
Unohana must be very strong, cause more than a couple of times other taichou seems scared by her…
Wait are we going to be seeing Ashido again? Funny how they’re showing the Ashido episodes right now in the dub.
Ichigo is going to have trouble with the Zanpaktous trying to capture him
…Zanpaktou are supposed to be a reflection of the their shinigami’s inner selves right?… Lol… so it makees sense that Masumoto’s and Hinamori’s swords are fighting over Toshirou’s sword….
i kinda like the ikkaku-houzukimaru part. brings back memories…
well, as far as the story goes, the plot thickens…
The way Toubime and Haineko were fighting and arguing, you would think that they were sisters with opposite views.
It always seems that the main villain of every story arc takes a sudden interest in Ichigo or one of his friends, except for Shūsuke Amagai of the Kasumioji family arc.
I hope we see Ashido again! it would be interesting if they brought him back and gave him a zanpakto, like a shikai or bankai. also chad001: lol i didnt even realize that till you said it al though i did think there argument was hilarious. I loved that omadea got his ass kicked and i loved when ikkaku said what all the fans were thinking: its just oomadea who cares? Byakuya a traitor?… the plot thickens
maybe muramasa is ashido.s blade
:S
I wonder who it was that knocked out those two guards. He looked a lot like a Shinigami but I didn’t see his face.
@Matt Gross
it was Byakuya.
Anyway, a disappointing episode for me but not entirely bad.
that was great, loving this arc man!
have they named the green haired dude yet? i can’t remember if he’s someone’s zanpakutou or just a random one like Muramasa
Haineko is one BAD pussy cat. 😉
oh, duh, green guy is hyourinmaru.
Better question is who’s zanpakuto is the guy with the stone tablet on his back and carrying a ball n chain. Looks pretty creepy to me.
And on another note, those supposed byakuya pics have him not wearing his captain’s hiyori eventhough he was clearly wearing it the last time we saw him(when he got attacked). A small possibility is that it is his father/grandfather that we saw in the pendulum arc(they do dress the same)
Just a thought, could be completely wrong on this.
The guy carrying the ball is wabisuke,kira`s zanpakuto
How come Zabimaru is still in (/can still transform to) human form? Seems weird to me.
For that matter, it seems like the form of every Zanpakuto has changed radically enough that none of the shinigami recognize their swords. That’s weird all on its own, but there seems to be some sort of characteristic alteration here where every zanpakuto’s extant form that Muramasa has given them is *human* for some reason if their original true forms weren’t. Apparently, those which were humanoid to begin with like Zangetsu remain the same. But Oomaeda couldn’t recognize Gegetsuburi, Ikkaku couldn’t recognize Hoozukimaru, and Renji couldn’t recognize Zabimaru. What exactly is the point of changing them like this or is it simply the fact that Kubo never had any intention of making the true forms of every Zanpakuto known, so the animators played it safe and decided to make every one of them different as if to signify the ‘unnofficial’-ness of all their forms as outlined in this arc.
Bleach: Fade to Black, I Call Your Name is coming to DVD sept 30th YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY