Bleach – 282
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Summary:
Love and Rose continue their fight against Starrk, who has become rather apathetic after Barragan’s death. With his zanpakuto Tengumaru and their masks, Love is able to beat down Starrk. However after talking with Lilynette, Starrk fuses with her and releases a hoard of wolves using both of their souls. Although Love and Rose destroy some of them, they reform and injure them by exploding at close range. When Starrk moves in the deal the finishing blow, he is suddenly frozen by something else. Nearby, Lisa, Hiyori and Toshiro fight against Harribel and also bicker continue to bicker among themselves.
Preview
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Impressions:
Starrk’s wolves were definitely what I was looking forward to most about this episode. While they did look pretty cool lined up in the pack, it was disappointing seeing the limits of what they could do. The fact that each wolf is a warhead is alright, but I find it hard to believe that after Love and Rose got hit with dozens of them at close range at every angle, they would just be out of breath with a few scratches. For a Primera Espada, that is quite unimpressive especially compared to Barragan’s overpowered abilities.
Love and Rose themselves were fairly boring as well. Love’s giant club only reminded me that bigger isn’t better in Bleach, and Rose’s powers aren’t very intuitive. They managed to land in a few hits on Starrk while he was being lethargic, then almost immediately lost after Starrk used his wolves; at least someone showed up to save them. The random comedic bickering inserted at various points were unamusing and obtrusive to the flow. The switch between somber music and light-hearted music killed the mood quickly and failed to add anything interesting. The good guys don’t take the fight seriously, and perhaps this is for good reason, since they know they won’t die.
Animation and art was again, very crappy. Too much time is spent on panning over still shots with only one character’s mouth moving. Fights mostly show two opponents flying at each other, then locking weapons and having a stare contest. The huge pillar of fire often used for explosions never actually does that much damage and I couldn’t care less about what happens to most of the characters. For the large part, the current battles are failing to capture my attention. Next week luckily the fight will be more unique (from what I’ve read in the manga), so hopefully it will be more fun to watch. And of course, dual-wielding always looks cool.
August 7, 2010 at 12:18 pmSilivious
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Now just for an even longer wait. XP
August 7, 2010 at 12:19 pmCecelia
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Needs more Kenpachi instead of this lame fight.
August 7, 2010 at 12:22 pmGuest
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“suddenly frozen by a powerful spiritual pressure.”
I think it’s more appropriate to say that he was suddenly frozen by a surprise stab through the gut.
August 7, 2010 at 12:48 pmLucian
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I agree, the fights need to be more “fighting” oriented, since that’s the only thing going for Bleach. I realize that the anime is tailing the manga, but having the characters stand around dumb founded just seems like a waste of time, and money (pretty nostalgic from the years of DBZ). I’m kind of hoping that some time, a couple years after the Bleach anime has finished, that some studio in Japan will do what Toei is doing, which is remaking the Bleach anime into something that’s more enjoyable to watch.
August 7, 2010 at 1:21 pmDa5id
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I think you mean Studio Pierrot. Or maybe I read your sentence wrong.
Either way, not even taking out the filler will make Bleach more enjoyable for me. The source material is just that mediocre.
August 7, 2010 at 1:14 pmEamon
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http://randomc.net/image/Bleach/Bleach%20-%20282%20-%20Large%2016.jpg
photoshop gradients, much?
August 7, 2010 at 1:43 pmGrant
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It’s not just a problem for Bleach, in virtually every shonen series they show damage through scratches and dust. This means that ultimately we have no idea if something is supposed to be serious or not and that they have to say that someone was hurt, thereby breaking one of the most important rules of all. SHOW, don’t TELL.
August 7, 2010 at 2:14 pmstarss
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I am surprised you point out the unnecessary comedic bickering nearly every episode. I would think that after 100 weeks, you would let it slide.
Was the uninteresting qualities of the episode the reason why you posted the review 4 days after it aired? In hindsight, the Bleach reviews have been posted later these days.
August 7, 2010 at 3:07 pmProoof
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I’ve mentioned twice in my previous posts that I have been very busy recently but will try to post earlier when possible.
August 7, 2010 at 7:58 pmcaramel_cod
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I wouldn’t even have remembered to watch it this week if Prooof didn’t post the review. It shows you just how interesting and compelling the show is.
August 7, 2010 at 6:40 pmLesire
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With all due respect, I actually kindda agree with Prooof about the bickering, it could be animated differently and less annoying.. We’ll see how they handle it in the future!
August 7, 2010 at 2:15 pmXero01
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I want to say this was the fight that killed Bleach for me in my eyes, but that list is too long to keep track of anymore.
August 7, 2010 at 2:37 pmTorint
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Hopefully, they won’t mess up the next episode. The next fight might be the very last interesting battle in Bleach.
August 7, 2010 at 6:14 pmKarmafan
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I thought it was strange when you said great spiritual pressure. I thought I saw a sword going thru Starks insides.
August 7, 2010 at 6:27 pmProoof
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It looked like reiatsu to me with the color change and vibrating screen but I’ll remove that detail for now.
August 7, 2010 at 7:26 pmrandom viewer
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IMO I like Bleach for its huge cast of characters and the battles, but it’s just that the story takes too long to progress when the fights are short and the talking is for comedy in every episode.
August 7, 2010 at 8:48 pmSake
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FOR THA LAV OF GAWD TURN TO AFTERNOON ALREADY
August 7, 2010 at 9:14 pmark noir
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I’m sure most shinigami/vizards level captains are bankai allergic in this HM arc, so what do they expect apart from an ass kicking?
August 7, 2010 at 9:48 pmgawrshness
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Yeah bleach lost its touch a loooooong time ago…
August 7, 2010 at 11:43 pmGuardian
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Next episode …
Show Spoiler ▼
August 8, 2010 at 4:49 amgoukison
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yeah… all the bankais, resurections, vizard mask
and now floating wolves (sorry starks #1)are not up to the hype
i could easely predict whats gonna happen (am not a manga reader!):
all the espadas are gonna die, but they will make most of the bleach cast unable 2 continue the fight against Aizen. this is the reason why they’ve decided to pair up so many charcters against each espada (including the so powerful vizard)
yamamoto is the only character who’s weapon realese resulted in instent death!
but now he’s just floating around
August 8, 2010 at 6:34 pmarky
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Aizen Ranked the espada by Spiritual Pressure(reiatsu) not by powers or best to worst, kinda make sense why Barragan being so hax was second, or ulquiorra being to powerful just make it to 4, this was mentioned by tk at the second character databook.
August 8, 2010 at 7:36 pmShad_Phoenix
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I’m not asking for the brilliance of Hisagi vs Findor (that is undoubtedly the best animated fight of this entire arc), but can the studio at least try to make the fighting better?