Black, white... combination of those are the combination of our dreams. Dreams that one day we shall win this ever lasting darkness and keep the balance of the world as it is.

This is the world dedicated to Bleach and everything that follows around it.

Bleach 597

Yush, three more chapters until 600! >:D

...Speaking of which, do you know what you get when you try to put three different scenes in 17-page chapter which has on average three drawing shots per page? You get Bleach chapter 597.

Not a bad chapter if you read it together with the other ones, but on itself it is pretty confusing and slightly disappointing.

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While it is a grand shot, these cannon fodders and that impressive looking captain took away two pages.

Will this series end?

I had to pick something for the title.. I just had to, especially seeing how much time has passed since my last post and since the last time I glanced with a more detailed look at a new Bleach chapter.

Yes, chapter. Manga still goes on, with anime nowhere to be seen. But, yeah, have you watched Inuyasha? That anime also got delayed because of a never-ending race of a turtle and rabbit between the manga and anime, in the end actually the rabbit made a decision it seems. It waited and the same is happening to the current manga.

I sometimes feel like the chapters that we get are not enough to fill Tite's wish of this series with only 17 pages per week, but the again sometimes I feel that he just takes a bucket full of white and black and tosses it on the paper...

The last chapter was not bad, in fact it was interesting, so... well, nothing more to say really. Mayuri pulled an Izanami attack on Hitsugaya I guess, but that I wouldn't know what that is, some Naruto attack I guess.. I just know Izanami from Persona 4 and Japanese folklore, so that's to that!

Full on full, captain fight! Not a long one, but hey, you take what you get.

Comment time: Bleach 530

Yuup, understand him completely.. That's how I am when I get in my toilets. First of all I make sure that everyone understands their position, put up a straight face and tell them to their own.. Yuup..

Joke on the side, I may sometimes put short posts like this about the new manga chapters of Bleach, just like I did months ago, except little more random this time.

My impressions about the new arc

Hello Bleach fans and likes! It has been a while since I posted my last post, so I am going to do an important one now, because the arc is already deeply cut into the story, so without further ado let's see what we got here~!

First things first, visual impressions.. They are, splendid! Bleach unlike some other three-digit-number of episodes animes actually keeps on increasing quality of the animations, shading, colors and just the overall drawing. It is actually quite nicer and more smooth looking that it was by now with more details and the ones that we can actually recognize. It is also good how they set the tone for the characters and how they changed after 17 months. I

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especially like all the shading, lighting and darkness effects.
The soundtrack is for one of the rare times, recycled from the previous soundtracks. But is that a bad thing? Not actually, they still haven't made a new one and based on how many songs they have (150+) they have some pretty good ones which they can always fit in and some quite memorable and nostalgic. That gets a big plus~!

And now for the main story and presentation... It is so nostalgic. Even though it is so different than when the Bleach started it still takes you back to that time and you enjoy watching it from the beginning taking it as complete new arc. It is so well done and you will actually try to understand the characters more now because they have their expanded personalities and back stories.
Also what is good is that it focuses mostly on the human characters (well at least until later in the arc) so that might add to the nostalgic factor as well.

There are also many new characters and the story about fullbringers (that thing that Sado, Orihime and Ishida have) is explained more into this one and it plays a key role.
Ichigo is of of course without its powers, but will he manage to take them back? Well the set of events will unfold for him to do that, but he will also get many other side ones to that too.

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And as always Bleach is full of comedy. Funny or not, you will still enjoy it. But still you can feel how this series has matured along with characters, getting a more darker and serious tone, but still keeping the goofy background (or am I the only one who notices these things?).

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Well anyway, as for everyone and not only the Bleach fans, I highly recommend this. It has been so long since I really cheered for Bleach and it feels waiting the whole week for an episode far more enjoyable.

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Tite Kubo, we give you our full support~!

Things become strange

Well with the latest episode however. You would actually ask yourself, "How did Nozomi became so strong all of the sudden?!" Well I dunno.. But it seems that hey zanpaktou is.

I found it however interesting that Ikkaku showed his bankai to the Kenpachi. Well fake Kenpachi (reigai version) but still he was a little shocked. Although at the end, he could beat him even with it.
But Nozomi did... More or less, he is still not beaten but he will.

And this is the part when fillers get tiring. Always constant battles and the battles against the same guys (cause Kageroza brought them back to life).
But ah well, I think that there should be only about 5 or so episodes left, so we can expect for it to end soon and see how will the new arc be going? :)

Would you believe that they only scene they show Ishida without glasses, is in a filler episode? LoL! xD