Bleach Manga/Anime Discussion Thread II

[master of read]

To be fair, Ginjo was an actual living human, rather then a spiritual psychopomp. If we assume "death" for mortals is the same as the destruction of their living bodies (since obviously their spirits remain as per the premise of the story) then it makes sense that they'd be way easier to kill then shinigami or arrancar.

...Granted, Tsukishima just kinda shot that theory down. Though, maybe he's just a freak that way.

Just saying, you can't argue Ginjo should be as hard to kill as the super-spirits.

possible. but it just feels like something else went on.

[flashdisk]

The chapter felt rushed.

There was neither history of Ginjo nor reason for his actions.

It just seems like a rushed manga. This chapter seems to support that the entire arc was just a filler.

[Ghost]

Actually, something just occured to me: A zanpakutou is a sword that can cut spirits, right? And, as we've just seen, it can obviously cut ordinary fleshy people as well.

Does this mean that when you cut a human with a zanpakutou, you cut both their body and their spirit at the same time?

[Holy Spirit]

..What the fuck did I just read?

lol

I also wish the fights were actually competitive, but I suppose this is essentially "Shinigami versus a race of Chads", so......

lol

Oh the imagery.

[Ragnorok64]

Did they somehow heal Riruka's hair?

[The Drunkard Kid]

Did they somehow heal Riruka's hair?

Maybe Orihime got the energy to fix up that much while she was recuperating. Involuntary haircuts are kind of a thing with her.

[Robotech Master]

I'm kind of confused as to whether we're supposed to take the final scene of Tsukishima's face as he's carried towards the dawn with his new realization as him dying, or if Shishi really did save him.

I guess whether or not he ever appears in the manga will answer that question.

[Ghost]

I'm kind of confused as to whether we're supposed to take the final scene of Tsukishima's face as he's carried towards the dawn with his new realization as him dying, or if Shishi really did save him.

I read it as, basically, if he wasn't dead at that point, he'd probably make it.

Also, the whole point of the scene seemed to be that Tsukishima became the person Shishigawara depended on the same way Tsukishima depended on Ginjo, so Tsukishima dying at that point would have messed up the entire moral of the story.

Anyway, if the character was alive the last time we see him, then as I general rule I'm not going to assume he died later.

[The Transient Guest]

I took it as the "oh you didn't die last night, dangerous time has passed so you'll be fine" trope in full effect.

[Siriel]

"We could not find any of the others?"?

Wow, Tsukishima must be some kind of ninja god, given that he was right there and half-dead, with everyone aware of him being right there (given that he had just attacked Ichigo) yet they couldn't stop him from just walking away with his crippling chest wound.

Anyway, I like that Tsukishima somehow just kinda refused to die, even though his wound seemed a lot worse then Ginjo's.

Hey, Tsukishima has been training with Byakuya for centuries, this is nothing!

And I'm now more or less convinced Gin is alive, because if Tsukishima could just kinda walk off something like that, there's no way Gin is dead.

Everything leads back to Gin.

[master of read]

"We could not find any of the others?"?

Wow, Tsukishima must be some kind of ninja god, given that he was right there and half-dead, with everyone aware of him being right there (given that he had just attacked Ichigo) yet they couldn't stop him from just walking away with his crippling chest wound.


Hey, Tsukishima has been training with Byakuya for centuries, this is nothing!

Everything leads back to Gin.

because he's evil!

[The Transient Guest]

Nuh uh, just misunderstood*




*refer to my custom user title.

[Oblivion87]

I liked the exchange between Jackie and Yukio, and I'm glad Riruka survived. Although I'm a little disappointed with ending to this arc since it feels rushed and it left a lot of things unanswered. I wonder where the story will go from here?

[Omegastorm]

Fun issue. It seems that some have lost their powers.

o

[nervmeister]

So Tsukishima goes from an eerily calm crafty bastard to a bawling candy-assed bitch in the space of an issue, eh? I guess one could call that "character development".