On October 28 2010 04:32 Deathstar wrote:
If the death of Aizen, and the loss of Ichigo's shinigami power is not ending this series, then nothing will.

Aizen's not dead. He's imprisoned. I agree that ending the series with Aizen Arc would've been best seeing as Ichigo lost his powers, etc. I really wonder where hes going to go with this from here...

BlackMagister

United States5834 Posts

October 27 2010 19:41 GMT

#1562

Not surprised that this wasn't the end, there were numerous sources claiming the author said there is going to be another arc. It almost seems like a restart of the series instead of a new arc. I'm sure Ichigo is going to get new powers though I doubt it will be the same shinigami powers he had before. Anyways a slow start and a boring chapter imo because the other chracters of Bleach were never really that important, but yeah willing to give it a chance.

Wire

United States494 Posts

October 27 2010 19:46 GMT

#1563

In a way, I was really hoping this would be the end. Unsurprisingly, it's not. I can't believe I'm giving this a shot lol it just seems too circular plotwise but I'm too engaged!

enzym

Germany1034 Posts

October 27 2010 20:04 GMT

#1564

im still waiting to find out what ichigo actually is (the son of ???). there was an attempt at explaining it when he spoke with his dad, but i think urahara butted in or something, i dont remember it exactly. there are still things to be answered, and im not talking about plot holes.

Zexion

Sweden971 Posts

October 27 2010 22:11 GMT

#1565

Would be interesting if Ichigo regained his spiritual power only and not Shinigami powers. I mean he can still fight, so maybe if he'll develop powers that is equivalent to his old powers (in terms of strength) this will become interesting.

Sandrosuperstar

Sweden525 Posts

October 27 2010 22:17 GMT

#1566

man finaly there's a decent mystery in bleach again

blankspace

United States292 Posts

October 27 2010 22:29 GMT

#1567

if only bleach had some decent time flow or continuity. If you actually think about it, it's like this. Ichigo goes to heuco mundo. Like at most one week of bleach time passes (which is like 2 years and tons of chapters for us) and he fights grimjow, ulqiorra, and then comes back and fights aizen, gets raped, then suddenly transforms. All this is like three days wtf?

But yeah im glad all that shit is done with hopefully this will be a new and better start.

Fenrax

United States5018 Posts

October 27 2010 22:53 GMT

#1568

Man, that chapter was a short blink of what I once loved about Bleach.

Then Aizen appeared again... Well, at least there is a bit tension and mystery now and not just 4 years waiting for Ichigo to beat up Aizen and get the lesser fights over. I just hope it won't become a clusterfuck like last time.

Kyuukyuu

Canada6263 Posts

October 27 2010 23:05 GMT

#1569

new arc feels like an anime filler arc

except it's not

godammit

United States3249 Posts

October 27 2010 23:14 GMT

#1570

Really liked this new chapters. Feels like old Bleach.

zoLo

United States5896 Posts

October 27 2010 23:25 GMT

#1571

lol, you guys act so surprise that the series hasn't ended. They even said that it will start again in 2 weeks from the last chapter.

Monokeros

United States2493 Posts

October 27 2010 23:28 GMT

#1572

On October 28 2010 08:25 zoLo wrote:
lol, you guys act so surprise that the series hasn't ended. They even said that it will start again in 2 weeks from the last chapter.

No we knew it, or at least I knew they were continuing it, its just that at the end of the chaptert 2 seasons ago I was expecting "END" or "SERIES FINALE NEXT CHAPTER" when I saw the hiatus I was extremely dissapoint. I'm even more dissapoint right now I don't even know how to express it, i just hope that this arc is super amazingly good and not super duper cheesy. Just some random people are like "oh we lost our shinigami powers too, here's how you get them back" "oops by giving you these powers we released Aizen, WHAT A MISTAKE"

igotmyown

United States4291 Posts

October 27 2010 23:42 GMT

#1573

I don't care what you guys say, Bleach is officially over! Free at last! Now I don't have to waste time every week wondering what happens next!

Now excuse me while I stick my head in the sand.

Nuttyguy

United Kingdom1526 Posts

October 27 2010 23:56 GMT

#1574

please tell me that isnt aizen or his brother or anyhow related ...

nalho

United States351 Posts

October 27 2010 23:59 GMT

#1575

AT first I thought it was Aizen because their eyes looked so similar. I won't get my hopes up because i'm sure something will happen that will screw bleach again.

But still one of the good chapters lately

Deathstar

9150 Posts

October 28 2010 00:06 GMT

#1576

On October 28 2010 04:38 bokchoi wrote:

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Aizen's not dead. He's imprisoned. I agree that ending the series with Aizen Arc would've been best seeing as Ichigo lost his powers, etc. I really wonder where hes going to go with this from here...

Yeah that was a mistake on my part. But my point still stands lol.

Wings

United States999 Posts

October 28 2010 00:07 GMT

#1577

lol i love how negative the bleach thread is
it definitely isn't undeserved, and I am definitely one of its harshest critics

but I think it's looking up now; they can finally do something new instead of the ridiculous DBZ race for super saiyan 1983539.

Hope he doesn't mess up this chance.

flamewheel

FREEAGLELAND26781 Posts

October 28 2010 00:15 GMT

#1578

Hmm this chapter made me happy.

Ohhh hmm I guess that the Aizen-like dude now has the badge and it's somehow really powerful and blah blah blah.

Wheeee

flergh

Iceland34 Posts

October 28 2010 00:21 GMT

#1579

Ichigo's going to be killed and become a real shinigami instead of a deputy shinigami like he was.

Purind

Canada3562 Posts

October 28 2010 00:28 GMT

#1580

I'm really hoping Ichigo doesn't regain his powers and Karin becomes the new main character. It would be like a power level reset switch. If Ichigo comes back with all his powers, it will be like the silliness of this arc that we just saw. All of the captains become as strong as Ichigo for no reason and it turns out everyone was stronger than Aizen all along.

I think Kubo wrote himself into a corner, making Aizen uber strong. Having the entire SS under his hypnotism was cool in the SS arc, but afterwards, it was like "Wait a minute, that's kinda imba, isn't it?" so he had to make Ichigo all of a sudden ridiculously strong. For the next arc, he would have to either make every single character not named Ichigo useless, or make the captains all of a sudden power up like crazy

Making weak little Karin the new main character would prevent the whole "Oh, we were all stronger than Aizen all along lol" and would also have the added benefit of keeping Ishida/Chad/Orihime relevant. Whatever Ichigo was doing, Ishida/Chad/Orihime were so far behind in power that they were gonna be completely useless, but with a new main character, they can all power up together and they'll be more useful to each other, so we won't have this weird "Wow, all of the main characters are completely useless and will just hinder Ichigo" feeling.

It's not gonna happen, but I really hope Karin becomes the main character. Then, I may read Bleach for reasons other than "for the lols"