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catone2
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Taguchi and the rest of the staff at Pierrot this time really understand Bleach and Kubo's vision for it. It's all there in the direction, episode titles, and down to the poems and previews. The already additional scenes have been a welcome addition and even the rearranged ones have been fantastic. Can't wait for Quilge vs Ichigo and whatever else they add.
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jr240483
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and who is that guy!? never heard of that name which should not be a surprise to some since there are people who DID indeed dropped the manga after the disaster that was the xcution arc and never looked back! also it seems that kubo really likes using the same faces for multiple character like if its fate stay night/fate grand order! i mean think about it! first there was the burn the witch one off series where that guy who had the renji face , ninny who was basically looks like that girl whose loyal to halibel and of course the main girl whose a mash up of ichigo and the vizord shorty! and it look like he didn't change his art style in this arc for he used a renji face again for one of the un named quincies in EP 2 and he even have the quincy king look like he's an evil version of zangestu! he sould consider changing his art style and not use the same ones so often! otherwise people propbably would have given burn the wich more fan fare and in turn give kubo the motivation to make it into an actual bleach spinoff series about the central branch of the soul society! |
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flamemasterelan
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Is this...um...is this your first time seeing a creator do more than one work? Because it's ridiculously common for them to re-use their old designs. Look at Fairy Tail or Edens Zero, for example, which imported character designs and names wholesale. Or look at how many times Akira Toriyama uses the same faces and hairstyles between Dragon Ball, Chrono Trigger, and Dragon Quest. Even MHA has characters and design elements taken from Horikoshi's previous works.
His art style? You mean the one thing he's pretty consistently praised for is the thing he should change? |
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Gem-Bug
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The exposition has been pretty heavy-handed/out of place, both with the power-explanation mid-fight here, and with Nel's blathering to refresh the audience's memory last episode. Despite this, they're still going through the material at a very nice pace. The luminescent blues for the Quicy powers are very eye-catching, and I'm excited for more.
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Minos_Kurumada
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I think it was around this time Kubo became a meme full force.
No really, a real meme, it was called "Kubo Troll" and it actually began at the end of the Arrancar Arc, but it was around this time everybody was making them. Don't look for it if you are watching the final arc for the first time, it's full of spoilers obviously since it's people taking pages from the manga and making jokes with how bad they were. Not spoilerish example: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/149/713/fb8.jpg |
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MFrontier
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Koichi Yamadera having the time of his life as Quilge here.
The visuals and action continue to be top-notch. Ayon beating the @#$% out of Quilge was so satisfying. As was the Sternritter entrances. Wow, Mayuri just casually admitting to erasing a bunch of people for the sake of balance. Poor Kira... |
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KaidoYuji8Shinji
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I feel like Bleach has always been too heavy handed with explaining itself and that could get annoying. Otherwise. This episode was great. Things feel like they are moving fast |
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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I gotta mostly agree here with that. Now granted, it's not as bad as some other shonen titles, but it's hardly out of place in the new material now. I don't think it gets too annoying though. Certainly not enough to overshadow the outstanding animation and, so far, solid adaptation/story pace. |
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FilthyCasual
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Oh sick, we get remixes for some of the other Bleach tracks too. Incredible that TOTALLY UNNAMED QUINCY BOSSMAN just goes "Ichigo's over there? Aight we over here then."
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arcthenomad
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Sad thing is that is the exact same stunt Aizen pulled on Ichigo during his attempt to assault the Soul King's Palace. You would think that Soul Society would be watching for that. Also they obviously know at this point that Isshin has his shinigami powers back so you would think they would have gotten in touch with him and Urahara like immediately. Especially, after what Mayuri said in yesterday's episode. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Well, I suppose there's a reason he's named Opie.  And for me there's no small irony in that the swastika (manji) appears in Ichigo's Bankai eyecatch, rather than the Quincy's.
Speaking of the Quincy, I thought it was funny that Uryu's response to "Stay out of my library without permission!" was to snoop around his office without permission.
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kurowa-san
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Voll stern dich is a nonsensical translation and just a string of words, I don't know why they didn't go with Vollständig like it's supposed to be.
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SHD
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I don't see how it's ironic, though? I'm sure I don't need to point out that the manji is not the Nazi swastika... Not to mention, it's part of the word "bankai" (卍解) and also the tsuba of Ichigo's zanpakutou is shaped like it. Anyway, watching this is sooo nostalgic. I remember reading this arc in the manga, after being so severely burned by most everything that came before by that point - being so hopeful that finally this is going to be a story not centering around the shinigami, that finally the Karakura gang is going to appear more for a single chapter, that finally Ishida is going to be relevant instead of being relegated to comic relief, that maybe Kurotsuchi Mayuri is going to get his comeuppance instead of having been turned into a comical character whose main comic aspect is being a dick to the character whose immense and brutal trauma he'd caused, that maybe Ichigo is not going to disappear for like months and years from what is ostensibly his story while an endless cast of side characters are having one on one battles for no end... oh how naive I was.  Still, I hope that with the anime having a very finite episode number, it's going to do what Kubo apparently physically can't, and streamline the damn story, cut away the fat, and maybe even flesh some things out that really needed to be fleshed out before the manga's unceremonious end.
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Minos_Kurumada
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I don't know German but know Spanish. All the Hollow attacks and terminology is in Spanish and arranged in a certain way that when pronounced with Japanese rules is a pun. For example: Sado's main attack is "La Muerte" (The Death), in Japanese is "魔人の一撃" which is pronounced as "Ra Muerute" which menas "Devil's Strike". Maybe it's the same thing here, the word is arranged to make it a Japanese pun. |
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SHD
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I don't know Spanish (know a bit of German, though), but I know Japanese, and "Ra Muerute" is the phonetic approximation of "La muerte" in Japanese. 魔人の一撃 would be "Majin no ichigeki". It's not a pun, they're just assigning "La Muerte " to the Japanese phrase to indicate that Chad is saying "La Muerte" and not "Majin no ichigeki", basically the attack has two names, one in Japanese and one in a foreign language with a similar/related meaning, because we're Bleach and we live and die by the power of cool.
So no, "Voll Stern Dich" is not a pun either, it's just either the localization team or Kubo himself not knowing German. |
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