Bleachness

GOOD MORNING! I've got goodies.  Cel scans from the anime, a (small) Kubo drawing of Ichigo, an IchiRuki tweet from zack_mori. Thanks to Jordi for the first goodie and to Annie, Nacchan, Ku and Mel for the second and third goodies.

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Studio Perriot and I are re-evaluating our relationship. It has always been a shallow one but it lasted so many years and holds so many memories. I hereby announce that reconciliation papers have been drawn. SP's conciliatory gestures (i.e. fanservice) had been met with suspicion in the past but a new filler arc began and my curiosity could not be checked--

I have to say I'm not holding out a lot of hope to see much of my fave character Ishida or a strong nakama presence in this arc but the IshiIchi ED totally won me over (was Ichigo Ishida's "ray of light" there or WHAT? My IchiIshi friends and I are still replaying that ED over and over and over) and surprise! I actually enjoyed the episode! If the animation quality stays good, I'm looking forward to the fights (my Koma-chan! <3) and maybe I can coast with this filler like I did with the zanpakutou arc, which was an inoffensive enough diversion for me.

I'm already dreading the IchiRuki fanservice, to be honest (I love Kubo's wistful, subtle IchiRuki--SP's seems heavy-handed in comparison) but I have to approach the anime like fanfic--with a measure of suspension of disbelief and separation from Kubo's reality. The stand-alone eps  leading to this filler arc, from what I gathered (I peeked at one and saw screencaps of others) were just awful, but hey I'm game for an actual story and SP has as fair a track record as any fic writer I know plus lots of shinies and background music. Spoilers for upcoming eps under cut.

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Some translations from Kubo's twitter yesterday regarding the airing of the first ep of new arc. Translations by mezzo_marinaio 

おっ、宣伝ありがと！ちゃんと自分のことも書いとかないとね(笑)。 RT @HitterNumber8: @tite_kubo 先生お休みなさいですー。明日はアニメBLEACH新章スタート、ＯＰ&ＥＤも楽しみですｖ

@HitterNumber8: "Goodnight, sensei... I'm looking forward to the start of a new Bleach chapter in the anime, and to the opening and ending as well."
@tite_kubo: "Ooh, thank you for the publicity! I should make sure to write about my own work too, right?" (laugh)


原稿が一段落して、やっと今日のアニメBLEACH観れた！すげぇっ！！オープニングはバトルしっ放しだし 本編も工藤さん作監ですげークオリティだし！ストーリーも個人的には今までのアニメオリジナルシリーズの中 で1番ワクワクしてる。ぴえろさんお疲れ様でした！！

@tite_kubo: "I took a break from my work so I could finally watch today's episode of Bleach! Fantastic...!! In the opening they just kept battling, and since Kudou-san was the animation director of the original story the quality was amazing! As for the story, for me it's the most exciting among the anime original series they made until now. Thank you very much, Pierrot-san!!"

@tite_kubo: 俺にもそう見えたから、多分そうじゃないかな。しかしよく観てるね！ RT @Saki10SS: @tite_kubo もの凄い集中して観てたんで、今日のアニメに出てきたおばちゃん、あれは織姫のご近所の新村さんだったんでは…？とか凄い細部にまで喰いついてしまいまし た(笑)

@Saki10SS: "I was paying an incredible amount of attention while watching the anime today... wasn't the woman who appeared in this episode Niimura-san, Orihime's neighbour...? Things like that, you know, I really nibbled on the smallest details." (laugh)
@tite_kubo: "It seemed that way to me too, so I wouldn't say that. Still, you really do pay a lot of attention!"


CHAD!FEST REGALO NEWS! Thanks to everyone who managed to post on bleachness for Chad's birthday even though LJ was being so wonky! The goal of the contest was just to get people to post comments. I happy to announce that the mods have chosen imlikat as the winner so she gets the Chad plushie and because we didn't get all that many entries (although all the entries we did have were so full of love), we have one other winner, enychan , and I'm proud to ship her Chad sticker and tattoo all the way to Mexico! Gals, PM me with your addresses!

One last thing--

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Bleach anime not ending apparently! Sorry to disappoint those of you who had hoped for a hiatus and a refresher! XD

I updated the original post on the matter but here's the basic info:

Rumors Denied. On Twitter, zack_mori (aka as Morita Yosuke, assistant recording director of the Bleach anime) wrote "The airing schedule has been fixed far in advance and it won't be ended soon." His tweet is here


and from melodymix  here
and ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D's blog:

破面篇を読んだ感動そのままに、今回の僕達の曲がクライマックスにぴったりという気持ちを書い たつもりが、
「クール 」という言葉のせいで、誤解を招くような表現になってしまいました。
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"After reading the Arrancar Arc I just wrote down my opinion: I intended to say, the climax of the Arc fits perfectly to our song, however due to the use of the word "Cool", it ended up becoming a huge misunderstood situation”

From animenewsnetwork: Band blogs About Bleach's Last Season, Deletes Mention.

The ratings were down. There hadn't been talk of a filler and the series was really catching up with the manga. It seems to follow. Maybe this is a break? I was never a big fan of the anime as much as I love Morita-kun and Non-tan and other seiyuu and so many other things about the anime and as much as I'm looking forward to tomorrow's crack!ep about the Halloween spread. Probably too early too mourn and the band just made a mistake but ... hey, it's not unlikely. *prepares self and clutches manga volumes* This happens. Could be temporary. The anime could resume after a hiatus.

ETA: Rumors Denied. On Twitter, zack_mori (aka as Morita Yosuke, assistant recording director of the Bleach anime) wrote "The airing schedule has been fixed far in advance and it won't be ended soon." His tweet is here

We have new scenes from the Bleach movie Hellverse in this week's anime OP and ED. Wow, the fighting animation looks out of this world from the new sequences we have. I just wow--flipped OUT all over the place from the Ulqui and Ichigo fight. A little disappointed in Hell--it looks gray and mostly smoke, sort of banal but I guess that apropos and easier to landscape in a film.

The OP:




The ED:




Omake (See Rukia make IchiThing appear! ROTFLMAO)




Oh and this screencap from the anime episode is for you, Brad. Thanks to ANNIE. <3

eta: omg, the crack ep: http://www.bleachget.com/watch/504-bleach-episode-298-english-subbed/  I watched the first minute and died--Rukia is in a movie and calls Ichigo "Kurosaki-kun!" ROTFLMAO.

Haha, I've just watched it. Lolarious. It's a dream remake of the Soul Society arc and gave me all sorts of mushy nostalgic feelings. Also ... the ending was clever as hell.

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eta: Ah ha, Sensei is tweeting about how he liked Rukia's costume in the episode--and Urahara's hat! Ah, I love this episode! The animation isn't great, but the concept beats everything and the IshiHime shipper in me just noticed on the third watch that Urio and OrI Mei call one another by their first names and that Ori Mei calls Chigo "Chigo-kun" ROTFLMAO.  Oh there are some really cute gifs by Maskonna from BA here. Please pause the vid in the Urahara's treasure room--HAHAHA, there are some interesting treasures there!

eta2: BWAHAHAHAHAHA, Sensei not responsible for Renji costume travesty! Nacchan translation: "living world members+Yoruichi's outfits were based on my spread, I get to check others too except for Renji's modification" 現世組＋夜一は、俺が描いたポスターの衣装を着てるから、デザインっちゃーデザイン。その他は恋次に手直しした以外は殆どチェックのみだよ。 (excuse me while I lol forEVER)

I can't help it. I'm so excited about this filler episode based on Kubo-sensei's Arabian spread. It looks like a hoot. It airs next week. Screencaps thanks to Annie and gif thanks to Amy Core. YES IT LOOKS LIKE WE WILL INDEED HAVE SHIRTLESS CHAD! <3

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Some of you may have heard that the next batch of anime filler is going to be based on Kubo-sensei's manga color spreads. The first one up is the Arabian spread. A summary is already out--it's an Aladdin's Lamp theme, and I was laughing all day at comments about the episode in fandom but I really lost when I read Mezzo's post a while ago and had to share it with you. It's got all the vital information about the episode in the post so here ya go:

A whole anime episode with shirtless Chad!

I'm surprised no one's made a post yet. I've had a lot of reactions, outraged and delighted, in the past couple weeks, but from the streaming raws this morning I'm just weary and disappointed once and for all.  Ulquiorra's transformations were what I was looking forward to for a whole year and they're over, and while we have Daisuke Namikawa reciting the Lust poem in this week's preview (sexy, sexy--I guess that clarifies that he was the speaker of his own volume poem for any hold-outs who were still arguing to the contrary), I don't think I can watch next week's episode. My Ishida wasn't probably mutilated, you see. *cries*  Studio Perriot did get his hand dirty, though. A Quincy with a dirty hand is going to look so noble in his lunge to catch a monster-reiatsu-blown Orihime and in stopping that beast with his UNdirty hand while making a quiet plea for his nakama's humanity.

( They got Ishida's hand dirty )

Eh, I'm not going to get into the plot variations. Loly was OOC and this week's episode took perilous gambles with the manga sequence of events. Animation has been spotty throughout, ranging as usual in Bleach from bad to great, but the Ulquiorra bits have been good for the most part so as an Ulquiorra fan I've been about mostly happy. As a hardcore Ishida fan, I'm a very unhappy camper this morning.

Your opinions?