Bleach love

[riah-chan.livejournal.com]

Before we have another weekly Wednesday freak-out, I was thinking that maybe we could focus on all the things we love about Bleach. It really is an awesome series with so many wonderful points. Here are some things that I love about Bleach:

1. Tons of wonderful character- Bleach has a huge cast but KT manages to make the majority of his characters interesting and at least reasonably fleshed out. Even side characters and villains are given believable motivations and back stories. To me this is great because, even when a chapter mainly focuses on a plot I'm not super-interested in, there is always some character moment that brings it for me.

2. Pretty art- Each week, it's so pretty. I'm neither an artist nor particularly knowledgeable about techniques but I find myself looking back over chapters just to see details that I missed the first time around. I even find myself saying things like, "The way he framed this panel..." or "The shading here..." because even my uneducated eye can see something important in it.

3. Interesting Story- This is the manga that got my sister back into manga because she loved the story so much. Each week, I'm glued to my computer and am left wanting more. The only other manga that does that to me right now is FMA.

4. My nieces like it too. ^__^ Today, I was over watching the DVD with the Hollow-bait storyline and they were telling me all about it and who their favorite characters were. (BTW, the 3 year-old's is Orihime and the 8 year-old's is Kon.)

So, what do you love about Bleach?

Spoilers for Bleach 353

[nehalenia.livejournal.com]

Spoilers are out, kiddos. (I'm posting since Deb said she might be too busy to check.)

Standard disclaimer applies. These are early and we don't have any pics, so don't totally freak out yet, okay?

Here ya go:

http://bleachasylum.com/showthread.php?t=8938

ETA: Ann-Chan at BA translated the full spoiler text. Check it out below the cut.

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Comic, Art and Words of Comfort. Re: 353 "The Ash"

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I have a seder to sing at in a few hours. My child has a cold and is crying because her nose is stopped up, and I have an achy feeling that could be a cold virus but I'm crying because of some little drawings on a page drawn by a man on the other side of the world from me. For those of you have read the spoilers and either love them or hate them (I love them, of course), here, some fanarts and some words of comfort if you need them.

( KAWAIIS COMIC, LB7 ART AND MY DUMB OPTIMISM? )

Ichigo's Power

[kohi-no-tora.livejournal.com]

Much speculation has been going on in Bleach fandom ever since Ichigo transformed into The Beast, and what it signifies and whether it will be permanent.

I'm going to take a guess here and say that while it does reflect some psychological issue of Ichigo's, probably some combination of suddenly having a Hollow hole and his single-minded desire to protect, it DOES NOT reflect a sudden increase in power on Ichigo's behalf. Rather what we are seeing is how powerful Ichigo truly is and has been all along.

( My reasoning )

To summarise, Ichigo has displayed tremendous power at various points in the manga up to this point, but his failure to do so consistently leads me to surmise that on some level he's been suppressing this power for whatever reason. However the single-minded nature of Beast-Ichigo has removed these psychological blocks and given Ulquiorra and us a taste of just what Ichigo will be capable of when he fully masters his power.