Bleach's Final Batte: A follow-up entry

[kohi-no-tora.livejournal.com]

 To those who remember I made a post some time ago (May 2008) detailing my opinions of why at that point in the progression of the story the final showdown would not be Ichigo vs Aizen. Given everything that has happened in the interim, I stand by my basic reasoning vis a vis Aizen.

(Link here: http://community.livejournal.com/bleachness/147422.html so that everyone is on the same page)

However towards the end of the post I make a somewhat off-hand comment that I believe that the same reasoning applied to Ulquiorra. My predictions of someone swooping in and kill-stealing or a team-up turned out to be wrong but guess what... I was RIGHT!!!

( Now before you bite my head off, follow my reasons behind the cut )

In short, the fight was thematically consistent but with a very importantly difference with the flipped perspective.


It's little tricks like this where Kubo-sensei adds new twists to standard story-telling themes that make me appreciate Bleach more and more. Whether it's deliberate or subconscious, Kubo-sensei is at times a frigging genius!

The Anime Team is Funny

[arcadiasilver.livejournal.com]

Hi there, Bleachness. Im a rather new member, but long time stalker. Some of you may know me as Arcadia over from the BA forums, I post mainly in the IchiRuki FC.

I was, at the request of a friend, looking over the Rukia/Aaroniero fight, I noticed that the anime team slipped something in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDXXb_WCfYI&feature=related

(Pause at around 3:29)

This is part of the fight before Nejibana is released, where Rukia and the Espada duke it out as Aaroniero taunts her over and over again about her part in Kaien's death thats not covered in the manga. After a particularly nasty barb, Rukia jumps back and unleashes an attack at him. The particular thing is her stance. Neither Tsukishiro or Hakuren start out with Sode no Shirayuki vertical and pointed upward (I originally thought this was a misfired Hakuren).

An attack where reiatsu is released from the edge or tip of a blade in a projectile like manner. Where have we seen that a bajillion times before?

Yeah, the anime team made her pull a Getsuga Tensho.

*facepalm*