Bleach Ep. 243 Discussion
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bleachnessHaha, my first legitimate post here that isn't related to fic. But I couldn't resist talking about the newest opening/ending songs in Bleach and what happened.
So it starts off with a large amount of action and ends with the King of all action, Kenpachi cackling madly in that kickass way of his. I'd like to note that Ashisogi Jizo is creepy. Creepy. Creepy. Blades protruding from his chest would freak anyone out, including Isane. Although, credit to her, she didn't moan about the paralysis, she shrugged and went with it. Very nice, Isane.
Return of the duo! The bickering, kind of annoying duo. Tobiume and Haineko need to stop yammering around. I feel like they waste valuable screen time that would be better spent on Kira or Byakuya or even better! RUKIA. Clearly, the anime producers aren't getting this.
And then we go back to Soi Fong. Or, at some point we go back to Soi Fong. She's snarky. Smarmy. I love her to bits in this episode. She's just so... awesome, for a lack of better terms. She bites. She kicks ass. She freaking holds lightening suspended. Color me a fan. She appears mildly tortured and queasy when Suzumebachi shows up, presumably because Suzumebachi likes to talk about wardrobes and looking pretty and "poking" people twice to you know...kill them, all this is a very chipper voice.
Is it just me, or are some of the zanpakuto really wonky?
Anyways, Yumichika gets uh, wrapped up (bad pun) with Fujikujaku. I find it interesting to note that in general, the expressions in this episode were ugly, very stressed, lots of heavy lines. Perhaps a better word would be intense. Oh, the irony. Yumichika's expression was terribly dark and ugly towards the end of his battle, especially with Fujikujaku and his rather painful words.
Ikkaku's lying in a ditch.
Kira. Kira. Kira. KIRA. This guy has the smartest head on his shoulders. He beats down Kazeshini by bluffing (I want poker!Kira fic now) just to be stepped on (literally) by his own zanpakuto. Wabisuke is frightening. I mean, if Mayuri's little alien baby was scary/creepy. Wabisuke looks like something out of a horror movie. The voice and his actions are terrible, in every sense of the word. I know the shape of Wabisuke is perfect for decapitations, but seriously. This was just horrific.
Rukia and Byakuya. She tells him to "please, don't do this." Small moment, but I appreciated it nonetheless. From the previews, she apparently might be engaging Fujikujaku in combat? Not sure. But any Rukia time is good time for me.
KENPACHI, THE BIGGEST BADASS IN THE WORLD AND UNIVERSES BEYOND, APPEARS.
Yes. Just yes.
Now on the beginning/ending themes. There was a lot of Byakuya/Rukia. I mean, I know I ship them, so I might be reading too much into that, but I felt like both themes really played up on Rukia and her relationship with Byakuya. The sakura petals in the ending theme, the gorgeous shots of her sitting and then back-to-back with Byakuya. Just beautiful. Clearly, the animation quality was spent on the ending song.
Did anyone catch the equally pretty shot of Sode no Shirayuki behind her fan in the end theme? <3 Extra points to those who saw Sode no Shirayuki and Senbonzakura together on the screen in the beginning theme.
Anyways, discuss! Did you think Wabisuke was cute and cuddly? Am I going crazy with my Byakuya/Rukia shipping and neglecting my Ichigo/Rukia? Does the title suck?
Speak, masses. I do so enjoy reading comments.
So it starts off with a large amount of action and ends with the King of all action, Kenpachi cackling madly in that kickass way of his. I'd like to note that Ashisogi Jizo is creepy. Creepy. Creepy. Blades protruding from his chest would freak anyone out, including Isane. Although, credit to her, she didn't moan about the paralysis, she shrugged and went with it. Very nice, Isane.
Return of the duo! The bickering, kind of annoying duo. Tobiume and Haineko need to stop yammering around. I feel like they waste valuable screen time that would be better spent on Kira or Byakuya or even better! RUKIA. Clearly, the anime producers aren't getting this.
And then we go back to Soi Fong. Or, at some point we go back to Soi Fong. She's snarky. Smarmy. I love her to bits in this episode. She's just so... awesome, for a lack of better terms. She bites. She kicks ass. She freaking holds lightening suspended. Color me a fan. She appears mildly tortured and queasy when Suzumebachi shows up, presumably because Suzumebachi likes to talk about wardrobes and looking pretty and "poking" people twice to you know...kill them, all this is a very chipper voice.
Is it just me, or are some of the zanpakuto really wonky?
Anyways, Yumichika gets uh, wrapped up (bad pun) with Fujikujaku. I find it interesting to note that in general, the expressions in this episode were ugly, very stressed, lots of heavy lines. Perhaps a better word would be intense. Oh, the irony. Yumichika's expression was terribly dark and ugly towards the end of his battle, especially with Fujikujaku and his rather painful words.
Ikkaku's lying in a ditch.
Kira. Kira. Kira. KIRA. This guy has the smartest head on his shoulders. He beats down Kazeshini by bluffing (I want poker!Kira fic now) just to be stepped on (literally) by his own zanpakuto. Wabisuke is frightening. I mean, if Mayuri's little alien baby was scary/creepy. Wabisuke looks like something out of a horror movie. The voice and his actions are terrible, in every sense of the word. I know the shape of Wabisuke is perfect for decapitations, but seriously. This was just horrific.
Rukia and Byakuya. She tells him to "please, don't do this." Small moment, but I appreciated it nonetheless. From the previews, she apparently might be engaging Fujikujaku in combat? Not sure. But any Rukia time is good time for me.
KENPACHI, THE BIGGEST BADASS IN THE WORLD AND UNIVERSES BEYOND, APPEARS.
Yes. Just yes.
Now on the beginning/ending themes. There was a lot of Byakuya/Rukia. I mean, I know I ship them, so I might be reading too much into that, but I felt like both themes really played up on Rukia and her relationship with Byakuya. The sakura petals in the ending theme, the gorgeous shots of her sitting and then back-to-back with Byakuya. Just beautiful. Clearly, the animation quality was spent on the ending song.
Did anyone catch the equally pretty shot of Sode no Shirayuki behind her fan in the end theme? <3 Extra points to those who saw Sode no Shirayuki and Senbonzakura together on the screen in the beginning theme.
Anyways, discuss! Did you think Wabisuke was cute and cuddly? Am I going crazy with my Byakuya/Rukia shipping and neglecting my Ichigo/Rukia? Does the title suck?
Speak, masses. I do so enjoy reading comments.
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Date: 2009-10-29 01:16 am (UTC)I think what Ruri'iro Kujaku wants more than anything else is for Yumichika to say that he accepts him as he is, fully and completely. Or, in laymen terms, just tell him he's beautiful XD
Like last episode when they both faced each other, Yumichika asked him if he knew why he brought him all the way here, and Ruri'iro said he knew, cause Yumi didn't want anyone else to see him.
Is it just me, or did he look a bit hurt? And did you notice how Ruri'iro looked so bothered when Yumi called him Fuji Kujaku? And even after he told him that he'd kill him if he called him that again, he tried changing the subject, and started talking about how good Yumichika looks and other crap.
I think he was honestly trying to change the subject, because he really didn't want to kill Yumichika, he just wanted to be accepted. -sniff- I feel so bad for Ruri'iro.
And then when Yumi called him 'Fuji Kujaku' again, Ruri'iro had this look of 'why did you have to call me that?! Why couldn't you just accept me for who I am, and we could continue sharing fashion tips?'
And you can tell this episode he didn't really want to kill him! After he saw that diplomacy wouldn't work, he tried getting Yumichika to surrender. He tried so many times! Calling him a pushover, telling Yumi that they were all winning, pointing out that Ikkaku wasn't in the game anymore...
Man, Yumichika is really dense. He doesn't get subtlety at all. If he did, he wouldn't have been all 'okay just shut up and fight'. I'm actually glad Ruri'iro has him trapped in his special ability. Even though I love Yumichika, he really deserves what's coming to him =\
Which brings me to Kira & Kazeshini. Honestly, they did a very smooth job with this fight. Unlike the Ikkaku/Houzukimaru fight, where it was just like, "I win cause of plot-kai and shounen clichés", this was actually very clever. Even though I wasn't so happy with the fact that it was Kira fighting against Kazeshini, it was handled well enough that it didn't feel so intrusive.
I loved Kazehini's line to him, "I'm getting bored of that expression! I'm going to gauge out your eyes!" ROFL!! I was definitely reminded of the Avirama/Kira fight XDD!
It's funny, cause even though Kira usually keeps to one expression, when he does show a different emotion, the expression is usually hilarious. Except his smile. I'm sorry, but that smile was as creepy as Ashido.
And wow, Wabisuke. I seriously don't like that guy. I was impressed with how Kira recognized him right away, but I suppose that's to be expected. It was a great twist having Kira fall so quickly after just having achieved victory. Wabisuke standing on his back, man oh man.
But what really got me was the expression on Wabisuke's face as he held his sword to Kira's neck. Am I the only one who thought he looked completely mad? Like some deranged psycho?
The gleam in his eyes were bad enough, but the way his mouth was open silghtly, and he seemed to be drawing in rattling breaths, it was like...-shudder- he looked extremely unstable.
It's funny though, because after that scene, I was like, "yeah, he fits Kira to a 'T'". Cause if you guys remember, in the manga, Kira was pretty much portrayed as emotionally unstable. Like when Hinamori attacked him, and he's like, "I have no choice but to treat you...as an enemy", his face there was freaky. And then when he was in the detention cell, he was in a straight jacket, and there were scratches on the walls, scratches on him...
So yes, even if this sounds cruel of me, Kira and Wabisuke definitely fit. And the way Kira just put his head down in defeat when he saw the sword...my impression was that he was basically saying, "After everything I've done, I probably deserve to be taken by your hands, Wabisuke." That's what I thought, at least, cause he didn't look so shocked as he did submissive.
Like with the other Zanpakuto confrontations, the reactions were mostly shock, betrayal, or anger. Kira's is very interesting though. I'm not so sure he had the best relationship with Wabi, and I'm really hoping that we'll find out more.
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Date: 2009-10-29 01:16 am (UTC)Haineko & Tobiume's arguing is getting a little old, but I guess the animators are trying to underscore how badly those two get along. I loved the way Tobiume slammed down one her bells in anger/frustration saying "Why am I always the backup?!" bits of Momo's personality are really starting to come through in her--I love it!
And I loved Haineko's snark towards Matsumoto, LOL. It's interesting, because I think their relationship is the reverse of Yumichika & Ruri'iro Kujaku's.
Haineko's the one who's so unaccepting of Matsumoto, and while Matsumoto is afraid to give her snark for snark, Haineko is really the initiator when it comes to their fighting. She's the one who greets Matsumoto as 'hag', which provokes Rangiku.
I really wonder why she does that though. I think that Haineko is kind of jealous of Matsumoto, and that's why she's constantly putting her down, but I'm not 100% sure.
The Senbon/Ichi fight was boring as hell. Thank gd it only lasted a few minutes. I mean, there's only so many times you can throw pretty pink petals before it gets boring.
I was kind of disappointed to see Zabimaru down again.
But Kenpachi arriving?! Holy hell, that is just awesome.
I really wonder if we're going to see his sword's corpreal form. I mean, in truth, Kenpachi doesn't even know his sword's name, and he never uses whatever ability it may have. But Muramasa doesn't know that. Hm...this is going to be extremely interesting.
Oh, and why didn't anyone mention the shinigami golden this episode?! I laughed SOO hard by it! I've been waiting for either Kubo or the anime to make a death joke about Ukitake for AGES!! The way he was just like, -coughcoughcoughcoughcoughDEAD- was hilarious!!
The previews for the next episode didn't tell much. It looks like Bya-Bya and Ken-chan might be facing off against each other (YESSSSS!) but I can't be sure. There was nothing at all about Suzumebachi & Soi Fon, so my only hope is that there fight is SO awesome, they didn't want to give any of it away!
Though, it's also perfectly plausible that they might take a break from it next episode to focus on the Ruri'iro/Yumichika, Ken/Bya fights, and will dedicate an entire episode to it later. I'm not sure which to hope for XD
And on the op/ed, they were FANTASTIC! The Sen/Shira shipper in me was jumping up and down doing the macarena!!
That shot in the op with Bya, Sen, and Shirayuki--omg, it seriously looked like Senbonzakura was looking at Shirayuki, though it's impossible to tell XD and the ending, with Shirayuki surrounded by sakura petals, this is a hint y/y??
Though, I don't ship ByaRuki XD but I looove all the little hints for SenShira ♥
(dang, I really talk way too much ^^; sorry 'bout that)