Great Bleach Tangents

[http://users.livejournal.com/_debbiechan_/]

Discussion for the weekend.

Beyond the many Ban Kai Kubo has yet to show us and all the debatable growing up the kids have to do, there are so many unresolved tangents in Bleach that it would take Sensei  a nice ten years at least to thoroughly pick up all the loose threads, wouldn't you say? Given our manga-ka's propensity for dropping a thread and then picking it up a hundred or more chapters later, Bleach can sometimes resemble a very wooly carpet.

What are some of your favorite loose threads and what do you think are the chances of their being woven back into the glorious Bleachverse tapestry in some spectacular way?

For example, I've always been slightly pissed that we never got a resolution to the fact that Ishida had all those spy bacteria in him by Mayuri--did he get them out? Did Orihime undo that nasty business when she healed him? But I'm resigned to the fact that this loose thread may not be very important to the Master Tapestry. More important is the fact that Aizen got locked away with the hougyoku still inside him. And how about that BIG GIANT CLUE that Kubo threw in chapter 00b about Rukia's mystery visit to Earth with Kiyone--that's overdue some explanation. Rukia's connection to hougyoku. How about Orihime's vow to destroy the hougyoku? That got brought up in one panel and never touched about again. Don't even get me started about Orihime hints of development from Kubo that have gotten nerfed.

So, while we're all cozying up to some guaranteed Isshin backstory now, there's still a LOT of unresolved Bleach to bitch about. What are your favorite seemingly forgotten tangents? (I'm sure Sensei hasn't forgotten them--he's just slow and sadistic XD)

Comments

[nyxviola.livejournal.com]

Sorry if I barge in unannounced, but I join in the request of seeing how Kira got the news (more than Gin's death, I think the surprising thing is that he was just waiting for his change to kill Aizen!). That would be very interesting. (I'm a newbie to LJ, nice to meet you!)

[hinodeh.livejournal.com]

Welcome to lj! Hope you'll have fun here. (You're from BA, right?)

Yeah, maybe he wasn't that hung up on Gin anymore, but since we got so little, there's no way to tell for sure.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_debbiechan_/]

Ohhhhhh welcome nyxviola *fondness fondness*

Kira's character development in the much-despised FKT arc was an utter joy for me. There were so many reference made by Gin to Kira throughout the last arc that I can't believe we're just going to bypass Kira's story just like that. No idea when we'll see Kira again--I'm not in any particular hurry to get to the Shinigami given my love for the nakama at the moment but Kira is the FIRST ONE I want to see (after Rukia) when we get back to them. I want to know his reaction to Gin!

[nyxviola.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Anyway yes, I'm from BA, but I have been keeping an eye (read: lurking) on the LJ communities for a while.
As for Kira, if I'm not mistaken, the last time we saw Kira saying something about Gin was in the fight with Avirama. He had a quite strong reaction then when Gin was mentioned. I don't think he would have gotten over it so easily...but who knows.