Great Bleach Tangents

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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

[cyanglow]

Whole lotta loose ends in HM. Enough to bury many a GrimmKitty who decided to play with them. I'll save the typing by saying HM is one gigantic loose end, and parts of the tapestry are gonna fall off without it tied up.

Otherwise, missing limbs? We know YamaJii permanently lost one, but Ishida got his back. And Hitsugaya of the impenetrable plot armor got both his arm and leg back. So what about the two captains and one Vaizard who also lost an arm?

Yachiru? Is she destined to be comic relief until the end, or will we ever learn what that zanpakutou-with-training-wheels can do?

Last but not least: WHERE IS KON?

[miss-ragdoll.livejournal.com]

OMG, it's true!! Where the heck is Kon?? maybe he's with Urahara... I don't think they've made something bad to that modified soul at SS.
Just wait, in the anime we'll get to see him with the rest of plushies ¬¬ damn.

[cyanglow]

I wouldn't mind seeing Nova again, but I could do without the other two.

[mrdracospirit.livejournal.com]

Yachiru is such a Chekhov's Gun isn't she? I'm intrested in her namesake too and wonder half the time if it be another Nel setup >.