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

[kanjo-girl.livejournal.com]

3. Why Kaien accepted becoming a VC. In the TBTP backstory arc, we see that he denied it, yet fifty years later, he's the second in command of the thirteenth. What changed his mind?

We know he was married to one of the seated officers (third seat?). Maybe she changed his opinion.

[nivek01.livejournal.com]

Very possible. But I would at least like that to be confirmed-it kinda bothers me that we don't know. All we can do is speculate... sigh...

[swe3t-lil-angel.livejournal.com]

I think because he knew his captain was ill and couldn't do most of the job, he said so that since that Uki is always resting he took most times the command... if he was the VC by mind he might as well make it official and become the actual VC. Then, no other seated officer of any other squad has anything to say against him for "giving orders", so to speak.

At least, that's my logical thoughts. Who knows with Kubo?