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If you haven't heard the news by now; in brief this is the "shocker" spoiler for 304 and it just crowned Szayel Queen of Hueco Mundo and initiated the season of Szayelmas across the Bleach fandom far and wide.
* Rukia wakes up and talks with Byakuya, Ichigo asks Inoue to heal Nell
* Chad is revived also. Szayel survives by impregnating Nemu and being reborn
* Szayel tells of Fornicaras’s most important ability which he is also most proud of/boasts about.
* “The Annunciation (gaburie-ru) Gabriel(?)” It allows him to impregnate the enemy with himself.
* It involves penetrating the body/internal organs and leaving his spawn inside. The body is completely taken over before long.
* While pregnant and giving birth the mother is kept barely alive. Mayuri does an introduction and says …ho….
* So he has regenerated and returned for a rematch! And the fight of Aporro continues..
I had a delightful time on the forums today. From the comparisons of Szayel and powers to the Holy Trinity and/or Gaia/Shiva/Krishna to people making fun of Mayuri's one line ("ho") by comparing him to Santa Claus (my beloved Guildenstern said he was just badmouthing Nemu) to all sorts of speculation about Kubo's mental state (I swear, I swear--he and Kishimoto are smoking the same stuff together and giggling like schoolgirls---that's why there was a pregnant Orihime look-alike last week in Naruto)
This has been my favorite fan comment so far:
on another note... what the hell is KT on???
I'm really pissed off, the special chapter last week proved that he is capable of writing a good story.... its like he is doing this on purpose....
I want that on an icon. Or maybe I should make myself a t-shirt that says "I am married to Kubo Tite's authorial intent."
Also, in less Szayelistic news, there's a new interview from Kubo that came out with the latest movie promo and in it he says that Unohana won't be fighting soon because he's already got her fight planned for the next arc. The tidbit is over in the Kubo interviews thread at BA here
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Date: 2007-12-20 02:28 am (UTC)He's not gonna win that one. XD
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Date: 2007-12-20 02:34 am (UTC)lol, Gin Tama (though I've only seen the anime) is in a league of its own... but I'd love to see Szayel walk into that world... or any world, for that matter. Szayel is officially my favorite villain of all time now--the man is one big walking SEX JOKE.
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Date: 2007-12-20 03:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-20 03:16 am (UTC)OMG, REALLY? What a sexy Siddhartha he would be too. I've only heard two sentences from him in the Bleach anime but mmmmmmm, he's lovely. I doubt they'll be able to animate that much Szayel, though--I really can't see the Fornicarus sword-swallowing trick making it past the censors let alone this latest stunt.
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Date: 2007-12-20 03:24 am (UTC)I honestly think he should step away from it for a little while. Draw the freaky porn he so obviously seems to want to, get it out of his system, then go back to his action manga.
Though Bleach has become so weird I'm no longer weirded out by it, I now just laugh.
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Date: 2007-12-20 05:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-12-20 03:26 am (UTC)(Ah but Rumiko Takahashi is giving him a run for his money with a battle inside! the enemy.)
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Date: 2007-12-20 02:17 pm (UTC)I still wouldn't want his job, though. Sounds way too hard. I probably would've cracked after the third year and started drawing Mickey Mouse instead of Ichigo.
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Date: 2007-12-20 03:36 am (UTC)Poor Nemu. Her victimization at the hands of men (including KT) leaves me feeling distinctly queasy.
I had no inkling that Ishida's little rant against being infested by Mayuri's bugs was just a set-up for this.
I want to have my own shirt made: KT needs a vacation! NOW!
Surely he can afford to spend two weeks in the red light district of Amsterdam to get all of these things out of his system? (What a patently stupid question... of course he can.)
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Date: 2007-12-20 03:56 am (UTC)A holiday with Kubo in Amsterdam! *packs bags*
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Date: 2007-12-20 04:12 am (UTC)I've been annoyed enough with the ridiculous lengths Kubo has gone to keep this fight is going (how many times has Szayel revealed his "true" powers to us now?), and we've got Captains randomly showing up to save the day and a woman showing up before Szayel just so he'll be able to impregnate someone.
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Date: 2007-12-20 02:16 pm (UTC)Szayel is a freakin gdmodder and that's what I love about him. Kubo pushes the envelope with him--and keeps pushing. Goes back to the "Bad Joke" chapter--do something a couple times and its tedious, three times and it starts to be funny, six times and its brilliant (I have my idea that Orihime's repeated "Kurosaki-kuns" are some sort of sick joke--I'd rather that they weren't but given how Kubo is treating women lately, I dunno.... like Laurie said, I'm definitely queasy here--good work, Kubo. It takes a lot for my favorite funny authors to make me queasy).
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Date: 2007-12-20 04:44 am (UTC)*completely misses the point* I am still waiting on an arrancar release called coitus...
I'll make a trip to photoshop today, do you want me to make that icon for you?
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Date: 2007-12-20 01:45 pm (UTC)Yes, please, my little icon princess! *__*
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Date: 2007-12-20 07:41 am (UTC)Why doesn't Ichigo just stab Orihime through the heart a few times and then twist? What's he going to do when he doesn't have her around to resuscitate his girlfriends?
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Date: 2007-12-20 02:23 pm (UTC)We'll have to wait for the chapter to know how this plays but it kinda bugs me that Ichigo has to TELL Orihime to heal Nel. Orihime should be healing people out of her own will--or maybe Ichigo is being all macho and wanting Orihime to heal Nel FIRST before she heals him.
Which would be cool. Ichigo telling Hime not to prioritize him when that's so obviously what she does.
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Date: 2007-12-20 11:17 am (UTC)Oh FANDOM. <3 *points to icon* I love the idea that KT is so off his rocker with this whole Zael/Syzael/Hoochie Mama of HM thing that he needs to...get it out of his system. I bet he just got his own shipment of the sparkly purple crack in. 'Cause based on what I know of other Jump! authors, they all get their own shipments. KT's just not had his own for a while. ;)
(Though I do wonder how many chapters ahead he is. Has he ever said in interviews?)
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Date: 2007-12-20 01:52 pm (UTC)I would seriously like to know where he is vis a vis drawing because this year he's had so many seasonal chapters (GJ's fight with Ichigo lasting through Tanabata--and I swear, he padded those, they are so padded), Le Roux pumpkin pie, and now Szayelmas.
Less seriously, OMG, THAT ICON WINS. Hmmm, ever since ZP, Kubo's shown a predisposition for big bad sex jokes so who's to say he wouldn't come back WORSE after the Amsterdam holiday! He's really the type one wants to tell "please get laid" but I wonder what that would do his imagination. He might come back to give Rangiku breast reduction surgery and put Nemu away in a nunnery....
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Date: 2007-12-20 02:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-20 02:20 pm (UTC)Yeah, I figure this is it--since Nemu's blood is Mayuri's and now , erm, Mayuri and Szayel are related somehow then maybe Mayuri can liquify Szayel ....
But Szayel needs to escape, not die. He's still important (or his experiments and findings are) to the plot vis a vis Ichigo's reiatsu recovered from Doldoni.
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Date: 2007-12-20 08:25 pm (UTC)I think KT needs to go out and date some girls man, get all of that out his system and come back and give us some decent chapters! When Szayel and Mayuri met I knew it was going to get nasty, I just didn't know how nasty!
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Date: 2007-12-20 11:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-21 01:45 am (UTC)I just wrote the following at BA (where I keep getting cut off because mods are antsy about Orihime discussions escalating into wankery)
we've had Kubo playing with the rape metaphor before. Nnoitra's fingers in Hime's mouth. Szayel's "I'm going to force you to participate" line to Ishida. Mayuri's infestation of Ishida with spy bacteria. Still, that physical violation can't compare with what Szayel has done to Nemu....
Nemu's abuse at the hands of Mayuri wasn't censored in the anime so I don't think this will get changed too much when animated. Szayel himself though--I don't know how much more implication and innuendo Kubo can pull off before he resorts to showing us the real thing--sexual violence. It's pretty scary.
Kubo is pushing the envelope here. This is going beyond shounen territory. Nemu CAN'T be dead because it would be horribly, horribly dark--I mean, she's been violated so utterly. The only thing it seems that would work to "undo" her rape and pregnancy would be for Orihime to fix things.
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Date: 2007-12-21 02:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-21 03:17 am (UTC)I've only seen a few pictures and they're pretty intense. The glimmer of hope for me is that Ishida is yelling at Mayuri and still yelling, being the young voice of righteousness and all that. He hasn't been broken. That's something. I can somehow take Nemu being humiliated--she was created for that purpose. But Orihime and Ishida's humiliations get to me.
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Date: 2007-12-21 07:59 am (UTC)Remind me that I should not be eating or drinking anything when I read 304.
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Date: 2007-12-21 02:16 pm (UTC)RAW is out. I think I'll hold out for the scan and translations. Pictures without text might bring up breakfast.