bleachness

We are connected through a mass network of the world.
We're like the special care patients in the hospital
We try hard not to let any one of the lines get broken.
But no matter how hard we try, one of the lines will break.
~ Mizuiro, chapter 0.8

I'm always surprised to find out how many Bleach fans don't know about "A Wonderful Error," the extra chapter about how Mizuiro and Keigo met Ichigo. It's one of those out-of-sequence/backstory/ "Untold Bleach" chapters like the recent Hitsugaya one.

You can see chapter 0.8 at lots of places but the Viz pics are posted at a BA thread here (If the connection is slow, it's because BA is switching servers after getting so many recent guests ... such a busy connection ... If you can't get the chapter, let me know and I'll upload it for you).

Anyhoo, my friend Jasse and I were talking about relationships in Bleach this morning. According to the Kubo interview in volume 16, chapter 0.8 is one of Kubo's personal favorites and in it, there's a musing, like a poem, by Mizuiro that compares relationships to telephone connections (Mizuiro is having trouble connecting to his mother). The Telephones R Us color spread, I noted, echoed this. Hey why not compare relationships to telephone connections? It's a modern world--we don't touch much--we are bodiless voices floating around like ghosts.

Jasse said, "There are chords, there are wavelengths. Some connect easily. Some cannot connect no matter how hard you try... and some are severed."

( Failed connections, broken connections, established connections.... )

Poor Kubo. How many of us are connecting with his original intent?

"There are bits in the manga where I draw scene that wouldn’t get the reader’s attention too much. I always put all my effort into my manga but how each audience read my manga are different. So it’s really important to make sure they would end up all having a similar idea of my story, but then again, it’s really up to them how they read the manga, but then there are scenes where I want the audience to be touched, so it’s really hard." -- Kubo Tite

Thoughts? I'm bored. Make fun of me, whatever.