Ichigo’s path to Soul Society is Blocked – Urahara analyzes Quincy Powers – Bleach 499

Bleach 499 has an epic start with an epic end. We find out that Ichigo is on his way to Soul Society when Kirge Opie stands up again to block his path. Kirge blocks the end as well as captured Ichigo within a cage, he then blocks the entrance so Ichigo is left in there until he’s saved or destroys the cage. Urahara tells Akon everything he knows about the Quincy’s power as he was observing Ichigo in his fight with Kirge.

Bleach 499 starts of with one of the research members that Ichigo Kurosaki is currently making his way to Soul Society in order to help. Orihime and Chad are currently within Hueco Mundo, they wish they can help but they are told by Urahara to look for a metallic plate as big as a palm somewhere with Kirge. Urahara will explain everything to Orihime and Chad once they’ve analyzed Kirge.

One of the research members is crying in happiness as they find out that everything will be okay as Ichigo will definitely come to save Soul Society from the Quincy’s. Currently, Akon tells Ichigo everything he knows, 2245 Soldiers, 16 Seats and 1 Vice Captain’s Reiatsu has vanished. The numbers of dead are increasing as they speak. A lot of damage has also been done to the buildings.

Ichigo asks if Reiatsu vanishing means that they’ve died. Akon tells Ichigo that both Rukia and Renji are both okay as their Reiatsu still good and showing. Ichigo tells him that it’s not what he’s asking. There are at least 16 individuals who are at captain-rank in power if not superior! They call themselves the Sternritter (Stern Ritter) who wear white Quincy outfits. At this point there are currently no dead Quincy’s, they have not yet won a single battle!

Ichigo asks what they’re abilities are, Akon tells him that they still have no information on this, however Akon does tell Ichigo that they have the ability to steal Bankai’s. This information comes from the Captains of the 2nd, 6th, 7th and 10th Division who’ve had their Bankai’s stolen. Ichigo is shocked at this point as even they couldn’t beat the Stern Ritter, he’s shocked at their amazing powers.

Urahara taps into their phone call to tell them about the enemies abilities, which he analysed from the information he gathered from Ichigo’s battle with Kirge. There are 3 main Quincy abilities. The first is the Quincy Vollstandig, where they change their appearance as well as their power. The second is an ability called Blut. Blut is an ability which uses Reishi to flow in their blood vessels allowing them to increase their attack and defense powers drastically.

Blue is very dangerous but has one flaw. The Blut for attacking and defending works using two different Reishi systems, thus they aren’t able to use them at the same time. The third is the ability to steal Bankai’s which was shown when Kirge tries taking Ichigo’s abilities but failed. Urahara tells Akon that they use a metallic plate to take Bankai’s, he will examine it to see how it works. Urahara tells Akon that they waited for Ichigo to go to Hueco Mundo in order to invade Soul Society. Ichigo is told to be wary of their powers.

A light passes through Ichigo’s side which goes to the Soul Society end of the path, Ichigo notices that many of them go right to the door and block them with the light. Once the door Soul Society end door is closed, Ichigo tells Urahara that the exit was blocked. We can see that both Orihime and Chad have both been seriously injured, Chad has multiple holes within his body dues to the attacks sent by Kirge.

Kirge Opie gets up to enable his Ransou Tengai. He tells Urahara that he won’t let him go to Soul Society even if it costs him his life, he’s going to take his Majesties orders seriously right until the end. He tries to stop Ichigo at all costs. He then sends another attack which is blocked by Ichigo but then splits into forming a cage like object trapping Ichigo.

Ichigo is shocked at what he’s done. Kirge is currently laughing at the fact that he’s finally caught Ichigo. He tells him that he was almost able to get to Soul Society, but he won’t be able to protect of get to Soul Society because of the cage. Kirge tells him that he’s lost as he’s going to be stuck in that dark cage. Kirge then shuts the Hueco Mundo entrance. Kirge is blocked his path! Bleach 499 ends here!

Wow! That was literally an epic chapter! Kirge Opie is going on a full on battle to stop Ichigo at any cost. He’s possibly going to die in the next chapter! I presume that within next week’s Bleach 500, Urahara will finally show some of his fighting skill against Kirge has he’s possibly pissed off right now, also Orihime and Chad may not be watching! Kirge may be getting a brutal beating from Urahara!

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I’m Ivan Azgiaro – Bleach 481

Today’s Bleach 481, titled The Tearing, with caption Gentler and Much Much Stronger, is an amazing chapter addition, as it reveals us what has happened to some of the members of the Visored/Vizards. We also get an introduction from a mysterious arrancar-looking man suddenly appears behind Ichigo and introduces himself as Ivan Azgiaro.

We start this chapter as Hiyori is coming back from the public bath. She is walking with a tub of shampoos and conditioners on her head. She has Lisa accompanying her while suddenly she’s able to smell Shinigami. She notices that a certain whole has been made in the air, as though something has gone in or came out from this.

We see that Yuki Ryunosuke wakes up from his 24 hours sleep after the incident in the previous chapter when he was attacked by hollows. Ichigo quickly dismisses him after he has waken up since he doesn’t want any more trouble.

At this point, Orihime, Uryu and Chad walk into Ichigo’s room. Orihime brings bread to eat while Uryu and Chad just walk behind her. Ichigo complains that the bread must be unpopular thus they must be throwing it away.

Ichigo quickly switches on Ishida and complains how they never ring the bell and always run into the room when ever they want. Ishida tells Ichigo that they ran into Yuzu who is Ichigo’s little sister.

Yuki shouts out randomly and is told to shut up by Ichigo. Ichigo then goes on to tell what happened after Yuki became unconscious. Ichigo cut a Hollow’s head completely in half. Uryu was also there to shoot his arrows and do lots of damage.

As Orihime finishes her first-aid treatment she leaves the small injuries to be healed after the hollows are all dealt with. At this point, they all do a bad ass pose showing that they have all grown up and gained a lot of power.

Yuki is then told to enter his Gigai body so he could gain some energy by eating the bread brought in by Orihime. Yuki then notices that his friend Shino walks in with some groceries, they both get teary eyed as they are glad that they are okay. Ichigo, Uryu, Orihime and Chad start eating the bread as both Yuki and Shino start fighting.

We move onto where Ikkaku is located, in a forest, where he has some news about the people at Rukongai. Since they are vanishing on their own with no cause. Since some kind of mysterious force is causing this to happen.

When Ichigo realizes that he hasn’t asked Yuki for his name, he does so, while a mysterious looking man appears behind Ichigo, standing on his bead. This man realizes that he should introduce himself. this man wears something very similar to what a Arrancar would wear, which are usually a long cloth which has multiple number of buttons.

Ivan Azgiaro, he says, he carry’s on by saying if Ichigo has any further questions. At this point, Ichigo states that he doesn’t know this person and thus he forces Ivan to get off his bed.

What a fantastic chapter that was. Lots of things happened there, Hiyori’s still in the loving world, Yuki and Shino are okay, Ichigo and his friends are now a lot stronger and now we get introduced to a new characters! Next week’s Bleach 482, I’m sure Ivan will explain himself and why he’s there.

Your Fullbring Is Mine – Bleach 360

A very shocking episode as Ichigo realizes that Ishida is in his side, while Tsukishima and Ginjo are both on the opposing start, the performance Ginjo gave was both convincing as well as dark, since it brought the whole plan together.

We start this fantastic episode with Moe Shishigawara entering the scene to fight Ginjo. Surprisingly, Ginjo could not detect the type of power that Moe has, although Ginjo was somewhat afraid of his power as he wasn’t able to see anything on this hands that would do such a thing.

At this point, Ichigo if fighting Tsukishima, but every blow Ichigo goes to hit Tsukishima with, both Inoue and Chad come and stop him. This allows Tsukishima to get an advantage both in numbers as well as mentally because Ichigo doesn’t fully understand what is going on here.

Tsukishima explains his powers to Ichigo, Book of the End, splits the past. Tsukishima’s Fullbring powers doesn’t manipulate time and memories, but in fact it has the ability to insert Tsukishima’s ‘presence’ into a person’s past, when Tsukishima slices someone like he did with Orihime and Chad.

Tsukishima then taunts Ichigo that he and he only has the only memory which is fake, Ichigo then looses it and attacks him right on, and is stopped Orihime’s shield. Chad then attacks Ichigo, which is stopped by only one hand from Ichigo, showing how powerful Ichigo has gotten just within this form. Chad starts to complain to Ichigo that he didn’t become strong to fight him, but in fact became strong to fight Tsukishima which has currently got Chad under his control.

Ichigo is punched out of the room by Chad’s Brazo Izquieda Del Diablo. Here, Ichigo now has the ability to fight Tsukishima properly, as Orihime and Chad are not going to get in the middle due to them fighting in the air.

We return back to Ginjo’s fight, Jackie Tristan releases her Dirty Boots Fullbring, Giriko Kutsuzawa does the same by releasing his Time Tells No Lies Fullbring. Riruka also releases her Dollhouse Fullbring, which is in the form of a Gun.

Moe then comes behind Ginjo and hits the guard which broke off. His Fullbring Jackpot Knuckle has the ability to control the odds and draw out the jackpot right from the start. Depending on the odds, the higher the odds the more powerful the attack while the lower the odds the less powerful the attack.

Outside, Tsukishima realizes that Ichigo has grown a lot more powerful as he is now able to release the Getsuga Tensho even in Fullbring mode. His powers have reawakened as well as the speed of his attacks are way faster than Tsukishima had anticipated.

Moe is then left to make sure that Ginjo is pushed outwards outside where Ichigo and Tsukishima are. As Tsukishima is going to be hit, Ginjo puts himself in the middle which causes him to be stabbed by Tsukishima.

Ginjo thinks that the effects of his Fullbring will take effect at a point, but in fact he then realizes that his original memories come back, this was due to him being stabbed a second time. This was all a plan for Ginjo to get stabbed once more at a specific time where Ichigo will feel as though Ginjo is his ally.

At this moment, Uryu Ishida appears, Ichigo thinks that, as Ishida was stabbed by Tsukishima, he is on the opposing side. Ishida tells Ichigo to come to Ishida’s side while he has his Ginrei Kojaku. He aims at what seems Ichigo, but as Ginjo gets up, Ishida yells “The guy who cut me, is the guy standing behind you!”, and sends a shot at Ginjo.

At this exciting moment, Ichigo then is cut horridly but Ginjo. He then explains that a second stab from Tsukishima neutralizes the effects from the sword. Ginjo’s Substitute Badge appears and places it over his sword, this changes the guard of it, giving it a skull on the guard. Ginjo ends this episode by saying “Your Fullbring Is Mine” and then stabbing Ichigo with his sword.

What a cruel episode, Ichigo must be going through a bunch of emotions right now, although I’m sure next week’s Bleach 361 episode, he’s going to kick everyone’s ass, since something BIG is coming up! And also don’t forget to tell me what you guys thought about today’s episode.

Ichigo vs Tsukishima – Bleach 359

Ichigo has gone crazy for a while now. In Bleach 359, Ichigo finally gets his chance to fight Tsukishima, but then his best friends, Chad and Orihime appear with confused faces while Ichigo is absolutely shocked by Orihime healing Tsukishima.

We start the episode with Ichigo and Ginjo running away to the hideout. They find out that Yukio is also there, but not to fight. Ginjo asks him how he was able to find them, his explanation was that he had left a type of tracer on Ginjo which allows Yukio to track them.

They are lead to Tsukishima house. They found out that all his friends are there, this includes: Yuzu, Karin, Tatsuki, Keigo, Mizuiro and Ikumi. They are all there so they  can help Ichigo get over the incident about the punch, as well as making Ichigo apologize to Tsukishima for this mistake.

Ichigo becomes angered and runs to find out where Tsukishima is as he wants to kill him for what his done. Ginjo described that Tsukishima can change people’s past memories, which he has done to Ichigo’s friends and family.

Naruto enters a room to find that members of the Xcution are inside, Riruka, Giriko and Jackie all surround him while Tsukishima comes forward. We then see a large enough explosion, Ginjo walks in ready to fight. As Ichigo’s task was to fight Tsukishima, they are able to do so while Ginjo takes Giriko, Jackie and Riruka on.

We see that within this fight, Tsukishima is really surprised to see that Ichigo has been able to quickly gain his Fullbring. He also notices that his Fullbring abilities are way more advanced that he had expected. Ichigo then gets really serious about this match as he wants to kill Tsukishima.

An unexpected attack appears by Chad and Orihime, as they step in the scene. As Tsukishima was previously injured, Inoue quickly heals him with a worried face. Here Chad tries to remind of all the times when Tsukishima was there to help them to conquer and win, during the fight between Aizen and Ichigo or when they went to save Inoue from Hueco Mundo.

Ichigo becomes shocked and looses his concentration, this opportunity allows Tsukishima to get close to him, this makes Ichigo strike his sword and miss. Then Ichigo keeps pushing to kill Tsukishima.

Within the next Bleach 360, Ichigo will have a real tough time while killing Tsukishima as both of his friends Orihime and Chad will be there to stop him, as they have both been taken under Tsukishima’s Fullbring technique. It’s going to be one very emotional yet exciting episode.

Friends with Shukuro Tsukishima – Bleach 357

Bleach 357 is one crazy episode. Starting off with Ichigo training to perfect his Fullbring, while both Inoue and Chad go to school to have a normal day.

We start of with Orihime and Chad walking to school, they both talk about what Tsukishima’s Fullbring ability is. Both of them have been cut by his blade, but had no effect until this episode. His abilities start to appear within Orihime as her most fond memory of herself and her brother come back, but with a dark figure which has a face looking like Tsukishima’s.

As they arrive at school, they are greeted by Tatsuki and Keigo. Both Chad and Orihime notice that their friends have had contact with someone possessing strong Spiritual Pressure.

When they both go to the Hospital to see how Ishida is doing, they notice that he has escaped from the hospital. As he could have finally remembered who had cut him in the first place.

As they go to the Miyashita High School, they notice that Moe Shishigawara is not there and had to run as the other school kids were running after them. They came to a stop below a railway, at this time Orihime started to see different things which meant that Tsukishima’s powers were taking effect.

Orihime started to see how when she was little, Tsukishima came to help her out or when they went with Tsukishima to Soul Society to get Rukia back. She being confused had an effect as they weren’t able to kill him.

Angry Chad, opens his Fullbring and starts out with a massive explosive attack. Both Chad and Tsukishima start to fight on top of a building while Orihime helps her using her powers.

When Chad is close enough, he opens his Brazo Izquierdo Del Diablo, which really does take an effect on Tsukishima as he is now really injured, even if his quick. Chad shouts for Orihime to attack, at this moment Tsukishima gets Orihime under his attack and her vision of her brother changes to Tsukishima.

Out of panic, Chad attacks and is quickly taken under Tsukishima’s special ability also. This meant that both of them are now under his full control. Both unconscious on the pavement, at this moment, Bleach 357 ends!

Well that was an amazing episode. Really can’t wait for next week’s Bleach 358 episode when Ichigo is really to open his Fullbring. This is when the real panic is going to kick in for Ichigo. All his family and friends will turn on him and make him go crazy.

Goodbye Ginjo – Bleach 479

As we conclude this part of the arc. Ginjo was certainly a great bad guy. Starting out as a good guy and turning bad in the middle of the chapter. In my opinion Ginjo was probably one of the best evil characters in Bleach with Aizen and Jin Kariya.

Bleach 479 starts out when Urahara goes into Riruka’s room to find her missing. Urahara had already predicted that she would leave sometime without mentioning where she’s going.

As seen in the images above, she is standing on top of a railing thinking about what she’s going to do next. At this moment she thanks Ginjo for inviting her into Xcution. Thank’s Chad for believing is them. Thanks Orihime for crying for her. Thanks Ichigo for bringing her peace.

Ichigo vs. Tsukishima – Bleach 353

What an interesting episode Bleach 353 has been. Ichigo finally meets the person who stabbed Uryu Ishida (Or it is? ;) ). Ginjo defends Ichigo from Tsukishima’s harm and the Xcution HQ gets a hole. Like they didn’t any light in there.

If you guys didn’t watch last week’s episode, read about the fight between Jackie Tristan and Ichigo Kurosaki here.

Today’s episode first starts with Riruka’s Dollhouse being cut while Jackie and Ichigo bring thrown out. We see Jackie nearly being killed due to the overwhelming power Ichigo has. She becomes unconscious because she’s ran out of reiatsu.

As Chad looks at Ichigo’s new look, he notices that it looks a lot like a Shihakusho (A Garment a Soul Reaper is required to wear). He first presumes that his Soul Reaper powers have returned, but then questions himself and says it’s a Clad-Type Fullbring. For Ichigo, wearing his power is his true form.

Tsukishima then strikes Ichigo with his sword to test, how well Ichigo can defend himself. Ichigo asks who he is and Tsukishima replies “I’m Shukuro Tsukishima”. As soon as he says this, Chad jumps up and tries to smash Tsukishima, instead he smashes a hole in the Xcution HQ wall.

Outside, Ichigo hears Chad and Ginjo talking about how Orihime was attacked by Tsukishima. Ichigo then realizes that his friends were so concerned about him. At this point Ichigo goes on an all out attack on Tsukishima to kill him for attacking Orihime and Uryu.

Ginjo has been very shocked at Ichigo progression of getting his Fullbring, since he’s going at a very quick pace. When we saw Ichigo used his Bringer Light during Jackie Tristan’s fight, he used it again here. Ginjo gets very shocked here also. As always Ichigo keeps attacking, both using the Bringer Light on the concrete as well as the air to catapult himself to where Tsukishima is. As he does this, Tsukishima attacks him and Ichigo’s Fullbring disappears from his left arm. This is similar to his Bankai, his reiatsu corresponds to his wear-able cloths.

As Tsukishima goes for the crucial blow, Ginjo steps in to save Ichigo. For those who are unaware of Tsukishima’s Fullbring and what effects it has on objects and people, I’ll explain. Well, Tsukishima can insert his “presence” into the pasts of whatever he cuts with his sword such as, people or objects, and appears to gain knowledge of the memories that have been altered. To those affected by this power, it doesn’t matter whether they trust him or not. To them, Tsukishima was always a part of their past. From somewhere in their lives, as family, a friend or lover, he is deeply entrenched into their personal lives, even to the point of usurping other’s roles in history. If Tsukishima cuts the same person twice, they will return to normal.

This might come to a surprise to most of you, but Ginjo was cut once before by Tsukishima, and when Tsukishima strikes Ginjo this time, the presence of Tsukishima on Ginjo is wiped clean. From this point on, the attitude Ginjo has on Ichigo changes. From what he says “Now shut up and go to sleep.” to when Ginjo elbows Ichigo right in the neck.

From this point on, Ginjo has probably got his memories back and thus knows what’s going on. And the fight between Tsukishima and Ginjo was also somewhat fake as they both weren’t giving it all, all when Ginjo released his Fullbring powers from his sword which smashed and toppled a building.

As they both fight, Ichigo attacks Tsukishima from the back. Attack after attack, Tsukishima and Chad both notice that Ichigo’s attack has changed, to a little from like Ginjo’s. As they both fight, Ichigo’s pressure increases dramatically and his reiatsu goes from his black reiatsu to his old black and red reiatsu. Tsukishima’s hand gets burned in the process. “Your power is now much closer to the power you once possessed.” This said by Tsukishima, hints that Tsukishima has been looking at Ichigo for a long time now.

As Ichigo goes for an attack, Yukio steps in with his Fullbring “Invaders Must Die” to lock up Ichigo as this fight progresses. As Ginjo mentioned, Ichigo should stop fighting with his current incomplete Fullbring, and should finish it before he is killed.

What a fantastic episode that was. Plus the number of words that I’ve written is blowing my mind. I guess, amazing episodes deserve a cool 750+ word blog post. I’m sure next week’s Bleach 354 episode will be incredible!