The War in Soul Society Continues with Bleach 495 Chapter titled “Bleeding Guitar Blues”. Rojuro Otoribashi is told about all the details including the one about Kira’s Reiatsu disappearing. He goes out to the battlefield to find himself an opponent. All the other Captains and Vice Captains also join in to fight the Quincies. Renji appears to battle a Sternritter, only to find out how powerful they are. Byakuya tells him to fight with all he’s got because the Quincies have come to kill every and each one of them!
Bleach 495 starts with Rojuro Otoribashi finding out that the Sternritter have defeated a large number of officers and Shinigami’s already! Tokakushi, Gori and Katakura as well as Vice Captain Kira’s Reiatsu has also disappeared! Rojuro goes on out to find a Quincy which will act as his opponent. He quickly finds one somewhere near him who heard him. The Quincy asks if someone had died, Rojuro replies to him that he would not tell him.
He reveals that where the reiatsu disappeared seemed to be Bazubi’s place, if he’s not dead, the moron screwed up. This Quincy’s name is NaNaNa Najahkoop! Rojuro asks him what he thinks friends are for, he tells him that he has no heart because Kira inspires Rojuro just like when Melodies flood into his head like tears. IF Kira dies, his Flying V would be sad too. NaNaNa tells him that he doesn’t understand a thing about the heart.
NaNaNa reveals to him that he doesn’t give a crap about the Flying V, and that Rojuro is going to be dead by the hands of NaNaNa in the next 5 Minutes! Rojuro tells him that he doesn’t know how powerful the heart is, as his Guitar is crying too because Kira may have died in these next few minutes. Rojuro warns NaNaNa that he’s not going to be leaving here alive!
At another point in Soul Society, another Quincy is attacking Shinigami’s as though they are just flies on a wall waiting to be attacked. The Quincy is Sternritter “F” As Nodt. The Shinigami’s attack are doing nothing as the needles which the Quincy posses can kill them immediately! At this point, some of the Shinigami’s start to retreat because they have no hope, someone else tells them to stand their ground no matter what!
Their duty is not to protect their own lives but to protect the Seireitei! The Quincy approaches this man and from nowhere a large sword hits the ground just in front of the man. The Shinigami looks up and notices Vice Captain Renji Abarai looking at him. Renji tells the man to stay away as he’ll handle this.
Somewhere else, another Sternritter “E” Bambietta Basterbine is going on a rampage with a smile on her face. She is stopped by the hands Sajin Komamura. He tells her that there’s even a little girl like her as a warrior of the Sternritter? She responds with the same thing but adding little puppy as Komamura. She then describes Soul Society really shorthanded as they would need such people as their captain.
At other places, Shuhei Hisagi faces a large Sternritter, Shunsui Kyoraku faces another Sternritter which has glasses and Soi Fon faces a third Sternritter who has a mask on. Jushiro Ukitake faces another Sternritter who has wild scruffy half. Toshiro Hitsugaya also faces a Sternritter who seems to wear a mask.
During Renji’s fight, he notices that his opponent, As Nodt is able to defend himself only using his hands because his attacks are doing nothing on him. He thinks about this and asks himself if this is only his ability or of all Quincies? Renji notices when he’s hit, a small mark is left on him, he decides to pick up the speed on his attacks to see what happens next.
Out of nowhere, another Quincy appears form above to take Renji on. Fortunately Renji was able to move away at the attack and the Quincy hits the ground. This Quincy is very quick. A man’s voice appears in the back, he tells him that there is no need to analyze him because there is no need to show mercy. The Quincies are showing no mercy, so the Shinigami’s should also show mercy! Byakuya appears and tells Renji to cut them down with his full powers! Bleach 495 ends here with an awesome beginning to their fight!
Wow, what an awesome chapter, these introduction to fights and how the Quincies are judging the Captains is wrong because NaNaNa is going to get his ass beat by Rojuro! Can’t wait for next week’s Bleach 496 when the war continues with all of them! Hopefully we’ll get to see the fight between Ichigo and Kirge continue! These fights are starting to get more and more epic!
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Nice build up for the fights. Seeing Shinsui fight is alone epic enough. Really interested to see Komamura-taicho get owned by the girl. XD
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Shinsui was in his shikai form, so he must be somewhat serious about it. Plus i presume that we’ll get to see his Bankai form very soon because he seems to be alone with the sternritter and hopefully kick some quincy ass lol
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Lets hope Kubo wont troll us and they wont do Bankai coz of the bankai sealing thingy the reich does. lol
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By they you mean the Quincies right?
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Nah meant Shisui, Ukitake, Unohana and co…
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ahhh Unohana, Shisui and Ukitake are going to fight, but I think only Unohana and Shisui might show their bankai…
Hopefully the Quincies wont use the sealing bankai technique u mentioned… it’s going to be epic nevertheless..
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Let the fight begin! Bankai…
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In black & white I thought As Nodt looked like a girl but seeing him colored I can clearly see he is a guy.
Bleach is really getting dark, especially considering how the anime ended in such a happy way. Don’t even get me started on that beach party filler they had 😛
I wonder how Ichigo is going to handle all this, Aizen is nothing compared to the Quincy’s.
!Spoil Alert!
Cliffhanger: The Soul Society has fallen… *Shocked Ichigo*
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You never know, As Nodt could turn out to be a girl lol.
Agree the current Final Arc is really being pushed to it’s limits! Straight Kira dies plus a thousand in the first seven minutes! That’s a massacre!!
Lol, i think alot of shinigami’s will die bringing the Royal Guards out to protect them because too many people have died…
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Aizen nothing to the Quincies? Dont think so mate. If they decide to let the beast out, he will be a mayor problem for Vandenreich. Maybe he even sides with them, who knows…
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Hmmm, he’s powerful but is he so powerful that he can beat another captain? He’s main power is the inverting of things in his dream world (if i remember correctly).. He used that power which he obtained from Rukia, thats what helped him to defeat Yamamoto and the others… That is correct right? I’m not sure myself lool
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Shinjis Sakenade is inverting things but Aizens Kyoka Suigetsu is complete hypnosis, controls all five senses. Even without Kyoka Suigetsu or the Hogyoku, not a single captain stand a chance simply coz his reiatsu and physical strenght is far beyond theirs (except Yama-ji). True the captains are way stronger after the time skip but still, Aizen with implemented Hogyoku is way too powerful. Even Kubo said in an interview that they still arent quite on his level.
If we consider that the Hogyoku is still fused with him, we shuold expect him to be beast. lol
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Either way, he’s still a beast! He’s always going to be one of those very powerful people! Absolutely forgot Shinji’s powerful of inverting and Aizen’s of complete hypnosis! It’s going to be really interesting when he does come back, Kubo said he might be in restrains which may limit his powers, and the fights which he may have will be certainly amazing! I’m sure that he’ll meet Ichigo somehow and possibly team up with him even if it sounds absolutely ludacris…
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Maybe he will be some kind of mentor to Ichigo…so clique…lol
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hmm.. that could turn out to be interesting actually, and a way for Kubo to explain Ichigo’s birth and how he’s able to see ghosts and have such a large amount of reiatsu or even why he has hollow powers in the first place without going through the procedures which the captains went a hundred years ago… Aizen would be the person to tell Ichigo some kind of massive secret like he was born a hollow or something like that lool as well as help him manage his final form because Aizen’s studied all the hollow stuff…
This could actually turn out to be something interesting.. hmm..
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aizen not up tp the quincy’s? i’m not sure about that one. I don’t even think ichigo is as strong as he used to be when he trained for three years in that cleaner timezone place. mountains were breaking by a swing of a sword. after he lost his powers the three years of training reverted and his hair got shorter again and his height. Even though he got his powers back his zanpakto isn’t attached to his arm anymore like when he was fighting aizen. From what i remember aizen was telling ichigo that it seems they both have transcended higher dimensional powers which is why there zanpaktos became attched to their arm.
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Personally I think that what your talking is about when he actually asked Zangetsu for a power up so he could use the Mugetsu and Final Getsuga Tenshou, that was is most powerful form! Aizen is powerful, but not to someone like the Vandenreich Leader. He received power from the Captains and Vice Captain and was stabbed by Rukia again, this meant that his powers have gone through the roof because last time only Rukia gave him power. Also as Ichigo can regenerate his power he will do soo but with a lot more powerful.
On top of that, His Fullbring has also been melded onto his sword and outfit, giving him a lot more power.
And yes, Aizen said that about ichigo and himself.
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