Bleach Chapter 414 – Deicide 16

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Deicide Six-frickin-teen! I’m beginning to think that deicide won’t end until the actual deicide (killing of Aizen, or the Soul King) takes place. Anyways, this chapter more than makes up for the filler-type lack of progression last chapter. All suspicions are put to rest of the most interesting character of the series; Mr. Ichimaru.

It starts where the last one left off, with Gin interrupting Aizen from killing once again. The tension between the two has been building for quite a few chapters now. Ever since his little encounter with Ichigo, my suspicions of Gin have been on the high, but this chapter pretty much answers that question.

Gin tells Aizen that he killed Matsumoto. I doubt he did, considering Gin’s following actions, but I am curious how he made her reiatsu disappear. When Aizen is about to finally finish off Ichigo’s friends so he can begin creating the key, Gin insists that he will do it instead. On his “way” toward them, he pushes Aizen’s sword down nonchalantly. In an instant, he finally makes his move, and he pierces Aizen right through the heart from behind his enormous sleeves.

Apparently, the only way to escape Kyouka Suigetsu’s abilities is to be touching the blade itself before it is activated. It took Gin decades and decades of patiently waiting to learn that one piece of vital information. That makes you think just how long he has been planning this move. A scheme of this caliber is on par, if not better than Aizen himself. Even Gin’s wardrobe was planned out from the beginning, with the enormous sleeves to mask his move. This, to me, speaks miles for Gin overall. Aizen admits that he knew about Gin’s intentions, but led him along out of curiosity. Well curiosity killed the cat…

You see, not only does Gin’s bankai make his zanpakuto the fastest, and longest, but also the sneakiest. When extending and retracting, Gin’s blade becomes dust for the slightest moment, then rematerializes. This happens so fast, not even Aizen can catch it.  When he pierced Aizen’s heart, Gin left a small fragment of the blade within the heart. Conveniently, the interior of Gin’s blade secretes a poison capable of breaking down all cells in the body, ultimately killing them.

Gin has been called many things; a snake, a fox, a traitor, but I’m gonna go with a badass. For the first time in his new form, Aizen is experiencing something known as fear. I honestly believe that if Gin attempted this before Aizen’s ascension, this would have worked, but unfortunately I don’t think this is the end of Aizen yet. Which makes me wonder just what Ichigo will have to do to really kill him off.

The last thing I want to mention is Gin’s loyalty. Obviously he isn’t loyal to Aizen. However, the question still remains as to whether he is doing this all for himself, or if he is the Gotei’s greatest double agent ever. It would explain why he whisked Matsumoto away, told Ichigo to run for his life, interrupted Aizen from killing Ichigo’s friends, and even manipulated the hallways back in Hueco Mundo to keep Ichigo’s friends safe. But his speech about being like a snake at the beginning of the chapter makes me wonder if he really is just doing this because Aizen looked so “tasty.”

Bleach Chapter 413 – Diecide 15

Alrighty then. Another Deicide just for good measure. With events going on as it is the Deicide title might even be around for more. Greedy little snob you….. Click here
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Oh well. Let’s dive into this weeks chapter. The chapter started of promising with Ishinn repeating his lines from last week and Ichigo still spitting blood. The next page shows all the other players moving around in the transferd Karakura town. Exept for one. We see a little more detail on Matsumoto. And her expression can be discribed as shocked as it looks empty. Has someone finally been properly killed in bleach. Seeing Bleach history. Probably not… I think we were all thinking that the inner battle would rage one. Well… no…. damn.

I'm on the phone woman!!

Tatsuki and Keigo finally meet up with Mizuro and Chizuru. Where you can immediately see that Mizuro is pretty calm but Chizuru is scared shit-less and she didn’t even got close to Aizen yet. As to why all of these people are awake… Probably for the same reason Orihime and Chad gotten their powers. Being close to Ichigo and co. But not too close as to awaken their own abilities (yet?). Mizuro has basically bunkerd down and has ’stolen’ food and whatnot pretty damn fast. The conversation between these kids drags on for a while it gives us a bit of comic relief, gladly Kanonji keeps his mouth pretty much shut… Chizuru being the person that wasn’t there in Urahara cave – Yeah, you know? back when ichigo departed for Hueco Mundo?- she obviously knows very little of what is going on. Not that the other 4 do, but at least they know what Ichigo is, what Chad and Ishida can do. Reality settles in as to how they should explain… They don’t get a chance however. Aizen’s presence brings down the pressure and will wreck lunch seconds later. Mizuro not having encountered Aizen before throws a bottle at him and in turns into ash. Probably to confirm what Keigo told him earlier. Aizen still acting almighty (since the whole Deicide started, and before) gets a taste of our good friend Mr. Science.

Afro-San Pwnage

Obviously… the explosion isn’t enough to even scratch the surface. Then Afro-San drops in… And even releases a shikai(never guessed he would have one). A pretty interesting one at that, well, apart from the name that is. His Zanpaktou manipulates rock and boxes in Aizen. He immediately wants to take off(so would I) but Aizen can ‘ofcourse’ also manipulate rock with the force…(what else). Just when Aizen wants crush him Gin comes in to save the day. Aizen is barely giving him a gaze, which makes me belief he’s slowly getting more and more annoyed by Gin’s presence. Almost like Aizen is trying to rid himself of his poorly working moral compass. Hell, I wonder how Gin will act from here on out. So after this chapter which wasn’t all that interesting, I wanna see what Gin will do, and if Aizen might get rid of Gin. So either way, the inner battle can wait for one more chapter for all I care.

Creepy stare contest

Any theories anybody?

Bleach Chapter 412 – Diecide 14

J is off on a mission with silent Bob, so I’ll be filling in for him here and on Mellorine. I’m not in the greatest state of mind so excuse the lack of pictures, I decided links worked just as well for 10% of the effort. I’m going to keep it short and sweet with four major points.

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1. Tatsuki: Waaaay back Tatsuki was exposed to hollows (pre-soul society arc) but she has been acting like Karin and ignoring the spirits. We later see her get re-introduced to them when Yami came to town, but she still hasn’t really come to terms with them, however in this chapter she notes Rangiku as one of “Ichigo’s friends” and in her typical R.B.D. fashion is angry at Ichigo for not mentioning her. Will her powers finally awaken and if they did would they be any use? or will she just be cannon folder for Aizen’s rampage? I’m guessing she’ll awaken her power only to have Aizen own her like everyone else.

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2. This leads to my next point. Rangiku: Last chapter she arived to save the day, after which she promtly puts Don Konoji in his place. When she was yelling at him I couldn’t help but wonder if she was talking about what she would do or Aizen… Anyway, Aizen tells Gin that they’ve got time to kill, so Gin grabs Rangiku and takes her to a roof top, where she confronts him about her actions on the premise of Izuru’s honor, but Gin promtly sees through this and tells her she is in the way.

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3. Then it skips over to Asano: We see him holding a sword, to which my first reaction was to think that he finally awakened his powers meaning Tatsuki would soon folow. But, it turns out he just took “afro-man’s” sword. Again this had me fooled thinking that Kensei was afro-man until I remembered that almost folder character who took over protecting Kakura town in Rukia’s place. This is also a reference to the rapper Afro-Man. I think his sword will shatter when Asano uses it since he isn’t pumping Reiatsu into it, OR Aizen will stab Asano with it to raise the spiritual awareness levels of Kakura town.

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4. Finnaly we switch back to Rangiku: It seems like Gin has killed her, but this whole situation has made me think of the movie “Hero” about a man who learns how to fake assasinations by stabbing a person in the correct spot on their chest. He does this in order to get close to the Chinease Emporer to take revenge for his dead brother but in the end decides that killing the Emporer would only bring more instability and death, something his brother wouldn’t want, so he uses his same fake assasination technique on the emporer. The topper for this whole connection is that the name of his technique was also the “God Killing Spear” (lance) as it was meant for the Emporer or was treated like a god. Therefor following the metaphor, I think he is simply faking Rangiku’s death to get close to Aizen.

Enjoy and discuss.

Bleach Chapter 411 – Deicide 13

Wow, I’m gone for two weeks and you guys suddenly decide to write 50 comments per chapter. I guess I must be doin’ something wrong. Or mabe it’s because of this new commenter that has the word “girl” in the name. Damn, you horny bastards! Anyway, who guessed Don Kanonji?! Anyone? Bet y’all thought it was Mizuiro or Ryuuken. That’s understandable. I thought it’d be Matsumoto, but she arrived a chapter too late. If you thought Byakya and Kenpachi mad an awful team, just think what these two could do! If Keigo comes back I’m sure this will turn out to be a great fight – Kanonji and Tatsuki vs. Aizen and Matsumoto and Keigo vs. Gin. It will possibly be better than the fight between Kon and that random alley cat. Well, I think we all know by now that Kubo reaaaaaally enjoys delaying stuff, especially important stuff, like plot development.

But anyway, let’s concentrate on what’s important here – SPIRITS AAAAAAAAAAAAARE ALWAYS WITH YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And in Ichigo’s case that’s one spirit too many. The strawberry has finally discovered the truth (which we have known for 300 chapters) – that Zangetsu and Ichigo’s inner hollow are actually one and the same. Apart they look really cool, but mixed together they look even more awesome. Their hybrid form manages to take all of the best aspects of the originals. Or perhaps it’s more appropriate to say this is the original and Zangetsu and hollow were never really meant to exist as separates. The only weird thing is that it looks like a 13-year old Ichigo with long hair, so it actually looks more like a girl…

Now Ichigo needs to beat this new Zangetsu in order obtain new powers and regain his fighting spirit. As Zangetsu said, Ichigo is terrified by the very thought of how destructive his power can be. Until he embraces the idea of being the strongest character in his own manga, Ichigo is gonna have to get his ass kicked a lot. BUt wait, that’s already happended. Ever since he first met Aizen Ichigo has done nothing but lose, or barely win with the help of some miracle. Could this mean the bad streak is almost at an end?!

And finally – how does Matsumoto plan on stopping Gin and Aizen? I’m guessing she’s just here to talk to Gin, but even if she could convince him, there’s nothing in the world she could say that wouldn’t make Aizen kill her in a second. So obviously now we’re waiting for some confessions of love and then the appearance of a new character. Or has she decided not to strugle and just join Gin and Aizen in their quest for godliness?! The worst possible mistake she could make is to try to seduce Aizen. I think we all know he only has eyes for Ichigo.