[Anime] Bleach

Anyway, I feel slightly stupid asking this, but while reading the new arc of the manga (ch. 210+ or something, the most recent ones), I seemed to have forgotten how Ichigo

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had that hollow inside of him.

Can anyone refresh my memory? Been a while since I picked up on it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by brknredcrayon

whats a site to watch Bleach on other than Youtube ?

Torrent sites. There should be a sticky or something about downloading anime.

About the manga, it's up to 229 as I know it. About the Chad/Inoue thing

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I don't think they have the power of a Vizard but they have some sort of power. I don't think it has been explained. Also Aizen was looking at Inoue and wondering why she's like that. At first I thought when Urahara told Inoue that she's useless in the upcoming battle (Urahara... you bastard!), I thought she was going to defect to Aizen. But glad that wasn't the case.

Still, the manga is in this "power up" mode before

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meeting up with Aizen again

so it's slow right now.

Also about the Quincy

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Ishida getting his powers back is pretty short. Still, glad he got his powers back. Just wish there was more of him.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Okay finally the manga is going somewhere.

Ch. 230

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Grimjaw is back and armless, and Ichigo is going to fight him. So far it doesn't seem like Ichigo can harness his hollow power for more than 4 seconds if I recall, so how in the world is he going to fight him now? I guess we'll see!

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Ch. 231 spoiler... Am I the only manga reader here? =\ But the M7 lq release was horrific... but beggars can't be choosers.

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Surprised Ichigo would use his hollow powers so quickly, even if he is to retain it for a mere 11 seconds. Seems like one hell of some power he's got there.

Having Urahara in action will be pretty damn sweet! It just seemed pretty sudden to have him say, "I'll go" when we barely ever see him fight. I'm psyched on this match.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I think this is the sad state of most shounen mangas, since Bleach lost its appeal after the Soul Society arc for me. For now it seems bouncing around the arrancar deal. Naruto already fell into this trap long before, like a year ago. If anything, it is rare for me to encounter a long manga (20+ vol) that kept with the rhythm since first go, although I can readily name a couple that have.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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I think all men are yuri lovers... deep down inside...

It's true about reading a chapter at a time vs. reading a volume at a time. One chapter a week doesn't hold my attention very long, but reading entire volumes at one sitting can do wonders at how you view the manga. There are pros and cons with both though.

Pros with reading full volumes in one sitting is that you get sucked in with more force, almost like you can't put it down and that you have to read as much as you can before you decide to do something else. The story unfolds more clearly. Cons with this however is that, in cases such as mine, you leave the manga hanging for around a year until next summer break, then when you pick it up again, you forget just about everything except for main characters' names or whatever else significant. The adjustment varies depending on what genre you're reading or how much knowledge of the previous volumes are needed for catching up now; it might even take rereading previous volumes to get the ball rolling once again.

Manga serials like Shounen Jump are those weekly chapters, where some pros can be you get a little dosage per week instead of heavy injections. But in the case like Bleach, it seems disconnected. And for people like me, we forget to remind ourselves every week that there's a new chapter out and don't really bother devoting ourselves to it every week. To me it's a chore to remember, and I would much rather wait until a break until I can massively download and catch up with things.

Sorry for the long rant.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Reading up to 235

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Geez, this is getting really choppy. First there are too many "surprises" that aren't really surprising, like people coming out of nowhere and pulling moves from thin air. And then switching between three battles can be kind of hard to catch. Although, my favorite parts are seeing Urahara in action. That's just plain sexy.

FELIPE NO

Caught up with the manga so far, and pretty much

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Orihime is really starting to get useless/annoying, like Sakura in Naruto. I haven't caught up with Naruto, but Orihime is one of those characters. Seeing Shinji fight the arrancar, that part was awesome. But it only lasted for like two pages. I just want this arc to finish up quickly since those individual battles aren't getting very interesting.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?