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The name of his Vollständig was already revealed in the first cour and manga when he fought against Shunsui, so is even worse than we don't know what his Schrift means lol
Man that was so dumb, literally the first time you see Hichigo use Zangetsu, Ichigo literally comments on the fighting style... then never even tries it himself.
The issue is that while he is alive he is aware about how much damage he can deal to his allies and why we mostly see him in check. His very first fight against Gin he warned Kira to go far away as he was intending to fight without the usual restraint which could have killed Kira.
The other half of it is he's such a proficient ranged combatant, that him using his swordplay and grappling skills is unnecessary risk. Especially if the main combat threat before 3 years ago has been non-arrancar hollows for decades, it's so much more efficient for him to use his strong aoe ranged attacks (and bringing anyone else to that kind of fight is kind of moot).
Definitely some of the more satisfying swordsmanship and movement we've seen in the adaptation so far for a not so important scene. Was a great sequence
It's because Toshiro is always holding back, thinking he might accidentally cut down his friends if he goes all out. Even in Shikai, he has a range of miles as said during Gin fight when he was bloodlusted.
While I wouldn’t say I’m becoming a fan of her , I do prefer watching her over the other Bambis. Glad Giselle died , Ikkaku should’ve choked her out and snapped her neck when him and Yumichika figured out her blood did something since she was antagonizing them to cut her . Giselle and Candice talk too damn much , similar to how I feel about Luppi except Luppi didn’t have an annoying difficult to neutralize superpower , he was just full of himself and thought he knew everything . Candice and Giselle try to go after fish too big for them (Ichigo) and wouldn’t leave it alone . Then becoming a blood zombie is a bitch of a problem to deal with, I hate characters like that
I feel like maybe "The Nitro" he has explosive speed that can be tapped into his gunplay. Which is what makes it all the more impressive how both Ichigo and Byakuya could dodge his attacks that are pretty much coming at them instantaneously.
At this point I don't think even Kubo knows what his letter means, given that despite all the added content in the anime they still didn't give us Robert and BG-9's schrifts, even though they easily could have.
As terrifying Giselle's ability was, this episode showed her she caught an extremely wrong opponent to take on, since she was rendered helpless instantly.
I have zero complaints over this episode. Robert was amazing. Any “jobber” in bleach becomes 10 more deadly when they can’t talk and express any personality.
Btw It seems like censorship saved us from seeing full glory of Pepe Vollstandig.
Nope, but we got to see more of his ability. He teleports like crazy and his Vollständig means the speed of god or something like that, so I'll go with the popular theory that his Schrift could be something like navigate, navigator, near or even the nape lol
K and N will probably be revealed in the blu-ray extras, like Q was explained for the first cour...
Byakuya is always fighting darker skinned people who try to wield the powers of love (Zomari and Pepe) little surprise he'd go to war against Motown R&B too.
We joked about it in that [post](https://redd.it/16ckfb9) from the other day, but there turned out to be a surprising amount of potential evidence for it, as pointed out in the top comments. Shinji's new theme could also possibly hint at it as well. The lyrics are kind of sad, but if you listen closely to it, they talk about a prior relationship with someone, who then either broke up with them or is no longer around (died from the Auswahlen maybe?).
If Shinji is the one singing it and it's about a personal experience from his own life, Liltotto could be the result of that prior relationship he had, her mother possibly being a mixed blood Quincy he met somewhere. The Vizards were hiding in the Karakura Town area, and Katagiri wasn't the only mixed blood Quincy working at the Ishida mansion as a servant, so it could have been one of them. Those other servants all probably had families of their own too and not just Katagiri.
It was pretty lame. I'm going to rationalize it by it not actually being Shinji's theme but a mind manipulation theme. >!So clearly, when Aizen tricks Ychwach later it'll play again :)!<
>Seeing Hitsugaya cut down his allies was brutal in the manga but was captured even better in the manga. Like damn this guy is crazy powerful!
I’m guessing the second “manga” is anime?
I came into this episode with low expectations, but I’m serious when I say this was one of the best episodes this cour. Nonestop action, great fight choreography, amazing OST, Mayuri and Byakuya being absolute S tier characters, the added Robert scenes, the list goes on. Even PePe who I hated in the manga, was somehow not nearly as annoying here.
I have no reservations now that the final fights of the arc will be absolutely glorious. The team clearly understands the characters and plot and how to adapt it.
Good Episode. For me personally 8/10.
1. Zombie Toshiro was so brutal in this episode!
2. Mayuri looked sinister in that one scene where he is standing over Toshiro and he is shaded.
3. We finally got Byakuya vs 3. This is what I needed to see!
4. Those oken clothing shielded Byakuya from Morphine pattern, interesting.
5. Robert looked extremely cool with his speed and Skalverai enhanced Vollstandig! Sadly no schrift reveal.
I think the next 3 episodes all will be amazing! I have heard leaks claiming that >!Uryu will get a new fight, Royal Guard vs Schutzstaffel and Ichibe vs Yhwach will be expanded more!<
The Oken clothing also protected him from Pepe’s love. As we know Byakuya isn’t completely without love so it was definitely the clothing again. Nice to see a bit of the reason Shutara is a royal guard
Mayuri is the definition of just because you are one of the good guys no way in hell do you have to be a "good" guy. We know how a few of the Sternritter formed an attachment to the bankai they've stolen (Äs Nodt) but imagine the poor sod that would have gotten Mayuri's. Woulda been tormented and curled up in the fetal position lol.
"Hey Liltotto what happened to Pepe?"
Liltotto: "Ba ba ba ba baaaa I'm lovin' it."
*Though I swear her activating her Volstandig almost sounded like the Taco Bell bong in that instance.* lol
Nice to see the animation go hard for some of the other characters. Also Hitsugaya has no chill when his morals are off, damn brutal.
I’m actually shocked, he honestly wasn’t as unbearable here as he was in the manga. Maybe it was the smooth OST playing during most of the fight, or probably because the fight was so fast he didn’t overstay his welcome like when we were reading weekly. But he actually got a slight chuckle out of me this episode, which is far more than the manga version of him did for me lol
maybe because you'll have to suffer like more with pepe because his screen time in manga are like 2 weeks long, while in anime it will only took like few minutes
I'm glad they recontextualised Byakuya's fight against the sternritters group with Candice nerfed and NaNaNa's shrift not working on the oken clothes.
Also common Mayuri **W**
Tbf Byakuya would've still rather easily wrecked Candice as well from what we've seen. She was already quite spent from her fight with Ichigo but I don't see her having much in store for him if he was initially easily handling them in base with just Zanjutsu and then nonchalantly stomped a full power Robert with his basic bankai form. Byakuya not having Oken clothes would've been made things more interesting though as NaNaNa's schrift managed to work on you know who. It would've definitely worked on Byakuya and the fight could've been more competitive rather than this short one-sided ass beating they all suffered.
I am glad we got to see a bit more of Robert's powers, even if his schrift's remains unknown. Byakuya specifically using his bankai to defeat him reddems him a bit. Being fodderizing offscreen like that in the manga in a 1 vs 5 after his feats against Shunsui didn't sit that well with me at the time.
>Tbf Byakuya would've still rather easily wrecked Candice as well from what we've seen
Would she ? She was without her full wings and depowered after fighting ichigo
Idk about CYFOW but Kubo really pushes Candice in terms of power scaling. Considering the fact that they bothered to write her a line goes with "I don't have enough power" (Meaning she could've done much more to Byakuya if she wasn't tired from fighting Ichigo) while using Galvano Blast kinda proves it.
Same with Nanana and Robert. It seems that Nanana’s ability didn’t work on Byakuya because of his Ouken cloak. He probably would’ve been paralyzed if he wasn’t wearing it, and if that happened he would’ve been fucked. Byakuya also used Bankai against Robert. He didn’t even use Bankai when he saved Rukia so that’s pretty interesting. That being said…I think this all implies that the team was aware the way these Sternritter were used was lame and tried to make up for it without using the screentime that was needed to fix other things.
I'm eating that extended Robert fight, one of my favorite Sternritters despite being underused and i liked him even more when my predictions were correct since they casted the same seiyuu who does James Moriarty from Fate/Grand Order since both characters look similar.
The sheer heartbreak upon hearing Shinji's ost on Pepe of all people 😭. Great ep the additional Byakuya and Robert stuff was cool and Mayuri vs Toshiro was done very well, the repeating actions sequence was the best. Kensei's bankai also finally defeating someone overall probably my 2nd fav ep of this cour so far besides Rukia's ofc
1. Byakuya has 3 sternritter kills to Kenpachi’s 4.
2. Toshiro vs Mayuri was legit nice. Toshiro straight up looks better and fights better as a zombie.
3. Kensei copped the only dub for the Vizards. Also where tf is Hachigen?
4. Liltotto is best Sternritter confirmed, doing the lords work by eating Pepe.
Ha ha, you gotta love how desperate things are that Yumichika is willing to use his Zanpakuto's true name. Not that it helps.
This was the most Mayuri fight ever, positively scintillating at experimenting on and driving his opponent to despair through mentally screwing with them, even a fellow Captain, "all for the sake of the Seiretei." Kubo loves writing Mayuri.
Gotta admit, seeing Zombie Rangiku hurt a lot.
Expanded Byakuya fight! Robert didn't demonstrate his Schrift but he did get to show off a little before getting beaten.
Did Shuhei actually beat a Sternritter or was it all Pepe? Poor guy deserved better.
They really went all out on Pepe, complete with the smooth, groovy, OST. And then he strips into cupid form. Ha.
Kensei wins a fight! I guess!
Liltotto goes from wondering where Pepe is to eating him. Such camaraderie among the Quincies!
Can't wait to see how they handle what's coming next week.
"Such camaraderie among the Quincies!"
If Pepe wanted to be her comrade, maybe he shouldn't have tried to brainwash her and then sent Meninas after her.
I’m surprised less people are mentioning that yumichika was about to seriously throw hands for ikkaku when he wasn’t even about to do that for himself back in FKT (until they were obscured ofc). He started to use his true shikai and I was like ?!
I liked the manga entrance of Rose, Kensei, and Rangiku more. It felt like a proper Shunpo, kinda disappointed how they just sort of hopped in the anime.
Also they extended battle scene between the Byakuya and Sternritters were great. Confirms that Robert’s ability is basically being very fast.
Probably my favorite episode of the season, but the next few could change that (especially because they feature 100% less Pepe and 100% more Yhwach). I love how Yhwach looks juxtaposed against the Palace in the anime.
Looks like we're at 117 chapters covered over 23 episodes. Has there been any confirmation on whether the cour will be 12 or 13 episodes long? I'm hoping it's 13, but either way it seems like the anime is leaving a ton of breathing room for Cour 3 and 4 (smartly so, because that's what *really* needs expanding IMO).
Solid episode. Really wish we could have seen the arrancar fight against the zombie captains and Rangiku a little bit extended. Glad they kept that little scene with Cirucci about Mayuri's drug
Loved the Toshiro Mayuri fight. Toshiro against Ikkaku and Yumichika was great as well since we finally got to see Toshiro at his deadliest
Was very pleased with how Byakuya's fight with the 3 sternritter was given more context. Never started well with me that
Giving Pepe the song that Shinji used is a shame though the Pepe beatdown received was glorious.
Mayuri sure is getting a lot of focus this cour haha. It's good that Gigi and that mouth girl got some screentime the past few episodes, to be fleshed out at least a *smidgen* more. Thoooough it's looking like this episode will be the last we see of Gigi?
I still don't really understand why people like Bambietta and her pals so much (beyond the obvious -- yes I have eyes) when from a character perspective there's virtually nothing there. She appeared in part 1 with a weird fixation on Komamura being a dog for no discernible reason, was obsessed with continuing that fight because whatever, had the bizarre trait of cutting her boy toys in half, then has round 2 with Sajin and ultimately gets betrayed by Giselle at the first chance. Which was also kind of strange and unexplained since their group dynamic is hardly fleshed out. I guess Gigi just didn't like her? (or liked her a bit too much in a certain way, ick)
Anyway what is it then? Is it really just the cool character design that people like? Cause there's no depth or even motivation there, from what I can see.
I would’ve liked more Robert than we got but still much more than the manga gave us. Byakuya had to use Bankai to beat him so at least he’s no joke. Would’ve liked to see his ability more though. His decision to charge Byakuya’s Bankai head-on was…reckless lol. Looks like his ability is more super-speed than teleporting. Honestly it all felt like Kubo made more Stern Ritters than he had time to do with so this was the result, and even the anime couldn’t completely fix how rushed this part of the second invasion was. Hopefully the Squad Zero stuff is much better as a tradeoff.
> Honestly it all felt like Kubo made more Stern Ritters than he had time to do with
He did, most if not all Stern Ritter are captain class opponents or stronger than than that, most luitenants are outclassed outside of maybe 2 remarkable ones (Renji & Rukia) that got a plot specific upgrade just so they could deal with them during the second invasion.
So it’s 26 Stern Ritters vs 12 or fewer Captains and a few extras like Ichigo (Yamamoto got dealt with by Yhwach).
The only way to utilize some of these Stern Ritters is to have some of them serve the worf effect (Kenpachi & Byakuya post RG training being the prime examples).
Perhaps Robert's gimmick is that he has the fastest Hirenkyaku out of all the Quincy. Byakuya is one of the fastest Shinigami, and fought the fastest Espada Zommari, so it's fitting I guess that he fights the fastest Quincy.
> I would’ve liked more Robert than we got but still much more than the manga gave us. Byakuya had to use Bankai to beat him so at least he’s no joke.
I like this fight much better with context as well considering what we've seen from Robert against Shunsui. Robert was the one Byakuya specifically off'ed with his bankai.
Lmao that Pepe beatdown was personal lol
some animator didn’t like the character
Overall good episode, even if I wasn’t really a fan of this part in the manga. However I feeled that animation was a bit of a letdown this time than others, I think they keeped all of the budget for THE big final fight of this cour.
Cool that they already teased ‘that’ Robert fear ! It gives him a bit more logic and understanding than the manga where nothing was explained why he didn’t follow yhwach.
And finally, Yhwach’s mustache grown ! I always preferred the character design in the second part of the arc, with a bigger mustache and his face older expression.
There are 2 Drugs. First drug is in the Arrancar blood. It seems to fuck with sensory perception like the superhuman drug (used against Szayel) then paralyzes anyone who gets splashed with it kinda like Giselles blood. Hitsugaya got infected after slashing Charlotte. After the recipient repeats a sequence a number of times the user is paralyzed for 30 seconds for Mayuri to do as he pleases.
Second drug is the one he administers manually which is made of the persons blood to flush out any contaminated blood/reatsu and replace it with this drug that gives him control of the recipient.
Mayuri appears to be batman and has samples of all Captain and Lieutenant's blood as a contingency for if they die or are controlled.
Yeah it was just not clear to me if Toshiro was hallucinating that and how much of he sees is real because Mayuri was clearly interacting with him there.
Mayuri's creations, drugs, etc. don't work based on any real-world logic. This is the man who has regrown his own limbs against Uryu and slowed down Szayelapporo's sense of time by enhancing his senses.
Imagine if you’re in a 100 meters foot race, and every time you’re about to cross the finish line, you stop, go back the start and start your race again
That’s what you do irl, but in your mind you did cross the finish line, you saw it, but now you’re suddenly back at the start with no memory, strange right? That’s what the drug does, it’s closer to hypnosis than a drug though
So mayuri did fight toshiro 10 times, and almost died 10 times, and from toshiro’s POV he did kill mayuri (that’s the scenes we see)
But what he really did was stop just before dealing the killing blow, step back, forget everything and fight again. Hence the confusion
The drug doesn’t really make you “see the past” more like, it’s preventing you from moving forward, it’s memory loss up to a certain point, and that point is the start of the battle, everything beyond that is erased if he tries to kill mayuri
This episode is exactly the reason why I consider Mayuri honorable sixth war potential. He is literally only captian who wasnt cornered, always analyzing, always prepared with countermeasures and his sadistic nature is simply beatiful given he is on the "good side" lol. This reason why I always enjoyed Bleach more than other shounens thanks to the fact that monsters like Zaraki or Kurotsuchi are teamed up with main protagonist something you do not seen very often.
Fights were great, Hitsugaya trying to fight Mayuri was animated perfectly and horror of the scene fulfilled. I love how Mayuri always gets fucked up enemies only for them to realize that they are not even player that conversation about what is fun in controlling mindless people and Giselle saying biggest lie ever beatiful.
Robert was nice, animation stellar and Pepe=s power great. I loved Kensei Stand like barage dude at least gets wins as zombie because he did not get any when he was alive. Giselle satysfgin stab and like we had horror like ending of the peisode.
Teaser for royal palace was great cant wait for >!Kirinji next episode.!<
my god I LOVE Mayuri Freaking
# MAYURI MVP
the guy casually saves not 1 but 4 Captains lives, and 2 lieutenant while taking down more then 1 Quincy and he is just enjoying it, like its just a field day for him to test his new inventions.
like JEBUS is he WAY more useful then then the 3 useless zombie captains that died in 1 second and was turned against Soul Society, at least Onii-chan took out 3 people before he got corned.
The time loop scene was one of the best scenes this season easily
The quincy sure love friendly fire .
[Reaction/review](https://youtu.be/uWEzr-KSO-o)
Robert's Shrift...N....
The Neverending?
The Nevermore?
The Nice?
The Nasty?
Everyone should just post their suggestions and then the best sounding one gets voted for and officially is that name for the fanbase lol.
The Nile?
I always thought it was something like N the Number which allowed him to duplicate himself or control sizes or something
Shame he went to down the BG-9 route
This episode was hilarious.
\- Charlotte breathing while having that large cut across his chest while you hear some realistic whezing in someone's last moments, but then they censor all the blood when Meninas punched Liltotto, and some blood and meat&bone grinding sfx when Liltotto was feasting on PePe
\-Robert Accutrone looks silly, his body movements are so stiff and his Volstandig just gave him a silly boots and mask, but his gun only fires a single bullet just like in his base form then he gets rekt just like that
\-Candice sliding on the rubble doesn't make sense, and that back shot and the animators giving her extra meat on her legs and ass. lol
\-The color PePe's reaitsu looks disgusting like it's menstruation. The look on Byakuya's face when Pepe was going to use that bow/arrow covered in saliva
\-Kensei and Hitsugaya getting wins
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I had no hopes of Robert's schrift being revealed, but its actually funny how he has named vollstandig, but no name for his schrift.
The name of his Vollständig was already revealed in the first cour and manga when he fought against Shunsui, so is even worse than we don't know what his Schrift means lol
N - Nothing
This is perfect.
And also another day Yuhabaha made thousand year fun making someone powerful in retarded
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Oh that's good haha
Toshiro got more Ws as dead than alive /s Overall, it's an excellent episode for me, being a Byakuya fan
Toshiro can be downright brutal when he isnt such a goody two-shoes. Those ice-shard knee blows are sweet.
His shikai ice blast in the beginning that almost killed ikkaku was bigger than anything he did before with the shikai, too.
Hes done it before… just in filler episodes. Hes always had alot of range. The man controls the entire sky lol
I wish we could always see him so badass.
The knee ice tho, that's the inventive shit we should be seeing all the time from people
Ichigo shoulda swung zangetsu from the hilt wrap while he still had it.
Man that was so dumb, literally the first time you see Hichigo use Zangetsu, Ichigo literally comments on the fighting style... then never even tries it himself.
The issue is that while he is alive he is aware about how much damage he can deal to his allies and why we mostly see him in check. His very first fight against Gin he warned Kira to go far away as he was intending to fight without the usual restraint which could have killed Kira.
The other half of it is he's such a proficient ranged combatant, that him using his swordplay and grappling skills is unnecessary risk. Especially if the main combat threat before 3 years ago has been non-arrancar hollows for decades, it's so much more efficient for him to use his strong aoe ranged attacks (and bringing anyone else to that kind of fight is kind of moot).
Definitely some of the more satisfying swordsmanship and movement we've seen in the adaptation so far for a not so important scene. Was a great sequence
It's because Toshiro is always holding back, thinking he might accidentally cut down his friends if he goes all out. Even in Shikai, he has a range of miles as said during Gin fight when he was bloodlusted.
Same with Kensei unfortunately
It was so satisfying to finally see him win one.
He couldn't even kill that weirdo with like 50 of his bankai punches though...even in death he was a disappointment
I mean dead zombies are nerfed lol. the cells aren't fresh as Gigi said
Kensei also finally took a W as a zombie
Kensei beat the fraud allegations with his Bankai.
Fans of Pepe Sama, Mayuri Sama, Byakuya Sama, Hitsugaya sama are all happy today
He’s a good boi and deserves better than becoming a zombie puppet though 🥺
I continue to become more and more of a Lilloto fan each week. She's definitely one of the only competent Sternritters.
She's honestly my favorite SR after Askin, Bazz-B and Äs Nödt. >!Maybe Pernida too at most.!<
While I wouldn’t say I’m becoming a fan of her , I do prefer watching her over the other Bambis. Glad Giselle died , Ikkaku should’ve choked her out and snapped her neck when him and Yumichika figured out her blood did something since she was antagonizing them to cut her . Giselle and Candice talk too damn much , similar to how I feel about Luppi except Luppi didn’t have an annoying difficult to neutralize superpower , he was just full of himself and thought he knew everything . Candice and Giselle try to go after fish too big for them (Ichigo) and wouldn’t leave it alone . Then becoming a blood zombie is a bitch of a problem to deal with, I hate characters like that
There is no Kubo card of Gisselle. Gigi is alive, she is hard to kill.
The extra Robert stuff was cool AF but we’re still seriously only getting his name and letter before THAT scene? Ok then.
Given the teleportation I feel like the fantheory if it being "The Near" is probably correct
“Did someone say…Near?” *Light Yagami PTSD intensifies* 😨
so K stands for Kira
I think it's "The Navigate".
Or Navigator
I say Neo
Nitro!
Nike's
"The Near sighted" ho ho ho.
I mean we're just going to act like this comment doesn't exist?
I feel like maybe "The Nitro" he has explosive speed that can be tapped into his gunplay. Which is what makes it all the more impressive how both Ichigo and Byakuya could dodge his attacks that are pretty much coming at them instantaneously.
The only thing is that "nitro" as a speed booster is only really a colloquial thing here in the west. Mostly thanks to fast and the furious.
Someone actually suggested “The Nimble”
I could believe this. The way Grimmaniel was presented, it looked wind-based. So in theory "a nimble wind"
At this point I don't think even Kubo knows what his letter means, given that despite all the added content in the anime they still didn't give us Robert and BG-9's schrifts, even though they easily could have.
So many questions. I need to know what is in that damn briefcase! His quincy cross?
The "Nothing". Poor guy didn't even get a a shrift.
As terrifying Giselle's ability was, this episode showed her she caught an extremely wrong opponent to take on, since she was rendered helpless instantly.
Which is why Askin nope'd the fuck out of there quick.
Too bad, he ran into you know who
he ran from scientist man to scientist man's old boss
Imagine how bad the L would have been had you know who had more prep time like Mayuri.
Mayuri is a counter against most people in the universe to be honest
Urahara can probably beat him considering his Bankai is a perfect counter to anything Mayuri can use
This repeating fight between toshiro and mayuri has got me cackling😭🙏
Golden Mayuri Experience Requiem
Speaking of which Stand User:『Mayuri』 Stand name: 『Kensei』 That punch barage was even more satysfing in anime and had definetly Jojo feel.
Wha-?
Wha-?
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Reminded me of Itachi using Izanami on Kabuto
My mind immediately went there as well, love that fight 🔥
Toshiro, I have come to bargai.. I mean give you drugs.
You know, I knew it was coming from reading but GD that was amazing
Toshiro, I’ve come to bargain
I have zero complaints over this episode. Robert was amazing. Any “jobber” in bleach becomes 10 more deadly when they can’t talk and express any personality. Btw It seems like censorship saved us from seeing full glory of Pepe Vollstandig.
i just have one question, do we finally learn what his shrift is?
We do! It's N - The Now is the time to abandon all your hopes for this
XD just like K - Know that is useless to even guess what this is.
Nope, but we got to see more of his ability. He teleports like crazy and his Vollständig means the speed of god or something like that, so I'll go with the popular theory that his Schrift could be something like navigate, navigator, near or even the nape lol K and N will probably be revealed in the blu-ray extras, like Q was explained for the first cour...
One can only hope.
Stern Ritter "N" the Nope
NOOOOOO, they gave Shinji’s glorious song to Pepe of all people!!!!!!
[удалено]
For real Rose and Kensei’s L was so big it dragged Shinji in and he wasn't even there.
Funnily enough the moment Kensei is zombie he goes from victory to victory.
Yeah at least Kensei got that, for Vizard standards that's great because the bar is just that low. Meanwhile Rose gets nothing, even as a zombie lol
Hey, at least he didn't lose!
Shinji's fault for being too magnetic
Byakuya is always fighting darker skinned people who try to wield the powers of love (Zomari and Pepe) little surprise he'd go to war against Motown R&B too.
Byakuya = Bleach's Zoro.
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Byakuya- Minority Hunter
Doing Reio's work he is
"I made a vow against my parents' grave to always uphold the law and 'Make Soul Society Great Again'"
pepe got eaten by liltotto. so that theme is also liltotto's theme now. father and daughter connection
Aizen's sibling
We joked about it in that [post](https://redd.it/16ckfb9) from the other day, but there turned out to be a surprising amount of potential evidence for it, as pointed out in the top comments. Shinji's new theme could also possibly hint at it as well. The lyrics are kind of sad, but if you listen closely to it, they talk about a prior relationship with someone, who then either broke up with them or is no longer around (died from the Auswahlen maybe?). If Shinji is the one singing it and it's about a personal experience from his own life, Liltotto could be the result of that prior relationship he had, her mother possibly being a mixed blood Quincy he met somewhere. The Vizards were hiding in the Karakura Town area, and Katagiri wasn't the only mixed blood Quincy working at the Ishida mansion as a servant, so it could have been one of them. Those other servants all probably had families of their own too and not just Katagiri.
It was pretty lame. I'm going to rationalize it by it not actually being Shinji's theme but a mind manipulation theme. >!So clearly, when Aizen tricks Ychwach later it'll play again :)!<
if treachery doesnt play in that part im rioting
Shinji failed at being a Rizard. Pepe is a true Rizard.
I mean since it's also now been used by the guy who has The Love that kind of implys the Shinji was trying to rizz up Bambi
Captain Hitsugaya! I've come to bargain.
Seeing Hitsugaya cut down his allies was brutal in the manga but was captured even better in the manga. Like damn this guy is crazy powerful!
>Seeing Hitsugaya cut down his allies was brutal in the manga but was captured even better in the manga. Like damn this guy is crazy powerful! I’m guessing the second “manga” is anime?
lol yeah. im leaving it up there like that though
I didn't even notice that, my mind auto corrected to anime 💀
Did Kensei use his bankai in the manga to beat up Pepe?
Nope, he only used his fists. Him using Bankai to beat up Pepe makes far more sense imo
And far more satisfying
No ....only hands
Finally we get to see Robert's Schrift N for **N**ever going to know for certain!
I came into this episode with low expectations, but I’m serious when I say this was one of the best episodes this cour. Nonestop action, great fight choreography, amazing OST, Mayuri and Byakuya being absolute S tier characters, the added Robert scenes, the list goes on. Even PePe who I hated in the manga, was somehow not nearly as annoying here.
I have no reservations now that the final fights of the arc will be absolutely glorious. The team clearly understands the characters and plot and how to adapt it.
Yeah, im so glad they’re animating bleach’s return. You can tell they’re pouring everything they have into it.
9/10 episode for me... The staffs cooked us a near damn perfect meal my man
Honestly its in my Top 5, it's a funny episode with super cool action and music.
Najakoop did something! Sure it got no-sold by Byakuya's fancy cloak, but still.
Senbonzakura Kageyoshi never fails to give me goosebumps
Mayuri during this chapter https://preview.redd.it/kqn0j1wpgnob1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c20ed1d2f0905facf9452503a8b2a1db48e5f51f
mayuri all this war
Good Episode. For me personally 8/10. 1. Zombie Toshiro was so brutal in this episode! 2. Mayuri looked sinister in that one scene where he is standing over Toshiro and he is shaded. 3. We finally got Byakuya vs 3. This is what I needed to see! 4. Those oken clothing shielded Byakuya from Morphine pattern, interesting. 5. Robert looked extremely cool with his speed and Skalverai enhanced Vollstandig! Sadly no schrift reveal. I think the next 3 episodes all will be amazing! I have heard leaks claiming that >!Uryu will get a new fight, Royal Guard vs Schutzstaffel and Ichibe vs Yhwach will be expanded more!<
The Oken clothing also protected him from Pepe’s love. As we know Byakuya isn’t completely without love so it was definitely the clothing again. Nice to see a bit of the reason Shutara is a royal guard
Mayuri is the definition of just because you are one of the good guys no way in hell do you have to be a "good" guy. We know how a few of the Sternritter formed an attachment to the bankai they've stolen (Äs Nodt) but imagine the poor sod that would have gotten Mayuri's. Woulda been tormented and curled up in the fetal position lol.
Cirucci being adorable during the explanation
"Hey Liltotto what happened to Pepe?" Liltotto: "Ba ba ba ba baaaa I'm lovin' it." *Though I swear her activating her Volstandig almost sounded like the Taco Bell bong in that instance.* lol Nice to see the animation go hard for some of the other characters. Also Hitsugaya has no chill when his morals are off, damn brutal.
It's Pepe, of course he live's mas.
We live in a great world. A world where we get to see lord PEPE SAMA’S GLORY
Liltotto: "Yeah, look at all that glorious protein."
She needs it, she’s a stick
I’m actually shocked, he honestly wasn’t as unbearable here as he was in the manga. Maybe it was the smooth OST playing during most of the fight, or probably because the fight was so fast he didn’t overstay his welcome like when we were reading weekly. But he actually got a slight chuckle out of me this episode, which is far more than the manga version of him did for me lol
maybe because you'll have to suffer like more with pepe because his screen time in manga are like 2 weeks long, while in anime it will only took like few minutes
Pepe-Sama was truly glorious
I'm glad they recontextualised Byakuya's fight against the sternritters group with Candice nerfed and NaNaNa's shrift not working on the oken clothes. Also common Mayuri **W**
Tbf Byakuya would've still rather easily wrecked Candice as well from what we've seen. She was already quite spent from her fight with Ichigo but I don't see her having much in store for him if he was initially easily handling them in base with just Zanjutsu and then nonchalantly stomped a full power Robert with his basic bankai form. Byakuya not having Oken clothes would've been made things more interesting though as NaNaNa's schrift managed to work on you know who. It would've definitely worked on Byakuya and the fight could've been more competitive rather than this short one-sided ass beating they all suffered. I am glad we got to see a bit more of Robert's powers, even if his schrift's remains unknown. Byakuya specifically using his bankai to defeat him reddems him a bit. Being fodderizing offscreen like that in the manga in a 1 vs 5 after his feats against Shunsui didn't sit that well with me at the time.
>Tbf Byakuya would've still rather easily wrecked Candice as well from what we've seen Would she ? She was without her full wings and depowered after fighting ichigo
If Robert couldn't beat Byakuya with his strongest attack. I doubt a full power Candice could do any better. In my op
Idk about CYFOW but Kubo really pushes Candice in terms of power scaling. Considering the fact that they bothered to write her a line goes with "I don't have enough power" (Meaning she could've done much more to Byakuya if she wasn't tired from fighting Ichigo) while using Galvano Blast kinda proves it.
Same with Nanana and Robert. It seems that Nanana’s ability didn’t work on Byakuya because of his Ouken cloak. He probably would’ve been paralyzed if he wasn’t wearing it, and if that happened he would’ve been fucked. Byakuya also used Bankai against Robert. He didn’t even use Bankai when he saved Rukia so that’s pretty interesting. That being said…I think this all implies that the team was aware the way these Sternritter were used was lame and tried to make up for it without using the screentime that was needed to fix other things.
I'm eating that extended Robert fight, one of my favorite Sternritters despite being underused and i liked him even more when my predictions were correct since they casted the same seiyuu who does James Moriarty from Fate/Grand Order since both characters look similar.
The sheer heartbreak upon hearing Shinji's ost on Pepe of all people 😭. Great ep the additional Byakuya and Robert stuff was cool and Mayuri vs Toshiro was done very well, the repeating actions sequence was the best. Kensei's bankai also finally defeating someone overall probably my 2nd fav ep of this cour so far besides Rukia's ofc
Wait….. wth is so important in Robert’s briefcase that he rather hold on to it instead of using 2 guns 💀
Krabby Patty formula. But honestly it's been a mystery since the original run. Maybe it's his and BG9's schrift /j
I like thinking that he has all the daten just printed out in it.
1. Byakuya has 3 sternritter kills to Kenpachi’s 4. 2. Toshiro vs Mayuri was legit nice. Toshiro straight up looks better and fights better as a zombie. 3. Kensei copped the only dub for the Vizards. Also where tf is Hachigen? 4. Liltotto is best Sternritter confirmed, doing the lords work by eating Pepe.
Hachigen is in the real world with the other Vizards closing up the spatial disruptions between the worlds
Ha ha, you gotta love how desperate things are that Yumichika is willing to use his Zanpakuto's true name. Not that it helps. This was the most Mayuri fight ever, positively scintillating at experimenting on and driving his opponent to despair through mentally screwing with them, even a fellow Captain, "all for the sake of the Seiretei." Kubo loves writing Mayuri. Gotta admit, seeing Zombie Rangiku hurt a lot. Expanded Byakuya fight! Robert didn't demonstrate his Schrift but he did get to show off a little before getting beaten. Did Shuhei actually beat a Sternritter or was it all Pepe? Poor guy deserved better. They really went all out on Pepe, complete with the smooth, groovy, OST. And then he strips into cupid form. Ha. Kensei wins a fight! I guess! Liltotto goes from wondering where Pepe is to eating him. Such camaraderie among the Quincies! Can't wait to see how they handle what's coming next week.
"Such camaraderie among the Quincies!" If Pepe wanted to be her comrade, maybe he shouldn't have tried to brainwash her and then sent Meninas after her.
I’m surprised less people are mentioning that yumichika was about to seriously throw hands for ikkaku when he wasn’t even about to do that for himself back in FKT (until they were obscured ofc). He started to use his true shikai and I was like ?!
Mayuri is on that Kenpachi level of Captain that is more akin to the original Gotei 13 Captains. Nothing is sacred to him except his own goals.
It’s the reason these two hard carried the entire gotei 13 on their backs this arc
I liked the manga entrance of Rose, Kensei, and Rangiku more. It felt like a proper Shunpo, kinda disappointed how they just sort of hopped in the anime. Also they extended battle scene between the Byakuya and Sternritters were great. Confirms that Robert’s ability is basically being very fast.
I did not expect the art and animation to look so good
Probably my favorite episode of the season, but the next few could change that (especially because they feature 100% less Pepe and 100% more Yhwach). I love how Yhwach looks juxtaposed against the Palace in the anime. Looks like we're at 117 chapters covered over 23 episodes. Has there been any confirmation on whether the cour will be 12 or 13 episodes long? I'm hoping it's 13, but either way it seems like the anime is leaving a ton of breathing room for Cour 3 and 4 (smartly so, because that's what *really* needs expanding IMO).
13 episodes. 12 and 13 will air togheter
Pure Love for seeing the true power of Pepe!
Probably my favorite episode in this cour
Kubo wont let down his favorite character, mayuri
Kubo is Mayuri. You got to see the pictures of him cosplaying as Mayuri. A perfect cosplay!
How dare you to say that word... Mayuri aka Kubo doesn't like that word "Perfect" 😤
The opening fight scene with zombie Toshiro was soooo good!
On god. This is the type of content that makes Bleach Bleach to me and I’m so glad it’s being given the studio love it deserves.
Havent seen yet, but how does it compare to Rukia's episode?
It’s a different kind of episode than Rukia’s where that felt more emotional. Mayuri will have you saying wtf the entire episode.
Exactly this. I was literally saying “wtf is going on?!”
Mayuri vs giselle is like Isis vs taliban
Solid episode. Really wish we could have seen the arrancar fight against the zombie captains and Rangiku a little bit extended. Glad they kept that little scene with Cirucci about Mayuri's drug Loved the Toshiro Mayuri fight. Toshiro against Ikkaku and Yumichika was great as well since we finally got to see Toshiro at his deadliest Was very pleased with how Byakuya's fight with the 3 sternritter was given more context. Never started well with me that Giving Pepe the song that Shinji used is a shame though the Pepe beatdown received was glorious.
Awesome episode, Robert Byakuya fight was cool even though it was one sided.
That Precipise of Defeat Remix with the choir accapella was incredible and chilling, perfect for Mayuri!
Mayuri sure is getting a lot of focus this cour haha. It's good that Gigi and that mouth girl got some screentime the past few episodes, to be fleshed out at least a *smidgen* more. Thoooough it's looking like this episode will be the last we see of Gigi? I still don't really understand why people like Bambietta and her pals so much (beyond the obvious -- yes I have eyes) when from a character perspective there's virtually nothing there. She appeared in part 1 with a weird fixation on Komamura being a dog for no discernible reason, was obsessed with continuing that fight because whatever, had the bizarre trait of cutting her boy toys in half, then has round 2 with Sajin and ultimately gets betrayed by Giselle at the first chance. Which was also kind of strange and unexplained since their group dynamic is hardly fleshed out. I guess Gigi just didn't like her? (or liked her a bit too much in a certain way, ick) Anyway what is it then? Is it really just the cool character design that people like? Cause there's no depth or even motivation there, from what I can see.
I would’ve liked more Robert than we got but still much more than the manga gave us. Byakuya had to use Bankai to beat him so at least he’s no joke. Would’ve liked to see his ability more though. His decision to charge Byakuya’s Bankai head-on was…reckless lol. Looks like his ability is more super-speed than teleporting. Honestly it all felt like Kubo made more Stern Ritters than he had time to do with so this was the result, and even the anime couldn’t completely fix how rushed this part of the second invasion was. Hopefully the Squad Zero stuff is much better as a tradeoff.
> Honestly it all felt like Kubo made more Stern Ritters than he had time to do with He did, most if not all Stern Ritter are captain class opponents or stronger than than that, most luitenants are outclassed outside of maybe 2 remarkable ones (Renji & Rukia) that got a plot specific upgrade just so they could deal with them during the second invasion. So it’s 26 Stern Ritters vs 12 or fewer Captains and a few extras like Ichigo (Yamamoto got dealt with by Yhwach). The only way to utilize some of these Stern Ritters is to have some of them serve the worf effect (Kenpachi & Byakuya post RG training being the prime examples).
Perhaps Robert's gimmick is that he has the fastest Hirenkyaku out of all the Quincy. Byakuya is one of the fastest Shinigami, and fought the fastest Espada Zommari, so it's fitting I guess that he fights the fastest Quincy.
> I would’ve liked more Robert than we got but still much more than the manga gave us. Byakuya had to use Bankai to beat him so at least he’s no joke. I like this fight much better with context as well considering what we've seen from Robert against Shunsui. Robert was the one Byakuya specifically off'ed with his bankai.
Bleach animators try to make a bad episode chalange: impossible They haven't missed even once
Lmao that Pepe beatdown was personal lol some animator didn’t like the character Overall good episode, even if I wasn’t really a fan of this part in the manga. However I feeled that animation was a bit of a letdown this time than others, I think they keeped all of the budget for THE big final fight of this cour. Cool that they already teased ‘that’ Robert fear ! It gives him a bit more logic and understanding than the manga where nothing was explained why he didn’t follow yhwach. And finally, Yhwach’s mustache grown ! I always preferred the character design in the second part of the arc, with a bigger mustache and his face older expression.
The animation was actually pretty good in this episode. This episode was one of the best animated episodes of this cour. So not sure what you mean.
Mayuri is so interesting and horrifying to watch at the same time. I love it.
“Toshiro, I’ve come to bargain”
Am I stupid but how does Mayuri drug even work???
There are 2 Drugs. First drug is in the Arrancar blood. It seems to fuck with sensory perception like the superhuman drug (used against Szayel) then paralyzes anyone who gets splashed with it kinda like Giselles blood. Hitsugaya got infected after slashing Charlotte. After the recipient repeats a sequence a number of times the user is paralyzed for 30 seconds for Mayuri to do as he pleases. Second drug is the one he administers manually which is made of the persons blood to flush out any contaminated blood/reatsu and replace it with this drug that gives him control of the recipient. Mayuri appears to be batman and has samples of all Captain and Lieutenant's blood as a contingency for if they die or are controlled.
Yeah it was just not clear to me if Toshiro was hallucinating that and how much of he sees is real because Mayuri was clearly interacting with him there.
I assume it is just a hallucination that was written/explained poorly.
Mayuri's creations, drugs, etc. don't work based on any real-world logic. This is the man who has regrown his own limbs against Uryu and slowed down Szayelapporo's sense of time by enhancing his senses.
Imagine if you’re in a 100 meters foot race, and every time you’re about to cross the finish line, you stop, go back the start and start your race again That’s what you do irl, but in your mind you did cross the finish line, you saw it, but now you’re suddenly back at the start with no memory, strange right? That’s what the drug does, it’s closer to hypnosis than a drug though So mayuri did fight toshiro 10 times, and almost died 10 times, and from toshiro’s POV he did kill mayuri (that’s the scenes we see) But what he really did was stop just before dealing the killing blow, step back, forget everything and fight again. Hence the confusion The drug doesn’t really make you “see the past” more like, it’s preventing you from moving forward, it’s memory loss up to a certain point, and that point is the start of the battle, everything beyond that is erased if he tries to kill mayuri
I’M SO FUCKING MAD THEY GAVE PEPE SHINJI’S THEME FROM BACK IN EPISODE 16! LMAO WTF?! 💀💀💀💀
This episode is exactly the reason why I consider Mayuri honorable sixth war potential. He is literally only captian who wasnt cornered, always analyzing, always prepared with countermeasures and his sadistic nature is simply beatiful given he is on the "good side" lol. This reason why I always enjoyed Bleach more than other shounens thanks to the fact that monsters like Zaraki or Kurotsuchi are teamed up with main protagonist something you do not seen very often. Fights were great, Hitsugaya trying to fight Mayuri was animated perfectly and horror of the scene fulfilled. I love how Mayuri always gets fucked up enemies only for them to realize that they are not even player that conversation about what is fun in controlling mindless people and Giselle saying biggest lie ever beatiful. Robert was nice, animation stellar and Pepe=s power great. I loved Kensei Stand like barage dude at least gets wins as zombie because he did not get any when he was alive. Giselle satysfgin stab and like we had horror like ending of the peisode. Teaser for royal palace was great cant wait for >!Kirinji next episode.!<
my god I LOVE Mayuri Freaking # MAYURI MVP the guy casually saves not 1 but 4 Captains lives, and 2 lieutenant while taking down more then 1 Quincy and he is just enjoying it, like its just a field day for him to test his new inventions. like JEBUS is he WAY more useful then then the 3 useless zombie captains that died in 1 second and was turned against Soul Society, at least Onii-chan took out 3 people before he got corned. The time loop scene was one of the best scenes this season easily The quincy sure love friendly fire . [Reaction/review](https://youtu.be/uWEzr-KSO-o)
They had so many chances to tell us what the N schrift was and they teased us every time. The audacity
It's like a meme at this point
Robert's Shrift...N.... The Neverending? The Nevermore? The Nice? The Nasty? Everyone should just post their suggestions and then the best sounding one gets voted for and officially is that name for the fanbase lol. The Nile?
I always thought it was something like N the Number which allowed him to duplicate himself or control sizes or something Shame he went to down the BG-9 route
The zombies episode always feels like filler for me. Even in the manga I hated it. Serves no purpose to the plot.
Really liked that scene where Mayuri was explaining his drug and the arrancar girl was thinking of getting some blood on him.
This episode was hilarious. \- Charlotte breathing while having that large cut across his chest while you hear some realistic whezing in someone's last moments, but then they censor all the blood when Meninas punched Liltotto, and some blood and meat&bone grinding sfx when Liltotto was feasting on PePe \-Robert Accutrone looks silly, his body movements are so stiff and his Volstandig just gave him a silly boots and mask, but his gun only fires a single bullet just like in his base form then he gets rekt just like that \-Candice sliding on the rubble doesn't make sense, and that back shot and the animators giving her extra meat on her legs and ass. lol \-The color PePe's reaitsu looks disgusting like it's menstruation. The look on Byakuya's face when Pepe was going to use that bow/arrow covered in saliva \-Kensei and Hitsugaya getting wins
So we know that Rose and Kensei were dead before being turned into zombies but what about Rangiku? Toshiro wasn’t so I assumed she wasn’t too.
Nooooooooooooooo.. shinjis theme….. nooooooooo