C&C - Bleach - "Congress Together! The Strongest Soul Reaper Organization" [5/3]

[RockmanDash]

Last time: Aizen tryed to take away Rukia from Renji but Ichigo came to the rescue! Ichigo and Renji teamed up to stop Aizen from taking Rukia but they both fail and Ichigo gets stabbed badly. Aizen explains that he was behind everything and new Ichigo would come to save Rukia and that Ichigo now has no more purpose in his plan and should back off quickly. But.. before Aizen finishes explaining a certain captain arrives who screams... AIIIIIIIIIIIZZZZENNNNN!!!!!!!

Today: With the Soul Society knowing that Aizen is a traitor can he finish his plan and get away with Gin and Tosen? And is Ichigo still able to fight?

OH AND NO SPOILERS WHICH MEANS NO TALK ABOUT FUTURE VILLAINS OR ARCS! IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT THEN TAKE IT TO THE ANIME FORUM GOT THAT!? *cough*

[bigdeath]

AIIIIIIIIIIIZZZZENNNNN!!!!!!!

My god, he is over 9,000! :eek:

[Kitschensyngk]

Last time: Oh no Rukia's in trouble don't worry Renji and Ichigo will save oh never mind.

Am I right in thinking this will finally end either this week or next?

FOXMAN SMAAAAASH!!

Whoa, who shot your title card?

Aaaaah! More character history!!

Again I say that Soul Reapers have disturbingly high blood pressure. Perhaps they should eat more vegetables.

Sheesh. The least you could do was ask first.

Byakkuya is officially stripped of his Ineffectual Bastard status.

And reinforcements arrive left and right.

Soul Reapers of the world unite!

ALL THAT AND THEY JUST RUN AWAY?! ...just what we need, another Orochimaru.

Orihime gets props.

Momo lives!

If you think you can just do all that and expect forgiveness...okay, fine, you're cool.

So Rukia is Byakkuya's step-daughter as well as his sister? :confused:

[Don_East]

AIIIIIIIIIIIZZZZENNNNN!!!!!!!
Reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye_v4mgeRxw

Also...
SHOWTIME!

Aizen, the Lex Luthor of this show.

[LordTerminal]

Reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye_v4mgeRxw

We tend to think alike don't we. I won't be surprised if AIIIIZZZZEEEEEN becomes the next trend on YouTube.

Well, looks like Byakuya isn't as much of an ass as we thought.

Kukaku and Jidanbo to the rescue! And Yoruichi and Soifun! Anyone else left to jump in and join this fight? Anyone at all?

[Captain Highwind]

Shoot to kill?

Does this mean Gin's gonna start talkin' Southern too?

[Don_East]

Byakura comes out of nowhere and probably has become less of a prick!

And now Kukaku and Jidonbo as well.

[Soul]

Aizen: Did you.. think you could kill me so easy?

[{Shadow}]

Am I right in thinking this will finally end either this week or next?
The SS arc ends next week.

[Don_East]

"So can anyone can come to this party or is it invite only?"

[LordTerminal]

You gotta be kidding me. That's it? They just...get away? Well that's just great.

So his wife is Rukia's older sister?

[Don_East]

So no one dies? Of course no one died, it's a SJ title.

EDIT- 3000th POST!!!

[Rud]

So no one dies? Of course no one died, it SJ title.

in SJ titles people usualy die, its just hardly ever the good guys and the important baddies live till the last fight (like Gin, Tousen, and Aizen probably will).

[XOMiss_Samantha]

kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I'd been waiting for the dubbed scene with Byakuya since I first knew Bleach was going to air on AdultSwim! It's single handily one of the best moments in the show. [At least for me it is]
See!! All of you who called him a bastard and an ass and a monster and a beast[ he is actually so wonderful and squishy inside~*super fangirly*]- of course he had his reasons. Either his promise or his loyalty to his parents.
Love rules over all.

But in all honesty, that is such a beautiful scene. Byakuya makes me happy inside. I had a few tears, I'll admit. Especially when he beckons Rukia to come over to him, and she grasps his hand, and even the mention of his late wife. I'm a huge Hisana X Byakuya shipper. It's so tragic.

Also- Aizen finally dismisses his old 'scholarly' look for the more 'I'm better than you' suave comb back hair cut. The Fonz in disguse?

GINXMATSUMOTO.
I WILL POUND THAT INTO ALL YOUR BRAINS TILL YOU SUPPORT IT.

[WarrenSpike500]

Here's this episode's Shinigami Cup Golden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwkkFBm9mBY

[Rud]

wow, Aizens hand must have been realy greesy.

[Luna]

The best part of the episode for me(as it was in the manga) was Byakuya finally coming to Rukia's rescue (better late than never,I suppose)....and finally learning the REAL reason why he wouldn't save her/allow anyone else to(I still think he chose wrong,to honor the wishes of his parents rather than his wife,esp. since unlike the other three mentioned,Rukia's still alive,but at least he acknowledges his mistake and apologizes) ....

On a side note,how many times are they going to advertise the Bleach trading card game tonight?....seems they're showing it every commercial break...

[Neo-Era]

So no one dies?

No kidding. All those sword fights, over the top bankai, gallons of blood spilled and the only people who get killed were the Central 46. And they pretty much existed offscreen.

This show's way too in love with its overly large cast of characters and it's a drawback with all the jumping back and forth, flashbacks, and what not between them.

[Captain Highwind]

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s97/Mr_Highwind/Image1.jpg
AND

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THE HAIR

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GOES

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s97/Mr_Highwind/Image4.jpg
BACK

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s97/Mr_Highwind/shock.jpg
:eek: :eek: **SHOCK!** :eek: :eek:

[jay12m]

Wow, must be some shimigami industrial strength hair grease he's been saving for such a moment:D

[PickHut]

I felt like I just finished watching a G.I. Joe episode: everyone attacks, no one dies, Cobra Commander escapes yet again.

To top it off, Duke is going to be fine!:D

[Novapocalypse]

So....Aizen wants to surpass SS, Hollows, and Gods? Now we're getting into some really interesting stuff.

Aizen looks cool now, I would've respected him a lot more if his look was like that last year onward.

Byakuya's whole story about Rukia's sister. :eek: But somehow I saw it coming.

[bigdeath]

kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I'd been waiting for the dubbed scene with Byakuya since I first knew Bleach was going to air on AdultSwim! It's single handily one of the best moments in the show. [At least for me it is]
See!! All of you who called him a bastard and an ass and a monster and a beast[ he is actually so wonderful and squishy inside~*super fangirly*]- of course he had his reasons. Either his promise or his loyalty to his parents.
Love rules over all.

But in all honesty, that is such a beautiful scene. Byakuya makes me happy inside. I had a few tears, I'll admit. Especially when he beckons Rukia to come over to him, and she grasps his hand, and even the mention of his late wife. I'm a huge Hisana X Byakuya shipper. It's so tragic.

Also- Aizen finally dismisses his old 'scholarly' look for the more 'I'm better than you' suave comb back hair cut. The Fonz in disguse?

GINXMATSUMOTO.
I WILL POUND THAT INTO ALL YOUR BRAINS TILL YOU SUPPORT IT.

I would never forgive Byakuya for what he did. He was going to watch her die. I'd always hate that guy.

And Azien is the Fonz. Where do you think he gains his insane power from?

And I to am a GIN X MATSUMOTO shipper. :anime:

[Hyper Shadow X]

Still like seeing Aizen kicking ass to bad this is the last we see him do it for along while.

[FlyByNite77]

wow, Aizens hand must have been realy greesy.

Maybe Rukia's soul was really geasy since that's where his hand had been ;)

[RockmanDash]

Of course Aizen escapes into the shiny light of doom.. but what no Kenpatchi trying to fight Aizen? That would of been great:D but ah well I expected something like this to happen. And as for Byakuya telling Rukia about her sister its about time!

[Master Moron]

So Rukia is Byakkuya's step-daughter as well as his sister? :confused:

No, Byakuya married Rukia's sister, so that would make Rukia his sister-in-law.

[Kiryu]

You have got to be freaking kidding me. Healed my ass, Momo had already been dead for awhile, what that healer chick captain can resurrect people now? Ugh...I expected Toshiro to be okay but come on, after all this not ONE meaningful casualty?

Lots of points of interest in this episode though:

Byakuya= not a total ****** bastard like I had been thinking all along, I rather like him now that he explained his reasons and all that cool badassedness of his can be directed toward a deserving target!

Was that a little touch of regret or sadness from Gin as he looked back at her while he and all the baddies were beamed up to the Enterprise? I'm shocked, I thought he was completely vile and heartless to the core? The plot thickens!

I really wish Yoruichi would have just cut Aizen's damn head off when she had the chance, I mean he already explained his evil plan to Ichigo and Co., so whats the point of not killing him when the opportunity presented itself? Ah well we wouldn't have much of a show then would we?

[email2003]

Isn't next week's episode a hour long special? So next week we're getting Episode 63 Part 1 and Episode 63 Part 2 on 5/17?:confused:

[ShadowGUN]

Not a bad episode. Aizen such bad ass villain.

Okay question what happened to the 3 giants that Aizen brainwashed? I remember seeing them in manga but they didn't appear here. Any reason for that?

[silvanoir]

Okay question what happened to the 3 giants that Aizen brainwashed? I remember seeing them in manga but they didn't appear here. Any reason for that?

maybe because we don't really see them again.

- I don't like that Aizen's line was changed from "I will stand in heaven" to "I will stand at the top". blargh. because you lose the whole meaning there... standing at the top could be anything, but that implying the heaven is empty and that he is going to try to take it over means so much more.

- Though I've read far, FAR ahead in the manga, I do think the way the anime explained his master plan was easier to understand otherwise.

- Oh, and count me in as a Gin X Matsumodo shipper... around her is the only time he drops that grin and sarcasm and shows regret and genuine emotion.

- I LIKE the backstories! these aren't just a bunch of meaningless battles, the emotions that run through each conflict is what makes it intheresting to me and gives it depth.

- I will agree that Bleach has too many characters, and it keeps adding more as it goes along.

[jph139]

Gah. I love the episodes where everybody comes together and fights the super-mega-evil and in the end he's super strong so he escapes. Though, admittantly, there wasn't any fighting, and he escaped because of his super evil, not his super strength.

Speaking of super evil... I love his transformation, if only because it implies that greasy hair is the stuff that bad guys have, and glasses are only worn by heroes.

[SpaceCowboy]

Why are the Shinigami Cups left out of the English release? Licensing issues?

[Captain Highwind]

Ad spacing issue.

[Ishtar]

I felt bad for Komamura when he realized what Tousen did, especially since he seemed to be such a good friend to him. Of course the bad guys get away, but using the Menos Grandes was a nice way to exit. Nice twist of Rukia really being Byakuya's sister in-law.

[Dark Moridin]

ok, so Aizen got his little jewel from Rukia. other than that, we saw him change "SHIPPO SMASH!" in the 'sniveling shippo'. sure, rukia's bro reveals why he was so mean, but that was easily seen a mile away (hands all fangirls a hanky:sweat:)

this whole eppy would have been better if there was at least a little fight with the bad guys completely dominating the captians as they showed up. granted, everyone else was injured/tired from all the other fights, that would have made all this setting up by Aizen even more dastardly.

imagine:

Aizen: "You all might have stood a chance, if you had thought about why you were being led to fight, and stopped. But since all you simpletons are so easily manipulated, I stand here with all of you at my feet. BWAHAHAHAHAHHA"

ok, maybe I shouldn't said that out loud, but you get my point.

[Master Moron]

ok, so Aizen got his little jewel from Rukia. other than that, we saw him change "SHIPPO SMASH!" in the 'sniveling shippo'. sure, rukia's bro reveals why he was so mean, but that was easily seen a mile away (hands all fangirls a hanky:sweat:)

this whole eppy would have been better if there was at least a little fight with the bad guys completely dominating the captians as they showed up. granted, everyone else was injured/tired from all the other fights, that would have made all this setting up by Aizen even more dastardly.

imagine:

Aizen: "You all might have stood a chance, if you had thought about why you were being led to fight, and stopped. But since all you simpletons are so easily manipulated, I stand here with all of you at my feet. BWAHAHAHAHAHHA"

ok, maybe I shouldn't said that out loud, but you get my point.

No, it would have been better if he let the captains kill each other. Like, if he let the old dude kill those other two captains he could then kill the old dude right as he was using his finishing move. Then he could go "Just as planned." I really hate that old dude.

[Dark Moridin]

No, it would have been better if he let the captains kill each other. Like, if he let the old dude kill those other two captains he could then kill the old dude right as he was using his finishing move. Then he could go "Just as planned." I really hate that old dude.

While I wouldn't go that far, you have the general idea of what I mean. Granted, Aizen is a bad*** mofo, but why not make him a little bit more despisible?

[Beat]

I felt like I just finished watching a G.I. Joe episode: everyone attacks, no one dies, Cobra Commander escapes yet again.

To top it off, Duke is going to be fine!:D

I thought IY was the resident GI Joe of the block.

[Beefy]

No Kenny = fail
No Yamamoto bankai on Aizen = extra fail

They let Aizen escape, and they left out the three other gatekeepers that Aizen brainwashed.

Oh well, at least they saved Rukia. Ichigo better go bankai Hat & Clogs for this mess.

[Don_East]

I thought IY was the resident GI Joe of the block.
Well, there's Transformers... No wait, Orichimaru is Megatron & Kabuto is Soundwave, I already labled that. I'm not sure if Skeletor and his evil minions would fit. Only one I can think of.

Aizen = Cy-Kill
Ichimaru = Crasher Or Cop-Tur
Tousen = Fitor

[Lazerboy5000]

Ummm… I tried to tape it at 12:30 Sunday early morning, usually right before Death Note, but I got Death Note at 12:30 and… Code Geass… so I guess I missed this episode. I’ll probably have to find and watch it online. This was episode 61, right?

[Rolling Cloud]

^Nope, it was 62.

[G1Ravage]

I haven't been keeping up with Bleach for the past few weeks, although I record every episode. I just watched the last six episodes in a marathon session, and my mind is officially blown.

[Neo Ultra Mike]

You know an episode's cool when it only repeats like 20 or so seconds of the last one. Well if you're a shonen anime anyway and only doing 20 seconds is a lot more berable then 2 minutes or more. Anyway Konohamra gets his own flashback to his Soul Reaper academy days when he was hiding his furry side from everyone before he gets black box of death by super Aizen. Yeah like no one saw that coming with how Aizen has been pwning everyone. What is rather annoying is that the rest of our human heroes show up only to get stopped by.. powering up. Poweirng up by the guy under Aizen sadly enough. Seriously, I don't think ti was that bad in DBZ but really here it's just sad. Also sad is how every hero came to try and help (Byakuka saving his sister, Kuukaku and Jirobobo beating up the other three Soul Society guards [no wait that happened in the manga only and wasn't shown here for some reason. Really when does the anime CUT OUT fights from the manga?], Soi Fon and Yourouchi grabbing Aizen, 9th Lientuant Shuuei grabing Tosen, Matsumto getting Gin and everyone else just standing around) and then Aizen just disappearing into a hollow light thanks to obtaining the Soukoyou. So in other words, though it dosen't seem like he really killed anyone, Aizen's plan won and he and his two followers escaped off without really a hitch. And now he's got a look that dosen't scream nerd but rather screams "finally I can appear as the badass you all saw that I am"). I've said this before but this is really one of the few instances of a bad guy totally completley and utterly winning at the end of an arc: no if, and or butts about it.

So in the fallout everyone's hearing and for those of you interested now we finally see why Byakuya wanted to kill Ruika. In other words "here's a flashback to showcase I'm actually sort of a nice guy who tradegy happened to and this is the reason why I did this" sort of thing. So turns out his wife Was Ruika's long lost older (and identical scarily enough) sister who made Byakuya promise to take care of Ruika. But since he broke the rules doing that he promised never to break the rules ever again even if it came down to killing his sister. In truth even if that is his noble logic I really can't buy that or care about his reasoning. And really in truth I would of liked a line saying "but now that I found out the law I was following turned out to just be part of some manical jerk's evil scheme maybe I should try screwing the rules more often so I can be a main character like Ichigo". Okay not in those words but you know what I mean. So though the ending was kind of bleh I did like everyone appearing and Aizen's exit. Anyway next time seems we'll be getting wrap up though I guess we won't be getting the special 63 which those who have seen the japanese release would know about (since according the the schedule there's only one slot for 63 not an hour slot. Oh well).

The "special" was just Kon and others sort of narrating the seven big battles of the Soul Society Arc anyway with exposition on what Aizen did and all with some sort of funny moments I guess

[garfield15]

I just figured I should let everyone know that after next week

Iiiiiiiiiiiiittttttttt's filller time for Bleach

(god bleach and naruto having fillers at the same time. Just kill me now)

[RockmanDash]

I just figured I should let everyone know that after next week

Iiiiiiiiiiiiittttttttt's filller time for Bleach

(god bleach and naruto having fillers at the same time. Just kill me now)


I do not mind fillers much for Bleach since I hear the filler arc is good and that it lasts as long as this whole Soul Society arc:sweat:(even a bit longer?). Thats going to be one long ride.. and once thats over with we are going to have to wait for MORE episodes since I am sure its going to stop for a while after the filler arc is over.

[garfield15]

I do not mind fillers much for Bleach since I hear the filler arc is good and that it lasts as long as this whole Soul Society arc:sweat:(even a bit longer?). Thats going to be one long ride.. and once thats over with we are going to have to wait for MORE episodes since I am sure its going to stop for a while after the filler arc is over.

Fillers

Because no matter how you look at it, they screw over everybody

[Captain Highwind]

Actually, Bleach does better when they make filler seasons; they just suck at filler standalone episodes.

The current filler arc looks pretty funny.

[Master Moron]

Who are these gatekeepers that everyone keeps talking about?

[Captain Highwind]

That's what I'm trying to remember...

[Neo Ultra Mike]

Originally posted by Master Moron
Who are these gatekeepers that everyone keeps talking about?

Okay remember back in the beginning of the Soul Society arc when Ichigo and the gang had first landed in front of Soul Society? Well they were stopped by the gate keeper Jidanbo. There are four Gate Keepers, each assigned with guarding one of the four gates around Soul Society (Jidanbo is the guard of the western gate the way Ichigo and co came from). If you remember Ichigo was able to beat him and Jidanbo agreed to let them pass into Soul Society before being struck down by Gin and having to go through way of the fireworks bomb. He had been healed by Orihimie though and went with Kukaku into Soul Society. However what they did drastically differs from what happened in the anime and in the manga.

In the anime they first appeared and blasted around Aizen after Gin had stabbed through Byakuya. Then Soi Fon and Yorouchi appeared and surrounded Aizen.

In the manga Soi Fon and Yorouchi appeared first (after Gin had stabbed through Byakuya) and tried to make him give up. Aizen then had the other three gate keepers (Higonyudo guard of the South Gate, Danzomaru guard of the North Gate, and Kaiwan guard of the East Gate) appear. He stated that the two couldn't surround him and fight of the guards at the same time, which is when Kukaku and Jidanbo appeared appeared. Jidanbo then defeated the other guards (noting how Aizen must of brainswashed them hard for them to betray Soul Society) and the scene went on as normal. For some reason the anime cut out the fight amongst the guards. Probably in order to fit the chapters of the manga version they wanted into epsiode 62.

You wouldn't remember the guards otherwise since they haven't made any other appearences

as of yet

In the anime. There have been three other guards mentioned but you only see the guards appear in the whole Aizen fight in the manga, not in the anime.

So now you know i guess.

[Rud]

. What is rather annoying is that the rest of our human heroes show up only to get stopped by.. powering up. Poweirng up by the guy under Aizen sadly enough. Seriously, I don't think ti was that bad in DBZ but really here it's just sad.

no, DBZ was worse in one scene, remember when cell was doing the Kamehameha power struggle with gohan, all of the Z fighters except vegeta, all who were people who were once a match for Goku, were unable to make Cell even flich when they blasted him from behind at the same time, that saddened my heart.

[FireStarterLE]

Okay remember back in the beginning of the Soul Society arc when Ichigo and the gang had first landed in front of Soul Society? Well they were stopped by the gate keeper Jidanbo. There are four Gate Keepers, each assigned with guarding one of the four gates around Soul Society (Jidanbo is the guard of the western gate the way Ichigo and co came from). If you remember Ichigo was able to beat him and Jidanbo agreed to let them pass into Soul Society before being struck down by Gin and having to go through way of the fireworks bomb. He had been healed by Orihimie though and went with Kukaku into Soul Society. However what they did drastically differs from what happened in the anime and in the manga.

In the anime they first appeared and blasted around Aizen after Gin had stabbed through Byakuya. Then Soi Fon and Yorouchi appeared and surrounded Aizen.

In the manga Soi Fon and Yorouchi appeared first (after Gin had stabbed through Byakuya) and tried to make him give up. Aizen then had the other three gate keepers (Higonyudo guard of the South Gate, Danzomaru guard of the North Gate, and Kaiwan guard of the East Gate) appear. He stated that the two couldn't surround him and fight of the guards at the same time, which is when Kukaku and Jidanbo appeared appeared. Jidanbo then defeated the other guards (noting how Aizen must of brainswashed them hard for them to betray Soul Society) and the scene went on as normal. For some reason the anime cut out the fight amongst the guards. Probably in order to fit the chapters of the manga version they wanted into epsiode 62.

You wouldn't remember the guards otherwise since they haven't made any other appearences

as of yet

In the anime. There have been three other guards mentioned but you only see the guards appear in the whole Aizen fight in the manga, not in the anime.

So now you know i guess.

Took me a while to find a picture of them, so here they are. A picture to go along with the background

spoiler tag used .... just because .....


http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a283/FireStarterSE/Giantsx3.jpg

[Ackar]

So is the Ichigo gang on a one or two week holiday from school?

And will they have much holiday time left after they get back?