to me the past two chapters before this one made me become interested in bleach again. They had a small but good action scene and isshin finally entered the fray, but after this last chapter I think the creating staff of bleach was just like "ok we got their hopes up, now let's shit on their hopes of it being good again."

Like im sorry, but his sword can go extremely longer and cut buildings...whats ur fucking point? Kenpachi could do that when he first fought ichigo, sure he was close by, but having a sword that u can throw around like a whip and go really long as ur bankai, is reaaaaaallly dissapointing. I mean right now as I see it, his bankai is just a mixture of his and renji, it's a sword he can technically use like a whip. Now yes, I understand that they may want to have an actual battle between the two and he will slowly show his power, but look what happened to tousen...he died in like what 5-6 chapters after starting a fight? To me this manga was a tangeled mess that attempted to become good again, but is slowly going back down in my books as a manga that has ADD and gets bored with shit easily.

touche' very well said. My biggest gripe with bleach is that the newer characters overpowered the original set...it has too many characters just the gotei 13 is enough then you add the arrancar as enemies and vizards as whatever they are...no wonder it shitty. fairy tail does the same thing but you dont see them introduce every single guildmember within the the other guilds...

Well see to me Fairy Tail is still enjoyable to read. I mean the arc they are in right now, the opponents are not neccesarly stronger because we have yet to see anyone fight, that of course can change with the next chapter comin out hopefully on monday.

Anyways Bleach has always been like that and lately it's been getting repetitive and annoying. I mean they were all strong after the gotei 13 arc and frankly I think bleach should of ended there and not have included the shit with aizen. Then that would of been a classic and well done manga with a good anime counterpart, but after that arc ended the manga was just so...bizzare at how weak they were. I mean the power gap from regular hollows and menos grande was big but not big enough for the characters to deal with them, but then after that the arrancar are far too powerfull for their own good, I mean even some of the vaizards that are just like ichigo have a hard time dealing with them.

To me manga's like One Piece have the right mind when introducing a powerfull characters. They dont make the main character encounter him right away, they fight someone who is close to being par with their strength. For example the battle between Ace and Blackbeard was a decent fight and it showed how strong they both are, Ace of course lost, but u had the feeling that Blackbeard was just a bit better than him. Also you look at the fact that they killed off such an important character to luffy sending him into a comatose enduced shock really makes you feel that luffy is atleast still human compared to the other 2 important mainstream anime heroes like ichigo and naruto. Course thats just my oppinion.

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Urgh...What the fuck?...How is that useful in this context?...It's not about the size its the way you use it

Oh shit its Urahara....shits gonna fly now

Ok wow, the plot to me just took a turn to "fuck it who cares now." Saying that something has the power to do what people wanted to me is just some idiotic plot because they couldn't think of anything else. I'm sorry but this just basically says that everything that happened was because of something Urahara created (I believe he did, don't clearly remember) and even he was apparently influenced by it. Yeah Sure Urahara showing up was a bit surprising at the end, because I think he's the only one who knows how to destroy the hogoukyu (sp?) but you know it's gonna be ichigo whose gonna some how hit him and then it will make a crack and it will somehow shatter -_- I really hate bleach now.

This week's chapter was pretty good, especially after the break, but we know how it's going to turn out anyway! Aizen is going to be alive and explain how he can't die and then he's going to take off somewhere and then final arc will get under way where the Gotei 13 will regroup and figure out their next move.

Ergo Proxy
Kino's Journey
Gurren Lagann
Monster
Code Geass
Baccano
Cowboy Bebop
Samurai Champloo
The Newer Astro Boy series
Excel Saga
S-Cry-Ed
Hell, even Gantz