Tuesday 17 January 2012

Bleach

Bleach fans fear not!
Since Ichigo cut down Aizen in that epic 'your 1000 years too early, and I'm a complete and utter bad ass' manner, and we've been introduced to Ginjou’s Fullbring crew, and shown some of the secondary characters improved powers, I've felt the manga had become a bit... fillerish. As in like the episodes of the Bleach anime (and many other popular animes) that run in between the gaps of the main story. Until I read the last issue before a 3 week break (I assume after the break its back to the full swing of... zanpakutos, lol).
It has created a few interesting questions, why are some of the vizards now gotei 13  captains? Where are the rest of the vizards? How would the shinigami badge allow the gotei 13 to kill Ichigo? They've tried before when he was puny compared to now and couldn't do it! What's with Ichigo's new look and sword? Now some of the vizards are part of the gotei 13, I'm sure the secrets regarding their and Isshin (Ichigo's father), Kisuke, yoruichi's etc... history with Soul society will soon be explained AT LAST!
The ending to the fullbring saga, if this really is the end, was quite a shocker. No spoilers here but I will say a new age of Ichigo seems to have begun! They seem to have made him grow out of that urgent, rushing to save everyone, youth, and from what has been read thus far, into a calmer more calculating young adult. The secondary character have gotten stronger too, so hopefully no more reading pages explaining why Inoue feels so upset that she cant do much!
I was becoming concerned that bleach would turn into a manga that I would no longer be desperate to read every Weds when its released, but with the end of this story line, I'm happy to state, I am concerned no more!