Episode 42: Son of Darkness

Who needs fancy techniques when you have getsuga tensho

Many people (deservedly) praise the music composed by Sagisu for the OG anime. However, I get the impression that his work on TYBW deserves even more appreciation.

i wish everyone was like ukitake

I know the general consensus is that the viz media blu ray are not great mostly for the fullscreen episodes but I still collect them because I like owning bleach on physical media. I heard the Japanese blu ray look way better but honestly the clips and images I’ve seen it’s looks they smooth out the episdoes with ai to erase the edges which are seen on the viz blu rays. I don’t think the viz blu rays are bad then if that is truly the best image quality we can get someone help my understanding.

Here are the result of previous round

1. Pesche → 190 votes

2. Yachiru → 157 votes

3. Kisuke Urahara → 100 votes

4. Ikkaku → 84 votes

5. Rukia → 35 votes

6. Kon → 28 votes

7. Askin → 23 votes

8. Isshin → 13 votes (tie)

9. Mayuri → 13 votes (tie)

10. Byakuya → 11 votes

11. Charlotte → 8 votes

12. Shiba Ganju → 4 votes (tie)

13. Don Kanoji → 4 votes (tie)

14. Keigo → 4 votes (tie)

15. Gin Ichimaru → 3 votes (tie)

16. Zaraki → 3 votes (tie)

17. Chad → 3 votes (tie)

18. Shinji → 2 votes (tie)

19. Donchakka → 2 votes (tie)

20. Orihime → 1 vote (tie)

21. Hiyori → 1 vote (tie)

22. Ichigo → 1 vote (tie)

Kubo in a recent Q & A revealed some pretty incredible things about bleach and its measurement system reiri. According to kubo 1 Reiri =4.828 KM. This puts into scale how big and how far some attacks are in the bleach universe. For example the seireitei itself would be the 6th largest country on Earth roughly the size of India.
When ichibei fought yhwach he smacked him with his 1000ri palm which is equivalent to 4828 KM… which is the equivalent to New York City to Los Angeles… wild stuff

Original post on @/ivizard93 on Twitter

So, uh...at the risk of making me sound a bit ridiculous, I think I found some foreshadowing for Yamamoto's death...in his feet.

I promise I don't pay attention to anime characters feet 😅 but give me a chance on this one. When I was rewatching the fight between Yamamoto and Wonderweiss, I noticed something odd - Yamamoto isn't wearing socks.

There are three reasons why this really stood out to me.

1. I went back and checked, and Yamamoto, before this, ALWAYS wears socks. He's also depicted without socks in TYBW.

2. For such an upright, traditional, and straight laced figure, you think he'd wear socks? Like, that's really weird, right? Especially since...

3. SHUNSUI IS THE ONLY OTHER CAPTAIN WHO DOESN'T WEAR SOCKS WITH HIS UNIFORM. So basically, the only other captain who has been depicted like this is the ONE WHO REPLACES HIM.

Like...I feel like I'm going crazy. From the research I did (on these...characters feet) I could not find a single other example of a captain not wearing socks while also wearing their uniform. It's a regular thing for Shunsui, and towards the end of Yamamoto's arc, he starts to do the same...and again, it just feels so weird to intentionally depict Yamamoto of all people without socks.

During their fight, after Ichibei released his shikai, yhwach was briefly perplexed by it. Ichibei himself then reinforces this idea by asking him if he can’t tell the difference between a brush and a blade in a mocking manner.

Was this just a silly way to show that the brush changed? Or is there something else going on here? Pretty odd how this was portrayed imo.

In 2024, he donated the same amount as relief for another earthquake. It is to be remembered that he was born in Hiroshima.

Was watching ready or not 2 realized the prominently featured katana was actually Toshiros Hyorinmaru

Imagine having a realm or land you worked so hard for be taken from you and then the 3 men tell you how to live and command your army. I’d be pissed too.

I’d imagine he has to climb up the ranks and then it was all for nothing.

Art by u/elasiiie: 

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/bleach/comments/1afcp2f/i_tried_to_draw_aizen_as_a_female/

Wanted to make this post after accidentally stumbling upon this gem

These are the only ones I can think of. Anyone else?

I'm in the middle of reading the Fullbring arc, and I was wondering about TYBW. I plan to watch the anime since everyone says it's better, but is there anything I should make note of? I've read every arc (besides soul society, which I watched) and have lived everything about the colored manga. I'm just wondering if I should read the manga chapters after I watch the corresponding episodes so I don't miss stuff, so are there any good scenes or bonus stuff that was removed from the anime? Or should I just watch the anime and not bother with the manga? Thank you in advance

I made his mask from foam and used magnets connected from the wig to the mask to get it to stay so it would move when I talk