Bleach IX: This isn't even my final thread!

[Primal Fury]

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It's entirely possibly Kenpachi had no idea what he was talking about. When he first got one, Ichigo's zanpakuto was way different in shape than everyone else's. It stands to reason that there would be a few out there that have non-standard sealed forms. It was still a sword, just with a different shape.

[LaZodiac]

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Kenpachi just obliterated a meteor. I don't think Gremmy's in for a good time.

Also, I think this chapter implied that our little pink haired friend is in fact Kenpachi's sword.

[danzibr]

So you *can* multiquote across multiple pages. Hmm...

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I wouldn't be surprised. Yumichika's zanpakutou have two forms, with one being mispronounced. If Zaraki's sword was legit (and I still don't take his word for it) in Shikai state before, it could be that the previous one was the form for his "nameless" shikai (to be precise, the one where he didn't give a crap about the name).

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True, true. I forgot about Yumichika. However, he wasn't mispronouncing it iirc, he was almost insulting it.

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Kenpachi just obliterated a meteor. I don't think Gremmy's in for a good time.

Also, I think this chapter implied that our little pink haired friend is in fact Kenpachi's sword.

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I was thinking that, too. But... there's gotta be some complication.

What irregularities regarding zanpkautou spirits do we know at the moment? Nothing comes to mind.

[Rater202]

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Kenpachi just obliterated a meteor. I don't think Gremmy's in for a good time.

Also, I think this chapter implied that our little pink haired friend is in fact Kenpachi's sword.

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Can't be.

She has a Zanpakuto of her own, with a Shikai, and Kenpachi refers to his sword using male pronouns.

The flashback was probably Yachiru wondering if the sword she touched was really the same sword as that Giant Axe.

[LaZodiac]

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Can't be.

She has a Zanpakuto of her own, with a Shikai, and Kenpachi refers to his sword using male pronouns.

The flashback was probably Yachiru wondering if the sword she touched was really the same sword as that Giant Axe.

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Oooh, good point.

[Mato]

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I figured the flash back was about neither Kenpachi or Yachiru knew their names. Since you know, that was the discussion.

Yachiru learned the name of her Zanbakto, now she sees Kenny has as well. It's a sense of learning who you are, even if you forgot who you were.

[HandofShadows]

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I figured the flash back was about neither Kenpachi or Yachiru knew their names. Since you know, that was the discussion.

Yachiru learned the name of her Zanbakto, now she sees Kenny has as well. It's a sense of learning who you are, even if you forgot who you were.

Very nice read of the situation. You are to be commended.

[Hadrian_Emrys]

1) Another boring update.
2) I wonder how one would say "Ah, fresh meat." -in Japanese.

[ben-zayb]

2) I wonder how one would say "Ah, fresh meat." -in Japanese.

I'm pretty sure Kenpachi saying "Itadakimasu" will have the same, if not creepier, effect.

[Anteros]

1) Another boring update.

True. I don't know how Kenpachi finally revealing his sword and blasting a comet out of the sky managed to be boring...but it was.

[thubby]

*pinches sinuses*

700 chapters. this is how kubo shows something people have been speculating about for 700 issues.

[LaZodiac]

*pinches sinuses*

700 chapters. this is how kubo shows something people have been speculating about for 700 issues.

I thought it was cool, to a degree. Like, the whole "this is a thing I haven't cut yet" is pretty awesome.

[Hadrian_Emrys]

Gremmy: "What does your zanpakuto do?"
Kenpachi: "I imagine that it cuts people."

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Man, what a sword. It's fitting of Kenpachi, though admittedly, I did secretly want a kidou zankpakutou. I suppose it still could be.

[Rater202]

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Man, what a sword. It's fitting of Kenpachi, though admittedly, I did secretly want a kidou zankpakutou. I suppose it still could be.

It looks kinda like Fakegetsu's second form.

...which was derived from the form of Yhwach's sword

New Theory! Kenpachi is a Shinigami/Quincy hybrid, except his Quincy and Shinigami halves are fully integrated from the start, so instead of a Yhwach ooking psuedozanpakuto spirit represent quincy power and a real zanpakuto spirit representing shinigami power, Kenpachi has one Zanpakuto spirit that represents both halves of his power(Like how the real Zangetsu represents Ichigo's Shinigami and Hollow powers)

He has no name or memeories of who he is becasue he was created as he was by Yhwach, but escaped.

[ben-zayb]

He has no name or memeories of who he is becasue he was created as he was by Yhwach, but escaped.

Actually, there's the crack theory that Ywhach "chose to release that in the wild" (note Askin talking about Kenpachi on the previous statements).

[Anteros]

Or it could be that both were designed and drawn by the same person. Just throwing out some wild theories here.

[Rater202]

Or it could be that both were designed and drawn by the same person. Just throwing out some wild theories here.

Except literally every other Zanpakuto is unique.

[Anteros]

Except literally every other Zanpakuto is unique.

Not in appearance. Quite a few of them look similar to one another.

[Hadrian_Emrys]

Not in appearance. Quite a few of them look similar to one another.

Seriously though. Kubo has managed to make the power of imagination boring. I'll not be shocked if the similarity in appearance is but another symptom of no creativity.

[Infernally Clay]

Seriously though. Kubo has managed to make the power of imagination boring.

I don't understand that. What more do you really expect? He created another person, with their own personality and abilities, he killed people simply by imagining they were dead, he turned someone's bones into cookies, he duplicated himself, he imagined countless guns and missiles, he frequently imagines his wounds aren't there so it's like he was never hit at all, he imagined a freakin' meteor...

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He either creates a portal to outer space and swallows Zaraki in it or creates a dimension with space-like properties and locks Zaraki in it. He even creates dozens of clones of himself and has them all blow themselves up.

I don't know what you really expect. You think it'd be more entertaining if he just imagined Zaraki was dead and it happened?

[Somensjev]

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He either creates a portal to outer space and swallows Zaraki in it or creates a dimension with space-like properties and locks Zaraki in it. He even creates dozens of clones of himself and has them all blow themselves up.

have i missed a chapter? i don't remember this?

[darksolitaire]

have i missed a chapter? i don't remember this?

I read it as Infernally Clay's prediction, not as a chapter spoiler.

[Silva Stormrage]

I read it as Infernally Clay's prediction, not as a chapter spoiler.

http://mangadoom.com has the bleach naruto and one piece chapters for this week in japanese for some reason. In it it does look like Zaraki is being eaten by a space portal or something.

[Somensjev]

http://mangadoom.com has the bleach naruto and one piece chapters for this week in japanese for some reason. In it it does look like Zaraki is being eaten by a space portal or something.

that makes much more sense

now if only i could actually read japanese

[Slayn82]

I've just read the last few chapters and the forum thoughts. This isn't a 3.0 D&D Wizard vs. Fighter match. It's a 3.0 Wizard with WBL vs. a AD&D 2nd edition near 20th level Fighter with an inteligent weapon and the obligatory Magic Resistance (AD&D magic resistance is way better than 3.0 anti-magic, as it negates even the ontological inertia of things).

[Bobbis]

Random stupid thought that means absolutely nothing, but is a fun thing I noticed.

Kenpachi's release looks a lot like the bottom half of Zangetsu (massively enlarged and with a steel cap where it was severed). Didn't Kenpachi sever Zangetsu pretty much right there when he and Ichigo first met? Could "drink" not only imply some sort of absorbing ability, but it in fact took the partial form of the first blade that beat Kenpachi?

Or not, it's just amusing to me.

[Rater202]

Random stupid thought that means absolutely nothing, but is a fun thing I noticed.

Kenpachi's release looks a lot like the bottom half of Zangetsu (massively enlarged and with a steel cap where it was severed). Didn't Kenpachi sever Zangetsu pretty much right there when he and Ichigo first met? Could "drink" not only imply some sort of absorbing ability, but it in fact took the partial form of the first blade that beat Kenpachi?

Or not, it's just amusing to me.

Partially Copying an enemies power to make it a fair fight, and putting his own spin on it, would fit Zaraki's personality.

And of course if the other guy is too strong to beat, Zaraki can swith to an other copied Power to keep the fight interesting.(As is the case here.)

[LaZodiac]

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All hail Kenpachi, omnipotent Soul Reaper. He survives being surrounded in a bubble of Outer Space, survives being Death Star Exploded, and then...then...

Okay, here is my read on what happened Gremmy tried to imagine himself as stronger then Kenpachi. This is LITERALLY an impossibility, something so impossible taht simply trying to imagine it BLEW GREMMY UP. And thus he dies like a punk as expected.

Also, Kubo what the CHRIST is wrong with you. When did you start looking at super dark metal album covers for art inspiration. This is the second dude to have rps and bones and guts spilling out of him.

[HandofShadows]

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All hail Kenpachi, omnipotent Soul Reaper. He survives being surrounded in a bubble of Outer Space, survives being Death Star Exploded, and then...then...

Okay, here is my read on what happened Gremmy tried to imagine himself as stronger then Kenpachi. This is LITERALLY an impossibility, something so impossible taht simply trying to imagine it BLEW GREMMY UP. And thus he dies like a punk as expected.

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Yeah I think you have it right. He tried to imagine something he could not imagine or at the very least control. And it ripped him apart.