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

[Hadrian_Emrys]

There's nothing here worth spoilers folks.
Just an update so bad that I can't stop laughing.

[Max™]

Kenny's sword... deflated, much like... mine did.

[Olinser]

We're running out of Sternritter awfully fast and there are multiple Captains and Squad Zero who still haven't pulled their Bankai out.

This leads me to believe that at some point Squad Zero is, in fact, going to become antagonists, if nothing more than to provide enough fights.

[ben-zayb]

We're running out of Sternritter awfully fast and there are multiple Captains and Squad Zero who still haven't pulled their Bankai out.

This leads me to believe that at some point Squad Zero is, in fact, going to become antagonists, if nothing more than to provide enough fights.

Or Bach goes Aizen-mode on all captains. *shrug* Given the story of SR powers, that doesn't seem to be too farfetched.

[Rater202]

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Perhaps Yhwach wanted aizen and the other Extreme War potentials specifically so he could take their souls and power? specifically so he could "Go Aizen?"

[Mato]

Anyone else feel like the recent issue was an explanation in progress?

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Tite: ...And he blows up.
Reader: It makes sense. As Aizen has explained and shown us, combat is based on reiatsu and even clever 'magical' tricks are limited or crushed by it. Gremmy attempted to kaio-ken up his power level and killed him self. I just foolishly expected more out of you.
Tite: More lameness? I can do that. Gremmy imagined having Kenpachi's power perfectly perfect. But like Goku told Captain Ginyu, you need to unite mind & body for full power and Gremmy didn't understand this. No wait, he did understand this, that's just an excuse. See, he failed to perfectly imagine being perfectly perfect and like so his imagination failed and his new body, which was just an extension of his imagination, that he imagined fell apart. No wait, he never had a body to begin with so his imagination imagined a perfectly perfect imagination and like this whole thing is just a euphemism for something deeper.
Reader: Huh?
Tite: Yachiru is missing! Boom! Four Sternritters appear!

[LaZodiac]

Anyone else feel like the recent issue was an explanation in progress?

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Tite: ...And he blows up.
Reader: It makes sense. As Aizen has explained and shown us, combat is based on reiatsu and even clever 'magical' tricks are limited or crushed by it. Gremmy attempted to kaio-ken up his power level and killed him self. I just foolishly expected more out of you.
Tite: More lameness? I can do that. Gremmy imagined having Kenpachi's power perfectly perfect. But like Goku told Captain Ginyu, you need to unite mind & body for full power and Gremmy didn't understand this. No wait, he did understand this, that's just an excuse. See, he failed to perfectly imagine being perfectly perfect and like so his imagination failed and his new body, which was just an extension of his imagination, that he imagined fell apart. No wait, he never had a body to begin with so his imagination imagined a perfectly perfect imagination and like this whole thing is just a euphemism for something deeper.
Reader: Huh?
Tite: Yachiru is missing! Boom! Four Sternritters appear!

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My understanding of why Gremmy exploded is because...as I said last chapter, ONLY KENPACHI can be as strong as Kenpachi. It's LITERALLY impossible, so much so that you can not even imagine it. He succeeded in imagining what that power might be like, but he couldn't imagine a body powerful enough for it, because that's literally impossible, and thus he exploded.

Then lol he's a brain in a jar happened. Bleach is so...weird and bad.

[danzibr]

So... he should have imagined himself as Kenpachi, not just as strong as Kenpachi.

[thubby]

oh the violence he is about to inflict on those women.

seriously. we now have a *worried* kenpachi, and something is in his way.

[ryuplaneswalker]

oh the violence he is about to inflict on those women.

seriously. we now have a *worried* kenpachi, and something is in his way.

Odds on him going straight to kill mode and unleashing Bankai.

[chainer1216]

So... he should have imagined himself as Kenpachi, not just as strong as Kenpachi.

maybe, but that didn't exactly help the last guy who did that.

[danzibr]

Why is this thread tagged with TV?

So in general, to release their shikai, a shinigami has to say, "<insert verb here>, <insert zanpakutou name here>." Looking back at the previous few chapters, Kenpachi says swallow, then on the next page says Nozarashi, *then* we see Yachiru. At first I was thinking she either became his shikai or something, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Kidnapped, maybe.

[Hadrian_Emrys]

Pinky is missing and the malice minions appear.
Kubo isn't known plots that can confuse the Kenpachi for long, so I can only assume the two are related.

[Sliver]

When Jar-for-Brains said that he is going to imagine a world without imagination and then we instantly move to Yachiru missing, my first thought was that Kenpachi imagined her into existence and Jars cancelled her out.

[Olinser]

Given that Giselle is Sternritter 'Z' and Bambietta was telling her to get away that she wasn't dead yet, I'm assuming that the 'Z' stands for 'Zombie' and Zombie Bambietta is about to make an appearance.

[danzibr]

I wonder how Yamamoto was able to beat Yhwach so long ago, considering how hard he got owned this last time. Unless he got far stronger.

[Olinser]

I wonder how Yamamoto was able to beat Yhwach so long ago, considering how hard he got owned this last time. Unless he got far stronger.

Let see.

1) There is no concrete info that the original fight was 1v1, or that Yamamoto was even the one that beat him. I find it highly likely that Unohana, or a group of original Captains, actually downed him the first time.

2) Yhwach commented that Yamamoto had gotten weaker since the war.

3) Yamamoto was missing an arm.

4) Yamamoto had just gotten his Bankai sealed (on the whole, Shinigami Bankai seem to add significantly more power than Sternritter Vollstandig), in addition to using a pretty decent amount of power using it on Lloyd Royd earlier.

[Durkoala]

At a guess, it looked like Ywach sucker-punched him. He stole Yama's bankai and then attacked before the old man could recover.

I love the moments when Bleach decides that it doesn't want to use the Dragonball Z formula today and someone is going to get hurt by someone below their level (or in that case, where a fight between two near equals is suddenly over).

Edit: Damn.
Also, what that guy said.

[The Troubadour]

(...) in addition to using a pretty decent amount of power using it on Lloyd Royd earlier.

This is particularly significant, I think. Yhwach even taunted Yamamoto with something to that effect.

[HandofShadows]

New chapter is up

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Those women are really monsters. Kenpachi is down since he is still weakened from the earlier battle and the memebers of Squad 11 are getting taken out in large numbers. So who is arriving on the last page? Ichigo or someone else? A bit of a skull motief in the explosion?

[ben-zayb]

Haha! Poor Bambietta.

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Sort of like aaroniero, but I'll take it due to more awesome imagery. <3 Liltotto

Meninas have the most original and creative ability so far... i mean, power, right? Geselle's infected blood ability reminded me of an old shounen character...from YYH i think bloodbending.

[danzibr]

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Kenpachi can't move? Suuuuure. I bet he'll be able to move his hand enough to take off that eye patch.

And think it's Ichigo?

[Somensjev]

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it has to be ichigo doesn't it? unless some of squad 0 are coming to fight? everyone else from the sky has already arrived, and we all know a kenpachi and ichigo tag-team fight would look pretty cool

also, i give this group of girls a generous 4 chapters before they're beaten into submission

[ben-zayb]

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Ginjo (skull-motif) and co.

[Somensjev]

Spoiler: or it's a red herring for...

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Ginjo (skull-motif) and co.

i thought of that, but i thought it'd be too mean

then again, we are reading bleach

[darksolitaire]

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New chapter makes me think that Kubo is starting to take influence from Oda. His powers were never as silly before this arc.

[The Troubadour]

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New chapter makes me think that Kubo is starting to take influence from Oda. His powers were never as silly before this arc.

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Not silly - creepy. Which is something Kubo has always done well, even with simple Hollows way back in the first arc.

[Olinser]

Given that Giselle is Sternritter 'Z' and Bambietta was telling her to get away that she wasn't dead yet, I'm assuming that the 'Z' stands for 'Zombie' and Zombie Bambietta is about to make an appearance.

I SO CALLED IT.

Now just stand by for Zombie Bambietta to jump out next chapter.

[LaZodiac]

This chapter actually bothers me.

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Kenpachi shouldn't be as tired as he is. I'm sure it'll be fine next chapter, but he's overwhelmingly powerful at this point. He's literally unimaginably powerful. We'll see where this goes.

[Snarky1]

Let see.

1) There is no concrete info that the original fight was 1v1, or that Yamamoto was even the one that beat him. I find it highly likely that Unohana, or a group of original Captains, actually downed him the first time.

2) Yhwach commented that Yamamoto had gotten weaker since the war.

3) Yamamoto was missing an arm.

4) Yamamoto had just gotten his Bankai sealed (on the whole, Shinigami Bankai seem to add significantly more power than Sternritter Vollstandig), in addition to using a pretty decent amount of power using it on Lloyd Royd earlier.

Unohana had nothing to do with it. Not only is she weaker than Yamamoto (why do you think he was able to control her?), she was never mentioned by any of the Sternritter and doesn't seem to even be considered a war potential. Furthermore, Mayuri specifically stated that it was Yama's fault that Yhwach was not already dead, which implies that the fight was 1v1. If not, there would have been others he could lay the blame on as well.

Yamamoto was still stronger than Yhwach while using his Bankai. That's why he started the fight off by stealing it, he was not confident in his ability to win with Yamamoto using it.