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Cour 4 getting theatrical release on June 25. What additions are you all expecting?
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Bleach? Best animanga.
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when this comes out it will literally BTFO every single shonen-shit that has tried to be relevant in the past 6 years.
and when Hell Arc is announced, literally every shonenshit mangaka will instantly drop their work and quit because they know they can't compete with Kubo
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>>287446917
>release on June 25
>we still don't have a proper trailer
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Doubt it will happen, but I would love more Riruka scenes.
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>>287447241
Yoruichi's seiyuu has hyped up episode 01 of cour 4.
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How do I know YOU aren't part of that fake simulation?
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Besides Ichigo’s fight and probably Uryu’s as well, the rest is gonna be pretty much a slideshow. Black Clover is being produced in parallel, so they’re taking the best staff from Pierrot who worked on TYBW, like Kanno and Yamashita
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But honestly I want to see Urahara bankai and it would great If they do a properly fight of Gerard vs Byakuya, Kenpachi and Toshiro.
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>>287446917
What is even left to do?
>Uryuu vs Hashbrowns
>Ichigo vs Yhwach
>Yoruichi vs Askin
>Kisuke vs Askin
>Ichigo, Aizen, and Uryuu vs Yhwach
>Epilogue
>Maybe one bonus episode
I'm trying to imagine how they'll extend this to 13 episodes.
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every one of those can be extended with extra content, plenty of lore exploration to insert, and lots of other story threads that can be looped or concluded. and there's the potential to tie it into the western branch of soul society in the end and open it up for sequels, hell arc, burn the witch, etc. etc. etc.
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>every one of those can be extended with extra content, plenty of lore exploration to insert, and lots of other story threads that can be looped or concluded
for example?
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yeah add that too
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>>287449458
Gerard’s biggest form will probably be CGI, which sucks. The CGI in TYBW is terrible, and that first part of Pernida’s fight is the worst episode in TYBW, even though that episode had Atsushi Wakabayashi on the storyboard
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>>287450658
Hitsugaya is for Rangiku
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>>287451422
Rangikus bankai will increase her size and she'll fight Gerard.
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>>287451372
Then why didn't he fuck Rangiku in the end...?
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>>287451705
Nta, we use this one in Bleach threads newfag.
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>>287447548
Literally the only redeeming quality of the Lost Agent Arc.
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>>287452274
I liked Tsukishima too, the arc in general to be fair, but Riruka is the cutest.
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It's Riruka's birthday. Say something nice about her.
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>>287452700
Kubo doesn't need money.
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>>287446917
I do hope that they will show it in my area, but Bleach isn't even available at local streaming services, so unlikely.
>>287447049
True. Hell Arc is inevitable.
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>>287456631
>Hell Arc is inevitable.
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>Expanded Uryuu vs Hashbrown.
>Expanded Kisuke vs Askin
>Expanded Chad and Ganju vs Statues
>Elaboration on that Rangiku and Gerard thing
>The zombified Soldaten will be put into action.
>An entire episode of expository flashbacks: Still Silver, the iportance of Katagiri's bloodline, establishemt of Wandenreich, Souken's exile, etc.
>Something for Lucia to do, as was mentioned by Urahara in chapter 666.
>More Aizen.
These are only the realistic expansions that come to mind.
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>>287456972
Ah, and something for Ukitake to do, as he (or at least his body) is still alive in the anime.
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>>287447810
I sure fucking hope so, the whole Yhwach fight was total ass. Theres also the fact that all of the hype around Ichigo’s new bankai and how Yhwach fears it only for it to be a non-factor and we never even get to see what it actually does besides a golden getsuga.
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>>287458221
>I hate it when they bring back old characters
Kubo designed eleven new villains for the Hell Arc. And there will be Hell natives. It's more than sufficient.
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This winter.
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People often say that Kubo forgot a lot of things or that Bleach is a retcon riddled mess.
But these claims often come from hirenkyakureaders, and retcons are detracting only when they create plot holes.
But Kubo, obviously, is not perfect. What did he really forget? What plot holes did retcons really introduce?
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>>287456972
>>More Aizen
The only thing that matters.
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>>287456972
with any luck sado vs statue drones will get replaced by an actual fight against someone with a name and we'll actually get to see him win
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Kubo attending theater screenings as well?
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>>287459891
Isn't cour 4 named The Calamity, because there was a kanji for calamity in Ryoka?
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>>287459891
Kubo didn't name the final arc "Separation". It's called "Calamity" or "Catastrophe". But it's a weird word, not it the dictionaries. Should probably be translated as "Calamity Ensues"
But why did he name the second cour "Separation"? Or rather "Parting", as in people parting ways. I don't remember anyone parting ways in the cour.
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It may be the case, if 禍 is indeed a term for a threat used in the Soul Society.
>>287459977
If I was Kubo, I'd gladly witness the God of Thunder on a silver screen too.
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There will be a drawing of Yoruichi and Soifon by the same artist in the coming weeks.
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>>287447548
Best girl.
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Boo, that's lame.
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>>287460586
>Yoruichi and Soifon
Best girls
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What did Kubo mean by this?
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SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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I need extra materials
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riruka = shit
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Ruki/a/ reigns
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Lol.
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How many new Uryu transformations?
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He meant when he becomes a light being, which I can believe if they wanna extend the characters fighting him in that form. If his end is still basically the same though then they don't really need to CGI him since he really just stands menacingly while releasing balls of light from his shoulders/back before being aushwahlened.
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So what are your expectations that the first 3 eps/theatrical release is gonna cover? Based on the stuff shown from the teaser, im actually thinking they move stuff around such that Askin vs. Yoruichi and Urahara is gonna start in ep 4 instead of being the first fight we see or at least wont conclude in the movie. My guess is the movie is gonna focus on these fights which will be the individual 3 eps later:
>Yhwach vs. Ichigo and Orihime
>Haschwalth vs. Uryu
>Statues vs. Chad and Ganju
They still might tease/setup the other fights as well.
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>Statues vs. Chad and Ganju
I do think that Statues are gone and replaced by zombie Soldaten.
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Lol. Lmao even.
>>287468830
The thing is, Uryuu's Vollstandig is complete. The rest of the Sternritter use some kind of artificial thing as catalyst, which results in a Heiligenschein. Uryuu uses his own natural Still Silver, no weakness.
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>>287469858
that's what Kazui is
like how both Kurozangetsu and Shirozangetsu can just do things on their own, his The Almighty chased Ywach into the future and squashed him there to protect Ichigo, manifestimg in the form of a son that inherited all of his powers
at any given point Kazui could choose to be sublimated back into Ichigo and disapear
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>>287469858
Ichigo already has the almighty inside of him. They showed you. He has the 6 eye version, he represents the past and future of the verse. Every antagonist is just bits and pieces of Ichigo's potential.
>Retarded reiatsu and regeneration like Aizen
>Almighty like Yhwach
They're parallels of Ichigo realizing their own truths. The only one living in a lie is Ichigo himself who doesn't care about what he could become.
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It's already complete. It just came from the novels.
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>>287471352
>Cause he definitely didn't draw shit.
For the animation itself — of course not, he's not an animator. But he does storyboards for new scenes, like Ichigo's training or Senjumaru's bankai.
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The King of Hueco Mundo was killed by a Jobzard btw
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There will be no Third Auswáhlen.
Reasons:
>It was stupid and anticlimactic and made due to time consstraints.
>Ryuuken was unaffected, but he should be (unless he's special)
>Rangiku's relation with Gerard was teased, it should play a role in his defeat
>Senjumaru's bankai showed that Gerard is indeed terminally weak to cold.
Visoreds won't defeat Gerard. Toushirou and Rangiku will.
Also, probably Rangiku's bankai reveal.
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This week Kubo's answers:
>Q917.
>ルキアが副隊⾧に昇進した時、白哉から白い手甲をもらいましたが、隊⾧になった時には何をもらったのでしょうか?
>Upon her promotion to the rank of a lieutenant Byakuya gifted Rukia her white tekkou (coverings for the back of the hand ahd wrist). What did he gift her upon her promotion to the rank of a captain?
>A917.
>髪帯(リボン)です。
>Hair ribbon.
>Q918.
>久保先生の瞳の描写が好きです。瞳の描写についてのこだわりなどがあればお聞きしたいです。
>I like how you draw eyes, Kubo-sensei. Do you have any particular approach when drawing eyes?
>A918.
>ないです。感情を上手く表現できればいいなーと思いながら描いてます。
>No. I'm just drawing them in hopes to convery certain emotions.
>Q919.
>ジジはゾンビを使役するより自分で完聖体や神聖滅矢を使って戦う方が強いと思うのですが、ゾンビ任せが多いのは楽をしたいのと本人の趣味ですか?
>I think that rather than using zombies, Gigi would be much stronger in combat using Vollständig and Heilig Pfeil. Is using zombies just easier or is it a personal preference?
>A919.
>敵をゾンビにするのが楽しいからです
>Using zombies is more fun.
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Best girl
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Real
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Extension to Everyone vs Gerard is pretty obvious one. Kubo in Klub Outside even revealed the actual weakness of Gerard and it would be super easy to write proper end of that fight around it. Hell, they kind of hinted at it in anime already when the fat lady from Squad Zero attacked Gerard and we saw glow coming from his chest.
>Zaraki slashes Gerard in half and we see Quincy Cross inside of him just as it was in the manga.
>Someone just notice it and deduce the obvious idea that it may be what keeps Gerard immortal.
>Big ass combo attack from Hitsugaya, Byakuya and Zaraki to split him apart again and immediately destroy the core.
>Yhwatch still can absorb dying Gerard but at least it will look less like Kubo making up bs because he wrote himself into the corner by making literally unbeatable enemy.
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>wasn't even allowed to win her only fight in the entire manga, which was directly tied to her character and had real emotional stakes for her, because Kubo wanted Zaraki to look cool instead
I will never cease to be pissed off about this. Why did he waste such a likable fucking character?
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I still think this is unironically the worst major fight in all of Bleach. It wasn't quite as miserable to read weekly as a certain useless Quincy and Shinigami against a certain pink haired faggot, but the ending is just so fucking atrocious that I hold it in infinite contempt. Fixing that ending should be one of the absolute highest priorities for the adaptation.
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Bleach is so terrible Kubo constantly just abruptly ends fights because even he knows no one gives a fuck so he might as well just move the plot along.
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The issue with fight against Gerard is that for such a long and big battle the ending was literally non-existing despite Kubo showing us an obvious answer.
The ending was literally just there, it just needed Byakuya or Hitsugaya to poke the fucking cross. It's one think when the battle is pretty much completely skipped like what happened to Yammy, but in case of Gerard we got pretty much entire fight, a setup for obvious and kind of lazy but functional finish and then Kubo shat himself and decided to not use it and write garbage about Gerard being absorbed by Ychwatch offscreen.
He had not enough time? Well then he could just not put there the entire Robo-Kira vs Lile setup (that by itself is fucking retarded) and then he would have enough time and space to put that ending there.
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Because it was teased in the anime, and it's a new addition.
>>287474395
The third Auswählen was needed only to kill Gerard. It doesn't make sense otherwise and adds inconsistencies.
Gerard will be defeated be Hitsugaya, as was foreshadowed by Senjumaru's bankai, liikely wtih Rangiku's help. And there will be scenes of Rangiku gushing over grown up Toushirou.
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They are not. They're dead. Some of them double dead.
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I’m expecting at peast twenty minutes of Soul King and first Gotei 13 gen lore. I want to see why the original world the SK created was so bad and how he was torn to pieces to create the status quo the Shinigami have been defending for tens if thousands of years
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I took it that in the beginning to middle of the fight Gerard was actually beatable. If anyone noticed the Quincy cross and destroyed it, he'd be toast. But because The Miracle instead just let him resurrect from every lethal blow stronger than before, he attracted more Captains to take him down, with increasingly lethal moves that he had to adapt to, and by that point his weak point couldn't be exposed anymore and he was unbeatable. Only Yhwach frying him with the Ashwahlen to strip him of The Miracle actually stopped him, if Yhwach didn't do that the Captains would've lost.
Kind of the difference between Kenpachi + Hitsugaya being straightforward fighters versus an opponent who that won't work against, and Mayuri actually observing and analyzing to look for a weakness instead of just applying pressure.
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Nigga we ballin
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To be fair, the only characters that were brought back from the dead in Bleach before the Hell Arc are Grimmjaw (who wasn't even decisively dead) and the dead Fullbringers (but they were bound to show up in the Soul Society anyway).
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It will be in the theatrical feature.
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I stand corrected, there were three more. But again, they were not really dead too.
Kensei and Rose were "killed" by Gremmy, but he can't really kill by the virtue of his imagination: as soon as Kensei and Rose were out of The Visionary's radius, they came back to life and were turned into zombies alive.
Kira was gravely injured, but healers were fighting for his life and his death wasn't really confirmed.
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Huh surprisingly /a/ haven't talk about Bleach fans kidnapping a little girl, and force her to watch Bleach.
【Psycho Who Kidnaps 5th-Grade Elementary School Girl and Forces Her to Watch BLEACH Forever Appears lol】
▫After locking the girl in a room, he prepares the popular manga "BLEACH" from volume 1 to the finale.
・No sexual violence whatsoever
・No violence or verbal abuse whatsoever
・Just forces her to sit in seiza and read it with full concentration
▫After making her binge-read the entire series over several days, the culprit makes his move.
"Time for a test to see if you understand the content"
・He gives her a BLEACH quiz he made himself (10 questions)
・"If you get 6 or more right, I'll let you out of here," he declares
The culprit's goal wasn't lust or money, but "spreading the gospel of my fave manga"......
https://x.com/hex6u/status/2044397730727084173
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What the fuck did I just read?
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If the original version of "Number One" isn't playing during this moment I will consider the entirety of TYBW to be a failure
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Best opening has been uploaded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUxUXwL4IKY
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For me its
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km1CEwOaXsg
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>>287499788
I still think this is the best Bleach Opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv5V-5CErRE