#ik i just said '20 chaps is good' but...im trying to get up thru aizen's defeat this weekend yolo

[stephanericherthanyou]

Ch141-200

Ch141: Kneel to the Baboon King

damn renji!! ‘since you never did give a damn about your subordinates’ (/starts aggressively shipping renji/ken-chan)

bow chicka bow wow

translation? shipping goggles? something else? you decide

Ch142: Tsuki Wo Tora Umono Ha Tsugu

“the curtain that falls down at the end...shall be pulled down by the blade of my sword” wrow byakuya

PEEL SEBONBANANA is way too ingrained within my mind...sorry byakuya

just the reflection of the moon on the lake....kyoka suigetsu....

anyway, byakuya....what a bamf

Ch143: Parthian Shaft

WHAT A FUCKEN MATCH ON ACTION...RENJI TO ICHIGO AND BACK...NNNN KUBO....

sidenote i hate that i used to have more coherent meta thoughts about media (mostly knb lol) and i was too afraid to post it into meta bc i felt like ‘only bnfs write meta....my thoughts are no good, no one will listen’ even if i didn’t publish i should have kept them somewhere for my future self.

Ch144: Rosa Rubicondior, Lillior Candidor

“Compared to letting it fall apart, holding it together...is so much more difficult.” perhaps an unintentional callback to orihime & tatsuki, but. still. yeah.

Ch145: Shaken

Ch146: Demon Loves the Dark

tosen’s bankai is so cool! i’ve refd kubo talking about how he creates a bunch of new charas when he doesn’t know what to do before but like...he gives /them/ stuff to do and in this arc he handles it really waell. it’s like 90% ‘look at this cool chara and what they can do’ but all of that is still contributing to the plot/mystery at the same time....gg

Ch147: Countdown to the End 3

man....rukia is so beautiful....

JESUSFUC K

Ch148: Countdown to the End 2 (Lady Lennon ~ Frankenstein)

man....tosen...and his can’t see the forest for the trees (or is it the other way around?) on justice....when will my thoughts on this become more coherent

AWOO~

Ch149: Countdown to the End 1

‘even if we die, we’ll just change a little’ that’s quite zen of you ken-chan

UKITAKEEEEEE

bawww rikichi

Ch150: Countdown to the End 0

shunnao

“Yo” ICHIGO!!!!!! PLS!!!!!!!!!!

Ch151: Deathberry Returns

nnnn kyoraku and ukitake

“what are you doing” “obvs breaking this execution pole” BOTH OF U PLS

“and again i wanna say i’m here to help you” ichigo.......T__T what a man

Ch152: The Speed Phantom

“what is he?” the question whose answer keeps changing

ASDJFKL THE FOOTBALL THROW I WAS WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT..../changes drinking game ‘to drink whenever u wanna say ichigo pls’ what even....

YEEEESSSSS ICHIGO V BYAKUYA FIGHT FIGHT FIIIIGGGHHHHTTTTT “I CAN SEE YOU...KUCHIKI BYAKUYA” YESSSSSSSS

Ch153: Empty Dialogue

byakuya: i’ll kill u ichigo: /starts stripping

O SHIT THE FATED* YORUICHI & SOI FON MEETING

Ch154: The God of Flash

the truly vexing thing about all this is that kubo creates so many characters and they are all interesting and fleshed out just enough but there are so many there’s not room to explore all of them properly in <700 chapters (yes that’s what fic is for, yes the anime will hopefully expand on the last arc...still)

Ch155: Redoundable Deeds, Redoundablebabies

so why /did/ shunsui bring nanao anyway? to see if she was ready for the sword? bc he wanted her nearby when he was using it? i wonder

soooo yamamoto ships kyoraku/uitake....i see how it is

“nobody thinks of you as badly as you do” i mean. yeah

so they’re that kind of student

“there is no individual sense of justice that can overrule the global justice.” somehow....this feels like a computer science class...

Ch156: Welcome to Purgatory

“the only two zanpakutou in pairs” WELL ACTUALLY /takes a shot

Ch157: Cat and Hornet

did we ever find out what yoruichi’s sword was or nah

SHE

(and saying “yo” the same way as ichigo....again.....so obvious....)

Ch158: Sky Leopardess

soi fon is /so/ mad at yoruichi for leaving and idk. it’s really raw.

Ch159: Long Way to Say Goodbye

Ch160: The Battle on the Guillotine Hill

kasdjfl ikkaku and iba....& ikkaku recognizing iba’s constraints, his ambitions of becoming VC and living up to expectations vs his thirst for blood, deep down 11th division huh.....in a way, it’s like how yumichika hides his shikai & ikkaku hides that he has bankai at all, how kenpachi refuse to know the sword part of his soul....they’re all in some kind of denial and contradiction. interesting, i will think about that some more.

fucken SCREAMING

in the end.....ichigo is just an older sibling, huh. this is orihime’s big bro all over again, right? ‘the older sibling was born first to protect the younger sibling’ and all that

Ch161: Scratch the Sky

calling ichigo’s attack name arrogant BYAKUYA PLS MR ‘1000 years too early and i can’t think of a better insult so i’ll just use it again’

“THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS IMPLYING KUCHIKI BYAKUYA”

i love that ichigo constantly uses his full name....is it bc byakuya always uses ichigo’s full name?

Ch162: Black Moon Rising

anyway i love the constant reuse/remix/recycle of the moon imagery. another way i guess that bleach has had an influence on me.

this is really horny wow...”i shall carve on your body the penalty for violating our pride”

now kiss

Ch163: The Speed Phantom 2

Ch164: That Who Change the World

“the person i wish to slay personally” is he referring to renji here or what...idt it was exactly like that with him?

there is a hell of a lot of ‘i’ll never forgive you!’ in this manga and i adore it

Ch165: Dark Side of the Universe 2

so then the true power of realgetsu comes out....yes i see i see

Ch166: Black & White 2

AHA! Looking back, the OG “dark side” and “black & white” chaps were all about ichigo getting the power of bachgetsu during the kenpachi fight. so the “no name” is a red herring - either ichigo’s shinigami power doesn’t know his own name, that he’s the real zangetsu, or he can’t say it bc of whatever is between him and bachgetsu.

lmao byakuya is just so confused

smiling at ichigo with his face all bloody tho....that’s love i guess

SAY MY NAME SAY MY NAAAAAME

Ch167: The Burial Chamber

oh i guess kaien has longer eyelashes than ichigo too

yeah that’s right! ichigo was fighting the system man, you were just the avatar of that system. that’s how it goes huh

“he is the same as that infuriatingly liberal man” BYAKUYA PLS....

you could make some political memes out of this. i’ll spare you.

slakfj makimaki pls

yep, back to the c (d? how many threads are there?) plot...i forgot about all the government ppl getting executed. there’s so much going on.

Ch168: Behind Me, Behind You

honestly sowing discord and allowing the shinigami and ichigo etc to take each other out....damn aizen

O SHIT

the panel is too big to screenshot, but gin standing behind momo....the stark white background.....perfection *chef kiss emoji*

Ch169: End of Hypnosis

aizen, standing in the doorway, holy shit

and the panel of him impaling momo on the sword.....incredible effect. absolutely chilling. what the fuck.

Ch170: End of Hypnosis 2

‘admiration is a feeling furthest away from understanding’ and aizen is in some ways quite right about that! (it’s a sibling or a cousin to ‘because i’m admiring i can’t surpass’ i think) like...soi fon and yoruichi, rukia and byakuya, rukia and kaien even, ichigo and his mom, uryuu and his grandpa...that said aizen is straight up lying, of course he wanted to deceive everyone! but the best lies don’t stray too far from the truth eh

Ch171: End of Hypnosis 3 The Blue Fog

oh it’s rare to see such older jump covers in the scanlation ha....wow death note....(how to read, yeah, but still! long ago)

ooooh i see (i really don’t) (about the corpse--was it kyoka suigetsu, the sword itself, the whole time? i’m like 90% sure)

Ch172: End of Hypnosis 4 Prisoners in Paradise

speaking of characters who didn’t get enough time to shine, isane....but like damn she’s good at kido

Ch173: End of Hypnosis 5 Standing to Defend  You

the composition of the title page....nice

Ch174: End of Hypnosis 6 The United Front

Ch175: End of Hypnosis 7 Truth Under My Strings

so he’s lying about urahara’s exile here...well ig the only ones here to witness it are ichigo, rukia, and renji. or maybe that’s what everyone believes about urahara bc aizen was hypnotizing them even back then

Ch176: End of Hypnosis 8 The Transfixion

Ch177: End of Hypnosis 9 Completely Encompass

man the big damn heroes and then the reversal....exquisite...

Ch178: No One Stand on the Sky

“to go higher” aizen pls

and aizen calls him human...after all, that’s what he is

Ch179: Confession in the Twilight

the room is so incredibly empty...something something kubo but the floors are detailed. it’s byakuya’s empty life.

either unohana is hiding it with her clothes or isane has seen her scar

Ch180: Something in the Aftermath

and she’s 11th division too, deep down

‘you look like a chivalrous quincy’ lmfao uryuu pls...yknow he is the kind of guy who gives others what he would like to receive

ichigo you absolute dork

....yeah, the gin/ran revelation later on is actually not that much of a shock. ig i’d like it better if he didn’t have that as his motivation but it doesn’t make a huge difference to me.

womanly intuition ORIHIME PLS

Ch181: And the Rain Left Off

the title is almost whitmanesque

the whole ‘coworkers blowing off steam after a stressful time by getting drunk together’ thing is...it’s been a while since i was in a job like that (maybe since bleach was still coming out) but still. i don’t like mandatory socialization with coworkers but at that job...

“because of you the rain has stopped falling” man, my heart

also rain metaphors are as good as moon ones, maybe better

Ch182: Get Back from the Storm

i wonder what urahara’s real reason was

i’m really surprised they let them get away with *that* in a shonen mag

also that it hasn’t been this lively in a while....well isshin did say he always knew when it was kon. so probably didn’t attack him

Ch183: Eyes of the Unknown

i mean you could ask orihime, she’s also in the sewing club

oh it’s not a quincy cross on the charm after all damn...looks kind of like the kanji for ‘middle’ but not really?

or maybe masaki had nothing to do with it and it was from soul society or something

ohhh i thought the ‘hollow’ alarm was going off bc of shinji but...ig not. tatsuki tho :(

and hi shinji!

Ch184: Hush

the moon thru the hollow hole :O

Ch185: Be My Family or Not

oh it’s ryuuken!

Ch186: Tell your Children the Truth

he’s got the fucken quincy tie and everything....incredible

o hai isshin

(lol tell your children the truth, /both/ of you)

Ch187: The Cigar Blues Part Two

revenge was a long time coming

Ch188: Crush the World Down

alskdjf the translator’s note about ‘masaki died during the daytime wtf does kubo mean’

Ch189: Resolve

thinking about the way kubo juggles plots....he left the ‘o ya yoruichi was in hueco mundo’ thing in the last arc for...actual years maybe? maria posted like ‘i started and graduated from college before yoruichi came back’ but...i probably didn’t reblog that post so it’s lost to the ages, ah well

anyway he’s been decent at juggling the plots but they haven’t grown into kudzu and there’s less executive meddling rn...we shall see

me, eyescanning for kanae’s photo

(well teeeeeechnically ichigo isn’t reeeeeally a shinigami....yknow~)

Ch190: Conquistadores

ULQUIORRA HI (oh and yammy too ig)

Ch191: Conquistadores 2

(”T/N May change when we find out how Kubo wants to spell his name”)

Ch192: Conquistadores 3 Hounded Priestess

aaaaaand he goes straight for the bankai huh. is this an attempt to get in touch with realgetsu? decision that since yammy beat orihime and chad already that they must be strong and he can’t waste time? worried that he’s too vulnerable to realgetsu in shikai?

or maybe i’m just too used to a certain battle shonen where every fight hits the same beat /shrug

Ch193: Conquistadores 4

ah yes, ulquiorra “where is the logic” what a redd/it bro

Ch194: Conquistadores 5

Ch195: Death and Strawberry Reprise

i had to link the classique (ik it didn’t actually go for that long in the anime....but the time padding is ridiculous. also lol the filler modsouls from the bount arc are there)

both orihime and ichigo feeling the same worried thoughts about each other huh

MAN

WHEN THEY SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN

ik it’s been really not a long time but yknow

(what is it out of universe? ch181 thru 195...so that’s 14 weeks assuming no break....3+ months, so yeah long time when you’re in the target demo)

Ch196: Punch Down the Stone Circle

that whole monologue up until “that’s the kind of man you have been in my heart, ichigo” i--

Ch197: The Approaching Danger

didn’t isshin end up revealing that he knew rukia lived in his closet tho....at some point.

isn’t it 3 captains? ok he says that a few panels later /shrugs away

Ch198: The Icecold Discord

(is that the arrancars’ chatroom site? /shot)

and we’re back to volumes instead of jump issues...inch resting. at least i get the poems.

oh i get it now ok

unfortunately, i am drawn to grimmjow/ulquiorra (and that i am not surprised by at all lmao)

Ch199: Ugly

i missed rukia’s ridiculous acting tbh....and ichigo’s reaction faces

i am tempted to change my profile pic to this but i’ve also lost the og copies of my old one....i wonder if there’s a way to dl it from here

(update: had to save the draft to get image inserts working and managed to dl. i will be annoyed ichigo shortly)

again, hash tag relatable teenage crush feelings....kubo.....

(also how did rangiku not notice isshin when she was in his fucking house and all)

ah yes the gratuitous spanish

Ch200: Night of Seldgehammer

nnnn rukia planned to redecorate the closet......

OH MY GOD IKKAKU...AND YUMICHIKA TOO....’these onigiri are perfectly made, no way the shop girl could do it....CONTROLLED FROM THE SHADOWS that must be it’ pls pls PLS

#long post #special deluxe long post lmao #richer rereads bleach #text post #ik i just said '20 chaps is good' but...im trying to get up thru aizen's defeat this weekend yolo #bleach #*i don't mean like actual destiny #anyway i do think this post is too long but i am also lazy so idk maybe 30 is a better length #compromise or something