Now it is time for another review but this time I thought I would review the latest chapter of one of my favourite mangas; Bleach.
I will go over a quick summary of the events of this chapter and give you my thoughts of it; this will be full of spoilers for those who have not read it yet. It starts off with Bazz – B observing Chang Du being frozen solid by Toshiro Hitsugaya’s ice flower attack, annoyed with the fact that Chang Du took over the fight just to lose he walks away. It then cuts over to Toshiro who loses the hollow powers in his bankai before collapsing to the ground. After this we have a great shot of the four Sternritters who stole bankais during the previous invasion; Chang Du trapped in ice, BG9 with his helmet broken at the front and As Nodt and Bambietta Basterbine looking up at the sky while the bankais are taken away.
It then goes to Bambietta who does not care about losing the bankai and kills several Soul Reapers by some explosion technique. She says all this whilst thinking that he friends are behind her but then notices they are not before creating another large explosion. Shortly after this Sajin Komamura arrives, now sporting some cool looking armour but before they fight Shinji Hirako appears behind her and activates his Zanpakuto, Sakanade to invert Bambietta’s senses.
However while it seems to Soul Reapers are getting the upper hand, Yhwach comments from a top his throne that he is delighted by the fact that the Sternritter have lost their Bankais. They reason for this is explained by Bambietta that the bankai was getting in the way of their Vollstandig before promptly activating it. Seven Sternritter seem to activate their Vollstandig from the look of the fire pillars that are shown in the next shot. It ends with Mayuri Kurotsuchi commenting that this is bad for them while Kisuke Urahara gets a call from Ichigo Kurosaki.
I will start off by saying that this is a definite improvement over the last chapter which was basically a copy of the battles of Baraggan and Harribel in the fake Karakura town arc. Chang Du gets frozen in an ice pillar and BG9 gets blasted by Jakuho Raikoben, it was annoying that it was just the same. Still this chapter was really good because of Bambietta because I really like her character and it looks like we have a clue to her powers. The explosions she did make me think that her letter E stands for ‘The Explosion’ but I guess we will have to wait and see. Another high point was the teaming up Komamura and Shinji, sure they did not actually fight together but it is a start. Also I am glad we finally get to see the Vollstandig again but with other Sternritter. Of course the artwork was great; I think Kubo does his best work with the Sternritter.
However there are three points that do annoy me in this chapter and that was Bazz – B walking away when Toshiro had fallen. Toshiro is one of my least favourite Soul Reapers and I do not want him to live through these fights and Kubo keeps making up ways for him to live, Bazz – B had the perfect opportunity and he did not take it?
Another thing that bothered me is even with the use of the Vollstandig at the end there are still no real conclusions to the Chang Du and BG9 fights yet. Don’t get me wrong I have really enjoyed those fights but I want to see other Sternritter now.
One last thing is that if Yhwach is so glad that the bankais are all returned to the Soul Reapers then what was the point of stealing them in the first place? However I will forgive this one for now because the fact that it was blocking the Vollstandig was a really good reason (I guess Soul Reaper and Quincy powers just don’t mix) and because we finally get to see some more Vollstandig now.
In conclusion this was a solid chapter with a lot of potential for the next one; I just hope that the Soul Reapers do not come up with really quick ways to counter the Vollstandig like they did with the bankai stealing.
SCORE: 7/10
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