Bleach Review: Revitalize

Things aren't looking too good for the Zero Squad now.

The chapter begins with both Bazz - B and Liltotto angry at Yhwach has used Auswählen and shouting up at the sky that they will not die. Across the Soul Society the beams of light can be seen from every where, Byakuya sees it and even Shunsui who says to Nanao and Okikiba that they must leave for the Royal Realm because he senses that it is in danger.

Back at the Royal Realm Nimaiya has had a large chunk of his shoulder blasted off and he wonders what could have happened. Haschwalth explains that Auswählen takes the powers of Quinces Yhwach now deems useless, killing them (we even see the corpse of Robert Accutrone) and those powers are given to other Quinces who are then reborn even stronger.

Nimaiya says that must be why the bullets didn't work on the cage before because they have new power to which Lille corrects him in saying that it was always his power and what he shot him with wasn't a bullet. He then fires again and Kirnji and Hikifune try to block but the attack goes through both their weapons and puts a hole in Nimaiya's chest. Lille explains that his power "The X - Axis" pieces anything between the muzzle of his gun and his target and asks the other members to line up so he can take them all out in one shot.

Meanwhile Pernida uses her power to destroy the cage that they are trapped in and the chapter ends with Yhwach demanding Hyousube to let him pass but Hyousube just stand up to confront him.

This chapter is just as good as the last one, maybe even slightly better, because we get another purpose for Auswählen and that it to strengthen Sternritters to fight his most important battles. This is great because we can see the elite Sternritter kicking some ass and putting up a fight against the Zero Squad however I kind of hate the fact that the Sternritter on the ground are now powerless. This includes Robert and NaNaNa whose powers we ever even got to see and ones like Bazz - B who was kicking all kinds of ass and now won't be going to anymore. I have read several comments on this and some think that the powerless Sternritters will side with the Soul Reapers for some redemption but I would have preferred them always hating each other.

At the Royal Realm it looks like that Nimaiya might be out of the fight for a while but I really hope he isn't dead because besides being my fav Zero Squad member I'm sure we haven't seen the full extent of his powers. I mentioned a few chapter reviews a while ago that I think Yhwach will bring the Zero Squad to his side because he vaguely mentioned some technique like that when he first fought Ichigo. Also we might get a proper battle between Ywach and Hyousube who has been hyped up quite a bit as well because Hyousube always kind of seemed like the leader of the Zero Squad so lets see how this goes.

Overall this was a great chapter with the explanation of Auswählen and the revival of the elite Sternritter and we had some great art as well like the panel with Kirnji and Hikifune trying to block Lille's shot, however like the last chapter this is again just another setup with no real fight, hopefully that changes next week.

SCORE:8/10

Highlights: Auswählen
                   The elite Sternritter fighting back
                   Ywach vs. Hyousube setup

Let - Downs: Sternritter on the ground now powerless or dead
                      Nimaiya may be out of it for a while now.

Predictions: With the deaths and power drains of so many Sternritter it raises the question who Ichigo and his group, the Arrancars and the Fullbringers are going to fight? The Zero Squad could be used against them but since Yhwach has the power to revive fallen Sternritter I like to thingk that he may revive several. This could be a great chance to see Sternritter in action who we never got the chance to see or barely, Robert and NaNaNa for example. However there is another way that I have been thinking about for awhile and that is that Yhwach creates some new Sternritters. He makes more by craving a letter on a Quince's soul and that becomes their power, this could be a great way to introduce new Sternritter characters and different uses for a letter; The F could not mean "The Fear" a second time. The Quinces he could find to do this is the Soldat and this could be a way of promoting them, let me know what you think of this idea.

Sorry for lack of picture in this review.