i liked it too ^^
but fuck the 5minute flashbacks at the beginning...

I liked it too. watched it after i got home from work at 4 in the morn. I wasn't talking about rukia's flash backs. I liked thoughs. I was talking about how they always repeat the ichigo and them are there to save Inoue like we don't already know that.

Its a way for them to draw less per episode I guess cause all they do is take scenes from shit we have already seen.... SO I guess its less 4 minutes of drawing work for them per episode but in this case... most of the episode was all freaking scenes we have already seen except for a few we have not seen in rukias past...

To make a long story short all these flashbacks that Kaien was someone she cared about and that WE ALREADY know that since the SS arc was a waste of storyline time imo and just to one hit the espada... gg....

It is just more character development. The only stuff we saw from rukia's past again was when she killed Kaien-dono. I swear the bleach community here has no taste in anime, or anything that might make bleach less of a mindless fight anime.

The thing is.. What more is there to develop on Kaien lol... We know what happened how she felt... We learned everthing when she was in the tower of penitence... I think the anime makers are getting lazy as hell.. Geez if the next episode is a freaking shitty filler like this one imma just go read the mangas instead cause come on... Freaking re showing her past zzzzz bleach is letting me down.

bleach has to do this because they caught up to the manga too fast. why do you think naruto had such a long filler time? Even though everyone hated it it was for the better. Naruto is going to have plenty of time to pump out episodes now without having to worry about catching up to the manga.

The people that make bleach aren't getting lazy. They are trying to figure out what to do so they won't run into the problem of passing up the manga. If they would have added another filler arc they wouldn't be running into this problem. Not that i want to see another filler arc, but it would have helped them out in the long run.

Good point... Well it does help to know that the anime is catching up to the manga cause I didn't know that O_o.

Well that does explain everything then.

I guess all they can do is make very prolonged fights and use mass flashbacks huh?

hey i get that they r worried about catching the manga, but all the "character development" with rukia in the flashback was stuff they had already shown mostly. I dont mind character development, but not when it comes in the form of a story that we have already been told that is being rehashed just to soak up time. Rukia has always been the weakest link, and they put her up against a truly strong adversary, which mightve added credibility to her char and showed her developing as a warrior. Instead, they waste the whole ep on her daydreaming about a char who is already dead, while she is impaled! Who says "wow, im impaled, lets daydream for awhile." Instead, they couldve made the episode one long battle, and it wouldve achieved the same result and still been entertaining.

she wasn't daydreaming, She was almost dead. Having a flashback of her past with Kaien. Then she remember what kaien told her and that is what brought her back. I thought it was a good episode because Rukia was finally able to put her past with him behind her. I mean wouldn't you have a hard time fighting against a person that was the person you loved and killed?.

oh that... yeah i just skip through the opening and that little summary



they should just replace bleach with a short anime series for a half year.

This post was edited by Vicc on Feb 14 2008 06:49pm