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Well, theres still the "matching reiatsu required to cut" thing, and arrancar Hierro skin to consider. Komamuras bankai was unable to cut through Tousens hand, after all.
But anyway, I still kinda liked this chapter as well; even if the Tosen fight has been 80% monologues, 10% transformation and 10% fighting, 3 chapters is amazingly fast for a Bleach fight, which counts for a lot. At this rate, I could see Yammy and Wonderweiss go down within ten chapters…by which time Ichigo might actually arrive on the scene.
Anyway, 2009 is coming to a close so in a quick review of this years Bleach:
Ulqurriora fight, Ulqs death
Yammy's big twist
Captains fooling around with the top 3 espada
Vizards arrive, top 3 espada dies
Fooling around with Yammy
Tousen fight/death.
So, pretty abysmal in pacing overall, but with no less than 14 new transformations, 7 new shikais (well, including 2 old ones finally explained), and 2 new bankais.
So what was you guys favourite fight/Powerup moment overall?
In terms of action, I might actually go with the barragan fight, drawn out as it was, but sheer entertainment value for his twist and subsequent fail has to go to Yammy.
He gave us the "who said X was Y compared to Z?" meme afterall.
Barragan, Stark and Uliquiorra's fights were all entertaining.
Best powerups? when ichigo went to that "hollow" state during the Uliquiorra fight was rather entertaining. Vaizards took the cake for me though…Oh forgot to mention Barragans "aging" power and Stark's ghostkamikaze dogs
Best moments for me:
Vizards appearing,
Wonderweiss showing up with Big Crunchy (or whatever the hell that things name was) and showing that Hallibel and Barragan hadn't been defeated yet.
Kenpachi and Byakuya using yammy's face as a battleground lol
Most Dissapointing Moments for me:
Yammy
Tousen
Aizen suddenly killing hallibel
Stark getting killed off so easily (i'm still peeved about this one)