What the hell do you think is going on now?
I don't know. Needlessly stretching the fight out longer to make their opponent seem stronger probably
What the hell do you think is going on now?
I don't know. Needlessly stretching the fight out longer to make their opponent seem stronger probably
That doublespread in the Naruto chapter of the Mizukage pistoling the Tsuchikage through the neck would have been a lot more dramatic if it hadn't shown that it was a just a sand clone on the very same page.
you know, I can accept that Shishigawara has punches that make really unlikely things happen. Like, he hits a chandelier and it just happens to unscrew itself and fall apart.
and I guess he hits a tree and it just happens to suddenly fall down.
but when the hell do shoulders just happen to dislocate themselves!? That isn't the sort of thing that happens! Heart attacks, though… that would make sense. But nope, we got kubo for an author. Ikkaku fixing it with just his muscles was badass btw.
actually i was kind of opposite you
I can accept that somehow he gets a chandaller to fall down or he hits teh perfect spot to make a shoulder dislocate or other things within the realm of his strength, BUT A TREE. You can't just magically hit a tree in teh perfect spot to make it break in half.
You know what's coming.
Bleach:
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Magazine: The Shinigami vs Xcution!! A full out battle in this centerfold issue!
NotAizen: I could laugh 'till I die.
Is this a porn or a WWF ad?
1st Page: Shinigami PUNCH!!
What the hell is going on in this waste of space?
Ikkaku: (Is this stage rigged in his favor?)
Well, the Smash Bros route would be smarter than I'd give this comic credit for.
Punk: BACK ATTACK!
Cast cure Ikkaku! It's your only hope!
Ikkaku: HRG!
Is that a dooky face?
Ikkaku: FUCK YES!!
Punk: He reset a shoulder with just his muscles!!
This is so bad it's good. Keep going Kubo, you might get upgraded from bird cage lining yet.
Renji and that lady are in the rain
Lady: You aren't going to attack me?
What, you expect people to touch you looking like that?
Stuff about motorcycles and SS
Got nothing to riff on here.
Motor activates, spilling oil everywhere
Ew, this woman uses her fluids to fight.
Lady: I'm a dirty, dirty girl.
Kubo….you.....UGH!
Renji: My attack is so big it takes up half a page!
Lady: You dodged my back attack. You're good.
Renji: Bitch please it's a conditioned reaction now. Now it's like sneaking up on a horse with blade feet.
Lady: Poses while shouting about regret and all that
I'm sorry but this design is just lazy and stupid. All that bulk makes it looks like she's covered in stuffed bras.
Renji front attacks with a sword hilt
Thank you! Something passable for once!
This chapter was stupid. [/hide]
Naruto:
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Mr. Silly: I told you all my weaknesses, but you still can't beat me.
Mr. Echo: He told us all his weaknesses, but we still can't beat him.
He told you all his weaknesses, but you still can't beat him. Now we only need to do this in second person for the complete set!
Mr. Silly: He just looked weak to you didn't he? DIDN'T HE!?
Gaara: I learned my lesson.
You know, I learned something today.
Mr. Silly: Genjutsu!
Gaara: Actions speak louder–!
Page dissolves
Oh my god this conversation is so unstable it's erasing everything!
Old Man: OooooOOOOoooooOOOOoooo.
You know what? I'm sure you guys are catching on just fine but I don't even know anymore.
Giant Clam!
Oh fuck yeah IT'S THE CLAM!!
Old Man: Breaks back while fighting the clam
Throw the blasphemer into the godly mollusk and convert his bald head into a pearl to hang on the castle walls!
Clam: Smashes
Awwwwww.
Mr. Silly: This is my water gun technique!
How can something with that name rip off of two anime series at once? Should it even look like a Spirit Gun?
Mr. Silly: Water Gun!
I actually like how the sand is blown out to show the impact. I like small things like that.
Old Man: Sand Clone attack!!
We needed a double page spread for this?
Gaara: Pyramid!
Ninjas: Link the seals!
Hey, that's kind of neat. It's going to fail isn't it? Also, does sand get destroyed by oil?
Pyramid: Boom!
Mr. Silly: Hi, I'm here to raise the You're Fucked factor to 11.
Gaara: It's Jokey Boy!
Guess what I'm calling him next week?
I don't care about this chapter's downsides, I want to see this shit go down next week!
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Tsukishima - Daisuke Ono
Dies
I L.O.V.E. Daisuke Ono.
Now, everytime I see Tsukishima, I will imagine him dancing this music:
Ok the guy who will do Tsukishima's voice is really similar to Tsukishima himself…........that is weird as fuck.
so did that tsukishima guy get a power-up??
I guess that only Shishigawara didn´t get a power-up.
Well, at least Renji won a fight.
Bleach :/
Well first, I would like to thank the translators for their usage of "FUCK YEAH" with Ikkaku. Made me like that page a whole lot.
Second…this kids power is based on the lottery, right? Like its possible that he gets a jack pot that makes his punches so useful...What kind of fucking rigged lottery is he using? He just seems to keep winning and winning it. It ain't Vegas odds, that's for sure.
Also, every time this dirty boots chick talked about Renji's "world" or "understanding" being small, I thought she was subtly trying to talk about his dick.
Not allowing motorcycles in Soul Society? Heaven, my ass.
Training to fight Aizen? Little late there. But hey, maybe Soul Society actually came to help Ichigo get his powers back because Aizen escaped and it was actually just a coincidence that the fullbringers were there.
Bleh.
@The:
And I was 100% correct in assuming that despite recieving Ichigos powers mere minutes ago and transforming into completely new forms they couldn't possibly have predicted, all the fullbastards are experts on them.
Naturally.
:ninja:
And I am so bored with the fights right now. It's a pitty when the most interesting fight is Rukia v. Riruka, and that only because of the plush doll gag. I mean Ikkaku making that rape face was okay, but the fight is realy boring, not to mention Shishiwhatever's ability still doesn't quite make sense to me. If he's supposed to get the full knock down as a result of "rolling" a jackpot, then it seems kind of ridiculous for him to get it over and over again without any kind of interuption because that, you know, takes away the entiere lottery based premise of his powers and just makes him into "a guy who can knock down a bunch of random shit with his fist". Clearly an innovative ability if I've ever seen one. :getlost:
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Training to fight Aizen? Little late there. But hey, maybe Soul Society actually came to help Ichigo get his powers back because Aizen escaped and it was actually just a coincidence that the fullbringers were there.
Bleh.
I guess he's waiting for the inevitable moment when SS fucks up and he escapes.
Makes more sense then him expecting to live for another 20 000 years and still be in his fighting prime.
Btw: the Renji portion of the chapter was even more boring. When exactly did Renji get his "not gonna attack a woman first" mentality again ? Because all I remember is him fanwanking over how awesome Byakuya is.
The only time he fought against another woman was during the filler Zanpakuto Rebellion, and that was against his own sword. He didn't strike first at that time either because his sword had the appearance of a "child" (which is funny, since it used to be a male baboon before Mayuri gave it a sex and appearance change).
Bleach's volume 52 cover:
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Is that Tsukishima :wub: on the cover ?
I liked.
He has a big nose.
This week naruto episode was very very very very very odd next week more filler week sees preview kagebushin mutiny ,revenge on naruto…...okayyyyyy
Jesus im starting to think the team that did episode 167 are working on this fillers(not because of the animation).
Naruto is very filtrated. Artwork - as primitive as possible. Pure blandness in designs(they are no longer ninjas, they can be flashy), faces are similar, hatching is forgotten and angles are wisely chosen to be as unimpressive as possible. Example - Gaara's crypt. Get the "camera" down and turn it up - tomb with 2 metres height suddenly becomes impressive and so is caster. But no - cameraman is long fired. I'm not talking about plot and how I don't care about anyone, but you can still enjoy viewing chapter even if scenario is broken. But not with this manga.
Bleach was okay. Part with Ikkaku was amusing, felt on the level of early Bleach. All their antics and shoulders made me smile, not cringe and laugh over them. And second part with Renji made a little bit of sense. How? If her power depends on being a dirrrrty bitch, that's okay to have a power-up that allows you getting nasty on your own. The power up itself is not contradicting on the first glance. Perhaps it is if I look closer, but I won't.
"For the past 500 years I was weak, but those last 17 month I hit the gym and now I'm 5 times stronger"
Too be honest Renji and Rukia are only 100 years old, lol (Rukia was only a baby when Urahara put the Hogyoko inside her). He became a Shinigami like 50 years ago, and got promoted to VC around 3 years ago (he became a VC when Rukia left to Karakura for the first time).
What? I thought Rukia got the Hogyoko when Urahara gave her the reiatsu depleting gigai, that were supposed to keep her hidden?
Oops, you're right.
Bleach's volume 52 cover:
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That cover really reminds me of something that Minekura Kazuya would draw. The shading, the pose, all of it.
I like how that guy assumes they will fight Aizen again.
Lol they already know Aizen will escape
Even if he doesn't escape they probably know that his pathetic sentence of 20,000 years won't change a thing. He'll come out and do the same thing again, laughing…forever.
Because he can't die.
We should of had a 20,000 year timeskip. :ninja:
Even if he doesn't escape they probably know that his pathetic sentence of 20,000 years won't change a thing. He'll come out and do the same thing again, laughing…forever.
Because he can't die.
We should of had a 20,000 year timeskip. :ninja:
Surely Aizen will come back as good guy. :ninja:
Wait, would that t.s. mean Ichigo and the rest of the humans would be dead? sounds like a solid idea! (unless time flow is different in SS).
Who needs cellphones when you have Spiritual Pressure.
Spiritual Pressure - because there are always more effective methods of 'phone sex'.
Even if he doesn't escape they probably know that his pathetic sentence of 20,000 years won't change a thing. He'll come out and do the same thing again, laughing…forever.
Because he can't die.
We should of had a 20,000 year timeskip. :ninja:
Guard: "Do you feel you've rehabilitated, Aizen?"
Aizen: "No."
Guard: "Well, anyway, 20 thousand years have passed, so you're out."
And that's how things work in SS.
Am i the only one who can never come up with good/realistic predictions for Naruto chapters anymore? I never know what is going to happen next in this arc. I miss Kakashi and Sai
Is the anime in filler land right now? Outside of watching selective scenes, I never watch it. How are the Viz DVD releases for it?
Renjis talk about training to beat Aizen is so very fitting -
if this was the previous arc.
The last time he interacted with Aizen was way back when in SS where he recieved a bad case of anemia….and he didn't even meet him in the arrancar arc. Why the hell are you bringing it up now instead of when everyone trained for the winter war? There wasn't as much as a peep of "mope Aizen cut me mope mope" back then.
I laughed out loud at the "Hisagi and his motorcycle" part. Since when the hell has he had a personality, and when has it ever involved an interest in Human machinery
@The:
Renjis talk about training to beat Aizen is so very fitting -
if this was the previous arc.
The last time he interacted with Aizen was way back when in SS where he recieved a bad case of anemia….and he didn't even meet him in the arrancar arc. Why the hell are you bringing it up now instead of when everyone trained for the winter war? There wasn't as much as a peep of "mope Aizen cut me mope mope" back then.I laughed out loud at the "Hisagi and his motorcycle" part. Since when the hell has he had a personality, and when has it ever involved an interest in Human machinery
They always mention in gags and such how Hisagi brings stuff back from the real world. I remember reading that Chad taught him how to play on a guitar.
In what little free time he has, he likes to practice on a guitar that he found on one of his missions to the human world and brought back to Soul Society. As members of his division find his practice annoying, he tends to do it in the mountains of Rukongai. He receives proper guidance at last in the handling of the instrument from Yasutora Sado after the Ryoka invasion.
From the wikia.
Too bad no one brings back any medicine or anything.
They always mention in gags and such how Hisagi brings stuff back from the real world. I remember reading that Chad taught him how to play on a guitar.
From the wikia.
Either my memory is really fucked up or that must have all been mentioned in a data book. In the case of the latter, yeah, way to go Kubo, doing all that character-building in supplementary material.
And in any case, this is all told to us rather than shown.
As always, Kubo leaves character development to korean animators.
And still gets one uped by them
Too bad no one brings back any medicine or anything.
At this rate Kuboworld's United Nations should consider sending humanitarian aid to Soul Society.
They always mention in gags and such how Hisagi brings stuff back from the real world. I remember reading that Chad taught him how to play on a guitar.
Are you sure that's not anime filler or- as suggested- databooks? Pretty much the only times Hisagi appeared in the manga was when Yumichika kicked his ass in ss (lol), and when he fought crab guy and Tousen, which hardly is a place to discuss guitar lessons
Oh, they're from the Shinigami Golden:
they're actually based off sketches by Kubo that appear in the volumes.
At this rate Kuboworld's United Nations should consider sending humanitarian aid to Soul Society.
The thing is, they do.
Yamamoto just burns it because he views aid as "THE FILTHY AMORAL WESTERN IMPERIALISTS TRYING TO ERASE OUR RICH CULTURE AND HERITAGE WITH THEIR DESPICABLE MONEY."
Out of all of the full bringers I actually like slot machine kid. Even though his abilitie just like the rest of their abilities makes absolutely no sense. It would be nice if something was shown to declare his probablities of luck.
Tsu-san is a giraffe.
Never before have I seen Tsukishima look more emo than he does on that cover.
Never before have I seen Tsukishima look more emo than he does on that cover.
You'd think that be hard to do too since he almost always has that vacuously retarded smile on his face.
You'd think that be hard to do too since he almost always has that vacuously retarded smile on his face.
He smiles because he makes everyone around him depressed as hell.
Imagine being in the same room as Tsukishima and Sasuke.
Even the most joyous, cheerful person on the face of the planet would contemplate suicide.
He looks like his raising his chin towards the Bleach fanbase and trolling them. Too bad Aizen didn't need to do that.
I'm pretty sure the majority of the Bleach fanbase gets turned on by trolling.
It would make sense.
Give them a shitty chapter and they eat it up like crab cakes.
Well considering trolling in Bleach equals "OMG GREAT PLOT TWIST" to a lot of Bleach fans, doesn't surprise me.
I for one like bleach volume 52 cover
@zenigame: who's minekura?
@Barbe:
Better look of the Bleach's volume 52 cover
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Where is the name of the author ? "kubotite" is usually under the number. He doesn't want anymore to be associated with his shit ? :ninja:
Why does Shuu want to kill James Bond?
Speaking of Naruto, where did part 2 become irredeemable for you? This is how I'd chart the series' downfall
Part 1 - Whole thing was the peak for the series, the series in best form - Awesome
Part 2, Rescuing Gaara to Shikamaru's victory over Hidan - Great. Part 2 seems promising, but the pacing seems a bit dragged out, not really sure where we are headed plot wise
Part 2, Itachi pursuit arc - Things start to get bad for the series quickly here. One of my biggest complaints on Part 2, Kishi introduces an idea, a direction for the story to follow, then he drops it (the crow thing, Hinata professing her love to Naruto, etc). Another big problem that has infested part 2 shows it's sickly head in this arc; bringing along support characters for the ride, and having them do nothing. Kiba, Neji, etc, they all team up with Naruto to go find Itachi, but outside of Shino doing a bug attack on Tobi, no one did anything. During this arc we start to worry about Sai ever getting a real fight, and wonder if characters like Rock and Neji will ever do anything important. Hebi is formed, mixed bag. You can't help but feel bad for Karin later on in the series, but at this point there's no reason to like her. Suigetsu is a decent new character, nice to have some reference to Zabuza through him. Oro's death is a bit on the underwhelming side to say the least. (another example of Kishi putting effort into a direction, then saying "on second thought, I'm shifting to something else" in this case a new Big Bad). The arc ends with Jiraiya's death. Great scene, good fight. Pein feels threatening. Sasuke and Itachi's fight has finally happened, but now Sasuke sets off on the path of becoming completely unlikeable. Which is a huge problem. Naruto/Sasuke's thing is the main story for the series. Now that Sasuke is someone 99% fans can't stand, that hurts the over all ability to enjoy the story/see Naruto's desire to help Sasuke. Over all rating - Good, but noticeably not as good as the series had been
Part 2, Pein's invasion - Hebi gets a cool team work fight, Sasuke showing concern for his team mates is a nice thing here, but quickly he is going to become emotionless and completely drop Naruto from his mind, which takes away they only thing he had going for him as a villain: He was Naruto's friend, and he did care for him as well. Once that's gone you have is a villain who throws out all rationality and just wants to see everybody dead because his family is dead. Dialogue between Naruto and THAT version of Sasuke doesn't work. Dialogue between Naruto and ending of part 1 Sasuke was great.
Pein's invasion cements a problem with part 2: Not handling supporting characters well. What did Sai even do in this arc? I don't remember. Neji is the freaking main representative for a genkai whatever that is supposed to be comparable to the Uchiha and Pein's blood line, and instead of Kishi letting Neji represent that blood line in a bad ass manner, he writes him out of the picture. The Third had an amazing scene when Oro invaded Konoha. What did Tsunade have when Pein showed up?
Naruto is made to look like a champ in this arc, and he deserves it, but Kishi downplayed too many people at the same time and gave a terrible cop out ending (pein bringing people back to life, Kishi you just shouldn't have killed them in the first place) which made this fight arc a really mixed bag. And of course, something that has been brewing since the very start of the series (Hinata/Naruto) gets shown in this arc, and NEVER followed up on again. UGH WTF
Over all rating for arc - Disappointing
It's crazy how if you really look at the chapters and stories, you can see the gradual decline from great to good to meh…....
I was going to do the other arcs but this post is too long. IMO the series became too far gone (not saying the series sucks, just that it's good at best right now, and I don't see it ever being as good as it used to be) some time after Kakashi's fight against the Zombie Sword Ninjas. This arc started out promising. But the quality of the art has dropped so much, and the fights just don't have anything to them. And the Zombie jutsu thing is pretty mixed. Some Zombies don't have their personalities, some do, some are acting on their own, some Kabuto needs to baby sit, the whole thing just feels sloppy