Mysterylover watches Bleach episodes 144-145
1. NEW OP!!! THERE’S A NEW OP! notes on it: First, since Renji and Ruki are on the “Team Rescue Hime” symbolic rock statues with Ichi, Chad and URyu, I can presume safely that they’re gonna say “screw you system” and help save her? 2. Not seeing Tatsuki so either they’re keeping her role in this a secret or I’m gonna be mad that she’s been left out again. 3. Please don’t drown Hime! (I know it’s symbolic. Whatever she’s symbolically drowning in.) 4. The Table Meeting of the Council of Sexy Bad Guys will now come to order.
2. Onto the actual episode. I wonder if we’re gonna have a similar twist to the last arc here, where the seeming Good Guy Boss turns out to be evil conspiracy theory captain? By which I mean Old Guy who said “Don’t save Hime”.
3. Ichi and Uryu continue to adorable bicker about how they’re gonna do this. That comedy music. Why do you guys always have your rom com bickering in the middle of the Serious Kidnapping Arcs? You tell em, Chad!
4. Wow Ichi actually got Uryu to apologize? Someone’s having character development.
5. You know, with these three idiots on the job, Hime should probably start writing her own obituary. Cause this first attempt isn’t exactly inspiring confidence. You guys seriously need Renji, Ruki and Tatsuki’s help if you actually wanna get this done.
6. LOL Chad and Uryu being like “stop hogging our screentime Ichi we wanna fight this one”.
7. “OMG Uryu you’re using a BOW?” “Duh Ichi that’s my whole thing.”
8. Sorry I don’t have a ton to say about this fight. Ishi and Chad gonna show Ichi that they’ve got the chops. hopefully this leads to a Hime scene soon.
9. LOL at the villain as he dies being like “WE LOVE OUR FEARLESS GOD AIZEN SOOOO MUCH”. Got quite a cult around you now, huh?
10. Of course our trio of morons is fine. They’re Shonen heroes, nothing phases them.
11. Gotta say the imagery in this arc is sick. Very appropriate for the Season of Halloween as I’m writing it. (By the way, I have to ask, is Bleach’s Halloween filler episode all that spoiler-y? Can I watch it next week for a Halloween special?)
12. OOH the Meeting of the Bad Guys council has come to order! And one appears to be a girl. Aizen and his two sidekicks are leading.
13. You know, Aizen, now that I have lifted my “cancelled” status on you, I’m getting more interested in you as a character. We know like nothing about why this villain guy does what he does and I’m hoping there’s more to it than just “world domination”. He has a cool (and sexy, unfortunately) character design and seems to be well-liked among fans, so there I hope there’s more to him than appears.
14. And our merry band of morons haven’t yet figured out that they’re running in place or something like that. These guys are seriously our best option? like, we just saw a rundown of our Main Villains and NGL they seem pretty OP in comparison to the protags.
15. Why is our core trio such a bunch of comedic dumbasses anyway? I mean, they are our main characters and they may as well be the 3 stooges here.
16. “Don’t distract Uryu with all your sexual tension shenanigans Ichi or we’ll die.” Seriously you two settle down. Argue-flirt on your own time. You’ve got a goddess to go rescue right now!
17. At the Villain Tea Party of Expositional Presentations, GJ is all “ICHIGO!!!”, Aizen as he drinks his tea be like “Only dumb villains underestimate the protagonists, guys” and Ulqui just be like “whatever”.
18. GJ be like “I’m off to slay Ichi! Totally not personal grudge or anything”. Aizen is honestly a pretty good villain boss so far. Like, I could see working for this guy. At least you’d get tea.
19. Did Aizen just Spirit Pressure Scare GJ into complying? OK maybe not the HankScorpio level good villain boss then. He reasonably is like “let’s be patient, we’ll get to kill em eventually. I mean, I’m me.” Dammit Aizen GJ wants to go fight Ichi again!
20. Our moron trio befriends what looks like an adorable little HollowLizard and gives some exposition.
21. And they find a human girl with blue teal hair? Like, the very last minute of the episode is “OMG a little girl in danger”. Huh. I wonder if she’s that Sexy Teal Haired Lady I see being referenced in Bleach all the time, just in child form.
