Bleach Club

[Yuuki]

Hi everyone! x3 I just wanted to say I'm really sorry for not posting or being on at all actually but any way I wanted to say that I'm back and I'll try to be more active. I had to take a huge break from the internet all together because of school and all, but since its summer I can get on a lot more. I am also planing on active in the Memories of Shinigami RP. I plan on posting either later today or early tomorrow. Anyways I hope you all forgive me for my absence. ^_^;

I was looking at the list of the current activities for the club and i saw the filler arc is that like a rp but with random adventures like a filler because so far it seams like an awesome activity. Along with all the others set up there. I do have a question though how douse the versus activity work do two members just rp with the characters of the anime or something because that was the one thing that confused me a little. o.o

[Secret Weapon]

It's all right. I was like that too for a bout a couple of weeks then I just started to get back on track with my posts and updates.

Anywho, a question that's been lingering in my mind is how did the Soul Society become what it is now? I know I could get that info off of books or manga, but I wouldn't have the slightest idea on where to get/find em'.

[Rasler]

There has been no explanation of Soul Society's creation in any official media as of yet. It just is. It serves as the opposing side to Hueco Mundo, just as Heaven naturally opposes Hell. Hell is canon in the Bleach universe, but it's been fairly shady about Heaven. It is confirmed that there is another level beyond Soul Society, where the King of Soul Society and his royal guard reside.

Hence the source of the main conflict:

Spoiler: Aizen is secretly the antagonist until he is discovered but he acquires the item he needs to create an army of hybrids so he defects and plans to use the army to destroy a town to create a key to enter the plane where the King of Soul Society lives to kill him, and rule as God. From this, we can roughly assume that the King has some sort of godly authority.

[Xeim]

Originally Posted by Yuuki

i saw the filler arc is that like a rp but with random adventures like a filler because so far it seams like an awesome activity. Along with all the others set up there. I do have a question though how douse the versus activity work do two members just rp with the characters of the anime or something because that was the one thing that confused me a little. o.o

The filler arc is where we basically come up with the basis for a filler arc. i.e, villains, plotline, setting. We had never really planned to write the whole thing out, but we could if it ever got to that stage. However, most of the members lost interest in it before we really got it going, so there's really nothing going on with it at the moment. If you have ideas, though, you're welcome to post them up. Maybe we can bring it back.

The vs. activity is where a member posts up two characters that they would like to see fight, and then another member says who they think would win and why.

Anyway, welcome back, Yuuki! I do hope you stay active. I'll go ahead and stick you into one of the divisions, but if you have one you'd prefer to be in, please tell me.

[Yuuki]

Oh, ok I was confused by it, thank you for explaining the vs for me Xeim. Unfortunately I have no ideas for the filler arc right now, I'll post them if i do though. Right now I should post in the rp though I've been procrastinating for a while now. ^_^;

By the way is anyone else looking forward to the bleach movie "Bleach: Memories of Nobody" I think comes out in America pretty soon. I Still need to find out more but is anyone planing to see it? :3

[Xeim]

I thought the movie had already come out? Oh well, I don't pay much attention to the english releases of bleach stuff. I already saw the movie in Japanese, though, and I did like it. I can't wait until Diamond Dust rebellion comes out on DVD so that it gets subbed and uploaded onto the internet. ^^;

As for the anime, it seems the filler arc has just finally gotten going. -_- I was wondering how they were going to tie the two seemingly unrelated events together. I really would like to get back to the arrancar arc, though. I like the new captain and everything, but I'd rather see what happens next. ^^;

There hasn't been much activity as of late. We need a new discussion. Perhaps we can talk about Bakkoutou? The following isn't really a major spoiler, since it is introduced in a filler arc, but I'll still enclose it in spoiler tags.

SPOILER!!:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

A rare type of weapon known as a bakkoutou has also been revealed. This type of weapon differs from the zanpakutō in several ways. While the zanpakutō is a symbiotic being, working and growing more powerful as the shinigami develops a relationship with the sword's inner avatar, the Bakkoutou is more of a parasite, gradually consuming the user. Also, the bakkoutou differ as they lack the release forms (shikai and bankai) of a zanpakutō, instead growing and evolving as it feeds on the wielder’s spirit energy. Finally, while zanpakutō can only be wielded by their respective Shinigami, a bakkoutou can be wielded by any person with Spiritual Pressure and varies its power and ablity depending on its wielder. For example, the bakkoutou Saiga is used by more than one character. When it is first introduced, it is wielded by a common assassin and has the ability to momentarily paralyze opponents by reflecting light from its mirror in their eyes. However, when it is merged with someone more powerful, such as Nukui Hanza, it gains the ability to completely immobilize an opponent in its own dimension. Furthermore, if it is at full power (in which case it engulfs its wielder's whole upper body), it can create "nightmares" from the memories of the victim, even when its mirror is shattered. It is unknown how a bakkoutou is formed since a Soul Reaper's zanpakutō is allegedly formed when a spirit becomes a shinigami. It is, however, known that bakkoutou are forged through a secret technique of the Kasumiōji clan.

Personally, I dislike the bakkoutou. Parasitic swords? That's pushing it a little. They sort of strike me as being rouge zanpakuto. While a normal zanpaktou answers to only one master, these swords will respond to any. They're probably completely unrelated, but still.

It would be interesting to find out how they are made. They can't be manifestations of someone's soul or energy, because that would be a zanpakuto. Anyway, thoughts, questions, comments on these?

[Andromeda]

Well I'm finally feeling like I'm ready to rejoin normal society again. 70 hours are killing my ability to be able to post things. But anyway, I don't know why I haven't been posting my Bleach recaps like I always did. So I'm going to try to restart that previous tradition that I had. The quick check up is that we are in the Bount Arc on Adult Swim and are starting to see things really start to heat up.

This episode picks up where they left off from the last episode. Ichigo and Renji exit out of the hospital only to find that it is raining outside making it a little difficult to get Uryu away from the Bounts hunting them down. The dolls that they use seem to be fairly powerful to be making fools of Ichigo. But I find their straight forward approach to everything in the episode and last episode a little annoying. I know Uryu is the brains, but you have Rukia and Renji, alright Rukia. She has to come up with something better than firing kido spells at it endlessly. And why isn't she doing her Shinigami thing like Renji.

Anyway, they are obviously cornered by the Bounts and the water dolls that have them blocked. Ichigo, Renji and Rukia do the brave thing and try to hold off the Bounts long enough for Uryu to escape with Chad and Orihime. Ichigo's group is caught really quickly in a manner that seemed so obvious that they should have done it the last episode to everyone and ended. They did it to like one person at a time. But I guess I understand that they were just playing with them and now they were serious. Still seems like they were just needless dragging out the fight.

Once the Bounts realize that Uryu is too far away now Ichigo's group is released and able to breath again. And now we finally get to see Chad do something other run around. I've been feeling like he has been pretty useless especially after he was unfortunately put up against a captain shinigami that so completely defeated him that Chad never stood a chance. Chad actually seems like he has an even fight with these two if it was not for the fact of their water always reforming. He even ends up knocking them down. The Bounts themselves seem pretty weak leaving everything up to their dolls to do the work.

Chad manages to knock down the Bount long enough to give them the time to escape again. Now we flash back to Ichigo where he suddenly has the plot necessary realization of the two Bounts weakness so that they can end the fight this episode. Seeing that they continue to make out Ichigo as been an idiot in strategy and tactics this seems like a strange thing to be coming from him. I would have expected it from Renji or Rukia rather than Ichigo.

They all finally met back up with everyone in a building for the final showdown between the twins and Ichigo's very large group of apparently weak individuals. Oh well, teamwork is not really their strong point, as Urahara made a point to them at the beginning of this arc. Anyway, Uryu is caught and they are holding him hostage to keep the others back. This seems a little strange since they should already know that they can't afford to have him killed since a Quincy is important to their plans. And seeing as he is the "last" Quincy they can't exactly kill him. But they don't see that as a point and are caught in a way that was finally cool to watch and different.

They push water into all of their bodies allowing them to control the water inside their bodies and thus building up the pressure or whatever inside them until it kills them. It was actually a pretty intelligent use of their powers and the first thing that I really got behind from these last two episodes. At that point things went better with the guy that can make portals separating the twins from the other knocking him unconscious leaving the other to fight alone.

At this point Ichigo and company are freed from the hold that was on them and they start fighting pointlessly again. For a moment I thought that Rukia missing was going to serve some purpose since she was always an intelligent and smart fighter. But it ends up being nothing as Ganju and Hanataro appear to save the day. Ganju pretty much accidentally wins, though they make it seem like it was done on purpose. His fireworks explode the water and conveniently burn up the caps that were the real dolls. At which point the Bounts die as Rukia reveals to the audience and everyone that once the dolls die the Bounts die as well since they are all well past their normal lifespan.

And yet none of them realize to the very end that the caps were the real target that they should have been going after the entire time. It was just by sheer cinematic chance/luck that Ganju killed them. If Ichigo or Rukia was thinking they could have killed them quickly.

And now Uryu is walking on his own away from the others. The Bounts are all gathered now as well apparently. So the storm is coming and everything is coming to a head I guess. I'm hoping for some better fights as it has been a little disappointing so far.

On another note, I've finally caught up with the manga that has been released in the US. Which is at volume 23 with the arrival of the Arrancar to Karakura Town and everyone having to fight their own Arrancar. I can't wait to see it in motion on TV. The fights that I have read so far are looking pretty amazing and I got to see more of Rukia's Zanpukto in action. It was also hilarious to see the shinigami showing up at Ichigo's school like that.

I also got the first season of Bleach as they are calling it. I don't really think it is the full season, but it is the first 20 episodes covering the Karakura Arc of Bleach and Ichigo becoming a true shinigami without the powers of Rukia inside him.

On the note of Rukia, she almost immediately goes into her shinigami form in the Arrancar Arc when she arrives, but in the Bount Arc all she has been doing is kido attacks. They were fighting a water doll, her Ice Zanpukto would have stopped them so fast they would have not had anything that they could do against them. But she does nothing and just sits on their hands letting them all almost get killed a couple of times. Rukia really could have saved them in that fight, but refused and played the idiot.

[Xeim]

Originally Posted by Andromeda

On the note of Rukia, she almost immediately goes into her shinigami form in the Arrancar Arc when she arrives, but in the Bount Arc all she has been doing is kido attacks. They were fighting a water doll, her Ice Zanpukto would have stopped them so fast they would have not had anything that they could do against them. But she does nothing and just sits on their hands letting them all almost get killed a couple of times. Rukia really could have saved them in that fight, but refused and played the idiot.

Was that the discussion bait? ^^; I'm going to comment on it even if its not...

One reason Rukia didn't use her zanpakuto in that arc is that it was filler and her zanpakuto hadn't been shown in canon anywhere before hand. If Bleach started introducing canon in the middle of filler it'd end up like the Naruto anime...and we don't want that to happen. Her zanpakuto might not have even been developed at the time that first aired...but I could be wrong since I was never following the manga.

Plus, at that point, isn't she still recovering from her ordeals during the previous arc? I don't know, its been a while since I watched that segment, so I have trouble remembering.

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But wow, what happened to this club? No one's posting! I understand that both the American and Japanese have their heads smack in the middle of filler arc, but really. >_> You could at least complain about the filler. xD

[Secret Weapon]

Really, what I want to know two things I'll try not to go so far out of topic with both concerns.

My first question is where did the Bounts come from? I skipped a couple episodes because our Tivo was acting stupid and didn't record on a couple Sundays' but this is something that has me baffled. I know the explanation and history of the Bounts (episode 77 American televised) but I don't know how they reached the World Of The Living.

Now, my second concern is why is Kenpachi so strong and his Zanpakuto doesn't do/give off any abilities? There must be some reason because Kenpachi is too strong being a human... or is he? Any help would do... please

[Mistress Sheena]

Kenpachi is obvious. He doesn't know his Zanpakutou's name. As for why he's so strong and stuff, that's never revealed. It's also never really revealed how the Bounto (wtf is Bounts? Seriously.) make it to earth, I think. It may have been, but it's been so long that I don't remember.

[Andromeda]

In the English dub they call them Bounts and not Bounto, which is pretty close. Anyway, the Bounts while not completely explained are said to be born and are unable to give birth themselves. So they make me think of them being like the immortals in Highlander. They are born by normal human beings and just a random genetic anomaly. However, they did say that only a certain number of Bounts can exist. So it seems that when one dies somewhere else another is born to maintain the balance or something like that.

As for Kenpachi like Shadow said there is not really a reason given for him. He just simply has a tremendous amount of spirit energy beyond any one else. It is the only thing that allows him to be at the level of a captain with the boosting from a released zanpukto.

[Rasler]

Still away from the forums for a while longer, but felt you guys should know that the second movie is now subbed and available on the internet. I'm currently downloading it from bleachexile.com.