Bleach Chapter 503 Discussion

Kenpachi's explanation was pure win :)))



so the king stopped his blade with one arm...I really wanna see the fight against him and the king next ch but I have a feeling Kubo will show neither and will move back to hueco mundo and finally reveal who's behind that blade.



And Yamamoto finally made his appearance, can't wait to see him fight :D



From the looks of it, that quincy plans on revealing his lieutenant's bankai

Lmao Kenny killed tree Stren Ritters with his eye patch on, that my friends is why Kenny is amazing. Also Old Man Yamamoto FTW!! <3 Loved the chapter

Loved the chapter, though it could've been a bit longer.



Kenpachi's explanation was hilarious LoL.  That's how you handle your business.



I thought that it would be Kensei coming to save Hisagi but I sure am glad I was wrong.  YAMA-JI is here, bloodlusted, vengeful and ready to rumble.  I can't freaking wait.



(Oh yeah, looking more and more like Byakuya isn't dead)

Awesome set-up chapter:



- Kenpachi explanations were hilarious. Its hilarious that all three cases pretty much make fun of shonen genre tropes - overbulky transformations, ability exposition chapters and "fighting yourself" plot devices. Its nice to see that at least one out of the big three has some self-awareness about those things and its hilarious and so in-character for Kenpachi. Sadly I do not see Kenpachi handling himself too well in this...Most likely Yamaji will have to step in once he ends dealing with the stealer of Sasakibe's bankai.



- Ichigo scene is touching. AS FB arc has shown, Ichigo has a very unhealthy obsession of protecting. Ever since his mother's death he has a huge fear of being victimized and goes to horrible lengths to be the one protecting instead of the one protected. Its selfish and egoistic, but also beautiful in a way, as well as very human. Its how he deals with his inability to save his mother, with his own weakness. So this current situation has to be his most horrible nightmare, just like everyone turning against him was in FB arc and FB arc caused Ichigo to change a lot as a person(for one dumping the no-kill policy and maturing a lot, for example). I do wonder on how will his current situation be handled.



- Yamaji facing Sasakibe's killer is fitting. The Old Man will be able to get revenge and at the same time closure for his most trusted acomplice's death. I doubt his enemy will last long and its mainly to hype up Yamaji for his fight against quincy king, as he eventually has to save Kenpachi's ass, but still its bound to be awesome just like all of his previous fights.



PerfecShawn said:
I think that Aizen was afraid to fight Kenpachi b/c his immense spirtual pressure would trump Kyoka Suigetsu just like Aizen's spiritual pressure made Soi Fon's Nigeki Kessatsu worthless against him.



Now let's not overhype. Kenpachi IS strong, but he is NOT stronger than Senior Captains, Yamaji, Aizen or Ichigo.  

Aizen in his first form feared to fight Yamaji. In form that was finger-flicked by Isshin. In second the scales tipped.



Candor said:
renders said:
Cool chapter,people were complaining the story was moving too slow,now they're complaining it's too fast.F*ck you allSometimes they complain there's no plot, sometimes they complain there's no action, people just love complaining.



Its the hypocrisy of hatred.



"baww ichigo is too strong fighting every battle" >> "Baww ichigo is too weak never gets to do anything"

"baww story is too slow" >> "baww story is too fast"

"baww why everyone uses bankais all the time" >> "baww why did they not use their bankais this time"

"baww why no one dies" >> "baww how dare they kill byakuya/ulquiorra/gin/insertfangirlbaitnamehere"



There's one thing in common with all those posts - no argumentation.

its best to just ignore those people.





quadnia said:
ZoroFan said:
MEH-- said:
quadnia said:
Aren't these chapters getting less detailed, and less story.....

Bad points aside, Kenpachi bit was pretty cool but thats about it... i wonder what CRAZY AND RANDOM power up is gonna happen to the shinigami that makes them kill everyone.... Bleach is starting to get a bit shit.... It really is getting shitty, but I still read shit.MEH-- said:
quadnia said:
Aren't these chapters getting less detailed, and less story.....

Bad points aside, Kenpachi bit was pretty cool but thats about it... i wonder what CRAZY AND RANDOM power up is gonna happen to the shinigami that makes them kill everyone.... Bleach is starting to get a bit shit.... It really is getting shitty, but I still read shit.

LOL SAME



I know what you mean >.> but for me it seems pretty stupid to stop after reading about 200 chapters of bleach and watching the whole anime...



Oh great more of argument-less bashing, now with a couple of cheerleaders. Seriously, get out.

Wouldn't it be cool, if Ichigo is finally able to control his hollow form? Or something similar and then goes full Rage in Soul Society? XDD OR The three worlds kind of merge together (or the kings of each world: hell, soul society and hell, decided to work together to finish this) and support Ichigo!



SO MANY POSSIBILITIES!

Candor said:
Han-yuu said:
Candor said:

Han-yuu said:
Fai said:
- Kenpachi explanations were hilarious. Its hilarious that all three cases pretty much make fun of shonen genre tropes - overbulky transformations, ability exposition chapters and "fighting yourself" plot devices. Its nice to see that at least one out of the big three has some self-awareness about those things and its hilarious and so in-character for Kenpachi. Sadly I do not see Kenpachi handling himself too well in this...Most likely Yamaji will have to step in once he ends dealing with the stealer of Sasakibe's bankai.

So how would you like to explain situation of other captains? Stern Ritter caught a senior captain and took his eye (or at-least injured his face pretty badly). While a very well known and strong captain (at-least strong as much as kenpachi if not more) never even able to touch a single Stern Ritter and bite the dust, while Kanpachi took out three without breaking a sweat.Kubo hinted in the new novels that he'll explain why Kenpachi is growing stronger at a frightening speed.

Byakuya not been able to touch a stern ritter while kenpachi taking out three need some hell of an explaination. Kuchiki clan is one of the the nobel houses in Soul Society. That alone makes him special. Not to mention he was not some cheap captain who supposed to rely completely on his bankai and just because they stole it, he became useless. The only reason i can understand is that Stern Ritters are just too dam strong, BUT Kenpachi taking out three like trash is something like he got DBangai level training in closed space before joining this war.

As I said, Kubo hinted there's gonna be an explanation why Kenpachi is too strong, we hardly know anything about him and his past, we just know he was a homeless who met Yachiru in a place where there was lots of bloodshed, we know nothing more. There's another thing, why does Kenpachi and Ichigo's Zanpakuto maintain their Shikai form? I know the basic explanation, but why only those 2? I think there's a connection between them somehow, not as relatives but as powers. They're also both growing stronger at a great speed. So we'll likely hear explanations about Ichigo and Kenpachi in this arc.



Zaraki does not maintain shikai, as far as I remember his sword is totally unreleased, basically the state it is in when a shinigami first got his sword, before they even learn shikai.



Zaraki doesn't know the name of his zanpakutou, which is the ultimate requirement to learn shikai, even Ichigo had to go with this.

Zaraki doesn't want to work with his zan because he beleive only in his strenght



The thing that make people think that his sword is in shikai is that his sword seem rigged but that's pretty much to show how bad his reiatsu conflict with his zanpakuto's, he doesn't want to fight together with his sword so they both get in each other's way. The whole deal with Ichigo and Zaraki in SS was to show a match about someone that fight alongside his sword (Ichigo) and one that does not (Zaraki), this match would lose it's purpose if Zaraki was in shikai.



For those reason I'll say that Zaraki isn't even using shikai.

But for some reason Byakuya didn't even try to use kidou when it was supposed to be his lethal weapon. He really relied on it up to this point. I mean, why wouldn't he at least defend himself with it? After all, this guy who fought him would be nothing against his trick with fear - what if Kenpachi approached him instead of Kuchiki?

I don't know why, but Kubo tries to tell us that captains are nothing without their bankais which makes them look kinda pathetic. Byakuya was always so eager to fight with Kenpachi and now we see that if it wasn't for his bankai he couldn't stand a chance against Zaraki.

3 weeks hype for this garbage chapter , we got 7 or more pages that were completely  irrelevance to the plot , what a waste