Bleach Chapter 516 Discussion

Holy cow...The Squad Zero!!!!



kinda let down by the designs of the characters as well as the fact that there were only five of them there (though they are all above the 13 captains in terms of strength...), but let's just hope Kubo is gonna handle them well



and i never thought Ichigo's sword being broken would be such an insurmountable problem....i do think this will mean he will have to meet Zangetsu and his hollow self once more though...(the broken sword will be a fine excuse)

hungry_bunny said:


And my guess is that the one on the left is Hikifune... the rest of them look like a mix between a Yakuza, a Pirate, a member of the Triads and a member of a street gang... could be that some of them were part of Yamamoto's group way back when Juha Bach actually feared Soul Society.



Most likely all of them are from Divisions.  The whole Divisions flashback was a clear way to hype up the "oldschool conservative shinigami" type of figures as well as Unohana(who most likely stayed in SS to repent instead of "moving up" with the others)



Zhou said:
Kanic said:
Haven't watched any of the films so I can't really allign myself to this logic. Nothing wrong with your terminnology, just that I still don't get it. Sooo..is there some kind of gate to the RP above seiretei that the walls are guarding when they are levitated?

I didn't understand it either, even after reading Mangastream's version but anyachan's explanation sounds legit, I guess the royal palace is above SS and you need to pass a gate or a layer to get there.



Or the entrance to that dimension exists above SS, so Seiretei walls come form that dimension

kirby_422 said:
So, next chapter will be them asking who ichigo is and what his relation to seiretei is. He'll introduce him self. Royal Guard will rage at the name "Kurosaki" and attack him for his father. He'll end up using blut vein, fullbringer light, and pop out his hollow mask. They'll rage even further about how hes everything. Isshin will show up protecting ichigo.





Pretty much my guesses too, minus hollow mask since Ichigo unified his powers before.



Ichigo is intentionally powered down so the Squad Zero could be hyped up against him as he tries to escape.



Inarius said:
hmm, that Yakuza looking guy...seems like Kubo's been reading Shaman King lately







KUBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO







Its a traditional hairstyle associated with street gangs and most commonly yakuza.

The  Spartan- mean Zeros are here !



not even gonna question Kon though..

The middle guy is mostly based upon budhist warrior monk archetypes(one can even see monk prayer beads around his neck in that panel), case in point, Shi De Chao, also known as one of the more eccentric and controversial figures in martial arts:





Its generally the likeness that is used to portray warrior monks in video games nowadays too:

The Zero Squad have finally arrived, they were all so ugly - except for the lady on the right. I get why Hirako didn't want Ichi to see them XD. Nice to learn that Ichigo's Bankai "will never be the same". He'll probably train with the Zeroes, though I would hate for that to happen.



Short chapter. Nothing exciting, the zeroes were a bit of a downfall as they didn't look as bad-ass as I was expecting them to be.



Meh.

The skinny hot girl on the right was Hiyori's old captain Hikifune. As prideful, and arrogant as Hiyori is, I can't see her looking toward the bigger lady as a  role model/ mother figure.



I liken the relationship to Soi Fon, and Yoruichi, and how she admired her. If Hiyori was gonna imitate anyone, to me it would be a sexy, extremely powerful woman captain, and as there is only one of em in the group that meets those criteria, I would assume its the one on the right.



As far as the "Wall"  goes, it is a bit confusing, but seems to me that the Royal Palace exists in the sky of SS, or either in another dimension in the sky of SS, whichever it is, it's still technically within the spatial area of SS. To gain access you just need to know it's location and have the key.



But regardless it's obvious that the Royal Palace is "Heaven" in the Bleach universe. The fact that every time there is an emergency the gate Falls Downward from heaven, from where it's been guarding the SK. Also, probably the most important fact of all is the Zero Squad's mode of transportation called the Tenchuuren, which means "Heavenly Pillar". I would assume that this in itself means that the RP is heaven which is somewhere in the sky's above Serietei. But, hopefully, we'll find out soon enough.

Trexx25 said:
I think the fat chick will be the scariest one. I don't know why, but for some reason fat chicks always scare me.

that is, LOL



I think I can assume the middle one is act like the leader or something.. and which one is Kirio Hikifune ? yesterday i still think he is cool person judge from her name, but that fat mom give me goosebumps lol ...

overall interesting chapter IMO, ultimately in Kon part ( I don't understand why majority think it is the worst part, although in opponent side IMO ), I miss him, Iwonder how the hell Ichigo doesn't care about him all this long time ... :(

Shouichirou said:
What I'm seeing right now is.



- 5 0th division captains

- Juha Bach seeks "5 War potentials" (Who oddly enough, each "potential" so far, is shown to possess abnormally high levels of reiatsu)





. . . Anyone else see a pattern here?Hitsugaya will fight the one that is supposed to be stronger than the one Ichigo fights and win even though by all logic he should have died horribly?



;)