Bleach Chapter 549 Discussion

phew that was close. after last week I expected Bleach to follow the same old formula with the captains slaughtering the pointless underlings before the big boss comes out wipes the floor with them and then Ichigo turns up.



thankfully though these might not be pointless underlings and look to actually present a serious threat.

^ True, this formula is so typical for shonen manga. You kick ass - you get your ass kicked - then you pull a power up out of your ass and kick ass.



I wonder how long these fights will take. It looks like Kubo is setting up longer fights to make up for the short duration in the first invasion.

hasanricardo786 said:

HalibelTheEspada said:
mikado34 said:
^ True, this formula is so typical for shonen manga. You kick ass - you get your ass kicked - then you pull a power up out of your ass and kick ass.



I wonder how long these fights will take. It looks like Kubo is setting up longer fights to make up for the short duration in the first invasion.Well, it's not like there's really any other way to progress. It's either, after surviving they train to try and become better and actually stand up to the enemy... or they don't and they just die the next time.





What gets me though, is why they didn't just wipe out Soul Society in the first strike... it's like they intentionally decided to give them a chance. Not sure how this isn't drawing out the war. But I'm sure there's probably a better reason that we don't know of... and it looks like there's some great action to look forward to.



It also annoys me that Omaeda always has to be saved by Sui-Feng. I mean, I know these guys are the top brass, but still he never actually gets anything done. I always try to like him but he really never does anything useful. He's even less than mere comic-relief... but at least he tries I suppose.



i remember that during the first invasion jugram warning bach about being outside his "something" for too long. i just can't remember the german word. they were waiting for the royal guard to arrive. so that's that. it hasn't been explained yet. wait for it. it will come. we don't know a lot of things about the vandenreich. so let's wait.True enough... I suppose they could have just run out of energy and had to retreat to recharge and finish the fight another day. Technically this IS now known to be only the first line of defense. There's even stronger people and the Soul King to fight against... so even if they did manage to defeat this first section I guess without enough energy they would've been slaughtered by the next forces. As long as it doesn't end like the Aizen arc, I'll be satisfied.

Poor Ōmaeda.. Always having it rough... At least his badass captain is there to save the day (hopefully).

Omaeda should have died...



Soi Fon appearing a little too late there to save his sister, haha. That's Captains for ya.



Guess it's time for these two guys to go into Vollstandig.

Soi Fon floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee.



Good chapter. Usually there's at least one villain (like Stark) that I like, but I've yet to see a single quincy that I don't want to get slaughtered.

kurosaki344 said:
Isn't it always like that in a classic Shonen cycle? First everyone gets their asses kicked now they are fighting even better and less cocky with their ban-kai's gone, not even saying that they are beating up the people who somewhat one-shotted them while they had their ban-kai's.

Well since their Bankai mean nothing against the Sternritter who just steal them and since the first raid of Soul Society was a complete surprise and the abilitites of the enemies were completely unknown I think it is possible that the captains, with their preparations,  can compete with the Sternritter who didn't go all out yet.



It will be interesting what kind of fighting style they will show. Do they all have some kind of Vollständig or wil they use the stolen bankais? All of that really makes me thrilled about the next chapters.

I knew that it was just too easy.

Now we'll see how they've really improved.