kenpachi is almighty pretty much

Maybe he'll learn to use his bankai in a new way. Like Byakuya. His bankai has three states.
Ichigo only seems to have a basic stage. He hasn't completely mastered it yet, it seems.

I hope something cool happens. Having Ichigo fight against Ulquiorra and having him win
would be ridiculous.

Also, I didn't get the Kenpachi thing.

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Ichigo beat him in soul society, THEN gained
Bankai, Is basically a Vaizard now, but somehow Kenpachi is stronger than him now?

How did that happen? Did I miss something?

iirc he was still able to move etc and as just like "lol you win" while ichigo was pretty much AGHH IT HURTS

If I remember right

Gah! Well....apparently the flashback chapters start next week. That makes me sad, seeing as how we were getting into the good stuff now.


What are they? Well...just chapters devoted to some character's backstory, basically. Now that the current arc has finished, we're just gonna see the backstory of some character's for about 6+ chapters. =|

I'm really curious to see what happens and how Ichigo gets his next power-up.  I'm thinking that there's going to be another "Hollow" state that he can reach or something, similar to how Super Saiyajin worked.  Something where he could basically not only don his Hollow mask, but perhaps start transforming like he did when they were teaching him to control his inner hollow.

I seriously also want Kenpachi to make amends with his Zanpakuto.  I really wanna see him get up to a Bankai level -- if that would EVER be possible...  That'd be so awesome.

Sad we have to wait till April 8th for the next episode.

--Terin

Oh wow! Did anyone see that coming (in reference to the latest chapter)?

Yeah, I knew they were gaidens, but the stuff revealed in them...! I was surprised that Shinji was a captain, and Aizen his lieutenant (I'm guessing there will be a FANTASTIC battle amongst them later now, yippee ​), but also the fact that Love is a captain?! What the fuck?! I thought he was a weakass bitch (not that any of the Vizard are, mind), same with Rose. Rose being a captain was like O_O

Hiyori, eh, to be expected. Seeing Urahara was good, maybe we'll get some background on him at last ​

I get too excited about this stuff, I swear.

Interesting that theres a zero division/royal guard, looks like the king of SS isn't completely defenceless and must also serve a pretty important purpose if he is guarded by shinigami considered elite even among captains, whereas previously he seemed quite pointless living in his own dimension not having any input into the running of SS. I guess whatever that purpose is ties in closely with Aizen's plan. Aizen must also have prepared for having to face the royal guard as well, since I really doubt, however powerful the top 3 espada and him are, that they can go through old man Yama and 5 other powerful captains AND beat the royal guard.

wow, I loved ths episode, one of best since ikkaku

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Haha, like 60 seconds of "HEARTBEAT *zoom*", rinse and repeat. But yeah, 100% worth the wait. See, if Naruto put in this much... well, awesomeness every time it had a break, we'd be onto a winner, but silly Naruto is just shit these days.

OF INTERESTING NOTE THOUGH
I thought 167 was gonna be the start of the filler arc? Looks like it's finishing the Grimmjow x Ichigo fight, though.

Grimmjow said LOOKS LIKE YOU CAN USE IT LONGER.

I noticed that there were two pieces of music that seemed like they were especially composed for this episode! God damn it was epic.

Wtf? What happened to the hollow tranny time limit?

yah know a lot of people would find this offensive -_-  
any way, i think they did a supereb job on the fight scene, too bad we have to wait till next week to see the rest of it :P.

EDIT: aye, that music that played when gromjow relased was so perfect, i guess its safe to call it Grimjow's theme.