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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – 04 – Piling Up the Ls
16 distinct invaders are identified by Squad 12, and within 7 minutes of their arrival, over a thousand shinigami are dead, most of them rank-and-file, but apparently also some as high-ranking as...
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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – 05 – Old Man Yama’s Fire
So sooner does word reach Soul Society that Kurosaki Ichigo is on his way, and everyone starts to celebrate, than Akon learns that Ichigo is currently trapped in Garganta, and the glimmer of hope...
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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – 06 – Rug Pull
Old Man Yama is always fun to watch, especially when he casually flexes, like when Yhwach thinks he’s slowly walking towards him, then a moment later Yamamoto is twenty feet away, Zaraki in his arms....
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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – 07 – Night of Fallen Souls
The last battle between the Gotei 13 and the Quincy looked a lot like the current one, only in reverse. Yamamoto’s thirteen captains back then were vicious, savage killers who made quick work of the...
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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – 08 – Zero Hour
In the aftermath of the Quincy invasion and subsequent withdrawal, triage operations underway. Lieutenant Kotetsu tearfully asks Captain Unohana if it was really the right call to remain in the Squad...
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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – 09 – The First Kenpachi
Ichigo is healing up nicely in Kirinden, to the point that when Kirinji strikes him and he doesn’t die, he’s deemed healed enough to head to the next palace. Renji, not one to be left behind, also...
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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – 10 – Pass/Fail
In the depths of Muken, Unohana takes Zaraki to the brink of death over and over and over again. She recalls their first encounter centuries ago, when she found herself beside a mountain of bodies...
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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – 11 – Meet the Parents
I gave up on Bleach twelve or thirteen seasons or so into its run because it kept stalling on anime-only filler arcs, most of which were hot garbage and almost never masked the fact that they were...
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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – 12 – Tears of the Sun
After finishing the first of this week’s two-episode finale, I maintain that an entire arc devoted to how Ichigo’s parents met and fell in love would have been just fine with me. And indeed, the...
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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – 13 (Fin) – The True Zangetsu Was the...
Ichigo is heading off, but Isshin asks a fair question: how will he get back? That’s answered by Mera, who appears and spirits him back to Hououden. There, Nimaiya allows Ichigo to re-take the Asauchi...
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