Friday, April 3, 2009

Bleach 352: The Lust 6

Double Bleach review for the week as promised. Luckily the enhanced Ichigo/doubly released Ulquiorra battle is not over (we all know that ending would have been extremely weak). After the cero blast last chapter, our cuarto Espada has been reduced to head, torso and right arm. Ichigo prepares to finish him off, but Ishida intervenes, trying to serve as a surrogate moral conscience, telling him/it not to kill Ulquiorra in a savage, merciless manner. This turns out to be a bad mistake (and in my opinion betters the chapter).

Commence the stabbings! Ishida gets a sword in the chest for his intervention. It becomes evident that Ichigo now has one purpose: to kill the fourth and save Orihime (as one can ostensibly interpret his insane mumbling in such a way); consequently everyone and everything else is an obstacle in his way until (maybe) he finishes his objective. Anyway - in my morbid opinion - it's good to see that not everything turns out, or will turn out well (as Ishida himself had foreseen a few chapters ago) in the short and/or long term. Letting the heroes suffer builds their character. It would make me so pleased to see Orihime reach her breaking point and go berserk. Honestly, every time Orihime's appeared for the last years worth of chapters or so, she's continually looked to be on the verge of crapping her pants (or, pardon me, robes).

Yammy's back, and he's....bigger!? Maybe this is his release; and if so, an anticlimactic release it is....but I hope not. Anyway, he'll likely be dead soon. I personally hope Chad gives him a good reaming in the next few chapters. A good battle of strength would be a fitting swan song for the moronic, annoying décimo.

Nice ending! Ulquiorra still has some fight left in him, and he's regenerating himself. But by the look of the last panel, I'd say this fight is more or less over. I think this last move by the fourth in all likelihood was sacrificial and meant to catch Ichigo off-guard. Guesses for the next chapter: The Lust 7 (final), wrap up this battle and maybe Yammy's; provide some resolution to the Ichigo issue (but not too much); get ready to head back to fake Karakura Town.

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