Kubo must have been in a really good mood when he drew this. He's been doing some nice spreads of the Bleach ladies lately, but in my opinion this is the best of them. NEEEEE-SAAANNNNNNNNN!!!
The final Ulquiorra chapter arrives! Things here are resolved quite nicely: Ichigo regresses back to his former self; he acknowledges the unfair nature of their battle; and the 4th precipitates into ash. Suffice it to say, these last three months of Ichigo vs Ulquiorra have been quite satisfying in retrospect. Ichigo has evolved again, but it's a evolution that he doesn't take to kindly; and will likely become a great obstacle for him in the future.
The last few panels of this chapter saddened me to an extent. Ulquiorra has grown to be one of my all time favorite characters, and I've always felt like there was some deeply walled-up conflict within him, urging his soul away from his singular-purposed innately logical nature towards the realization of the human heart's global capacity: its capacity to create its own purpose. It seems like, at the moment of his death, he realizes that there is more to his soul's capacity than the fear he lived to instigate (as a weapon created by Aizen); instead he dies pitied and forgiven, and for that reason perhaps, his existence is rejected. But his soul is redeemed in the end. Poetic moments like these are what make Bleach so raw and edgy. Anyway...it's time to move on. Kill off Yammy, move towards fake Kawakura town and get ready for the apocalyptic battles against the final 3 Espada.
Kubo must have been in a really good mood when he drew this. He's been doing some nice spreads of the Bleach ladies lately, but in my opinion this is the best of them. NEEEEE-SAAANNNNNNNNN!!! 
The final Ulquiorra chapter arrives! Things here are resolved quite nicely: Ichigo regresses back to his former self; he acknowledges the unfair nature of their battle; and the 4th precipitates into ash. Suffice it to say, these last three months of Ichigo vs Ulquiorra have been quite satisfying in retrospect. Ichigo has evolved again, but it's a evolution that he doesn't take to kindly; and will likely become a great obstacle for him in the future.
The last few panels of this chapter saddened me to an extent. Ulquiorra has grown to be one of my all time favorite characters, and I've always felt like there was some deeply walled-up conflict within him, urging his soul away from his singular-purposed innately logical nature towards the realization of the human heart's global capacity: its capacity to create its own purpose. It seems like, at the moment of his death, he realizes that there is more to his soul's capacity than the fear he lived to instigate (as a weapon created by Aizen); instead he dies pitied and forgiven, and for that reason perhaps, his existence is rejected. But his soul is redeemed in the end. Poetic moments like these are what make Bleach so raw and edgy. Anyway...it's time to move on. Kill off Yammy, move towards fake Kawakura town and get ready for the apocalyptic battles against the final 3 Espada.
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