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October 07, 2004
Color Bleach
Okay, finally got around to watching the first episode of Bleach. Me like.
Some things got changed around, but the important stuff didn't. Rukia and Ichigo sound abfab! Kon is, uh... well, he's not even supposed to be there yet, but he's narrating the previews and it sounds like he's having the time of his life (ganbatte KuboTite! Fight-O! Fight-O!
)
Things that were surprising: Soul Society and Hollow were originally English terms. There is a lot of English in this series. Even staff titles in the opening are in English (though names are in kana).
The ED sequence was really... sad. Foreboding much?
I really really hope the anime takes the Kodocha approach.
I want to see lots and lots of random filler original-to-the-anime episodes with the Ichigo and Rukia team kicking Hollow butt and taking names before they get to the serious Soul Society plot stuff. I feel a little cheated that we didn't really get to see much Ichigo-Rukia shinigami shenanigans while they were still on earth. I don't think we ever saw Ichigo perform a regular Soul Burial. And I refuse to read fanfic.
The current Soul Society arc in the manga feels like it's coming to an end after a very very VERY long time - but I have to wonder, what happens next? Ichigo's whole plan - I think - was to rescue Rukia and bring her back to the world of the living. It seems to be very hard for people to die in Soul Society (unless your name is Aizen 
) so chances are they'll all survive, unless KT's feeling homicidal.
But... it's hard to see where things will go once they finish up what they're doing in Soul Society. Things can never be the same again; KT foreshadowed as much in vol 6. But after all they've been through, I want a happy ending for Ichigo and Rukia of the 2gether 4ever kind, dammit. Yes, I'm a hopeless romantic. I want to see them kicking Hollow butt and taking names again. (I also want to see Orihime get together with Uryuu cos they're so cute together - also so she'll get her mitts off of Ichigo, because he's Rukia's, dammit.)
Maybe that's why the Soul Society battles are dragging out so long - KT doesn't want it to end either. (Of course it's entirely possible that he doesn't know HOW to end it either, and is stalling.)
Posted by Innocent Sidekick of Evil at October 7, 2004 11:37 PM | Posted to Bleach
