The Official BLEACH series Thread

Originally posted by Dark-Jaxx
As a Captain, he blocked Ichigo's Bankai with one finger and took him out in a single slash.

He blocked a beaten up Ichigo. An Ichigo that had pretty much no reiatsu left. Remember, resolve+spirt power=sharp blade.

Aizen, being the very intelligent individual that he is, could tell that there was no way Ichi-nii's blade could possibly cut him. Aizen has twice the reiatsu of the average captain. Kenpachi clearly spelled out how having uber amounts of reiatsu can prevent another from cutting you.

Originally posted by Dark-Jaxx
Aizen has proven to be pretty damn uber, easily the strongest Captain, equaled only by Yamamoto MAYBE.

Agreed.

Originally posted by leonheartmm
well the two top tier captains survived against yama with minor bruises. aizen is WELL above them in power{although the manga seems to bridging the gap between the power levels of ALL characters, which had gotten too great i guess. e.g. shikai ichigo beat kenpachi, and broke his zanpakuto with kenpachi going all out, and then a bankai ichigo with hollow mask and flash step was beaten by an espada{abeit tired} who was KILLED by the same kenpachi with no powerup. kinda wierd aint it}

I agree that Aizen is fairly strong. Probably stronger than those two. However, your logic seems flawed. Ichigo was more than on empty. How in the hell can he be expected to cut a ranked Espada with no reiatsu? Remember, resolve+reiatsu=sharp blade.

If anything, the writer gimped the hell out of Ichigo when in Bankai form. He should be moving faster than any of the characters can keep up while in Bankai...if we are to go by the fight between him and seashell-head.

But, nooooo, his Bankai form all of a sudden is slower than Shunpo forms.

Also, Ichigo beat Kenpachi when Kenpachi was at full strength. Doesn't Kenpachi wear that patch to make fights more interesting AND because he can't control his Reiatsu well enough? Ichigo beat him fair and square. Ichigo made his blade super super super sharp with his reiatsu and his blades together. That mixed with and extreme resolve allowed his blade to be sharper.

Originally posted by leonheartmm
and i dunno about the guards to th king. but i think the king is probably not a battler, but more of a RULER with dimensional/soul powers etc.

The guards should be the most powerful/intelligent fighters in all of Bleach. Arrancar existed before Aizen. Shouldn't there have been people strong enough to fight them? Surely if they were so powerful, they would have wreaked havoc every now and then on the Shinigami?

Also, it is very probable that the king is a ruler with dimensional/soul powers etc. In fact, can he really be anything else other than magical? This king would have to be pretty uber. Like Ichigo x10.

Originally posted by leonheartmm
also, LOTS of loose ends to tie up. for one, where does ichigo get his extreme power from.

He is a pure "blood" shinigami. Remember? He gets his power from his "mental problems" for lack of better words. The trauma with his mother makes him more fierce.

I'd like to think his mother was a Quincy. If his dad married/fell in love with a quincy, I'm sure he would become an outcast. Being the child of two extremely gifted soul types would lend itself to unnaturally strong spirit power in their children.

Originally posted by leonheartmm
2, who was his mother, how did his father meet her, and does she have any powers{quincy aybe}.

We're thinking on the same lines, my friend. 😉

Originally posted by leonheartmm
3. who was his father in the coul society{which captain and at which time},

Did it ever say he was a captain? I thought he just said he had captain class reiatsu?

Originally posted by leonheartmm
what powers did he have and why was he truly cast out?

I already hit on that...I think you're thinking the same thing I am.

Originally posted by leonheartmm
why did his father let him go to the soul society knowing full wellk what it meant?

What what meant?

Originally posted by leonheartmm
where did aizen gain his awesome powers, seeing as he is quite young.

Well, Ichigo has had his powers less than a year and he's already discovered his Bankai and become a Vizard. That puts him leagues beyond Ichimaru. I'm not sure why the people of soul society aren't acknowledging this.

Originally posted by leonheartmm
whats the whole deal behind the genius of ichimaru and hitsugaya?

Well, Hitsugaya is actually quite old by human standards. From reading the manga, I get the impression that souls in soul society take quite a bit longer to "grow up". He's young by soul standards but probably between 50-100. This is just my guess. Didn't it take Renji and Rukia 100 years to grow up? Also, didn't 5 years pass in the manga chapter on him and he still looked the same age?

Originally posted by leonheartmm
the whole deal of aizen and the voslo lords hollows hasnt been explained.

I thought he said that it was to achieve greater power than Hollows or Shinigami? By becoming a Vizard? Aizen is after power. Aizen wants to become the King. The Hollow were a means to an end. He needed the Arrancar's powers to fight against the captains so he could make the key with that town.

Originally posted by leonheartmm
why karakura town has such a high spirit density hasnt been explained.

I thought it was obvious. The town with the "most" is random, really. You have Ichigo, Chado, Ichigo's father, Ichigo's sisters, Ishada, and Inoue all in one town. It becomes quite obvious that it has the mos spirit energy. Also, residule spirit energy is left behind, especially by those with tons of it. That was used to track people down, wasn't it?

Originally posted by leonheartmm
how ichigo will gain YET more power{seeing as he has basically finishes all avenues with bankai, vizard, and flash step. leacing just kidou which is weaker for the most part.

I guessed that there might be a hell arc or two in store for us. There very well could be a third release.

Originally posted by leonheartmm
and also seeing that he cudnt beat ulquoirra with all these things to begin with.

Well, he's going to beat Ulquoirra in this fight with him. It may take 10 chapters, but he'll do it. You've read enough Manga to know that by now.

no, it still doesnt make sense. aizen not only easily beat bankai ichigo, but also, bankai hitsugaya in a single slach, as well as renji with his bankai, not to mention komomaru with his kidou 99 and escaping soi fon and the god of flash yuroichi. also, just his reitsu was strong enough to bring grimjaw to his knees. and seeing as grimjaw is much stronger than sum1 like byakuya{elite captain} his reitsu seems to be on a much different level from yamamoto. and again, i dont understand what his BANKAi wud be, seeing as his shikai is alreadys stronger than practically any other soul slayer, similarly, many other bakais havent been seen, like soifon{how cud u possibly make her more deadly?}, sandle hat's bankai, yamamoto;s bankai, ichimaru's bankai, the reitsu sucking guy's bankai{if hes reached it}, yuroichi's zanpakuto/shikai/bankai, kenpachi's shikai power and bankai, etc etc.

also, it was kinda wierd how ichhigo with his shikai repelled the tool with which rukia was gonna be executed, said to posess the strength and defence of 1000000 zanpakutos and then was having trouble with byakuya. also, isnt it wierd that tousen, who lost even in bankai to kenpachi{who a shikai ichigo without getsuga tenshou had beaten at full power} was able to easily cut off the arm of grimjaw{sum1 who beat ichigo in bankai with a partial vaizard mask}.

and again, aizen's arrangement with the voslo lords hasnt been explained yet.

about the aizen thing, it's possible that he was watching from a mile away while they were fighting an illusion

not really, they were really injured and the medics n stuff had to help them after aizen left. ofcourse, unless it was ALL an illusion...........

maybe he attacked for real, but the whole blocking thing was just an illusion

Yikes!!!

the ones we weren't really sure of won...

and the one we thought was the strongest of them all lost!!!

didn't see that coming

Originally posted by stickman618
Yikes!!!

the ones we weren't really sure of won...

and the one we thought was the strongest of them all lost!!!

didn't see that coming

Originally posted by dadudemon
Also, we could go on an arc about "Why is it called "Bleach"?"

I can't believe Ikkaku lost, I won't believe it.

Of all the one's guarding, man he was the best. I think he's just effin around. lol

but a pillar was destroyed, the goal was to protect it

i don't see why he couldn't use bankai, it's only his captain he wants to keep it a secret from, and he's trapped in Hueco Mundo, and Yumichika already knows

^i heard sumwhere that the mangaka's favourite band was nirvana, and his favourite song "bleach" and thats where the name comes from.

so it has nothing at all to do with the series itself??

would've been cool if he named it "smells like teen spirit", that title would've suited the series more

Originally posted by leonheartmm
^i heard sumwhere that the mangaka's favourite band was nirvana, and his favourite song "bleach" and thats where the name comes from.

Then the show would be called "Bleach" instead of "Burīchi".

But isn't the romanization of that word Bleech?

it's how the japanese pronounce "bleach" i think, with it being an english word and all

You guys don't get it.

If "Bleach" was his favorite song, then he would call it literally "Bleach" instead of using the Japanese word for it. If you had a favorite Japanese song, would you translate the title into English and call it by that? Would you?

You guys may think "but it is a Japanese manga!" So there's never been an anime or manga with English words in its title?

it is called "Bleach", the logo says Bleach in big red letters

it's just pronounced "Burichi" because of the japanese accent

Originally posted by stickman618
it is called "Bleach", the logo says Bleach in big red letters

Great.

Originally posted by stickman618
it's just pronounced "Burichi" because of the japanese accent

Nah.

No official reason has been give yet.

I searched for a reason long before I posted that as an unanswered question. Maybe the King is named Bleach?

well who cares why??

it's a great series regardless of the title

Originally posted by stickman618
well who cares why??

it's a great series regardless of the title

If you had been keeping up, you would know why "who cares".

Someone feared that the manga wouldn't go on much longer. I said that there's plenty of things that could be explored such as Hell and the origins of the show's name.

Capisce?