Retsgip’s Anime Blog

Darkshaunz enjoys the lightshow

Score: 7.5/10

I must admit, this final episode to the filler arc was entertaining. Importantly, Bleach is learning, they now know that a short filler-arc burst with a lot of fighting ensures that rabid fans don’t send letterbombs to their studios. This short, but somewhat sweet mini-arc provides a nice little reprise from the main story. The main filler protagonist was admittedly kind of cool, there’s plenty of Rukia and all your favourite characters got a swing of the action. I am actually saying that if fillers will continue to resemble this one, hey, maybe it isn’t so bad after all. However, with this arc blissfully ending, we can now once again focus our attention into the bowels of Las Nachos (okay, that was kind of yucky).

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Darkshaunz checks out the latest in Konoha

Bleach fillers, goddamn. No, I haven’t picked up Naruto either, I just got kind of tired of the whole Menos Forest crapfest in Bleach (don’t worry Rukia fans, our girl is alright). So what does a man do when he gets sick of Super Spirit Fighting Rangers? He goes off and downloads the latest episode of Ninja’s-that-wear-normal-clothes-ruto of course. I am so far removed from the general Naruto anime plot that I have to use my years of intensive anime expert training, my wit and my stamina for enduring convoluted plothax storyline twists to my advantage. I am safely assuming that they are still looking for SASKAYYY, Akatsuki are still overpowered and Shizune is still hot.

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Darkshaunz gets lost in the Menos forest

Score: 7.0/10 (Rukia, saves it)

I have an exam on Monday evening. Common sense and student logic dictates that I study for that exam, but like all good exponents of decent logic, I decide to take the serious academical consideration into the palms of my hands, and toss them into the great burning fires of procrastination. Bleach continues the trend of confusing the shit out of us, this week is neither great nor shit, but rests in a comfortable position slightly above mediocrity. It’s like I want to get angry at this episode, but I can’t because it has a metric tonne of Rukia in it, and enough “that was retarded, yet hilarious” moments to save it from the aforementioned Crash n’ Burn of say, 145. So in gambling my future away for this post, let’s get on with this chlorox fest.

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Darkshaunz rides on a Giant Sandworm

Score: 8.7/10

It’s a beautiful Saturday afternoon here, after a glorious sleep in preceeding a hectic university week, it was time to hit up the Bleach machine for some sand-filled goodness. Bleach’s performance is erratic at the moment, one week it is good, the next it dives into the oblivion, but this week’s latest installment takes off on all hydrogen boosters, hopefully propelling audiences into the vestiges of space before once again re-entering Earth’s atmosphere in some ditzy and cosmic catastrophe. If you have some sushi, some chips, or some beer, Bleach 146 is ridiculously satisfying for an episode in which nothing “really” happens. Goes to show that Bleach doesn’t have to continuously kill shit to keep it entertaining, seinfeld-ism helps in between after all.

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