Gavin

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]Weird, translation I read over on Mangashare confirmed him dead. As far as I recall the "Orihime standing over them" bit was in reference to one of Halibel's fraccion..[/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]SUPER SENTAI ICHIGO! Yeah, this was a pretty interesting chapter all things concerned. Isshin, Urahara and this mysterious Shinigami need to make their appearance soon because as you said, Isshin has some serious questions to answer. Tsukishima is a boss as usual, dude has to be Aizen's bastard child, there's no way he could be that laid back, trollish and awesome at the same time without it being the case. Ichigo's new look is pretty rocking too, love the sword, totally badass. Oh, apparently based on the 3rd Databook Unmasked, Halibel and her lackies are the only confirmed survivors of the Espada forces. Grimmjow is unconfirmed (still!) and all the others are dead. Apparently she's also forgone the opportunity to rule Hueco Mundo because Aizen's "peace" was false and a real peace needs to establish itself (How exactly?). I suspect the next time we see Grimmjow he'll have told Hali to GTFO and become King of HM himself, at least until another Vasto Lorde comes in and has some cat food. I've always found Halibel to be a pathetic character the more her origins are explored, she's a gigantic hypocrite (seriously, a VL saying they shouldn't eat other Hollows, bit late there love).[/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]Well Tsunade was useless as usual "Raikage you can't go making personal decisions but when I do it it'll be perfectly fine because I'm supporting our plot-shielded idiot protagonist". By far the most useless of the Sannin and the Hokages so far. I still don't see why he took the Hokage of all of them with him, she was obviously going to support Naruto eventually. As for base B turning out to being stronger than A, I'm calling BS on that right now. B was completely outclassed by Kisame, Naruto practically one-hit KOed him in his Kyuubi form and the Raikage is clearly even stronger than Naruto. Either B seriously held back against Kisame or Kishi has once again pulled a retcon to justify more of his BS PnoJing. It even brings into question why B didn't completely massacre Sasuke's team when he fought them originally. I guess this is being done just so full-powered Naruto in Kyuubi form doesn't seem completely out of left field when he destroys all the other Edos in one blitz attack which makes Hiraishin look like a Akamachi climbing a mountain. Lord only knows how hax Sauce will be when he returns. Naruto beating Madara by himself as he is now is a joke, but I suspect fairly soon he'll be strong enough to do it. I fully expect Sasuke to backstab him first though.[/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]Decent eps this week and last week, Byakuya beating (actually schooling might be a more apt term) Hitsugaya was very welcome altogether. I'd assumed Hitsu's plot-shield would be in full effect but it seems even he bows before the lord of Bleach bishies. Byakuya vs Byakuya next week looks pretty awesome, really wish they'd just left the line as "There can be only one" for the Highlander shout-out but oh well. Lord though I was in fits of laughter watching Hitsugaya getting schooled yet again by Hinamori of all people, yes, yes childhood friends and PTSD are a horrible combination in a fight but to be able to be wounded by a VC and then almost finished off was hilarious. Somewhere Aizen is smiling and if Yama ever hears about this he's going to get shorty to hand in his haori. Yama vs the Trio needed to be longer, even with one hand the old man is still awesome to watch in action, I can't even imagine how badly he'd f*** them all up if he had both arms back. Kenpachi vs Soi-Fon squad was a bit dull, you'd think special ops soldiers would notice their captain's eyes are suddenly glowing purple. Komamura reappearing and apparently breaking Soi-Fon's finger was awesome too, I'd love to see a proper fight between him and Kenpachi at some point with neither of them jobbing. One thing I can't understand though is why they keep using the Senkaimon instead of Gargantas to cross over. We know from the SS Rescue arc that Garganta can pierce into Soul Society and Urahara can create them, it'd be a much easier way to get around Kagerosa's control. Heck they had both Urahara and Mayuri so there was really no excuse not to have them work together.[/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]Well their take on Game of Thrones has been pretty cool (though having since read it between episodes I prefer the novel) so hopefully HBO should be able to put out a decent version of American Gods too.[/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]Funnily enough I thought this chapter was a major improvement over the last few as we're finally starting to see the plot move on a bit again (as opposed to endless bantering). Heh Ginjo admitted his villainous speech was pretty cliché in the end (and I was reading most of his lines in Aizen's voice anyway heh) so I was willing to forgive him that. At least Ichigo has completed his fullbring now so we should be pretty close to seeing his Shinigami powers reappear as well. Honestly I'm a little more interested in seeing if Chad and Orihime (who are both obviously incomplete fullbringers as well) get to bring on their powers a bit, after all Chad has already jobbed once in the arc so he's due an upgrade. No Riruka (aside from the cover) was a huge improvement too, and only one Kurosaki-kun from Orihime.[/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]I think it's just down to environment, B had A to keep him company after he became a Jinchuuriki so he always had positive influences even through something like that. Naruto by comparison spent more than a decade being feared and ostracised so it's not so surprising they'd be very different as children (though Kishi has back-tracked to give B A in his childhood as far as I can see). Raikage versus Minato was pretty cool, would've liked to see a bit more of that fight but it seems we might get to see a bit more later.[/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]Yeah. It seems Kishi has changed his stance on Jinchuuriki death = Bijuu death, now it seems to dissipate the Bijuu chakra but after a while it will reform together and the Bijuu themselves will come back. TBH I've suspected for a long time the Bijuu aren't just carved up segments of the Jyuubi's chakra alone but rather have an individual nature to prevent them from all just clumping together eventually to reform the Jyuubi, my guess would be there was some kind of sacrifice required to bind those carved up segments into a person who would then go on to become the different Bijuu. I think you really need to look at it from the Shinobi Alliance's point of view, as much power as B and Naruto bring to the field they're still just individuals of around Kage strength, which makes them vulnerable to Kabuto's Edo summons more than the Zetsus. At the same time they're Madara's goal so you really don't want to be putting the enemy goal right out on the frontlines. As I said earlier if it was just a question of strength all the Kages would be fighting as well instead of hanging back in command positions. Right now, as powerful as Naruto is (and with Zetsus being able to mimic people perfectly his sense evil ability is going to be incredibly useful [though tbh that's pure PnoJ for me]) he's as big a disadvantage, maybe bigger, than he is an advantage for them. It also seems that Madara can use segments of the Bijuu chakra even without all of them, so sending Bee or Naruto in alone isn't much of an option. Maybe Naruto would be better given Madara can't seal him without Bee but it's still incredibly risky with Naruto's propensity to ignore orders and do his own thing. The Raikage may have been harsh but even he admitted killing Naruto or Bee would be a last resort if everything else failed, as for his comments about Minato, well sadly the Yellow Flash doesn't have the greatest track-record so far for someone so inhumanly powerful.[/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]I think the main problem with the Fullbringers is that the feel completely out of place in Bleach. Humans with spiritual powers are Quincies (or something similar) and they've never demonstrated anything near the sort of specialisation of the Fullbringers. TBH I think it would've been a lot more interesting to have brought in a new sect of Quincies rather than the Fullbringers. Having just begun the Chapter Black arc of Yu Yu Hakusho I have to say it's got a really similar feel to it. [/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]Intel's Museum of Me has to be one of the most awe inspiring things I've seen done online in quite some time. [/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]15 pages of Orihime and Riruka blathering on about ****... Wonderful. On the positive side, I'm liking Ginjo more and more as time goes on. At this point I don't even care if he's the villain.[/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]Heh, if you think I'm bad now Ace, I'll be frothing at the mouth in six months when Sasuke is back, does a bunch of evil **** and Naruto is still convinced they're bestest buddies. Honestly I would become a Sasuke fan if he actually killed him with the words "You were never my brother". But you know, Kishi is gay for bromance so...[/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]Bah, another chapter of Naruto acting like a complete child and Kishi lauds him for it. No Naruto, you don't have a God-given right to confront Madara and everyone else just because you're more powerful than the average shinobi, if that was the case A and every other Kage would be out there taking names and kicking ass and collectively they're more powerful than you and B put together. War doesn't revolve around your individual capacity to defeat someone else, especially this one where Madara's goal is something other than crush the Alliance. You're playing directly into his hands but as usual you're too much of an egotistical prat to realise it and worse still you've brought B along for the ride giving Madara both of you on a platter that he can converge every Edo he has remaining on top of. Yes, I imagine it would sting your pride to have so many people give their lives to protect you and B, except the fact is they're not giving their lives to protect you, they're giving their lives to protect that monstrous ball of chakra in your gut that you've only recently gained control of, and to protect every other innocent in the world who doesn't have to power to stand up and fight against Madara. Bluntly, **** your pride. This is about more than you, it has never been about you. You're one piece in a game that has been going on since decades before you were born. One prophecy and your idiot father's faith do not give you the right to put the lives of those remaining 40,000 and every other innocent on the planet in danger by running in like a damn fool without a plan. What are you going to do ? Rasengan and Bunshin spam ? Shame they're completely useless against a guy who can make himself intangible at will. At least Kubo can write convincing protagonists who aren't full of ****.[/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]So a welcome and a welcome back. If you guys have any issues, feel free to drop me a PM.[/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]Just finished the Dark Tournament arc of Yu-Yu-Hakusho and I've really enjoyed the series so far. Bah, can't download them in batches of ten any more because my ISP will kill me at home.[/size][/font]

[font="Tahoma"][size="2"]I'm a gigantic nerd and have never made any effort to hide it. Since moving to a bigger city for college I have had much more of an opportunity to hang out with and interact with other geeks than I used to which is pretty cool.[/size][/font]

[quote name='Shinmaru' timestamp='1306870779' post='707714'] GAVIN, YOU TOOK HER JERB [/quote] [font="Tahoma"][size="2"]I DURK HER DURR ?![/size] [size="1"](that sounded dirty)[/size][/font]

[quote name='chibi-master' timestamp='1306794567' post='707690']Jerb. JERB. [i]JERB![/i] I don't... But... Wh... QUARP! [/quote] [font="Tahoma"][size="2"]*Shrugs* I watched South Park last night. Said interview was successful and I start next Tuesday. Yay for less time but more money.[/size][/font]