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Awesome episode! Byakuya is so bad ass! The fight scenes in this episode was awesome! Hope Byakuya and Ichigo will have a face off again :DDD

And i think Sode no Shirayuki is alive~!♥

You got a good point there... maybe they didn't sense them and were caught by momentary surprise.

As for the fillers... who knows? But this is the first time in a long while that I've been excited about Bleach. So much so that it's kinda hard to believe it's a filler. It would've been a great main arc especially if they stop rushing a few episodes and have a whole load more fights like they did in this episode.

3 in 1... Man, that was great! *watches it again*

The episode is great, i enjoyed the action scene between Sode no Shirayuki and Byakuya but it's sad to see Byakuya defeat her. But it actually seem a little suspicious for him to do that, maybe there is a twist here and Sode no Shirayuki could actually still be alive^^

yeah, pretty great episode...

packed with action...

anyway the plot doesnt seem to move at all..

and what will happen with rukias's zampaktou?

San no mai Shirafune if I remember correctly allows Rukia to reforge her Zanpakuto like when she killed Aaroniero which probably means Byakuya knew about that skill => his Zanpakuto also knew about the skill.Also if I remember correctly Senbonzakura sugested that Byakuya should kill his sisters zanpakuto which probably means they have a bullshit plan.
Besides that I really liked this episode especially the fight between Senbonzakura and renjis zanpakuto

One of the best episodes in a while, absolutely loved the Byakuya fights, HE PWNS. Fuck if only this kind of quality can stay on for long.

Byakuya vs Renji was an interesting fight due to their different fighting styles :)

They must have a bullshit plan, why else would they let Renji & Rukia live? oO

Interesting episode... Renji is more awesome in this filler then the following story itself. Fights were just too good, and I also think that he didn't kill SnS bcs u know in first episodes how he didn't want to kill Ichigo, he just cut his only hope to be shinigami. Then he did the same thing to SnS for sure... ^^
As for Byakuya and Senbonzakura they were for sure planing something on their own as u can see how surprised they were when the others arrived... and that is why Renji and Rukia are still alive. :D

My opinion of overall filler is that old man Yama-ji is cooking this... He disappeared and put them in crisis to see how will they do. He has something to do with Muramasa bcs he done this just to make his squads stronger... as u can see the result is Renji's Zabimaru could fight in spirit form. But this is just my opinion and I could be wrong, but still I had this filling from the start of the filler. We will just have to wait. ^^

Best episode in a long, long time. Can we just skip Wednesday through Monday, please? I want the next episode... NOW!!!

"Third dance, white sword" (参の舞・白刀, san no mai, shirafune), her final ability reserved only for when her blade is broken, reforges her zanpakutō with ice particles, piercing through any object in its path and freezing anything in the vicinity. - quote from wiki. => Sode no Shirayuki is not gone for good. It just makes you wonder why was Rukia so shocked when she saw it like that...

Awesome fights, but it looks like the next episode will have even more of them.

Hyourinmaru in 4th division made me laugh. Poor Isane. xD

This episode brought up 2 points for me, 1 good and 1 bad.

The Good: The animators definitely had a lot of fun with Zabimaru vs Senbonzakura in this episode. And most of the fighting in this arc involves a lot of movement. I see it as the animators can finally stretch their arms without the confines of the stuffy and awkwardly stiff fights in the canon material.

The Bad: The writers. I still don't know why, when they were brainstorming this story, they chose Byakuya as the "traitor" character. I find it less believable than Unohana betraying SS, for christ sake. And to add insult to injury, they dont even give him anything interesting to say in response to his traitor actions, just "i must defend my pride" 18,000 times. Which is the opposite of what he would really do.

I guess they chose him for the fan service. I can't think of any legit reasons.

No it's dead. When we go back to cannon and Hueco Moundo, Rukia will suddenly be unable to use her sword and the author will explain to her that they killed it in a filler arc.

It was an ok episode i guess. I think you people are overreacting. It wasn't THAT amazing.
The fights had a few good moves in them so it wasn't bad but the plot isn't progressing at all.

LOL thx for the laugh XDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Byakuya vs Sode no Shirayuki - not bad fight.

But I'm getting tired of these episodes.

Great episode . The fights were way above average compared to canon " fights" (more like tea time chats}.

Naruto filler --> a home to return to =)))

- Ichigo and Reinji and maybe a few more character really need to loosen up their eye-brows. It keeps reminding me of the retarded look from cromartie high, which was done on purpose because it was meant to make people laugh at those stupid gorilla face expressions.

- Byakuya in case you guys didn't notice it didn't say anything like "yes, i joined you zanpaktou fkers so give me cookies" or "yes i betrayed you guys so cry me a river" ... he never answers to the question of changing sides in a clear way
It's just a long and annoyingly indirect way of saying "hey i investigate something"

When will these fillers finally end? Not that the following manga chapters will be interesting or anything (just boring long battles all over again).

Damn good episode in my opinion...who cares about plot and story this is filler no one really cares. If they keep the animation quality up like they been doing this will be(no is) the best filler saga bleach eva had.

Very nice episode, loved the fight scenes, Byakuya v Renji was awesome. Especially because of the fighting style Renji was using.. made it much more interesting. I kinda hope Byakuya doesn't just disappear at the beginning of next episode and leave the fight to the zanpaktou.. and I hope we see a couple more captains get involved soon.