Bleach: Sennen Kessen-hen - Soukoku-tan Episode 11 Discussion

Once again awesome soundtrack and quite spectacular visuals, really does feel like no expense was spared in the production department.

And yet more Biblical/Christian references, they could barely be more on the nose with this. Always interesting to encounter in Japanese works.

@yellowheartren Shirō Sagisu is the best composer in the industry.

We're entering that part of this arc where everything is an asspull and poorly written.

@dior true, I was hoping they would fix it but..

OH MY GOD SLAYING SWORD, The "OH MY RUBBER NEN" moment of Bleach is finally here.

To be honest, the episode is an absolutely phenomenal adaptation of the manga. Amazing visuals (the Trompete scene is almost as majestic as Ywhach ascension in the first episode, pure CINEMA), great soundtrack, insane VA's performances, gives us more backstory on Shunsui, Nanao finally gets her moment to shine...the only problem is that the sword itself feels like an asspull that was made for the sake of this fight. If you can ignore that detail and see it like "a sword that deflects conceptual attacks" (similar to Ukitake's sword), then there is pretty much not any problems with the episode and this part of the manga as a whole.

IMO this is another 10/10 source material adapted episode. If you're anime only or you have troubles eating this (very obvious) asspull, then I can see not enjoying this as much as the first half of this fight or Baby Hold you Hand 2 and that opinion is perfectly valid by all accounts, but it personally doesn't detract from my enjoyment of this episode.

Can't wait for FRI END and "My Last Words" (confirmed last episode of the cour by the usual leakers)

Kubo goes hard on the body horror this arc and Lille's true Vollstandig is essentially cosmic horror. Lille is now unrecognisable in his second transformation and becomes incomprehensibly esoetric just like Biblically accurate Angels. I believe it's inspired by the four Beasts that guard God in the Book of Revelations (appearing as a lion, an ox, an eagle, and a man), whom are described as having "eyes about and behind them". Both Vollstandigs are different representations of angels. He is also made out of pure light now. One of my favorite designs in the series, and one of the best portrayals of angels in fiction. This is also perhaps the most visusally beautiful episode so far. TYBW has the best art direction and aesthetics in TV anime.



And Lille's fate along with the rest of the Schutzstaffel were foreshadowed in Cour 2 by Senjumaru's fate-weaving Bankai.

@Chie_Satonaka at the very least I was hoping for a Lille Barro backstory and some context to the sword that isn't just the arbitrary "uhhh.. it can reflect God's power, or, like.. something".

Hopefully they fix up Gerard's fight at the very least.

The episode was somewhat good, but we're starting to feel the boring dragging, especially since these events could have been condensed into half an episode or less. The dragging feels like it gradually kills the enjoyment, bit by bit. I don’t know the reason behind this, but I hope the season doesn’t end on this very slow pace.

The animation, however, is very good, as we've been accustomed to in the previous episodes.

@dior What's wrong with Gerard's fight?

We really got all this new anime original content in the show so far but they decided to not do anything about this asspull of an ending to lillies fight, this does not bode well for gerard and the arrow. Sigh... All this new content and stuff means nothing if they cant fix the 3 big problems that were in the manga that people pointed out for years smh.