Bleach Episode 281 Discussion

Baka_xD said:
^ wat? the Barragan's flashback wasnt in manga ? o_O

ScarletMuse said:
Good episode.
Seems like Hachigen will fulfill his promise to trap Urahara within his barriers for a month XD.

noteDhero said:
In true Bleach fashion a half-hearted attempt to humanize Barragan is used to waste time between fights. I also liked that I'm supposed to be even more impressed (lol) at Soi Fon for managing to use her banana bankai twice when she could only do it once every three days. You know, the one she never uses anyways, and we haven't seen her use until now.

noteDhero said:
In true Bleach fashion a half-hearted attempt to humanize Barragan is used to waste time between fights. I also liked that I'm supposed to be even more impressed (lol) at Soi Fon for managing to use her banana bankai twice when she could only do it once every three days. You know, the one she never uses anyways, and we haven't seen her use until now.

Swaps4 said:

Everyone knows why she hasn’t used it in the past, even she explains why aswell. Also who cares if we haven’t seen it before? I bet a large % of people who don’t read the manga and only watch the anime was almost jumping out of their seats for the fact Soi-Fon released her bankai.

Swaps4 said:

Everyone knows why she hasn’t used it in the past, even she explains why aswell. Also who cares if we haven’t seen it before? I bet a large % of people who don’t read the manga and only watch the anime was almost jumping out of their seats for the fact Soi-Fon released her bankai.

noteDhero said:

Did I say I didn't know why? I asked why am I supposed to care that she increased her ability using a weapon I've only seen just now? And I don't read the manga. Maybe I'm not in the large percentage you claim, but what's your point? What's exciting about a dumb bitch refusing to use her power in life and death situations until someone promises to feed into her petty, one-sided feud? It's lame. She's a terrible character with a stupid rocket launcher.

Siva said:
I loled.

Theoron Martin said:
Volume 30 covers episodes 122-126, a period in Bleach canon material where the story is still laying the foundations for the upcoming Hueco Mundo mega-arc and the even longer-term plot about Aizen's ultimate ambitions; in fact, this is the volume which reveals exactly what he is ultimately up to. Beyond that, its key contributions to the ongoing story are formally getting Ichigo involved with the Visoreds and finally forcing him to confront the Hollow-Ichigo persona which has been lurking in Ichigo's mind ever since Kisuke helped him restore his Soul Reaper powers a hundred episodes earlier. In other words, while this can hardly be considered a “key” volume, it does have some interesting and important developments.

The big reveal about Aizen's likely plan loses a bit of its punch because it involves an element of the Soul Society whose existence has never even been hinted at (in the anime, anyway) prior to this point. Granted, the revelation does expand the seldom-developed background lore of the Soul Society, but what Aizen will do to accomplish his goals ultimately has a much more immediate impact on the viewer because of that; in fact, the lack of earlier establishment made ramping up the more direct threat to the world of the living necessary to create any justification of tension for Ichigo and friends. This is hardly the first time Tite Kubo's story has pushed forward without laying the necessary groundwork first, and it continues to be one of the biggest flaws in his storytelling.

CG said:
The best moment of the ep was Shinji and Gin, imo.

Akasha said:


i was thinking the same thing, would be a nice twist if Gin would be the actual boss not Aizen :D

Hypeathon said:

I've heard the story in Bleach get criticized for many reasons, regardless of whichever arc is mentioned, but this is the first time I've ever heard of this kind of problem noted before. I didn't exactly understand what Theoron meant by that until I watched this episode just now. When I first saw this part in the manga about Barragan's drive to overthrone Aizen, it made me think that it was an interesting part of his character. Seeing it again in the anime, I still thought it was interesting, but I also wondered why Tite Kubo didn't hint that part out about Barragan earlier. It felt too apparent I would've cared a bit more for not just Barragan, but for most of of the other Espada as well.

Instead most of the Espada die off anyway and by the time time we hear about their motivation, it's too little too late to ultimately care for these characters that much anyway. If anything, it made me feel the point of all these arrancar/espada's existence was to give the soul reapers/shinigami an opportunity to show their powers.