Bleach 29
Posted: October 28, 2009 Filed under: Bleach 4 Comments »Tite Kubo – Viz – 2009 – 41+ volumes
As expected, this volume contains mostly fights. It starts with Ichigo’s battle with the Don Kanonji-looking arrancar, and then the bulk of the middle covers Ishida’s fight with the arrancar featured on the cover of the book. There are a few chapters in the end about Chad’s fight, but there’s a bit of plot development surrounding him, so I think that’ll carry over into the next volume.
There’s not that much to report about the fights. Ichigo’s went exactly how you would expect it, Ishida unveils a new type of weapon and an interesting source for his power (I’m curious how this will be stopped/pushed to its limits later), and Chad also reveals the nature of his arms. Sort of. Ichigo’s fight is the least interesting, but I’m thankful that none of these lasted the entire volume, since these arrancars are still small potatoes. Unfortunately, with all three of these characters covered in this volume, that leaves Rukia and Renji, who I still feel rudely interrupted the action last time, and I am less interested in their fights.
One thing that made this volume more fun to read is the continued presence of Nel and her companions. Nel is cute and proves to be somewhat useful during Ichigo’s fight, but the real stars of the show were the other two in her group. One his hilariously running down Renji. Whle I may not be looking forward to his fight, I am looking forward to how he will react to that hollow during his fight. And Ishida winds up with the third from the group, and I was extremely amused with the way the hollow continuously needles the very serious Ishida all during the fight. My favorite joke is where the hollow randomly refers to Ishida by name, and then a few panels later (and for the rest of the story) calls him Ichigo. While he can remember Ishida for whatever reason (possibly because of his attire, I suppose), he seems to have no recollection of Ichigo whatsoever.
Funny stuff, and I’m extremely glad the humor is there to break up the fights.
This was a review copy provided by Viz.
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- Unfortunately, with all three of these characters covered in this volume, that leaves Rukia and Renji, who I still feel rudely interrupted the action last time, and I am less interested in their fights.-
The coming Rukia fight is one of the greatest of the series.
Ooh, really? That’s good to hear. I’m surprised, I would expect the more epic fights to be among the espada. Of course, we haven’t really seen Rukia fight all that much, so I probably shouldn’t have been so quick to write her off.
She did just one-shot an arrancar, after all.