Ahh... Spankin New Bleach, Bleach Manga -100, Turn Back the Pendulum 9

Bleach Manga -100, Turn Back the Pendulum 9, starts off with a insomniac Captain Kyoraku walking around, catching up with a few guards, and spotting Aizen also walking around.


Captain Kyoraku tells Aizen to get some rest, and he moves on. Then he is stopped by Nanao Ise, a very young Nanao, she is surprised that the Captain remembered her name, and he replies that he remembers all the young girls names (creepy?).


Apparently Nanao visist Lisa Yadomaru once every month, so that Lisa could read to her, but Lisa is gone, off to a very important mission, and as Captain Kyroaku assures that Lisa will be back in the morning, we go back to the fight!


Back to the Captains taking care of business, well trying to survive, by the looks of it. Lisa is attacked, Rose looks on injured as well. Just at that time Hachigen come s in and uses Bakudo 99 "Kin". Finally bringing Kensei's rage to an end, Shinji comes in and tells Hachigen if he can fix him, to what he responds that he can't fix if he doesn't know what the problem is. Shinji is holding on to Hiyori, and she coughs telling Shinji to get away.

Hiyori is taken over by a Hollow, and she cuts Shinji, and we can see her familiar Rhino mask. Lisa and the others look on, and also look completely lost.

The others begin to surround her, but Love is cut by someone else, they all turn to see. Its a member of Kensei's vanguard, the one with the fro, gee who could it be?
Shinji turns to look at him and says...

Tousen pulls his mask off, and we see his eyes. Shinji tells him how he could have betrayed his own captain! Suddenly someone speaks, telling Shinji it wasn't that he betrayed Kensei, he was just following orders, and being faithful, following orders.

SURPRISE!!! In comes Sosuke Aizen along with a child Gin Ichimaru (smiling like always). Shinji can only utter "Ai...Zen"

We get to see the "Evil-Face" of Aizen!!

Perhaps the best "Turn Back the Pendulum" yet. Although I don't know if its the last one, I doubt it. Finally Aizen takes responsibility, he finally shows his face!

The Dark Knight, Christian Bale as Batman, Heath Ledger as The Joker.

The Dark Knight, the upcoming Batman movie, that is scheduled to be released on July 18, 2008, by the looks of it, it could possibly be the best yet. Batman Begins was light years away from the late 1980's and the 1990's Batman movies, in plot, and in acting. Christian Bale has been the best Batman, period! And now The Dark Knight introduces another familiar foe, The Joker! Playing The Joker, is Heath Ledger, whose life ended too soon. We can expect a great movie, just like Batman Begins, and one of the reasons I will be lining up to see it as soon as it comes out, is Heath Ledger. The trailers we've seen have shown a different Joker, very different from Jack Nicholson's portrayal. This Joker is dirty, or grungy, he's still a psychopathic killer, that still has his demon-like laugh, and has no remorse whatsoever. But this Joker played by Ledger looks to be the best yet. I was amazed at his dark, maniacal, and anarchic appearance. Not to mention his laughter is insanely great! And the face, man, its a whole different take on his face, its now a bit more dirty, almost like a disease! It certainly makes the character shine more. I'm in love with Ledger's portrayal of the Joker, and I have already made his " Why so Serious?!" quote from the movie a quote to be said everyday! Overall, Ledger will most likely outshine Bale in this upcoming movie, not to say that Bale's character is bad, I'm just saying that this is Heath Ledger's best role in a movie, and its sad to know that we don't have such great talent like him any longer. Now Christian Bale, when I saw Batman Begins, I looked at Bale, and said to myself "this man looks like a Bruce Wayne" forget George Clooney, Michael Keaton, or Val Kilmer, Christian Bale was born to play Bruce Wayne. And his acting proved my point, he was the best Bruce Wayne. I always saw the old Batman movies as spoofs, they seemed rather comical, and just like a goof, but with Batman Begins, there is actually a good solid plot, and a well done job by all the actors. Bale made Batman come alive, rather than make him seem like a joke, like the previous attempts. The Dark Knight is going to be one of the best movies of 2008, no question, and its going to open up room for more Batman movies in the future.

Fansubs... right or wrong??

In the U.S the only way for anime fans to enjoy their favorite anime shows is to download them off the internet, or wait until someone posts it up, in one of the many video sharing websites. These animes are made by fans of the anime, and are said to be for fans of anime. But the fansubs are illegal, and more and more anime is starting to disappear from the video sharing websites. So what then does the anime fan do? Does he wait for the anime to be licensed in the U.S or in other countries? The wait might take long, and even then the anime might be degraded by the transition to American audiences. Some people don't like dubs and prefer subs, stating that dubs ruin the true expressions of characters, ruin what they really say, and sometimes change the plot too much.

And what about the other countries that have millions of anime fans, Mexico, China, Latin America, South America, The U.K. Australia, and these are just off the top of my head, there are anime fans in thousands of cities around the world. The only places that get lucky to have an anime come to their country are a few, the rest either watch it in English or try and download it. Its hard to say what should be done, in one side you have the anime companies that say that fansubbing is wrong, and that their company loses money, and on the other side are the fans that want to watch anime, but they don't live in Japan, or can't speak the language. Is it possible for Japanese companies to try and work with the large fansubbing groups around the world? Try and reach and agreement, maybe let the fansub group put out subbed anime but not download? There are many ways that anime can come to the U.S and also reach further places without being dubbed. Just recently Crunchyroll, a website that hosts anime, and more began to air GONZO anime legally, two anime series made their debut in the website, with English subtitles. This is sort of an experiment I suppose for GONZO, and we have yet to see if it pays off, but regardless of the outcome, it is obvious that it can be possible to follow GONZO's example, right? I can't imagine what it would be like for bigger anime companies to follow GONZO's example.

Its hard to call fansuber supporters of piracy, since they're not making any sort of profit from it, well I can't speak for them all, but most subbers charge no money for their downloads. I don't see how anime companies can't think of ways to connect with these fansubbing groups, in a way that both sides win. I believe most fans of anime are from foreign nations, thousands of miles from Japan, so why not try and reach out, and provide them with the anime they love, instead of seeing this effort to spread recognition of anime throughout the world as against the law, why not see it as an opportunity to act! Act now before it gets worse, act now and its possible to profit from it, not lose.

Bleach Manga, Turn Back the Pedulum -101

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The new Bleach Manga is out! Turn Back the Pendulum -101; probably the second to last. Then luckily we will resume the fight of the year!! This manga is energetic, and very good. So once once agains it continues with the story, Shinji, Love, Rose, Risa, and Hachigen were sent to see what's up with these attacks. They meet up with Hiyori and a Hollow Kensei. SO Shinji tells them to do what must be done, Hiyori tells them that its Kensei, Shinji still engages Kensei, along with Risa and Love. Kensei attacks Love, sending him flying, as Rose and Risa look on. This is when Hiyori tells them that its Kensei they're talking about, to which Risa replies that there is many ways to stop him, without killing him. Risa plans to cut his tendons, and Rose will take the right side. But the Hollow form of Mashiro appears, with her fly-like mask, and attacks Rose, Risa's warning was too late. Mashiro attacks Shinji and he is successful in blocking her attack. Just then Hachigen shows up and Kido's Mashiro. Bringing down that pillar technique, Hachigen also takes care of Kensei with "Bakudo 63-Sajo-Sabaku" restraining him. Kensei breaks the Bakudo, with his shear strenght, to which Hachigen replie such feat was unheard of! Things shift to Urahara and his Reitsu-hiding-cloak, and Tessai discovering him going to try and save Hiyori. Tessai tells Urahara that he knows Urahara very good, since both stayed at Yoruichi's mansion. Urahara assumes that Tessai will stop him, and Tessai says yeah, you can't go ALONE!! So both men go, where the Hollows are, End!

And the winner is... David Cook!! Hell yeah, so there is a god!!

David Cook beat Archuleta, and he did it by a large margin! I knew it would come to this, so suck on that baby-faced nobody Archuleta! I am still mad that none of my picks made it, and still puzzled that Syesha made it that far, but now I'm a bit glad that Archuleta didn't win, and someone better did, with talent, and not just a baby-face! I feel much better now, I can now say that the American people did their job and took out that idiot Archuleta, and made David Cook the winner. But this was a surprise even to me! I would have bet money that the idiot fans would vote looks over talent, but looks like there is a god, and not just a god of death! So once again you can go home crying to your town, and feel ashamed that you didn't put up a good cute face to pull of the win! You can finish high school, damn wasn't that a waste of your time, Archuleta can still go to summer school. oh but no!! I know some dumbass record company is gonna give him a contract, shit give it to him, and see it sell less than that other Idol Carly, hehe! Hooray! David Cook, you deserved it, you really did!

Code Geass R2 Episode 7, very interesting one!!

Code Geass R2 episode 7, an episode with no fighting, but a bit of Lelouch-going-through-stress. So Nunnally intends to pick up where Euphemia failed/ended. Start the Japan Administrative Region!!! This is met with doubts by the Elevens and the Black Knights, and they should, everyone remembers how it went down. Lelouch is stressing over the fact that by Nunnally picking up Euphemia's plan, there is no need for the Black Knights or Zero. And he is having problems figuring out what to do, join or fight against her! So he goes out, and takes a train, taking it until he reaches the place when he obtained the powers of the Geass. Before that he makes a crowd of persons dance and sing, as he laughed like a maniac! He then takes the drug "Refrain"!! And starts to trip out!! Nah, just playing!!! He is about to do it, but Kallen arrives, and takes it away and tosses it. Lelouch then tells Kallen that she has to satisfy him, the way a woman knows how! So he approaches her, and grabs her, and gets closer, until their lips are touching, but not kissing. She slaps him, and runs crying. Then Rolo shows up, and tells him that he will never leave his side, and gets real reeeaal close to Lelouch, a really awkward moment, they were about to kiss!!! So Lelouch heads to the school, mets up with his friends, and remembers that his fight is not only for Nunnally but for other things else, so he decides to join
Nunnallu Vi Britannia!!

Bleach 170, another filler episode, wake me up when they're done...

Yeah another damn filler episode, I thought that people would protest this new filler arc, enough to bring back the Hueco Mundo arc, but nothing happened. So we have another Bleach episode that just makes me want to die!!!!!
So this new "Hime" comes into school, along with her bodyguards,and the students begin to ask questions, yada yada yada yada!! There was a cheap fight, against some ninja-dude with a weird Zapakuto, that reflected light, and you were blind, and open to an attack, finally Ichigo notices it, and reflects the reflected light with Zangetsu, and the ninja is beaten, just when Ichigo was gonna force him to talk, the ninja commits suicide with Ichigo's Getsuga, woah!! So then one of the bodyguards explains to the gang, all about their clan, and how that one dude from the opening wants to kill the little girl, and take over the clan. And the bodyguards ask Ichigo to help out, so Ichigo says "sure" and the episode ends... Can't wait for the next episode!!!

Bleach Chapter -102/Turn Back the Pendulum.

The new Bleach chapter is out, and it hasn't given me any good things to write about. Last week, Captain Muguruma Kensei was sent to investigate the recent deaths in Rukongai. And one by one each of the squad's members were killed, except for Mashiro Kuna, and we still don't know where her sleepy head is. Finally Kensei is stabbed by someone that Kensei recognized (umm...Aizen?). This chapter picks up with a very important meeting between captains, and Commander-General Yammamoto decides to send a few captains, Shinji Hirako, Love Aigawa, Rojuro Otoribashi or Rose, and they introduce kido masters Hachigen Ushōda and Tessai Tsukabishi, Tessai being the Kido Corps. Captain. So instead of Tessai going, Captain Shunsui Kyōraku sent his lieutenant Risa Yadomaru. So now all the Vizards that we know were sent to fight a "thing". Hiyori is running away from "it" until Shinji steps in, and the last that we see, is Kensei in the form of a Hollow!!! This new chapter is gonna lead to a good chapter, next week. Maybe we are gonna see Aizen and Gin doing their thing. Maybe its gonna end with Urahara and the rest leaving!