Bleach Anime Episode 224 - 3 vs. 1 Battle! Rangiku’s Crisis
June 30, 2009 by The Mangatronix
Rangiku’s Haineko is unable to inflict any damage on any of Harribel’s Fraccion, only being able to block their attacks with it and with them all attacking at once, she is completely overwhelmed. Just as Apache is about to attack, she is hit directly with a fireball from out of nowhere. Rangiku turns to see Hinamori, who has just arrived at the battlefield after completely recovering back in Soul Society. Aizen notices her arrival and completely disregards her when asked by Ichimaru about it, stating that “it’s not even worth mentioning”. Hitsugaya is aware of her appearance as well and worries whether she is ready or not. Just as Mila Rose, Sun-Sun and Apache are all about to attack Rangiku and Hinamori all at once, they are trapped in a kido web quitely made by Hinamori upon her arrival and are heavily damaged after she uses her Tobiume to ignite and explode it around them. Elsewhere, Kyoraku and Starrk continue their fight with Starrk making the assumption that Kyoraku is ambidextrious as he notices that he has been switching blade hands and that his left-hand swings are more powerful than his right. Kyroaku quickly proves him wrong by switching hands on back-to-back swings of equal strength. Kyoraku unsheates his second sword after trying to convince Starrk to take the fight seriously which he continues to try to avoid. Mila Rose, Sun-Sun and Apache all release their zanpakutos turning to their Ressurrecion forms, gaining strength far greater than Rangiku and Hinamori’s. Hoping to finally end the battle, they all perform a technique known as Quimera Parca by removing their left arms and fusing them together. From the smoke comes an unknown creature with immense spiritual pressure.
Bleach Anime Episode 223 - A Miraculous Body! Ggio Releases
June 30, 2009 by The Mangatronix
Soifon continues fighting Ggio, and is pinned down. Nirgge gets up and tries attacking Omaeda again, but he defeats him and tries to help Soifon. Ggio is about to shoot Omaeda with a Cero but Soifon breaks free and knocks Omaeda away before Ggio can kill him, revealing that she had hoped to study an arrancar’s resurrecion form before facing the Espada. Ggio then responds by turning into his “Tigre Estoque El Sable” form to grow stronger, but Soifon kills him easily with her zanpakutō’s ability. She and Omaeda then go to face Barragan.
Bleach Anime Episode 222: The Most Evil Tag!? Soi Fon & Ōmaeda
June 5, 2009 by The Mangatronix
In Bleach Anime Episode 222, Ggio manages to free himself and fights back against Soi Fon, chiding her for not finishing him off when she had the chance. He releases his zanpakuto and continues fighting her, seeming to be of equal or greater skill. Oomaeda continues fighting Nirgge, and while it appears that he cannot keep up with his speed even in his slower release state, he reveals that he had only pretended to be slow, and manages to outmaneuver Nirgge and bash him in the head with his zanpakuto. Despite this, Nirgge gets up again, only to die when Ggio accidentally knocks Soi Fon at his head.
Bleach Anime Episode 221: The Full Showdown! Shinigami vs. Espada
May 27, 2009 by The Mangatronix
Bleach Episode 221: The Full Showdown! Shinigami vs. Espada
Original Air Date: May 26, 2009
Yama-Ji ordered all Captain-level Shinigamis present to fight the Arrancars with all their power and might and not to let the enemy step one foot on Soul Society’s grounds. Matsumoto faced the three female Arrancars - Apache, Mila Rose and Sun-Sun - while Hitsuyaga started crossing swords with Halibel. Omaeda was being overpowered by his opponent while Soi Fon binds his opponent with Way of Binding No. 30 and prepares to finish her off with his Shikai, Suzumebachi.
Bleach Anime Episode 220: Ikkaku Falls! The Shinigami’s Crisis
May 19, 2009 by The Mangatronix
With Madarame Ikkaku of the 11th Squad beaten by one of Barranggan’s Fraccion - Poww, one of the four pillars broke and the barrier hiding the real Karakura town starts disintegrating, causing the real town to surface. Once more, Poww asked Ikkaku whether he’s still hiding his real powers but when he denies, the Fraccion prepares to finish him with a kick. However, Captain Komamura Sajin of the 7th Division Squad stopped Poww with a punch straight to the face. Iba managed to stop the barrier from disintegrating further with the help of black rods causing the same effect as the four pillars.
Poww released his zanpakutou by calling “Calderon: Pilot Whale” revealing his true form with huge size and attack powers. Iba took the weakened Ikkaku and fleed as Captain Komamura released his Bankai - Kokujou Tengen Myou-ou: Enlightened King Kokujou’s Heavenly Punishment, a heavily steel-armored giant warrior. Poww forced a cero attack while wrestling arm to arm with Komamura’s bankai but the armoured giant only forced it back to the Fraccion’s mouth and with a single swing of the giant’s sword, Poww was defeated.
Iba revealed how he know about Ikkaku’s Bankai but don’t have any plan to tell it to his captain. He questioned Ikkaku why he let the pillar he’s supposed to be protecting to be destroyed just so he could keep his pride and lectured him
“But you really need to think about this, Ikkaku. It was your job to protect the pillar but you let it get destroyed. And do you know why? Because you hid your powers.
“I don’t care if you die without ever using your full power but it better not come at the cost of failing your mission. Don’t hurt the entire squad because of your own pride! As long as you’re in the 13 Protection Squads, your orders are absolute!
“I don’t care if you’ve got to swallow your pride, you must execute your orders succesfully!
Captain Komamura Sajin seem to have heard their entire conversation but said that he seem to have something stuck in his ears.
Bleach Anime Episode 219: Hisagi’s Shikai! The Name is…
May 19, 2009 by The Mangatronix
Hisagi had difficulty with Findor Carias and despite their same level of power. When Findor released his zanpakuto (Pinza Aguda) he cornered Hisagi with blasts of water causing Hisagi reluctantly releasing his zanpakuto (Kazeshini). He was forced to do this despite his dislike for its appearance as a weapon for killing. After releasing his zanpaktou Hisagi easily overpowered Findor. Findor breaks off 90% of his mask which caused him to be as strong as a captain, but Hisagi still managed to damage him easily leaving Findor paralyzed with fear. After defeating Findor, Hisagi explained how he was by far inferior to him because he don’t need to fear his own power. Findor made a desperate attempt to defeat Hisagi with a cero only to be killed by Hisagi´s zanpaktou. Unfortunately, Barragan’s fourth Fraccion, Choe Neng Poww, was able to defeat Ikkaku and destroyed the pillar he had been guarding.
Bleach Anime Episode 218: Kira, The Battle Within Despair
May 19, 2009 by The Mangatronix
Yumichika revealed that he’s only using such nickname so his zanpakutou could avoid revealing its real kido-based abilities and thus, still fit the qualifications of the 11th Division. Cuulhorne was impressed by this kind of resolve of Yumichika. Meanwhile, the others are still continuing to fight and Findor revealed to Hisagi that he can chipp off chunks of his mask in able to increase his power. Izuru fights with Avirama whose Resurrecion turned him into a bird, enabling him to attack Izuru with heavy steel feathers. Izuru used Wabisuke to make Avirama’s wings to multiply its weight and become incapable of flying. He then decapitated Avirama while begging for his life and noted afterward that he didn’t really wanted to be forgiven.
Bleach Anime Episode 217: Beautiful Little Devil Charlotte
May 18, 2009 by The Mangatronix
In the fire prison created by Yamamoto, Gin noticed that Kira was angry. Tosen asked him whether he felt bad about abandoning Kira. Gin replied that he wasn’t but was glad that Kira was doing well. In his fight, Kira managed to draw blood against his opponent, Avirama Redder, who proceeded to release his zanpakuto, Aguila. Meanwhile, Yumichika and his opponent, Charlotte Cuulhorne, the strange feminine arrancar, continued their fight, which appeared at first to be more of a “beauty contest” than an actual fight, because the two spar while declaring the other to be ugly; however, both decide that the victor shall be the most beautiful. Charlotte used several attacks, each given a ridiculously long name, which were able to injure Yumichika. When Yumichika managed to cut off some of Charlotte’s hair, the Arrancar was enraged and released his sword, Reina de Rosas which means “Queen of the Roses”. Now stronger than Yumichika, the fight escalated until Charlotte trapped Yumichika in a prison of black thorns, which completely encased the combatants and their reiatsu, hiding Yumichika’s death from everyone. Upon hearing that his reiatsu was hidden, Yumichika revealed the true form of his zanpakuto, Ruriiro Kujaku, a kido-type sword. With its power, he drained Charlotte’s reiatsu and claimed victory.
Bleach Anime Episode 216: Elite! The Four Shinigami
May 18, 2009 by The Mangatronix
Ichigo reached the 5th Tower to save Orihime and confronted Ulquiorra who told him that because Aizen has not ordered Orihime to be killed, he shall not do it unless ordered to. But since Ichigo remains a threat to Hueco Mundo that must be destroyed, Ulquiorra was still determined to kill him. Ulquiorra finally unsheath his sword and they started fighting. Meanwhile, back at the fake Karakura, Barragan took command since Aizen was trapped inside Yamamoto’s fire prison, telling both Halibel and Stark to not question him. His first plan of action was to destroy the four pillars protecting Karakura, and he send out four giant hollows to do the job, without realizing that the 13 Protection Squads would not just leave those pillars completely unprotected on purpose. Ikkaku, Yumichika, Kira, and Hisagi each took one pillar, and after defeating the hollows with ease, were matched up against Choe Neng Poww, Charlotte Cuuhlhourne, Avirama Redder, and Findore Carias, four of Barragan’s six Fraccion.
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Bleach Anime Episode 215: Defend Karakura Town! Entire Appearance of the Shinigami
May 18, 2009 by The Mangatronix
While traveling from Hueco Mundo to the real world, Aizen, Tousen, and Gin arrive in Karakura town and were greeted by the remaining captains of the 13 Protection Squads and their lieutenants. Aizen stated how he was aware that he was not in the real Karakura Town and said that after slaughtering them, he will make the King’s Key in Soul Society. He also revealed that Las Noches was already in Ulquiorra’s hands. Ulquiorra then appeared in the throne room behind Orihime. When his presence was sensed by Ichigo, Ichigo came rushing to the 5th tower in the hope of rescuing Orihime. It then showed a young plus girl being chased by hollow in Kagamino City, 22km from Karakura Town, when suddenly the hollows were killed simply by the reiatsu of the 13 Protection Squad captains, Aizen, and his top Espada. The shinigami assigned to the area told the girl to run before she gets attacked again.
The scene went back to the battle where the captains were talking amongst themselves when suddenly the captain-commander said that everyone should get back as he unleashes his shikai to trap Aizen, Tousen, and Gin.
Back in Las Noches, Ulquiorra was asking Orihime whether she was scared to which she replied that she wasn’t scared. Ichigo was temporarily delayed by the exequias and their leader, Rudobone. Rudobone and his men attacked but were stopped by Renji, Sado, and Rukia. Ichigo continued on his way eventually breaking though the floor into the throne room to face the battle.
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