Chapter 162 RAW and 163 RAW

[DeluxSkillz]

http://xscanz.free.fr/bleach162.zip

one of the best chapter to date and it's in FULL COLOR!! Kubo Tite show's his brilliance once again have fun enjoy

[Mut]

thanks.

/me goes to check.

EDIT: wow, that was a cool chapter. ichigo is crazy.

[Barumonk]

The topic title is a bit off, it claims 163. ^^;;

Chapter 162 Translation (http://www.livejournal.com/community/soul_society/148071.html?thread=2124135#t2124135)

[fremeer]

YES, AWESOME CHAPTER
notice that the guard for his sword is a swatstika?? he looks like neo in that suit though

[Barumonk]

I dont think its purposely a swatstika, if you look at the raw you'll notice that it seems to be a kanji symbol.

Edit @ fremeer: I already knew that but that wasn't my point -_- more than likely since there was no reference to it at all within the translation as anything but normal kanji, then its safe to assume it has nothing to do with a swatstika aside from the similar appearance.

[fremeer]

ahh but i wasnt saying it as a bad thing, the swatstika has been a symbol of good for many centuries only in the last has it been a bad symbol to the western world due to the nazis.
http://www.hindubooks.org/sudheer_birodkar/india_contribution/nextbook/folklore.html
has some pretty good info on the hindu meanings behind the swatstika.
so ichigo having the swatstika is actually pretty hard core.

edit: btw the kanji in the text is called manji and is a religious symbol, since it was used in the wording of bankai i assume it has something to do with that. also many symbols are added into places without being explained, half the fun of watching some stuff is to spot all the symbols and stuff, like evangelion for instance.

2nd edit: i was bored after christmas and was fooling around on the comp so i fixed up 162 but because i have no website i cant host it i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif. ne ways heres ichigo after bankai.

http://img135.exs.cx/img135/5963/14156nb.th.jpg
fullsize (http://img135.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img135&image=14156nb.jpg)

[jing]

163 raw is out
http://isachan.net/bleach/manga/

translations are here

http://www.kefi.org/bleach/bleach163_ocean.php

[Mut]

wtf, this is such bullshit. is byakuya gonna lose??? i mean, i like ichigo too, but kuchiki byakuya is the itachi of bleach and i don't want him to go out so soon...

it better end in a way where ichigo has to retreat for whatever reason...

[fremeer]

no way is byakuya the itachi of bleach he is more the neji of the series so confident in his own power that he discounts ichigo completely. but near the end of the chapter it seems the byakuya understands what happened with ichigos bankai even though we al know that's not all that ichigo has.

[basey44]

man that sword is soooo bad ass, hah byakuya is gonna beg for forgiveness by wanting to suck ichigos dick, i hope he gets his ass kicked

[DeluxSkillz]

he has to get his ass kicked that was what it all about ichigo trained to beat byakuya's ass so he's gonna do so then slash hsi wa out of soul society probably

[jing]

Originally posted by: Mut@t@
wtf, this is such bullshit. is byakuya gonna lose??? i mean, i like ichigo too, but kuchiki byakuya is the itachi of bleach and i don't want him to go out so soon...

it better end in a way where ichigo has to retreat for whatever reason...

yea exactly, and i don't wanna see 3 days of training own a thousand year of training...............
by the way this reminded me of the rock lee battle with gaara.
i hope they do a really kickass job on the animation for this episode.

[fremeer]

its a bit unfair saying that 3 days isnt much considering only 2 people ever have been able to achieve ban-kai like that and one is the bad arse urahara. ichigo is uber syrong to begin with, he was equal to the first level of byakuya pretty quickly and now ban-kai surpassed him, i doubt byakuya could have stopped the god damn soukyuu.

[kAi]

i just read upto 163, and DAMN!!!!

that was some cool shit and the boss guy, fuck is he badass, ichigo might fight him, and we see ZARAKI again, damn he's badass!!

[TheEvil1]

yea i just read all of it in like 2 days, holy damn is it good, i cant wait for the rest of teh manga and for the anime to catch up, this is just gonna be awsome

[kAi]

yeah, i know, this will be cool in the anime, i want more chapters, i want to know now!

i want ichigo and zaraki to fight again.