Bleach 120

[zangetsu]

You must have not been paying attention to this episode.


As has been mentioned before, Vice-captains and Captains have their powers sealed in the real world so they don't cause too much damage.

Obviously those seals were just broken at the end of the episode.

Ikkaku had the benefit of having the power of a captain, without being sealed because he doesn't have the rank of one.

Now, what was it Renji said, he's 5 times stronger in SS than he is on earth. If the seals all work on that ratio, all 3 of them will get 5 times as powerful now. The fights should be alot more even.



Seriously though...Ururu?...what the hell?!

thanks for clearing that up. seriously though, i thought every shinigami, including ichigo, had their power sealed to some extent. now it makes more sense why Ikkaku looks so much more badass than the rest of the team.

[Kraco]

I have to agree with Masa quite completely. Renji's fight was just painful to watch. Even with his power sealed (for whatever witless bureaucratic reason), he should have been 100 times better than in this episode. It was just a disgrace. And when the dolls suddenly appeared I was about ready to go and shoot my neighbour (the dolls getting cut, hopefully mortally, saved that neighbour. A lucky bastard).

Well, let's hope the next episode will be better, when they don't anymore have to make an artificial point of how the doods have their powers sealed, and they should fight normally again.

[Munsu]

thanks for clearing that up. seriously though, i thought every shinigami, including ichigo, had their power sealed to some extent. now it makes more sense why Ikkaku looks so much more badass than the rest of the team.

I don't know about Ichigo though... I don't think he's limited for some reason. Same reason why Urahara, Yoruichi, and Isshin shouldn't have restrictions.

[RyougaZell]

Only active Captains and Vice-Captains are limited.
Since Urahara and Yorouichi (and probably Isshin) are 'rogue' they aren't limited.

Ichigo is a subtitute. Ikkaku, Yumichika and Rukia are seated shinigami (or level, in Rukia's case), so they aren't limited.

But yeah... the dolls messed up the fight.

[Kraco]

The seals seem to be visible, as well, at least when they are removed. So, in order for Ichigo to have one, they would have needed to tattoo it during the SS arc at some point. It would feel kind of strange if they now, afterwards, suddenly installed such a scene in some flashback, because certainly no scene like that was originally there.

On the other hand, Ichigo being such a loose cannon probably would need one more than some others... Though not during this fight. He'll probably have his hands full anyway fighting against Grimmjaw and trying to keep Rukia protected from further harm.

3000th post! OMG.

[Yukimura]

The Limit Break was cool, but echoing everyone else's points...Renji's bankai was amazingly useless. The way it was animated it revealed that his giant whip was actually a liability against a fast opponent. It makes sense that he couldn't do anything fast enough to hit Illforte when you consider it's size, but then Illforte mentioned that his bankai was pretty fast, which didn't make sense because it looked amazingly slow, go inconsistency!

Back to the limiters and bankai, I think that bankai is more of an ability than something that requires a certain amount of 'power' to use. Thus having less spiritual energy available would probably make using it effectively more difficult, but not activating it, as Shaolon commented.

[itadakimasu]

i didn't like watching renji, toshiro and matsumoto being pwnd because they had their power limited. only good part of the episode was when uryuu was tearing up that arrancar. when are they going to release another double episode!?!

[DB_Hunter]

That limit release at the end made things alot better. At least we know now that the shinigami were getting pwned because of something beyone their control.

I agree with everyone here who thinks Renji's Bankai was made to look useless. I was surprised when the arrancar flicked away his Shikai like it was nothing, especially after Ikkaku's fight with a completely sealed zanpaktou.

I don't think Ichigo is going to be sealed, simply because of not having a tatoo put on his body whilst in SS. I can still see them technically spinning it by saying his Shinigami representitve badge acts as a kind of seal when it gets Ichigo's spirit out of his body.

I really think now that after all this, Kisuke, Yorouchi, Isshin, Isshida and his dad are only going to come out and fight with the Espada. Same goes for Kenpachi. I hope that guy at least has his Shikai out by now.