Hanatarou leads Ichigo and Ganju closer to the Shrine of Penitence through some underground tunnels that are familiar to the 4th squad. During their travels, Hanatarou tells a few stories of how he was assigned to clean Rukia’s cell and how he always wanted to hear Rukia’s stories about the living world and about [...]
Continuing where we left off last time, Ishida and Jiroubou faced off in a battle of smack talk, but Ishida proved that less talk is more as he easily took out Jiroubou’s projectiles with ease and injured his left hand. Defeated, Jiroubou tries to take a cheap shot at Orihime, but Ishida shows of [...]
After defeating Ikkaku, Ichigo goes around to try and find the others, but the maze-like structure of the Court of Pure Souls drives him nuts and finally drives Ichigo to yell out to see if he can get Ganju to shoot up a firework to locate him. Unfortunately, Ichigo didn’t think of the fact [...]
After managing to bust through the spirit shielding surrounding the Death God Court, Ichigo and the gang find themselves separated very quick due to the explosion of their spirit cannonball. Chad and Yoruichi find themselves fending for themselves while Ichigo/Ganju and Orihime/Ishida are paired up in their fiery decent. For the first time, [...]
With Ichigo finally mastering the ability to channel his energy to make a cannonball, team Ichigo is now ready to make their assault onto the Court of Pure Souls. In the last minute, Ganju also declares that he will be joining the group. He tells Ichigo about the story of his older brother [...]
With Ganju and his minions out of the way, the Ichigo and the gang finally make their way to meet the mysterious Shiba Kuuakaku. However, it took Ichigo some convincing since he felt there was still some unfinished business with Genji, but Yoruichi makes quick effort of convincing Ichigo as you will see :P [...]
After defeating Jidanbou, it looks as if Ichigo and the gang were just going to waltz into the Death God’s home turf and bring Rukia home. However, Ichimaru Gin, the always smiling 3rd Squad Captain of the Death Gods, awaited them just as Jidanbou opened the gates. With just a few attacks, Gin [...]
Having passed lesson 2 and regained his death god form, Ichigo now progresses to lesson 3 which is to get past Urahara’s defense and knock off his hat. However, this proves rather difficult as Ichigo only has like 1/50th of a blade to work with, and Urahaha summons his own soul slayer to show [...]
Yoruichi tries her best to help bring the Hollow-fighting spirits out of Orihime and Chad with little success at first. However, after some concentrated effort, Orihime does manages to gain her powers from the 6 Flowers of the Hibiscus Shield, but one member, Tsubaki, seems rather disgruntled after being called upon for no reason, [...]
Devoid of his Death God powers, Ichigo start training with Urahara in his seemingly endless basement. Ichigo’s first task: Land a blow on little Ururu, which seems like a ridiculous task at first. Seriously, who wants to fight such a cute little girl? But Ururu shows that she’s not just some skinny [...]
Having Ichigo seemingly beaten, Renji goes for the kill, but Rukia jumps in and tries to delay the inevitable. Out of nowhere, Ichigo summons his huge spirit powers to heal his wounds and gain an extra boost of speed. All of a sudden, the tables are turned and Renji looks as if he’s [...]
Rukia finally decides the best course of action to keep her friends out of danger is to run away by herself, but she quickly finds herself pursued by some elite Death Gods from the Kuchiki school of Death Gods. Abarai Renji and Byakuya, the supposed head of the school, finally catch up to Rukia, [...]
Although there were moments of seriousness, this was the Kon Special episode :P Kon felt out of place staying at Ichigo’s room, so he decides to go out into the real world to find his own best(u) place. Unfortunately, it’s hard being a talking stuffed animal as you just had to feel for [...]
