Time to catch up on some anime postings. 62 was out a long while ago and 63 is a 1 hour special that I just watched today. Apparently they took a break, and quite well deserved. Thankfully I had my own share of unwatched stuff to catch up on. Did you hear? 24 – Season Five just aired last night! Anyway, back to Bleach!
Episode 62 left us off with a cliffhanger. Several weeks later, 63 comes out and sort of concludes this little arc. Even though 63 was an 1hr special, half of it was reshowing of the great fights earlier. I was sad originally thinking this was an hour of recaps. But thank god I was wrong! The 2nd half consisted of totally new material: funny, sappy, and emotional, but I like that kind of stuff. The funniest part (don’t worry, it won’t spoil anything) was when Hitsugaya startled Matsumoto:
Matsumoto Rangiku: *SHRIEK* You startled me so much, they nearly fell out!
Hitsugaya Toushirou: What did?
Matsumoto Rangiku: My breasts, like this…
Hitsugaya Toushirou: You didn’t need to demonstrate!
Bleach Epiosde 62
Bleach Episode 63
Spoilers:
It’s been awhile, but my memory is weak regarding episode 62. We already learnt that Rukia contained the key element to merge the power of soul slayers with Hollows. In this episode, Aizen uses some weird sorcery and takes the element out of Rukia. At this point, I’m not even too sure if Rukia still has spiritual power or not, since it seemed that it was that element that gave her the power initially. All the other captains show up and even have them underneath their swords, but suddenly Aizen calls upon the power of the Hollow and they are teleported or taken up into the Hollow world and once that transaction is initiated, there’s no stopping it. So Aizen, Gin, and that blind guy escapes.
The rest of that episode was about healing people. A big chunk of that was Byakuya giving the entire explanation on why he was stern on following the laws. Apparently, Byakuya was married. His wife was Rukia’s sister, but she had died young. In her deathbed, she begged Byakuya to find her sister and take care of her and he promised. Because Byakuya was from a noble family, taking in Rukia’s sister was forbidden since she was a Rukongai, and outsider. But he broke the law once to marry her and had to break the law once more to take in Rukia. So swore on his parents’ grave that he would never break the laws again and be the upholder of them. When Rukia was caught, he was in a conundrum. On one hand, Rukia had broken a law punishable by death and he had promised to uphold every law and rule. On the other hand, he had promised Rukia’s sister to take care of her. Obviously he had chosen to uphold the law of Soul Society.
In episode 63, as I mentioned earlier, the 1st half of it was recaps of the major fights and battles. The 2nd half was just random cute stuff. Ishida (the Quincy bow guy) if you’ve forgotten about him apparently made new clothing, all a bit different from the originals, for the main characters. I wonder why he didn’t make one for Ichigo though. Kenpachi is after Ichigo again for another fight. Rukia disappears and Ichigo and Inoue go off looking for her. Rukia apparently went to apologize to the Shiba clan for killing Kaien. The sister already knew about it and decided that if Rukia ever came to apologize, she would forgive her. Ichigo and Inoue show up and they all have dinner together.
Ichigo and the rest were leaving Soul Society the following day and Rukia decides to stay. Ichigo honors that decision as long as it was her own. Before they left, Ukitake Jyuushiro gives Ichigo a pendant which legally allows him to transform into Shinigami (Death Gods) any time. He said it was a token of appreciation, although this was hardly enough to thank him for what he’s done. As they leave Soul Society, Urahara Kisuke was ready on the other side to catch them. Urahara Kisuke thanks and apologizes to Ichigo for partially hiding the truth from him. Ichigo says the person he also needs to apologize to is Rukia. Urahara Kisuke takes all of them home on a flying carpet, but Ichigo stops by at the river where his mother was killed and just stares off. The episode ends like that with an interesting preview. Aizen and them seem to be out of the picture for awhile while this new arc develops.