Bleach Episode 56
Just as I predicted, many fronts have been opened and this is going to be a long battle taking up many many episodes. I’m guessing it’ll be somewhat equivalent to Naruto when Orochimaru attached Konoha village where you have Sarutobi fighting Orochimaru, Naruto fighting Gara, that bald headed guy fighting off the snakes, Kakashi against Orochimaru’s right hand man (the guy with glasses), and the others trying to take the villagers to their safe hidden hideout. This episode was exciting nonetheless, well for the latter half. If you want to know why, continue onto my spoilers.
Spoilers:
So the anime continues with the 1st Captain’s battle with the 8th and 13th Captains. Nothing really much happens on this front. The 2 students however did not want to fight their teacher, but finally gave in and called out their soul slayers. Turns out these 2 captains were the only captains in the Court of Pure Souls to have soul slayers which consisted of 2 swords. The scene ends with them crashing into each other and that was half the episode. You then get to see the Shiba sister meet Jidanbou and asking him to come with her to find Yoroichi.
Half time credits go up.
Then we go into the good stuff. The latter half was completely fighting between Yoroichi and Sui Fong. Yoroichi was the former head of mobile corps, while after her disappearance, Sui Fong became the successor. The battle was intense and it looked like Sui Fong had the upperhand, until both of the busted out a new move, which we’ll have to wait till next episode to see.
So the fronts I’ve noticed so far include:
- Ichigo vs Byakuya
- Yoroichi vs Sui Fong
- 1st Captain vs 8th and 13th Captain
- Shiba sister and Jibanbou vs ???
- Renji and Rukia vs ???
- Kenpachi vs ???
- Kenpachi’s pink hair lieutenant vs ???