Bleach Episode 57
Yet another exciting episode with several good fighting scenes. But the next episode is going to be SO MUCH BETTER!!!
Spoilers:
This episode delves into the past of Sui Fong and Yoruichi. It turns out Yoruichi was some princess of some really high clan and Sui Fong was from a clan that has sworn to protect Yoruichi. Sui Fong was an excellent student and Yoruichi even chooses her as her own bodyguard. Things were going really well, until one day when Yoruichi suddenly left without saying goodbye. So she’s been holding that grudge for over 100 years swearing to excel herself and be better than Yoruichi one day for betraying her. Don’t want to tell you how the fight ended, you can watch that for yourself.
One of the questions I always had was people in Soul Society seem to stop growing after a certain point. I’ve had this discussion with Liam before but we couldn’t really come up with an answer. The perfect example was shown in this episode with Sui Fong and Yoruichi. Yoruichi has not grown much at all from the flashbacks, however, Sui Fong had grown from a little girl to teenager, to her 20s now, maybe? Between the teenager look and the 20s look, over 100 years has past. Why did Yoruichi stop growing? Do they just grow slower once they reach past a certain age or do they fully stop?
The camera then zooms back to Ichigo and Byakuya. Neither is wounded at this point, but everyone in the court of souls is feeling their battle. Ichigo demands Byakuka to release his Bankai, but Byakuka replies that he’s 1000 years too early to be killed by his Bankai. Sound familiar? It’s exactly the same speach he gave to Renji before Renji made him fall on his knees. Welp, the episode ended there, but we’re finally going to see Ichigo’s Bankai vs Byakuya’s Bankai in the next episode!!!