Bleach

Horn of Salvation:

• Heh, I don't blame Orihime for having a few hang-ups from the last time Hollow Ichigo appeared. But now she can be at ease.
• A good amount of double pages this time. Kinda liked Ichigo's Getsuga Cero.

Fave panels

Calm Reassurance◊
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Fury of the Crescent Moon◊

Ah, I truly thought it was a Getsuga/Gran Rey combination.

edited 3rd Jun '16 6:21:33 PM by Diamite

Isn't that his Gran Rey Cero though; looks like he's using Zangetsu as the second horn to charge it.

Yeah, that was a good callback. He even used Gran Rey Cero the same way.

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Kubo's one of those guys with a plushie collection isn't he

That might be the sickest burn ever delivered in this thread

I like Ichigo's new form. Except the horn. Asymmetry pisses me off. Pisses me off real good.

edited 7th Jun '16 4:26:45 AM by Cruherrx

Right after anything I ever said about Whorihime, anyway.

Yeah, the asymmetry in the horn bugged me too. I normally don't mind asymmetry, but the horn is such a big part of his face that it looks so off. But I still think it looks cool with one horn. But so off.

That kind of reaction might be intentional. It makes the form look incomplete.

Sad he doesn't have his hollow teeth.

But then he'd need to get fillings, and they can be very expensive.

The blood on his mouth is in said shape tho.

I think Ichigo should also use some Fullbrin-

New chapter:

At this point, I'm wondering if this manga has gone into Stealth Parody at this point, considering how Ywach stated that he can see the future, he means every possible future, which is downright broken even by most Future Sight standards. At least next chap is Bankai time for Ichigo again.

edited 9th Jun '16 4:09:03 AM by Demongodofchaos2

[ Only thing that mattered is that Bankai is back

I like how every Bleach villain goes into a cool speech in the middle of a fight. That might be Yhwach's second best one thus far.

Stealth parody because Kubo created a powerful ability? That logic train is eluding me.

When your ability is so broken that there's no possible way for your protagonist to win, but he somehow he will anyway, yes, it is.

Since you're in the future and have already seen how Yhwach loses, could you also do me a solid give me the lottery numbers?

This is just like before...

Yhwach: "I am invincible!"

"Oh my god he must be literally invincible!!"

Despite what Yhwach has just said, Ichigo's own train of thought still stands. Yhwach's ability clearly isn't perfect for him to be using it the way he is.

Right now I'm thinking Ichigo probably won't be winning this fight, it's moving forward too quickly (with everything else that still needs to be resolved) and he's already using his Bankai. But Yhwach still isn't invincible here.

The most obvious thing would be for Isshin to end up on this battlefield, and Ryuken to assist Uryu, but I don't know how that would play out.

I think it's currently a given that Ichigo can't win without some kind of deus ex machina coming in to help him. I can't help but feel his new bankai is his last real hope to win on his own merit.

edited 9th Jun '16 6:20:38 AM by sgamer82

Hmm. This is actually one of those abilities that's so strong it flips back over to being useless. Because he doesn't know which 'grain of sand' Ichigo will choose. To accurately predict how things will go is finding a needle in a haystack- or, to use Yhwach's own metaphor, finding a single grain of sand on a beach.

Future sight with this much breadth isn't much stronger than having no future sight at all. Especially since this means he's also distracted by how things would've gone in futures Ichigo didn't choose. Indeed, you'd have to very careful when using this ability to avoid getting paralyzed by sensory overload, like what happened to Szayel. Which probably means he doesn't see the future in much detail either, unless he chooses to focus on one place and time to the exclusion of all else.

edited 9th Jun '16 8:36:03 AM by Gilphon

Yhwach doesn't seem to be struggling too much right now considering he is seeing every possible future.

Just see Garnet from Steven Universe to see how this exact power works.

It's really useful but, at the same time, kinda useless.

It feels like half the fights this arc have been:

1) Ha! I have a broken power that makes me literally invincible!

2) Oh yeah? Well, as it happens, I happen to have a different power that just happens to counteract your broken power, so die!

3) Oh no! Aaaugh! Just kidding, I have a power upgrade that just happens to counteract the power that you used to counteract my broken power from before! Now, I'm extra invincible!

4) Not so fast. I, character #3, have just arrived, and I have a DIFFERENT power that counteracts your new, extra-broken power!

5) And so on.

I assume this fight will play out like the others.

edited 9th Jun '16 11:54:56 AM by Cheshire

Seeing how nothing either Ichigo or Yhwach has done has been made to specifically to counter to either I doubt that.

Also, I fail to see how this makes Yhwach's "The All Mighty" more "overpowered". We already knew he could see into the future, now we just now that he can see into all "possible" futures, something I assume Haschwalth can't do.

It's an interesting bit of insight but it doesn't really change things.