Karakura Town

That is true.

Yeah, because even with the fight for Karakura Town, it's almost like... not to say that he's giving up but he i guess because he's so smart he picks his battles it's probably a better

thing to say i suppose that and i suppose that's why he's one of uh um uh like special like war powers yeah because he has it he has the a bit like that's i think that that's what is actually said in the episode and in the manga is that like the reason that he's on the list isn't because of his strength is his it's for his like adaptability to make outcomes happen

yeah yeah so um oh before i forget i

Um, but it, I don't know.

It's sometimes it feels like they just pop up for like, a pop from me as a fan and then they just get slapped around

I think it's generally speaking I get that I do get that feeling but it does feel like it's kind of like this really very much displays how well well prepared the Quincy army was prepared for everyone because they knew they obviously knew of their holification they knew all of this and they kind of like knew how to camera bet and like I feel like this is a good way for like a story to show that because we obviously we've already seen them getting slapped down by Aizen in the battle for Karakura town you know They were shown to be, they were shown to be incredibly powerful and incredibly capable.

But when faced with Aizen, they were cut down like real quick.

So that's crumbled, and he starts creating, like, these eyeball domes.

And so the eyeball domes suck in Ichigo and everybody, and then it goes Back into Karakura Town, where we see everybody, like, jumping the Hollows, Tatsuki's there, and we see Ikkaku's sister kill a Hollow.

Then we see Ryunosuke, he comes in, finish him off, which I love that this brings it back down to, like, you know, Hollows are still a threat to the regular Soul Reaper, you know? Like, we're so used to seeing the godly characters, like Kenpachi, Ichigo, and all them, where they just tear through, like, a bajillion of them.

But, like, the regular Soul Reapers, they're still doing team tactics to take them down.

Full of farming, as always.

Mm-hmm

... is standing in the Karakura Town.

And then we also go over to Hueco Mundo, which this is the part where I'm saying, "How the fuck are these people getting everywhere?" Uh-

Two done, still 16 left to go, and let's continue with true substitute Shinigami form.

At this point, Ichigo had been operating as a substitute Shinigami for a while, taking on hollows around Karakura Town and slowly getting more comfortable in his role.

Even though he was fighting with borrowed power, Ichigo was handling threats better than even some Shinigami lieutenants.

However, Ichigo's true potential as a Shinigami wasn't really brought out until Rukia's older brother, Byakuya, destroyed the tip of his blade and basically left Ichigo to die in a puddle of his own blood.

You see, after this battle, Ichigo found it increasingly harder to fend off the Arrancar's Aizen sent after him and his friends.

This led to Ichigo's holo mask appearing more and more often.

Things started to get messy when Ukihara and Yami showed up in Karakura Town.

Here, Ichigo engaged in a fight against Yami and even managed to cut off his arm.

Uryu, Chad, and Orihime would then respond to the hollow problems and go and help.

Then at the beginning of the Thousand Year Blood War, when Ichigo and his group arrived to help the new Soul Reapers in Karakura Town, Orihime shows up.

She's one of the people that is fighting off the hollows, but she focuses also on the healing of the Soul Reapers as they had been injured.

And so her death is pretty hard for this series.

It, it, it reminded me of watching Ichigo get his powers.

It, it, it brought me back to Karakura Town and pretty much her teaching Ichigo how to fight.

Miles is funny, bro.

[laughs] We'll talk, we'll talk about that in a second.