So, Tsukishima is now using his powers to just find out Byakuya's techniques? Has he done this with everyone else and we just didn't see it? Seems kind of stupid if he has...he can apparently put himself into anyone's past and put himself into the story...so why would he bother to learn their techniques? Does it not work on shinigami (and Tite just forgot to tell us, of course)?

Also, Riruka seems a little darker than before. I thought she wasn't interested in fighting anybody.

Is it only me or does Byakuya really look better (well...different for sure at least lol)?

Sorry, a bit of topic, but I couldn't help myself lol

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agreed...but we are talking about titie here. you never know what he thinks *shrugs*

makes no sense, why not just make him his friend as with everyone else instead of this waste of time crap, just to artificially extend the arc and give byakuya a chance of winning now. Also does anyone see the similarity between byakuya's weakness and Neji's weakness from naruto? one narrow spot of no defense in an absolute defense technique.

Am i the only one who thinks byakuya is badass for keeping his composure even though bookmark guy knows all his techniques?. I think byakuya might just create a whole new technique during the fight and pwn bookmark dude. He is just that badass.

So....Tsukishima or whatever the morons name is knows all of Byakuyas weaknesses....that doesn't mean that he can (and it shouldn't mean since they said they'd all been training with the aim to beat Aizen) keep up with any of the attacks.

This chapter was stupid...just because you know something's coming doesn't mean you can block it.

And wtf is up with Rukia blocking a mysterious incoming object with her bare forearm? Seriously?

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It ain't a Kubo manga if it doesn't artificially extend the plot by making certain characters hold the idiot ball...

By the way, this reminds of how Yukio acted EXACTLY like Barragan. Both of them had very broken powers that could easily kill their opponents, but Kubo sees that he wrote himself in a corner, so he decides to make them too damn overconfident and stupid to actually kill the enemy.

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Did anyone else think that the cover page was false advertising?

good grief - these short pointless bleach chapters r worse than DBZ episodes

I actually enjoyed the chapter, even thought it might just be because my state of mind is not 100%T these days. Anyway, I'm kinda dissapointed in Riruka, but then again, I had been thinking that maybe the "quiet" ones ( I know she's far from quiet, but you know what I mean) are the worst and that maybe she'd turned out to be 'traitor' after all.

First with the start of a really annoying arc...
Then appear all of the bad asses from soul society...
But when you could finally see a ray of hope...chapter 469 happens...
I hope this whole thing has a point or something, because I´m rally considering stop reading Bleach altogether....But if I haven´t stop 8 months ago, why stop now?....

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Sorry, I just remembered this....

Does anyone else recall Tite saying that there would be two more arcs in Bleach, a short training arc and a longer finale? I know that I read it somewhere. Seems like Dr. Love posted an interview or something like that.

Anyways, where does this fall? Are we still training? Is this all just a ploy to get Ichigo's powers back to full strength and to teach him to control his emotions? With Tsukishima pointlessly extending his battle with Byakuya, it doesn't really feel like a "short" training arc to me anymore. Thoughts?

agreed..but at least DBZ is better than bleach when bleach is like this right now.