I feel exactly the same way. It certainly is better than bad, but not particularly so.

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Ishida just came back and is half dead again, ALREADY, ahaha xD

I'm actually looking forward to the next chap wow
I mean it was actually kind of obvious for Ginjou since he was never really honest, or maybe it was just obvious? I actually thought wtf when he stayed on ichigo's side for so long.

But what I want to know is what's going to happen next? Shinigami? Hollow? Rukia? Magical girl coming out of magical world by magical hole?

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You know by this point, I would be relieved if there were a magical girl thrown in the mix. Maybe Yoruichi can fill that role. She can transform into a cat already and can shoot a wave motion beam from her palm, and her sidekick could be Ururu or Soi Fon.

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Im just hoping the arc ends soon and he goes back to being a Shinigami lol Screw the gay skelly costume.

I thought it was ginjo as well that stabbed Ishida earlier but then it did seem like it was Tsukishima.

Im hoping that Soul society notices this stuff and heads over to check it out or w/e.

Only thing i wanna know is Tsukishima and Ginjo together then? Also my answer to chad and them letting Tsukishma try and stab Ichigo is he told them something was wrong yaddy yadda yadda and only way to fix it was his fullbring blah blah blah.

Also last but not least WHY the hell does Ishida know everything unless he was affected and just happen to overhear whats really going on like he said but it sounded like he wasnt affected at all lol

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I had high hopes for this arc. I thought Bleach was back on the rise, but I'm really disappointed right now. I really hope it gets better...

...but my hopes are not high--I really hate the fullbring look as well, taking away his shinigami powers kinda took away part of what I had thought of as, so to speak, Bleach's "identity"

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Sweet! Now we know how to get everyone back. Come on, just another stab.

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"It is now time to leave-for me to die, and for you to live-though which of us has the better destiny is unclear to everyone, save only to God."
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Good twist, liked that one, didn't see it coming...

Come on... this arc isn't THAT bad... -_-'

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Ginjo is a total troll.

I'm a big sucker for twist endings, so I actually liked it a lot. I was beginning to honestly starting to like Ginjo a bit after all that Tsukishima-messing-with-yo-minds business, but maybe I should have remembered that Ginjo was all too suspicious from the first place - claiming that he'll help Ichigo get his powers back all of sudden. Suspicious.

But Ichigo needs to get rid of the ranger outfit. I don't approve. He needs to get the legit black shinigami costume back. It's not the same without it.

So his power works only from behind? what a pervert

Anyway I expect Ginjo to be evil and tsukihima to turn out to be the good guy, didn't expect to be both evil It's a conspiracy, I bet Ginjo wants Ichigo powers so he can became the main character of bleach(watched to much abridged series )

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I loved this chapter... but the question still remain... what was the point of having all of Ichigo<s friend and family turn against him...Orohime and Chad I understand that they can be useful in a fight but it was kind of useless to change all the other human that cant even fight... anyway I guess we will get more explication when Ginjou and Tsukishima reveal their plan

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What was the point?

To push Ichigo into a corner so that he only has one or two options to choose from as well as to mess up Ichigo's mind, making him less likely to use common sense. Also it divides him from everything he knows even more.

Its all mind games.

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I guess the whole thing was so that he would learn to trust Ginjou more now that he has nowhere else to turn to. Remember how Ginjou said that Ichigo deosn't even know first thing about Urahara in previous chapter, and how his dad is also a questionable character seeing he never come clean towards Ichigo about his past as a shinigami?

Nevertheless I bet we going to see involvement from Urahara, Ichigo's dad and probably Ishida Uryuu's dad regarding this matter. I'm not too sure about Uryuu's dad seeing how little he plays a hand in such crisis whenever there's trouble in previous chapter. Things have fallen out of hand, with Ichigo being blindsided by Ginjou and Ishida Uryuu incapacitated by Tsukishima. Ichigo's fullbring seems to be Ginjou's objective. Tsukishima? I don't know.. Seeing them working together, its gotta be something big. Next chapter could be the revelation about Ginjou/Tsukishima's objective. Ichigo fullbring is only a much needed leverage for their goal, whatever it is.

Double cross, triple cross, etc. What are we in a Gene Hackman movie??

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i want ichigo to go back to the way he was when he kicked aizens ass. when he put all his spirit energy into his physical strength. that was his coolest form.

it was awesome, but he didnt actually put his spirit energy into physical strength. That was an incorrect analyzation by Aizen. What happened was his power level was so strong and absolute that lower or inferior beings are unable to sense it. Just like regular humans cant detect hollows and how Isshin couldnt detect Aizen's power after he fused with the hogyuoku. I think its something similar to Ichigo obtaining a power similar to a God. (Not talking about a death god or shinigami, but a deity or an absolute and immortal being)