Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Manga Read: Bleach Chapter 376 to 382

In Bleach chapter 376, we see Aizen finished off Halibel as she tried to attack him back. Now he declares his move on the Gotei 13 as well as the vizards. How will the battle turn out?

Before we see that, the story turns to Mashiro's battle with Wonderweiss, who seems intent on fighting back no matter how many times Mashiro kicked him down. At the very last moment, Mashiro's hollow mask suddenly cracks, giving Wonderweiss a chance to smash her face.

Muguruma Kensei stepped in before Wonderweiss can defeat Mashiro completely.





From the picture above, you can see how impressive Kensei gets when he releases his bankai. How will the battle turn out? The next page changes the focus back to Aizen, who is now being confronted by both the Gotei 13 and the vizards.

He succeeded in taking down Hiyori who is unable to control herself and tried to attack Aizen. The chapter ends with a picture of Ichigo, as seen below.






Will Ichigo finally made his appearance after such a long absence? Not to worry. Kubo sensei finally rewards his fans with a long awaited appearance of Ichigo and he sure appeared in style. See the picture below.





Ichigo comes to Rukia's rescue amidst a whirl of smoke. How is cool is that? As Ichigo prepares for battle, he draws his opponent away from Rukia and starts getting serious in his battle.





However in chapter 379, something goes terribly wrong with Ichigo's hollowification and at the last crucial moment, he was unable to summon his mask out. He seemed on the verge of losing when unexpected help arrived in the form of Kuchiki Byakuya and Kenpachi Zaraki.

In chapter 380, Kenpachi is fighting off Yammy as the shinigamis persuade Ichigo to return to the human world. Being the stubborn guy that he is, Ichigo refused until Byakuya told him that as a representative shinigami of Karakura Town, he is obliged to go back and defend it. With that, we see Ichigo off below.





We see Ichigo travelling back to the human world together with Retsu Unohana, the captain of 4th division, in chapter 381. Here, Unohana warns Ichigo about Aizen's shikai and that he must never see it if he wants to defeat Aizen. That is the only condition in order to escape from the influence of Aizen's zanpakuto's power.

Again in chapter 382, we see the continuation of Ichigo's conversation with Unohana. However this time round, the talk is on Ichigo's reiatsu. All the while, Unohana thought that Ichigo's reiatsu is at captain's level with that half piece of shinigami clothing. However Ichigo said that it wasn't his full recovery so his shinigami clothes has yet to grow back fully. That said, Unohana realised that Ichigo could very well be their ultimate trump card after all.

Back in the battle against Yammy, Kenpachi has yet to defeat him fully but expects Byakuya to finish the job. They ended up quarrelling and forgot about their opponent. When Yammy ambushed them, Byakuya and Kenpachi retaliated and the combination can be seen below.





Poor Yammy. Faced with such a powerful attack from the two captain, will he finally succumbed to the battle? Let's onward to the next chapter.

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