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What the heck is causing that? Geothermal? So it wasn't a weapon?

Consciousness nearby? The forcefield is still an issue? I thought no one else has made it this far (except that party from the past.) Guess I was thinking of a different level.

Pretty epic ruins. Did the OP play last week? It's awesome. I didn't think you could send up balloons past this point.

Just stopped by Walmart for ethernet cables, and the stockers were listening to this song! Didn't know they were allowed to listen to music. Bleach is BACK, baby!

Ep 5 - It is pretty cool that this series is using chapter titles for episode titles. I don't think the first series even gave titles to episodes, for whatever reason. I don't remember As Nodt talking this much in the manga? But maybe I am remembering wrong. All those flies crawling on Byakuya was so creepy! Yeah, having to fight against your own Bankai really isn't fair. Wow, still kept the image of the decayed Rukia during the Fear montage intact, with all its gory detail! That was the second time Renji got stopped from using his Bankai haha. But Mask de Masculine messed up, he could have stolen it! Interesting. I don't think we ever saw who Rukia was fighting in the manga. She shouldn't have turned her back on her opponent, though! It's unexpected that Quilge's Jail power remains in effect even after Quilge got split on two. Man, if you guys really need Ichigo to save all of you, you are pitiful! Good to see we still got the flashback to younger Yamamoto and Sasakibe. Sasakibe gave Yamamoto the second scar after sparring with his Bankai, but I wonder how he got the first scar. Yamamoto not having any of it from "The Overkill!" Everyone getting motivated by Yamamoto kicking ass on the battlefield. Too bad so many Soul Reapers have already fallen. I think the short explanations for how Kenpachi beat those three Stern Ritters was new. So, we got to see their powers, and how he beat them. Pretty cool. I hope no one skipped the credits, because there was a pretty important scene of Yamamoto confronting Bach after he defeated Kenpachi (still off-screen, unless it gets shown next week.) We heard the name spoken for the first time, and Yamamoto clearly called him "Juha Bach." But the subtitles said "Ywach." *throws arms up*

This is a prank, right? Right?

Oh I never about that. That information must not have been made public at the time? Oh I didn't get that, but you may be right that David Lodge is being passive aggressive. He's put that tweet out there, so now if we don't hear him as Kenpachi in Thousand Year Blood War Arc, Viz will look like the "bad guys." Yeah it may be too late, if we haven't already heard anything. In any case, Kenpachi appears pretty shortly, not sure if he had any lines until the last episode, but, we'll be finding out who is playing Kenpachi. Yes, like I said, if Lodge isn't brought back, I hope someone else plays Kenpachi. And since the big lobby by fans is for Lodge to return, there probably isn't a big push for Seitz and fans won't be upset if he isn't used either. Yeah, I hope Wendee Lee sticks with her desire to return, as you said. ~ As to Todd Haberkorn, my recollection of what happened is the same as Poke's. It was a pretty muddy situation with not enough evidence to support either side, but Todd seemed to handle the situation better than Vic, and the whole situation died down after a while. Todd also didn't have dozens of other accusers coming out against him after Jesse Pridemore. Todd didn't get canceled, and he continued to do work, for anime, YouTube videos, and probably other stuff. My issue is that he's not suited to play Ikkaku at all. Ikkaku is supposed to have a more badass voice that Todd certainly struggles to even attempt to do. What is going on with Quinton Flynn?

Yes, and Chad's partial Mexican heritage is a big part of his character and backstory. Kubo even went as far as to make Chad's heritage his Fullbring item, which has to be a special possession to the given character. My view was that, despite the names, Soul Society is meant to be multi-ethnic. There are some characters with blonde hair, like Shinji or Rangiku (hers is strawberry blonde, actually) or Yoruichi who has dark skin (then again, her hair is purple.) It's like Naruto. Some characters have European features, like Naruto and his parents, the Uchihas seem to be Japanese, some of the Cloud Ninja are black, Tenten seems to be Chinese. I guess the Hyuugas would be a fictional ethnicity, like the Ishvalens. I even had the theory that when people die in the Seireitei's area of jurisdiction (seems to be Japan or at least east Asia,) they might be given Japanese names, regardless of their ethnicity. Then again, some characters were "born" in the Soul Society, which never made much sense to me, since everyone there are Souls. All we know about Yoruichi's heritage was that she is a member of one of the Soul Society's noble families, so she would've been born there, which I guess wouldn't be affected by that theory regardless. Though I may be overthinking it, and maybe Kubo didn't even think about it this much, haha.

I've been looking over the voice cast for the original Bleach series some more. A lot more characters were recast than I realized. As far as Laura Bailey goes, the character I mentioned that she might consider stepping down from, for the same reason that Jamieson Price did, will not make that much of a difference. I looked back at the Bleach wiki, and unless this character's role in the anime is expanded greatly beyond that of the manga, she will only be in like one episode and get a handful of lines. However, I also discovered that Laura Bailey was the second voice of Hiyori, taking over from Lara Cody at episode 206. I have to say I don't recall a drastic change in the voice at all. ANN also says a VA named Mela Lee played Hiyori, but doesn't say which episodes. So, it would be more important for Laura Bailey to come back as Hiyori, but if she doesn't, the character has already had three voice actors at this point, it won't be the end of the world. Komamura's voice changed, which I had no idea about. Kim Strauss was replaced by JB Blanc from episode 96 onward. Kim Strauss was also the original voice for Kaien (talk about range,) who Dave Mallow took over the role for when Kaien "returned" with that Espada using his body. I wondered why Kaien was recast if Kim Strauss was in the same show playing Komamura, but given Komamura was recast earlier, it would seem Kim Strauss was eliminated from the show entirely for some reason. I don't know if anyone was here or remembers, but Dave Mallow actually came on the ASMB to talk with fans when those episodes were playing, to see how people reacted to his performance. I remember him doing a good job as Kaien and being pretty cool on the boards. Patrick Seitz had also come on the boards to the Other Anime section, when Sci-Fi was playing Monster, and was pretty cool. I wouldn't be surprised if some other voice actors stopped by the boards, but didn't say who they were, or lurked. There might also have been some others that showed up that I'm forgetting about. Of course, we all know that the original Urahara voice actor, Michael Lindsay, was replaced by Doug Erholtz, who did an impeccable job, after Michael Lindsay unfortunately passed away. Wait, no, it says here that Michael Lindsay passed away in 2019, way after he was recast and way after the Bleach dub finished airing. I could've sworn he was replaced as Urahara because he died. That is weird. Did I get Mandela Effected? Oh, Travis Willingham is not playing Akon anymore, but I don't know if anyone cares about that. I see he also played Love Aikawa and Charlotte Cuulhorne. Talk about range. But wow, him doing the Charlotte voice would not fly in this day and age, would it? I can see Love being recast, and I probably wouldn't care. That is, if Travis Willingham's return is in the cards at all. He has not done an anime since 2019 either. By the way, did you guys know there's a friggin LITTLE WOMEN anime? Some of the older Bleach voice actors were in it. Anyway, it seems that a lot of Bleach characters were recast, a lot more than maybe some of us realized. I would say some characters are more important to have their original VAs return than others, and Yoruichi is definitely one of them.

I don't assume that just because the other show added was a rerun, that Made in Abyss cost so much they couldn't get a second show. It's more like they failed to get whatever new show for that slot on time. I am hoping and and giving the benefit of the doubt that MHA reruns are being used to buy time for Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War, My Hero Academia Season 6, or whatever else. Otherwise it makes no sense to put MHA reruns first, plus they didn't start it at the beginning of the season. But, if Made in Abyss was that expensive, at least it was money well spent. Yeah, those are some good points. Probably the same reason why some canon content gets done as OVAs as well. Try to adapt whatever you can. Eh, I'm fine with having less gore (hard to imagine it being worse,) and no child nudity. Lol.

Yeah, Chad typically doesn't get a lot of screen time, and doesn't say much when he does haha. Yeah, I really hope that doesn't happen. I looked up Wendee Lee and she is still doing anime voice work as of this year. She was the demon Jyoka in Yashahime, in fact. So she doesn't even have to come out of retirement for it or anything. I really don't want someone else besides her playing Yoruichi. Edit - I found this tweet by Wendee Lee. At least it seems like she doesn't want to step down. Yes, definitely. I don't even know what the situation is with David Lodge and Viz. We were given no explanation on the recasting when it happened. David Lodge posted this, saying he would like to return. I don't know if Viz has reached out or not. If David Lodge isn't brought back, I hope they don't have Patrick Seitz do it again, and get someone else. As ridiculous as it sounds to say, not even Patrick Seitz apparently was badass enough to play Kenpachi right! It just didn't sound right at all!

Fuck him.

Whoops! Yep, this episode had manga content alright! And chapter 666 no less. 🤣 Anime Filler List, you dun goofed!

So you'd rather had Food Wars instead? I guess it's technically better since it's not a rerun... >_> Well it wouldn't have been a problem if they weren't turned into movies in the first place. But yeah, you're probably right. If I ever get around to watching Demon Slayer season 2 (it's apparently untouchable to Toonami,) I'd probably skip those episodes. What was even worse was Dragon Ball Super re-animating those two movies for the first two arcs... TERRIBLY. Though I still don't get why Demarco was able to get the season from Sentai, but not the movie. People just watching on Toonami are going to be so lost. It doesn't help that Toonami and the show itself make no mention of any movie that preceded the events of the first episode.

What is Guy doing?

He thought it was White Fang until Kakashi said he was his son. That's when when he said what you just said

Ok, unless this part gets replayed next week, you can't just skip this episode. I guess we can't trust Anime Filler List after all. 😅

Hmm a tease of canon lol.

Why would this dumbass think the White Fang is a kid?

We're replaying the flashback in the middle of it. I'm not sure if that was the beginning of the fight, but yeah, haha.

Now we are replaying the last mission of Kakashi and Obito yet again?

The Leaf villagers are shitty, and so are the village rules.

I don't see why such numbers are even financially feasible and sustainable, or legal. It's like Monopoly money at that point. So stupid.

Can't believe I never noticed before that Tony Oliver plays Minato. I didn't notice until he appeared again when Lupin was still airing. The two voices sound almost completely different, but I noticed a slight subtle similarity.

BOTH of them were fake?! And sent Minato and his team as a diversion...