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Ok, so we're halfway thru the Mt Sierra Summer Break, and I'm finally taking a break from movies and Mafia Wars to actually type this crap out.

[Note: I will also hunt down anyone who goes by Don Dochakka, although, gotta admit it's more fitting as he duz speak w/ a Yakuza accent]

But FIRST OFF, I wanna say, that if you keep up w/ the Bleach TV listings on ANN

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4240&page=25

Then you should note that ep 228 for July 14 is tittled: Summer! Sea! Swimsuit Festival!!

Wooo hooo!! @_@!!!!  I CAN'T FRIGGIN' WAIT!!!  >;-)P

Let's see, as for the ep itself: Rangiku faces against 3 Fraccion bitches who do a chimera thang, and her captn's g/f comes back.

It's a helluvallotta more dramatically intense to watch.

Anywhich, I'm gonna watch ep 225 and post a review right afterwards.

Basically a continuation of the battles of the Captn & Lt of the Covert Ops Squad.  And their respective oppoenents transform into their Resureccion  forms.

I kept wunderin' WTF Soi Fon wuz doin' pussy-footin'round the whole time, and if her Lt was trying to talk his opponent to death.  Mebbe sumwun who's kept up w/ the scanlations could 'splain that?

Anywhich, that's it for now.

--YHS

Well... dunno what else to write here. 

LET THE MAJOR BATTLES BEGIN!

We KNOW these battles're gonna be long and drawn out.  Not a lot is gonna be resolved in one 20+odd minute episode, so that we're gonna have a series of cliff-hanger's is soooo totally to be expected.  Surpraaz surpraaz.

So, just sit back an' enjoy'em.

Guess I'll just post a lil' commentary where I deem...at least interesting.

Ja matta na. -- YHS

Ok, so I've been hella b-z w/ school and finally found time to watch some anime.  Also had to read my own review to remind me where I left off.... ;-)p

Oh, did I also mention that wunnuv the reasons I enjoy watching the opening & ending themes of anime series izzat you can tell which season/story-arc you're watching by them?  Hrmmmm?

Anywhich, I'm just gonna go thru each ep review as I see fit.

Ep 218 - Kira, The Battle Within Despair

Yumichika finishes his fight w/ the gawd-awful tranny arrancar.  We see summuv Lt. Hisagi's fight, and summuv Ikkaku's fight.  And Lt. Kira finishes his fight, and also explains 3rd Division's philosophy on fighting.  [DO NOT get me wrong, this battle's ending scene definitely gits high marks for drama.  @_@] [Btw, there's a scene where Lt. Kira says...well the subtitle says "Thank you" but he really says, "Tasukata" which more literally translates "You saved me," and in this case could prolly mean more specifically, "You saved me alotta trouble." See, that's what you call nuance... and if you don't know that word, lookit up. >;-]

Omake for this episode is weird, and something I'm gonna hafta remember to ask wunnuv my Nihonjin peepz about in the future sometime.


Ep 219 - Hisagi's Shikai! The Name is...

Btw, I also find the subber comments in the OP theme amusing.

Let's see, after the usual previous ep recap, it's Lt. Hisagi's turn to take down wunnuv the Fraccion, the lobster d00d, and he does so revealing summuv his own fighting philosophy, specfically how one should wield one's sword.  But the ep, ends inna major plot-complicating cliff-hanger.

So be sure to hold onto yer seats, folks.


Ep 220 - Ikkaku Falls! The Shinigami's Crisis

Let's see, a Captain has to intervene, emergency measures are taken, and Ikkaku learns a costly lesson.  Aforementioned Captain kix serious ass, and the show has an Arrancar Encyclopedia omake.

That's it for now.

Ja, matta na. -- YHS