Just got back from the theater early screening of Bleach TYBW S3 (first 3 episodes).
I’d say my favorite part is that Orihime actually got more screentime with some nice and cool moments against Yhwach.
As for the rest… Well it’s flashy, but it’s hard to pretend to ignore that besides Askin going down, there was no progress at all on the 3 other fights since the antagonists in this arc are just full of hacks that makes them invincible and unscathed even when they get wounded.
Gerard just sucks all around both as a character and as an antagonist. He’s both a tank that also regens stronger and with no interesting personality. The fact that he’s the heart of the soul king sounds very interesting but it doesn’t even remotely becomes relevant beyond making him an annoying unkillable super goon.
Jugram & Ywach just spam CGI black goo non stop.
Looking back Askin died oddly easily. If all it took if pierce his torso and destroy his heart, surely Yoruichi could do it earlier? No way her cat mode is weaker than Grimmjow. Askin is one of the more interesting antags of the arc but god damn does he yap too much. At the end of the day his power is just another hack that mostly only get countered because Yoruichi & Urahara conveniently have powerups that counters it until Askin goes nuhu my hack can get hackier. Which adds all the more confusion to the fact he just dies by ramming your arm into his heart? They couldn’t do it earlier?
Urahara’s bankai got more screentime, that was nice. Kinda wish it involved giant lady puppet though, so she’s just here for aura.
The Vizards got a new scene. It sucked. They didn’t do anything new and it didn’t matter at all. Love STILL refuses to use his bankai somehow.
I’m reminded of how much I have issues with the fights of this arc due to how much it relies on courtyard level ”NUHU I actually happen to have a power that cancels/bypass your power!” Backs and forths when they aren’t just straight invincible.
I can tell the Anime staff tries hard to make the fights flashy and impressive but due to the initial script’s restrictions it falls a little flat at times and can feel repetitive or padding, despite the fact the pacing is intense in theory.
There is a making-of at the end, I got slightly annoyed that it didn’t even remotely talk about the new scenes of Orihime ngl since, again, it felt like the nicest additions of the batch.
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