BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity #45: What Fans Are Saying

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HOOK. Rukia's here! So glad we got reinforcements!

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Wait… I've read the manga, so why is this a totally unfamiliar sequence…? I was glued to the screen and now I've got goosebumps everywhere… Is this really gonna end the same way as the source material…?

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Um, excuse me, what is actually happening here? Someone please explain, the entire 30 minutes wasn't in the manga and since when did Orihime have enough secret power to go toe-to-toe with Yhwach

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No way, you're kidding. Do I seriously have to wait a whole damn week to find out what happens next!? Never thought I'd experience the classic "waiting a week for BLEACH to drop" panic in the Reiwa era.

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Well, at least they actually made it believable enough for Ichigo to feel like it's totally hopeless… Anime-original Bankai, Orihime, and me. This is gonna break our hearts even harder than the manga did.

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Wait~ I thought Orihime just busted out some crazy strong move, but she literally vanished like a kamikaze attack! For real?! Did Orihime just die? That wasn't in the manga, right?! What is going on?!

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Bro wtf, my brain is literally refusing to process this sheer amount of anime-original lore. It's so insane I had goosebumps the whole time. Absolute peak BLEACH delivering the goods right in the final battle.

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Why couldn't Yhwach foresee it? Why didn't he dodge? Was it arrogance, complacency, or… I honestly thought this whole fight depended on Orihime, but damn, not like this.

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Ohhhh, right… in the manga it was the reverse-hollowfication style so the Bankai shape was different, but since the anime has the horns fully out, the Bankai changed to match… Makes total sense, except I have no clue what's going on.

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Damn, combined with those totally unreadable recap eye-catches, this is the most aesthetic Bankai ever… What even is that, Eclipse Getsuga Tensho?

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This anime-original part is making me sob so hard. They're literally recycling iconic lines as self-references, this whole nostalgic Heisei-otaku-wrecker direction is just too much.

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So this is the true Zangetsu's Bankai… But like, everything up to this point is completely uncharted territory (lol). What is even happening here…

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This week's episode has way too much stuff I've never seen before. What's gonna happen from next week onward? We're still heading for the ending we all know, right?!

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Look who's talking after getting beaten to a pulp tied up in ropes! I was literally just about to counterattack!

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To begin with, the Rikka even having individual names and personalities was barely utilized past the very beginning of the manga anyway.

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I was wondering what they were gonna do with zero manga stock left, and they just dropped this absolute madman of an anime-original…

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Is this a canon history rewrite or what…? So many scenes I've never seen, it's honestly blowing my mind while being super fun.

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I'm 100% sure I read the manga, but I have no idea what's going on… This is way too unfamiliar… huh? That's my current state of mind. What…

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Literally only His Majesty can take Ichigo's move straight to the face and stay chill. Anyone else would just straight-up die.

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Would Ichigo's thing actually have worked if Yhwach hadn't absorbed the Soul King yet?

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This is getting wild… I literally can't tell anymore what's straight from the manga and what's pure anime-original!!

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Even if Ichigo drops his Bankai, those horns and Zangetsu are gonna snap in half anyway. Took all of 2 panels in the manga.

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Just 'cause it's under the author's supervision doesn't mean you get to go completely wild behind his back like this………

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The way "Came to help, Rukia" gets a "Came to help, Ichigo" right back is just too good.

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This whole episode was just "I don't know her… what is that… scary…" vibes. Completely different from the manga in my memory.

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Gotta thank Aizen too, you know. In a way, Aizen's the reason Ichigo even exists.

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An Ichigo and Rukia tag-team is super rare. But Yhwach is just way too overpowered…

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Yo hold up, the info overload here is unreal, what is this, I don't know any of this, help.

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Anyway, can we please get another good look at Rukia getting beaten up, but in slow-mo.

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Seriously no idea what's happening. Just because you read the manga doesn't mean you could zone out during this episode.

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TSUJISHIMA-SAAAAN!!! Quick, insert a flashback where Tsukishima helped Orihime out!

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Yhwach: "I couldn't win so I just went into the future and snapped Ichigo's horns and Zangetsu."

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Are we really branching off into a completely different route from the manga at this late stage?! Kubo-sensei??

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Did he just say Bankai? Wait? Not yet? Come to think of it, I don't remember him saying it.

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Yet another batch of totally unknown developments. What on earth is happening next week…?

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Ichigo's Bankai?! This is Zangetsu…?! What does this even mean…?!

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Orihime-chan is getting pushed into a ridiculously tight corner here…

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Wait, seriously… what is actually going on… I've never seen any of this before… 😭

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Didn't know a thing about this anime, but Orihime looked badass. Hope she's safe.

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Ichigo goes half-hollow! -> Loses. Team-up with Rukia -> Loses. What is going on here.

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A Bankai while in half-hollow form?! That's not in the manga, I call hacks!

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Even after getting this kind of off-the-charts power, the ultimate move is still just "Getsuga Tensho"…

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Just locking eyes is enough to communicate. Sasuga long-time partners.

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Even with half-hollowfication, the power gap is massive. Ichigo vs. Yhwach.

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Kurosaki Ichigo and Kuchiki Rukia: "The ones who'll take you down are me and this person."

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I've read every single chapter of the manga, yet it feels like I'm watching a completely different anime.

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Bye-bye, Kurosaki-kun. I'm gonna take all of it, every last bit!

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This fight has reached a point where I honestly can't tell what's anime-original anymore…!

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Those red light shackles look so cool… what on earth is happening…

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Come to think of it, Orihime has never actually directed true killing intent at an opponent in the whole series.

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Is Orihime actually gonna fade away here… Wait, shouldn't she be the real Special War Potential?

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Did Orihime really use all her power just to drag Yhwach down with her?!

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What even is this? I have no idea what's going on, nobody warned me about this kind of plot twist.

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With a flow this completely foreign, this has gotta be the coolest Bankai in the universe.

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I've read this series to death, but was this Orihime scene actually a thing?

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Out of all the anime originals in existence, this has gotta be the absolute best one.

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An Ichigo and Rukia tag-team?! I was not briefed on this development.

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How does His Majesty even foresee plot twists that didn't exist in our timeline?

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He knows her all too well… that's both her biggest weakness and the reason she fights.

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Ah, the series director handled the script, storyboard, and direction for this week. Makes sense.

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Somehow, BLEACH really loves the "using someone as a stepping stone" visual metaphor.

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Weird, anime-original scenes that definitely weren't in the manga (Datte) just keep coming.

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Ah man, it's like we're back in the early days, gotta love this comforting comedy routine.

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Part A is almost entirely scenes not found in the manga, I am so confused.

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Come on Orihime-chan, your power is anything but ordinary, you know?

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Deflecting His Majesty's laser beam point-blank and calling yourself weak is wild.

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Yhwach and Jugram's powers are back?!

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Makes you just wanna scream "I don't know what this is!" 🤔

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Given how battered Ishida is, Jugram must be ridiculously strong.

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Looks like we've got another totally unseen scene rolling in…

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Anime-original after anime-original is just too much fun.

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Wondering if the Bankai is gonna snap the second it comes out, or actually hold.

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The eye-catch is completely unreadable now?! Insane direction.

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Getting this much lore expansion in the anime is an absolute lifesaver.

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Thought it was a new form at first, but… is this a suicide charge…?

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Uh… this is not the BLEACH I know…

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This week has gone way past the usual "anime-original" or "lore expansion" level.

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A version of BLEACH we know nothing about has officially started.

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Huge thanks for serving up this gourmet-grade anime-original plot.

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Did those scenes really need to bounce around that much…

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They're definitely padding out the fight scenes, but this is getting pretty brutal…

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Giving me major early-BLEACH vibes, it's so damn good.

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A battle I don't recognize by even 1 percent just keeps going……

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Kurosaki Ichigo: "I still have two more transformations left."

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Just sitting back and smiling because everyone knows it's an anime original anyway.