Bleach 378

Ichigo vs. Yammy.

Hmm... Is it me or has Ichigo's jacket grown back a bit?

Summary:
In Hueco Mundo under the big dome, Yammy has beaten up Chad and Renji and is tossing Rukia around for fun. Yammy gets bored and tries to toss Rukia into ground, but Rukia is saved by Ichigo. Ichigo explains that he has rescued Orihime and darts off to fight Yammy, but Rukia is worried about the expression in Ichigo's eyes. Ichigo draws Yammy away where Chad and Renji are lying and then smashes Yammy to the ground with a Getsuga.

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Finally, the Rock story has come back to Hollow-Land! I suppose it's about time that the story checked on our protagonist, but I can't help but feel a wee bit disappointed since things were picking up again in fake Karakura Town. While Ichigo is busy dealing with Yami, Aizen and friends will probably kick the Gotei 13 and Vizards' butts and move on and we'll miss most of that action. This makes that Kensei vs. Wonderweiss fight even more pointless. Oh well. Might as well get a change of scenery.

Anyways, back in Hollow-Land, Mr. Espada 0 predictably was able to beat up Rukia, Renji and Chad, but the funny thing is none of the four shinigami captains showed up to intervene. I wonder what those captains and their accompanying lieutenants are doing. Taking a little break and sipping some tea? Or maybe they know that Ichigo will take care of everything, so there's no point intervening. As for Ichigo, he's looking a little tattered and grittier than before, but he's mostly the same especially with striking the cool poses. For some reason he seems to have more of his jacket back which is kind of weird. As far as we know, Ichigo never exited bankai, so his clothing shouldn't regenerate... right? I guess it might be just the angle or slight variations in the art. Hopefully the fight against Yammy will be interesting in a "not drag it out for 50 chapter" kind of way. But alas this is Bleach, and the fights with conclusive endings are usually either long and arduous or one panel sudden KOs.