Bleach 403-405

Time for me to tiptoe back onto the blogging scene after going away for three weeks. Because three weeks isn't that long of an absence, I'm planning to cover all of the episodes/chapters that I missed, but for these catchup posts I'm going to lump together chapters/episodes for weekly series. Anyways, here are the Bleach chapters for the last three weeks.

Like son like father.

Bleach 403
Aizen survives Urahara's attack and turns into Bagman. Bagman Aizen starts gloating as usual, but he is soon tied up by Urahara and Isshin and is then stomped on by Yoruichi, but Aizen survives yet again and gloats some more.

Bleach 404
As Aizen prepares to attack, Yoruichi and Urahara start arguing and this allows Aizen to make the first move. Meanwhile, Gin suggests to Ichigo that they should get some popcorn and watch the fight, but Ichigo refuses and the two start fighting again. Elsewhere in fake Karakura Town, Kira spots Rangiku running in the streets.

Bleach 405
Kira tries to catch up to Rangiku but he is too injured to follow. Meanwhile, Ichigo is getting worn down in his battle against Gin, and Gin tells Ichigo to run. Up above, Yoruichi continues to blame Urahara for supplying crappy equipment, but Aizen thinks the two are just putting on an act. Urahara and Yoruichi then doubles teams Aizen and after a series of attacks, Aizen is left wide open for Isshin's Getsuga Tenshou.

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Bleach is still ambling along as usual with these action chapters. Yoruichi showed up, and Aizen transformed (by putting a paper bag over his head...), but neither developments have had much of an impact yet. All in good time I suppose, and good time is probably =>5 chapters. Urahara, Yoruichi, and Isshin are using the new-look Aizen as a punching bag, but their efforts are probably futile as Aizen still looks invulnerable. Kubo is probably obligated to give Urahara, Yoruichi and Isshin a decent run before letting Aizen mow them down. As for Ichigo, he seems to be in his "sucking" phase where he can't beat anyone, but we all know he'll survive at the very least. Not sure what Gin is up to by telling Ichigo to run, but hopefully it has something to do with Rangiku running around (and is not a translation anomaly).

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...and that's all I'm going to write today. I still have to recover from jet lag, so I'm not sure when I'll get this blog back to normal again. For those who are wondering where I went on vacation, here are a few snapshots I took along the way.