Bleach

[LoveToStack]

Nels status is currently unknown. As are:
grimmjow
unohana
ukitake
all the visards (those alive + possibly dead)
urahara + crew are alive but whereabouts unknown

Yamamoto kicked the bucket.

Btw hi-res scans come out on Thursdays on mangastream.

[Axel]

No, that was in the latest chapter. A new chapter comes out every thursday/friday depending on how fast the translators are.

I have one question for Axel and whoever else is up to date with the manga - is Neliel still around? What happened to her?

Kubo forgot about her.

[Neversoft]

What the Nell! How could he forget about her!? Also, surely Grimmjow is dead. He hasn't been seen for like a year.

[Axel]

What the Nell! How could he forget about her!? Also, surely Grimmjow is dead. He hasn't been seen for like a year.

Kubo forgot about Grimmjow too. Or is gonna use him for some plot twist.

Well, I kinda hope he doesn't really forget about characters. I kinda go on 4chan anime board though, and they always take the piss out of Kubo, saying how he forgets about characters. Like

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when Ichigo came back to Karakura and was told to take down Aizen, he tried one swing on Aizen, which failed, and then for about 5-10 chapters Ichigo just isn't seen, or is just at the side lines doing nothing to help whilst Aizen is slaughtering everyone else. Someone on a thread asked about why Ichigo wasn't doing anything, and someone posted under the username 'Kubo': "oh ****, I forgot about Ichigo, thanks guys!"

Also, I think Kubo is going to pull the 'Aizen is Ichigo's uncle' plot twist by the looks of the manga right now.

[Neversoft]

Haha, 4chan is always a good laugh. Tite is a little rough around the edges but I always love his plot twists.

[LoveToStack]

Some of the bleach threads on /a/ are absolutely hilarious to say the least. People's wits are sharp as a tack when it comes to belittling Kubo, it makes for an interesting read.

[Axel]

/a/? You mean [a/

[LoveToStack]

After 10,000 years of filler, bleach anime returns to canon storyline last week. First ep back was catchup... for the entire length of the episode. I expected that though so that's fine, and the new OP is quite good (music wise) although it contains numerous spoilers from the manga, infact it consists solely of spoilers from the manga.
So, new ep out today. Execting it to be a nice return to form, maybe some nice animation and plot progression to get people back into it. What can I say. Animation was poor quality, frames recycled to no end, flashbacks to scenes that happened less than 3 minutes ago and not to mention that the majority of the episode was filled with footage of Chad and Renji slaying random hollows and a long, repetitive filler fight with that stupid sand hollow again. Of course the key to beating the hollow was teamwork (who knew :rolleyes. Also Orihime never fails to annoy with her constant damsel-in-distressness. Poor show, looks like they're still going to drag this out even after the months of fillers. I want bleach to be good but it's just so blatently not, the pacing has become so bad that it really is no stretch to say that it's the new DBZ.

[Neversoft]

Wow, come next week and I haven't watched Bleach in precisely a year. Theres just no point to the anime anymore.

[Axel]

I'd rather the fights be slow than having more random fillers. Bleach could've been a great anime, but the anime just caught up to the manga too soon, so it's constant fillers and stretched out canon. Anime catching up to manga ruins a lot of good series - Bleach, the original FMA, Claymore to name a few.