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[quote="zitagirl"]Despite all the flaws Bleach has, its highlights are still just close to perfection. Reread some chapters and ended up reading a manga-exclusive part where Ichigo gets his true Zanpaktou. Let me just say... it's brilliant.

A quick summary to what happened before this, so you can get why these 2 chapters hits hard: Quincies started to attack Soul Society Ywach as their leader, heavily damaging the shinigmais, including Ichigo as they break his bankai (if a bankai breaks, it remains broken and weakened forever unless 0. squad's zanpaktou creator forges you a new one) and since he was not fitting to understand the asauchis (long story, but basically they are the basis for zanpaktous: artificial souls that become a part of the shinigami's soul that represents the wielder's power and personality. Ichigo did not have an asauchi, since his zanpaktou was never created in Soul Society but rather as he awakened his powers under the training of Urahara. It's bit weird, although him having both hollow and quincy powers do explain this extraordinary case) so he was sent back to the Living World where his father told him who and what happened to his mother.

Long story short, his mother was a pure-blood quincy who got attacked by a white hollow created by previous big bad guy, Aizen and in order to stop the effects of the hollow, the father had to connect his soul to hers (father was a Captain level shinigami) to keep the hollow inside of her at bay. But because the hollow still being there, Ichigo inherited it when he was born (because eventually the 2 fell in love with each other), along with both powers from the parents (nice hybrid we have here).

His mother died though as Ywach awakened and took all non pure-blooded quincies' powers to strengthen himself and due to the hollow attack, she became inpure as well (hollow is like poison to them actually) and when the hollow Grand Fisher attacked her and young Ichigo, she died while protecting him (Ichigo actually blamed himself for her death till he found out the truth and this is the real reason he wants to become strong: so he can protect people and never have him or anyone experience this again).

After this, he goes back to the Soul King Palace via some help (0. squad are basically guards of the Soul King and lot more powerful than ordinary captains) and starts to work on his Zanpaktou, but before that it turns out who he thought to be Zangetsu (that's how his Zanpaktou is called which means Moonslayer and bankai is called Tensa Zangetsu which translates to Chained Moonslayer) is actually a fraction of Ywach who represents his quincy powers and all this time he tried to suppress hollow/shinigami powers in order to keep Ichigo from danger).

Rest is told in the 2 chapters, but damn it's just so well done. Not only we get to understand "Zangetsu" even better than before, the way Kubo represents Ichigo's emotions and thoughts (they are in his inner world where the buildings represent his hope and faith and cloudless sky shows him being fine emotionally. When it rains and slowly turns the world into an endless ocean it shows Ichigo being in true despair and hopelessness as the buildings crumble (it was raining when his mother died as well, so you get the connection)) it's just touching. Just looking at Ichigo's face in chapter 541 makes my heart aching and want to hug him.

And chapter 542's ending... just brilliant. Despite all the emotions dwelling him from all the stuff he learnt within hours, Ichigo is not angry or mad, he's only sad and slowly accepts reality and finds out that all this time both the inner hollow and "Zangetsu" were all along not only his power, but himself as well and thanks them for everything while claiming from now on he will fight on his own (accepting them as being him basically).

You can watch the chapters themselves here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXpu2nRqxOs  (sorry about the long explanations, just rather gave some info to show why I find this so good).

I know both Bleach and Kubo got tons of criticism over the years and can understand why. Neither are flawless and rushing the ending of the manga didn't do much good either, but moments like these reminds me why I got into it and still love Bleach and even look up to Kubo.

I just hope we will get the last arc in anime (and potentially fixing some stuff such as the rushed ending) because I so want to see moments like these adapted to animation, with all the music and voice actors giving in their heart and soul.[/quote]

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