I realized that I had never shared these thoughts with the fandom at large, and decided I may as well do so.  ^^  The debate as to whether Ulquiorra could have been purified was reopened in the UH fandom, recently, with the majority opinion being that since he was killed by a cero he couldn't have been.  Personally, I disagree with this for one ( Read more... )

 Okay, so there's no love lost between Viz and I.  Don't get me wrong, I probably don't hold half as much against them as manga fandom in general does, but they've certainly managed to irk me from time to time.  "Soul Reaper" was as clever a translation of "shinigami" as any, I guess.  I neither loved nor loathed it.  "Doom Blast," however, can ( Read more... )

I'm forced to take a somewhat different approach with my manga-analyzing this time around!  Circumstances have me typing this particular entry on a public computer, one which seems to have blocked One Manga with its Internet filter since last I had to use it.  As such, my chronology may be a little bit distorted, and should I wish to reinforce my ( Read more... )

     Funny how my approach to the same situation in two different ways can yeild such different results.  What had me angry and pouting just two weeks earlier is now met with a kind of resigned silence.  I'm more intensely saddened by the turn of events than I thought I would be, and in a bizzare way I feel like I lost... not necessarily a close ( Read more... )

What a pleasant surprise I found before sleep called me last night: Kubo taking his story in an interesting and turbulent direction... and one that didn't involve Ulquiorra's untimely and undeveloped death.  Seems I owe those with more faith in Kubo than myself a beverage of their choice from the cheapest vending machine in front of Wal Mart....  ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if it's because of the precedent that was set by the earlier spoilers, which made the chapter out to be fantastically more interesting than it really was (and in doing so trumped my prior bias toward thinking the early spoilers were always terrible,) or perhaps because the cliffhanger left by the end of this chapter has the same effect ( Read more... )