thoughts on -102 & -103: Urahara's Management Skills & a crack observation on Lisa/Shunsui/Nanao

[laurie_bunter]

Just when I thought it was safe to come out of lurkdom... I get sick. *sweatdrop* Been addled with a cold, a sore throat and a queasy tummy for days. Hmph. Good thing you guys can't catch disease over the internets. If I've left any strange comments on your lj that doesn't make any sense, ah... please forgive Little Ms. Flu her lapses

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[bunnisteffi]

There have been some who theorised that Nanao and Lisa (Risa) are related. It's possible, for their faces do bear lotsa similarities. =D

Kubo-sensei is revealing almost everything I've wondered about since the start of Bleach. I can't believe Tessai would actually give up his Magic!coat for a shop assistant's clothes, though... I mean, think of the quality of that outfit... Eh. Do you think that Mayuri had got his be-horned inspiration from Tessai's own?

*pokes Laurie*

Bunnisteffi

(Your 'peopling the Bureau with chibis' bit made me think of Suiseiseki from Rozen. She was calling everyone else a 'chibi' at times. Hahas.)

[laurie_bunter]

Hmm... Nanao and Lisa (Risa) related?! They do look alike... but then, Byakuya and Rukia look alike too, and they aren't blood relations. (Please God don't let Kubo pull a stupid stunt like that or else I will fly to Japan and spork his brains out.)

I know, it's hard to speculate right now on why Tessai would give up his Magic!coat (nice one, heheheh) and his Devil!Spork to hang around Jinta and Ururu all day, and make inventories of candy. My best guess right now is that he will also be driven by guilt... I mean, hello! He decides to take a nap instead of insisting on investigating the scene, right?

It's nice to know that your interest in Bleach has been rekindled. May the fire burn bright, whee!

And oh, I do owe you an email. *hangs head in shame*

hugs,
laurie

[bunnisteffi]

Well, I believe that there's got to be more in it that that - guilt. It must be something that happens later on which causes the departure of Urahara, Tessai and almost half of the other Gotei leaders. From Rukia, we can actually infer that most of the 'later/younger' shinigami are kept in the dark 'bout the previous captains, since she doesn't recognise Urahara, nor any of the Vaizards.

Soul Society must be keeping it all a hush-hush matter. What Urahara's going to do later, is it really of that kinda scale?

Kubo-sensei HAS to send in -101 soon. Garh.

The email... It was so very long ago, do it doesn't really matter now. ^.^

Steffi-twin

P.S. The flame I'd kept burning for Bleach hasn't ever gone out all this while. Really, I believe it's my RL friend's that has. She's been complaining (indirectly; read: on her LJ) to Kubo 'bout how she has 'gone over' to the other mangakas while he's plodding out the HM/"IchiHime" arc and the Negs. Sheesh.

more crack from me! whee

[laurie_bunter]

Yeah, well... maybe guilt and something else thrown in. Like a character death, or at least, a character's loss of power

[bunnisteffi]

Oh, but Laurie dear, they don't have to think gloomy all the time! It could very well just be that the old man's (or if he hadn't, then the clan - we know how clannish the Kuchikis can get, don't we?) decided that his young(er) grandson's finally passed that stage of childishness and can level-headedly inherit their Noble House and the 6th Division. 'Cause if it really were that something bad had happened to the Ojii-sama...

... Don't you think that the Kuchiki house has enough of its share of drama? First the death of Byakuya's parents, then his marriage to Hisana, which led to the adoption of Rukia, and the (almost unbelievable) fact that Byakuya has risked his life twice for Rukia, a non-bloodkin... All that scandal... tsk, tsk. I do feel sorry for the Kuchikis, don't you?

There's so much about Rukia's past that we aren't absolutely sure yet. (You've heard of the King's-Palace-Survivor/Runaway theory?)

Night, Laurie-twin!

Steffi-twin

P.S. Got my postcard yet? (^.^)