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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[adam_epp]

Uh, maybe I should read these latest chapters at some point. I've gotten a bit behind again...and I can't even remember which was the most recent chapter I've read. D'oh. Seriously, though, I'm still waiting for those interactions between Rukia and Ichigo; it's been over a fucking year and this is ridiculous.

[shalomdebbie]

DAMN Adam, read the manga, it's great now. The stuffs going on now beats an IchiRuki reunion for me.

As for you, Laurie,

Right now, I'm toying with the theory that Urahara actually helped the Vaizards escape by giving them the new untraceable gigai.

How can that be overthinking? I see it as the only obvious solution to keeping the Visored out of that damn Maggot's Nest once they are no longer able to keep their officer positions due to being you know... tainted with Hollow or whatever. I saw that one coming the minute we were shown the Maggots Nest and told that horrible story about how SS was the sort of place you could never retire from. Oh THAT'S why a untraceable gigai was such a crime. Seemed like not a big deal to banish someone before.

Kubo thinks this stuff out.

Man, like for fucking YEARS. I couldn't have waited seven years to reveal why an untracable gigai was a banishable offense. It just seemed so random.

[adam_epp]

No, Deb, I demand my random IchiRuki reunion in the middle of these flashback chapters, so these two characters will literally defy time and space when they're together.

Anyways, yeah. For you, this stuffs that are a goings on now probably beat an IchiRuki reunion, but I've been reading Bleach primarily for Ichio and Rukia for nearly five years.

...But, it's not just Bleach, I'm way behind on a lot of manga I like, especially since my laptop went wawa again.

[wicked_liz]

I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL!

Also after being stuck in the CLAMP Universe for some weeks, Time & Space are irrelevant!

Ichigo and Rukia are clearly hitsuzen, Kubo needs to stop dragging his feet.

I haven't read the recent chapters either, cause while chibi!Byakuya is yum and all, Rukia is my love...I'm just a terrible fan (yay me!)

It helps that Code Geass has left me thinking up clever ways to annihilate people/Suzaku...

[adam_epp]

Oh ho, another person a bit behind on the chapters. Watching Code Geass is a good way to pass the time. Alas, I haven't watched the two or three most recent episodes since my laptop puttered out again. So I've been making do by watching some Gurenn Lagann on my sister's computer.

[bunnisteffi]

EHHH!!!

*points mutely* ...place you could never retire from...a untraceble gigai...

ISSHIN! But he managed to somehow 'retire' from SS, hadn't he? I don't believe his case is like Ichigo's, one reason being that Kubo-sensei can't throw a doubled-storyline to us.

I think that there IS a link, just that I can really see it now. Ack...

Bunnisteffi

[laurie_bunter]

*hugs* Thanks, Deb. I'm glad you're with me on this one, and that you don't think I'm overthinking my Bleach. And it's nice to know someone else doesn't think Urahara's a total sleazeball. At this point I think he's just an individualist with a moral code that does not conform to Soul Society standards. Which is totally cool of him, because Soul Society rules suck.

You know, I keep forgetting that Bleach has been around for years, and I just caught on very late. It hasn't even been a year since I first watched Bleach.