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Episode 11

Bleach: TYBW 1 - 7

Published on: 30th August, 2023

Southern Senpais acknowledge that Bleach fell off in the middle but express excitement for the 1000 year Blood War arc. They appreciate that Bleach doesn't drag out the story like Dragon Ball Z and discuss the differences between Western and Eastern media. Listen in as they give their take!

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howdy.

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It's the Southern Sin Pie Show.

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We're small town southerners.

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Explore big time Japanese entertainment, anime, manga, and everything in between.

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Here's your hosts, Nicholas and dj.

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Hey, what's going on guys?

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This, the Southern Sias, two Southern guys exploring Japanese culture.

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I'm Nicholas, I'm dj.

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So what are we doing today, dj?

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Today we are talking about episode one through seven of the first season

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of bleach coming back of bleach, a thousand year blood arc, blood war.

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Excuse me.

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What were your anticipations with?

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What were you expecting from this?

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Man?

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Bleach.

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A lot of people give bleach slack.

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For its later years.

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Bleach.

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Bleach was awesome, especially in the beginning.

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It's one of my, it was one of my favorite shows.

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Yes.

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And then it just fell off.

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It fell off in the middle.

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Yeah, it fell off in the middle.

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It was amazing up until the middle.

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But I think we were talking about this once they went to go save Rukia, like

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that, was it like that's as far as the creator wanted to really go, right?

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Yeah.

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Supposedly.

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We don't know if this is true or not, but supposedly they just, that's as far as

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they wanted to go was the was the, after that he didn't know what he was gonna do.

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And it's funny because I really believe that because this thousand

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year blood arc war is a thousand year blood words about the Quincy.

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And the quintes were introduced in what episode?

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Like 10 or something like way, way back in the first season.

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And obviously it's something he completely forgot about.

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I'm not gonna do it anymore.

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But they're back.

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And I don't know.

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What I was expecting was to just to see, I don't know, man, each ago, just

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like I wasn't expecting a lot really.

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But it delivered so much.

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Here's the thing, this is what I would ask you.

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Hold on.

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Spoiler warning, I just told you it was bleach, episode one through seven.

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So if you were still listening, you didn't know it was a spoiler, bro.

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Whatever.

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I'm not doing any with spoiler warnings.

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Just after this.

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We're not doing anymore.

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Spoiler warnings, right?

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We're gonna tell you what it is up front, and if you're

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still listening, that's on you.

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That's on you, all right.

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But

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anyway, I just hit my foot on the thing.

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I'm leaving it in too.

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I'm the one who gets the,

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but I think that the reason why, because, I thought it, I thought one through seven

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were really great, but I also think that.

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This one through seven could have really been dragon ballsy

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extended into 40 episodes.

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Yeah.

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I, and they didn't do that.

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And this, I have a lot of appreciation for that.

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I have a lot of appreciation for them.

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Just bleaches at its best when it's not trying to drag it out.

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Bleaches at its best when it just tells the actual story.

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It's funny, a lot of people say, oh, my favorite seasons of NATO is

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when this happens and this happens.

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Oh, you mean the arcs that are.

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When stuff is happening, the quickest, 'cause people are so used

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to these long running animes where there's so there's not a lot of plot

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progression to where it comes normal.

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It's bread crumbing.

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They breadcrumb.

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Yeah.

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And that's probably why even though anime is getting more and more

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popular, Anime still isn't as popular as Western media, even though it

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is getting larger in popularity and it has been popular for a while.

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It's the reason why Western Media has been outselling them for a long time.

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What Western Media is a whole bunch about plot progression

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compared to Eastern media?

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That's more about the internal emotions and stuff like that

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in character development.

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In character development.

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But unfortunately, the earth says they don't care about.

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Charact development, they just wanna see stuff blow up.

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I think the thing is I didn't, like you said, I didn't have

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any expectations for this anime.

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No.

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Like I liked bleach, but halfway through I was like, okay, I don't want to, I like

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it enough to watch it till the end, but I'm over it once I got to the middle.

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And so I did like bleach.

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Bleach is a great anime, but when it came back, I was like, I didn't

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have any expectations for it.

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It wasn't like overhyped this is Lin Saga, right?

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Yeah.

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Lin Saga had a phenomenal first season, but there was but there was

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a lot happening in that first season.

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There's a lot of, there's a lot of plot progression, right?

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And then just fell off the second season.

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Oh yeah.

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Second season was not although to be, a lot of people who read the manga

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were like, if you like violence in the first season, you'll gonna be

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disappointed in the second season.

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'cause it's more oh, I'm gonna let go and I'm gonna, man,

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I don't want you to let go.

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I just don't want to hear that.

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I wanna see the blood.

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Exactly.

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We're Americans, we like violence.

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Dang it.

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But I thought this.

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I thought these first seven episodes like really delivered.

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And I like how they took the first episode to like recap and

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rebuild and introduce everything.

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Yeah.

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It's been, what, 10 years?

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It's true.

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It, it ha it has been 10 years.

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But what we were talking about when we watched like the first or second

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episode was the thing that you said annoyed you about dialogue and anime.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So I, so what I like enemy, but what annoys me the most is when like

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something that you already know is happening and then clearly is happening.

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They decide to spell out for you and reiterate, okay, so what's

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happening in this first, once again, Spoiler, bro, whatever.

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In this first episode you just said you weren't gonna do that anymore.

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I didn't I?

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But I get to lie as much as I want to.

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'cause I get to edit these episodes.

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So whatever.

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Okay.

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So basically the gang is all hanging out in each goes' room.

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Each goes off fighting somebody.

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And this one Soul Reaper is oh, hey, aren't you guys gonna

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go help find your friend?

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And Quincy's oh no, Ichigo doesn't really need our help.

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He's super powerful, so I wouldn't really worry about it.

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And then aime is oh, it's so cute that you don't, that acting

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like you don't care about him.

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But actually you guys have become really great friends.

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Or Heime, this is like episode 400, right?

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This man's been here since like episode five.

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We know they're friends.

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Not only that, let's assume that I, this is my first introduction to bleach.

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For some people it might be right, 10 years ago.

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Hey man.

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Especially imagine if 10 years ago someone was like six,

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they weren't watching bleach.

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No.

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But 10 years later when they're 16, they're gonna, oh, I,

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man, I heard about bleach.

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Lemme check it out.

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It's gonna blow their mind.

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So then let's say I'm using that perspective, okay.

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All of his friends were just sitting around eating lunch when each go left.

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So I would obviously then assume that their friends.

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Like, why are you telling me that?

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They're all friends, they're clearly friends.

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They're all sitting in his house eating.

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And once again, episode 400, of all of them being friends, that's like

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sitting there saying you know what?

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I think Norto really caress about?

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And you're like, you think?

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Yeah, but it's, yeah.

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It's like saying it during Barto you're watching Barto, Boto, whatever.

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You wanna say that?

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And he goes, oh, you know what?

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I think ska now it's all friends.

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Yes.

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Have you not seen the 800 episodes before?

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And if you haven't, they talk like they're friends, so Yes.

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But I think, like we were saying before though, I really like how

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bleach, really, the plot progression is it's like lightning fast

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because, so here's the thing, right?

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So the Quincy are like, Hey, You guys completely destroyed us, right?

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Genocide.

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And the crazy part is the soul Reapers are like, it's not like

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they're just, oh, it was righteous.

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It was like, no, we did that.

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. And we know it was horrible.

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And we know they're never gonna forgive us.

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Yeah.

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It's like we had to kill you because you were making the unbalanced.

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When Soul Reapers kill people, it takes their soul to the, to

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soul society heaven or to hell or whatever, like the cycle thing.

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They're literally deleting souls.

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The Quincy are so now you're having this unbalance.

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So they're like, we get it.

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We get why You're mad though, right?

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We get it, but like at the same time, what you want?

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What do you want me to do about?

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Exactly.

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You are, you're sitting here deleting people.

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Man, when we take the soul, like you said, it goes to the soul society.

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But I, whenever it really reminded me whenever they invaded would be like a

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Dragon Ball Z or NAU to, or something like that, where they would stretch that, that.

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That plot out for, like them infiltrating in general would

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usually take like 10 episodes.

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And then actually fighting that would take five or six or seven.

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Yeah.

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These guys get through one or two fights an episode you're like, and it's

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animated so well, they, we were, there was some article about like the creative

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bleach being like, oh yeah I'm gonna make sure everything's movie quality.

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I remember me and Nicholas being like, yeah, sure.

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Whatever guy.

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I.

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It's actually really good but, and here's a huge, but I noticed this and

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and then you were like, yeah, these mo phones use word art in the anime.

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Yeah.

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What's up with that word?

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Art, like Microsoft Word, when they, oh my gosh, the titles

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are used by Microsoft Word.

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It's like word art.

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It's okay.

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So right after, There's like an episode.

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It must be, it must have been like four in which like you see the

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words are revealed with blood and it was like, oh, okay, that was cool.

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Did the title episode right after that.

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They use word art.

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It's like non three D word art.

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And it's are you serious?

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It's just a Microsoft slide of word art.

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It's not even right.

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It's not, the background's black.

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They don't even try and disguise it.

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It's just like the fire of shadows and the bottom's yellow, the top is like orange.

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Dude, I was like, Hey man, whatcha doing?

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That's word art.

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And then they doubled down and on the next two episodes they still use word art.

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Do took me, takes me out the, takes me out the anime.

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Because you see word art and you're like, what?

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And then you get slapped in the face with a beautiful image.

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No, the anime is amazing, right?

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The anime is great, but, and a lot of people die.

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Yeah.

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And so it feels like it has real actual stakes because,

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The heroes always win, right?

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Not this time, no.

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These heroes is taking lss Man.

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The Soul Society is basically destroyed halfway through the A season,

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dude, halfway through the season, everybody where episode seven and is

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basically everyone's like everybody's dead, a large portion of 'em.

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And Wacom Mundo is also basically has been taken over as well and.

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Bro, what's going on with the size of the titties of all these chicks?

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This man increased the size of the titties.

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This is why he's a genius.

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This is why bleach people always debate big three.

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They're always like, oh, nineties big three, or, New big three.

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There is no new or old big three.

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There's only one big three nato, one piece bleach.

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This is why bleach is big three.

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Alright?

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And when I tell you this man knows how to draw women it's crazy because also he also

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draws minorities way before all of this.

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I don't know, like he seems I forgot who it was, but there was this

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manga, mangaka, manga, whatever.

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They got people who make.

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Fricking manga.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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They're like writers and artists.

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So they call themselves ma manga artists.

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Nah, that's what it is in English, but it's something over there on something.

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So basically some some American audiences were like, Hey why do

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you guys, draw some actual why?

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What's up with the way you guys draw black people?

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Or why don't you draw more black people?

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And he was like There's not a whole bunch of black people in Japan.

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Black people then draw, why don't you draw black people?

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And I was think to myself, no, there's definitely black

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people in anime and manga.

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It's just like you guys draw us with, giant lips and like I.

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Weird nose, like it's very, or make 'em green like piccolo.

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I just say they're not black.

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Their name makes so like PIC allegedly, right?

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Piccolo has always been black.

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We have always claimed him.

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To be, he's a stepdad.

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It matches up perfectly.

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We've always claimed to be black in that one episode.

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When they're driving.

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He has like a backwards hat and some he looks like Will Smith.

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Yeah.

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He looks like, oh, Willis Smith in Fresh Prince for the reason.

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But no dude even the head captain goes down.

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Oh my God.

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That fight scene was huge.

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Wait, that this man said I have one, was.

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Oh, east, east Bonai.

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Now West Bonai, now North Bonai.

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Now I'm gonna southbound Bonai.

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We were like, bro, yo, how?

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How Bonky?

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I says, man, guy, I see how you are the head captain of everybody.

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This man was raising the dead.

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And he was like, how do he even have this power?

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He's nah, nah.

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See, what I'm actually doing is raising up the ashes of people that I've killed.

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What, yo, so it's still technically a firepower.

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What?

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What Bro, that scene was fantastic.

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And then this man came in to say, oh yeah, no, I was just with you.

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They pulled me so I could go talk to and for Eisen to say,

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oh yeah, I don't really care.

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I was like, this is just a plug to show Eisen, isn't it?

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This is just a plug just to show Eisen like you think you slick, but.

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'cause everybody thinks Eisen is awesome.

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So there's a I forgot who said this.

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We, they were like, yeah, Eisen knew what the grand plan was before the

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creator knew what the grand plan was.

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But the crazy part is okay, so all of this going down, right?

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Yeah.

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The next seven episodes and then we have how many episodes after that?

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There's only seven more.

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I know, but the whole arc isn't just seven e 14 episodes.

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No.

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There's supposed to be like four parts, I think, right?

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Yeah.

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So four parts of 14 episodes.

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Man, I don't know.

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I just know that this first part has 14 episodes.

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That's all I know.

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I don't know, man.

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But the crazy part is this plot is progressing really fast.

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It makes you think we must have a lot in store here.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Because each episode, do you think that this will bring black bleach?

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What if everyone just loves it, just loves it?

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Is it gonna bring back bleach and they just create a new bleach?

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I don't know.

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I don't know, man.

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Do you mean like they would actually do a good job with borrow tow?

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He.

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So why did why did bleach stop?

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People got bored and they said, oh, it wasn't as good anymore.

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Bleach is good Again, bleach is very good again.

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And when Bleach is good, it's good.

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Like I need more good, like we I ain't gonna lie after this after

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we're done recording this podcast, I'm gonna go watch the rest of,

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I'm gonna go watch the rest of all.

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'cause when bleach is hitting, Man, I think it's hit or miss, but

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when it hits, it's out the park.

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Oh, out the park, dude.

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And your favorite character died, man.

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Yeah, man.

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A rookie's brother.

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Ah, man.

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That's crazy.

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That is crazy.

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This man made rose's manly.

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Yeah, it was.

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Yeah.

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Roses ain't manly.

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It can't be a man time.

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Like the only time a man uses a rose is to trick a woman.

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Yeah, I have, look, I have three sisters and I tell 'em the same thing.

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If a guy buys your roses and you guys aren't already together, it's a trick.

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It's a trick.

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It's, it is a trap.

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It's a trap.

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It's it's a trap.

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It's a trap.

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I'm like, but this guy he's cool.

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He's super powerful.

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And they're just ants compared to these Quincy.

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To be fair, they're they're cheating.

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They're stealing bon guys.

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Come on, man.

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True.

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But hey, there, there is no cheating in war.

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It's just winners and losers.

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Yeah, that's true.

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But don't hate to play the game, I didn't write the book, man.

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I just read what was inside and I love how these quints are like, oh

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yeah, we're so awesome and powerful.

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Look how cool we are.

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Okay.

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But.

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To granted, you got this powerful by stealing other people's stuff, right?

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So that's, so really, you're not powerful.

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You're just like copying other, just stealing.

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Yeah.

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You're just, you couldn't beat them in a fair fight.

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So you're stealing them, so you're just gonna steal their bon hides.

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But, and then of course you, you have ichigo dude.

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We found the blast plot twist at the very end of the seventh episode.

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Yeah.

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It turns out Ichigo is not only a Soul Reaper and not only half human, half

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soul Reaper, but he's also part full bringer, but he's also part Quincy

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turns out, and next thing you know, at the end of this, he's gonna be a

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super saying, and then he's also, Hey, you don't forget, he's also a hollow.

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Oh yeah.

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He's also a hollow, but he is not exactly in a Ron car.

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Also, he's he's a visor, right?

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'cause he is not really in a run card because he wasn't a hollow that could

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turned into the, but also, dang ichigo, your childhood must have sucked.

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Man.

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This dude is going to be like another version of Voldemort.

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He just split his soul into seven or eight different people.

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This man has all the powers.

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All of 'em.

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It's anime plot arm.

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How are you supposed to progress the story?

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And you know what's, you know what the worst part is about all these powers.

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What?

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I don't, for some reason, I don't care.

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It's awesome.

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That we were saying, we were like the Quincy angle was really the only way to

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drive the plot forward because they've already used everything else, right?

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They've already explored all the plot lines.

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It was just one plot line that he forgot about.

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Clearly, obviously, I bet that he was sitting down and they're like,

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okay, we're gonna do bleaching.

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He's oh really, man?

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And he was like all right, I don't a doubt.

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Let me re-watch some of this stuff.

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And he reach, he, he doesn't even write, he doesn't even look at the mug.

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He like turns on the tv.

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He is ah what was I doing 10 years ago?

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Hey, this show's pretty good.

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Oh, I forgot to follow up that Quincy thing.

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Oh, forget them all.

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Quincy thing.

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That's like when singers, they have to brush up on their own songs.

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'cause when you know, when you go to a concert, you wanna hear the greatest hits.

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And it's Wayne, or anybody else, they have to brush up on their own

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songs because it makes some noise.

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I think there was an interview with Lil Wayne and Eminem where they were like,

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oh yeah, we had to look up a lyrics.

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Our own songs to make sure we didn't say this lyric before, because

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his lyric sounds really great.

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That's how many songs they have.

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And they read a lyric to him and he was like, oh, who said that?

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And he was like, you did?

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And he was like, oh, really?

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I'm the best.

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Dang man.

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That sounds awesome.

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I said that.

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That's crazy.

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But the crazy part was, so we find out he's part Quincy because of course

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plot armor you can't just, and also these quincy's have way more intense

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powers in the Quincy that has been here for the past 400 episodes.

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'cause he sat there What was that guy that was like, yeah, he's using an outdated,

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version, Quincy version of Quincy and we've ascended past that and blah, blah,

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blah, and we were like, all right, man.

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Chill out, dude.

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Also, if he's using the outdated version, I guess if he got the new one, he'd be

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whooping all of you guys' ass because if his is so weak and he can do everything

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that he that he did, do, you guys don't even hold a candle to this guy.

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That's crazy.

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But so we find out that he's part Quincy.

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And we find out that's, that guy is his father.

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Yeah.

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He says, my son born in the dark.

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Now I think that he's lying.

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I think that he might be saying it.

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You think that's a manipulation tactic?

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Yeah.

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I think he might be saying it as in I help bequeath.

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You help make you like, I have a feeling that because he says, oh, you

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don't know the truth about your mother.

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So I have feeling that either he's his granddad or oh, he

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was, he helped her do something.

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Like he put a part of himself kinda Voldemort it kinda like how you

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think Darth Plaus, how he, molded Anakin into coming into, yeah.

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Something like that.

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Especially 'cause or was it Darius?

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Darius, I think, yeah.

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Especially because He awoken some sort of like Quincy protection

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that he just, never had before.

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And it was because of he was jailed up and this he was captured in this

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ball and then, 'cause he hit the, he tried to break out and melted

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with his old soul and brought back, I'm like, bro, this is this plot.

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Armor is heavy but this is some heavy plot armor.

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But it makes up for it with these intense like emotional moments and battle scenes.

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So it's like I don't even care.

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The best part of this series so far has been the head captain battle.

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Oh my gosh, dude, that man was like, I'm number one for a reason.

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You think this is a joke?

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And it's crazy to figure out that the original 13 head captains,

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that was just like a random title.

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They were actually just a bunch of crazy thugs, right?

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They were just a bunch of crazy, powerful ruthless killers, right?

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So 'cause now the 13 captain is oh, I'm so prestigious.

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I have lieutenants, I have this, I have that.

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And they're like, nah.

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Originally it was just a whole bunch of killers and people just couldn't kill us.

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So we just went out doing what we had to do.

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We just called itself 13 captains for no reason.

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Basically.

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Basically just, it was just an arbitrary name.

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Yeah.

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And the captain of the healing squad.

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I guess she was one of the original 13 too, which I did

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not know until I saw this.

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So it's just so she was one of those man mindless killers.

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I can't wait to see what she's like.

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She must be crazy powerful.

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And the thing, dude, like I was just thinking to myself,

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this man can raise the dead.

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Yeah, he was like, would you like to see old comrades again?

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And you're just like, yo, because he was like, oh, you can raise the dead.

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What am I gonna do with skeletons?

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That's not gonna scare me.

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He is oh.

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Really, these are your friends.

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These are your friends.

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Let me wave my hand.

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And you see all your old relatives and comrades from a thousand years ago.

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That's so crazy.

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And then plus, if he uses Bonai for too long, he just destroys

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the entire Soul society himself.

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That's how powerful this guy is.

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And it shows you how much more powerful.

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He is then all of the captains, right?

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And like it wasn't even a little bit, this man is a universe apart

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from these it's not even the same.

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He has four.

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He uses Bonai in four different ways.

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Something that you said was very interesting, which I have always had

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a question about in bleach and he answered it, was that, so when eating

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in, it's smart 'cause they show it in the way of his lieutenant, right?

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So his lieutenant.

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Becomes his lieutenant, the number one captain.

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He gains his a lieutenant when his lieutenant learns a bonai.

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And he uses Bonai and it gives, gets that second slash on his face.

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So the crazy part is that his bonai wasn't very effective.

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'cause he was like, oh, you didn't own your bonai yet.

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You get to train up your Bon Kai for it to be better and better.

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And so it's oh.

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If your bonai can improve.

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That's why each, 'cause I was like, 'cause after the Bonai

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that was supposed to be it.

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It's oh, that's as powerful as you can get.

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But then h o becomes more powerful throughout the series.

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So it's like, how is this possible?

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'cause Bonai is supposed to be like number one, but then that makes sense

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if you can keep improving on your bonai.

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Yeah.

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And then you could have a north, south, east, and west.

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Yeah.

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You can have like different versions of your bond guys.

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What is going on?

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I would.

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I, you know what's probably gonna happen?

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He's gonna probably gonna get like some sort of okay, so he is a sword, so I'm

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gonna say what's better than a sword?

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Here's the thing.

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He's already had a big sword, so I'm gonna say probably two swords.

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No.

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The thing is remember whenever they were leaving the lieutenant to the big guy?

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He broke Ichigo sword.

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Yeah, the lieutenant to the main villain broke Ichigo sword, right?

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So that sets him up to get a new weapon.

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Which makes sense.

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And it's refreshing.

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'cause it's okay, cool, you've had that for this long and then

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it makes sense that you did it and broke the sword in that type of way.

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So now it gives way for him to get something else.

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Yeah.

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He's probably going to refine his Quincy powers.

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He's probably gonna get something like, oh, I'm a Quincy,

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I'm a hollow visor, Quincy.

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Drag super saying, I also ate a devil fruit.

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I also have the will of fire.

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He's gonna go, he's gonna do leave hurricane.

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He's gonna he's also in code kiosk.

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He's also, he's all well, and also he gets a zu bean, he'll up with ASU bean and

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then, He gets the GumGum fruit and is like super stretchy and he , but yeah, so I.

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But I thought that, and then becomes the new Sailor Maho.

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That's the final, that's the stage.

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And he gets a device to become the Digi Destin.

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He digi balls

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and then he gets captured in a poker ball and it becomes a Pokemon.

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His Pokemon name is Youyo Game Master, he plays with the heart of the card, right?

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And then he is flung into the future and meets Samurai Jack.

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You're like, this is not even anime.

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And then he learns all four elements and becomes the new avatar.

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And then you hear little boy, it's so gonna be.

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Like, bro, how'd you get metal bots?

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I don't know, man.

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Like he meets out of his prime and he's alright, let's go defeat omicron.

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But no, dude, I thought that this is exactly what needed to happen.

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Like I'm excited that they pretty much wrapped up.

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I'm sure they're gonna completely wrap up the after the four

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after the next seven episodes.

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But this makes it to where they have three other parts.

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That means they have a whole new storyline, a whole new like

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universe, M C U now all they have to do was just not mess it up.

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The easy part.

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The easy part.

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That's the easy part.

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But they've pretty much destroyed the old storyline and all the old characters.

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Oh, obliterated it.

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So many people are dead, like not coming back dead.

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Yeah.

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Not even people are chopped in half.

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Their heads are blown off and stuff like that.

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I was like, bro, I knew something was bad when this, when the

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lieutenant started to dance guy.

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Oh, and also, One of the characters, her hair is brown

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blonde now instead of orange.

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Yeah.

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I didn't really notice that, 'cause I was, busy enjoying the anime.

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I was like, oh, hey, this person's, because she usually a redhead, but

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apparently in the, I haven't read the Bleach Monkey, but apparently she's

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blonde and in the anime she's redheaded.

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And now it's oh, now we're making her blonde.

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Just like in the man.

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And it's A little late for that.

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Shouldn't you have done that like a long time ago?

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It's like what Harrison Ford said to Mark Hamill when they

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were filming Star Wars, right?

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And he was like hey listen, you gotta put this, that, and this, that, and the other.

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And Harrison was like, Hey kid.

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Hey, if they're worried about that, this movie is screwed.

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Oh yeah.

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He is they're worried about your hair.

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This movie's screwed.

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Which is true.

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Yeah.

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I didn't, I wasn't worried about that.

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I was.

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Pay attention into, a head captain burned down the soul society

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by just using his own Bowers.

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Just accidentally.

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Just, that's a side effect is that everyone else dies.

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That him damn fighting someone and saying everyone else dies.

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And he was like, what do you mean, what are you doing?

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And he was like, oh yeah, I didn't use my full powers.

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Last time we fought.

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Yeah.

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That was only a fraction of what I could do.

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That switcher was so fake, bro.

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I hated that switcher.

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I was like, oh, you gotta do, oh, that was he me?

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How was that?

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Not really you.

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How, because the guy who said did the copy, right?

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He was supposedly dead from, so how did he even do that?

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Yeah, that's a major hole.

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How did he, how did that e.

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How did that even made sense?

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And the crazy part was, while everybody else was dying, Kim Pachi was like, yeah,

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I killed these three dudes right here.

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They pissed me off at how weak they were.

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Yeah.

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Especially 'cause I don't have a bon guy or any powers.

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I just have a sword.

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I'm just better than you in general.

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And the thing was, is he was like, and.

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If there was this one guy who's really interesting, I fought myself

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and you know how I'm beating myself.

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I just got stronger.

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Yeah.

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That's like what?

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Such a hack.

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That's such a bad I was someone, I'd be like, you're pretty strong.

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It's oh yeah, that's just be stronger.

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I'd be like, that's not fair.

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Come on.

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Hey, stop that.

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No.

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You weren't supposed to do that.

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Just be like, dj, you could solve a lot of your problems right now by just.

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Having more money.

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Just, oh yeah, I'm poor.

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Lemme just have money.

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Just have more money man.

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Lemme just have money.

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The man was like, yeah, I've just got stronger.

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And you were just like, and somehow I believe that he's

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probably the one to have done that.

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He's the only person I would believe who actually accomplished this.

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This man that has a terrible ratty sword and yet everybody is

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absolutely terrified of this man.

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Yeah he.

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Loses to each ego.

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And then next thing it's just he doesn't even have to give, like he

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puts bells on his hair so people can keep up with him and stuff like that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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'cause he's so fast.

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Yeah.

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But anyway, guys that's the first seven episodes of thousand Year Blood Arc.

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We're pretty happy with it so far.

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But any, but anyway, guys this is Southern Sim Pies, and we'll see y'all later.

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See you next time.

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I'm dj.

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I'm Nicholas, and we'll see you later.

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Bye.

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This has been Southern Syn pies on ComicCon Radio.

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You can follow the show at Southern Syn Pies on all major social media platforms.

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Tune in next Wednesday for a fresh episode.

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Y'all come back now.

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About the Podcast

Southern Senpais
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Far from the far East, two American Southerners explore Japanese culture in Southern Senpais! Hosted by Derek Johnson (@derek.johnsonii) and Nicholas Killian (@nicholaskilliann), they discuss popular Japanese anime, manga, and video games from a Southern eye. Tune in as they navigate the culture from the perspective of two guys that grew up in small rural towns!

About your hosts

Nicholas Killian

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Nicholas Killian is an American actor From Louisiana.

Derek Johnson

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Derek Johnson II is an American screenwriter and director from Tennessee.