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[Leafsnail]

Yeah, I really enjoyed it too.

Wait, I still have a few episodes of season 2 left to watch!  Hmm, knew I was forgetting something.

[Baughn]

Zero no tsukaima

If this is what I am thinking of I LOATHE IT SOO MUCH!

Honestly... since when was abuse funny? Especially slave abuse.

Agreed. Hate, fear and loathing were my primary reactions - I watched ten episodes, mostly because people kept telling me "it's not that bad, really!" - but it just kept getting worse.

There is only one saving grace to the whole thing. While Louise's world is mostly static, ours is definitely not; give it a few decades, and they'll get invaded.

And it will be glorious.

[ToonyMan]

I'm on episode 10 of Baccano!.

Everything is starting to connect together yah.

[Baughn]

Don't forget to watch the OVAs afterwards.

There's also a new anime based on a manga by the same author - and using the same animation studio - this spring, which you may want to look up; it's called "Dyurarara!!".

[Tack]

Hey. I liked Zero No Tsukaima.

Agreed, it got closer and closer to slave hentai with every season, but still. Good swordfights. A cross between the awesome quickness of Samurai Champloo and the complete incomprehensibility of Bleach.

Or, at least, it would have been, if they didn't waste so much time on character building.
Samurai Champloo did that too.

[Shinji]

Hey. I liked Zero No Tsukaima.

Agreed, it got closer and closer to slave hentai with every season, but still. Good swordfights. A cross between the awesome quickness of Samurai Champloo and the complete incomprehensibility of Bleach.

I just started reading Zero No Tsukaima (manga) if i like that enough Ill watch the anime.
Bleach isnt totally incomprehensible. It makes sense. Just takes too long.

[Tack]

Not incomprehensible, sorry.

Incomprehensibly over-powered swordfights.

[Neruz]

Zero No Tsukaima would probably be horrible if the slave abuse was taken even remotely seriously. It's not.

The third season is a gigantic wtf moment though.



Bleach is just... Bleach. It's fun, but it has an annoying habit of Worfing characters left right and center just to show how incredibly overpowered Yamamoto or Aizen is. And if Ichigo ever dies, you can be assured that no matter how awesome the character he was fighting is, that character is going to be dead by the end of the next issue\episode.

[Shinji]

I have the strangest feeling shinji is going to get pwned by aizen which is a shame cause hes one of my favourite characters
and ichigo cant die, he will somehow manage to overcome anyone by using the power of friendship. or his inner hollow

[Neruz]

Ichigo dies all the time, but his hollow form has the most rediculously overpowered regeneration in the series, so dying isn't an issue for him.


I'm serious about the regeneration btw; plenty of hollows show a 'Fast Regeneration' ability, only Ichigo's ability gets called out as Instant Regeneration. Regeneration so fast the blood he is bleeding turns into freaking carapace and stabs you.



I honostly can't think of any way to kill Ichigo's hollow form. It's regeneration is just plain unbeatable; it doesn't matter how hard you hit him, he will regenerate in less than a second, and as we saw with the great big hole Ulquiorra punched through him, his regeneration works on vital organs too (unlike everyone elses.)

Oh, and should someone ever actually work out how to kill him somehow, Orihime can promptly give reality the middle finger and bring him back to life anyway.



But yeah; Shinji is almost certainly about to get Worfed by Aizen. Aizen's Shikai power is even more broken that Ichigo's abilities, god only knows what kind of gay stunts his Bankai can pull; as good as Shinji is, he doesn't stand a chance against Aizen "I'm Better Than You" Sousuke.

[Shinji]

yeah orihime annoys me with the whole, 'I reject you reality'

maybe soi fong could kill ichigo? but thats only if she could hit him.

If anyone dies i hope its tousen. that guy really annoys me but i recon hes going to get it soon

[Neruz]

How would she kill him? His hollow form regenerates instantly remember (and takes full advantage of that in fights, it doesn't even bother defending itself because it really doesn't need to.)

She'd probably take out Ichigo Ichigo, but then the hollow would kick in as it always does when Ichigo dies and wham, she's down and out.


Plus there's reasonable odds his Bankai is as fast as she is, at least whenever Tite is consistant about it, since it seems to slow down arbitrarily whenever he feels like it.

[Shinji]

Well the 2 stab supposed instant kill might do it. cept i doubt it

and her bankai seems strong enough to blast off his head at any rate. he might be able to rejuvinate his normal organs cept i doubt he regenerate his head. That presuming she could hit him though which is doubtful

[Antioch]

*coughspoilerscough*

[Neruz]

I sincerely doubt Suzumebachi's instant kill would be any more effective than anyone else's instant kill (that is to say, not.)

As for blowing of his head; that'd be even less effective. His hollow form showed absolutely no noticable drop in power despite having a gigantic hole punched right through the middle of it, Ichigo's hollow form has shown itself to be effectively indestructable, and any injuries you do manage to inflict on it are promptly ignored and regenerated moments later. I don't imagine blowing off his head would have any more effect than anything else.



It's worth taking a look at the fight between the Vizard when he was suppressing his hollow too; look at how it's fighting there. The thing would be a nightmare to face on the field, it's actively using it's regenerative abilities to reshape it's body and launch all kinds of wierd fucked-up attacks (giant mouth snake thing wat). I think going up against Ichigo's hollow form in full cry would be a very stupid move unless your Aizen, and thus have the one single weapon capable of actually stopping him with your OP impossible-to-break illusion bullshit.

Of course all of this is just theory, but the fact that Ichigo's regeneration gets called out as being special Instant regeneration (and it is called out with a different kanji in the manga, it's not just a translation thing) is pretty goddamn scary, since we've already seen that normal fast regeneration on a Captain level monster is serious buisness, and that regeneration couldn't regenerate internal organs, something which Ichigo's hollow regeneration seems to have absolutely no problem doing.


The only reason Ichigo hasn't eaten everyone else on the cast yet is because he keeps somehow winning his mental battles with his inner hollow. That and he's Kenpachi-lite, which i must admit does help.



I feel i should also add that Ichigo's hollow has never actually been seen fighting at 'full power' so to speak, and that Ichigo himself seems horrifically incompetant at taking full advantage of some of his abilities. Something which his hollow self seems more than capable of doing.