Soooo, this week's chapter is a very clashing and unsatisfying mix of 'pretty good' and 'pretty carp' bad'.
So, it seems Unohana really did die as we get one of those 'Death-Speeches-Inside-the-Head-that-are-Completely-useless-since-no-one-hears-it' that are sooooo typical of Kubo's stories it almost hurts, but we do have a pretty nice moment where Kenpachi urges her not to die, which is always nice. Also, a moment fans have been waiting for for freakin' years, Kenpachi HEARS HIS ZANPAKUTO. Now, the scene cuts before the sword (Which sounds surprisingly formal, polite and well-spoken, oddly) can tell its name, so maybe they'll make this thing where he can hear the sword's voice but just hears a blur when the time comes to hear its name, leading to another training with his Zanpakuto incarnation. This pretty cool death scene is, however, hindered by one little fact:
WHY DON'T THEY GET ORIHIME TO BRING BACK UNOHANA TO LIFE?! Kubo covered why they can't bring back Yamamoto pretty well: His body was completely destroyed by Bach, there ain't nothin' to bring back, but Unohana clearly has a corpse that's intact, just heal that back to life!! Yamamoto was the one that had qualms about involving Orihime, a 'normal' human, in Soul Society affairs, but Kyouraku clearly has a different mind set on the matter if he was willing to give Kenpachi a carp load of power to defend the Soul Society, I think he'd be willing to get Orihime to just stand by on the prison floor above the one Unohana and Kenpachi are fighting on and, when the battlin' is over and one is dead, just hurry down and heal the loser. Seriously, Kubo doesn't have the luxury to back down now that he clearly introduced the concept of bringing the dead back to life thanks to Orihime when she revived a HALF-DESTROYED Menoly during the Hueco Mundo arc. Orihime doesn't even need a full body, just part of it, and Unohana was clearly mostly intact.
HEAL HER!!!
Anyway, now for the 'Pretty carp' bad' part, we go back to Ichigo&Renji vs. The Asauchi and we see that, while Renji succeeded (Somehow), Ichigo has fallen, though he immediately gets back and yells at Ridiculous-Glasses-Dude when told he failed. Since he's still on his feet, feeling good enough to yell at people and that no more Asauchi are attacking him, I would think that would kinda... make him a winner too, but apparently not. And this, my friends, is complete, I repeat, COMPLETE bullsh*t. There is nothing Renji can do that Ichigo cannot. It's not even discussable, Renji is a freakin' ANT compared to Ichigo. Heck, Ichigo is the one, the ONLY ONE that managed to weaken Aizen while Renji got completely obliterated on every possible occasion! Renji SUCKS! He's a terrible character, plain and simple. But no, apparently, he gets to go on while Ichigo gets bitchslapped out of the King's Dimension. Yeah, I'm sure the freakin' MAIN PROTAGONIST of the series is gonna go back home and stay weak while a sucky secondary character becomes the new Big Cheese. I can't believe Kubo is even going there, no one buys it. Aaaaand it seems Kubo himself doesn't really buy it, as the Ridiculous-Glasses-Dude (Officially the character I hate the most) sends him to yet another dimension to 'Get back to his roots'... I'm guessing we might finally see Zangetsu, this time, but I'm also guessing Kubo will make us wait a bit more, maybe with a useless chapter where Isane moarns Unohana's death, or something (GET ORIHIME!!!)
Yep, Bleach is stiiiiiiill sucking.