Well I love Bleach and Im really digging the new fillers. Even though they are fillers. I was freakin when I found out Renji's zanpoaktou was a girl. haha never saw that one coming. But I think Zakari's zanpoaktou does have a soul in it he just can't talk to it yet. Because I don't think he could have a zanpoaktou if it didn't have a soul and name of its own. And man I can't wait to see the episode when they talk or even meet eachother. I think that will atleast happen. He may never get banki but I hope he has atleast a sweet looking partner.

Man so far, compared to the bount fillers these ones are way better. Its kinda interesting to me showing the humanoid forms of the zanpaktou's and their personalities. At least its somewhat relevant to the bleach story.

Imo, this arc is the best of all the ones we've had so far. Seeing the zanpaktos in human-ish form is interesting. But of course, i'd rather get back to the main story soon.

I really like the new fillers! I didn't like the bount fillers so good, so I'm kinda happy that this one is good. And I hope that Kenpachi will meet his zanpakutou.

I must say, I really like the new fillers with the Zanpaktous. It's actually the best one I've seen in Bleach. ;D
It's a great watch while waiting for the main story, really.
The whole Zanpaktou rebellion...fantastic~
I really don't think Muramasa belongs to Kenpachi. If you think about it, Muramasa said he killed his wielder and well, Kenpachi's sorta alive o.o

I'm looking forward to the episode with Matsumoto and Haineko. It looks like it's going to be quite interesting because of the way Matsumoto treated her. [When the arc began, she was yelling at Haineko,because she wasn't listening to her.]

Ichigo and Renji were the first ones who have regained control over their Zanpakuto by exploiting their weaknesses which caused Muramasa to retreat for now. Now let's see how Rukia will ever get her Zanpakuto back...

One weird thing happened in episode 237. ikakku's zanpaktu went bankai infront of 3 captains. this isnt something that ikakku would do. this shows that the zanpaktu might differ from the shinigami in some level.
but the rules they bout follow in a fight seems to be same.

The fillers this time is really quite interesting. I am pleased I have something with so much plot to watch while waiting for the Ulqi and Ichi fight. And yes, the Zanpuktou's does seem to differ to their shinigami. Kazeshini wanting to kill, Hisagi doesn't. But the strange thing is that Houzikimaru went bankai, eventhough he was described by Ikkaku as "a lazy bum", who didn't want to wake up for bankai. ...

I'm about one or two episodes behind the latest but the last episode that I watched was pretty decent. The mind control bit of Ichigo kind of caught me off guard. And the ending when Muramasa eyes were bleeding out showed that he probably doesn't have long or probably has some way to increase his lifespan or whatever he's doing to stay in that form. Maybe when he said he had no shinigami, was a huge hint to why he's reacting like that. Or perhaps there is a nefarious character keeping Muramasa alive behind the scenes, like a contractor or something. I never thought that there would be any new attacks for major characters no matter what gets hinted at as it is a filler arc, and no matter how much of an improvement it is over filler arcs in the past (for all series) there is no way that anything new will happen that doesn't disappear again before the arc ends.

The ending of Renji's fight seem rushed. But the animation made up for it and I was completely satisfied with the ending between Ichigo and Zangetsu.They couldn't make a better ending than that.

I want to know how Renjis katana went into his shikai form if his zanpaktou is supposed to be completely separated from his soul. His katana shouldn't have been able to transform.

That's a good point.

I'm still weirded out on that.

I can't wait to watch this arc :)
I'm waiting till they all come out, then I'm going to watch them all at once. I saw the first episode and realized it was going to be longer than 2 episodes, so I decided to wait.

How can you do that?!?!?!

I can't wait for an arch to be over to watch it later. I have to watch it the second it comes out.

Pardon my harsh opinion, but I think this new filler is just that, a filler made to repel people from watching Bleach. Granted, the zanpakutos' shapes, behaviours and everything might be a good story if taken good care of. The problem is, it's made into a typical filler story, which means that no matter how well it's done, it'll go against the original story and kill the interest even further because, let's face it, the animators have no idea what Tite's ideas are and they're taking a narrow-minded sight to something the author has shown has much more meaning in each separate part than the whole of the anime put together.

So far, Kubo Tite has shown very different idea streams into each plot and each going with a different set of knowledge. One example given in latest chapters of the manga was the idea of the nine different deaths from biblical scriptures to correlate with the numbered Espada. That's something nobody foresaw, and it's only one example.

One other thing. This new filler might be so very good as an alternative story, but it already ruined the whole future story by bringing the spoiler of Ichigo's full transformation in the midst of this completely unrelated story, therefore killing the surprise before it appeared in its proper context. How can you say a fabrication of imbecile distorted ideas that also ruin the ongoing story can be any good like this?

Leave the fillers as just that and let the story run its course sepparately. But this one is ruining the whole story.

ARGH

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They did it with the last episode. Just bombed it. For those who haven't watched it yet, then go watch it before you read the rest of this. For everyone else, can you just agree with me on this point that the anime making people just wasted something so interesting; Wabiske! How can they just have Zaraki slice him in half before Wabiske even shows anything about his nature?! I'm going to kill these people. D8<