Nnoitra accidentally took off Kenpachi’s sealing eye-patch. The increase in Kenpachi’s strength, surpassed by far Nnoitra’s current strength.

But then, Nnoitra, enraged by Kenpachi’s attitude, releases his sword. Now, he has got for harms, more dangerous looking weapons and a much stronger skin that automatically heals.

It’s cool that Kenpachi maintains his "want a hard fight" attitude, unlike Nnoitra who changes from excited to scared.

Zaraki goes at Nnoitra again, but this time, Nnoitra has no problem defending and deals a mortal blow on Kenpachi.

At first, I was just expecting Zaraki to stand up in the next chapter and maybe do some sword releasing. But the ending-chapter message makes me feel like Zaraki is in a really bad shape after being attacked by Nnoitra.

This chapter didn’t have much talk and was all action. 

Wow, Sasuke really does lose on eye, or does he? Sasuke uses the cursed seal to defend the other eye and make Itachi back off. It seems they are still fighting only in gengutsu.

Itachi finally takes advantage of the Mangekyo and uses Tsukuyomi. Surprisingly, Sasuke overcomes that technic with only his normal sharingan. He then states that he can use is hatred to beat Itachi’s Mangekyo and that he is more skilled than him with the sharingan, thus, he can beat the Mangekyou.

Zetsu is still wacthing the fight.

The chapter ends as Itachi gets ready to use Amaterasu. Amaterasu is a goddess of the sun and I have no clue as to what it means as a technic. We can only be certain that it’s more powerful than Tsukuyomi.

Yamato talks with Naruto about the use of the Kyuubi’s powers. He states Naruto doesn’t believe in his own strength and tries to make him realize that he is strong enouth to protects his comrades, without the help of the Kyuubi.

Sakura fins Sai’s book and the Team Kakashi starts to uncover Sai’s childhood.

Also, Sasuke finally appears and addresses  Orochimaru with a cool "You’re late".

The next episode will at least give us a glimpse of Sasuke as he uses some pressure on Sai. Episode 49 or 50 will be the one that was shown at the beginning of the series, if they don’t drag it to much. Look forward to it.

Miata finally starts attacking the awekened being. But, it’s to late now. Both Galatea and Miata are defeated. Miata really is strong. After enduring all of the Agatha’s attacks, she still manages to restore her hands and throw her sword to try to protect Clarice.

I was starting to dislike Clarice when she tried to escape, but she gets some courage and saves Miata. The way both of them cry and hug each other is kind of funny.

Seems like my predictions were right to some point. Clare’s group has appeared and they are going to take care of Agatha. I hope they all unite. Miata and Galatea would be a great asset for Clare’s group. 

This episode starts right where the last ended. Chad gets taken out by Nnoitra and it seems Nnoitra is breaking the rules by going after them. Sado is left alive, but he’s not in a state to fight anymore.

Inoue finally appears after a long time. She talks with Ulquiorra, and we get a taste of Ulquiorra’s personality, which is, for me, one of the most mysterious characters right now. It’s also cool to see Inoue slap him, I just wish she was more angry than afraid.

Nnoitra says he has found someone with massive reiatsu, is he talking about Ichigo?. He also states that there’s no way to harm his body and it seems he wants to be the strongest Espada. He reminds me of Zaraki, although Zaraki is more about the fighting.

Renji also finds one of the Espada, it seems the Privaron are not gonna appear anymore and the battles are going to get a lot tougher. The Espada he meets is Szayel. He is a researcher and has already studied Renji’s fighting style. He probably already has all the counters needed to beat Renji.

The episode ended with some kind of recap from Rukia’s fight, so she’ll probably be the next episode’s main focus.

It’s good that the perverted guy is still alive, because Gantz’s teams are seriously laking some good hunters and things are getting difficult.

Kaitou takes the monster believing he can win and does a pretty good job (although the monster doesn’t slowdown even after getting some parts blown up), but he eventually gets caught.

Then, Nishi else appears and "saves" Katou. He was hiding all the time just trying to get the 100 pointer and it seems like he doesn’t care for anyone else. Nishi is one of the first guy we saw in Gantz, being a veteran and being in Gantz for already a year before Kuronu arrived there. Kuronu brouth him back to life in order to get some info on Gantz, but, I though he died with Izumi when the vampires attacked.

Even after being completly destroyed by Nishi, the 100 pointer is still alive, and this time he really looks like a monster. At least now they have got one more powerful hunter on their side.

Seriously, I love Kenpachi, it’s one of my favorite characters from all the shonen I’ve read. His fights give a total different feel than other characters.

All hollows have that hole in their bodies, seems like Nnoitra’s hole isn’t in his chest like most hollows, but in his face.

As the fighting progresses, Kenpachi is getting adapted and finaly able to cut Nnoitra. The way he shoved the zero way was really cool, and Nnoitra really gets worried. There’s also the fact that Nnoitra just took out the "chakra eating bug" from Zaraki’s face.

At this point, Kenpachi looks stronger and will probably win, but what if Nnoitra unleashes his sword? He will be much more powerful. Even if Zaraki has obtained shikai, maybe it won’t be enough. I don’t know if my theory of Kenpachi reaching shikai or bankai is likely anymore, since he said he has been getting rusty, which gives the idea he hasn’t been training.

The conclusion to this part of the fight, between the normal Nnoitra and Zaraki, will probably come in the next chapter if the story doesn’t change focus.

The real fight will only start now. Itachi activates the Mangekyo and Sasuke reveals to new summoning tattoos.

The fight is really cool and impressive. I can’t wait to see it animated.

First, Sasuke does an attack of hundreds of shurikens. Itachi, not only deflects all of them, but he still has time to form a shadow clone. As Itachi and Sasuke trap each other, Itachi’s clone attacks and Sasuke uses the cursed seal to defend and get away. He then sends a chidori powered windmill shuriken that kills the clone (unless it was the real Itachi and he used gengutsu).

Itachi then uses gengutsu to trap Sasuke again and we end the chapter with Sasuke about to lose an eye.

Sasuke will probably use the cursed seal now to get away from Itachi again, but the fact that Itachi has the Mangekyo has made a difference and will probably continue to make.