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Escape

Yupi starts pretending to be enraged. Is trying to full Knuckle for his own advantage.

It seems like Pufu has been transfroming himself into tiny little bugs and escaping Morau’s prision. Will he realize this soon enough?

Ikarugo is still shearching for Palm. He comes in contact with Brovuda. Brovuda already had a plan for figuring out the traitor. If Ikarugo hadn’t been hiding, he would be dead now.

Something happened to Palm. The message she leaves makes us assume she’s dead or at least won’t matter anymore on the course of things.

Ikarugo sees a chance to do something, but I’m not sure to what he means with it. We’ll have to wait and see. 

Recitativo

Cross and the other higher ups are going to central.

This chapter shows the characters still recuperating and Allen and Kanda already training. It was really funny. This is defnately one of the funniest series I’ve read along with Full Metal and GTO.

Komui and the other reserchers reach the conclusion that Lenalee’s innocence is a new type. An evolution. I guess they should all try to undergo this evolution. They need to get strong fast.

The Noah’s are planning something. It’s going to start in the next chapter. 

Turn Back The Pendulum 5

So, something happens. This little arc is really going to be important for the main storyline.

It starts with some people disappearing. The guys behind this have shinigami ropes.  We can also see a huge round, that seems to belong to one. Is this Nnoitra? Im’ suspecting at least Aizen to be causing this.

They talk about some "bump in the road", what or who is getting in their way?

Back to Soul Society, Mayuri is working under Hurahara and people are discussing the strange disappearances.

The ninth division is investigating this. The captain himself goes out since the squad he sent didn’t come back yet. While doing it, they come across some surprisingly huge hollows. Is their size related to the disappearances?

After they take care of the hollows, they find ten shinigami robes lying there. Has the squad also disappeared?

More curiosities are being satisfied. From the fight, a boy was saved. He’s the current vice-captain of ex-captain Tousen’s squad, the 69 guy. 

The Leaf’s Origins

Madara continues his story about Itachi, although he still doesn’t explain his part in all of it. 

Tobi says that the Uchiha’s massacre was done by Itachi on orders from Konoha’s top brass. And that Itachi didn’t have bad intentions.

Why would this be? Was there a good enough reason for wanting every Uchiha dead? Wre they going to become dangerous? Why leave Sasuke alive? Was that the personal doing of Itachi or was he ordered to let him live? Knowing the Third’s personality, I can’t believe he agreed to that mission.

How does Madara come into this story?

It seems there’s always been a conflit between Konoha and the Uchiha Clan. Tobi explains how he got the Mangekyo and how the Uchiha first came into contact with the Senju Clan of the Forest. At this time I would think that Madara, having the Mangekyo, would be stronger than the First.

The cover’s headline makes me believe that the Sharingan has been used to control the Kyuubi and prevent catastrophe. Maybe they want them dead, because they have the potential to control the Kyuubi? Maybe the Kyuubi’s attack happened from an Uchiha’s revenge? But, was it Madara? Then why would he help Itachi? And how does this fit with "promising child" story? Who’s Naruto supposed to kill?

Senju looks cool and confident. We will have to wait for the next issue to know how this "conflict" begun.

Squirm

The training is progressing. Naruto decides to ask Azuma for help, since he’s also a wind user.

Azuma explains how wind chakra should be manipulated. He uses his chakra blades to explain. It seems they absorb the user’s chakra and react to it’s nature. I wonder the effect they have with different natures and jutsus.

The various scenes taken from the manga are all progressing at a good pace, but there’s some added fillers that complement the story. All in all, I think they are doing good, and the episodes don’t turn boring or stupid with everlasting stares and such.

The filler arc has some new developments. Tsunade thinks it will be good to keep Naruto away on a "safe" mission, while Azuma, one of the village’s jounin, is away. I think this logic is kind of stupid. So, Team Azuma goes to check the destroyed village, Team Yamato goes on a B-rank mission and Kakashi also goes to try to uncover some more information on Akatsuki’s movements.

In the meantime, Naruto has completed the first step of his training. Using his wind chakra to completely cut the leaf. Azuma and Kurenai are also getting some development.

I hope this arc gets some good fight scenes and an interesting plot. For now, the Jinchuriki story is still just a rumor. The bad guys only seem to care about taking revenge on Konoha to help the Fire Country develop. There’s no sign of the boy who appeared first yet.

The New Captain Appears! His name is Amagai Shuusuke

There’s a new OP and ED stating this episode. It’s high quality this time with nice animation. It’s all related with the new filler arc, which makes me believe that this arc will last an entire season.

The fillers have started. Ichigo doesn’t appear in this episode, but I guess they will find some excuse to bring him out of Hueco Mundo in order to enter in this arc. I hope that doesn’t create some plot holes, because of the manga’s original story.

The episode starts with the new captain being introduced to the others. The 3rd squad doesn’t trust him yet and everybody is waiting for Amagai to prove himself. Kira, always sad mooded, is feeling a lot of pressure to make things work between his new captain and the 3rd squad’s shinigamis.

This creates some funny situations as Kira tries harder than it’s really needed.

The 3rd squad gets called to eliminate some hollows in Severing World. There’s a weird problem and the Seizing Currents are not deactivated. The squad gets in trouble, but Amagai manages to save everyone.

Was this problem just so that Amagai could get along better with his subordinates, or is it related to the main plot of the arc?

Overall, the episode very good, nothing special happened and I didn’t think it was funny but, it managed to be okay.

From the upcoming episode’s names, the fillers will certainly last at least until episode 172. But then again, they will probably last the whole season.

Spy

Fujimaro goes home alone. As soon as he enters, he sees his sister on the ground. Enraged he dashs to the killer, but Haruka’s voice surprises him and he’s taken down by the killer.

So, the spy is actually a subordinate of their father. She’s there to help them.

It seems like there’s a spy in Third-I. That’s the only thing Takagi has told to their team.

Takagi has gone to an hold friend of his. He’s asked him to take look at a DNA sample. The researcher says its a scary sequence. But, there’s an hitman prepared to take out Takagi and the story shifts back to school.

I think Fujimaro is pretty stupid in going to confront Maya and directly tell her that he suspects her. He could use it later as a surprise element. Also, talking to her alone.. It’s like he doesn’t understand what it means if Maya is an enemy.

Maya tells him her alibi and he leaves to confirm it. A man observing the situation talks to Maya. From her answer, it seems she won’t exitate kill Fujimaru if he finds out the truth. More importantly, she asks him how it went. The man with a butterfly tattoo answers "He’s dead".

I doubt Takagi has really been killed like that but, I can’t see how he survived if the hitman is do certain of having killed him. Is the tattoo just a normal tattoo? Or does it mean he belongs to some clan or order or something like that? 

Your Soul’s Family

The chapter starts off with Ed’s escape. It’s very funny how Ed and the two chimeras work between them.

After some shootings and chases, they finally manage to get away. Ed tries to think of where Al would go if they were looking for a place to meet each other. He comes up with the idea to go to one of the old hideouts, the one Gluttony destroyed.

To bad Al is still in Rose’s town. Hohenheim tells all everything. They both talk about their situation, they are similar in a way, both are supposedly immortal. Hohenheim says the tunnel is probably already complete but there’s no worry, because the bad guys are still waiting for the right day. It’s probably an important date, like when the homunculus first broke free or something like that.

Greed is still chasing his old pal. He has no memories of the past Greed. He kills the chimera without hesitating. But, porbably due to his greedy nature, he can’t even forget the past Greed’s memories and they come back. Lee, trapped inside Greed uses this chance to torment him. Greed start losing it, he can’t deal with those feelings.

He gets angry and goes directly to Wrath. He starts attacking him with Pride and his wife near. Pride doesn’t intervene as to not expose his true identity.

Both fight on equal footing but, with the arriving of backup, Greed runs away. He desperatly runs until he reaches tthe hideout Ed is checking.

As soon as he sees Ed, he collapses relieved to see him. He’s Lee again.

The good side gets another powerful allie. Things are looking better.