Bleach - Episode 218
Kira
The Battle Within Despair
Hisagi’s opponent, never liked him. He acts all high and mighty like if he could also be captain level if he wanted. Whatever, we’ll get back to it next week.
Now, to focus on Kira, his opponent goes full resurrection-mode from the beginning. Kira is having a hard time for now but, his enemy is a physical attack type, his Wabisuke shouldn’t have much problems dealing with it. And it doesn’t. As soon as the enemy gets pumped up and evolves his "stage" his new abilities include fighting the opponent at close-range.
Kira takes this opportunity to finally use Wabisuke. The battle is pretty much won from there on. I really loved all that talk about despair and war, had already loved it in the manga. Bleach really presents us with some very interesting theories and philosophies from time to time, like when Mayuri fought with Szayel. I would just have liked it better if the episode had something more in the art department. I’m not even talking about the animation, it could have been better, but not really needed. Still they could have made a more gloomy atmosphere or something like in Shippuuden when Shikamaru grieved over Asuma’s death.
Next episode is about Hisagi. Hope this one is well animated, because as far as I remember from the manga, there’s a very cool and intelligent physical fight happening. Really love Hisagi’s zanpakutou in the way it makes up good fights.
- Next Episode: Hisagi’s Shikai!
