nervousFun fact: I keep reading that as "Buckbeak".
WHY IS HE SO DAMN HARD TO READ. That could be a "oh, I know who you are now" look or a "you injured Sasakibe, you bastard!" look or ANY other look. grargh.
No, Mysterious Masked Dude/tte! It really isn't! >_>
I realised after a moment that those ellipses are meant to conceal another word (namely: destroy/erase/etc), but during that moment I had some pretty ridiculous visuals of the entire Gotei 13 dancing while shouting "We Can Bankai" and "Let's Bankai!" /hangs head
Also, Sasakibe is alive! (for the moment?) \o/
Also, Sasakibe has (had?) bankai! (did we know this?)
One does not simply make Ichigo's bankai vanish.
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So they aren't Arrancars, as presumably the methods of travel are as unique to the different kinds of fighters in Bleach as methods of combat and high-speed relocation.
So this is the rumoured Ice Castle/Ice Palace. I wonder about that cross-mark on the tall tower to the left. Are these guys Quincies or what!
Ohoho. You know, boys, it's a pretty bad start to a war if you can't even agree on your mission objectives from the very beginning...
...well, dude, maybe you shouldn't be picking a fight with Soul Society then? Just a thought. >.> [I totally thought Zangetsu at first! /o\ but it clearly isn't.] Also, he is identified as "The Empire's King" in the scan and I can't find any raws, but I'm pretty sure the king over in Soul Society is called the Spirit King (but that too could be a translation thing). ...I really need to buy the series in Japanese and re-read, now that I can.
