Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War episode 3 review
That above pic might be the single-best screenshot I’ve ever seen in Bleach. There’s Orihime, who was tortured by the two people sitting a yard to the left of her – and she’s healing them. Even Loly, who did some really nasty things to her. That pretty sums up Orihime as a human being. If you don’t like Orihime, then may I suggest you give up anime and go watch reruns of King of the Hill?
Anyway, Ichigo is fighting the Quincy guy, while back at home in the world of the living (see, I still remember the Bleach terminology well) Uryu goes to work on trying to find why the hell there are all these Quincys. Remember, when Uryu was first introduced, he was billed as the “last Quincy.” Then his father came along, so now there’s two “last Quincys.” Now, there’s an entire army of Quincys attacking the Soul Society. That’s right, an entire army.
How could Uryu and his father be so catastrophically wrong about this? The answer is in one of the millions of books at the Texas School Book Depository. And Uryu realizes that the answer is on the sixth floor, I mean, a desk of his father’s. Now he’s going to figure out how the single biggest retcons in anime history manages to make sense.
Ichigo had a pretty epic fight, while a few of those other Arrancars fight and get beaten by the Quincy. By episode four, I should know his name, but I won’t make any promises.
Best girl of the episode: Orihime (2)
Episode rating: 8/10
Tommy A. Phillips 