Bleach Thousand Year Blood War episode 12 review
Half this episode is simply Urahara cooking up an in-depth explanation for the purpose of getting out of being painted into a corner. It’s retcon city, so to speak. Basically, Ichigo’s mother, out of nowhere, starts getting Hollowfied. Urahara shows up out of nowhere to save her. Then he brings Isshin and Uryu’s father with him and basically tells them that the only way to save Masaki is for Isshin to give up his Soul Reaper powers. Very convenient. Uryu’s father isn’t too happy about it, but what can he do? The retcon didn’t include him.
So now we’ve found a way to make Ichigo’s mother Hollow and Quincy, and his father of course is a Soul Reaper. That covers everything, right? Enough to make it so that Ichigo can be everything to everybody. In between, Urahara comes up with a vaccine to save Masaki from “soul suicide.” But even he can’t save her from Yhwach, who is now the one responsible for her death – more retconning! And now that Ichigo has been told everything from his father, he can now go back to the Soul Society and, in the words of Jeff Probst, “get it on!”
Listening to Urahara ramble on and on about all this Hollow stuff was sort of like watching paint dry. It was in essence an info dump for the purpose of tightroping the line that allows Ichigo to be Quincy yet for everything that has happened to still kind of sort of make sense. At least we’re through with this annoying flashback.
Best girl of the episode: Masaki (2)
Episode rating: 6/10
Tommy A. Phillips 