Bleach episode 100 review
If you’ve followed me since the days of my previous blog, you’d know that Soi Fon is my favorite Bleach character. If you haven’t, well, now you know. I love everything about her – everything! Her voice, her attitude, her look, her hair, her zanpakuto, her attacks, her backstory – everything about her is my favorite in Bleach. So, when we get pretty much an entire episode devoted to her, I’m really pumped up.
And this was a fantastic episode. Mabashi (I think that’s his name) uses these little butterfly things to take control of victims, those being the people working under Soi Fon. One of them threw a poison dart at Soi Fon, poisoning her. And now Mabashi takes her head-on. Soi Fon is dying of the poison, but she gets in a first attack from her Suzumebachi, which means a second attack at the same spot will kill Mabashi.
One problem: she’s poisoned and keeled over. So, she stings herself with Suzumebachi, a brilliant move because while that hurts her, it also immunizes herself from the poison. Cue the vaccine jokes here; whether you’re a vaxxer or an anti-vaxxer, you’re free to make your own jokes at this point. Now that you got in that joke, Soi Fon goes and stabs Mabashi the second time, and this time his own butterflies are honing in on him, and he evaporates.
Man, I love that woman. I’m going to have to do a “Best Girl Bracket” next year, and she’s going to go very far in it. Of course, I have pledged my fealty to Queen Erina Nakiri. So maybe there’s no need for a bracket, unless Soi Fon somehow gets her own arc in TYBW.
Best girl of the episode: Soi Fon (7) (What? Were you expecting someone else?)
Episode rating: 9/10
Tommy A. Phillips 