Bleach episode 178 review
This episode was so forgettable that I, well, forgot what it was about. Then I looked up the images from this episode to remember how awful it was. Basically, it was just young Ichigo and his mother spending time together with wooden dialogue, and then Ichigo decides, yeah, I’d better kill this bad guy, so he awakes from the dream and goes and beats him. And that’s it.
Notably, there is nothing in the flashback to suggest Ichigo’s mother was really a Hollow, further proving my opinion that the TYBW plot was a retcon. And how wooden could they possibly sound? Not more wooden than this. The voice acting has been terrible, which makes me think that this was about the time that a certain voice actress told us at a con that there were huge budget cuts made to Bleach‘s dub and that she really didn’t have much to do with the show anymore. That makes a lot of sense to me. In any case, guess who best girl is…
Best girl of the episode: Masaki Kurosaki
Episode rating: 4/10
Tommy A. Phillips 