Bleach episode 272 review

Hollow Ichigo goes berserk, and he attacks Uryu. Hindsight being 20/20, he probably should have killed Uryu so that the Thousand-Year Blood War goes on without him. But whatevs. Orihime cries his way back to normal. No, I’m serious, that’s how he gets back to normal.

Meanwhile, Ulquiorra is doomed, and he tries to say something as he dies. The ONLY (and I mean ONLY) hint of anything UlquiHime is that Orihime stretches out her hand towards him. I realize that all it takes is for two characters to be in the same frame and that constitutes a shipping. But come on, this UlquiHime crap is taken as canon by UlquiHime shippers. UlquiHime is dead, Ulquiorra is dead, and now we move on to the rest of the arc.

Best girl of the episode: Orihime (45)

Episode rating: 7/10

Bleach episode 271 review

It’s Ichigo vs. Ulquiorra in a battle to the death! And when Ichigo is defeated and left for dead, Orihime’s cries bring him back to life as a full-blown Hollow. Now filled with immense power, Ichigo beats Ulquiorra, my least favorite character perhaps ever. Ulquiorra says something about Ichigo having “heart,” while narrating the entire battle. Not even Uryu got the honor of being battle commentator, even though he was there the whole time.

Hopefully this is the end for Ulquiorra. By the way, I see ABSOLUTELY ZERO evidence of Orihime OR Ulquiorra having ANY feelings for each other from the beginning up until now. So, UlquiHime needs to be put to bed and buried. It’s over, IchiRuki fans. You lost, and your “make up ship” has sunk lower than the Titanic.

Best girl of the episode: Orihime (44)

Episode rating: 7/10

Bleach episode 270 review

Ichigo fights Ulquiorra, who reveals his Resurreccion, then tells Ichigo that this isn’t even his final form. He has one extra transformation that no one knows about, not even Sosuke Aizen. So, Ulquiorra shows it off to Ichigo, and then to Uryu and Orihime, who have arrived on the scene just in time to become battle commentators. Ulquiorra is about to kill Ichigo as time runs out.

The Ichigo-Ulquiorra fight was nothing special, sadly enough. It was just “watch this!” by Ulquiorra over and over again. I’d much prefer a battle with more strategy involved. But this is Bleach, so one-on-one battles are what we’re gonna get.

Best girl of the episode: Orihime (43)

Episode rating: 7/10

Bleach episode 269 review

Uryu decides to take his battle with Yammy elsewhere, because it would be difficult to animate two big-time battles in the same area. Ichigo continues to face off with Ulquiorra, although it seems more like all he’s doing is buying time so we can get in the Uryu-Yammy fight as well as have Renji and Chad join Rukia in their frivolous affair. Uryu then kind of sort of maybe perhaps temporarily defeats Yammy, at least long enough for Ichigo to go full Hollow on Ulquiorra.

A rather straightforward episode that seemed a lot like many of the battles were just buying time rather than getting serious. The Uryu-Yammy fight was kind of cool. Not much to complain about, even though there’s also not much to write home about.

Best girl of the episode: Orihime (42)

Episode rating: 7/10