Good Stuff again. Ichigo reaches Kuchiki....kind of. Ishida gets into an encounter with the 12th Division commander. This is the start of their battle. You meet all types of new characters. Good Read look forward to the next installment

I forgot how sick in the head kurotsuchi was

Not as exciting as the previous volume. The stuff near the end was interesting, but overall it was rather boring and felt like filler. I'd give this a 3/5.

Hanatarō you’re the best boi

This series still continues to be awesome. Love the characters and uryu is absolutely beast! Can't wait to continue!

Imma keep it short: FUCK KUROTSUCHI. I HATE THAT GUY SO MUCH.

Amazing!

This is where i fell in love with Uryu

Bleach continues to get more and more intense with each volume. I do wonder what will be the fallout of all of this would be. Will Ichigo become an actual soul reaper? Will it ever just go back to fighting Hollows?

It was a decent volume, Ichigo and co go in to save Rukia but meet Byakuya and his spiritual pressure is something, also Ms Yoruichi reveals her true self and battles those people and then takes Ichigo to his training. Meanwhile Ishida and Orihime break into something and they battle shinigamis there and then they meet Kurotsuchi Mayuri and this man is a lethal scientist and when he tells what he did to Quincies and all, wow he is next level evil and the fight between him and Ishida will be a big one! Great start to this part of the arc and the epic battle is coming!

One of the panels in the beginning with Byakuya alone and slightly at a distance on the bridge walking towards Ganju, Hana, and Rukia is just magnificent. Then there was the super cool pages of Rukia and Ichigo seeing each other again, and later a page of Byakuya dissing Ichigo with the next panel having him gone from the bridge. I don't know why the paneling seemed so good this volume but I just noticed it a lot and loved it.
Art wise there was also some awesome eye details I noticed in this volume. With Rukia we can slightly see Ichigo within her eyes, and then later the same is true for Ishida as he looks at the photo of his grandfather. Not groundbreaking art or anything but details I loved.
In regards to characters, I still love Hanataro and Ganju together. Hana was ready to take on Byakuya but Ganju steps in not because of Rukia but because of this dweeby, sweet soul reaper he just met. Also, Orihime's character is broadened even if she's only in about half of the volume with Ishida. We know she's the one that came up with the disguise plan, and through some of Ishida's thoughts and her response to Mayuri's explosive people, we know she's not a fighter and she cares about people. I don't think, in regards to Ishida's thoughts on Orihime, he means this as a bad thing. He seems to respect her a lot in regards to her strength, cleverness, hardworking nature, and want to protect/heal others. There's nothing wrong with not being a fighter, something I believe I also mentioned when Hana first came into the story.
This volume also brought us Mayuri (12th division captain) in a bigger way, and he's probably one of the characters I hate the most within the entire manga/anime. Granted I never got to the very end (with my last memories being of the arrancar/hueco mundo arc though even that's foggy). He just seems so completely irredeemable to me, which may have been the point. There's just so many characters that are bad in some way, especially due to this arc, like Byakuya, but they have a goodness to them that becomes known. Mayuri just seems way too cruel to ever have a goodness within him. He does spice up our character list, since we always need those characters we just hate, but honestly, I'd be pretty happy if he just died.

*4.25