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EP. REVIEW: Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Season 2

So, am I crazy for thinking that the zombie captains fought better than their alive versions? Hitsu felt more powerful as a zombie with fast attacks and using his ice in creative ways as opposed to just him screaming bankai and rushing in trying to make a slash and going down soon after.

This time it turns out he laced all his Arrancar servants' blood with a special drug that traps people in Gold Experience Requiem's power. Why did he think to do that? Because he's just that smart.

I love how Mayuri has a counter measure for counter measures... except when he fought Ishida, the guy who belong to the clan he killed and studied docents of subjects and should be specially knowledgeable of, specially since Ichida was a novice.

What's with Kubo and offensive stereotypes? The second the gay camp Arrancar saw Hitsugaya, he said "You are a cute boy" and got sliced.

It's been like this since the first arc where Kubo wrote a redhaired lesbian obsessed with sex so much that it seems to have inspired that horrible character from Komisan.

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This time it turns out he laced all his Arrancar servants' blood with a special drug that traps people in Gold Experience Requiem's power. Why did he think to do that? Because he's just that smart.

But the series has already established that's something he does? He does that to nemu like when he beat Gratz(Espada #8) cause grantz got drugged when he used nemus body to reborn himself. Why is it seen as "plot convenient" here when it's an established part of his character? If the problem is the drug itself seems op(and a jojo reference), i can at least understand that perspective.

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I love how Mayuri has a counter measure for counter measures... except when he fought Ishida, the guy who belong to the clan he killed and studied docents of subjects and should be specially knowledgeable of, specially since Ichida was a novice.

I partly addressed this in my earlier post but he explicitly did not know of Ishida's Letze Stil(the full power mode). Throughout their fight, Mayuri holds a clear advantage cause he's studied a lot about quincies in general and believed he knew everything he needed to, so much so that he wasn't even going to dissect Uryu cause he thought he knew everything. But clearly he didn't know everything, and that gave Uryu the advantage and the win.

So, he has counter measures of stuff he has no means to know but doesn't form stuff he should know...

In another words: Ishida is the ONLY quincy Mayuri ever found with this ability, even though he is a novice and it's the ONLY ability he has no counter mesure against.

And this ability being a power up... Mayuri had counter against an ability that manipulates love but not against a buff skill.

Which its my original complain.

Minos_Kurumada wrote:

So, he has counter measures of stuff he has no means to know but doesn't form stuff he should know... In another words: Ishida is the ONLY quincy Mayuri ever found with this ability, even though he is a novice and it's the ONLY ability he has no counter mesure against. And this ability being a power up... Mayuri had counter against an ability that manipulates love but not against a buff skill. Which its my original complain.

What? Just cause someone should know something doesn't mean they automatically do. And just because YOU think he should have known this doesn't mean they do. And note i said he learned everything he needed too but lets be honest, the correct word there should have been "wanted too learn". He's shown before that if something doesn't interest him, he tends to not care about and won't bother with it. It's kind of the typical trait of a narrasistic megalomaniac. Also you are aware that Letze Stil when used will rob a quincy of all their abilities right? It's not exactly a technique one throws around whenever.(It's not like any of the quincies have thrown it around here.) So its not Ishida is the only one with this ability, it's more he's the only one who faced mayuri and chose use it and accept the consequences.

And what's with the complaint that "he lost to just a power buff"? I mean.....yes? This episode explicitly laid out that mayuri is not a great fighter. His fights are NEVER about winning in a contest of power, it all technical. Posion, drugging, manipulation, counter measures, not raw power. He is literally the opposite of kenpachi in combat ability. So yes, he lost to Ishida cause when Ishida used Letze Stil, Mayuri panicked and tried to challenge him in raw power, a clearly lost battle cause his bankai isn't that physically dangerous.

As for the love ability thing, i mean it didn't work on byakuya, so why would it work on a couple of zombies with basically hollowed out consciousness.

Sorry, everything you are saying has no parallelism with the series.

Mayuri is a Batman type character that has counter measure of counter measures, the idea of him not having a counter measure simply is not believable and much less if its against a power buff, the lamest more obvious thing to have a counter measure against.

Worst of all, you are argin that he is weak against buffs, yet he apparently has no counter mesure against them, thus, your argument is that Mayuri has a plan for everything except his weak point and that's perfectly fine and believable.

Now, if you wanna make a proper argument it would be like this:

"Oh, what you are saying its truth, but, it's also believable that somebody like Mayuri learned from his mistakes, seeing how Ichida almost defeated him for him not knowing something, his over preparation and comboluded plans come from him evolving from this humiliation".

It makes total sense for this character development to exist: Mayuri doesn't train harder like meat heads like Ichigo, he plans harder and becomes more powerful like that, but, this character development plot point doesn't exist, because this is Bleach not HXH.