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Fanboy fits me- looking at quality of latest chapters of Bleach I think I can let my inner fanboy go wild :P Especially with war coming..
So my role would be to fangasm all over the place?
Yeah, fangasm all you want :blai

oh,but if you are so confident in future chapters,what do you think about dealing with the predictions as well? :derp

Cap'n Alpha,what do you think of posting here some instructions of how to review,such as the ones you wrote last time? :)
For the new format? Yeah, I suppose I am going to write something like that in the future. :teach

I've never done it before, so it may be a little rough, but I'm sure I can pull off character analysis (its not like when I was writing Impressions I didn't analyse everything anyways)
I know I can count on you.



Whatever, dealine's 1st may.

"The sooner you start, the sooner you finish."
Old chinese reviewer saying
 

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ok,so the deadline is 1st may,we have some days. at the end,someone with a high level of english should read and correct it if there are mistakes,imo. Otakumodeengage is american,so he should be the best for what concerns english amongst us.

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here's my analysis. I suggest you do your job in 2 days,since the new chapter is already coming out.

March of the Starcross starts with the vice-captains waiting for their captains in SS,Rukia is nervous because of the situation and Renji,as usual,suggest she calm down. When Rukia is about to reply,Kira interrupts them to ask something: he's realized that both the invasion of the rebel army and the disappearance of hollows are connected,but he can't make out how people are vanishing in Rukongai,that's why he asks his comrades if they have investigated outside district 50. Yachiru tells him that Ikkaku and Yumichika did it,and found footsteps which gathered and stopping,made by naked feet and sandals. Kira explains then the situation: after district 50 living standards decline and (here you are,gentlemen, the stupid thing ever seen in Bleach:party) that there are stats of the last 550 years which tell that after district 64 no citizen wears sandals. can SS keep a record of such a trivial :blink ? by the way,the smartes vice-captain guesses that the footsteps were left by shinigami,and that SS usually sends the 12th squad to deal with this matters. If this time things are different it's because Mayuri is hiding something. Nemu adfirms she believes in her captain,and doesn't care that Kira will report that to Yamamoto,although Mayuri didn't inform her of his actions.
The scene moves to HM,where Nel is astonished viewing the 3 bestia defeated. Kirge makes ichigo know that he already knows who they are,but ichigo isn't worried,since Ivan knew that too and in fact he came after him. The captain of the Iacto Arme reveals that they know who ichigo is because their majesty gave them infos about ichigo, referring to him as if they could use him in war. Thus,other soldiers attack him,and surround him in the air. Ichigo quickly notices that their movements aren't due neither to shunpo,nor to Sonido or Fullbring,but that they can actually use Hirenkyaku, the quincy ability. The soldiers pull their cross out and attack him with spiritron arrows,from which Ichigo escapes (obviously) alive. Then he asks them if they are reallt quincies, but is blamed by Kirge for not being sure of that. The soldier is right: how could he attack them without even knowing who they were? well,Ichigo and his comrades should be strong enough not to care about these matters,imo :XD . The crazy man creates his bow as well,and his about to attack Ichigo,admitting they are truly quincies.
somewhere else, a vandenreich receives infos cocnerning Ichigo's fight with Kirge,and informs Buckbeard, who decides to go to invade SS counting on Kirge to keep Ichigo busy. The enemies' leader doesn't seem aware of the reasons for which Ichigo came there,so he probably doesn't know about Urahara and the others being there either. He orders his men to contact the Stern Ritten (in German "Star Knights") nonetheless.
Meanwhile,in SS, Mayuri is admitting to the Captain Commander that he made his subordinates kill 28000 inhabitants to correct the balance of souls, damaged by thhe hollows' disappearance in chapter 480. The CC doesn't understand why the captain of the divison 12 hasn't asked permission,which would have been obtained thank's to the gravity of the situation and charges him with what's happened (maybe he is referring to Sasakibe's death too). Mayuri clear himself stating that when Uryu came to SS the first time,he did advise the CC of that possibility,but the latter didn't care about that. To conclude,Mayuri tells Yamamoto that the responsible isn't the former but the CC himself,because 1000 years ago he failed to kill that man (Buckbeard,who is in fact shown in the picture below,the last one).
 

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Predictions? :yodawg

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Dealine's been changed to 30th april. :verily

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Right, forget predictions. Chapter's out. :fail
 

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yeah,I thought I'd do predictions yesterday or today,but the chapter's out,so it would be pointless dealing with them. well,at least the review will be even shorter :)
 

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My fanboy part.
Sorry for some mistakes. I hope its ok.


So lets start fangasms over this chapter:onoz
I think that non of us thought that disappearance of people in Rukongai was caused by Mayuri wanting to correct the balance of souls. This was very clever move done by Kubo, it added a lot to Mayuri character. I think that chapter showed us how much of a boss Mayuri really is being able to execute such move as killing 28 000 personas to get things as they should be, acting on his own and doing this without permission from Yamamoto:hip

He even had guts to say in CC face that everything what is happening right now is his fault because he failed to kill enemys lider long time ago. With that line and last page of this chapter Kubo made Mayuri one of most badass capitans in my opinion.. I was like "Oh shit it looks like he will die even before Vanderreich invasion on SS >,>". Before that he was.. well... just Medium-Badass but now he went one league up in my book. But that has to be expected when we are about to enter a war with Quincies- he is the man that killed and experimented on them, he is one of biggest enemies of Quincy if not THE biggest in entire SS. Cant wait for more Boss Moments from Mayuri in upcoming chapters:pwnge

Second Boss of this chapter was Kirge. He is one of most charizmatic bad guys in my opinion. I dont mean that he is deep or smthn like that.. he have a lot of charizma, he is ruthless and crazy and all of this in cold, calm way. In few panels it was shown that he defeated 3 bestias(owning Quincies grunts like crazy moments before) with a smile on his face and without breaking a sweat... Thats Is what I call build up to a badass fight with Ichigo that is coming our way. I have to admit that I am fan of Hellisng manga/anime/OVAs so with that quincy looking like some nazi from Hellsing I am simply bought.

Last thing that was great this week- THE Art:nrr
Me simply loooooves what Kubo is doing every week with his drawings. Some people might say- "hate meh meh meh its so low on content meh hate meh meh<_>" but its how Bleach aways was and how it will stay. It was once again far better than simply "good". Kirges design, some of Mayuris new ugly mug and lot of Hellsing-Nazi vibe as I said before that we get with few pages of drawing put a "Kirgesmile" on my face:cheez(+glasses)
Sooo pumped up for Kirge :wussfight with Ichigo :tss
 

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thank's the contents are very good :) .however,as you said,there are some grammar mistakes. Alpha should correct them when he will assemble our parts. if there are mistakes in my part,don't hesitate to correct them as well ;)!
 
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As the hater my job is to point out the bad things about the chapters, the defects, but with this chapter, well, it was definitively not easy. Still I must say Kira’s deductions are really weak, they’re based on mere assumptions and sandals statistics :fail, though in the end he was right. On the other hand Ichigo is almost sleepwalking, he is absent and incapable of understanding what's goin’on around him as we can see from the surprised look on his face when he realizes his German fellows are actually quincies, what other evidence did he need to get that? Kirge’s speech was going nowhere, what’s the point with the brutal interruption? Let him finish the phrase, he won’t tell anything special except repeating he is a Quincy for the hundredth time. I’m really sorry for old man yama, no wait, I'm really disappointed, he is totally losing his cool: he once was a badass but now he is miserable, just a scared old man facing the consequences of his mistakes while he can’t even face Mayuri. One last thing: Mayuri, is just my opinion but you should reconsider a new look, this one is not as good as the old ones :no
 
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As the hater my job is to point out the bad things about the chapters, the defects, but with this chapter, well, it was definitively not easy. Still I must say Kira’s deductions are really weak, they’re based on mere assumptions and sandals statistics :fail, though in the end he was right. On the other hand Ichigo is almost sleepwalking, he is absent and incapable of understanding what's goin’on around him as we can see from the surprised look on his face when he realizes his German fellows are actually quincies, what other evidence did he need to get that? Kirge’s speech was going nowhere, what’s the point with the brutal interruption? Let him finish the phrase, he won’t tell anything special except repeating he is a Quincy for the hundredth time. I’m really sorry for old man yama, no wait, I'm really disappointed, he is totally losing his cool: he once was a badass but now he is miserable, just a scared old man facing the consequences of his mistakes while he can’t even face Mayuri. One last thing: Mayuri, is just my opinion but you should reconsider a new look, this one is not as good as the old ones :no
ahahah,yours is too funny! a silly clarification: you should have said something about the art,although you may go through a compromise which tells us the art was too good to complain :)
 

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that's what i meant in the first line: chapter is so damn good i kinda don't know what to hate.
anyway i think i can do something about the art, just gimme a minute
 
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MUHAHAHA, laz, vaga, laughed my ass off at UR parts :rofl

Whatever, I updated the OP, will do the proofreading later. And I added predictions. :teehee

Only otaku's parts left.

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O.K. mattia, I proofread your parts. You know that after a comma, you use a space to make space (use space to make space? :fail), don't you?

LOL,we're gonna go,down on,friday --------> WRONG

LOL, we're gonna go, down on, friday --------> CORRECT


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uhm, I don't really understand: I sometimes do that,I don't sometimes. actually,that's not really a mistake...actually I was talking about more important things,not punctuation :fail
 

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Gauhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh~.............................. Its crap.
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If you were hoping for a Bad-ass Ichigo moment, or answers to this confusing arc from the all seeing Urahara, you are sadly left displeased. Ichigo shows amazing skills, impressively crushing or rebounding Quincy arrows with his bare hands, but failing to wipe the floor with the Quincy; allowing him to take a second form, a form similar to Arancar’s Resurrección or a Soul Reapers Bankai. Will Ichigo find this new power difficult to overcome? It is hard to say, but many readers were surely hopping to see Ichigo squash him effortlessly. However this development suggests that Ichigo still has a way to go.

As for Urahara, the soul societies lazy genius and seemingly most knowledgeable and in-the-know man, we see him playing around with the Arancars; his purpose in entering Huaco Mudo, just as his true powers have always been, remains hidden. But perhaps that’s the way we love Urahara the most, the man who never reveals his hand until it’s time to strike.
 

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Isnt this done for latest chapter Otaku? We ar doing review for previous chapter if im not mistaken
 
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uhm, I don't really understand: I sometimes do that,I don't sometimes. actually,that's not really a mistake...actually I was talking about more important things,not punctuation :fail
Like? :fail

Gauhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh~.............................. Its crap.
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If you were hoping for a Bad-ass Ichigo moment, or answers to this confusing arc from the all seeing Urahara, you are sadly left displeased. Ichigo shows amazing skills, impressively crushing or rebounding Quincy arrows with his bare hands, but failing to wipe the floor with the Quincy; allowing him to take a second form, a form similar to Arancar’s Resurrección or a Soul Reapers Bankai. Will Ichigo find this new power difficult to overcome? It is hard to say, but many readers were surely hopping to see Ichigo squash him effortlessly. However this development suggests that Ichigo still has a way to go.

As for Urahara, the soul societies lazy genius and seemingly most knowledgeable and in-the-know man, we see him playing around with the Arancars; his purpose in entering Huaco Mudo, just as his true powers have always been, remains hidden. But perhaps that’s the way we love Urahara the most, the man who never reveals his hand until it’s time to strike.
Vaga's correct. That's a part for the next chapter. Are you gonna write a new one, or should we crop characters this time?
 

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mattia you really did a great job with the analysis:super
alpha is right about the commas but is just a punctuation error, nothing serious, if you write your piece using word it will correct it automatically. you don't have anything else, except small things like some s you probably just forgot to type (like in line 2: suggest and calm) and other typing errors (line 19: reallt) .
once again great job
 

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Whatever, we'll cut characters this time. I'll write my intro/outro now, and than laz's gonna publish it.

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O.K. review's ready to be posted. I'll PM laz with the instructions.

Thanks to everyone :beer
 

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mattia you really did a great job with the analysis:super
alpha is right about the commas but is just a punctuation error, nothing serious, if you write your piece using word it will correct it automatically. you don't have anything else, except small things like some s you probably just forgot to type (like in line 2: suggest and calm) and other typing errors (line 19: reallt) .
once again great job
Lol,my pal is a genious! he discovers everything :tem . about the "s" thing,thanks,I forgot to type it but obviously I know that the 3rd singular person requires the "s". and, of course, I wanted to type "really" ("t" and "y" are close to each other). my problems may be phrasal verbs and prepositions. that's where I'd like to be corrected ;)
 

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Otaku epic fail... I was under the impression that we were doing the latest chapter, which is why the deadline was after its release. Should have read the instructions better, lol.

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Otaku resigns due to his apparent stupidity
 

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Otaku epic fail... I was under the impression that we were doing the latest chapter, which is why the deadline was after its release. Should have read the instructions better, lol.

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Otaku resigns due to his apparent stupidity
What are you resigning from? The review has been published already. :mono
 

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as far as I'm in this team,I think the new thread can be opened :) . Otaku this time won't need to do his part,since he has alreday done it :tem
 
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