Las Noches: A Bleach Podcast
Listen with Dani & Giovani as they review the new Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War arc.
Las Noches: A Bleach Podcast
Las Noches: Ep.10
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Welcome to last notice. I'm your host Giovanni.
DanielleDanielle.
GiovaniDanielle,
DanielleHello.
Giovaniare you doing Miss
Danielleback.
Giovanito another action packed episode of las Noches,
Danielleyou know the, there's always action with bleach, so I. Yeah, I,
Giovanibut this is action packed, right? This is action packed.
Daniellemean, well this intense in a way, not so much of, um, well, I guess, yeah, I mean, it, it was action, you know, but more, um, not so quick, I guess,
Giovaniis like I, call it the tale of two cities, right? That's how I see it.
DanielleI mean, I, I it. kinda felt like that a little bit, but, um,
Giovaniso, but before we start talking so much in the bleach, I gotta ask you a question. You know, I know you don't like surprises, so I gotta ask this question. Who is your favorite bleach captain? Not character, but captain.
DanielleI do like gray characters and villains and, and and stuff. So,
GiovaniSo is that Zaraki?
DanielleZaraki definitely up there. Mayuri makes me laugh. even though he is, I mean in terms, you know, he is not that great um, you know, his hijinks are quite entertaining,
GiovaniI wouldn't wanna fight Mauri because would not kill me. He would stick me in the lab somewhere on me.
Daniellefor
GiovaniSomething like that.
DanielleI don't know what that says about me, are my people, but
GiovaniWell, you know, obviously my favorite character is Shumsui
DanielleYeah.
Giovanihis style, his attitude, his personality, and he's very powerful without really showing all of his strength.'cause we still haven't seen a bankai from him. His Chi Kai. It's kind of childish, but it's effective. But I love his swords. I love his swords.
DanielleYeah. Um, definitely.
GiovaniOkay, so you, you just answered the question with four captains that you like instead of the one. con, congratulations. Well done. You like them all?
DanielleWell, not, not all. Nobody SoiFon,
GiovaniOh man.
DanielleEisan too. He's an
GiovaniEisen.
Danielleyeah.
GiovaniWhoa, whoa. Stop the press. Eisen. He is.
DanielleHe is an, he would be an interesting pick, wouldn't you think?
GiovaniI see the appeal Ivan. I really do he's a very good planner. in his plan, right.
Daniellelike 20 steps ahead, you know, and, um, yeah, I
Giovanisee
Daniellethat, We'll just ignore that
Giovanitry to wipe out the
Danielleright. We'll ignore that
Giovanithat he Right. Do you wanna.
Danielleso this is, episode 10 Yes. Of part one, thousand year blood war. And it's titled The Battle
GiovaniAnd listen, we know what this means. We definitely know what, what this means.
Danielleup what we left off from the previous episode where, um, Kenpachi and Unahana were basically in a fight to the death.
GiovaniRight.
DanielleYeah.
GiovaniAnd, Kenpachi, he's blacking out. He's, they're fighting and resu is just beating on him. Right. It's not really a fight. It's more like, maybe teaching. So Zaraki taking it serious, but Resu was just warming up. And how many times do you think Resu has killed Kampachi so far? Zai.
DanielleUh, quite a few. I mean, that's what I, that's what we were saying before, um, that, okay, well this is gonna be Fight that's not so, quick. And I'm like, yeah, you know,'cause the plan is to get him up to speed in terms of strength, unlock new, strength and powers, or just unleash him altogether, I guess if, he hasn't been really tapping into his, his full power and to do that. You have to like get him to the brink of death every time.
GiovaniShe's using her Kido, her healing spells to, heal him essentially. So he's dying, or I don't know if he's dead or dying, but she's bringing him back using healing spells.
DanielleI mean, is is he dying or just right to the edge of,
GiovaniI
Daniellethen she's healing him
GiovaniTo get it started again, but why do you think of the fight in general? Because it's fun to watch cause Retsu sue's cold and she's threatening and heartless, but kampachi, he just looks thrilled, like finally having to fight.
DanielleI mean, When he can remember what's going on. he says he keeps blacking out, like every time she cuts him. Or fatally wounds him, he blacks out, or guess for us, maybe he is dying and, um, then he revives himself and jumps right back into the fray. But he's jumping back into the fray a little bit more powerful than he was a minute ago. You know? So he's
Giovanithe.
Daniellewith, with blow, essentially.
GiovaniExactly kind of like, Saijan a Saijan in Dragon Ball Z, every time they come close to death, they get more stronger. But the fight itself is exhilarating, right? It's exhilarating with a, small dose of tragedy because we already know as soon as we said, that one's gonna live and one's gonna die, but, there's no villains in this fight. We have two opponents of the same faction. Even though Zaki Zaki said they're both villains as of now. They are the good guys in the fighting. So
Daniellenow, and, um, yeah. And, but you know what?
Giovanipull for.
Danielledon't to even though the whole point of the fight, I mean, has a purpose, and even though you know it's gonna end, possibly, in tragedy, they're both enjoying immensely. they're both feeling like finally
Giovaniright.
Danielleopponent. And we see that they, with the, um, little flashback that they gave us about how they both started with
GiovaniLet's talk about the flashback. This is the flashback with Resu. She's looking for battle in the, Wuhan district. In District 80. This is, Zaraki's. His district where he grew up, and the way to explain district, district one is the cleanest, most peaceful district. you know, well, I guess 1, 2, 3, that's where the noble people live and it goes to 80. 80 is the law lawless version of the, of the Wuhan district. It's for criminals and the lowest of the low, the slums. So she goes all the way there to pick fights. cause she's a villain. She, all she wants to do is fight and she come across, I think this is where she come across Zaraki, right?
Danielleshe found him basically on top of a pile of bodies. And at first everybody thought that she did that and it was like, no, you know, this, this little kid with this sword. a pile of bodies very crazed, very insane
GiovaniRight. And they lock eyes and you know, I mean, he, he's looking like, okay, I killed a thousand people. You're gonna be 1,001. And she's looking like, bring this on he's a kid, bring this on.
Danielleright.
GiovaniAnd we didn't get much of the fight. They didn't show much of the fight. It's, I couldn't tell if it was a long fight or a short fight
DanielleUh, didn't show much of the fight, but we did get from the story is that. they both enjoyed it so immensely and they were so happy to find, someone as equally yoked as themselves I mean, she made it seem like he was possibly better than her then, you know, he started to suppress his power to, to match hers so that, They could keep fighting. And he has been subconsciously doing that up until present day
GiovaniShe mentions as they were fighting that I am the strongest of everyone except Zaraki. So this is big statement. I.
Danielleright. she was saying that when he was a, a kid
GiovaniRight,
DanielleSo that that was cool. That was
Giovaniyeah, so when we flash back, I mean like we go flash forward and despite continues, we actually got to see her bankai. Do you wanna talk about this or, I mean, go for it you think. It was It was wicked.
Danielleunleashed that thing,
GiovaniOh. way she, I've never heard the phrase Bankai pronounced so hateful and stoic at the, in. It was chilling. I hate to say chilling so much, but her voice, I wish we could play the, uh, the soundbite of this.
Daniellewe don't wanna get our podcast down.
Giovaniright. So what she did was, Bankai and she had a sword in her hand. She rubbed the blade until it caused her to bleed, and then blood poured from the sword from the roof. It just filled the entire space. Wicked.
DanielleThey executed that in terms of like animation and graphics. executed that really well.
GiovaniIf you never liked. Resu. This made you a Resu fan right.
DanielleWell mean, it was so, was so badass. It really was, and I'm like, okay. The physical blade is just like replaced by, like, covered in blood. The imagery was like, this is, this just got serious
GiovaniAnd her blood, healed her and act as a strike or weapon against her enemies. That is so cool. It constantly heals her to, to keep her in the fight. Maybe we needed her when the Sternritters were fighting.
DanielleBut it makes you think now, like Yamamoto had to know that about, you know, he knows her, he knows that about her, so why hold her back? And maybe he, he kind of was that like He was thinking ahead,
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Giovaniwant her to be that person again.
Daniellenow's the time for her to be that person.
GiovaniOld Yamamoto would've but, but new or current Yamamoto, he was more fatherly and he respected his subordinates a little more. That's what I think.
DanielleI mean, I think maybe um, sheds more light on slight, maybe slight arrogance in his case because Well, yeah, because I mean, look how, he handled, um, Who was it? The, um, stern Raider?
GiovaniLloyd, Lloyd.
DanielleLloyd. Roy. Lloyd. way he unleashed on, um, Roy Lloyd. And it wasn't even, it wasn't even, um, the king.
GiovaniWhat I appreciate in these scenes. There were internal conversations about the battle just about them, clashing of the swords. They were, they were both talking about their experience in battle. And in some instances, they were reading each other's mind and answering each other's questions. I thought they were so poetic. Like in battle, they became one.
Daniellethey kind of had it like, okay, well it's two parts of one, one hole. Right.
GiovaniRight.
DanielleSo, yeah.
GiovaniLike they're in love with the battle. They're not in love with each other, but the feeling, the passion, the violence from the battle. It's like a love song to fighting.
DanielleThis like that they're doing with each other?
GiovaniWhen she even, she made the statement, I learned how to heal just for this battle. I mean, that's
DanielleWell, yeah.'cause she, she was like, yeah, she learned how to heal she could prolong the battle and he learned how to suppress his power so he could prolong the battle
Giovaniright.
DanielleSo, but I guess that, I guess present day, that time, it is time to end that. So that's what we're doing. That's why we're here.
GiovaniYeah, they're fighting. And so Rocky's catching up with her. He can see himself telegraphing her moves. So essentially it's working. he, He's getting stronger through, yeah. I guess, did you know it was coming? Like do you know that, this was gonna be the final battle? Did you feel that in the air?
Daniellesay that about that part. I, um, I guess, you know, we saw that, what the method was to get him where he needs to be. I. But it wasn't clear on like how long that would take
GiovaniRight.
Danielleyeah, I didn't see it. I that moment was gonna be the moment, when he finally was. I maybe at his peak strength is what I'm assuming.
GiovaniWell, I noticed something when, and I had to rewind to see this. Their blades crossed and all her blood spears, her blood break blades just were flown almost like they were overpowered I was kind of in awe like, where's this going to go now? And I was thinking, also, will we see a bankai from Zaraki?
DanielleI didn't think she was going to get to a point where it was required anyway. And um, I guess what was a little unclear was whether once he struck her through the chest with his, um, Zanpakuto, was it because he was just so powerful, she couldn't. He overcame her
Giovaniwell, I, from what I, my take, she intentionally did not heal herself. She wanted to die in the Warrior's death because she also said, the first time they crossed blades she made a choice not to kill him, but to make him stronger. She realized that he was that was gonna take. The true title of, of Kenpachi. Yeah. And uh, yeah, it was tough to see her go down. He was shocked. He threw his sword and he caught her. A gentleman like fashion, which I didn't think I was gonna say that about Zaraki, and he yelled out, he bellowed when she died. So, it was very sad.
DanielleIt was very sad. But the, the bellowing wasn't for the loss of the person. the bellowing was, to me anyway, because it meant the end of the battling, like forever, like period.
GiovaniBut he did admire her and she admired him because she did say, you are the only man to bring me joy, the only person to bring me joy. So it's, it's admiration there. know, a lot of people wanna say love story, but it was, I don't know about love story, but admiration.
Daniellebut, uh, yeah, I mean, I could go with, I can, I can lean into, um, admiration
GiovaniRetsu's voice, I gotta talk about her tone. Especially in the last bit of the fight. Her voice seemed, her tone changed to an older parental figure. She was like, oh, you're crying for me. Don't cry. That's silly. know,
Daniellesensei um,
Giovaniare right. of like a sensei.
DanielleYeah.
GiovaniThey did that. They accomplished that very well. I don't know how it was done in the, the, uh, Japanese version, but I'm gonna check it out to see does it still have that same effect, but also she helped him gain his bonai.
Danielledid. Right as she was dying, you know, she made, and I'm paraphrasing, made a statement to the point of like, she essentially said like, he also unleashed something else, and then, then she died. And then we this voice talking to, um, Kemp, Apache, this female voice, talking to Kemp Apache
GiovaniIt's me. The
Danielleyeah, like, you can
Giovaniwatching you.
DanielleAnd I'm like, oh, wait a minute.
GiovaniYeah. The, the, uh, Gave Raki her name. We didn't get it. The audience didn't get it. Raki knows it.
DanielleSo he walked out of there. so that was the end of, um, Of that. So that, that was pretty, pretty intense. That was pretty good.
GiovaniThat was the first city,
DanielleThat was the end. then we over to, pick up from that story from last episode. Also Ichigo and the palace trying to restore themselves and restore the octos. And, uh, so we get introduced the creator of the Zanpakuto himself, uh, Oetsu, Nehemiah as he's called.
GiovaniYep.
Daniellethey embark of bleach. A lot of singing.
GiovaniHolden.
DanielleYeah. what his, um, I guess his realm is called. A lot of singing, a lot of dancing.
GiovaniNow Oetsu is a very different soul Reaper. She, NAMI, he's, he has this, um, modified Shinigami robe and he's more hip hop. Am I saying that right? He speaks with, uh, hip hop vernacular like, yo yo, yo yo. And. he looks kind of like a, you know, like he has a dj, um, headphones on. And it was really weird just to see. I liked it,
DanielleI can dig a change.
GiovaniRight, because there's,
Daniellewe can change up the it's okay,
GiovaniOetsu speaks like he is from the US. He has that type of, of lingo about him, and
Daniellebut
Giovanicall a,
Daniellefun these
Giovanihe's fun. fun, but Renji and, Ichigo. They said, I don't like his vibe. What's up with this vibe? I, I feel uncomfortable. I was like, what do you mean by that? I'm guessing it's, he's not what they expected. None of them are really.
DanielleAnd that's another thing too,'cause when they, when they walked into what they thought was his, Holden, it was a bunch of women in there,
GiovaniRight,
Danielleand, um, gowns almost kind of like a, um,
GiovaniLooking and sensual.
Daniellealmost kind of like a, a lounge clubby kind of vibe, which
GiovaniHefner supposed to be coming out,
Danielle-I wanna see where we're going with this,
GiovaniBut one of the funniest scenes was when he caught the vibe like they were uncomfortable, so he said, do you wanna leave? When they said no, he taught them how to grovel and he got this ridiculous pose that he did and since they want to stay, they got in this pose and he pulled out his cell phone and took a picture of them that pose and we're sorting around and I got a good laugh off that. That was hilarious. That's when I knew, okay, I like him. my guy.
Danielleyeah. the of fun. Um, but then, uh, I guess one of his lieutenants like, breaks up the party uh, tells him to stop, you know, being silly and come on and let's get to it. So she takes them to the actual real hole, then not, not whatever that make-believe club that they were in
GiovaniRight.
Daniellewas. um, they tricked them inside and they fall into this deep hole. And he kind of informs Regi and ichigo down in this hole. There is,
GiovaniAngry
Danielleexactly. That's who's down there
GiovaniAnd did you, uh, understand what was?
DanielleYeah.
Giovanithink I got it.
Danielleit's like the beginning of your, your za pato before there, your za Pato. Right.
GiovaniRight. It's just like a blank zanpakuto. the the sword or before. Exactly.
DanielleSo you basically, the Ausiuchi is the blank slate that you get. And
GiovaniAnd Theis were upset because, as would say they dis disrespected. Their swords, their zam toes, and he held both swords up and clanked them and broke them. So they're absolutely destroyed now. He said, you just didn't take care of your zam toe. Now you have to answer for it.
Danielleyou know, they're supposed to be soul Reapers and they didn't even recognize Zapatos when they saw them.
GiovaniRight. I guess that's a
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Danielleright. So are you guys? He said he, I'm the only Soul Reaper here, you know, so,
GiovaniSo he closed the door on them and then I guess they fight and if they can survive, he'll help them reforge their swords, the sopa to, I don't know how long it was. Do you know the, the length of time?
Daniellehours, 71, 72 hours they were in there. cause they don't show what happened while they were in there. But, I guess fighting to the death. I, I don't, who knows,
GiovaniWell, I noticed that Ichigo was bloodying on the ground while Regie was up high and. This seemed like a really bad test. It sounded like a really poor test, but from what we gather, Ichigo has failed the test.
DanielleI mean, there's, it sounded like passing the test just meant that, an ASI had to choose you. And
GiovaniOkay.
Daniellethe fact that. Regie, I guess Regie got one or one chose him, and Ichigo couldn't manage. That means that he failed,
GiovaniYeah.
Danielleyou know, and he's not, he's not really a soul Reaper, apparently. He
GiovaniRight, and that's, did you catch all that that was said like, oh, hey, it's Sue caught him a phony soul Reaper,
Danielledid.
Giovaniand then he list of all the things that takes to be a Soul Reaper, he pretty much said, didn't go to the academy,
DanielleYeah.
Giovaniyou was never given the outside in the academy. He was never properly trained. What makes you think you're a soul Reaper when everyone else has done this except you. he's, he's just peeling away all these layers because we know Ichigo is human mixed with a bunch of other things.
Daniellethink he knows that? Because I feel like he knows that too.
GiovaniI do.
DanielleYou know?
GiovaniHe Ichigo and is like, you fast tracked your way to becoming Shinigami.
DanielleHe's like, you're a human with, no, you don't really have a Octo. Not really. So, even here? This is the land of the soul Reapers. He was going in. And with all the goofing around, Oetsu was doing beforehand, you saw that, was really about his business.
GiovaniWell, as the father of the, Samak to, he knew that Ingo have it. So,
DanielleI feel like he knew that before went in there. So it was, I felt like it was some sort of experiment for him, or maybe this is the way he needed Ichigo to be enlightened
Giovanihe didn't give Ichigo Kawasaki a chance to even reply. He just opened up a new type of gate and sent him back to the world of living. And you can't help with the pity Ichigo.
DanielleIt was pretty cold. It was hardcore how he, how he handled him. I felt really bad for him, I more, development is coming hopefully next episode.
GiovaniAs long as it makes sense, I want it to make sense because we've seen Zung tsu, so I mean, something is there,
Danielleis. ato, what is z getsu then? What have we been doing this entire time?
GiovaniI mean, there's somebody, he didn't make them up. I don't think he made it up
Daniellenot, he's not fos with, with his witts alone, like he has power. So what are you talking about? So, I don't know. I felt really bad for him. Hopefully we gonna flush that story out and, um, I mean it's, it's exciting'cause you know, we know all these things. So now we know Ichigo human part,
GiovaniKeep going.
DanielleSoul Reaper, despite
Giovanigoing.
DanielleOHSU but he doesn't have a zpac to,
GiovaniUh,
Daniellebut he has he had him,
GiovaniVery interesting. So we made it to episode 10 and the three left. Yeah.
Danielleyeah,
Giovaniand that kind of wraps it up.
Danielleepisode. Um,
GiovaniDo you want to rank? Do you, would you like to rank them in Bon Kais
DanielleIn terms of Bon Kais, I'll give it a eight., I'm rolling with eight. Yeah.
Giovaniand I'm giving it a nine. I was going with a 9.2. I loved my points, but I rounded it down to nine. It was really good.
Danielleeven um,
GiovaniThe fight, the, uh, Reto, Kampachi, rocky fight was really good and it was layered with so much, it was so meaty. It was a meaty fight where you just learned so much about both characters. It took you to the height of anticipation. Then it slowly dropped you. It didn't just bottom out, you just got what you needed. And then with the part two, learning about Ichi goal, and uh, that is more to his story. I'm excited for the next episode. I liked everything about this episode, a strong nine.
DanielleI, I like this episode too. everything you said, I agree with, I guess I kind of deducted. A little bit of points just for the fight it, the transition from fighting to Ana dying. It
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Giovanithink it happened too fast?
Daniellemaybe a little
GiovaniOkay.
Danielleyou know,'cause I mean, was saying that, man, this is gonna be a drawn out fight, but it wasn't, which is, in terms of storyline, that's probably good. But for such big characters, and especially if, if one of them has to die, I think maybe it went a little too fast and it was a lot of good information, but we got a lot of story backstory
GiovaniHave
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Giovanihave you ever seen like one piece or, or Naruto to nato shippuden and how long those fights, they have like weak fights or you know, or five episode fights. So I'm glad it wasn't five episodes.
DanielleI shouldn't say
GiovaniEpisodes they were good.
Daniellefight, But I thought maybe the fight was gonna take up the entire episode. How about that? Like, I thought it was
GiovaniI'm not disagreeing with I'm just saying that could be worse. Your best and worst.
Daniellebest and worst,
Giovaniit up.
DanielleI should or something, or some
GiovaniI
DanielleA nice transition. I'll do that
Giovanipost post-production we're at,
DanielleI'll, I'll do that for next time, but, for my best, you know, when she her bonai, that was really good.
GiovaniIt's really fun. Yeah. It's
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Daniellewas yes, fun, but more just intense to look at. I'll say that it was well done. So that, that was my best,
GiovaniHer name was Mizuki. Was that her name? I, believe
DanielleZuki.
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DanielleZuki.
GiovaniWe got to see.
DanielleWhich if you all things end.
GiovaniOh, poetic. Beautiful. So poetic. Okay. My, my, I'm gonna just steal yours because that's why I was going to say I was so enchanted by the way Red Sue said Bonai. I was, that was my favorite part, just to see Red Sue Bonai. I'm gonna lead with my worst, just so you don't take my answer.
DanielleOh,
GiovaniOkay.
Danielleknow, but
Giovanimy worst was the death of Resu Un Hana. I wish she didn't have to die. She to die. Too bad. So sad. So I mean, I feel like she wanted a Warrior's death, but I didn't want her to have that death right now. I want to see much, much more of Resu. Because this is the first time we saw red suit fight and I wanted more of that.
Daniellewas so unnecessary,
GiovaniYeah.
Daniellesince they're at and it's like you need all the powerful captains you can get. They keep saying that you can't have two Kamp, Apaches. There's rules and all this stuff. Well, somebody changed the rules. Come on.
GiovaniOkay. I think that's it for us. We are wrapping
DanielleYeah.? Next episode is, next is episode 11. And you remember what the title is
GiovaniUh, nothing but the rain. Everything but the rain. Everything but the rain that is, that is pulled straight from the pages of the manga. I read that. good.
DanielleAll right. I guess we'll see if they, if they keep to, um, authenticity of the mango with relating to the enemy for that. And, um, So I, that's it for us guys. Uh, we'll be back next time with episode 11. Um, hopefully, you know, reviewing more of the story as it unfolds.
Giovaniyeah, to the Facebook page last notice.
DanielleWe would love to talk with you and, uh, yeah,
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