Bleach Thousand Year Blood War episode 5 review: Ichigo imprisoned VIZ MediaIn Bleach Thousand Year Blood War episode 5, Ichigo is imprisoned in the black void between Hueco Mundo and Soul Society, allowing fan favorite side characters to have precious screen time. The fifth episode of Bleach Thousand Year Blood War focuses on the Shinigami in Soul Society, showcasing multiple fights against the Quincy. Meanwhile, Ichigo remains strapped in the black void known as Garaganta, the zone between Hueco Mundo and Soul Society. Ichigo\u2019s absence allows the Shinigami Captains\u2019 scenes to feel more personal, providing precious screen time for the previously neglected side characters. Once again, the pacing in the episode is phenomenally fast, skimming past various plot points and thereby allowing for maximum engagement. But by speeding up the pacing, Thousand Year Blood War episode 5 vastly simplifies fights which could have been amazing spectacles. A quick spoiler warning below for Bleach Thousand Year Blood War episode 5! Byakuya Kuchiki\u2019s courageous stand Captain Byakuya faces off against the Quincy who stole his powers in the previous episode. This Quincy\u2019s name is \u00c4s N\u00f6dt. While staring his opponent down, Byakuya can\u2019t help but shake in fear, which is uncharacteristic of the stoic captain. The enemy reveals his powers allows him to feed fear to his opponents, essentially poisoning their mental. This power isn\u2019t anything innovative, and is actually a rather lackluster moment in the manga. But in the anime, the production quality pretty much carries the scene through, quickly moving past it and leaving Byakuya impaled in the process. At this moment, one of Soul Society\u2019s strongest captains falls to the ground, increasing the intensity of the war. Yamamoto Genryuusai\u2019s burning rage Captain Yamamoto\u2019s fury is easily the highlight of Bleach Thousand Year Blood War episode 5. He runs into the enemy who killed his Vice Captain, Sasakibe Chojiro. The Quincy\u2019s name is Driscoll Berci, and he strikes the leader of Soul Society with Chojiro\u2019s Bankai. Yamamoto takes the full forced of it without flinching, then proceeds to kill Berci with a single flaming strike. Berci\u2019s body burns away, revealing his skeleton briefly before disintegrating into ash. The fire erased the villain\u2019s existence so fast that Berci couldn\u2019t even register that he was being killed. The wonderful fire animations alongside quick flashback accentuate his anger, making for an incredibly satisfying revenge scene. After killing Berci, Yamamoto storms across the battlefield. Others, motivated by his spiritual pressure, prepare to battle to their fullest potential. Kenpachi Zaraki\u2019s introduction reveals a glaring flaw After Bleach Thousand Year Blood War episode 5\u2019s opening, a random shot of Kenpachi shows up on screen. He\u2019s carrying with him the body of three dead Quincy. This single frame is very alarming, since it completely skips a lot of the background context surrounding his fights. Later on in the episode, the teased scene debuts. The scene lacks to give a proper recap of the intense fights, and instead flashes back only for a couple of seconds to show Kenpachi massacre his foes. This was clearly a strategic move to keep up with the pacing present in the previous episodes. Though they successfully push the plot forward, animation studio Pierrot omit big fights which were clearly intended to hold plot relevance. Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War Episode 5 will premiere on November 15 Episode 1 | Episode 2 | Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode 5 | Episode 6 | Episode 7 | Episode 8 | Episode 9 | Episode 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bleach Thousand Year Blood War episode 5 review: Ichigo imprisoned VIZ MediaIn Bleach Thousand Year Blood War episode 5, Ichigo is imprisoned in the black void between Hueco Mundo and Soul Society, allowing fan favorite side characters to have precious screen time. The fifth episode of Bleach Thousand Year Blood War focuses on the Shinigami […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}