Bleach: Chapter 432 [Spoilers]

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Originally Posted by black flash

Because a gun and sword fight will get boring a lot quicker then hand to hand or a clash of swords. It will go I shoot at you, you dodge I shoot again you dodge again, oh wait you got close to me i'll back away and shoot, oh shit you dodged again, so on and so forth. A bit like Starrk and Shunsui, even then Starrk had to pull out a pair of swords.

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Point taken, but I still say that making everything a sword is getting a little stale...I thought some of the innovations Kubo made in the past were cool, like Ganju's sand technique, or Byakuya's Senbonzakura...right now I'm just tired of regular sword-swinging and power blasts.

Though admittedly this new ability is interesting, there're lots of ways they could apply this to make it cool. It also looks like Kubo may be going for a technical angle rather than a simple power level angle for this arc, which is only a good thing. Only time will tell though...something about the pace still feels off though.

As I said, Kube might take the fullmetal Alchemist route with their powers once it comes to fight time.

shinigami are souls right? so they can use shinigami's powers against them?

Does anyone else think that the substitute shinigami badge has a soul that wants to empower the substitute shinigami? Seems logical, since it's been a fairly nothing item that's been given a lot more focus than before.

This would imply that they don't want Ichigo's power for themselves, assuming he's not the only one who could be empowered that way, so they need a shinigami for their unrevealed, dastardly(?) plan...

I imagine controlling living beings' souls would be harder, but it might be their super-strong-super-secret power up... might also fit in if they need to manipulate Ichigo's soul (in addition to the badge's?) to repower him.