Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity

Yhwach grabbing what he thinks is Ichigo and it being an Aizen illusion is the kind of payoff that makes all those cryptic speeches worth sitting through. The smirk on Aizen after the Getsuga lands was perfect

THIS EPISODE WAS CRAZY. ANIMATION, MUSIC, EVERYTHINGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THAT ITS "ICHIGO THE GOAT!!!!","THE LAST QUINCY URYU!!!","SHUNSUI","THAT NEW BOY",GRIMMJOW JAGGERJAC THE GOAT","PESCHE AND DONDACHAKA!!!!!!!!!" THAT KILL HIM. IBA AND GANGU AND CHADDDDD GETTING TIME TO SHINE HAS MADE MY YEAR. This better get 10/10 cause it deserves that recognition. I take back my anger fir them delaying it for a month. Im gonna watch this episode 3 more times. Why? Cause this was bleach GREATNESSSSSSSSSSS!

Tsukishima inserting a past into a broken sword is such a stupidly brilliant use of his power and I hate that it took me this long to appreciate it. Orihime finally getting to fix the thing she was crying over mattered more than any of the fighting

I could not stop smiling when Ginjo and Tsukishima just showed up out of nowhere. Of all the people to fix Tensa Zangetsu it had to be the guy who spent a whole arc messing with Ichigo's head. Wild turnaround

everyone yelling about the animation is right but the real thing here is Ichigo just standing his ground while Yhwach reformulates bigger than before. you can see in his face that he has no plan left and he still doesn't move

Orihime being unable to fix the sword and just shaking over the pieces before the Fullbringers bail her out felt right. She carries so much of the guilt the whole cour and nobody lets her off the hook for it

Nobody talk to me about the production delay being worth it because it clearly was. The Getsuga at point blank and the whole black and white shift on the final strike looked unreal. Pierrot cooked and I am not accepting arguments

That Komamura flashback with the purple field and Yamamoto hit harder than I expected. He can't even speak anymore and he still howls at the sky for his old captain. Iba carrying that on his back afterwards wrecked me a little

Getsuga comes out and it looks like Yhwach is finished and then the man just laughs and reforms. That laugh killed the mood in the best way. All that effort and he's still standing there smug

Three worlds one fight and somehow nothing feels rushed. The trade off between the Seireitei clash and Hueco Mundo and the sky eyes keeps cutting back at the right moments so none of it drags. Taguchi stretched this final stretch of the manga into something that actually breathes and the two week wait paid off in every frame of the Ichigo fight

The Still Silver backstory slots the arrow in so much better than the manga did. Ryuken handing it over to Uryu with that flat expression lands harder than any speech would have

Okay so the old single-blade Zangetsu showing up made my whole body tense up. That silhouette is burned into my brain from twenty years of watching this show and seeing it swing at Yhwach hit somewhere deep

Those watercolor skies during the Shunsui scenes are doing so much work. It looks like an old painting bleeding into a war and the contrast with the eye monsters is exactly the right kind of wrong

Watching Komamura howl with nothing left of him but fur and loyalty wrecked me more than any big fight. Iba carrying that promise forward is the quiet gut punch of the whole episode

I couldn't stop smiling when the Arrancars came through in Hueco Mundo. Halibel finally out of that cage fighting next to Grimmjow. Waited years for this and the wait was worth every second

Aizen switching places with Ichigo at the last second got me out of my chair. The man did it while tied to a chair and still played Yhwach like a fool. Peak scheming

Three Yhwachs splitting across the three worlds was the expansion this arc needed. No more offscreen fights. Every faction gets their own nightmare now

well I was expecting Aizen to do more than being a narrator 😑 why is he still stuck on that throne underground, let him be the soul king.

The Still Silver arrow finally got the build up it never had in the manga. Ryuken handing it to Uryu with that flat expression while Isshin stands there says more than any speech could

Those eyes multiplying in the sky over all three worlds made me uneasy in a way this arc hasn't managed before. Kill one and more blink open. Shunsui and Hitsugaya swinging at nothing but dread