Bleach 583 – The Headless Star 2 review

The continuation of the bambi slut brigade continues as Ichigo still shows so sign of giving the slightest fuck. The Thunder and the rest of the BSB continue to relentlessly attack but none of them really seem to be trying with the exception of The Thunder herself. They all seem to remain calm and emotionless throughout. At one point, agreeing that he should be killed, but none of them are willing to try. The Thunder quickly goes Vollstandig, which honestly doesn’t help her much. For girls that killed off Bambietta, their team leader simply because she was defeated, they don’t seem to be that strong in comparison and could afford to lose such an asset.

Once The Thunder releases Vollstandig, he power naturally changes and so does her appearance. He weapon is 6 thunder like blades which I assume deal some sort of Quincy based electric power upon touching their opponent. The idea is cool, but I don’t really understand why she needs 6 of them when she only has two hands and throwing them would be pretty ineffective considering her opponents speed.

She uses one of her Vollstandig moves ‘ Galvano Javelin’ which is a much stronger version of a Quincy arrow. Ichigo responds by using a quick Getsuga Tenshou to nullify the attack. Now it’s hard to see because it’s a drawing, but because Ichigo used his Quincy power, it could be possible that what he did was in fact void the power, rather than over powering the attack. This could make for some interesting power exchanges in the future given the different powers. He also seems to have much finer control over his powers now, as he only whispers the name of his attacks after the movement, the attacks also seem to be noticeably smaller and more specific.

(ichigo’s classic post power-up smug face)

The Thunder then follows up with her final attack, ‘Electrocution’, nice play on words there Kubo. Ichigo then takes out both his hollow sword (the big one) and his Quincy sword (the small one) and performs a cross blade Getsuga Tenshou called: Getsuga Juujishou. Literally translating to Moonfang Cross-piercer which sounds very awesome indeed. From here I think we can say that The Thunder is no longer alive or at least won’t be for very long. 

Now, upon seeing the mergence of the Quincy and the hollow attacks, it had me wonder. The attack of a soul reaper, hollow etc always attacks the soul directly, so if a Quincy power combined with a hollow power somehow infected the Quincy and that soul was transported back to Juha Bach, would he be damaged, or at least wounded. If he was wounded in a battle this way it could prove to be very deadly indeed and even play a key role in the way he is defeated. I give this chapter a 4/10, its was entertaining, but apart form FINALLY seeing his new move, there wasn’t really anything happening.

 - PandaSlayer