Episode 65 Discussion Thread

[Omniscient]

Episode 65 Screencaps and Long Summary

Spoiler for basically what happens:

-Inoue is gone along with everyone's memories of her (except for Ichigo, Renji, Ishida, and Sado).
-While investigating her home, Renji's cell phone rings with a girl on the other end. She sends the boys on a chase across town from phone to phone as a part of her game.
-However, that ends up leading our heroes nowhere. They get told to go back to Inoue's home at 8 that night.
-They see a flash of light from her window and go up to find Inoue back, but having no memories of anything from the past day.
-But as it turns out, it's not really Inoue. Instead, it's one of the new villains. The one wearing a hat is named Kurodo (Cloud?) and the girl is named Ririn (Lilin?). This time, they take away Sado.

Animation quality is overall going down, but the episode still has its good and bad times. I'm not sure how much I like this lets-kidnap-all-of-Ichigo's-friends plot, but hopefully they can make something more of it next week (instead of taking, say, Ishida). Kakazu Yumi is doing a good job playing Ririn though.

Please do not discuss anything past episode 65, or else you risk a ban. Even [spoiler] [/spoiler] tags are no defense.

[monir]

Filler! Filler! Filler!

We have been waiting for it, so it has been delivered. The overall animation quality has dwindled as well. The BGM (background music) in one place of the episode was just plain ugly. I still wouldn't say it was a bad episode because Renji is continued to be funny while Ishida shows another usefullness of carrying a sewing kit.

Spoiler:

Ichigo and the gang pays a visit to Inoue's place hoping they will pick up on a clue or two, but too bad they door gets in their way. What to do, what to do? Chad wants to flex his muscle and break in. "Wait", says Ishida. A fantastic BGM starts playing as Ishida takes out his sewing kit. He then proceeds to take out a needle, bends it horizontally, and starts to pick on the lock. Here, the hilarously inappropriate BGM dies as if it realizes Ishida is not going to do anything exciting.

There are other funny moments in the episode as well involving Renji. It's just that, for a Bleach episode, it felt long which is usually common in filler material. Next episode preview showed Kon, so it might be a fun episode.

[Guido]

Spoiler:

The psychotic grin and eyes of the imposter Inoue are damn disturbing.

Not a Ten-Little-Indians plot pace!

[Thewanderer]

I dunno guys, I like this arc quite a lot.

BTW, in before sticky

[Biswa]

Oof, well, that's filler i suppose. The thing is, they're being clever about disgusing the episodes, so they always end up having some NON-filler parts. This has been true for the last episode too. So it's not something that can be considered as "it never happened." I guess it's a good thing to do that, but it means sitting through bad things =/. Anyway, i think it's important to keep comedy higher in fillers because there'll rarely be any chances for comedy in the non-filler episodes in the distant (possibly very distant) future.

[Thewanderer]

I'm really confused here guys... how can you tell that it's a filler? It looks like just a normal episode to me. Am I missing something?

[ccardoso]

Originally Posted by Thewanderer

I'm really confused here guys... how can you tell that it's a filler? It looks like just a normal episode to me. Am I missing something?

Yes, what is a filler.
A filler is one or more episodes which aren't in the manga.

[Biswa]

Originally Posted by Thewanderer

I'm really confused here guys... how can you tell that it's a filler? It looks like just a normal episode to me. Am I missing something?

I think that's a rather good sign, then, considering you can't really tell the difference. Maybe the Bleach anime team isn't doing so bad after all, if they're producing "normal" episodes. It's just that after we read the manga, we might have different expectations of the anime, thus making it seem kind of boring. So again, if i hadn't read the manga, maybe i'd enjoy the filler episodes more.

So what you other "anime-only" watchers think? I'm pretty curious now... damn my preconceptions >_<.

[KJlost]

Not bad actually. The episode got me interested in what might happen next. I don't think the animation quality has suffered much at all either.

[Blade21]

Let's put it like this;

Basicly the outro of Bleach shows us that these guys are going to be a while with us. It also reveals surprisingly much about the ppl that are behind te kidnappings.

I'm not going to complain at this moment about the episode, sinds i haven't got the translated one yet. But judging from the previous episode it won't be as bad as Naruto. Rather than seeing big shot fights like the previous arc we can finally relax a littlebit from all those high-level fights.

[The Crappinometer]

black cat rejects! black cat rejects! XD

[yuchan]

Well the highlight of this ep for me was chad in his news clothes. He looked really good in the the and white. Kubo should take a cue and never make him wear pink!

[Nakigoe]

Originally Posted by Biswa

So what you other "anime-only" watchers think? I'm pretty curious now... damn my preconceptions >_<.

if i didnt visit these forums, i wouldnt even know that it was filler. it transitions beautifully.

[Kaka]

didn't like this episode

i especially get annoyed when seeing those kind of "games"

[Bronwen Stx]

Originally Posted by Thewanderer

I'm really confused here guys... how can you tell that it's a filler? It looks like just a normal episode to me. Am I missing something?

Very good sign. :clap: You aren't missing anything, do carry on and ignore these...manga-nerds :cough:

So fairly average bordering good episode? I'm definitely watching it then.

[Goldsplinter]

Originally Posted by Bronwen Stx

Very good sign. :clap: You aren't missing anything, do carry on and ignore these...manga-nerds :cough:

So fairly average bordering good episode? I'm definitely watching it then.

Manga-nerds..lol....yeah they all do look kinda nerdy. But love for every1!

[Bedlam]

im loving the fillers, the team is doing a great job so far!

this is a great opportunity to flesh out the huge cast of bleach characters, who knows... if the manga goes far enough,it'd be possible for the anime team to actually do side stories that would correlate with the current manga arc in future episodes.

i.e. what other characters were doing prior to the current manga arc or concurrent to it.

[Eclipze]

Now now, boys and girls, I think we should call it "original story" instead of "filler" for now. Until it sucks.

Even NSW agrees.

Originally Posted by NoSanninWa

And maybe it will help dispell some of the bad publicity around the f-word. Of course, if this original story sucks, I'm switching back to the f-word in a hurry.

And...

Originally Posted by Omniscient

Please do not discuss anything past episode 64, or else you risk a ban. Even [spoiler] [/spoiler] tags are no defense.

Dont you mean episode 65?

And as The Small One says, its an "original story", so unless someone were to foolishly talk about the manga, I dont see how the fil..."original story" can be spoiled.

[NoSanninWa]

Originally Posted by Eclipze

Now now, boys and girls, I think we should call it "original story" instead of "filler" for now. Until it sucks.

Thanks for reminding everyone. I've just finished downloading the episode, so I'll go find out now if this original story should be referred to by the f-word.

And as The Small One says, its an "original story", so unless someone were to foolishly talk about the manga, I dont see how the fil..."original story" can be spoiled.

Somehow I wouldn't be surprised if someone wanted to talk about the manga here, even though this story is original. I'll just keep the ban stick ready to hit people with if they are so foolish.

[Aristophanes]

Meh, Im so sick of Lunar taking a decade to release a sub that I've switched to DB.