Bleach 513 blows me away with the awesomeness it has. We first see Byakuya’s last moments as he walks to find something. Ichigo’s rampage against Juha Bach continues as Ichigo goes on an all out anger driven fight against Juha. We also find out that Ichigo has learnt the ability to use Blut Vene!

Bleach 513 starts out as Byakuya walks around Soul Society noticing that it’s all silent, there is no answer from Ichigo or anyone else there to help. Byakuya isn’t scared to know that this could be the end for him, he’s satisfied knowing that Ichigo will take care of things. He leaves everything to Ichigo as he’s going to be the savior of Soul Society. We see Byakuya drop his sword, it cracks into a few pieces, this could be the end of Byakuya.

Ichigo faces Juha Bach, he’s in front of him, he’s ready to fight him no matter what. Haschwald walks forward when Juha Bach stops him, he may have wanted to fight him. Juha Bach says that he doesn’t how he broke out of Kirge’s Jail but does Ichigo really plan to fight him with that torn body.

Ichigo asks if he’s the Enemy’s leader. Juha Bach laughs and says that he is and the same time he’s not. Ichigo tells him not to kid him. Juha Bach smiles causing Ichigo to shouts if he’s the one who made such a mess of Soul Society. Juha Bach is ready, he says that he is responsible for nearly destroying everything.

Ichigo quickly releases a lot of reiatsu as he powers up. Juha Bach tells Haschwald that after all they did, there is no other choice except to fight Ichigo. Juha Bach says that he wants to destroy him! Ichigo jumps towards Juha Bach, at this point we hear the famous words in which he haven’t heard for quite a few chapter! Ichigo releases his Getsuga Tenshou!

This causes a large explosion, Ichigo moves out from the point when a large hand appears in front of him. The hand holds into Ichigo’s hands and smashes Ichigo on the ground, Ichigo tries to grab Juha Bach’s face but doesn’t succeed as it’s moved away by Juha Bach’s hand.

At this point, Ichigo notices that Juha Bach is holding a large sword, Juha Bach thrusts it towards Ichigo’s neck, it seems like there is nothing left but Ichigo’s decapitated head. Ichigo’s eyes seem as though there is nothing left for him. Haschwald is shocked at how quick he was killed, Juha is not satisfied by the fight.

Ichigo still breaths, Juha Bach says to take him to their castle, they’ll resuscitate him and make him join their troops. Haschwald agrees to the orders and will do as instructed. Juha Bach looks away for a second, he then realizes that Ichigo is not yet down! He realizes that the sword which he used hasn’t even broke Ichigo’s skin! He realizes that Ichigo is using the famous Blut Vene! A Quincy Technique! At this point, Ichigo releases all the reiatsu he can, he then goes to uses the Getsuga Tenshou close range towards Juha. Bleach 513 ends here.

What an epic chapter! Ichigo’s finally got somewhere, and the fact that Ichigo can use Blut Vene means that he could also use Blut Arterie, we seriously need to know what had happened in Kirge’s Jail or if somehow the Kirge Killer helped Ichigo! Who and what could have happened in Hueco Mundo! Can’t wait for next week’s Bleach 514 as it’s most likely to feature a grand range of fights!

Being me you’ll be able to notice all the links between these two fantastic images of Ichigo! Ichigo has gone through a hell of a ride during his past teenage years with a whole load happen to him, for example losing his Fullbring as well as regaining his Shinigami Powers, if it was anyone else, they would have already gone insane!

It’s a first that I’m featuring two images, but there’s always a first for everything! So what connections can you make? A lot of things happened which raised a lot more question in the Lost Substitute Shinigami Arc, but I’m pretty sure they’ll be answered within the Thousand Year War!

Both of these images are as you’d say are opposites, one is the rise and the other the fall of Ichigo, if you’re a fan you’ll know that there’s been quite a few parts in which Ichigo has gone through these moment. Some which actually made Ichigo the person he is now.

We can say that the second image happened first as Ichigo’s Fullbring was easily stolen from him by Ginjo, but after Ichigo regains his power from the help of the Captains and Rukia, he has a dead and fiery look in his eyes portrayed by the first image, hopefully it’s the same look he has towards Juha Bach within the Final Arc!

Both of the images are incredible and thus deserve to be featured, the top image was awesome drawn by the talented Inspiriert and the one below was also done by the talented MinatoSama207. Go and check both of them out!

Bleach 514 reveals a big clue to who Ichigo really is, his origins are not detailed but are described to be a Quincy due to his mother sides! Juha Bach reveals that as he didn’t know his mother too well, he wouldn’t have known but Juha Bach also calls Ichigo his son!! Could this be an explanation to who Isshin really is?

Bleach 514 continues on from Juha Bach vs Ichigo, Ichigo releases a mass amount of reiatsu that it covers the sky. Haschwald shouts Juha Bach’s name to ask if he’s okay, we then see some sign of life when Juha Bach uses his own powers in order to escape from Ichigo’s reiatsu, Juha Bach mentions that it was a mistake.

Ichigo thinks that because he had survived one of his attacks it’s a mistake, Juha Bach mentions that it’s not because of that, at this point, Juha Bach attacks from the right in order to rip the cloths off his arm. Ichigo blocks the attack but the cloth rips off showing Ichigo’s Blut system at works.

Juha Bach confirms his thesis that what he saw was correct, Ichigo asks what he means, Juha tells Ichigo that it was a mistake to use a Pure Quincy to stop Ichigo, he should have sent some random Arrancar because that caused the memories within his reiatsu to awaken already.

Juha Bach mentions that when he was inside Kirge’s Jail, Ichigo released his reiatsu to the extreme in order to destroy, the remnants of Ichigo’s reiatsu incorporated the surrounding reiatsu and Kirge’s reiatsu, this slowly reached the deepest part of Ichigo’s soul and awakened the memories within Ichigo’s reiatsu from the very root!

Kirge’s Jail is originally made to suppress the enemy within it, thus it’s unable to imprison Quincies inside it. This giving us fans the idea that Ichigo could be a Quincy at the core. Ichigo is confused as always and just asks Juha to answer more useless questions. Juha understands the dilemma in which Ichigo is in.

Juha Bach also mentions that he didn’t even know anything about his mother! Could this mean that Ichigo’s mother was a Quincy, I surely think so. Ichigo gets a little angered, Juha Bach tells Ichigo that he wanted to take him back from the start to reeducate him from the start but it looks like there is no time for Juha to take it slowly.

Therefore Juha Bach proposes for him to force Ichigo to surrender and drag him back. Ichigo shouts at Juha Bach asking what the hell he’s talking about. Juha Bach answers him by saying that once they’re in Vandenreich, all of Ichigo’s answers will be answered. Juha Bach then goes in for the attack.

Ichigo blocks Juha but out of nowhere, Juha grabs onto Ichigo’s head and tells him that he’s going to stab him, and he’s not going to have anytime to dodge it, even with his Blut Vene, he’ll release his power and cut right through Ichigo. Out of nowhere a dark shadow appears in which Haschwald mentions that it’s time for him to head back.

Haschwald tells Juha that that he cannot stay out of the Shatten Bereich (Literally Meaning Shadow Territory), he says that he needs to return to the Vandenreich. Juha Bach says that he cannot yet because of another thing. He then realizes that what just happened could be a trick set by Aizen as he had confused Juha’s perception in the short time they met.

At this point both Juha Bach and Haschwald start to head off when Ichigo shouts wait! Juha Bach looks back when Ichigo tells Juha that he’s just going to let him just like that? There is no way Ichigo will let Juha escape from Soul Society after all the damage he did. Juha keeps on walking when Ichigo shouts stop once more. At this point Ichigo goes on a all out run towards Juha in order to get him back.

At this point Haschwald looks back in order to stop Ichigo, he slashes his sword and in once moment, Ichigo’s sword is split in half, at this moment, Juha Bach is about the cross the Shatten Bereich when he says his last words.

Juha Bach says Goodbye, Ichigo is told that Juha Bach will come back to get him, therefore he should heal his wounds and wait till that time arrives! He also mentions that Ichigo is his son who was born in the darkness! A shocking revelation as it seems as though that Juha Bach is Ichigo Father! Bleach 514 ends here!

What a fantastic chapter! Loads of fantastic information as well as key important information about Ichigo’s mother as well as the origins of Ichigo’s supernatural powers are finally coming to light! Seriously can’t wait for next week’s Bleach 515 awesome chapter when the fantastic arc continues!

Haschwald is Juha Bach’s close and personal lieutenant who hasn’t involved himself in any of Juha Bach’s fight. Thus could he be a neutral who’s just following orders? Haschwald seems to be a mystery man who we haven’t seen much of except the fact that he cut Ichigo’s sword in half! His powers could possibly surpass that of Ichigo and possibly any other captain, but who is he really?

Haschwald is most likely a Quincy, but there is always a possibly that he could be an Arrancar or Shinigami, but then again, would Juha Bach stand on having a Arrancar or Shinigami as his lieutenant? Possibly not. The fact that he doesn’t part take in many fights, nor does he like to fight other people, he seems like a person who just seems to be following orders.

The fact that he left some Shinigami’s alive because they were either so weak or lost their minds after seeing Haschwald could mean that he’s not up for killing innocent people, his orders could state to kill Soul Society’s pillars, thus bringing Soul Society into crumbles.

But who is he really? What do you think his real intentions are, and why does he seem like he doesn’t like to take Juha Bach’s orders? Tell me using the comment box!

The fantastic image of Haschwald was drawn by Ze-RoFruits. They’ve got some other fantastic work, so go and check their work out using the link. Also don’t forget to tell me what you think!

Ichigo Kurosaki and Juha Bach have already had their first fight, unfortunately the fight is still unfinished due to Juha’s plan being unexpectedly being crossed with Ichigo’s arrival, it seemed that Ichigo lost after Haschwald cut his sword in half. This fight is possibly one that is likely to be as epic as the fight including Aizen and Ichigo, so who do you think is likely to win this awesome battle?

Tell me using the comment section who you think is likely to be on top after Ichigo has a proper fight against Juha Bach.

Ichigo’s abilities to overcome his enemies give him the advantage to bring any situation to his favor  when he gets serious, he does bring out the power within him allowing him to use his full strength with efficiency, this ultimately enabling him to defeat most of his enemies, one enemy which is currently not been defeated is Juha Bach, Ichigo’s arrival was short and so was that battle, his emotional state was too much for him and he wasn’t able to defeat Juha Bach. All Ichigo thought about was his friends and all the other dead Shinigami’s who had given their lives for no other reason, Ichigo was seen as a hero when everyone found out he was coming but unfortunately his arrival was a little late thus pissing him off even more, unfortunately, even his arrival was not at the correct time, it was all out of time and the people trying to bring him to Soul Society messed up due to an Quincy attacking.

Juha Bach, the leader of the Vandenreich and possibly the strongest Quincy alive, is Ichigo’s opponent today, he’s definitely a strong opponent, going up against Yamamoto, even tricking him and stealing his Bankai, this allowed him to quickly and swiftly kill Yamamoto with just one swing of his sword. The power of Zanka No Tachi now lies with Juha Bach which makes him twice as strong, even more since Zanka No Tachi is a hell of a strong Bankai. His mastery of most of the Quincy abilities such as the Blut Vene and Arterie gives Juha Bach the ability to stop most strong attacks even from the Getsuga Tenshou. Plus having his Heilig Pfeil allows him to quickly generate arrows from the Reishi around him and form it into an arrow in which they can fire at Ichigo. Juha Bach is also able to create a Reishi Broadsword allowing him to create a massive sword which is formed when he faces his hand towards the sky forming the sword. He can use this sword to cut almost anything.

So who do you think is likely to win this epic fight? Even if Ichigo gains more powers from the Zero Division, will he still be able to fight against Juha Bach? Tell me using the comment section. The fantastic image on top was created by aConst, the second by Mizashi and Juha Bach’s by Satansly. Check them out!

If Ichigo Kurosaki is to be confirmed a true Quincy, do you think he’ll be as happy and excited to adopt his new-found abilities? He’s already been known to use the Blut Vene during his battle with Juha Bach and after some explanation, Ichigo had already activated some of his Quincy abilities during his struggle within Kirge’s Jail Technique.

The incredible image above clearly shows an epic Ichigo who seems to be comfortable with bring a Quincy, although the outfit doesn’t suit his personality, it seems that it could become true if and when Juha Bach comes to force Ichigo do join and become one of his Stern Ritter’s. What do you think of all of this?

The fantastic image was done by a spectacular artists who’s been featured here many times, IFrAgMenTIx. Go and check out his awesome art work belonging to many different Animes.

The revelations to which Ichigo Kurosaki could be a Quincy could actually be true as we’ve seen with our own eyes that Ichigo’s abilities awaken after he was trapped within Kirge’s Pure Quincy Jail. We’ve known that Ichigo’s always been a special kid, but who knew that he had a blend of the possibly the most powerful forms of life that exist within their world, Human, Shinigami, Hollow and even Quincy!

It’s still not fully been confirmed, but the way Juha Bach spoke in front of Ichigo, as well as Ichigo performing the Blut Defence Mechanisms is good enough proof to say that he’s a large mix genes from a large number of species such as the Human, Shinigami and Quincy. It could mean that Shinigami could have come from Isshin while Human and Quincy from his mother, Masaki. Hollow was created and developed due to Urahara’s unusual and unorthodox techniques of bringing Ichigo’s Shinigami Powers back! Tell me what you think using the comments below.

The incredible artwork above was created as well as coloured in by RicardoNamikaze. He’s done a fantastic job of drawing as well as coming up such a great idea of using Ichigo’s hoodie as an inspiration. You should definitely check him out!

Bleach 537 mind blows me as it’s revealed that Uryu Ishida has joined the Quincy Army! Yhwach (Juha Baha) reveals to him that he’s the Prince of Light, to which Katagiri was confirmed to be his mother. Masaki’s death was caused by the link breaking while both Ichigo and Grand Fisher were both there, Ichigo understands and thanks him to which he tries to go somewhere.

Bleach 537 begins as Isshin reveals to Ichigo that his mother, wasn’t suppose to die that die, Quincies have a special ability called the Blut system, which allows them to raise their abilities allowing them to flow reiatsu in their blood vessels. It’s a skill only pure-blooded Quincies possess since their birth, and the ones who don’t can obtain it with training.

Masaki was a Pure-blooded Quincy even if she had Hollow in her, in particular, her Blue Vene was exceptionally powerful, that is why the injury she got from the Hollow bite was nothing more than weird at the time. After that she never suffered Hollow wounds ever again. That day, Isshin was unable to save her, he didn’t even go save her.

At that time, he was at home and he felt both Masaki and Grand Fisher’s reiatsu, therefore without his Shinigami abilities he wasn’t able to do anything. He even knew that Masaki wasn’t at a disadvantage due to her Blut abilities, however the Grand Fisher was able to hide its reiatsu, plus the power difference between both was evident. She was suppose to be able to defeat it without getting a scratch.

However that didn’t happen, she quickly died. Ichigo is asked about Uryu, if he knows anything about his mother. He says no because he doesn’t. Isshin reveals that his the son of Katagiri Kanae who was a mixed blood. 9 Years ago, on 17th of June, she lost consciousness and died 3 months later. Ichigo asks what had happened. He mentions that Ausscheren (literally meaning Holy Selection) in which Yhwach had made a selection of Quincies.

Isshin mentions that he heard about a Quincy folklore about a sealed King, in which he would regain his heart 900 Years later, his intellect in 90 years and his powers after 9 years. To regain his powers he stole the powers from Mixed-blood Quincy whom he considered Impure and made it his own, because of that Katagiri Kanae who was already weak had died. Masaki had already lost her powers and died during that battle.

Ichigo asks how he could do such a thing, Ichigo then asks who Yhwach really is. Isshin tells him that he is the one who created Quincies, and thus all Quincies started from him. And therefore his blood blows in every Quincy! Ichigo repeats the last conversation he had with Yhwach and finds out what the meaning of what he said. He then thanks his dad for what he said, Isshin notices the determination in his eyes.

He walks out of the house when he notices Ikumi Unagiya, she gets there and gives him his Combat Pass. Ikumi notices that he’s probably not in the best of mindsets, Ichigo mentions to Isshin that he’s going. Elsewhere at the Quincy Palace, Haschwalth arrives and Yhwach asks if he’s back. He asks where the subject is, someone walks in. Yhwach welcomes him, and we see that Uryu Ishida is the person who’s just walked in!

He’s currently wearing a full Quincy collection of clothes, he’s literally looking all badass at this point. Yhwach asks him to fight together, Uryu just looks at him until Yhwach calls him his son. The call of the blood has already arrived there. Plus the chapter is called Prinz von Licht referring to Prince of Light. Bleach 537 ends here.

What a fantastic chapter, it would be awesome to see where Ichigo will go next plus it’s awesome to finally see Uryu do something, I knew something like this would eventually happen. From the very start when Ichigo met Uryu, they wanted to badly fight each other, but never happened, I guess that if finally about to happen, plus it’s been left until they’re both extremely strong which is the best point. Can’t wait for next week’s Bleach 537 when we see even more awesome stuff!

Bleach 540 reveals why Zangetsu and Juha Bach (Yhwach) are so similar in the way they look. It’s mentioned while Nimaiya reforges his sword that Zangetsu is not who he seems to be, in fact Ichigo has been lied to as the Zangetsu we know is Juha Bach’s form from 1000 years ago, who has been within Ichigo’s Soul! Nimaiya gets serious and calls upon his woman to help him reforge Ichigo’s Zangetsu Sword.

Bleach 540 begins as Nimaiya gets prepared, he calls out to begin his show! 5 Zanpakuto’s show up behind Ichigo, they land and quickly beat up Nimaiya while they get down, probably to get him all fired up to do his work. Nimaiya’s private escort team show up. Ichigo and Zangetsu are both flabbergasted by what just happened.

Nimaiya mentions that he’s spacing out, he mentioned for this to include everything, this includes Asauchi, the body of his starts to degrade and begins to form itself into a thin object. His companions gets set and do what they’re suppose to. The first, his companion blows a large amount of fire into a wall, the next pours the collected fire or lava into a large bucket.

The next uses her pony tails to collect the metal, the fourth takes a tooth from her mouth, to which instantly forms into a large hammer for Nimaiya to use. Lastly, Nimaiya Oetsu himself gets ready, he ties his hair back, takes his sunglasses off and mentions that it’s finally time to get busy.

Nimaiya pulls back and smashes the metal collected, Ichigo watches from the back as Nimaiya does his job. Nimaiya asks what’s going on in the head of his, he goes on to mention that it would have been more productive of him to use his sunglasses at this point. He notices that Nimaiya called him Chan-Ichi.

Nimaiya calls him an idiot, if he had his shades on, he wouldn’t be able to see the shades of the flames. He also asks if he noticed the reason why his Asauchi turned whiter than snow when he touched him. Ichigo didn’t really bother to give a reason. Ichigo wonders what he’s talking about when he mentions that it’s just like the hollow with Nimaiya.

He mentions that he also has an inner hollow, he made the Asauchi like this in order to draw out his Zanpakuto. He asks if he gets it, he goes on to make it clear that this Hollow is his Zanpakuto! The hollow that Aizen artificially made were from piling up shinigami souls, which was called and referred to white. Furthermore, the Asauchi’s in which Nimaiya makes is the same way.

The hollow entered Ichigo and merged with Ichigo’s own shinigami powers, therefore he is Ichigo’s true Zanpakuto! Therefore the person he’s been talking with, Zangetsu, is infact inside Ichigo’s Soul! He’s been faking and pretending to be his Zanpakuto! Zangetsu quickly appears, Ichigo appears in front of him.

Nimaiya talks to Ichigo, he asks if he knows that man, he goes on to mention that it’s Zangetsu, however he quickly corrects him, mentioning that this is not Zangetsu! Nimaiya mentions that the person is in fact an imposter and that he should be able to connect all the dots quickly. Nimaiya mentions that he’s the man currently taking advantage of Soul Society! Juha Bach! (Yhwach).

Ichigo is completely shocked at this point, he’s always trusted him and now he finds out that this person is in fact someone else. Nimaiya also reveals that that guy is not a Shinigami, and doesn’t have any Shinigami powers, in fact he is his Quincy powers! It’s correct to assume that this person is in fact Juha Bach (Yhwach) from a thousand years ago! Bleach 540 ends here.

What a crazy episode, I knew there were similarities within who we thought was Zangetsu and the current Juha Bach! But this is just awesome, how could this have happened and it’s awesome to know, can’t wait for next week’s Bleach 541, to find out how this happened in the first place!

Ichigo’s recently learnt about how Ol’ Man Zangetsu is not who he seems he is, in fact Nimaiya tells Ichigo that he is in fact Juha Bach from 1000 years ago! The artist himself did not realize that Bach and ‘Zangetsu ‘ had any similarities, therefore after finding this out, he was mind blown. He also explains that after reading Bleach 540, he thought that Juha Bach was always there pulling his strings.

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