Las Noches: A Bleach Podcast
Listen with Dani & Giovani as they review the new Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War arc.
Las Noches: A Bleach Podcast
Las Noches - Ep. 22-23
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Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War Episodes: 22-23 "Marching Out the Zombies Pt. 1 & Pt. 2".
Welcome to last notice. I am your host, Giovanni.
DanielleHi, and I'm your host, Danielle.
GiovaniHey. Danielle.
DanielleHey.
Giovanihey,
Daniellehey,
GiovaniWe're back again
DanielleYep. Uh.
Giovaniit didn't take four weeks.
DanielleI mean, why why are you making us sound like slackers? I mean, we're getting it done slow and steady. Right.
Giovaniit wins to race. Yeah,
DanielleUh, that's
Giovanithey say.
Danielleyada yada yada. But double episode
Giovanidouble episode. You excited
Danielleare you here for that?
Giovanithis? I like this episode. I really like this episode a lot. Um, just so much to talk about when you're dealing with, uh, some favorite characters and favorite side characters. And characters we haven't seen in a long time. So it was just a lot to put in there.
DanielleYeah. I, I en I enjoyed it, part one and part two. Uh. I thought it was, uh, few revelations in there that was, um, pretty interesting.
GiovaniOh, really?
Daniellewell, yeah. I mean, you, you know, my, um, favorite villain or gray grayish villain? Mauri made some moves.
GiovaniThis episode was Uri Carucci
Danielleyeah.
Giovanicentric. It was, uh, he was the star in this. Uh, I failed to realize so far why this guy isn't one of the great threats. You know, we have, Yuha say does these great threats and Car Sui is not one of them.
DanielleHe's constantly underestimated.
GiovaniI don't know about underestimated, He is unpredictable, but I also think maybe being unpredictable, he's predictable.
Track 1Uh, so you can depend on him to be a wild card, is what you're saying.
GiovaniI would, he would definitely be a, just, he would be a, a special threat to me because notice he observes first and then he, he gains a plan. He gets a plan, then he puts his plan in action instead of like, he should go, he should go swings first, and then later on tries to put a plan in action.
Track 1All right. Right.
GiovaniSo
Track 1Okay. Well, we'll get into it.
GiovaniI know it's funny, we're talking about it. We're not even chitchatting what you been up to.
Track 1uh, this hair and there
GiovaniHere. There
Track 1Yeah.
Giovanieverywhere.
Track 1Uh, I've picked up a little bit more of my Christmas bird. I know I was talking about that last time it was, you know, it was dragging for me. But, um, you know, I got a little pine in the air, a little, um, cinnamon spice everything. Nice. So
Giovaniuh, that's good. I,
Track 1Yeah.
Giovaniit's, I've been kind of, I won't say depressed, but just trying not to open spend this holiday season because it's a big thing how everything's more expensive now. Whether it's your cup of coffee, it's going to the grocery store and buying eggs or bread or whatever. Everything's is expensive. And not to mention tipping, like everybody wants a temp for what?
Track 1You know what they were talking about that, and I mean, hate me if you want, but I am one of those people that feels like I'm on the tipping his out of control boat. That's where I, I am.
GiovaniAnd for someone like me, who in my younger day I worked for tips, it's because, you know, I actually did a service. I delivered pizza, or I did something like that.
Track 1Yeah.
GiovaniIf I eat, if I go to a local restaurant for takeout, why do I have to tip you for, that's what your employee, that's, what your employee will pay you do.
Track 1job. That is the
Giovanithat is your job. You know, and then some, some people have to audacity to say, where if you can't tip, you shouldn't be in eating out. I'm like, no, that's not how it works. I can still eat out and not tip. I mean, I'm not tipping McDonald's.
Track 1well
GiovaniI'm not Wendy's
Track 1it's crazy now'cause it's, it's kind, it's also all kinds of places that never ask for tips before
Giovaniasking tips,
Track 1and then they're adding it to the, especially when you are using like Apple Pay or you using your, um, your card, you know, it's automatically there. And a lot'em
Giovani25%. I'm
Track 1than 10, 15%.
Giovaniwe get to 25%?
Track 1I don't know. I don't understand. I don't understand it, especially, I have no problem tipping, know, in
GiovaniIf inside restaurant, aunt
Track 1in the, in the actual structure of what tipping is meant to be. I have no problem delivery eating in the, you know, waiters, waitresses, eating inside and
Giovaniroom service.
Track 1use my own right room service, but when I use my own gas to go get it, I walk in, you even bring to like,
Giovaniright. They bring
Track 1like curbside. I can even see, but I go in,
GiovaniYeah.
Track 1I get it myself. All you do is put it, you know, hand me the bag. Sometimes you're not even putting it in the bag. You just hand me the bag
GiovaniAnd guess what? Sometimes it's even wrong. Sometimes your order's still wrong. What am you for to get my order wrong?
Track 1And then you have to tip before you even figure out that your order is wrong. So it's kind of like. I dunno. I know we on a rant about tipping, but it's, it's
Giovaniit's, it's, say that it's this difference between like the older generations, like the, Uh, boomers Yeah, the boomers. They want a tip and millennials are like, um, what did you actually do
Track 1okay. But So then is it like a difference in budget because you know,
GiovaniThat's true because I mean, millennials, gen Z,
Track 1Yeah.
Giovanithey are paying back those student loans
Track 1Right. And boomers are, are spending that retirement money. So
GiovaniAnd what's Generation X doing? We're just looking, I, guess just around like what's about? causing all this
Track 1I'm hanging with the millennials cause I'm, I'm strongly on the tip. It is, tipping is outta control. We need to rein it in boat. People are going with it, so
Giovanibut what I wish people would do, for everyone who says if you, if you can't afford tip tipping, don't eat out. Everybody should just stop eating out and just watch the restaurant in industry suffer. Or everything else suffer because of tipping.'cause it's going to come to a head. You know, it just is.
Track 1Well, I don't see how it can't, and I don't understand, especially in the restaurant industry, why just can't pay their employees a proper wage. I don't understand it. Like why is it, I mean, if the minimum wage, if that's what we're going with, if the minimum wage is, I don't know, just$12 an hour, I don't know. Like why are you paying your employee seven like doesn't even make any sense.
GiovaniRight.
Track 1Right. You
GiovaniAnd that, I mean, that is the problem.
Track 1Yeah. Seven
GiovaniDanielle, let's stop
Track 1Yeah.
GiovaniLet's stop branding. We can do this. can have podcast about this
Track 1that went on a long time. Okay.
Giovanibecause It's true. Like it is outta control. And yo, they say that Americans are spending beyond their means as is. I mean, we're doing that anyway. We can't afford what we're doing.
Track 1Well that's a whole nother conversation.
Giovanibuying their pay later.
Track 1Oh my goodness. Yeah.
GiovaniOkay, let's start with bleach. Let's
Track 1Yeah.
Giovaniwith bleach. do this
Track 1depressing everybody. All right. Uh, so episode 22, 23. We are at marching out the zombies one and two.
Giovanione, two. Yep.
Track 1Yeah.
GiovaniAnd, uh, this is straight rip the manga. So I was excited to see that, um, I could follow along with the manga and what's going on, except I will say this, it's, it is split throughout the books because a lot of the stuff didn't happen in, in my three and one, yet I had to go to an entirely different book.
Track 1Yeah.
GiovaniNevertheless, let's go, let's talk.
Track 1All right. So, uh, we opened with Ichigo, I guess, watching leave with, uh, Yuha and hba as they head into the Soul Palace. So they're, they jumped in their, um, 10. Did, did they have a 10? Did they, yeah. Or they,
GiovaniNo. They just used their magical powers to float
Track 1Okay.
Giovaniuse Uhhas
Track 1yeah, Ichigo came down in attention and then Yuha just got himself up there because the, um, spot was left open because of Ichigo. So, yeah.
Giovanidon't even know if Ichigo used a tension. He just flew down, didn't he?
Track 1Yeah.'cause we got, um, uh, uh, hun was also speculating on why, uh,
Giovanioh, show
Track 1Zero and Ma on Monica Osho is of not really doing anything about Yuha. Crew and just letting them walk into the soul palace without any resistance and know, whether that's a part of the plan.
GiovaniAlso seems like the type to do what he wants to do. Like he's not going to include anybody in his plan. He's just going to do it.
Track 1Yeah. I don't know. And then we got a glimpse of, um, Chad and um, or he made with Ichigo also trying to figure out what's going on with Orio and why is he on the other team of sorts.
Giovaniright? to me, that was a good, that was a good scene because it showed a montage of their friendship and how they stuck together with thick and thick and and thin. it just lets you know that there is a friendship there and maybe there's a reason for, for, um, Udi's Rebellion.
Track 1Right. I think they're hoping that like the friendship will the end Trump everything else. We got kike also.
GiovaniYeah, Kiki arrives on the scene to offer his assistance
Track 1Yeah.
Giovaniand, in the, in the comic books or the manga, they allude to the reason why or the, or he may anyway, stress so scandalous.'cause her, um, puppies Are, out.
Track 1are are we like 80 years old? Did you just say
Giovanithey're out. And, um, it's, she's, she's been revealing.
Track 1my
Giovaniit is because of the kike, kike kind of set that up. For maybe him and o Ochi, they, uh, kind of set it up. So I thought that was cute.
Track 1He has a way to help them get up, back up to the Royal Palace, so we'll see.
Giovaniyeah,
Track 1And we move on. We get the little intro and then we see Bakia.
Giovaniyeah, yeah. When Ichigo came down, he, I guess he landed with so much force., Bia covered himself with this flower shield and there was a lot of Destruction down, uh, below the soul palace.
Track 1We see, uh, Robert Aron and uh,
GiovaniNana?
Track 1yep. And Ji also, are they reflecting on, uh, filling ORs energy with Yuha and, then they sby shows up and they start facing him? Yeah.
GiovaniAin't Candace. Yeah. Do you notice that don't know what nana Nada coup and Robert Kerron power is. We don't know what their ability is. That's, we know that, right? They, we stern riter and, and stern riter. I forgot what Notai is, but we haven't directly seen them use their power yet.
Track 1Okay.
GiovaniAnd I don't know if we're going to
Track 1Uh, I guess, I mean, if they're on the scene, I'm assuming eventually they'll, they'll get around to it. Uh, so we have, we see Giselle or Gigi. And she has two Soul Reapers
GiovaniThere was a scene where we get to see Captain Saje as a wolf. It was just a, a short scene. We got to see him and this lieutenant together and they're, they're making their way toward Silburn, I guess, to meet up or possibly fight, yHA, even though Yuhas not there. So they're still marching forward
Track 1Yeah.
Giovaniand then that's what we see. Giselle Jewel, uh, she's talking with the squad 11 Macheka and his buddy Kaku, and she's acting all defenses like, oh, it was her, her same routine that she did before. Don't cut me. I'm innocent.
Track 1Yeah.
GiovaniAnd. For some reason, squad 11, who's all about butchering people, they did not butcher her. They kind of figured it out
Track 1Right.'cause she seemed really insistent that they cut her.
GiovaniRight.
Track 1they they were at least, um, quick about that. But then she brings out Bambi a zombie
Giovanidid that you
Track 1that she, she can't them.
GiovaniHow did, that hit you? Like it's like she ified her.
Track 1I know her.
Giovaniwas a friend but her.
Track 1I won't say friend, but pair at least
GiovaniYeah.
Track 1Yeah. I mean like she's on your team at, I feel like at the very least you don't Shopify your own teammates
GiovaniGiselle's, like this is my power, my power's the zombie fi So your corpse is
Track 1it.
Giovaniand anybody can get it. Anybody can zombie fired and it's probably a good thing that there was no residual of Yamamoto.'cause she would probably, um,
Track 1that would be bad.
GiovaniYeah. it would be bad. Yeah.
Track 1Yeah.
GiovaniI would hate to see them fight more. Yamamoto.
Track 1Hmm.
GiovaniSo I guess next thing this, the Department of Research and Development. This is the case casing.
Track 1Yeah.
GiovaniAnd, and you know, they said that he was Constructing a, what do they call it? Uh, A cannon. A Coke Carku. A tenuring. A tenuring, yeah. that's when he said that Mauri started making this before the invasion. I, I mean after the first invasion.'cause he figured it out. He knew that u ha's plan was to make it to the soul palace. How? I mean, is he the coolest or what? I know you like Mauri.
Track 1I do like Mary, I, I'm like, where're all the clues.
GiovaniI didn't see it.
Track 1Right. He seemed to be the only one on top of things.
GiovaniHe's telling us soon as we to fight, like get your act together, get your squad together. And he's also figuring out maybe you ha isn't trying to just destroy the Ste. He has bigger plans.
Track 1Right.
GiovaniWhy
Track 1he figured it out enough to, to build a new cannon. So, yeah, I
Giovanihe didn't tell anybody but He did work with Keith, Kate. They have this relationship
Track 1though, he did say though that the cannon belonged to the Sheba family. Did you hear that part?
GiovaniWell, I know the, technique. I
Track 1right, like the, the, I guess maybe plan,
Giovanitechnique,
Track 1right?
Giovaniso I did catch that.
Track 1What were you saying about him and, um,
GiovaniI just say they have a relationship that goes back at least 150 years, probably a 110 years. I know, because Kiki was the one who got him out of jail
Track 1right.
Giovaniso
Track 1What I do know is that you probably definitely don't want Maori and Kiske teaming up.
Giovanithat sounds bad.
Track 1Yeah.
GiovaniThat sounds, don't. It seemed like they can work off each other. Right? Like iron sharpen
Track 1yes, but the, but it's also like for them, there's probably no lines.
GiovaniThere's no lying. Yeah, there's
Track 1And that's That's absolutely dangerous.
GiovaniLet's not forget Kiki's the one who put the hokey cue in Rukia. Because he didn't have any choice. So you know it's wide
Track 1Annie experimented on Ichi ego's mother. Right.
Giovanidid.
Track 1Yeah. So that's a terrible, terrible duo that. All right, so we have, Richie, did I just say that right? I don't think I said
GiovaniYou, are each you you will itchy.
Track 1you or Ichi?
GiovaniYou are itchy.
Track 1Okay. So we have you, Richie, um, arriving on the scene and she tells Keith Kay that she was able to collect, uh, some of the distortions that the Quincy's left behind.
GiovaniThat's pretty cool because I didn't know what a distortion is. They tried to explain it, I guess it kind of makes sense, you know, they used as a power. Well I did catch this. Uh, one of the assistant says that I guess somebody else is there and Keith case's like, okay, tell them to move, move, to phase two. And I was like, who is this other person they're talking about? I thought it was Ricci or the little short blonde visor. But no, it's somebody else.
Track 1Oh
GiovaniWe'll find out.
Track 1yeah, well, uh, we'll see. And they get ready to give the, I guess, give the cannon a shot to see if they can get, uh, ichigo and friends up to the palace. We see, uh, in the next scene, I kaku and. Chica are fighting Gigi, who is still has poor Bambi under her control.
GiovaniAnd she did something that she should have did probably from the jump. I mean, she, I mean Bambi, not Bambi, uh, Giselle, she like bit her finger to to start like a blood fountain with her finger and she was going to like I guess smear it on the soul Reapers. She should have did that first instead of just trying to get them to slash her. I just thought that was weird.
Track 1right. I don't know. Maybe she was going for dramatic effect or something. I don't know. Because I mean, you would think like then she would be in complete control, so I didn't understand either why she needed them to cut her when she could just do it herself.
GiovaniThrough the explosion in Kaku and Yuma, Chico's on the ground and she's going to drip her blood on them and that's when your favorite, she Nami Mauri steps in and nimo to save the day in this bright and glowing outfit.
Track 1Oh,
Giovanihad enough of that outfit.
Track 1And, his son. And his son, God outfit as
GiovaniYeah.
Track 1to say,,I don't know. I mean, uh, yeah, he arrives on the scene to save the day. Um, because, you know, we learned that, uh, like you said, she was splashing them with her blood and they don't necessarily have to be dead for her to turn them into zombies. That's what we learned, which was, um, well, she, she did say unlike, uh, the soul Reapers don't have to be dead, but the Quincy do.
GiovaniRight.
Track 1Right. So that, that, I don't know why, uh, there's that difference, but that's, that's how, that's what we learn. But yes, the son, God himself arrived and Do you like how he toned down his greatness for ordinary people to be able to see him?
GiovaniYeah. That was shady. That was a shady there. So they begin to fight, uh, Giselle's using Bambi to use her REI bombs. And this isn't a fight because Uri has these Pokemon balls, light balls that
Track 1balls.
GiovaniThey like, it's like a magnet. They gravitate to her, REI capture them and put them on the lane.
Track 1Okay.
GiovaniAnd in mayor's own words, this nullifies your power. So Bambi's not even in the equation anymore, like that,
Track 1Wow. Yeah.
Giovanibut it's not over.
Track 1No.'cause we find out that, uh, Gigi or Gisele, like has, she's literally been creating zombies out of the soul repair since she hopped on the scene.
GiovaniI thought that was the smartest thing ever. Like just kill indiscriminately soul Reapers.
Track 1Well, that's the She doesn't even have to kill them. She doesn't have to, gets her, gets get her blood on them.
Giovaniwell, Yeah. right. That's true. But they appeared dead, but Yeah, I hear you. I hear you. So she just smeared the blood all over the place and she has an army of sore reapers.
Track 1yeah. Hundreds of them. All ified and all under her control.
Giovaniyour guy
Track 1There's more
Giovanihe's like, I don't wanna fight these two soul reapers. I, you know, I'm a captain. I do have a heart, which we know he don't. But this was all to test his subjects low for whole. He's rated Zola sport to get these fion, these old Fionas from fake Carku town and. Our name stake Los Noches. And he brought back three or four run cars
Track 1Yeah,
GiovaniTo do, the fighting, and they seemed pretty vicious. Do you remember these guys at all?
Track 1I do. I Do remember them,
GiovaniWhich one out to you?
Track 1but oh well. Um.
GiovaniI know Charlotte. Did for me.
Track 1The big guy, what was his name? you know?
Giovanione?
Track 1With
GiovaniSo Charlotte was the effeminate guy, and then there's the, the guy who was always called Nino. Uh, he was the, uh, one that fought Rudy. Um, I say, what do you I think so. No, he fought Ichigo. He fought Ichigo and he ended up being a friend of Ichi Gold's.
Track 1Okay.
GiovaniSo Charlotte is the one that, that, uh, had a great battle with Yu Chika.
Track 1So me, URI has his own zombie fight group,
GiovaniYeah,
Track 1to,
Giovanihe does.
Track 1To battle Gigi's zombie fight group.
GiovaniZombies are fighting zombies.
Track 1Yeah.
GiovaniMaria, Maria really doesn't care. He says he cares, but he doesn't care. Uh, what, what else do we have? Uh, Charlotte's fighting all of them. Charlotte's fighting van be, and Bambi seems weaker because she can't think, right? She can't create her own strategies. She's dead.
Track 1Yeah,
GiovaniSo Charlotte just wipes Bambi out and just, it's not even competition. And then d and um, the rest. This is take care of all the underling zombies until there's none left. And you're thinking, this fight's over
Track 1yeah. He made quick work of Bambi, but surprise, surprise. Gigi has another card up her sleeve. Here comes, uh, another zombie that she's controlling and it's none other than who
GiovaniCaptain Aya.
Track 1Captain hits a Gaia. I was so shocked. What do you think about that?
GiovaniIt took my brother away. It literally took my brother away.'cause I, I remember this, them saying they can't feel the spiritual pressure, they say that all the time. Like you know? But now it seems like he died.
Track 1Yeah. And I'm like, okay, did he die? And he, they, they let Aya die off screen, you know?
Giovanideath.
Track 1I know. I so mad. Yeah. I mean, granted, yes, we are surprised now. So, you know, I guess there was a, poInt to the madness, but still, I mean, and I remember when he got, Injured him um, Ron Ku, but
GiovaniWas it du the that did it? Do you remember?
Track 1Uh,
GiovaniBecause I think was Du
Track 1Yeah, I don't think it was Sby, but we didn't, we didn't really, uh, see them after, after that too much. But I think we just took for granted that, you know, like everybody else, they got injured but they were still alive, right? So to see Hi, hi Tia, captain Tia show up, and then the audacity of them to have him being controlled by Gigi
GiovaniMm. Insult the
Track 1as a zombie. Uh, so I dunno, we'll see if he's 100%, um, you know, no longer with us. And, uh, we move into episode 23. They left on that. Yeah, left, they left us on that cliffhanger there,
GiovaniYeah.
Track 1but Yeah.
GiovaniSo this fight starts off and hits the Gaia. Starts off with Theia robing on the scene, and he's a new uniform. He's in a Quincy uniform. Did you notice that
Track 1Yeah.
Giovanihe has a Quincy star on his jacket? Everyone is shocked. Kaku, everyone. You maka and you Maka has this bright idea to, I can use keto on him. He's just a zombie. And that was dumb
Track 1Mm-Hmm.
GiovaniThat was unfortunate because he is a captain and that's not gonna work.
Track 1right.
GiovaniIku for the save.
Track 1Yeah. Well, you know, he dished out quite a few killing blows to iku and, uh, Yuka.
GiovaniYeah, he hurt him pretty bad.
Track 1yeah. Uh, they, they were down and they weren't really getting up so, and we have may, um, Mauri wondering, and then we, then we got Gisele confirming that, he, that Aya was turned into a zombie right before he died.
GiovaniSo that's something.
Track 1Yeah.
GiovaniSo he's not dead then. He's just controlled.
Track 1Well, we we still don't know for sure, right.
GiovaniUm, well, to me, zombie, zombie means dead, but in this case, not necessarily
Track 1Right, because she, she did say that she doesn't have to, soul reapers don't have to be dead for her to turn them. So I'm hoping that that means that it can be reversed. So wear off and he would still be all right. So, uh, she said that turning them right before they die makes them more limber and kind of like easier to control. So like, they still seem like a person and they have all their, all the powers are still like top-notch,
GiovaniNo, not because Ba Bambi was a shell self hits the Gaia moves fast, and he has, he has, his power
Track 1Yeah.
Giovaniand uh, Charlotte tries to fight, hits the Gaia, and he's immediately cut down. My Yuri looks at shorter, and like I told you, you are a fool. That's punishment. Stay down
Track 1It's like, I'm not gonna heal you, Like Stay stay there.
GiovaniAnd then he looks at, uh, hits the Gaia in, in a, in this weird, weird way, he says, I'm thinking about experimenting on
Track 1Right. He wants to test drugs on him. And I was like, wait a minute, wait a minute. See Mary, like, I wanna rock with you. And then you always go and do this
GiovaniAnd the fight reminds you of who's the, uh, zario.
Track 1You did mention that. Yes, I did.
GiovaniIt's, it mirrors it because URI is a couple plays above everybody else. And he's like, okay, is this what you have? Is this all you have? I got a drug for that. And and that's what we're dealing with now. And I'm excited to see this drug,
Track 1Ah, boy. So he, uh, begins an attack on Myy, but he's able to block most of it, with a, uh, I guess a sensor of sorts on his Octo.
Giovaniright?
Track 1That
GiovaniHis
Track 1that's
Giovanihisto is so malformed and so busted, and he keeps experimenting on him. And now he has a sensor that all he has to do is hold it and the sword detects and blocks it does not attack. It just blocks the the opponent strikes which is, it's pretty clever.
Track 1But that doesn't stop, AYA from trying to unleash his bonai and, um, he manages to pierce mauri through the chest or so we think, because then everything turns around and resets
Giovaniwe get deja vu
Track 1Yeah. Back to the beginning of, of, uh, this entire interaction.
Giovaniand here's the guy who seems aware, he knows like
Track 1Yeah. Something happened, right.
GiovaniHe's looking like, okay, what just happened? Which makes me think this guy is a willing participant. He's not a zombie, you know, drool brains. He is, he's just controlled like a type of mind control.
Track 1Well, I won't go as far to say as to say a willing participant, but he is aware and, he seems to know what he's doing
GiovaniWell, I guess what I mean, willing participant is he's a follower, he's not a zombie.
Track 1Okay.
GiovaniBut, uh, I think after the second death, Mary Yuri's aware that he's going through this loop and he mentioned that, uh, Toshiro, I've given you the power of hindsight, and this goes into some crazy mumble jumbo, magical power of understanding the situation, the events after it happens, and then you reset. Did you understand any of this?,
Track 1it was one of those bleach moments where they are giving you this explanation as to what's taking place, but it's very, uh, convoluted, very, um, complicated
GiovaniSo is all this playing out in Hit Gaia's head or is he like air fighting and mirror's? Just looking at him fighting? Nothing.
Track 1Well, when he was explaining it, it um, cause it, at first I wasn't understanding with what he was, with, what he was explaining. I was unsure whether the drug itself was, the one that was affecting him, like was responsible for the actual resetting of things. But then he does, he didn't go back in and explain that. Yeah. The, the drug is responsible for the perceived resetting and that. If you know the reset happens more than like 10 times hits, a guy would get like paralysis for 30 seconds or right?
GiovaniSo now I guess if you pull into it, I think hindsight means. How to say hindsight's 2020, when you look back, maybe he's thinking, okay, this is how I battle Mauri and, and his thoughts. This is how he battles him and it port of the kill. He goes back, at that point, as you said, that's when, I guess several times he's paralyzed and that's when Mauri stab him in the neck. But Ji Zuzu, how did I do?
Track 1you know, I'll just let you handle that.
GiovaniSo he stabs him in the neck And then he gives him a drug and Aya does not want this drug. He fears my Uri because my Uri iss a mad scientist.
Track 1Yeah. And He has a very painful reaction to the drug.
GiovaniRight? Which is probably intended because this is Carucci we're talking about,
Track 1Yeah. And then surprise, surprise, as, as he's administering the drug, two more captains and a lieutenant have shown up.
Giovanican say Rose And ku,
Track 1And they are also all ified like I was so mad.
Giovaniright? So Mauri is disgusted. dis, he's highly disgusted at these people. how, how, is this happening?
Track 1Mauri?
GiovaniYeah, he was disgusted at like the thought of, we have two captains and a lieutenant and you guys are under giselle's control. Why are, what's the 13th court guard made of just weaklings and helpless? She nami,
Track 1yeah.
Giovaniso mauris wrong. Cause they take on Stan and wrong to
Track 1Get to see Bakia, um, fighting a group of Quincy, including, uh, Robert Aron. And he just, he unleashes BCA and makes really quick work of them.
Giovaniof all of them? Yeah. It fast.
Track 1Yeah.
GiovaniIt wasn't, it wasn't even his bonai. It was a Chika, right? Or was it his bonai?
Track 1Uh, I thought he said bonai, but I could be wrong.
GiovaniAh, we have to look at it
Track 1Yeah.
Giovanibecause I don't, I expect a new Bonai from Bakia is gonna be a huge deal just like Reggie's, but I don't know.
Track 1I don't know. Well, we, I could, I could be wrong. I thought he said, uh, thought he did unleash ship, but I, that could be a mistake on my part anyway. Uh, but we see stern Riter, l Mr. Peppe, he emerges and is also controlling.
GiovaniPepe is controlling Shhe. You that?
Track 1him into attacking Bakia.
Giovani'cause it was weird, right? How it seemed like, it seemed like Bianchi was just swinging the sword at him. But he wasn't, shhe was striking him and he was just doing a simple block like, what are you doing? are you doing? And then the shoe drops. I'm doing this for Pepe.
Track 1I just, you know, I just find it amazing how we're discovering all of a sudden all this, quincy's controlling soul Reapers just out of the blue. Like has it, how long has it been going on? Because you know, well, Giselle has a whole army. Does, does Pepe have a whole army too?
GiovaniWell, we know he used his power against Jimbo. Uh, I think in part one,
Track 1Yeah.
Giovanibut I don't know the, the whole controlling power thing. I think that was overdone just a little bit.
Track 1Are you saying, uh, that's what I was about to say. You think it's being overused because now we have like three different entities who can control people at will.
GiovaniIt's basically mind control. They call it being zombie fired or love, but it's just controlling. And I think TT Kubo. Since he was using the English alphabet, used love and used zombie for the same thing, which is control, minor control.
Track 1Okay.
GiovaniSo I don't know, it's kind of weak, but a good.
Track 1So we get a little explanation of, um, his power a little. Uh, apparently he, his love power allows him,
Giovanicue the seventies. R and
Track 1uh,
Giovanithat was nice.
Track 1it's love power
GiovaniYeah,
Track 1allows him to control people or things with souls. And apparently he can steal zpac toes because they have souls anytime he wants.
GiovaniI knew that.
Track 1Did you know that?
GiovaniI did,
Track 1I feel like I didn't know that. How do you know that? Did I miss that. No.
GiovaniYou know what it is? You don't watch the, the, uh, the Phil episodes of bleach.
Track 1oh. oh. I, I
GiovaniYou do
Track 1sometimes. Maybe I just kind of forgot or glanced over it or something. All right. Uh, but, uh, he tried it on Bakia, his power, his love power, but it doesn't work. And then he changes into his, uh,
GiovaniCupid form
Track 1cubit suit. Yeah. His cubit form uh, in attempt to like do a killing blow on him. But then he is blocked by Mauri again.
GiovaniHere we goes.
Track 1Mauri comes himself into another battle with, and he's dragging along his newly, uh, named, uh, CE Corpse unit.
GiovaniYeah,
Track 1him.
GiovaniSo cool.
Track 1Oh my. Oh boy.
GiovaniSo it shows him, uh, infecting Ken and Rose, the same method he used to get that hits the guy with that's, and he explained this like he has the blood of all the so reapers anyway, and he's just cleansing the blood and controlling them. But along the way, URI kills Giselle jewel.
Track 1Yeah.
Giovaniwas off screen or not off screen. It was kind of glanced over right.
Track 1Uh, a little bit, which was a little annoying because we spent so much time on her
GiovaniRight,
Track 1you know, and all of this. Uh, she's the one that got the whole zombie thing, started.
GiovaniI think her character was okay. can't say I was a big fan of it, you know, they did drop the shoe that she was a man, you know, she was
Track 1Uh, yeah, they did say something like that, that I guess, um, she outwardly appeared, um, female, but she wasn't
Giovaniyeah, so Bianca's upset that Soul Reaper friends, the captains. Didn't experience a Warrior's death and now they are slaves,
Track 1as he should. I, I don't understand what Mary's thinking. And he tries to justify his actions by saying he's doing, everything in his power to protect the certy, even in death, or I guess even in, in, in death of the, um, the soul reapers, but
GiovaniI'm kind of up in the air, I'm kind of up in the air with this because these are powers that we need in this fight. We need can say, and we need roles. And if the enemy took them, why not take them back? And they can, they'll eventually die. You know, they're officially, but might need them right
Track 1you are on the enemy. Any any means necessary boat. Is that where you
Giovaninow since we realized that Pepe's here. And he could take control of them too, you know, might as well just put'em under your control, you know, under Maori's control, know,
Track 1That's one way to look at it, I suppose.
Giovanicome on over to Maori's
Track 1no..Uh, may you raise injecting, uh, people against their will? I don't think so. So, but then, uh, Pepe is out by Lili. Toto,
Giovaniyeah.
Track 1yeah.
GiovaniSo
Track 1think it
Giovanithere was a scene. there was a scene in there were Pepe tries to take back control of Ken and Maur is like, these are my zombies and they are immune to everything, including your love. And he gets scared and runs off and that's when. girl with the mouth decides to eat him, which again, I think is estranged power to eat somebody.
Track 1it, it's not really pleasant to look at, but you know, I guess it's effective
GiovaniLily Toto is the only stern Riter alive or up upright
Track 1Yeah.
Giovanithe only one upright.
Track 1Yeah. All right, so that, uh, wraps up episode 23.
GiovaniYep. After
Track 1Um, yeah, we get a little after credits. We see, uh, Yuha, oru and Al and they have arrived to the Royal palace.
Giovanithat's basically what Yuha says. arrived.
Track 1they've arrived. They made it. So, uh, the next episode 24 is, um, gonna be called too Early to win. Too Late to know. So we'll see
Giovanisounds good.
Track 1Yeah, a lot of things are happening here. Lot of things, so,
Giovaniis speaking up.
Track 1yeah.
GiovaniIt's uh, I like the fact that, uh, we gotta see Ichigo a bit. We got to see Mauri. He was the star of the show.
Track 1Yeah.
GiovaniAnd uh, we finally got to see pep pee because pep pee was the stone. I thought we saw all the stern ritters, but then they intro reintroduced us to peppy, which was good too.
Track 1Yeah.
GiovaniSo you wanna do our rain rankings? Our ratings.
Track 1Uh, sure. Uh, I guess we can just do one breathings, just lump them in together.'cause they were eventually
Giovanigonna
Track 1one show. Yeah. So, um, uh, I'll give this one a solid eight.
Giovanieight.
Track 1I think Mauri Mauri really, saved the day in terms of these two episodes. And, um, I. I don't know. I, he just made so many moves that shocked me. So
GiovaniYeah.
Track 1know, gave it a nice round eight.
GiovaniI give it a 8.5 Bon Kais, uh, Mauri was the star of the show, and we did get to see a lot of other cool stuff. And anytime that Stern Riles fall. I think it's a good episode because the stern riles were up for such a long time. And Pepe's gone. Bambi's gone. Giselle's gone. Uh, Robert Kerron and Nana Na, I think they're down. They may not be out, but they're at least down. And I mean, it's just overall goodness. And it builds too because we're going into the Soul Palace next, and big names are at the Soul Palace, so 8.5
Track 1All right.
Giovaniand that's the worst
Track 1Uh, so, huh,
Giovanican I go with my best?
Track 1Oh my goodness. What's your best,
GiovaniIt's Karachi Mauri.
Track 1oh, well, that's my best of course.
GiovaniHe's the guy who makes a plan and follows it to the team. And if that doesn't work, he comes up, he uses his backup plan. If that doesn't work, he uses a drug You know? It is, it's brilliant. It is. I like Mauri now better than I did before, and I think his fight with Uri you the first time around helped him with the Quincy. This time. Just put that out there because that's really the only time he is lost against Uri U.
Track 1Uh, okay. Well, I have to agree that, uh, in terms of Best May, uh, Mauri was the standout. In these two episodes. He just, you know, like I'm, I like Mary, Mr. Son, God himself. And, uh, he just surprised me. He just really surprised me. I do like, like you said, that he has a plan, but he is so scary though. He really is. And, um, the fact that it's kind of like, you know, you get those characters sometimes in shows that like the, the, they wanna do something good, they're gonna save the day, but saving the day requires them to like, kill everybody in the next town, to save the town that they're in,
GiovaniWow.
Track 1or something like that. Like he.
GiovaniYou went dark,
Track 1I'm just, I'm, I'm saying that's, that seems to be like the kinda character that he is. And, uh, I'm, I'm not sure that I can always rock with that, but he does make it interesting and he's an interesting watch. You always wanna know what he is gonna do next, so
GiovaniI can't wait to see him fight other stern raiders because this is not his last fight, I don't think.
Track 1yeah.
GiovaniCan I talk about my worst?
Track 1Go ahead.
GiovaniBecause I kind of, this was kind of a lead in, in this Yu Chica in Kaku, they are side characters who are very strong. Like before this war, the thousand year blood war,
Track 1Yeah.
Giovanithese were really strong, strong captain. I thought they were captain level strength, uh, lieutenants and they are. Reduced to Like the B squad.
Track 1Like
GiovaniI mean,
Track 1sidekicks,
GiovaniYeah. It's like KO has a powerful bonai. It is slow and Yumi chicas actually takes your soap, uh, your, your energy from you, your, your spiritual pressure from you when he uses it. But we got nothing. We got,
Track 1you, why do you think that is?
GiovaniI mean, I don't know. Yu Chika says he doesn't want to show people his bonai because it's not a strength bonai, it's kind of like a keto bonai and Squat 11 try themself off power, not, you know, magical
Track 1Right?
GiovaniBut I don't know. I, I don't know. They, they completely wasted Iku and Yuka and Shhe and Shhe Shhe did all that training for nothing. I mean, master masculine beat him. So I gotta be honest with you, if they didn't handle OG and Robert Aron and any, any of the rest of those, the B squad, who are they gonna beat?
Track 1Right.
Giovaniit is it for them.
Track 1that's a valid point.
Giovanithat's my works.
Track 1Okay. Uh, so my worst, um, I just think it's gonna be that we didn't get to see what exactly happened with, um, AYA and ku. I, I didn't like that they took that offscreen and, um, you know, I know at first we were speculating that, okay, well what, they went and killed him offscreen. And then now, um, I guess he may not exactly be dead, just controlled.
GiovaniRight.
Track 1Um, but, yeah, I didn't like that. I feel like he's too big of a character to be doing offscreen things and we see what happened. Yeah, I didn't like that. So that was my,
Giovaniand he could be really dead. I think he could be, that's it
Track 1I mean, yeah, he could really be dead, If he really is, I'm gonna be really mad though, like I, I am
Giovanibrought BIA back. I mean, he was,
Track 1Yeah. he had to go soak in the, in the pond for, you know, who, who knows how long,
Giovanimaybe he soaking in the pond. So maybe that's Soak hits the
Track 1Now hit you guys on the, um, mauris control. Do you think he's give them up now that he has them,
GiovaniOh man,
Track 1know, he's gonna stuff them in his own
GiovaniI didn't think about that.
Track 1Right. All right.
Giovaniwell we're done. We wrapped it up pretty fast. was like a speed run
Track 1we don't wanna drag it on, have here all night,
Giovaniright?
Track 1um, yeah, I, I enjoyed the episodes. I thought they were pretty good. Um, the temple seems to be, uh, nice and steady., I, I do wish that they would kind of taper off all the extra Quincy that we don't care about. really,
GiovaniThey're kind of, they're kind of doing that, but I just wish like Iko, Yuka and, uh, shhe had a bigger part in, because it was pretty much bki. You're killing everybody. He just flexed. And that was that. Towards the end of the series, I do want to get your opinion about your wish. Part. Did you like part one or part two the best? Which was the stronger,
Track 1uh,
Giovaniuh, season, if we can call it a season.
Track 1a season. Oh, I thought you talking about the two episodes.
Giovaniknow, I'm, I'm going full season.
Track 1That's a good
GiovaniWe can't do it now because We have three more to go.
Track 1Oh, that goes your cat behind you.
GiovaniUh,
Track 1Uh,
Giovanistay off my video.
Track 1well, yeah, I'll, I'll think about it, but, um, I will say that,'cause we have all of that with, um, Yamamoto and everything in part one I think part two kind of got off to a slightly slower start. It did pick up, but it was a little bit slower. So, I mean, I guess there's
Giovaniit now. You can't do it now.
Track 1Oh, okay. I guess
Giovanican't do it now. We, we
Track 1we'll answer it at the, we'll answer it at the end and the final episode
GiovaniAbsolutely.
Track 1of the season. All right. Uh, any news, uh, anything you we need to announce or tell the people before we ha get outta
GiovaniUh, no, no, just the usual. Go through the Facebook page. Um, waiting for the Instagram page. Waiting, waiting, waiting.
Track 1You're waiting, waiting, waiting. we're getting, we're getting, there, you guys, very slowly. Hopefully we can get that up for you guys. And, um. Have a, have another outlet to start interacting. And, um, yeah, I think that's it.
GiovaniYeah.
Track 1All right. Have a good night.
GiovaniDanielle.