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[ SECRET POST #276 ]
⌈ Secret Post #276 ⌋
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UH OH I EXCEEDED. 1/2
But, really, on that note, on the Chad note, Chad has been shafted in every possible vein. Just, shafted. He has been so shafted that recent arcs have produced cries of "Is that... totally IC?", and it's hard to tell. I.E. I recall some wondering at the way Chad seemed to, hm, gloat? if not gloat, but some similar word, over his defeat of an enemy. It's not like him? I'm not explaining my point well, but -- Chad gets beat up by Arrancar. Chad angsts. Chad trains in ways we do not see. Chad goes to Hueco Mundo. Chad fights a bit and gets defeated. But we do not have the same time, the same panel-devotion to his issues regarding strength, failing Ichigo, etc. it all feels very cursory, and that's really disappointing. Ichigo's supposed to be his BFF but we don't get much there at all, perhaps a sort of structural, silent understanding, but... it'd be nice. What about his grandfather? Why does every other character earn these connections, these people to flounder with -- I mean, some say Ishida isn't favored as much by KT (LOLOKAY), but he has Orihime connections, he has his FATHER!!!. In Hueco Mundo he has a moment with Cirucci which manages to have, comic relief aside, much more emotional and thematic importance. At home--would it be so hard to show Chad hanging out with Orihime a little? Someone? HELL, he trains with Renji, right? Chad's silent but we could've been given a little more of them together. While Dordonii and Cirucci give us clues to Arrancar mentality and leave us with a sad sort of pity, sympathy for them, Chad's fight was kind of. Not.
/SORRY LONG RANT, but, seriously, could he be anymore shafted answer is no.
It's funny because Shounen tends to lend itself to male-male subtext. Like, Naruto is loaded with it. It's overpowering between certain characters. Kishimoto admits to being bad with females, so he tends to emphasize the male, and that may have something to do with it-- but in Bleach, it's really, the subtext really only comes with the ladies. Which is suprising in a sense because we have these intense connections between men, with Grimmjow and Ichigo and Ichigo and any male he fights, but ... I don't know, it's subjective too, because a significant portion of Bleach fandom DOES slash, but I just don't see it. LOL I tried to read an Ichigo/Ishida fic and just scratched my head. When Ishida was like, I WANTED YOU TO BE MY KISS or something I was like LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL NO. And then I found the funniest AMV ever.
It's painfully amazing (http://youtube.com/watch?v=JFIc3pYr-g0). Especially because it's serious.
UM YES IS THAT THE ONE WHERE BYAKUYA AND RUKIA INEXPLICABLY HAVE THE SAME TASTE IN ART?! AMAZING. The Rangiku-Orihime bond was.. surprising and sweet and great, and things like that make me really love KT, even as he shafts Chad.
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To be honest with you, I have very few memories of Chad's fight, except that I think his opponent was the one who got me interested in a plot point that lol is never going to fucking come up again. Hollow arm what?? But then, I only really remember Dordonii, of those early fights. He's the guy who gave us our insight into why the Arrancar follow Aizen, and his poem was fascinating, and I liked his dorky chocolate metaphor. The reason I call Szayel Aporro a god-moder isn't because he's whooping Ishida and Renji, but because he just won't fucking die. It's like, "Haha, I am invincible to all your best attacks because I've seen them before!" "Okaaay, well, we use one you haven't seen yet." "......well, well my room is sealed! You can never escape it! Also, I have thousands of minions to fight you! Also I can make clones of you!" "Okay, well, we'll fight them and bust open your room." "...WELL I CAN CRUSH YOUR ORGANS WHILE YAWNING." "Ow. wtf." And that's gone on for like. Forty chapters or something. The Orihime rescue has had this same problem: you were defeated by Ulquiorra? Well, now Grimmjow is here with a healer. You defeated Grimmjow? Well, now Nnoitra is here and he's going to fight you. Nel defeated Nnoitra? As if, we haven't even seen his release yet! For forty chapters. XD And I know it's shounen and we're nearing a dramatic climax, and I'm not one of those people screeching about how the HM arc is so much more inferior to the SS arc and KT has jumped the shark, but all this time and there's been... no plot movement at all. Everyone is still standing exactly where they were when Rukia had the one really cool fight of the arc (and the only really meaningful fight of the arc, and the only fight that took no more than 4-5 chapters, like EVERY fight in the SS arc -- one of my favorite fights in the series to date is Gin-Hitsugaya, and that thing lasted like, five minutes) and died (skjdfhskg come ON KT can Orihime get OVER THERE PLEASE). I'm impatient. :(
/TANGENTIAL COUNTER LONG RANT
I don't know. All I know is that my fandom dialogues are like,
Slashfen: kfjsjkfjhs Ichigo/Renji!!
Me: I guess. I kinda think they're just friends.
Slashfen: fkgskjlsk Gin/Hitsugaya!
Me: .......not really, no. Pretty sure Hitsugaya's sole interest in him was Hinamori's continued health and happiness.
Slashfen: sfkjjhsfs Ichigo/Hitsugaya!
Me: ...you're just reaching now, aren't you? They haven't had a single significant conversation.
That's what happens a lot. XD I will watch that AMV when I get home from work.
And yes! Byakuya-Rukia are weirdly well-suited. You'd think they really were biological siblings.
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I really liked Dordonii's fight *_* omg, the mass mass loads of insight we got into him, into Arrancar, even into Ichigo! And I do also like his poem. Dordonii is just so cool. I also enjoyed Cirucci's fight, if out of a biased Ishida-fan way. Also, because, you know -- her willingness to mutilate herself in order to attempt to win. But admittedly, I also don't remember much about Chad's fight, which I now declare as another example of the KT shaft! *cough* -- YEAH SZAYEL GODMODES LIKE THAT, TOO. It's pretty crazy. The Hueco MUndo art is getting pretty ridiculous like that. Hah, maybe a thematic way of reinforcing how potentially suicidally dumb this was? "Oh, let's charge into a place where at least ten far beyond captain level Hollows live. Also, how are we uh, getting out of here?" I'm also impatient. :/ RUKIA. RUKIIAAAAA.
I--I love your fandom dialogues. If I got involved in fandom discussions, mine would also go like that. True, re: Byakuya/Rukia. Gives the pairing that extra bit of dissstuuuurrbing.