Downtown Khazan: Ice Cold Utopia

[Guy1]

I think Magpie just showed up on Gotham.

[Guy1]

[Guy1]

[The Chou Lives]

True happiness there. : Such a nice sight, face comes back and de-liched.:

[The Dog]

[Guy1]

[bruceleegreyhulk]

[Jcogginsa]

Minor Kingdom Hearts III spoiler

spoilers:

I love that Donald Duck can just bust out one of the strongest spells in Square Enix

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[master of read]

new one piece out.

lord orochi's DF has a name.

all hell has broken loose. nuff said.

and big mom is still lacking in memory. what are you planning, oda?

[Jcogginsa]

new one piece out.

lord orochi's DF has a name.

all hell has broken loose. nuff said.

and big mom is still lacking in memory. what are you planning, oda?

I missed the name completely when I read it. What page is it on?

[Dark Soul # 7]

I missed the name completely when I read it. What page is it on?

The first page after the title card.

[Nik Hasta]

From what I understand Kubo's intent was for the story to focus on Ichigo and his friends battling supernatural threats and for the Shinigami to mostly be a background element. But the Shinigami's popularity cause the editors to demand that Kubo put more focus on them.

Kubo was a lot better the urban fantasy stuff than he was at the attempts at epic story arcs, so I could see a more team Ichigo centric version of the story being better.



Apparently the whole group were meant to get powers but, that got cut in favour of getting to the Soul Society and Shinigami stuff faster faster.

While that would allow aspects of the narrative to be tied more directly into Ichigo, it still wouldn't have fixed Ichigo being a bit directionless in terms of his character.

I think the Shinigami getting more focus was a good call, the Rescue Rukia arc still remains one of the strongest arcs in the series.

It was after that arc that it became pretty apparent that Kubo was flailing about a lot.

[Len Ikari145]

Minor Kingdom Hearts III spoiler

spoilers:

I love that Donald Duck can just bust out one of the strongest spells in Square Enix

end of spoilers

spoilers:

Same with Mickey pulling off Ultima. It's a shame that Xehanort's Stopza kept us from seeing the full effect.

end of spoilers

[Dark Soul # 7]

While that would allow aspects of the narrative to be tied more directly into Ichigo, it still wouldn't have fixed Ichigo being a bit directionless in terms of his character.

I think the Shinigami getting more focus was a good call, the Rescue Rukia arc still remains one of the strongest arcs in the series.

It was after that arc that it became pretty apparent that Kubo was flailing about a lot.

You know, while the lack of over-arching direction for Ichigo is a problem, I've always appreciated that he doesn't have the same kind of lofty goals as Luffy or Naruto and other protags like them. It made him feel more grounded.

He's just got this innate sense of right and wrong and acts upon that as best as he can. The rest of the factions of the series are all wrapped up in their own politics, power struggles and self-centered agendas, and then there's Ichigo who's just trying to do his best to help out. It's a dynamic that's touched upon but was never explored as much as I'd hoped.

[KingofPie]

new one piece out.

lord orochi's DF has a name.

all hell has broken loose. nuff said.

and big mom is still lacking in memory. what are you planning, oda?

Shinobu was hilarious this chapter. And yeah...**** went down real quick. Kinda love how chaotic it was with Nami, Robin, and Brook getting little moments to shine as they made their escape.

Kyoshiro remains an enigma and his goals a mystery at the moment. But I'm starting to think he's got more of a connection to the Kozuki clan then initially shown.

As for Big Mom...no idea where this is going, but I wonder if this'll lead to her remembering something about her past.