The White Haze

This episode genuinely was a cinematic experience, from the ost at the end of the episode, the absolute amazing animation and cg, Phenomenal episode. By far in my opinion the best episode of this cour so far and it's only going to get better for the remaining episodes left of cour 2 TYBW. The score at the end of the episode with the credits rolling in the background as the soul reaper rukia shows her true Bankai is a sight to behold and the animation in this episode was just too good. Overall phenomenal episode and it's only going to get better now for rest of the season, studio Pierrot are really pulling out all the stops for bleach TYBW.

THIS is what the Gear 5 episodes should have looked like: State-of-the-art direction, compositing, art, animation, SFX, sound design, voice-acting, pacing, etc etc. This is what an actual "peak masterpiece" of an episode looks like, and you can tell BLEACH TYBW is a passion project because the staff made sure to ooze that in every second of their work. After week in and week out of disappointment and humiliation from the overhyped and soulless cash-grabbing episodes of One Piece, I decided to catch up with BLEACH and I was NOT disappointed. Peak shounen and best of the Big 3 material right here.

An absolutely beautiful character arc and Bankai for Rukia and an incredible character in As Nodt which Studio Pierrot utterly nailed in capturing the terror of; and even Byakuya got extra character development here with his Shikai-Bankai twist. Such unique and creative abilities with engaging dialogue and character dynamics.

I am absolutely repulsed at all the One Piece fans downvoting this episode out of envy. I can see why we One Piece fans are the punching bags and laughingstocks of the anime community, and I am no longer mad at Attack on Titan fans for creating hundreds of accounts to downvote us. BLEACH is such a sophisticated, sleek and beautiful work of art and as a One Piece fan, I'm jealous of how much Bleachads are winning haha!

This episode was so good the animation was good and rukias bankai was soooool good byakuya showing how powerful his shikai was was cool and rukia showing her new ability was cool I didn't really like how they didn't animate this one panel of rukia but other than that it's amazing only bad thing is there weren't many anime only scenes but other that it was pretty exquisite next episode is going to be really really good also it was smart leaving the isane and yachiru scene at the end for suspense this episode delivered and met my expectations. Thousand year blood war has been really good especially last 2 episodes.

I'm a Naruto fan, but I've never seen an episode so beautifully animated. I can't get this episode out of my head since yesterday I had chills the whole time and when Rukia finally said « Bankai, Hakka no Togame » I shed a tear. And I'm not even exaggerating it was THAT beautiful. The OSTs, pacing, animation, moments everything was good. And this feeling of relief when Byakuya admit that Rukia is strong, I felt so proud for her. Their relationship is everything. As Nodt, he was perfect, I felt so bad for him at the end of the episode when at the beginning I was just waiting for him to get his ass beat lol.

I don't understand why one piece fans can't be happy without saying anything bad about other anime. Those people haven't watched Bleach yet but give 1 star because it's airing with one piece and one piece fans get jealous see other anime fans happy. I don't hate one piece but one piece fandom are the wrose fandom in anime. Once I talked to one piece fans and tell him I haven't watched one piece yet after hearing this they start abusing me then I decided I will never watch one piece. About this ep as a manga reader I can't get better adaptation than this. It's all thank to Kubo, animation director and animator.