Pitogyroulis

Acting: 10/10 Pace: 9/10 Storytelling: 10/10 Animation: 9.5/10 Writing: 9/10 End: 9/10

An amazing episode avenging episode 8 with an astonishing animation and great cgi.

This episode was near perfect for every category in my opinion with the ones suprassing a 9/10 being the storytelling and acting. Probably my favorite episode of the cour regarding storytelling, Nemu's backstory was really interesting to watch and the story development of the episode had you on the edge of your seat all time long. Mayuri's voice actor gotta be at least a top 5 bleach voice actor in the whole series, he is amazing and his character is so well written in my opinion.

Regarding the categories i consider a 9/10 are pretty much everything else. The only reason i didnt not give the animation a 10/10 is because i thought there was quite some room for improvement, some specific scenes made me not want to make it consider it a 10/10 but it was fine. Same goes with the pace, not bad yet not a 10/10. The end is a cliffhunger for the next episode, which is either going to be the deflector quincies against the remaining of the royal guards(according to the aftermath scene) or the continuation of Shunsui's front. Either way, it is going to be fully hyped up.

A category i think was missed on is the writing, maybe they could give Mayuri some humanity, a change in character showing how he has developed as a character and that he isnt heartless, simply a scieintist looking for perfection. His goal remains the same, being surpassing Kisuke, i think they could add a massibe layer of character development which they replaced with the last scene.

My only problem with the cour as of episode 10(not the episode) is how much ground they need to cover in the last 3 episode which seems abnormal to me. An episode for shunshui, an episode at least for ichigo and askin and another for the quincies which seems to be splitten up in 2. Maybe when you look at it a way of 1 episode a character it kind of muches but i think some of this fights will need more than 20 minutes of screen time if they want to be executed well and i dont really see how they are going to do it. As of now the cour had some pacing problems in the earlier episode which were on the edge of a slow story progression. Thankfully this was fixed and i hope they dont ruin this amazing cour(also my number 1 so far) in the last 3 episode.

Overall... just read the review, anything between a 9-10 stars is good. I Think thats everything for the episode, cant wait for next saturday.

Oh my god where do i begin with this one.

Acting: 10/10 Pace: 10/10 Storytelling: 10/10 Animation: 10/10 Writing: 10/10 End: 10/10

I know giving all categories a 10/10 may be considered glazing in this situation but when it comes to this episode, it is most definetely deserved.

A spoiler free review: This episode felt like a 5 minutes episode, it was so well paced i didnt feel the time passing at all. The scenes are not dragged out or underdeveloped in order to save budget for the more hyped up ones but rather each one is well executed(thanks to the animation directors), pace is by far a 10/10. The voice acting is as anyone would expect from bleach, number one!(you see what i did there😅). As far as the storytelling and writing, it is filled with great dialogues, new powers well explained so we can understand what is happening throughout the episode. The manga scenes have an almost perfect-perfect adaption for sure with really nothing to change in it. The end is will be a cliffhunger for manga readers and anime-only fans who are not spoiled up to this moment will have to wait till next week to understand it.

Overall best episode this cour on part with 3x5 a clean 10/10 for sure. The onlyh thing that had some room for improvement were some moderate-ok cgi in the episode but nothing major to lower the rating in my opinion.

Acting: 10/10 Pace: 9/10 Storytelling: 10/10 Animation: 10/10 Writing: 10/10 End: 10/10

Now thats how you make a finale

Everything about this episode is amazing. The voice acting is on point. Every minute has you hooked up for whats to come till the end with an objectively slower start. The storytelling is beyond the level of any previous episode. Now my favorite part of the episode, the animation and the art style. They are absolutely immaculate, with a top tier style of animation especially with the last scenes being beyond anything we have seen previously in the season. My second favorite part of the episode is the writing. A lot of depth is added to Silco and his character, motives which we sadly wont be able to unfold anymore. The end is simply perfect, a way to get a second season.

Overall the best episode of the season deserves a clean 10/10

The season tho was overall pretty meh. Specifically slow, some parts of lazy writing and bad storytelling which are fixed here but if i was watching the show before the second season came out i would give it an 8/10. So with the second season lets hope it goes higher.