User blog comment:Lemursrule/BLEACH 292 Review/@comment-1904799-20101013025054

I actually haven't seen the anime in a few weeks, having been so engrossed in what was going on the manga; I really didn't want to do any backtracking. Now that there's going to be a few mangaless weeks, though, I decided to try watching the anime again. Umm... was the show always this... slow? I feel like nothing really happened in this episode. Practically a fourth of it was pure recap. Also, having not seen the episode immediately prior to this one, did it startle anyone that, after all the censorship that's been going on in the anime, we get to see Tosen explode in all his bloody goodness? That was kind of shocking to me.

And I love the new opening! I'm something of a SID fanboy, though, so that's to be expected. I got in trouble in my morning Bible studies class for trying to watch it when it immediately came out. I think it was worth getting in trouble for that one shot of Shinji, though.