User blog comment:Xilinoc/Bleach Wiki Podcast - Chapters 607 & 608 (because we're cool like that)/@comment-24099400-20141207093302

This podcast had many moments with me bursting out laughing.

I didn't know mangapanda put that in there (I had read the mangastream version for that chapter only that week) I had to go back to read it myself, that was really hilarious.

"Briiing Unahona Back" I feel the same exact way. Unahona became my favorite character and when I realized something was up with her with more than the "healer type" as well was during the Arrancar arc when Rudbornn Chelute confronted her and she smiled and told him that she wasn't there to fight just to heal and his ass left her alone. Like that would be the first person you kill, you wouldn't want your enemies to recuperate by letting them get healed.

A theme I would like to elaborate on during the podcast is the personalities of the captains and how they're willing to go the extra mile no matter how manic, peaceful, and calm they're base personalities are. It's the "For the sake of Seireitei" mentality they all have. That no matter how seedy or low or against their morals it is they'll do anything to protect it. A sentiment Hiyori Sarugaki hates when Urahara mentioned it in chapter 606 by changing his original plans by letting Yoruichi go on ahead. Ichigo as mentioned in the podcast doesn't have such a sentiment but to protect but not always kill. Example of when Byakuya told Tsukishima that he's glad he's the one to fight him because although all the thing's Tsukishima's has done Ichigo would lack the resolve to kill him.

My thoughts on the soul king - When I think about it, the two most abnormal things/entities in the series are the Soul King and Aizen's final form. With the recent Gremmy fight in my memory with he can imagine anything and it can come true it's similar to the Hogyoku of granting the wishes of it's owner. Aizen wanted to overthrow the Soul King and he obviously disliked such a thing ruling over Soul Society evident with his dialog with Urahara. I think such a distaste for it may be the cause of the weirdness of his final transformation of not being a shinigami or hollow, but a creature of what his thought of being transcendental to rule over soul society meant which was inspired indirectly by the soul king. I know that contradicts the reason Ichigo gave of him wanting to being normal but that's just one of my hypothesis. Another thing I'd like to touch on from the podcast is that I agree that if or when Juha invades the palace and meets the soul king that it would upset the balance in all worlds like the body's immune system automatically attacking something unknown in the body.

Concerning Ichibei and his fight with Juju - The fact that this fight is the most important during the arc thus far and that Ichibei was taking it so lightly of not just destroying Juju for all he's done but content just to knock him out of the royal realm risking the chance of him coming back at a later time (the mistake Yamamoto made, or going back down to continue wrecking the gotei 13) shows that he has major experience and confidence in his abilities and this is not his first time at the rodeo so to speak (It also reiterates the fact that the royal guard concern are for their realm and the soul king). He's never been shocked or surprised or been put in a position of wondering what to do in this fight unlike Juju. And damn his base powers on anyone else could be their shikai powers and his shikai powers could be a bankai power on someone else. His bankai would be unfathomable and certainly a story breaker power just like Kenpachi's shikai was and probably would have to find a way to cop out of it without him actually losing lol. Had more to say but it's 4:32 am and I'm getting tired and forgetting lol good pc as always