User blog comment:Lemursrule/BLEACH episode 308 review: Ginger, Butterfly, and tears/@comment-1393830-20110209051422/@comment-1332195-20110209113624

If you hadn't nailed him to his perch, he'd be pushing up the Daisies! Gin! (hits against table.) Gin! (Chucks in air; lands with unceremonial splat...). All we need now is for him to get up and start singing "I'm a lumberjack"...

I don't normally bother watching the anime these days, coz I already know what's going to happen, but I'll admit this was a good'un. The metal piece when Ichigo arrives was just...mwah (does that kiss thing that Frenchmen do) I-God was as annoying smug as ever (and yes, I noticed the eye change midway through. Whoops.), and to finally see his best efforts get near ignored by Ichigo is welcome relief from the usual dose of I-Pawnage.

While not an actor myself (though I can do impressions pretty well) I too found Rangiku's voice, particularly at the start of the flashback, to be..well...confusing I suppose; I actually though "huh? Did I just hear that...noise?".

No doubt when this gets dubbed the 'Union of Nanny State jobsworths' will get all in a tizzy coz they think Ichigo has a Swastika on his blade (was it me, or did it disappear in some close-ups?). I dread to think what'll happen then; we get a nice family friendly 4kids cut version? Puh-leeeeze.