Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24769684-20160227023450

With the release of Volume 71's quite interesting cover I decided to make a thread about the volumes, which are pretty much the only things that keep Bleach going.

What are your favorite volume covers?

I love Yamamoto in Volume 45, as he is showing those rippling muscles and looking ready for business. I also like Askin's pose in Volume 68 even though he shouldn't have been on that volume's cover.

What are your favorite poems? The Volume 45 poem just makes Yamamoto all the more badass: "You may live bowing on your knees,

but die standing on your feet."

I also enjoy Bazz-B's poem in 69: "Bullets, battle flags, claws, and swords

With five broken fingers

I await you"

And Hollow Ichigo's poem in 25 (the title of which is also great) is splendid as well:

"We are all

Born dead. The end exists

Before anything begins.

If living

Is a constant quest for awareness,

The awareness we gain at the end is the real goal.

In other words, death

Is the discovery and complete understanding

Of the end.

We are not permitted to seek awareness.

Those that cannot transcend death

Will not find awareness in anything." 