Another Jumpday...another manga finished...
My Hero Academia - I like the new teacher, her power makes me laugh. OH CRAP THAT MEANS IT'S WORKING.
Deja vu...it's like the second round of the U.A. Sports Festival, only with everyone being a target now. Things are getting interesting, looking forward to seeing how 1-A has improved.
Aizawa's line at the end was cool...really puts things in perspective.
One Piece - It looks like Luffy has an ally in one of Big Mom's man-slaves. I guess this guy will be their ticket into her palace, which they'll have to infiltrate at some point.
The Vivre card has Big Mom's soul in it. Is this just reflecting the fact that these cards are made from her fingernail, like the standard, or did she actually put her soul into the card with her power? I'm surprised Nami remembered to keep it with her honestly...seems a bit convenient to me. I would assume she would keep Lola's card in her room on the Merry or something...it's not like she was expecting to meet Lola here.
Cracker...what a silly name. It's like Honky or Whitebread Litlin. Things are already heating up though!
Nisekoi - ...
*thinks about Chitoge on his own*
Bleach - Oh boy.
So much left unfinished. So much just rushed to the ending. It really bums me out what happened here...but I suppose I've said my piece on it already.
I like that we saw the core team, but considering how massive Bleach's cast is, it feels like there's a big gaping hole here. We have no clue what happened to Grimmjow, Neliel, Yoruichi, or Kisuke, which is probably what annoyed me the most. Grimmjow's fate was left uncertain for like 300 chapters, and now that he's finally back, he gets the same treatment. Ffffff.
Ignoring that, I'm happy with most of the conclusions we actually did see. Ishida and Ichigo became doctors like their dads. Karin got tits, and Yuzu still seems to have a weird crush on her brother. Oh Japan. Chad looks like Shunsui now...maybe because he doesn't appear tan in the manga, but the shape of his face looks different too. I'm not sure what I think of him becoming a boxer...since his mantra was never to fight for himself, but maybe he has his own reasons for doing it (inspiring others, etc). It made me smile how everyone came to watch him.
About the shipping...I can go both ways on it. Rukia/Renji and Ichi/Hime aren't bad pairings by any means. I shipped Ichi/Hime for a long time before I lost interest in it, and Orihime is still my favorite female in the series. That being said...if I look at the manga objectively, Ichigo and Rukia have always had the strongest bond. They're connected by destiny, she dries up his rain, the sun/moon parallels, and just the way they interact. Hell, I even used Ichi/Ruki to prop up my Nisekoi OTP for the longest time, Chitoge was definitely the Rukia to Raku's Ichigo. Putting romance aside, Ichigo and Rukia definitely had the strongest bond in the series, heck, even the last chapter had more of their interactions than anything else (Orihime had three panels...and did Renji even have a spoken line?). I suppose Kubo chose to have them remain powerful friends, while still ending up with other people. I'm just glad Nisekoi finished before this chapter, since suddenly the Onodera pairing would be stressing me out after seeing this.
In the end, though I'm okay with the pairings, I feel like Kubo just treated them as a means to an end, with the end being that he wanted to have Ichigo's son meet Rukia's daughter, echoing the first chapter. I suppose that's fine, since Bleach isn't a romance manga, but I do feel bad for the people that were heavily invested in pairings. Feels weird of me to say that. :P
Bleach was one of my favorite manga for the longest time, and though the ending doesn't affect my enjoyment of the Soul Society and Arrancar arcs, it does bum me out that it fizzled out on such a bad note. Hopefully it gets another anime adaptation at some point, or Kubo finds time to do more databooks or side-chapters, but I'm honestly not holding my breath.
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