Zach Goodier
We're on a hot streak this week in Bleach, lot of action, lot of momentum, and you don't feel like the wheels are spinning uselessly. Renji steps up to face the Superstar, who doesn't waste any time recovering and starting up his attack, but this is Renji 2.0 (or would it be more like 3.0?), and he is stronger than ever, effortlessly dodging and blocking the assault. But his opponent can't be defeated by just dodging and blocking, read the chapter and see just what Renji is made of.
I feel like my patience with the series lately has been strained, but it's finally paying off. Solid action, some action resolution in each chapter, and you don't feel like you're wasting your time checking to see the latest chapter. I hope this means Tite Kubo has realized that many had issues with the pacing of his chapters. While it's OK to make a fights take up 40-60 pages of material is that's the length of a chapter, it makes things almost painful when you have to sit and deal with one side-show fight for that length of time when there are bigger and better things you are waiting for. Now, suspense is a great thing, and I'm more than happy to sit patiently and wait, but it gets frustrating when there are hardly any "appetizers" to tide you over until the main dish. That's the trade-off with suspense and making the audience wait, it forces you to have to find ways to tide the audience over until that point, and I hope Kubo can keep this new pace up, because it's proving to be very entertaining to follow.
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