This episode starts us off with a roundtable discussion alerting everyone of the fact that there are Bount inhabiting the town. The beginning of this episode basically serves as a teaching lesson about what a Bount is. I can't help but mention how much I enjoy the little kid-like animations that
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Kisuke comes up with a plan to find the Bount since it seems that only other Mod Souls can detect them. He pairs each of them except Uryu with Ririn, Claude, and Nova. The pairing that got the most focus was Ichigo and Ririn. In the previous episodes, Ririn was really annoying with the phone calls and the games, but for some reason her pairing with Ichigo doesn't make her seem so bad. Ririn and Ichigo have a cool chemistry and they're fun to watch. The only problem I had with this was that Kisuke removed the Mod Souls from the bodies that they were in, only for them to be put into a puppet like Kon. Kisuke's excuse was so they wouldn't be as noticeable, but they could have easily been put into something that was more alive. This seemed like a way to limit the power that Ichigo's team would have, because with the power of Ichigo and the Mod Souls, the upcoming battles might have been too easy.
Ririn detects a Bount and Ichigo comes to face with it. It seems odd that the Bount would say she's not looking for a fight even though she's going around eating souls from living bodies. This fight was interesting, because Ichigo didn't actually fight the Bount, but some kind of doll that the Bount conjured. This doll ended up being a little more then Ichigo could handle, because it stumped him up pretty good. Ichigo got off some good shots, but the doll's ability to reform was too much.
The ending was exciting which saw Ichigo find the doll's weak spot, which is the heart. When he stabbed it, the monster reformed, but the explosion causes Ichigo to get trapped in the rubble. Ichigo was about to get blasted, when out of nowhere Rukia comes blocks the attack.
Yay!! Rukia's back! It's been a while since we've seen Rukia in a fighting scene, so it'll be nice to see her in action with the next episode. A lot of the focus was on Ichigo, but the other's also found themselves running into a Bount.
This was a good episode and the previous episodes have been decent, but this episode shows a lot of promise of what we might have to look forward too. From the top of my head Bleach, so far has the best filler that I've seen, It's nice when filler doesn't actually feel like filler. Now we move on to the next episode where I can't wait to see what Rukia will do.
11-30-2008, 02:49 AM
Bleach: "Bount! The Soul Hunters" Review
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