Las Noches: A Bleach Podcast
Listen with Dani & Giovani as they review the new Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War arc.
Las Noches: A Bleach Podcast
Las Noches Ep. 15
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DanielleWhat's going on? What's happening? we're speaking Spanish now.
GiovaniYour, Your,
DanielleUh,
GiovaniI.
DanielleI'm like, where's, where's, my, I'm like, where's my Spanish intro? Like, what's
Giovanithis great. And you who are.
DanielleYou say Tu and you
GiovaniIt's like the Beneful commercial, right?
DanielleDanielle. I think that's right. Spanish speakers don't kill me.
GiovaniOh my goodness. There we go. There we go.
Danielledon't Don't I won't, uh, sorry. I wanted to catch you by surprise. I was like, this is it, and I know you can't I'm like, who's podcast is this sounds like ours,
GiovaniWell, what I, while listeners don't know, is we can each other through video, so your eyes just like, what is he doing?
DanielleI'm like, what's, what's he doing? Does he know what he's saying?
GiovaniOf course. I know what I'm saying. So.So that was fun. A great way to
Danielleyes.
GiovaniI can't stop laughing. was
Danielleof, full of surprises. Yeah. I'm glad this tickles you. I'm glad you were able to amuse yourself at my
Giovanisorry. Apologies. Los scene though.
DanielleWe're, well, we're off to an, an exciting start, so I guess I'm, I'm great now.
GiovaniOkay. I was teasing the whole time. I know you knew something was going down, like something was up.
DanielleWell you seemed really busy on your end
Giovanilike, play them music. Play them music. I got something special for you.
DanielleOh my goodness. Well that was fun,
GiovaniSo what have you been up to, Danielle?
DanielleUh,
GiovaniHuh?
Daniellejust getting into the rhythm of, uh, back to school.
Giovanischool. Ooh.
DanielleJust getting into that and all the, the, the meetings and the open houses and to shake off the, um, the summer slump. I guess if, if, if I can call it that,
Giovanievery year.
Danielleknow, where you, you never like in the summer and you're hanging out and you never know what time it is, what day it is.
Giovaniknow how that feels.
DanielleSo now you,
GiovaniI don't know how that feels, but, uh, must be nice.
DanielleWell, it, it is over now and it's hard to get back on a, um, on a schedule'cause you, you know, we gotta wake up super early,
GiovaniUh,
Danielleso, yeah.
Giovaniso. Have you watched the one piece series yet?
DanielleYeah. I've taken a look. I think I like it.
GiovaniYou like it?
DanielleAlthough I, I think I watched a handful of episodes when one piece first premiered way, way, way back when and never picked it back up. I've seen it, but I've never like, gone back to it. But, um, like I, I understand the gist of one piece, but this, um, Netflix live action is pretty good, I must say. I like it.
GiovaniFor someone who doesn't follow one piece, the, an, the, uh, mango or the anime. You said that you like the way the flow of the show.
DanielleI think I have a feel of what one piece is about, even if, I don't know all the
GiovaniWhat do you think it's about? In
Danielleit
Giovani2
Daniellewell, Well, I mean, pirates and becoming the, the king of the pirate pirates, and,
Giovaniwow.
Danielleand silliness and goofiness and friendship. And, you know, I mean, I,
Giovanidid Lou bother you with the announcing of his moves, like GumGum uh, cake GumGum?
Danielleyeah, but that's part of the, um, the silliness, right?
Giovaniyeah.
DanielleOne piece has that like whimsy to it, and so I get, so that gives it a little bit of charm in that sense.
GiovaniSo without going far,'cause I don't know how. Our listeners have watched. Did you like any character more than the other, or did you like a character less? Oh, well you say you didn't watch the anime
Danielleuh,
GiovaniOkay. Coming from someone who hasn't watched the
Daniellewell, I'm just looking. Yeah. in terms of liking a character less the, um, is it Bucky Buggy? What's the, what's the clown's name again? Yeah, buggy. I mean, you know, I know he's supposed to be entertaining. Because, you know, a clown or whatever, but I didn't really find him that
GiovaniYou didn't like buggy.
Danielleuh, not so much. And, um, uh, oh, I guess I should say, hopefully these aren't spoilers for anybody. I don't know if anybody's watching it, how far they got in'em in one piece, but, uh, I I wasn't a fan. Not really.
GiovaniWell, I was, I'm a fan of, sorry. Go ahead. Continue.
DanielleNo, Go ahead, go ahead.
GiovaniI was just about say, I'm a fan of the, the actor who played, uh, buggy. His name, well, he's from agents of, shield. And he played Deacon Kane on, uh, agent Shield. So I was a fan of the actor. I don't know his name, but it was good to see him again
DanielleYeah, I mean, I didn't, I didn't mind the acting like the actor. was fine. The character is a little annoying.
GiovaniBut he's a silly character. He's not meant to be vicious or mean, he's a, he has a
DanielleYeah, but I He didn't make me laugh.
Giovanilaugh.
DanielleI don't know. I don't, I mean that, if that was the goal, you know, but, um, and op,
GiovaniOp
Daniellethat his name? Am I usap? Okay. Well, you say I'm not familiar. I'm not saying the names right, but, uh,
Giovaniso.
Danielleyeah, usap, he was, he was fine in terms of a character, but the, um, the, I was running and hiding. I mean, it was kind of
Giovanihe is in the though.
Daniellea degree.
GiovaniI wish they hammed it up more though. I wanted to see more cowardly op because he was, he's really funny in the anime.
DanielleYeah, I'm, I'm liking it, and I, I think that they're doing a good job. I heard or read, I think that it's Netflix's most expensive production to date.
GiovaniI didn't see that.
DanielleI was like, whoa, okay. But I mean, it, it looks really, um, like it's well done.
GiovaniI enjoyed it. enjoyed it. But again, I was one of the few people who liked cowboy bebop too. Like people just slammed that show and I enjoyed it.
DanielleI did too. I, I didn't think anything was wrong with, how they, um, did cowboy bebop. So I, you know, you people get weird when it's not close enough to, um, Manga if they, if they feel like they, they're too far off course, or if it's not like, seen by scene sometimes. I just think that you gotta give, a little bit of creative freedom, you know,
GiovaniI,
Danielleas long as it's good.
GiovaniI totally agree with
DanielleAnd as, yeah, as, long as they're not like making things completely up out of left field and it's done, um, really well, then I don't, I
GiovaniI was not a big fan of the bleach live action. That was just Okay. Like maybe not even just, okay. It was watchable.
Daniellesurprisingly, that that wasn't as well done as everything else. So maybe that's why they're pouring all this money into one piece.
Giovanifinally
DanielleI don't know. Yeah, I think they said, I mean, it might be a while though. Before, well, they haven't even confirmed the season two. It seems like it's gonna be season two'cause it, it seems like it's being well received,
GiovaniGive the people what
Daniellebut
Giovaniwant.
DanielleYeah. But with the rider's strike and, um, they said that this first season took a while to come out in terms of, producing it and then the editing. All took a while. So you have to add that to, you know, if they do do it, they have to do it after the strike is over or when the strike
GiovaniSo you're saying we have years to expect
DanielleI mean, yeah, at this point, if they're gonna do it, it's gonna at least be a year or two before we, I, my money's on like two years before we see another season. of one piece, But. There's lots of, Netflix is, um, pushing the enemy, um, these days though,
Giovanicouldn't appreciate that.
Danielleyeah. yeah.
GiovaniSo, are you ready to jump into some bleach?
DanielleLet's get into this episode. We're on, we made it to episode 15, piece from Shadows. That's the title.
GiovaniAh,
DanielleI didn't think this episode, wasn't, it wasn't bad. There's no, I mean, I, I, there's nothing to really complain about other than there's not a lot of, to me anyway, story, there's not a ton of story progression. It's just a lot of, um, smaller battles building up to, I'm assuming what there's like bigger battles
GiovaniWell, it is the start of the second invasion, so that's, we just got the tip of the iceberg.
DanielleYeah.
GiovaniSo it begins, uh, do you wanna jump in here or do you want me to just go for it?
DanielleOh, go ahead.
GiovaniSo it begins with Gram Alt addressing his, his fellow stern ritters. And this is set up is similar to what we see with how Eisen was hosting his around cars. Just laying out the plan and this plan as I listen to it, it's malicious. it's to take the hope from the soul. Reapers Bruce.
DanielleExactly. Exactly. They, wanna crush them and they, they don't wanna just win, they want to crush
GiovaniThey want to crush them, but, but as fast as possible because Yha has what he loves peace. Yha loves peace, so he wants to exterminate them quick, but humiliate them as well.
DanielleRight.
GiovaniLot of combination, so,
DanielleYeah.
GiovaniA lot of Were whole hum. But others like Ba Stein, she really wants to kill the squad team. Captain Sha like she hates him for reasons we don't know,
Daniellewe don't know, but that's, that's her top guy to
Giovanicalls him the doggy.
Daniellehas, she, yeah, the doggie, She has it out for Saging. So we'll see how that goes. Um, so, so, if that's a potential, seems like it's a potential
GiovaniShe wants to finish the job. She took his, she wants to finish the job.
Danielleright, right, right. But, um, we'll see. So and so we jump into our intro and, the second invasion has started and you know, they're talking about how the Quincy are talking about how they've Essentially outsmarted the soul reapers by hiding in the shadows their entire time,
GiovaniWhich was
Daniellehiding in the shadows of the Sarah the entire time.
GiovaniI thought that was really, really smart how it was displayed. And there's a few things going on and, uh, I, I hope I'm not going outta order, but you see, you could talk. He's outside of the ste, like the sarata has been taken, has been separated. But Yuki, he's at this altar. It seems like he's praying, and the subordinates, I cannot think of their names. I think it was this lieutenant in thi seat. They come in and they say, Hey, something's happening. You can see that he's outside. I wonder what does this mean? Is this an advantage or any way that he's outside of the, the, I guess the shadow ram?
Daniellethe Quincy are beginning to make their move. That's what they're doing. And so what we get now is a glimpse of all these Uh, mini battles kind of a, you know, we get a, a few, um, pockets of, of Soul Reaper slash Quincy square ups,
Giovaniit starts,
DanielleSo like, one of the main ones that we saw was, uh, you Graham
Giovaniyes, Al went straight to the head captain's room, which Again, speaks volumes
DanielleAgain, how? Right, right.
GiovaniI, and he calls himself the, uh, the head, I can't think of it. The grand Quincy Grand. He goes straight the head captain's office to finish him off. Like, I'm gonna start here.
DanielleYeah. It's Like, well, you know, we, we got rid of the old head captain and you're the new one. And so here I am because I'm the sec. He said he's the second in command.
Giovanicommand. Yeah.
DanielleYeah. So he is starting at the top and just went straight
Giovanithen now the image of her eyes is just wide open. She's shocked that he just appeared here in SWE is calm and he's talking to him in a everyday manner, so I always love that about sunscreen. He's never sweating.
DanielleYeah.
GiovaniWe also figured out that he did this wise guy since we reset traps around the So I mean, I don't know what kind of traps it didn't seem to be working.
DanielleI thought. Yeah. And it seemed like, well, we know, uh, he's strategic anyway,
Giovaniis.
Danielleso. we're getting a taste that, okay, Yuha is strategic. He's a planner, and, but we already know that SSU is, so it's, I'm not surprised that well do, we know that he figured out in advance that they were in the shadows of the
GiovaniSun did not, but.
DanielleRight. So that's what I thought. So even though he didn't know that he planned for them, just popping in, showing up, and so he's, he's ready. Whether, you know, they invaded from outside or they're invading from the inside,
GiovaniWhich makes me think
Danielleyeah.
Giovaniwhat traps. I didn't see any traps. Like if he set traps, they didn't go off
Danielleor maybe not yet.
Giovaninot yet.
DanielleYou know, he el he alluded to but we'll see.
GiovaniI guess
DanielleWe'll see. I mean, but he, they was, he was ready with, his
Giovaninow. Now
Danielleand they had, yeah, and they had the,
Giovanithe barrier,
Danielleshe pulled up the barrier between them,
Giovanidid have the keto barrier
Danielleright?
Giovaniand we found out that she's a keto master. And she's good at what she does because even asphalt, as he inspected it, was quite impressed, impressed about With
Daniellewith what she
Giovaniuh, barrier.
DanielleYeah.
GiovaniSo, uh,
DanielleAll right. And then we also, um, got a taste of Uri. He was, he
Giovanihe's your favorite.
Daniellenice comic
Giovanilike mauri. He is your new number one,
DanielleI told you I like a gray character,
Giovaniright? I said asking Var and who? He has the letter D. I think it's Death Bringer or Death Blow. I have to look that up. He's waiting at the Department of Research and Development, and he's so casually strolled in and everyone's shocked that he, he was just there and except one person by uri.
DanielleOh, well, you know, of course, because he figured out that the shadows were playing a key role. The invasion. So like I was just saying with Chinwe, I guess Chinwe didn't figure it out, but you know who did, maybe he
Giovaniand he has the brightest, him and anal has the brightest glowing suit robes that you can imagine.
DanielleWell, didn't he look like he, he paired Like some big sun god or something. Like it was quite funny.
Giovaniright. So it's a couple things. I wonder, and this is off the subject a little bit, not a lot, but a little bit when SWA was talking or you was talking, said, we entered the social society and created our own world. The rei,
DanielleOkay.
Giovanidoes that mean every stern Ritter in Quincy that they're over a hundred years old? Like hundreds of years old?
DanielleI am not sure have you looked that up?
GiovaniI haven't, there's a, there's been a few thoughts, and some people say that when you take a human. Outside of Earth's elements, they just age differently because we only age how we do because we're on earth affected by gravity in the sun and all the other elements. We go to a place where there's full of reci, our life extends. We slow down, we age differently. So that is the conventional thought. I don't know, I'm just curious of your opinion.
DanielleI'm not sure how that works. since they are human, I would think it would, work differently for them than. Soul Reapers and how they
Giovanibecause Soul Reapers
Daniellewe might
Giovaniare souls. They don't have bodies. They have, they're just souls.
DanielleYeah.
GiovaniSo I guess next up we have Bs B. He appears and he's with his fellow grunts. His, uh, his Quincy grunts and they encounter, encounter these squad. I wanna say squad 10. Toshiro
Danielleto.
GiovaniYeah. So we have the classic battle of fire versus ice, except one of them has a bonai and the other one is just full powered. And Bass B just toss a lot of trash. He is so full of himself.
DanielleYeah. that's just, it seems who Sby is.'cause since he bas b um, jumped on the scenes, if we've been introduced to him as a character, he's always been loud mouth full of opinions.
GiovaniA fiery
DanielleSlightly
Giovanipersonality.
DanielleRight. Resistant to authority, you know, so I I'm not very, so
Giovanidoing there?
Danielleit it makes it makes sense that when he's in his, in this battle or about to battle with Toshi and ran Kiku, that, it's a lot, it's very noisy. A lot of loud mouth trash talking. But, um, They fight and Ku and Toshi Ru'cause Toshi Ru's without his bonai. He's fighting without his bonai initially. And um, they use this combined technique to help him work with. He can still use ice, but he, since he can't create more ice, because he'd lost his bonai, so he, they, they're using like this combined
GiovaniAnd it's very clever. It's very
Daniellewith less ice, because his bonai
GiovaniSo
DanielleAnd I thought that was really smart.
Giovanishe, uh, releases her sword and it turns to ash. He freezes the moisture around it and create an ice barrier barrier along with her, uh, with her dust, with her ash. And then she recalls the sword. So the sword is back, but the ice still has the properties of a sword release. So they work together really well.
DanielleYeah.
Giovaniwe have. Alida is in this mansion, and I call him the op of bleach because he's scared of everything. He's a big mouth, but he's scared of everything. He's with his sister trying to protect her, but bg, no BG nine or Annoying, comes in and tries to his sister because he wants to fight m. He's not a fighter, he's a runner. And right at the moment where we thought there was this little kid was about to get beat really bad. Your friend, not mine, but your friend, soy fond comes in. So that was good. that was good.
DanielleI think. I'm glad to see soy
GiovaniUh, you know, not bad. I said I expected big things from soy farm, so I still do. So gie knowing, what is he, because he's alluding to, he's not human, he's just an Android, or he's a robot or something. Almost like he's an avatar. Of the actual stern riter. What, what's your thoughts on that? Because he says something like, I wrote this down. Uh, well, we saw the Gatling gun and he said that he can't, he doesn't breathe or he doesn't have fear or something like that. So he was alluding to, he's not even the guy
DanielleWell, do you, do you think it's, it's in the same vein as what's going on with Mask the masculine, something like that?
GiovaniI think so. I think so. Um,
Danielleyeah,
Giovaniyeah, it's hard to say. I guess it's to be determining, but put that out there that we don't know what he is.
DanielleAll right. We get a little look back into the lab with, um, URI
GiovaniAsking was sizing up mauri to determine, you know, if he was an easy. Beat, could he defeat him easily? And he, he decided that he could not defeat Mauri easily. So he decided to walk away. And he was wondering like, Mauri, you're not gonna stop me. I'm gonna just go out here and kill somebody else. And this is when mayor's like, do whatever you want, or are you trying to trick me into going into your space? Asking. Look back at him like, oh, you just may be a special threat after all. You're good. And asking, just left He, he did not want to fight for Yuri. I.
Danielleuh, I'm not sure why he didn't know mayor was a threat to begin with. I didn't really understand the exchange. I mean, the exchange was entertaining,
GiovaniIt was
Danielleyou
Giovaniwhen you put it in perspective. I think last episode you saw asking break up a fight between Bby and Asphalt, so you understand that this guy is really powerful, but he gets stopped in his tracks with Mauri. I'm gonna say it again. I think Mauri is gonna do something very, very special this season.
DanielleMaybe, I wouldn't put past him to always be holding back. So, And I'm, I'm not sure if he's gonna make a play for
GiovaniWhat you doing
Daniellebut
Giovaniis head captain. What you want mayor to be
DanielleI mean, I didn't say I want Mauri to be captain. I'm saying Mauri seems like he's capable of making a play for head
GiovaniWhat he's, what he wants to do, he has a problem with authority. That's what mayor is,
Danielleright? He doesn't like anybody telling them what to do. So,
Giovaniexactly.
DanielleBut like I was, but um, then kike jumps on the radio, we hear Kiki's voice from one of the radios in the lab, and he announces that he found a way to recover the stolen Bon Kais.
GiovaniAh, that's true. That's true. Uh, I guess that's a. Big move because there's the fight between,
DanielleWell,
Giovanium, Toshiro and Bby is happening now, and Bass B Toshiro we thought got the best of Bass B, but he didn't. It's a classic. Gotcha. Because. Sby is not hurt. He's not destroyed. He's coming back. Now he's exhibiting a new type of power, which he calls burner fingers, and that's what he does. He does burner finger, one very powerful attack onto shero, hits him, he falls down, and I thought this was the end of I really did. I thought this was it. But Sandhu comes in and says, that's my job. I have to kill him with his own bonai. This is how we take hope for everyone's looking, for everyone who is looking. I'm going to kill him with his own bonai, and they'll know that the Quincy are here.
DanielleAnd well, this is why you kike making his announcement is right on time.'cause we have all these, right? We have all these little mini battles taking place. Some of, some of them looking a bit dire. when he, um, lets me really know, they go ahead and, and broadcast the announcement all around so that everyone can hear that they have a way to get the bon hides back So then we get a, a little glimpse of itchy Go before we head out, um, towards the end of the episode
GiovaniWell, before we that, do you wanna about Asphalt and shwe had a last encounter by the burial where we find out that. Can just absorb that barrier and destroy it. And they were going to attack till we figure out the now set another barrier, which is even stronger. And not only was that impressive of now, now you gram that and it's like, this would be a lot harder than I thought. And he retreated. He said he was called, um, I think Yuha called him, called him back, called him home. So that fight didn't happen, but soon she was nice enough to offer him some tea when he returns. How nice.
DanielleAll right, so before we close out the episode, we have Ichigo walking down a long path we hear, a chibe in the background
GiovaniRight. He's narrating.
Danielleabout, being prepped to be a vessel. Something along those lines
GiovaniAnd, uh, Ichigo is experiencing this, this weight, this heaviness that's on him,
Daniellelike heavy pressure. Yeah.
Giovanibut he's still marching on and I think they have this word for that. I'll let you do that. Is that the weight
Daniellepracticed that one.
Giovaniit feels, or is That why is that exactly? I'll let you explain that.
Daniellethat. wasn't clear.
GiovaniOkay.
Danielleit seemed like it could have been the process that he was about to go through. The visual of it made it seem like,'cause it was like this dark tunnel, with a green pathway and he's walking slowly down. It almost felt like the beginning of a quest. Like he's about to enter a quest or something, And here we have Ichie. Talking about how, it begins but does not end. And talking about being prepared to become a vessel
GiovaniWhat do you think that means? He's becoming a, a vessel to, for more power? Is it the soul rep, not soul. Reper the soul, King's power. What type of vessel
DanielleThat's not, that's
GiovaniA sacrifice,
DanielleAnd we, well, the thing is, we already know that Ichiba is up to
GiovaniI don't trust that guy.
DanielleYeah. We already know that Ichiba is up to something, so we don't exactly know what that is. We know he has his eyes set on Ichi goal for whatever reason. Now he's under the, under the guise of leveling up ichigo to battle in this invasion, but we are getting the feel that it's
GiovaniRight.
DanielleAnd as for being a vessel, who knows what that could mean? It might be along the lines of something with the Soul King, like you just mentioned, so we'll see.
GiovaniI just don't trust it. But that does end the episode.
DanielleYeah.
GiovaniA piece from the shadows. There was not much peace going on.
DaniellePeace from from shadows. peace from shadows.
GiovaniI got peace from the shadows, but I guess I'm adding the,
Danielleit's peace. Yes you are. It's peace from shadows,
Giovaniso do you want to rate this in Bon Kais?
DanielleI'll give this a Seven
GiovaniHa ha, ha.
DanielleSeven
GiovaniWhy do you give it a seven?
DanielleWell, I mean, we didn't get major conflicts. But mostly it was smaller, minor characters engaging in, the fight scenes. And then we didn't get a whole lot of, of story progression from the previous episode.
GiovaniWell, I give it a, I'd give it a seven as well. And that's gonna be parallel with the, the last episode, episode 14. it was good, but it's the beginning stages of this invasion and. Not a lot happened. What I didn't like about it, I guess I don't like this trick oration they're doing where you think the so reapers are getting the upper hand and then when the smoke clears, Quintes, the stern ritters aren't even bruised and they got another level to do. That's the type of smoke mirror show that just, it doesn't work for me. Not with bleach. Anyway, so strong seven,
DanielleOkay.
Giovaniand I gave away my worst already. Ah, okay. Let's go to best and worst
Daniellebest would be ha ha sung God
GiovaniI just gonna say that.
DanielleI like that little, um, segment. that was entertaining.
GiovaniWell, I like the teamwork between. Ro and KU worked so well together between the freezing of the ash and strengthening his chika. You can tell that they've been, they've been working together and we realized this later on since Ichi Go's father. Was head captain. That's how long they've been together, and you can see that in that teamwork that they know each other very well. So that's my best and my worst, and I'll say this again, is, you think that the Quincy are down, but now they're not even hurt. it's deflating.
DanielleOkay, well, my worst is I don't know if, if it's really a worse, but it's a point of irritation we are on episode 15 and we're not flushing out this chibe thing a little faster. we should have gotten farther along with it. In terms of knowing what he's about or what he's trying to do I mean, we, we have a lot of like alluding to this, alluding to that, but there's nothing concrete and we still don't know what's the deal with the soul King in any capacity. Is he alive? Is he, Is he, what's, what's happening with him? Is he really giving orders? Is he not? is this
GiovaniHe is a mannequin. He's not even real. He's a mannequin that just sits in the bubble
DanielleIs he a prisoner? Is he not?'cause he sure looks like he's in, like he's locked
Giovaniif he's a person. I haven't seen him move. I haven't seen him talk. we don't have a lot there that we can only guess that and. Hopefully we get better at it once things unfold and hope, hopefully episode 16 gives us, gives us that much to, a clue to unfold so we can make sense of it.
DanielleIs that
GiovaniCan you hear him?
DanielleYes.
GiovaniHe's scratching me by the way. I'm being attacked.
DanielleOh my goodness. All Right, so that's it for this episode. The next episode is episode 16, the fundamental virulence.
GiovaniMm.
DanielleWe're looking forward to it.
Giovanidoes that mean?
DanielleDo you know? I don't know, but we'll
GiovaniOkay. Come through the Facebook page.
DanielleYeah. Yep. Check us out on Facebook and, uh, like, subscribe, and we'll see you guys
GiovaniAll right.
DanielleAll right, bye.