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I love the foreshadowing of the Kozuki Clan symbol on Luffy's armor and the pink dragon in the background of this color spread from February 2004. That's Punk Hazard, Zou and Wano foreshadowing from back in Long Ring Long Land!

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Amon: The Darkside of the Devilman (1999)

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Idea for a Buggy Power Up

I have an idea that came to me that if Buggy's Chop-Chop Fruit was awakened, then he would be able to split other people and things apart right? Then what if Buggy could split atoms and create atomic bombs that way? He already had the Buggy Ball and Muggy Ball, so explosives aren't a new weapon for him, if anything it's a specialty of his.

This also makes me think about Buggy's usefulness towards the end of the series, with (SPOILER) Vegapunk and the World Government seeking out what could be nuclear technology to power the weapon that destroyed Lulusia. The energy source was referred to as The Mother Flame and Vegapunk mentioned wanting to harness the power of the sun. Anyway this is just an idea I had, I don't think Oda will take this direction but I thought I'd share.

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BLEACH Chapter Covers in color

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BLEACH chapter covers in color 107 & 119

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BLEACH chapter covers in color 103-106

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I love how in episode 1079 Luffy uses Advanced Conqueror's and Snakeman to eat and Zoro uses ACoC and Asura Path to drink sake

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BLEACH Chapter Covers 100-102

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Renji Fight (BLEACH Chapters 95-98)

Chapter 95

Renji said he's going to kill Ichigo because he took Rukia's powers, implying some sort of friendship between them at some point. I'm assuming that him and Rukia worked together or grew up together? I really like this fight between them though where they're both fighting for Rukia in their own way. There's also these pages that make me think he's probably not really going to go all out and will end up being yet another enemy that has their own reasons to help Ichigo save Rukia:

Renji has a few cool panels at the end of the chapter where he explains his power is 5x stronger than it was last time they fought, and he changes his Zanpakuto to it's true form and strikes Ichigo through a wall. Renji's Zabimaru reminds me of those collapsible lightsabers you'd get from the store for like $10, just a really cool sword version lmao.

Chapter 96

After the single blow from Renji's Zabimaru Ichigo can barely stand, swaying in place and his head is bleeding quite a bit. I'm ngl I started feeling bad for my boy right here because as he tries to dodge Renji's next attack he gets slashed across his back and is leaking even more blood. And every attack Renji makes here is leveling whole buildings, this dude is not weak by any means.

While this fight is happening we cut to Renji's squad discussing him leaving his assistant captain's badge behind. I'm feeling pretty confident that he's trying to save Rukia as well here because immediately after this page Renji is asking Ichigo again about his intentions to save her. Ichigo remembers his training with Kisuke (I need to know who this man is, and why is he so strong that 5 days of training with him has Ichigo nearly at assistant captain level) and finds an opening to attack because of it, but Renji outspeeds him and cuts Ichigo deep in his chest.

Chapter 97

We start 97 off with a shonen classic, the Omae wa mou shindeiru. Flashback to Kisuke training Ichigo and it's nice to see how our mc got stronger instead of me just having to fill in the gaps. It starts with Kisuke attacking and Ichigo running from the attack. Kisuke tries to explain he won't get stronger by living in fear, and that he needs the resolve to win and push past his fear into having full faith in his abilities. But more than anything I was just blown away at these two panels. The first was the reveal of the aftermath from the attack Ichigo was dodging at the beginning of the chapter. Absolutely insane, just so so cool to see the earth split asunder from an attack especially when we can assume Kisuke is pulling his punches somewhat. And the second panel being the attacks they send at each other at the end when Ichigo finds his resolve.

We cut back to Ichigo fighting Renji, and Ichigo after finding his resolve decides to conquer his fear and is determined to beat Renji. He attacks Renji breaking his Zabimaru (and cutting his hairband? lmao), and finishes the fight there, landing his final blow.

Chapter 98 (End of Volume 11)

This was such a beautiful chapter and such a good ending to the fight between these two. So Renji and Rukia grew up as orphans in essentially the ghetto of Rukongai, stealing food and water for themselves and their friends to get by. The way that Renji talks about Rukia in this chapter is really sweet. He clearly admires her and looks up to her, and you can tell since he was a kid he's been trying to be good enough to equal her. What I just noticed this chapter is that Rukia probably was a human at some point, died and was in the Rukongai alone (like Yuichi is) and chose to become a Soul Reaper. I guess I just assumed for the most part that Soul Reapers have existed as Soul Reapers since birth.

Anyway Rukia decides to become Soul Reapers with Renji, and when Rukia becomes adopted into the Kuchiki family, Renji spends all of his time training to be good enough to beat Captain Kuchiki (and assumedly take his place? or possibly run away with Rukia, I'm not really sure). I really like the forced expression drawn by Kubo here, where Renji is telling Rukia how happy is for her while trying to hide that he's hurting, chasing her and trying to save her. He just isn't strong enough to do so, and so he stays quiet at a time when Rukia wanted him to help her. She moves his hand off of him and thanks him as she rushes past, hiding her emotions from him as well. And the chapter ends here, when Renji asks Ichigo if he can beat Captain Kuchuki for him, and Ichigo of course tells him he will.

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BLEACH Chapter Covers in color (95-98)

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okay this is one of the greatest plot twists of american cinema