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Bleach, Vol. 36: Turn Back The Pendulum (2000)

by Tite Kubo(Favorite Author)

4.4 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

4088746031 (ISBN13: 9784088746036)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

series

Bleach

review 1: This volume really revolves around the past of our beloved characters who's history has been kept a secret. I really loved it, because it filled in a lot of gaps, and builds, or at least shows the reader an incident that reveals the hidden hatred and want for revenge (possibly) that will soon come in the World of the Living.The thing I didn't exactly like was how fast characters came and went, and with someone like me, who has a horrible memory with names and such, I kept forgetting who was who. While trying to memorize the names of the new characters, I was also trying to relate the names and faces to characters I already know of to get a better understanding of those character's pasts, but I kept mistaking new characters for old ones.For example, (you will not understand... more this if you haven't read this volume yet), when the assistant captain was called 'Lisa', I seriously thought that could have been a cute nickname for Nanao in the past because they look the same and act the same, but then I found out they're not the same person...I had misinterpretations like that all throughout the volume. -_- *Sigh*Some of the things in this volume completely shocked me, especially the rankings of some people I didn't even know we're in the Seiretei back then. Gosh it's kind of scary!During the story, I realized how happy I was that there was just one full volume of the past without any interruptions of the present, because it really helped me understand the things I had been questioning since the beginning. I'm finally starting to see how Shinji and gang became Visoreds... Hm... :)I also realized that the captains must have been pretty relaxed back then too, because in the present an assistant captain never talked disrespectfully to their captain, or any captain because they either have the common sense and manners to, or they're scared of them. In the past, assistant captains were back talking their captains left and right and some got pretty pissed off but never did anything.Ha, change in generation for the better.Well, I assume from seeing the preview there is going to be a mixture of the present and past in the next volume, but that's okay because I finally got my historic volume. :3Okay that sounded weird...
review 2: Bleach was definitely very interesting to read and different to what I usually read. I enjoyed the whole soul reaper concept and how we find out more and more about the main character as the story goes on.It's a fast read and is easy to understand but gets progressively more difficult to follow parts of the story due to there being so many different characters that can be qualified as important in the progression of the story.I would recommend it for the story line and the graphics but I do feel like there are a certain amount of plot holes or at least not detailed out enough parts. I give the series 3 stars, the beginning possibly deserving 4 stars and slowly falling to 3 stars. less

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