Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Puts Aizen Against Yhwach In Half An Episode
For the arc's biggest remaining antagonist pairing, half an episode is a short leash, and the review's main complaint is that pace rather than the animation.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
The eighth episode of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity brings Aizen out of his prison chair to fight Yhwach, and the confrontation ends within roughly half an episode. Aizen lands a brief beating on Yhwach, gets his moment of misdirection, and is then absorbed by the black ooze form Yhwach has taken. With no one left to stop him, Yhwach's destruction of the three worlds is presented as imminent, and the final two episodes are set to arrive in October.
Aizen leaves the chair, the cuffs come off, and the fight with Yhwach is over almost as soon as it starts. The episode gives Aizen a real stretch of offense and one moment of misdirection against Yhwach's future sight before the black ooze absorbs him.
The review treats the sequence as fun and rushed in the same breath. Half an episode for Aizen versus Yhwach, after the series spent so long keeping Aizen sealed, reads as thin. The reviewer also points back to the previous week's handling of Gerard Valkyrie as the same problem.
Two episodes remain, scheduled for October.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
Sources
- Anime News Network Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity Episode 8