well they have to be either captains or vice captains power level to be strong enough to battle espadas ..

lemme guess, shinji was aizens captain

they HAD to be former captains la. if not wont be strong enough to face aizen and his arrancars. why do people sound so suprised..

the power level laa come on.. rukia fought one of the weakest arrancar and nearly died. ichigo is the main character, he can be a shoe shiner, but he will still be one of the strongest.'

what i meant was to make it more logical the creator had to make the vaizards high up in the ranks.. so captain rank isnt THAT suprising..

its not 108, its negative 108 (-108). fancy way of implying its happening -108 chapters before chapter 1.
probably not going to go for that long. maybe up till whatever an average volume length is.

i dont think urahara created all of them.. maybe one or two. then the others got tempted by increase of power and wanted an upgrade to their shinigami powers.

probably the younger more forward thinking ones will think of being a vaizard as the next step to improving soul society or whatever. while the old school kinda guys would be like "hell no, thats the devil's work".

i thought they called hikifune a "she" ?

!! tranny alert !!

this was set waaaaay before that la dude.
but yeah, i dont think she was a shinigami. just leave her as a human enough la lol. suddenly everyone's parent somehow was a shinigami or something.

suddenly old man yama is actually ichigo's grandfather on his mother's side... DUM DUM DUMMM

aizen has illusion powers, thats how he hid.

its not gonna be 2 years until they finish the negative chapters -__-

well if like vorador said isshin was a part of the royal special ops. then he probably was a captain before that and got promoted just like hikifune (sp?). or maybe he was the captain of the royal special ops LOL. or maybe thats the outfit for everyone in the royal special ops..

btw, i didnt know theres a bleach novel around where the story is far advanced compared to the manga.. so please dont spoil it for us manga readers :\

do the novels tell the same story as in the manga/anime. or does it tell side stories/background stories etc or show different events?

let it go already..

should've atleast put it in spoilers...

thanks mod

kenpachi's bankai is a nuclear bomb.
BOOOM
japan/ssociety/hueco left as a crater

meh.. unlimited powers..
oh noes losing, whoops just kidding i've got bankai lvl 5, owned.

i wanna see some good main characters die...

anyone knows whats written on coats of the 9th division squad that follows kensei ?

serious? LOL

the fairy god mother gave it..

are you sure its a black katana ?
doesnt look pure black to me, the top part of a katana are usually black. and the bottom part looks like the shading for blood and the forward trusting motion..