and i thought ichigo was cool when he mastered the fullbring...

http://mangastream.com/read/bleach/87574993/1

and ichigo starts fighting again!

let's re-joice in seeing him in a shinigami like robe and being all bad ass again :D

by the way, mangastream is awesome. really nice work done by that page.

I can't wait for bleach 432!

I just watched this again and I'm aching to see the next issue... damn Ichigo looks badass!!

I do hope they explain all of this later... we've never seen a shinigami with Ichigo's strength before... maybe that's what's needed to get into the royal guard?

crunchy roll - killing fansubs :(

It is with great sadness that I read Dattebayo´s post on the possibility of Crunchyroll acquiring the rights for Bleach.

link to dattebayo´s post

Suffice to say that what I´ve watched in crunchyroll sucks. Fansubs are a very serious things for fansubbers. You can find high quality fansubs at HD qualities very few hours after a release. If the show is popular, download speeds for torrents or DDs are optimal. It really means that anyone in the world, and I speak for Costa Rica, can get to see their favorite show almost in real time with Japan.

There really is no point of comparison between streaming an episode from youtube or downloading a 350+ MB file encoded in h264. I have a large monitor and the difference is painful. One of the coolest things of anime are the visuals, and there just isn´t enough justice done to the anime producers in a streaming version.

This is my public wish: I hope Crunchyroll doesn´t get Bleach. In fact, I wish Crunchyroll stops existing. I would much rather pay Dattebayo for their quality, fast subs that I can download using bittorrent (probably the most effective way of sharing files), than any streaming service.

I wish everything could be free in this world, but hey, people need to eat and be able to build their life. So, I just need to vent, and state that streaming media should not be the future of fansubbing.

Bleach 271 - we see ichigo´s kick ass form!

So if you´ve been living under a rock, it´s time to wake up. Ichigo is full fledged in the anime against Ulqiorra´s double release and Aizen is ready to kill everything in the manga. Gin´s bankai is out and you wouldn´t recognize Aizen now that he is meshed with the hougyouku!

bleach manga 414 delayed!

I haven't written about Bleach lately, mostly because of work, but both the manga and anime are at a great moment.

Manga: Ichigo is fighting Gin, who finally used his bankai. Isshin is fighting Aizen, who says until now understands the Hogyuku. However, when Aizen is starting to combine with the hogyuku, Urahara sends him a benihana cry and... this week is delayed :(

Anime: Ichigo and everyone's favorite arrancar start duking it out. Last time, Inoue saved Ichigo's ass deploying a very fast shield.

So... no manga this week. Damn Tite Kubo, he really has his timing...

Bleach (anime and manga), my pulsar-x, hell I might as well ask what a corolla, elantra and mazda3 are worth, and get married!

So, if you aren´t stuck in anime oblivion, this week we had 2 great bits of news on bleach: first, in the anime, the zanpakatous have finally said "this is as far as we go" and next week we have the fight between ulqiorra and Ichigo! This should be monumental and I´m impatient to see it :D

aaand in bleach manga 411, we finally see aizen battle it out with Isshin (if ever for a brief second, but Aizen did use kido) and we see Gin´s bankai! Apparently Ichigo is not impressed and we should see this fight escalate. The truth is Gin seems to be testing waters only, he´s mighty deceptive...

My pulsar-x should be ready today, after a full clutch change. I´m actually awaiting this with high expectations, since I feel the car will be more responsive now to the power produced by the motor :D they had quoted $300 but final bill is for $220, so that´s good news!

You did see the toyota Yaris prices right? Damn, too expensive for an entry level car. I`m going to quote a mazda 3, a corolla, a nissan tiida and a hyundai elantra just to see where car prices are.

Oh, and battlefield bc2... wow its completely different in multiplayer than the single player game. Helmut (holy.cow, who got me (? am I there yet?) into serious gaming) had told me the single player was crap but I actually had fun with it, but playing online is so much more serious... I´ve only managed to play one night and only got like 1,200 points! But oh well, I´m the new guy and have to learn and adapt.

Aaand... new tag for today. I`m writing this in a separate partition I made for ubuntu 9.1. I can honestly say this is a very easy to use distro - it automatically told me I needed propietary drivers for my video card and the wireless (mine is a dektop, and + wireless it has 2 NICs) and went, found them and installed them. Also, when playing my anime videos, it told me I was missing codecs, found them and installed them. Not even windows is this easy. It did fail to tell me I had to close the video player and re-launch for them to be loaded, but that is the only nitpick in what could be a big time waster. Imagine, so far, I have not typed one single command in the shell and I`m enjoying my ubuntu! Also, nice touch, after asking for my password, I was able to see my big ntfs partition where I keep my stuff.

Today´s saturday after payday, so that means go pay your stuff. I just wish there were smaller waiting lines at the banks... and also, we are looking for a church to take the catholic curse to get married. We are thinking san antonio in guadalupe, or fatima in san pedro. We let Amy´s dad know last Sunday, Amy was real nervous lol but I think he received the news well. He was worried Amy wouldn´t continue her studies, but I guess he doesn´t know us that much... I´m already planning another masters after this one (business administration focusing on finance :D).

Bleach 409!!!

Bleach fans all over the world... rejoice... Aizen reveals Ichigo is half shinigami and half... he couldn´t finish, he was cut by the entrance of Kurosaki Ishin!!!!

Jesus I hope after this it goes into a flashback that tells all about Ishin and Kisuke!!

BLEACH manga 408 is AMAZING!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of00u12Yejs wow!!!! Finally Aizen and Ichigo get to fight! Did... he really... die?!?!?!?!

To all bleach fans, rejoice! The manga is now getting pretty darn goooooood!!!

Bleach anime 260 / manga 406

Its that time of the week again! I'm browsing www.dattebayo.com for Bleach 260 to come up, and thrusday we shoulld be able to see manga 406 in english on youtube. Stay tuned, when they come up I'll put a comment on this post!

Google analytics, bleach manga delayed!

With Jorge Ortiz´s help I *think* I added google analytics to my blog template correctly.

Today I was looking for the bleach manga and I learned this week´s has been delayed. Tite Kubo always does that doesn´t he? When the series is at a peak he takes a week off lol. I found his myspace page and turned out finding one of his first mangas, Zombie Powder. Shame that he cancelled it, I was really beginning to like it!

Well now its either sleep or finish my homework on using excel to analyze data :D I really like some of the things I´m learning this trimester, I find it very interesting and enriching as an IT pro. Some of them are using SQL 2005 business inteligence features, learning more about managing costs on projects, and well, about blogging and modern networks :D