Throwback #95 - Fall of the Giant

Upon Aizen's ascension into power, it wouldn't be long before he amassed an army ready to challenge the Gotei 13. For years now, Shinigami's primary enemy have been Hollows, creatures that weren't sent to the Soul Society and are bent on devouring those of the living & dead. Hollows are a pest and Shinigami are like the Pest control, easy no? What happens when that pest is able to defend itself? What happens when that pest proves to be too much for the pest control? Their is a potential of life or death when dealing with hollows, but when they've evolved into being more powerful and intimidating than ever ~ it's much MUCH more riskier than before. The Hollows evolved into Vasto Lorde ~ Hollows that appear with humanistic appearances and are on par/higher than that of a Shinigami Captain. So that's pretty bad news considering Aizen amassed 10 of them and are referred to as the Espada. Two of the Espada that were first introduced were Ulquiorra & Yammy. Of course our hero, Ichigo, wouldn't want to anything to happen to the inhabitants of Karakura Town and so he rushes to try and find these guys. Chad & Orihime were no match, but Ichigo was no different ~ the hollow-side of him wanted out and Ichigo, trying to control it, was beaten to a pulp by Yammy. Sources indicated that perhaps Ichigo would've posed more of a threat, but sadly, he was no match. It wouldn't be long before Yoruichi & Urahara show up, kick some @$$, and the 2 Espada are forced to retreat with Yammy now one-handed from Ichigo's previous attack. Yammy is one of those huge, cocky, & battle-hungry Espada that only want one thing ~ to prove he's better than one using his physique. Ichigo thought that since he was #10, that he's the weakest of the Espada. However, it's revealed that Yammy is in fact #0 and it stronger than Ulquiorra, Nnoitra, & Grimmjow combined. He becomes even more enormous than before and, much like King Kong, likes to grab people and squeeze the living life out of them. However, two bad@$$es would show up and show that monster what's boss ~ Byakuya Kuchiki & Kenpachi Zaraki. Unfortunately, the fight was off-screen and it left a bad taste in my mouth. I was excited to see them fight & for Tite Kubo to just show Yammy's defeat ~ that's Bulls#!t. I've been noticing that Tite Kubo sometimes rushes fight scenes so as to leave more room for another or to progress a backstory/exposition. With every fight scene, we saw them all. Yammy's was the only fight where it was shown off-screen in both the Anime & Manga, I thought that was inexcusable. If you're going to take the time to built up that he's the strongest, then f*cking do it. Seeing his defeat just means that he was no match against the two Captains, but it'd be nice to see how it went about. To me, that's lazy & it shows how much, in my opinion, Kubo wanted to finish this arc so as to start off the Fullbringer Arc. I wanted to see Yammy try and handle these two, but alas ~ we'll never know the full picture of the magnitude of power that Yammy possesses.

I hope you enjoyed this week's Throwback. I do apologize that I was unable to post yesterday's Watch-List post. Throwbacks will continue for 5 more weeks. Stay classy as always. BF II post & WBCR will be up soon.