Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War has kicked off the bloody war between the Soul Reapers and the Quincies, and the final moments from the newest episode have locked Ichigo Kurosaki away from the action! With the new series finally taking on the final arc of Tite Kubo’s original manga series, fans are finally getting to see some of the biggest battles from the series overall play out on screen. This means that the various Soul Reaper Captains have been pitted against the Quincies’ Sternritter forces, and with these battles Ichigo just might end up turning the tide of the war before it gets worse.
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Ichigo presents such a unique challenge for the Quincies that it was revealed that he was not only deemed a “special threat” to their forces, but they didn’t invade Soul Society until it was confirmed that he had been fighting Quilge Opie down in Hueco Mundo. It turns out that there was even more to their plan as the newest episode reveals the final piece of it was to have Opie stall and make sure that Ichigo could not make it back to the Soul Society by any means necessary.ย
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As Urahara reveals to Ichigo that the Soul Society is in danger, he believes he was able to defeat Opie with a strategic maneuver and thus Ichigo would be able to travel back to the Soul Society to help the others. But as he tries to make it back, Opie surprises Urahara and everyone else to reveal the Quincies’ real plan for Ichigo. He was supposed to distract Ichigo by any means necessary and actually keep him from getting to the Soul Society in order to help.ย
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As a result, Ichigo is then cut off from not only Soul Society, but Hueco Mundo as well. Trapped within a prison of Reishi with paths to both worlds cut off from him, Ichigo now is stuck in between worlds as his friends and allies are in more danger than ever before as he cannot make it his way to help them. It’s going to be his worst nightmare as those around him need his help, but he can’t do anything yet as long as he’s trapped.ย
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