Another Bleach Special. This time with a new OP and ED. I don’t really care for the OP, but how dare the creators change that awesome ED into something like that!?
Anyway, the special begins with the new Bounto who comes and uses metal marbles as a weapon. These marbles join together and form some kind of metal-marble-woman. They get kidnapped afterwards. Then we switch back to Ichigo&co, who seem to have found out the bad guy’s hideout. The three modified souls get into human-mode again (Woo!), the group arrives at the mansion, and for some strange reason, they split up. Then all of them get chased by weird spying eyeballs who grow a mouth, until they meet up with the snake-guy again, along with all the other evil Bountos. Ichigo stays behind to fight them, while Rukia and the modified souls go and find Ishida.
For some strange reason, the snake-guy prefers to fight alone. That’s the beauty of these bad guys. You can always trust them to neatly line up, so that you can fight them one by one. Who needs teamwork anyway? Anyway, fight, fight, blah, blah, Ichigo beats snake-guy by releasing a lot of spirit power. Rukia, meanwhile, encounters a shinigami who betrayed his team. Apparently, he didn’t like Zenpachi too well, so he deserted and ended up with the Bountos. Of course, he has to carefully explain this to a total stranger, so that everyone can hear again what kind of things he did, and exactly how he did it, even though everyone with a bit of sense already figured this out in the last episode. When he has almost killed Rukia, he will of course let the chance to kill her slip in order to protect his master. In this case, against the snake-guy who seems to have deserted his master and has some plans of his own. These plans last short, as the shinigami comes over and kills him in a second. Next episode will probably feature the fight between this guy and Ichigo. Exciting.
