Bleach Episode 111 - Shock! The Father’s True Character

I was so excited to be able to see Isshin finally as a Shinigami, but that mood was instantly killed when I saw Ririn and company being involved in the story. I had thought that their involvement would have ended last week, but that’s clearly not the case. If I had to guess, I would say that they added them to increase the length of the arc so that they don’t catch up to the manga as fast. Case in point, this episode manages to cover only two chapters with the addition of the Mod Soul parts instead of the three manga chapters they normally get through.
Animation quality was across the board too, though that’s not reflected in the screencaps since I tend to choose ones that look better. It started off really well with Ishida and his father, but the entire chase scene with Kon looked like another animation team was working on it, and it didn’t really get better until Isshin appeared.
Having said all that though, Isshin was still very very cool. I can still remember how much this twist surprised me back when I was still casually reading the manga over a year ago (casually means not reading it weekly). The revelation that Isshin knew who Kon was all along just made it even more impressive and also made me wonder how far ahead Kubo Tite planned this story or if it just worked out perfectly this way.
Next week, the introduction of Hiyori!

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