'Tis naught the death of BLEACH! (spoilers included)

I guess i was worried about nothing.  BLEACH lives!  I thought that once the Arrancar storyline was over, it'd be the end of BLEACH, but there still exists the secret behind Isshin Kurosaki, Ichigo's dad.  If only chapters came out more quickly...

Ichigo Kurosaki started as a "normal" high school student who had an extremely powerful riatsu (spiritual energy).  He could see / talk / touch ghosts, but he couldn't help his helplessness in being unable to save them.  Then she came.  Rukia Kuchiki, a shinigami apears in Ichigo's room right before a Hollow (lost spirit) attacks his family.  To save his family Rukia lends him her Shinigami powers and Ichigo becomes a "temporary" shinigami.  The first storyline of BLEACH follows them as Ichigo does his assignments, until Rukia is apprehended be the other shinigami, she is guilty of not reporting in for three months and for giving her powers to a mere human.  Byakuya Kuchiki (Rukia's elder brother) takes back Rukia's power from Ichigo, nearly killing him in the process, then leads his sister back to the soul society (afterlife for good souls).  The second story line consists of Rukia's rescue and Ichigo discovering his own shinigami powers.  At about volume 21 that storyline ends with Rukia found innocent and also a victim of an even deadlier storyline that's coming up.  Ichigo was officially considered a Deputy shinigami.  That's about when the Arrancars started appearing, Sosuke's army of half hollow half shinigami soldiers.  It became a war that if lost by the shinigami, Ichigo's home town, Karakura town, would be used as a final ingrediant to the desstuction of all the soul society's order. 

 In the last battle, Ichigo vs Sosuke, they were both at their peaks.  Ichigo even used his final tensa zengetsu, with the major price, Ichigo was unable the beat Sosuke.  Ichigo was about to attack again when the price started to kick in.  Luckily Sosuke was weakened enough to be sealed away.  Ichigo soon after lost conscience.  He woke up a month later, with only minutes to spare.  He made his farewells with Rukia, then... his riatsu ran dry.  He was no longer able to see ghosts or shinigami or hollows, he couldn't even sense them.  But the manga didn't end.  Many months later... Ichigo is going on about his new ordinary life when someone suggests that he may not know his father as well as he thought, i mean, what else could his father be hiding if he was hiding the fact that he used to be a shinigami?

C'est Noel!

This weekend, it's has such of a ... Christmas feeling.Most of our decorations are up, lights are on... and the baking...  Ah the baking... Gingersnap cookies...  that's all i did this morning... What is Christmas without the baking?  But you know what I'm waiting for?  When Mom makes her pudding with run sauce...  I love that sauce, but she won't let me have too much.  I wonder why?


Is it just me, or are Christmas songs kind of depressing?  Not only that, but I'm convinced that Santa is really just an old perverted man.  I mean, "he sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he know when you've been naughty or nice, so you better be nice [for your own sake]"

I wonder why now days people see winter as more feminine than masculine.  In the past it was "Old Man Winter", now we see winter as a cold-hearted woman.  We says things like "winter's cold embrace" and "her frosty kiss", I don't know what they used to say about Old Man Winter, but everything we say about wibter now is about the same thing.

Ichigo...

Whats so special about Ichigo?  There's a lot.  Sure directly translated Ichigo means strawberry, which by the way is one of my favorite fruits and i pity the poor fellow who has to to try one, but if you disect the word, you get something else.  Ichigo... Ichi - Go... Ichi means one, and Go means five (it could also mean hard, but that's not the point I'm trying to make). Put one and five together and you get... no not six, thats if there's a plus sign , and there isn't,  anyways... you get fifteenth!!!  How?  Ichi = 1  Go = 5  put together and... 15!


How did i come to this conclusion?  Those who read  the manga or watch the anime BLEACH know that the protagonist's name is Ichigo, but Ichigo is a guy... Imagine going to high school with the name strawberry, if you were a guy!  Not only that, gut if you were one of those tough ass kids, anyways he decided his name would be more like fifteen instead of srawberry.

And guess what?!?!?! ...  Have guessed yet?  Well I'm patient so I'm not gonna wait any longer.  My school soccer jersey has the number 15 on it!  Amazing, isn't it?  If only AMSL (local soccer league) jerseys weren't sized by number... 15 would be a large... the best i got was 10... T_T