I wanted to yap a bit about bleach EP 45

Bleach thousand year war ep 45

I'm just gonna say it.
This is the greatest episode in anime history.
The direction. The animation. The payoff. The sheer weight behind every single moment. You can FEEL the years of buildup finally crashing down on us.

Kubo really looked at a manga ending that got rushed because of circumstances, waited a FULL decade, and said: “Don't worry. I'll fix it in the anime.”
And HE DID. 😭

And what is wild is that the manga ended exactly 10 years ago on August 22, 2016
and exactly 10 years forward we get Life to defend you.

Tite Kubo you are the goat ToT
As a manga reader, I was not expecting this much of action, hype and aura farming from all the characters in this 1 ep.

Once again Bleach reminding us why they are one of the big three. Also uh... my soul is crushed fams. I've been tearing up too much ._.
In case you all wanted the version of the song that was used for our queen's final play.
9Lana did an acoustic version that is basically the slower version which was released 4 hours ago at time of this post.

Listen to the beautiful slow pain ending here
https://youtu.be/xsBQtngzcSs?si=B5nK7i0ieB5rIRqz

She did such an amazing job in portraying the anguish and pain in this version.
Similar to how Lisa sings Shirushi for Demon slayer mugen train.
I got a new song to cry to now ToT [I kept sobbing for a few hours here and there www]

I'll... get to uploading in patreon the bleach marathon that we did soonish T.T