Ooh, the chapter. Aside from my (minor, I promise) rants in various places that it was GINjoutan not KINjoutan (because it was silver and not gold) and about Oomaeda's Kidou not being given a kana reading in any spoiler so I had to wait...
The only part of the chapter I really cared about was Juu.
It's actually made me feel a little better about Juu, especially in terms of him patronising Lili. He's not so much as he's trying to elicit a proper attack from her. He doesn't want to fight her as she is, but he knows its his duty to fight her. He's not underestimating her, he's provoking her. He wants her to pull out that hidden strength that (we presume, maybe not) she has and give him a proper reason to use his.
This suggests to me that he feels she can do better and is prepared for it, or that he hopes she can do better so that he can do his job and eradicate her on even terms. Because Juu believes in fair fights...he's not going to just waste a 'kid' if she's not at least providing a threat. And ol' Yama wouldn't like that...
Barragan and Soi Fon...hrm. I don't necessarily agree that Kidou is useless against him since Kidou has many, many different facets and uses and functions. I guess we'll wait and see.
What was interesting was that Oomaeda hadn't seen Soi Fon's bankai before. Which begs the question...does she literally NEVER use it - has ANYONE seen it before other than when she was appointed Captain? Or is he that recently her VC that he hasn't seen it...?
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on 2009-06-06 06:03 pm (UTC)The only part of the chapter I really cared about was Juu.
It's actually made me feel a little better about Juu, especially in terms of him patronising Lili. He's not so much as he's trying to elicit a proper attack from her. He doesn't want to fight her as she is, but he knows its his duty to fight her. He's not underestimating her, he's provoking her. He wants her to pull out that hidden strength that (we presume, maybe not) she has and give him a proper reason to use his.
This suggests to me that he feels she can do better and is prepared for it, or that he hopes she can do better so that he can do his job and eradicate her on even terms. Because Juu believes in fair fights...he's not going to just waste a 'kid' if she's not at least providing a threat. And ol' Yama wouldn't like that...
Barragan and Soi Fon...hrm. I don't necessarily agree that Kidou is useless against him since Kidou has many, many different facets and uses and functions. I guess we'll wait and see.
What was interesting was that Oomaeda hadn't seen Soi Fon's bankai before. Which begs the question...does she literally NEVER use it - has ANYONE seen it before other than when she was appointed Captain? Or is he that recently her VC that he hasn't seen it...?