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Abarai Renji, Soul of Bankai!

Season 4, Episode 27, Aired Nov 29, 2008

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Ichigo and Renji continue through the Bount's cave. When they see Yumichika, they try to save him and Renji decides to fight Ugaki while Ichigo goes on ahead. Meanwhile, Jin tells Ichigo their plan and why they want to go to Soul Society.moreless

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Masakazu Morita

Kurosaki Ichigo
Fumiko Orikasa

Kuchiki Rukia
Yuki Matsuoka

Inoue Orihime
Noriaki Sugiyama

Ishida Uryuu
Hiroki Yasumoto

Sado
Kentarou Itou

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A pretty bad episode if not for how it ended.

6.5

"Fair"

By ZaleIsBackAgain, May 02, 2011

As always, the fight scenes with the Bounts are extremely underwhelming and are pretty damn boring. Renji's fight with Ubaki and Geselle started off interesting with the whole talk about Renji's desire to fight alone, and then the anime finds a way to screw it up. Same ol' same ol' cat and mouse game. At least Ubaki dies instead of running away to fight another day like the other fights have been. Even Ichigo's small bout with Kariya, which was more like an ass beating, was very lackadaisical. You can tell the animators were trying their hardest to drag things out, like when Ichigo was skidding across the room for unnecessarily long periods of time. The only thing that saves this from being a typical bad episode is the plot twist at the end.moreless
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SO,in this episode Renji and Ichigo run into Yumichika while walking through the cave.Then when Ugaki and Renji engage in battle we finally get to see Geselle's true form.After Renji gets beat up a bit he uses a new move that leads to the death Ugaki.moreless

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By Every1luvsme, Jun 18, 2007

So in this episode Ichigo and Renji run across Yumichika,who is injured.Not soon after Ugaki's doll,Geselle shows it's true form.Then Renji starts a boring speech about regainig his fighting spirit and how he has to fight this battle alone .When he's finished he releases his bankai and attacks Geselle.This doesn't really go that well ,and Renji is ruffed up a little bit before he trys this new move.When Geselle is attacked with this move (she/he)goes crazy and attacks Ugaki,ultamitly killing him.The walls start to cave in and Yumichika decides to go find Renji and tells Ichigo to go on.Ichigo then meets with the rest of the bounto.Jin ,who wants to try out his power attacks Ichigo with brutal force,injuring him severly.while Ichigo is on his back Jin explains his plan to Ichigo,moreless
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Action, Action, Death, Action

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By Wige247, Oct 16, 2006

Awesome episode that has Renji release his bankai and FINALLY kill a bounto\'s puppet. Then we see Ichigo battle Kariya and get handled. Kariya stops Zangetsu twice bear handed, and stops short of killing Ichigo. Kariya wants to test himself so he backs off to let Ichigo release his bankai. We see how powerful Kariya really is in this episode.
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I was not nearly as impressed with this episode; just normal filler banter.

7.7

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By Patchi, Aug 03, 2006

If you're the kind of person that doesn't like filler and the low quality associated with it, then you might not like this episode. I know I didn't.

I'd like to address the minor problems first. For one thing, Yumichika is annoying and his "catchphrase" of commenting on how un-beautiful something is gets very old, fast. Secondly, I flinch every time Renji says "Zabimaru", simply because he says it in the weirdest way possible. In general, his voice is getting on my nerves. But admittedly, these claims have little to do with the overall quality of the episode.

The plot, I'll admit, was decent. We get to see Geselle's true form, and another Bounto is defeated. We even get to see Jin fight a bit. That's great and all, but there are still some glaring annoyances. The main one is regarding the fights: at one point, Renji is hit by Geselle and rolls across the room for like 20 meters. Then, he continues to roll to dodge Geselle's move, to make for an overall rolling scene of a couple of minutes. Way too long, and embarrassing to watch. I got over it, until Ichigo did the exact same thing with Jin. Speaking of the fight with Jin, he was overwhelmingly powerful, and Ichigo couldn't anything at all! The fight was boring - it was just Jin stopping Ichigo's zanpakutou with his finger a few times, until Ichigo falls over.

Now, I'll have to admit something else - these 'annoyances' haven't really affected my rating of the episode. They are, after all, just annoyances. But in the end, the reason ths episode couldn't get any better than a high 7 for me was that it just didn't interest me. They could have done a lot more with the material they had.moreless
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This filler battles are good, and the character development makes the story seem better.

9.1

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By Rukia_Kuchiki, Jul 27, 2006

We finally get to see that the Bountou, even though they are together, they still will betray each other to get there goal. Very good character development for them. It shows that they aren't loyal, but willing to follow. Even Renji has good character development. He finally sees what he is doing wrong and wants to fix it. So he wants a one and one battle with Ugaki doll Geselle.

It is cool that Renji is able easily to defeat the doll, with 20% of his ban-kai, is able to beat this Bountou. We finally find out the Bountous goal, and what is there purpose. It was sort of a shocker, what there plan was. It sets up for a good story, to see what will happen next.moreless
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- Shinigami Golden: Ganju is looking at a maganize, wondering where Hanatoru went and why he has been gone for so long. Ganju pagely randomly, and it is girl in bathing suit. His boss, looks at him oddly, and goes off, thinking Ganju is that type of person.
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- In the opening, it shows Byakuya Kuchiki.
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- Aired on YTV: June 20th, 2009.
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- Japanese Title: 阿散井恋次、魂の卍解！ Romaji Title: Abarai Renji, tamashii no bankai!
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- This is the first ban-kai we get to see in the living world, by Renji.
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- We see Ugaki's doll Gesell's true form.
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