This episode was not one of the best but it definitely was better than other fillers. I liked it but I wasn't like OMG it is so cool! The fight between sode no shirayuki and Rukia was kinda boring. It was because Rukia couldn't actually do anything without her zanpakutou. I think she is useless without her zanpakutou. But at least I know now why Sode no Shirayuki is the most beautiful zanpakutou in Soul Society. She really is beautiful. I liked it when Ichigo came by. Now that was fun. How he cares about Rukia. So so sweet. But that Muramasa guy really is the worst. I hate that Byakuya is still missing.
Rukia returns to find her brother but runs into her zanpaktou Sode no shirayuki and a major fight breaks out.
Now i won't ruin the fight for you but i will tell you the highlights. first of all Sode no shirayuki has way more fighting abillity in her ture form then she did in her sword form. This tells us us that the power level of the zanpaktou's in their ture forms is differant from that of their soul reaper masters.
The battle ends in a draw with buetiful preformance by Rukia. Now to me it seemed a little to chick flickey but still good. The Two things that I liked in this episode is the Set-up and the Reaction.
SET-UP: from the begining of this arc Sode no shirayuki had a big part which lead to her chasing Rukia to the real world and forshadowing their fight agaist eachother, but what was more interesting is that their fight is what leads Ichigo to the soul society and in the next episode he'll probaly lose his zanpaktou too. The plot is very well set and not over done or draged out like it is with the other fillar arc's.
REACTION: The veiw points between soul reaper and Zanpaktou were intease. I can only asume that they will all be intease but also differant. This fillar arc has only had three episodes but i'm already addicted to it more then the regular story line.