As Mashiro watches the last Espada fall, she notices Wonderweiss starting to twitch, so she kicks him again. Wonderweiss refuses to die and the fight continues rather comically, until Mashiro’s mask time runs out and she’s injured heavily. But Kensei comes to her rescue. After putting her down somewhere safe he fights Wonderweiss.

After a few punches, Kensei goes Bankai, ‘Tekken Tachikaze’. They then charge at each other with explosive effects.

Finally everyone gathers to fight Aizen. Hiyori yells out angerily at him, but he keeps smiling. He then taunts Hiyori into attacking and she rushes out. But before she can reach Aizen, Gin shoots out his sword and brutally wounds Hiyori from behind. Shinji catches Hiyori as she falls and remembering Orihime’s healing powers he screams for Ichigo to come quicker.

Back in hueco mundo Ichigo leaves Ishida and Orihime on the roof to rush back into Las Noches to face Yammy.

Renji, Sado and Rukia fail to make a scratch on Yammy and Renji and Sado are both taken down. Rukia tries to run but Yammy catches her. She fires a kido into his face, but that irritates him into throwing her into the ground.

We see Ichigo speeding to Rukia’s rescue and the episode ends.

Aizen didn’t even move! Well apart from those arrogant lips of his that won’t shut up about how everything’s in his calculations. So much for Aizen starting to fight, if anything Gin started to fight, even more so than before. This is expected I guess, no Aizen fighting, or even moving, for at least a couple of episodes is the most probable outcome. Especially when we’re finally back in hueco mundo now. And it’s Ichigo to the heroic rescue as usual. Though he won’t be staying long, but I’ll say no more on that.

So a few issues I’ve got with this episode. First thing, at the start of the episode when Halibel was falling where’d the wound go? I mean look at all that blood, but no sign of any wound? I’m guessing that’s just a stupid mistake on their part, because she’s more than likely dead now. Second thing, which will contains spoilers, so you’ve been warned. If you read the manga, you’ll know that Hiyori was bifurcated by Gin. And as with all bleach over the top injuries they are going to be censored in the anime, but seriously I never expected the censoring to be this bad. From bifurcation to a stab wound? Seriously, at least let Gin cut slice a bit of her, a stab wound is hardly anything fatal for soul reapers, I’m sure any soul reaper have had their fair share of stab wounds and easily recovered in a few days. But you can’t heal bifurcation that easily. They just ruined the severity of the wound so badly.

Also, I can’t remember that well but was Mashiro really beaten by one punch in the face? That can’t be right can it? This is my opinion, but I think, Kubo took her out of the picture quickly so he didn’t have to think of a new Shikai ability for her as he doesn’t have one in mind. How’s that for a theory? Either that or Mashiro’s a little too weak, after all that kicking power she’s got you’d expect her to survive a punch.

Well anyway, as I said before back in hueco mundo now. Big Yammy vs Ichigo. Wonder how that’ll go. Probably all hueco mundo next episode and it’ll be really stretched as well so they take as long as possible to get back to Aizen against everyone. Well I’m prepared for a long wait and you should be too.