Since I can’t think of any other way to commence this entry, I’ll start by saying that I finished Volume II of Churchill’s book. I took a lot less time to finish this volume than I did the first, and I don’t really know the implications of this, if any, but I’m proud of myself nevertheless, because this way I’ll be able to finish the entire series, all six volumes, before 12th grade ends and the fate of those books is thrown into jeopardy. Volume III is in worse shape than the first two, there being conspicuous evidence of a bookworm infestation on the cover and in its pages—well, more than the other two, at least. There’re perfectly round holes going right through the book. Well, they’re over 45 years old, and spent most, if not all of these years in a city like Calcutta on a forgotten bookshelf in a derelict house, so what else could one expect?
Speaking of books, the Jinnah book is excellent—although there are many typos and such errors, but they can be attributed to the publisher’s negligence without a second thought. The layout isn’t my concern, however. It’s the content, which has been presented in a very professional manner. It’s elaborate without being verbose, and by all means interesting to the last punctuation mark. Maybe I’m exaggerating somewhat over here, but still. One needs to make concessions for such things. The inexplicable and unwarranted prejudices of the Indian public are making them lose out on this.
I read Bleach 375 a few hours after posting my previous entry. I was pretty baffled by the turn of events. Starrk seemed dead enough to be considered dead, which was surprising, since Kyoraku seemed to have overpowered him without any noticeable difficulty and with only his Shikai release. The two Vizard who had been trying to take on Starrk in the interim, however, got a serious ass-whopping and didn’t inflict even a little damage on Starrk. Juxtaposing this battle with the other two Espada-battles of the fake Karakura Town, Starrk appears to be hugely overrated in his position as the Primera Espada. It’s either that or Kyoraku’s leagues ahead of Captains Soifon and Hitsugaya, the former having received invaluable help from the Vizard Hachigen apart from having used two rounds of her Bankai release to defeat Barragan, while the latter, even with the assistance of two Vizard, was unable to defeat Halibel. A hundred to one Starrk’s not dead yet and will reemerge a hundred times more terrible than before. In the meantime, however, the Tercera Espada seems to have become redundant, as Aizen seemed to have seen it when he disposed of her without a second thought and bade Gin and Tousen follow him to battle—or something to that effect. What I don’t get is why he would replace Halibel with two people whose combined power wouldn’t have been a match for hers. Gin was obviously on the point of losing the battle he had drawn Hitsugaya into, even if he wasn’t apparently serious about it. His stats confirm this: his is a total of 480 points, which is, needless to say, mediocre. Tousen, on the other hand, is even weaker. He lost terribly to Zaraki, and I’m sure he couldn’t have been hiding anything, since he was on the verge of being killed back then, having already released his Bankai and everything. So what was Aizen thinking when he killed Halibel (one can assume she’s dead, since it’s Aizen who cut her) and replaced her with Gin and Tousen? Or was it simply a case of prejudices, he, as a Soul Reaper despite having defected, being understandably averse to Hollows; or being more inclined to Gin and Tousen, having known them for long. Somehow he doesn’t seem the kind of person to be blinded by emotional bonds. I’ve reached no definite conclusion regarding this. I’m confused.
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