English Dub Review: Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War “Friend”

Overview:

Haschwalth finds himself confronted by Bazz-B.

Our Take:

Bazz-B wasn’t one of my favorites, but I like Xander Mobus, who voices him. I wasn’t aware that he and Haschwalth were as close as they were. I’m going to be honest: The everyday life of Quincy and Soul Reapers is a bit confusing to me. They’re born and have a childhood but then once they grow up aren’t they immortal? I could be wrong and not understand this series at all but that was what I thought they were.

I bring that up because we learned that Bazz-B and Haschwalth were essentially childhood friends and wanted to get close to Yhwach to kill him. Later when they were older Yhwach foresaw that Haschwalth would be his “right hand” and betrayed Bazz-B. I do wonder if there won’t be a betrayal down the line where it turns out that Haschwalth was playing Yhwach the whole time.

I’ll be honest this has been an interesting season of this show to review. I like the backstory we’re getting on certain characters and how even minor characters are getting developed. But Ichigo is one of my favorite anime protagonists ever and we have barely gotten any time with him this season. Going back to his new power-up he got at the end of last season we haven’t gotten to see him use it much.