DRN Member Rank: Hollow Joined: 02/20/09 Posts: 326

It's not a case of never knowing; its a case of never being told, and to have certain information withheld just means that you, as a reader, are entitled - and indeed, in many cases, invited - to make a judgement for yourself. Take, for example, Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road', where the wasted America that makes the background of the story is never explained, which lets the reader project his/her own ideas onto the landscape, or Moshin Hamid's 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist', which plays off ambiguity to raise central issues of prejudice and the way in which we treat each other. Yeah.

BACavewynter Member Rank: Earthbound Spirit Joined: 09/05/08 Posts: 85

If I am not mistaken Hollows feed off of souls and other hollows. It's how they get their power. I believed this is explained in the first arc. Then further explained during Grimmjow's final sequence just before getting sliced by Ichi.

SlayDay Member Rank: Seated Officer Joined: 11/11/08 Posts: 420

Quote: Originally posted by DRN It's not a case of never knowing; its a case of never being told, and to have certain information withheld just means that you, as a reader, are entitled - and indeed, in many cases, invited - to make a judgement for yourself. Take, for example, Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road', where the wasted America that makes the background of the story is never explained, which lets the reader project his/her own ideas onto the landscape, or Moshin Hamid's 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist', which plays off ambiguity to raise central issues of prejudice and the way in which we treat each other. Yeah. Wow thanks for the literary reference, to go along with that you can also look at Jose Saramago's, Blindness, where characters are given quite vague descriptions and while reading the book you really get a sense of blindness, but learn to imagine your own world behind it all and it was fantastic, but that doesn't stop me from wanting the author or in this case KT to explain their story/manga in greater detail

DRN Member Rank: Hollow Joined: 02/20/09 Posts: 326

Ah, that book sounds good, I'll look into it. I really like the idea of "reading" a book about Blindness; it sounds like my cup of tea. Heh, I'm a very..."non-elitist" literature student, and besides, I'm currently studying post-modernism, which encourages us to see no literature as free from literary analysis...so I get a kick out of analysing Bleach every now and again. The lack of a impermeable boundary between Shinigami/Hollow (as exemplified by Vaizards and Arrancar) is symptomatic of contemporary society's inability to situate the us/them boundary in any permanent location. This difficulty is played out in the lack of an explicit demonstration of a "bad guy" character's final resting place. The ambiguity of the text questions whether we - or anyone for that matter - are in a position to judge them; for that implies a guilty/innocent binary opposition that really is inconsistent with the shape of the world today. ...

Aeor Member Rank: Seated Officer Joined: 05/03/09 Posts: 495

Quote: Originally posted by DRN Ah, that book sounds good, I'll look into it. I really like the idea of "reading" a book about Blindness; it sounds like my cup of tea. Heh, I'm a very..."non-elitist" literature student, and besides, I'm currently studying post-modernism, which encourages us to see no literature as free from literary analysis...so I get a kick out of analysing Bleach every now and again. The lack of a impermeable boundary between Shinigami/Hollow (as exemplified by Vaizards and Arrancar) is symptomatic of contemporary society's inability to situate the us/them boundary in any permanent location. This difficulty is played out in the lack of an explicit demonstration of a "bad guy" character's final resting place. The ambiguity of the text questions whether we - or anyone for that matter - are in a position to judge them; for that implies a guilty/innocent binary opposition that really is inconsistent with the shape of the world today. ... So what you're basically saying is that Aizen isn't evil, he's just...misunderstood?

DRN Member Rank: Hollow Joined: 02/20/09 Posts: 326

I'm saying that "the death of the author is the birth of the reader", which means that Aizen is whatever you want him to be ;) Yeah, I think the next issue will definitely be debating Aizen's Total Hypnosis in the context of Barthes' 'Death of the Author Essay'

Aeor Member Rank: Seated Officer Joined: 05/03/09 Posts: 495

That being said, I'm betting Hinamori is a post-modernist.

OtakuSith Member Rank: Captain Joined: 12/26/05 Posts: 1083

Seriously? Lets just go back to saying omg he rules and omg he sucks and omfg that was so cool and awesome! or have we gone too far?

Gainrrom Member Rank: Plus Soul Joined: 04/02/09 Posts: 95

Aizen is whatever I want him to be? Good, let's make him a pony. Pink, cute and sugary. Oh, and I want Mayuri to be my grandmother so she can cook me poisonous cookies that I'll feed my dog with.

nizonizo99 Member Rank: Vice-Captain Joined: 09/01/07 Posts: 775

mayuri made so many experiments on himself i dont think its safe for him to reproduce

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