Lots of filler episodes for the Bleach Series. Kind of disappointed… I just hope they won’t be following Naruto’s trend of having a whole season full of filler episodes.

Anyway~ Let’s move on to Bleach 134: The Beautiful Patissier, Yumichika!

The episode begins with a task from General Yamamoto-Genrysai Shigekuni, Captain of the 1st Division. According to him, they wanted to gather some data from the Arrancar battle field in order to improve the release rate of the Shinigami in the real world. Captain Kurotsuchi Mayuri thought it was a rather, boring job, so he assigns the task to the people below him.

No one wanted to go and do the tedious work, but surprisingly, Tsubokura Rin, the shy, young researcher, volunteered. He was to also give Madarame Ikkaku a set of replacement molars during his trip.

Rin meets up with Yamada Hanatarou as his bodyguard and companion. It was rather funny to see them together, as they not only look alike, but have the same mannerisms as well.

Hanatarou and Rin go to Urahara’s Shop as their base. Urahara Kisuke was already expecting them and told Ayasegawa Yumichika to accompany them to the battle grounds as per Hitsugaya Toushirou’s orders. Yumichika hates having to go through such errands, but complies in the end since it was from a Captain’s Order.

Rin has brought a couple of weird looking devices (or could they actually be living creatures?) with him from Soul Society, including a “Soul Projector” that allows humans to see the Shinigami without needing to have a faux body. He uses the soul projector to buy a cake (his true intention for going through with the tedious task), and meets an earth bound soul in the bakery. Yumichika wanted to perform the Soul Burial at once, but Rin and Hanatarou stopped him, wanting to here the baker’s reason for not moving on.

An unusually long Soul Chain allowed the baker, Momoyama Heita, to go almost anywhere, unlike most earth-bound souls who are trapped in only one place. He tells the group that he died in an accident in front of the bakery, and, even though his mother prays for him everyday to move on, he was bound to earth because of his one wish… To let his mom taste one of the cakes he made.

Rin pleaded the group to help the baker in creating a cake in his place, as after all, it was about cake! Urahara was able to provide them with a kitchen and ingredients, and Yumichika, who was skeptical until he saw how beautiful he looked on a chef’s uniform, decided to helped out.

It was pretty obvious that none of them have ever baked a cake before. Heita was frustrated in instructing the three of them left and right, Rin taste-testing too much, Hanataro having a hard time beating eggs, and Yumichika slicing strawberries.

They succeeded in creating their first cake, but still needed to taste test it before they could make a new one and give it to Heita’s Mom. Since none of them had ever tasted a cake before, they had to look for someone to do the… honors…

Sado and Renji became the unfortunate victims of various, horrible tasting cakes. It got to such a sad point that they were now hiding from Ururu whenever she came down to their training ground for a new cake taste test.

Frustrated and since they ran out ingredients, Heita was close to giving up on ever getting a perfect cake. But when the team found out that Heita’s Mom was moving the following morning, they got serious in their work, and was finally able to achieve 2 perfect cakes! Heita couldn’t be happier and excitedly awaited for his mom to arrive outside the bakery he used to work.

Upon presenting the cake, however, Heita’s Mom became upset. The loss of her son made her unable to eat cakes. There was simply too much sadness in the remembrance of her son that she refused to accept the cake Ayasegawa and the rest made.

This infuriated Heita and his anger made the chain in his chest loose. His reiatsu attracted a Menos Grande. A heated battle begins as Yumichika does his best to fight off the Menos. Hanatarou was more concern with Heita and his mom. Heita’s anger was causing him to lose himself as a human soul and he began attacking his Mom..! If they didn’t do anything, Heita would surely become a hollow!

Fearing there was no choice, Hanatarou took a gamble and used his Zanpakutou, the Hisagomaru to Heita’s heart. Hanatarou’s Zanpakutou absorbed Heita’s injury, healing him, and Heita releases the absorbed energy towards the Menos Grande. A second slash from Ayasegawa’s Zanpakutou, Fuji Kujaku and the battle was over.

When Heita awoke, he was back to his old self again. Rin’s Soul Projector suddenly came out and Heita’s Mom was able to see him. She was so happy to see her son again that she was able to accept that the cake Yumichika and the others made. She fulfilled her son’s last wish and enjoyed the cake they made.

All’s all that ends well in this episode… I just wonder when the fillers will ever end. T_T It was rather funny how gullible Ikkaku is though. In the Shinigami Cup, Rin accidentally crushed Ikkaku’s replacement molars, and Rin left a message saying “only fools cannot see these molars” and he believed it… xD Lolz~ Haha~

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