Noblesse Oblige.

Tousen pretty much just failed going the Hollow route. He got weaker, weirder, uglier, and then dies from an injured vice captain. His Resurrecion did not grant him any abilities other than the ability to see. However, this was the cause of this death. The sudden input of too much optical sensory information distracted his other senses. Hisagi used this break to pierce Tousen in the head. Actually, I felt weird saying that last sentence because Tousen changed completely. "Tousen" is associated with Shinigami, justice, and composed. Yet what Hisagi killed was a crazy delusional Hollow who lost his sense of justice. Anyways now that Tousen is out of the way, hopefully we get to see some Shinji or Gin action. =]

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Danzo got grasped and interrogated by Sasuke. However, at the end it turns out Danzo either casted genjutsu or did a substitution jutsu which made Sasuke's attack null. Naruto starts hyperventilation from the realization that most of his friends gave up on Sasuke. I noticed Sasuke has two reoccurring themes. First, whatever new skill he obtains, he has incredible proficiency over it as he is able to partial transform and shape manipulate. This includes Chidori, Amaterasu, Curse Seal, and Susanoo. Second, since he got handwings from his Curse Seal transformation, he has gotten a replacement after loosing it from Deidara's explosion. He used Snake summoning jutsu to act as a replacement appendage, and now his Susanoo warrior's hands looks exactly the same as the curse Seal wings.

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Komamura's Bankai isn't as weak as it looks, although it has the set back of reflecting whatever damage done on it onto Komamura as well. Tousen gets a slash on Komamura's arm in exchange for getting his arm mangled. Nevertheless, Hollowfication grants him high speed regeneration so he is healed immediately. Tousen realizes that they are pretty much even matched so he ups the ante by revealing his Resurrecion, which spews out darkness similar to his Bankai. Nearby, Shinji and Aizen begin their showdown with Shinji finally releasing his Zanpakutou. Shinji notes that his Zanpakutou also manipulates senses.

Thoughts:
Tousen's Resurrecion was definitely an eye opener, and it brings up the question whether the Visoreds or the other traitor captains can do it as well. I also wonder if they can release their swords while in their Resurrection form - that would be a new level of strength we've never seen before.
Now for Shinji, whenever he does anything it makes me smile. =D Now we find out that his Zanpakutou stand a chance again Aizen and he still can bring out Bankai and Hollowfy. I'm so excited yay. =]

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There's a nice combat between Madara and Fu + Torune. We learn that Fu is from Ino's clan and Torune is from Shino's clan. Their skills appropriately match those from the Yamanaka and Aburame clans. At the cost of his arm from Torune's attack (don't know if this is permanent), Madara manages to get rid of both challengers from the combat zone. Next, he bring from back Sasuke and Karin from another dimension/place using the same jutsu. Now that Sasuke and Danzo are about to showdown, Danzo reveals that his right arm is implanted full of Sharingans. I have no idea not eyeballs in his arm can help in anyway to improve his combat abilities, but we shall see. Anyways, I gotta say is that Danzo is one effed up individual.

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Tousen indeed Hollowfies and he uses this power to overwhelm both Hisagi and Komamura. Hisagi comes back with a counter attack but Tousen stabs him and kicks him off the edge of a building. Komamura responds by going Bankai. Not much happens, we just gotta see Tousen's mask.

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It turns how the thing Sakura couldn't tell Naruto was that she is going to Sasuke herself. As they learn of this Gaara's team arrives to tell them what happened at the summit. At the same time, Madara appears before Danzo. Danzo prepares to fight and tells his guards to cover him while he unseals his right arm.

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