Haha I was just commenting to my friend last week, that when Ran showed up last week with her most prominent asset left off the spine, I said that her boobs would have their own spine this week.
Yay Vizards! And boobs! I quess many of the arrancar will make it to the final cast, though we still are missing some shinigami and also quincy daddy. And what about Tatsuki T-T
Words can not convey my impatience over Tatsuki. I was impatient for MOAR TATSUKI before the HM arc. I was impatient for her character development before she disappeared from the manga altogether. She was just starting to put two and two together and had seen Ichigo running around in his Shinigami duds and she was all moe alone in her room before GJ and his guys made their unimpressive landing and ...
Then Kubo-sensei goes and leaves her off the spine.
My patience has gone beyond wearing thin. I've gone beyond losing my patience. I've gone into mourning and despair over Tatsuki. A wonderful, wonderful character so neglected.
*weeps*
Maybe the day Orihime remembers her is day Kubo-sensei will too. *sigh*
I can't stop thinking of the comment someone made about that B/W sketch of the Bleach girls KT did for the 2008 calendar: Orihime was hugging Rukia and Tatsuki stood off to the side looking grumpy. That person said that she didn't like the subtext of this pic because it implied that Orihime had ditched Tatsuki for Rukia. DDD:
Maybe the short arc will be about what Tats and Co. are up to?
The character abandonment felt like as if Toriyama forgot about Videl during the Boo saga simply because she didn't have shiny over 9000 powerlevel Sayian power rather than actually have a good reason to drop her out of the main plot. As a Tatsuki fan, I feel absolutly cheated.
Depends on how many WSJ issues come out this year, I'd say, which would be 40-50 issues total. Unless the spine is longer than that, but I assume it was made for one year's worth of WSJ issues.