With these strange spirit attacks that border on outright magic, it's no surprise that Kubo's art also enters the realm of stylization and abstraction—after all, the laws of the real world already went out the window early on in the series. Obviously, the more outlandish the attack, the more striking it looks on the page: the middle battle of this volume takes the crown for aesthetics with Zommari's voodoo-like transformation and Byakuya releasing his thousand cherry blossoms, arguably the most elegant bankai of all the major characters. Kubo's natural gift for character design also helps to bring a unique style to each fight: every character has a unique silhouette, whether lanky or stocky or short or tall or somewhere else on that spectrum. And his gift for layout cannot be ignored, either, like the use of white space to help frame a shot in its panel, or the way he lines up panels in parallel—lots of verticals or horizontals in a row—to create a strong visual rhythm few others can duplicate.
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A list of locations where fans can donate money towards relief efforts in Japan following the March 11 earthquake
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