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aurora-313 · 10 months

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I would DM you, but if you decide to answer I think what you will say will interest more people than just me.

Do you think that Rukia's blind believe in Ichigo's greatness and goodness was because of Kaien and Ichigo's resemblence with him?

And if so, when did she truly started to see him as a separate person?

To me it seems that she gets attached to Ichigo to hard to soon, two months isn't really believable. I could get him, he's a teen and she has literally fallen from the sky and saved him from depression. Ichigo's defining moment was his inability to save his mother, his protectoress from death, him saving Rukia feels a bit as bookends, and actually the great personal stakes and this is personal battles were after that supplanted by over -the-top shonen paint by numbers battle scenes.

At the beginning both Rukia and Ichigo were people with a lot of emotional baggage.

This is a very layered question.

Rukia does see echoes of Kaien in Ichigo but that's not unique. Everyone of note in Soul Society's arc does, which is unsurprising because those qualities; the impetuousness, the moral virtue, the ferocious determination to follow that morality through to the bitter end in defiance of edicts and convention - they're all defining traits in the Shiba family. In the Kurosaki family too but ignoring that.

But I don't think Rukia latched onto Ichigo specifically because he looked like Kaien, though that might've been a tertiary factor. Especially in the case of Byakuya choosing to spare his life pointedly because of that resemblance. At the same time, I wouldn't be shocked to learn Rukia subconsciously saw Ichigo as her second chance.

A post by @kodoku-no-maria which posits the theory that Ichigo was originally intended to be Kaien's reincarnation before Bleach's story got lost up its own ass best encapsulates this idea. I quote their specific comparison:

She [Rukia] was afraid when Kaien died

She was brave when she met Ichigo

She ran away (Kaien)

She took action (Ichigo)

She couldn’t save Kaien from a hollow

She saved Ichigo from a hollow

She pierced Kaien with her sword and he died

She pierced Ichigo with her sword and he, you could say, was born

Her sword couldn’t save Kaien

Her sword saved Ichigo

She couldn’t be of any help to Kaien, felt powerless

She became the source of Ichigo’s power

Ichigo and Rukia both had extraordinary amounts of baggage at the start of the series, and through their brief interactions over two months (two months where she's been living in his bedroom wardrobe mind you), Rukia helped Ichigo by giving him the power he's always wanted to protect others, but helping him confront his demons and his mother's murderer. While it seems fairly one way initially, we need to take a revelation made in the SS arc into account.

The one thing that Rukia has always craved since being adopted into the Kuchiki clan, and the one thing Kaien and Ichigo gave her during their respective times with her, is normalcy.

Even when Rukia met the Shiba kin for the first time. When greeting Kaien, he responded with 'WTF was that?! I'm your XO ya little runt! Show some respect!"

When Rukia happened upon Ichigo's room, "WTF?! You're a crappy burglar! Get the hell outtta here!'

Both very normal reactions for the situations.

In those two months in the living world, Rukia wasn't the Kuchiki's leader's adopted sister; she wasn't an adopted noble expected to maintain some vaunted flaccid sense of hypocritical propriety; no expectations of any kind. She was an ordinary teenager going to an ordinary high school, living an ordinary life with occasional bouts of supernatural thrown in. Even though Rukia knew those days would inevitably come to an end, those two months would've been an absolute dream for her, where theoretically her biggest worry would've been an occasional hollow and finishing homework. I'd go so far as to claim it was a sinful indulgence considering the burden of her self-perceived sins.

And when Ichigo infamously blocked the Sokyoku, the blade as powerful as a million Zanpakutou, it was one of the first steps in helping Rukia recognise - or rediscover the value of her life. And later on when she defeats Aaroniero, she remembers a lesson and accepts that fact that Kaien had entrusted his heart to her, and that heart cannot live on if she values herself so little.

To summarise my longwinded ramble:

Rukia and Ichigo were mutual catalysts for each getting over their own individual traumas and moving on to live healthy, happy and productive lives, absolved of the perceived guilts and tragedies that used to weigh them down.

#ichigo kurosaki #rukia kuchiki #kaien shiba #bleach #my rambling

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doctorofmagic · 3 years

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My thoughts on What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?

The very title of the episode sends a shiver down my spine. And this is where we’re going to start.

~ long post under the cut ~

A year ago, I wrote this post as an attemp to dive into one of the most important traits in Doctor Strange’s personality: love. Stephen is a being made of love, made to love, no matter which interpretation you have when you watch Infinity War. If you don’t read comic books, you’ll understand the moment you meet Donna. You’ll begin to understand how her death reshaped his entire subjectivity out of fear of failing, being powerless and unable to control everything around him (especially death), thus the arrogant and yet a disaster of a man we all know.

Where do I even start? Stephen loved her sister deeply and felt responsible for her death. And then, slowly, he also lost his parents and his brother. He fell in love with Clea but he also pushed her away. He loved Zelma platonically and lied to her, which was enough for them to break their bond. He felt attracted to Kanna but screwed things up, even though they remain friends. He was forced to kill the Ancient One, the only father figure he had ever since his father died. And lastly, the only person who would never leave his side... also left. Yes, even Wong. Stephen has SO much love to give but he’s also afraid because he’s cursed. He truly believes his love in poison. And would you look at that? What If really delivered a story where this is actually true.

What If Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?

The level of understanding when it comes to the character is... inconceivable. What could possibly reshape Stephen into following a dark path but love? The very premise of the whole episode. This is so much more than a love letter. This is literally too much, in all senses.

Fine, let’s begin.

What if the best of intentions has very strange consequences?

No. You used the word “strange” for the pun but this is not the word. Nah-ah. I’d go with ATROCIOUS, for starters. Things are gonna escalate so quickly, my friends.

Seriously, tho? Christine is SO SO SO SO beautiful, they’re so cute together. I have this feeling that MCU!Stephen was quite toxic because of his arrogance and this is why they didn’t work out. But WhatIf!Stephen???????? He’s always praising her, teasing her in a healthy way, respecting her and listening to her. HE TRULY LOVES HER, I’M GONNA CRY ALL OVER AGAIN, PLEASE, NOT THE CRÈME BRÛLÉE, PLEASE

I’m going to leave this shot here because we need to go back to it later. Hold that thought.

And bonus points to “Yeah, well, I would call that quite remarkable.” / “Well, I would say the same about you.”

GODS. THE PAIN. STOP THE PAIN.

So in this reality, Stephen didn’t caused the car accident because he was checking his phone while driving. Also it was not the reckless attempt to pass the truck. Well, maybe it was the consequence of this act? The fact is, the car behind them loses control, which makes them crash. Does it matter? We’ll learn later that no, it doesn’t.

And yep... Christine dies. Have you noticed the shattered heart? Ah, the pain only gets better and better.

Again, Stephen blames himself. More than anything, this is so important because Stephen is all about guilt. We still need to meet Donna so we can add yet another layer of guilt. But the feeling exists. This is what corrupts Stephen’s heart and soul in all his iterations. This is what makes him the character I love so much. I love this SO. MUCH. In addition, his stubbornness to accept his condition. Man won’t take a no. This, this is Doctor Strange in character. Stop complaining about NWH Stephen, it’s pathetic.

Okay, “grief-stricken”, Stephen found the Mystic Arts and became a sorcerer. That’s when he learned about the Time Stone, the Eye of Agamotto and Dormammu. Nothing changes, he saves the universe. But time does not heal his deepest wound.

I love Wong so much. Every time Wong does something, the world is healed. Really. We’re going back to him as well but for now I’ll just leave this shot.

BUT STEPHEN, DOING SOMETHING RECKLESS? HE’D NEVAH

Aaaaaaaannnnnnd then he did.

He goes back in time. It’s been two years since he lost Christine. I think he reacted pretty nicely, despite the circumstances. Now let’s go back to that shot I said I was saving for later.

Stephen is so light-hearted here. Also, during the first time he lost Christine, he had no idea what “The Price is Right” was. He knows now, which means he probably tried to learn more about the show because of her, because of grief. HAHAHA MORE PAIN

AND THEN HE

AND THEN SHE DIES AGAIN

AND THEN HE KEEPS GOING BACK IN TIME

AND SHE KEEPS DYING

AND THE MUSIC

AND HIS VOICE

AND HE TRIES TO CHANGE FATE BUT IT CAN’T BE AVERTED

HE EVEN TRIES TO STAY AWAY FROM HER LIFE BUT SHE DIES ALL THE SAME, WHY

AND EVERY TIME THEY CRASH, HE FEELS THE PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL PAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, WHY

I’M-- *ugly sobbing noises*

Apparently, not.

And this scene when he simply... closes his eyes before she dies again...?

This is where this episode had me in endless tears. It got me the four times I watched it. I’m dead serious.

Okay, so, next the Ancient One appears to Stephen, explaining that Christine’s death is an Absolute Point in time. It cannot be changed. Stephen needs the accident to become the Sorcerer Supreme and defeat Dormammu.

And this is where Stephen starts his journey into darkness. “Nothing is impossible, you taught me that. I only require more power.” Disobeying the Ancient One, Stephen then travels in time, seeking the Library of Cagliostro. Now, if you’re not aware of that, Cagliostro was a sorcerer who studied time in comics, and later became Sise-Neg (there’s a recent post on this because of the new Defenders run). It’s funny to think that Sise-Neg also destroyed the world when he became a god, however he grew past his pettiness and remade reality. Stephen did not possess such power, as we’re about to see.

PS: “Stop torturing yourself, Stephen.” Naur but he should use this line like a mantra. Especially comics!Stephen.

Not gonna lie, tho. This place reminds me of the Temple of the Vishanti from T&T (of course I was going to insert T&T somewhere, it’s me).

And of course they’d go for a pun with his name haha. I don’t know how to feel about this, tho. I feel like the episode is too heavy and dark for comedy. But it is what it is.

Okay but why some books are in cages??????????? And wow, it seems Cagliostro also gathered knowledge about several fields of magic.

And then Stephen learns that, in order to break an Absolute Point, he needs to absorb more power. This is when I went “oh-oh, here we go”.

And for real, is this Shuma-Gorath? Why are they keeping his name a secret? Is this the same creature from the first episode with Captain Carter, right? RIGHT? It has to be Shuma-Gorath.

Of course he tries to be polite and ends up all hurt haha. O’Bengh warns him about love but he will not listen. “Love can break more than your heart. It can shatter your mind.”/ “Is she worth the pain?”. Please, this is Stephen. He eats pain for breakfast.

Also, also, let’s take a break. We’re finally going to get monsterf0cker tentacle-lover Stephen Strange. It will cost us everything but here we goooooooooooo (yes, I went frame by frame for your more obscure fanservice needs)

Gods, I love this sequence so much it hurts. Okay, here we go.

Shmebulock???????????

AND HE STOLE THE CAPE??????????? AND DREW THE LINE ON BUGS??????

The grasp this man is holding on me right now...

Some of you will understand. I’m with you.

And here are the grostesque ones. These are hard to take SS but I had to.

Animation, sound effects, OST? CHEF’S KISS TO ALL

And lastly... the tentacles. Yeah, if you’re new... this is a thing.

Fanservice. Fanservice everywhere. (low-key the reason I also waited to write this review, I wanted to enjoy this part so badly but I was too sad for that lmao)

Okay so. O’Bengh is suddenly OLD and DYING, until we realize that Stephen spent CENTURIES absorbing mystic beings. CENTURIES. WTF STEPHEN. He had nothing in mind but the goal to save Christine. And people wonder why he went insane???? I’m sorry, O’Bengh, but I can’t take you serious when you still call Stephen Sorcerer Armani. Oh, and also because you watched him absorb beings for centuries in silence lmao. But I guess I have to because you said that Stephen is split in two since the Ancient One cast a spell on him, splitting the timelines and making them exist in the same reality before he could travel back in time. I know, it’s complex. Anything for the plot.

And now good!Stephen has an evil!twin who wants to absorb him back in order to become whole and break the Absolute Point. Cool.

I said I wanted to talk more about Wong because I think people are not talking about him enough. Wong is so important in this episode. He’s the one who’s trying to heal Stephen after Christine. He’s Stephen’s anchor.

Also, THEY FINALLY USED A SPELL WITH THE NAME OF THE VISHANTI. HOORAAAAY

So, for the sake of our understanding, I’m addressing the characters as evil and good!Stephen. Let’s go. Evil!Stephen summons good!Stephen and gods, he still holds such a strong grasp on me... unbelievable. THE DEEPER VOICE BENEDICT USES???? PLEASE, DIDN’T WE HAVE ENOUGH?

Imagine his strength to hold so many beings inside him, fighting to control him. BRO, THIS IS TOO TOO MUCH

Fine, I’ll not post SS about the fight because I’d be here all night long but I WILL say this: NOT CLOAKIE!!!!! NAAAAAAAAAAUR

Also if you ask me if I recognize any of the spells? Maaaaybe the Flames of Faltine, the not-so-crimson Bands of Cyttorak and a little trick Magik does with her portals. That’s how far I go.

I’ll not comment on the “seducing yourself to stay in the trap”. I will not. I’ll just say that the first person Stephen thought of when “Christine” was talking about the crème brûlée was Wong. That’s it.

And finally evil!Stephen absorbs good!Stephen and releases... UNLIMITED POWER (I love when the stone goes red as if it was bleeding aaaaaaa)

I can fix him...

This scene here? Poetic cinema. (I love his wings so much)

And when Stephen says her name and the other monsters’ voices echo “Christine”, AAAAAACKKKK

AND OF COURSE CHRISTINE WOULD FREAK OUT, BRO. LOOK AT WHAT YOU’VE BECOME BECAUSE OF YOUR TWISTED LOVE. I’M NOT DOING FINE.

Oh, but it’s too late anyways because Stephen broke reality haha. This scene is interesting because Stephen is the only one who sensed and/or talked to the Watcher until now. I read an interview that the Watcher kinda showed up but it’s also about Stephen’s keen senses. Bit of both, let’s say. Still, man, 616-Watcher is not that cold. 616-Watcher would watch this and say “how about I intervene anyway?”. WhatIf!Watcher is brutal.

The way Christine looks at Stephen one last time also KILLS ME, DESTROYS ME, BREAK ME INTO A MILLION PIECES.

And this is where my soul left my body.

This is how they end the episode. This is how you leave me speechless and with teary eyes. This is how you give me a whole existential crisis.

This... this was brutal to watch. Really.

What can I say after this? I’m used to reading painful things when it comes to Stephen. Aaron’s and Cates’ runs are heartbreaking on so many levels. Hickman’s New Avengers is not easier. Coincidentally, What If? Magik Became Sorcerer Supreme and The End. And now Death of Doctor Strange. And yet, after everything I’ve been through, I’d never expect to watch something so brilliant, so tragic, so heartbreaking and unexpected in the MCU. Never. This is top tier content and this is my favorite character with SO MANY LAYERS and SO MUCH UNDERSTANDING. I can’t put into words how meaningful this whole episode is to me, or how deep it touched my heart and soul.

I’ve been struggling to find the proper words since then, I still can’t. All I can add is, I cried for the 4th time now. This is too, too much, even for Stephen stans. Even for the ones who are used to pain, regardless of which media you’re into: comic books, live actions or animated movies. This is literally more than I can take and yet I’m so, so grateful. The voice acting, gods, how did Benedict manage to create a better Stephen than the one he’s literally playing in real life???????????? HOW

This episode really took the max potential Stephen had to offer as a character, added tons and tons of layers based on his grief, depression, arrogance and need to control everything and created a tragic masterpiece. In 7 years of being a Doctor Strange fan, I've never read or watch something that could go this deep into the character. The closest I can think of is Mr. Misery and the metaphor of Stephen's depression. This is a whole new level of respect and understanding. This is more than a love letter. This is peak maestry. It’s perfect, it’s heartbreaking, it’s... gods, I can’t.

Sorry for dragging you until this far. Before I wrap up this review, I just wanted to remind you all that Stephen will appear again, he will smile again, he will be surrounded by people again. So this is not the end. It was painful but be brave. We still have a few more steps to take.

#what if...?#doctor strange #stephen strange #what if doctor strange lost his heart instead of his hands?#wong #christine palmer #the ancient one #long post #review #he did nothing wrong #so what? he destroyed a whole universe #/j #benedict cumberbatch

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hezuart · 3 years

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That anaversary aizen looks absolutely fabulous, he looks like a figure skater xd.

I heard along time ago the last arc of the anime was being animated finally bc they pulled a 90s sailor moon were the last season was not either animated or dubbed untill decades later.

I recall near the end of the current 366 episodes there was an episode were the creapy demon ppl woke up in hell and we're all bitter, and there was the other guy who was like, iM cOmEiNg FoR u IChIgO, but then is never mentioned again after and I'm like,why? Why is lt there just plopted randomly into a different arc that seams unrelated.

And locking aizen up underground seems ok, but It deff won't hold, and he will. Escape, and he will kill, you either need that one spell from star, dubbed, the darkest spell of moon the undaunted, a powerfull dark spell that killed immortal beings, that came from best character, eclipsa, the queen of darkness.

We need that.

Or stick him I'm crystal like eclipsa was in star. Is there no one who could trap him in ice or crystal for all eternity.

How about throw him into the centre of a volcano trapped and caged , forverr being killed by heat?

I assume there's space travel, send I'm into a black whole, were a black whole don't fuckin care if your immortal or fat, you will die

Yes, I love anniversary Aizen. His original octopus-butterfly hollow design was ugly so I'm glad he's back to being the fashion icon he is.

Locking Aizen up underground once is one thing, doing it twice after saying he got more powerful by just sitting there, and he escaped to battle the Quincy Soul King God... is another. I think he should have escaped at the end of the Quincy arc. That is the only feasibility.

I heard the anime is coming back for the Quincy arc as well, but because of COVID its probably going to be delayed. (I'm not gonna watch it until the Rain section of the arc then I'm dipping out. I'm only here for Zangetsu)

and funny that you mention that hell scene in the manga :)

-> spoilers for the new BLEACH 73 page anniversary chapter / thoughts/critique on it

So hey you had a premonition! Syazel .... returned? And his hole is outside of his body??? for some reason???

(I didn't understand the explanation or why / how that happens and what that means for the hollow)

And my friend and I were laughing because out of ALL the things. Kubo could do in this anniversary. He gave Syazel his dick back after going to hell. That is iconic. (that's where his hole was located, and now that its not on his body ... well...) This is the funniest thing Kubo has EVER pulled. Kudos to you, sir.

The entire internet is freaking out over Ukitake being in hell. Honestly Kubo has done far worse, and we've established that Soul Society is a corrupt system that hasn't changed, so I'm not surprised he would pull something like this.

At the same time, Kubo 1. cheated his audience. 2. continues to prove me right that he cannot bring himself to kill his characters

1. Hollows who have commit murder in their human life are sent to hell. Syazel and Aaorniero are two of these hollows, and yet, when they are killed, there is NO gates of hell scene. We see them there later in the hell chapter (which was more of a promotion for the fourth movie and I didn't believe it would hold any merit)

But the same goes for Ukitake. We never see the gates of hell take him. What, was hell late? Did hell's gates get lost like an uber before picking him up? It's bull. Withholding such vital information from your audience, not showing the gates of hell when they should pick up this soul IMMEDIATELY is ... I mean its a lie. Kubo lied to his audience.

2. Now we are told powerful shinigami are sent to hell when they die. First of all that sounds like a security threat. Wouldn't shinigami want revenge for that? Or attempt to escape? Why would they still hold loyalty after being sent to a prison of eternal suffering?

Also "Yhwach and Aizen" were the only ones keeping Hell's gates closed is way too convenient and doesn't really make any sense. I feel like Aizen should have deliberately gone to hell to retrieve powerful shinigami / hollows for his army instead of keeping it /closed/.

This is definitely a Kubo-doesn't-know-what-he's-doing-and-is -making- stuff-up-as-he-goes, but it might have a pinch of merit because of previous plot lines.... but either way, there's some big plot holes here, but again, its Kubo, so I expected nothing less.

Again, he can't kill off his characters. He introduced zombification, he introduced immortality through the hougyoku, he has Orihime and Hachigen's reversal / rejection abilities. He brought back Luppi, friggen.... a character who's entire upper half of his body was incinerated. Like.... come on. No. He's dead, you can't bring him back like that. That's a cop out and just weird. You're taking away consequences and grief.

(Also Yamamoto and Unohana deserve to be in hell far over Ukitake, they've done some fcked up stuff in their pasts unlike him)

Also Kubo's favorite character is Mayuri, which.... you're allowed to have a favorite problematic character. But Keeping said character alive and bared from the consequences of abusing his daughter, murdering innocents, and experimenting on your own squad members? Nah. Nope. Kill him, Kubo. Kill this dude.

(his weird attachment to Mayuri is probably why he keeps bringing Syazel back, since Syazel is Mayuri 2.0, but Syazel is the bad guy who does face consequences for his actions while Mayuri is not)

Also, I'm certain Kazui and Orihime are going to be THRILLED that their precious husband/dad is going to hell when he dies :)

(I just... Rukia teased Ichigo about leaving Orihime at home. She teased him about having a house wife who he leaves all the chores to. Orihime had two panels. She checks on her son who promised he would be at home and sleep. Kazui fcking breaks his promise like it never mattered to him and JUMPS out the window after pretending to sleep in front of his mother. ... An 8 year old... alone... in the middle of the night.)

Orihime is abandoned. She is not invited to SS, she is not informed of what is going on, her son leaves her.... I...

Orihime is a side character. She doesn't matter anymore. She hasn't mattered for a long, long time.

A part of me is glad she had little screen time, since she tends to waste it, but another part of me is embroiled with rage.

I've even see people try to defend this. "Orihime and Ichigo can't be together ALL the time, that's an unhealthy relationship!" and I'm like guys... that's not the point. The point is Orihime is not part of Ichigo's other life. Any shinigami stuff from now on is none of her business. She's going to stay at home while Kazui and Ichigo go off and save the world. Ichigo is going to be fighting by Rukia and Renji while Orihime watches from the sidelines, or worse, doesn't even know what is going on with her husband and son. Orihime is going to be uninformed and abandoned, because she has not proven she is capable of fighting by their sides(go on, @ me. I will fight this. She's a failure.), and also because she prefers a human life over a dead one. Which is ironic, because she married a dead man. Ichigo is a shinigami, and he will be one forever. god forbid she ever meets his Zanpaktou. She would tremble in fear at the monsters her husband harbors in his soul, especially when she realizes they don't care about her and would rather see her dead. (Zangetsu would absolutely kill Orihime. Not sure about Kazui, but Orihime has not accepted Zangetsu, she does not like either of them, and the feeling is assuredly mutual.) frick now I want to make a comic about this

Also still frustrated over Zangetsu's shikai / bankai regression. Kubo once again lied to his audience. Ichigo has no bankai. How ridiculous is that? The main character of BLEACH doesn't have a bankai. Insulting.

(RIP to Chad. He doesn't exist anymore. He's just gone. No mention, no cameo. Gone.)

Kazui is a demon child. That character from the novels? Hikone? They're the same character. Literally same personality, same power level. Its worse because Kazui is a liar. He constantly goes behind his parents' backs. He can summon creepy fish and creepy eyeballs and open portals like is ANYONE aware of this? How has SS not kidnapped Ichigo's son and experimented on him / locked away his powers yet? All substitute shinigami require a reiatsu controlling / spy badge to keep them in line. Where is Kazui's? Or is he just a weird fullbringer?

I was worried Kubo was gonna try and pull a knock off Boruto but luckily he kept the focus on Ichigo and the others. But that being said, Ichika and Kazui are now just... sort of there? Kazui was kinda just.... having his own adventure that doesn't matter to the plot at hand, and Ichika had some nice characterization at first but she just hid behind her dad the whole time.

I have a feeling Kazui is gonna step in at the last minute or do some major behind the scenes thing that indirectly interferes with the main plot so no one will realize how powerful and dangerous he actually is. Its sad because Ichika is the superior character in personality and likability, but she clearly is not going to have a bigger part in this.

Ichigo having a normal life after everything still feels extremely boring and uncomfortable to me. Everyone's like 'I'm still bLEACH!" but.... BLEACH just... doesn't feel like BLEACH anymore. It hasn't for a while now.

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There's two new shinigami characters. Didn't care for the girl, but the Sign Language kid who talks to animals is adorable ... however... he just reminds me of Chad, and I just... it hurts knowing Chad has essentially been deleted. Chad and Orihime are officially benched. They have chosen the human world, and Orihime has given Ichigo his spawn so she has no more use/purpose to him anymore... ////sigh

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Also. This is claimed to be a new "arc". So is the BLEACH manga coming back? What is happening. I thought Kubo was tired and didn't want to do BLEACH anymore. I thought Shounen Jump cut him off. People made so many excuses for Kubo and why the past two arcs have been so badly written the past 6 years and now almost everything they've attempted to defend him with has been revoked.

BLEACH is going to continue to screw up its plot lines and characters, so Its probably best for it to stay dead but I've seen a lot of Kubo stans drooling over this content, they're desperate for BLEACH's return, but its already given out all its possible revelations. There's really nothing else to top here. It's just going to make things up as it goes along ,and I'm not really here for half-assed writing like that, especially since the damage of rushing the previous manga has already been done. Kubo and Shounen Jump are riding off a money nostalgia. None of this was planned.

Honestly though.... overall feeling of this chapter, not as bad as it could have been.

Syazel stole the spotlight, and he's my friend's favorite character, so that's all that really matters.

#bleach #bleach spoilers #spoilers #text post #anti bleach 686 #anti ichihime #ask #tite kubo #technically anti renruki too but #ichihime destroys the plot more than renruki #renruki feels like an after thought #they're only together for kazui and ichika's existence #but if these two are lacking in use if BLEACH were to continue then why have them at all #even tho ive tagged this as anti ichihime #interestingly enough there is no ichihime interaction or really mention at all in this chapter

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meltingxpoint · 3 years

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Melting Point - A Hyoga-centric story focusing on his past, his emotional struggles and his relationships. Part 1!

I was given permission by the artist to translate! My plans to pay for a translation were put on hold, so this is a rough translation and the translation can be read below the pages.

The artist can be found on ss-melting-point and xeenaste.

Read more here.

At this time... if she comes out here to get food, it’s likely only one baby will survive. ...Since death comes so simply in this land A world that cannot live by responding sentimentally to each life. So one has to learn thoroughly...

How to become numb to it.

Whenever the tide and the ebb intersect in any sea, there is a time for the current to stop. The process comes in as short as 30 minutes, an hour at most, and four times a day. Even this place, notorious for its strong current, becomes as quiet as a lie during such a period. I was trying to find Isaak’s remains, but he was nowhere to be found.

On this land, on this sea, I am always helpless.

I wanted the power to go beyond man to face that impotence. I've continued to train for a long time and finally achieved it... But in the end it didn't mean anything in my life.

I believed that if I could break that thick ice and enter this place, my life would be different after I passed that test.

That I’ll take her body out and find her safe.

I even thought of paying off my debt by using the undeserved power in my hand gained through self-interest, from now on to save lives.

But the reality is— Once again, someone's life just disappeared on my behalf. Mother's rest was here from the beginning.

It was impossible.

My life so far was headed here as if it were planned. It was never a coincidence.

When I first heard of saints, I was honestly dubious. Is there really such a thing?

When I arrived in Japan and found out that all the children there had gathered to become saints, this coincidence was amazing.

But when I was designated for Siberia, I started thinking about fate for the first time.

Mama, who was as good and devoted as anyone.

God certainly couldn't have left such a mother alone. That's why he was trying to send me to Mama.

All of this is a destiny set by God--

... I had thought so

Thoughts that were possible as a child... It’s not a grandiose door to test my faith. It's not even a place to confirm my destiny.

Simple ice holes, simple ice seashore, I was delusional, and I was searching for hope.

It was right to think of it as the entrance to the underworld if I was to give it a proper meaning.

Below this is the world of death A world frozen in place after swallowing my precious people A world that seems to hold the moment to its fullest The only thing that is allowed to the living is to simply watch. I had hope for that.

Maybe it was just bringing me back, that which couldn't kill me when I was younger--

Camus: It is dangerous to give meaning to the phenomenon. There is no will to the phenomenon. When you give meaning to repeated coincidences, delusions begin.

Camus: Hyoga, I have always taught you to see reality calmly.

If your delusions are true, was it God's guidance that you lost your mother as a child? Is it inevitable that you lost Isaac? Is it a fixed fate? You want to blame Isaac's death on that place?

It was an accident that Isaac died. I don't intend to blame you for that. But if you don't learn a lesson after that, the story is different. Take it as it is.

A cool head comes from facing reality.

Camus: Be cold like that permanent ice wall, Hyoga Camus: Otherwise, the next person to die will really be you.

The teacher is right. He was always right But after filtering out the delusions, a cruel reality appears. The reason the people dear to me died was the same. Reason to save me--

The reason they tried to save me was-- Because I am helpless...

...I want to be strong...

So that I won't be swung over by pathetic delusions Like this creepy and cold world displayed under ice With frozen hearts and frozen eyes So that I won’t shed a single tear even at someone’s death ...no

So that no one will ever die for me again So that I can protect someone with my own strength

I want to be strong

Yakov, I don't have time to talk to you. Go back if you don't have business.

Yakov: Oh right. I forgot Yakov: A letter came for Hyoga.

Hyoga: It must have come from the Grad Foundation in Tokyo anyway. Hyoga: No matter how much I’m pressed, I have no intention of going to such a performance contest.

Yakov: No, the origin is from Greece.

What...?!

Wow Wow This is the cross of the Cygnus... The more I see it, the more amazing it is... Hyoga... Wow...

Yakov: Hyo-ga, can I touch this? Hyoga: Do it in moderation, Yakov. It's not a toy Yakov: Eh~~ Yakov: Anyway, you’re supposed to go to Tokyo. You're going to fight in the contest with this? Yakov: I want to see... Hyoga: Fight? Hyoga: I'm going to kill them all.

Yakov: Kill-?! Yakov: Why?! Hyoga: 'Cause the order of assassination came from the sanctuary. Yakov: So you kill people?! Hyoga: Yakov... You have forgotten. Hyoga: I am a saint. The world in which we live in is different Yakov: Still, it's murder... Hyoga: I can't do much, Hyoga: As long as you’re a saint, the order of sanctuary is absolute. Hyoga: Besides, this directive is in Camus’s handwriting.

Hyoga: Prior to the sanctuary, it was a command from Camus. How can I disobey... Yakov: Hyoga... Hyoga: But it's strange... something feels unusual.

Hyoga: —Call from the sanctuary. Camus: Yeah, an emergency call

Camus: They’re showing suspicious movements in places like Japan and elsewhere Camus: I don't think I can come back for a while, but I'm done for the time being. Camus: Because I had to make a formal report that you qualified as a saint. Hyoga: ...Yeah. Camus: You’re still not ready. (??)

Your skills are already beyond the standard of bronze And you still hesitate... … Is it Isaac? ...... Hyoga... Thinking of the dead, is different from being obsessed with thoughts of the dead.

You will face numerous deaths in the future The death of an enemy, the death of a companion, the death of mere innocents As long as you’re a Saint, they're not accidents, they're inevitable. Sometimes, you may have to hurt a loved one with your own hands. But we, the cold-blooded Saints, do not hesitate to do so Are you going to fall apart every time? Hyoga... Be infinitely cool. So that the heart freezes

Don't forget the coldness of this heart and make it a heart that never melts. Don't be sick of death. Don't hesitate to bring death. Remember this land, heartless to all life. An extreme ice floe that never melts- This place that raised you and me-

Camus: The Cygnus cloth will be given to you when you prove that resolution in any form. Camus: I look forward to coming back.

Hyoga: He was a teacher who had given his word. Hyoga: And you just give me my cloth like this? Hyoga: That Camus...?

( a flashback )

Milo: The disciple was recognized as a Saint, right? Milo: But why didn't you bring him in? Camus: Because he can't wear his Cloth yet. Milo: Huh? Camus: Cloth on hold, granted starting rank as a Saint. Camus: As a frost-handling saint, he's not getting through the last hurdle.

Milo: As always, you're doting on your apprentice. Milo: It's enough to make me cry Camus: Is that how it sounds? Milo: Of course. you gave your student the qualification first because you were worried he'd be discouraged, right? Milo: That's why I said you're too soft Camus: Harsh words.

Camus: He’s a child with a troubled past. Camus: But it can be solved within time. He’s phasing it out. Milo: Nonono Milo: You can’t just take the situation at face value! Milo: What do you think? Leave him to me for once. Camus: No way. Camus: A hot-tempered person like you will lead him into being a fool. Milo: Oh- is that how you see me~? Camus: Don’t you know the meaning of the word “honesty”?

Milo: Look at this guy~ Milo: He really does love his cute disciple~~ Camus: I would say it's a blunt evaluation Camus: You don't have the personality to cultivate a pupil properly Milo: What cold, heartless man! Milo: And who knows if my methods will work? Milo: What if it works fantastically? Camus: If you’ve never raised a student, shut up. Camus: Is my disciple a toy? Milo: (He was almost my disciple!) Guard: Hey, Camus- Guard: Excuse me- Camus: What is it? Milo: (I knew it, he was just pretending to be cool) (??) Guard: Well... Guard: The Pope ---

Part 2 Here

#cygnus hyoga #andromeda shun #aquarius camus #scorpio milo #saint seiya #saint seiya doujin translation

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emiruem · 3 years

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I was telling this hitsukarin AU to Abby, but then I realized that it seemed to have become just a mountain of text, although at the beginning I was just explaining the concept. I'm not a writer and I have big problems with language, but I wanted to tell this story ahhabahahah.

An adult Karin, who became a member of the women's football team of the Japanese national team, therefore, often tours to different countries.

She hadn't seen Toshiro since high school, when he helped her protect the city from the empty ones when Ichigo lost his strength. She was in love with him ( but of course they both never realized that their feelings were mutual)

After Toshiro left, then she decided that she would forget these feelings and move on with her life. Then she started dating one of her childhood friends, they studied together and he was in love with her for a long time too.... they had a long relationship

One day during the football cup, which was held in Korea, Karin realizes that she is pregnant with her boyfriend's child. For this reason, she decides to skip the season and return to Karakura.

At the same time, General Shunsui decides that it is time for the soul society to change in order to lag so far behind the human world, but for now this is only his initiative and he needs to discuss a lot of things with the council 46 later, so he sends captains who have lived in the human world for some time ( captains-vayzards and Toshiro) to prepare reports on the human world, which will allow the general to convince the council 46.

Karin returns to Karakura and when she comes home, she realizes that her boyfriend is cheating on her with some other girl while she is away for work.

and...karin is hysterical from the fact that the person with whom she lived for so long betrayed her, and she is also pregnant from him and does not know what to do, she has already told yuzu about the pregnancy and is already afraid that ichigo and her father will think about all this. She has nowhere to go because she absolutely will not return to this guy in their shared apartment so she returns to the kurosaki house where there is no one.

Ishshin went to Naruki for a medical samet, Yuzu lives with Jzinta in another place and Karin does not want to bother them, Ichigo and Rukia are now in the soul society.She simply locks herself in "her former room" and succumbs to hysteria and apathy.

Her ex-boyfriend calls her constantly, but she does not receive these calls because she does not want to hear anything from him.

She hears the doorbell ring and thinks that most likely it was he who came. Therefore, she loudly shouts "get out, I'm even sick of seeing your face" through the door.

In response, she hears Toshiro's voice: "I knew that so much time had passed and you wouldn't want to see me"

she is surprised to understand who exactly came.... in even greater hysteria, she slowly opens the door looks into toshiro's face, not understanding what is happening at all

He sees her and understands that everything in her life is "WELL, NOT OKAY AT ALL" his feelings, which have only grown and grown so much over the years that he came to see her right after he received his gigai, were greatly inflamed in his chest from anger at something that caused her such obvious mental harm.

She let him into the house because she just couldn't do it any other way. she told him well, in general, everything that happened because she just couldn't do it any other way. She needed to tell at least someone this, he just listened to her and she knew that he would not condemn her for her situation and story.

She end with the questions " what should I do now, Toshiro ? This child, what should I do with him?

* a moment of emotional tension*

Toshiro comes up to her and hugs her , he says that since he is here now, he can't leave it as it is, he will help her in everything that will be in his power.

He almost says, " I can stay and be close to you and this child". He already loves Karin and knows that he will love the child that will be born to her. In addition, his mission is very long and he can afford to stay close to her for at least the next 10 years in the most difficult period. Of course he has nothing in this world and he will have to try very hard to have a child and take care of Karin.

Karin understands exactly what Toshiro means and cannot reject him... she is afraid of being left alone and losing her first love again, his embrace is warm and his presence really gives her confidence that everything will be fine with her and her child.

Toshiro calms Karin and gives her a sense of security and tenderness that she has been missing for a long time in past relationships.

She is already beginning to believe that she will live quite happily with Toshiro , who told her about his mission and completely showed his true feelings for her.

That guy also appears soon, but Toshiro will send him away with the phrase " you are not worthy of being the father of the child that Karin will give birth to"

it even comes to a fight....but what is the point of a person fighting with a trained shinigami and everything is fine BUT

one day, Toshiro wakes up in their already new rented apartment from a scream

Karin, screaming in pain, wakes him up and says that she urgently needs a doctor, Toshiro is horrified to see blood flowing down her legs. Terrified, he still calls an ambulance and tries to use therapeutic kido to help Karin

Karin still loses consciousness and is admitted to the Isida's hospital. Genicologists and obstetricians diagnose "miscarriage provoked by a strong nervous and hormonal breakdown" while there was also a " threat of death of a woman in labor"

Toshiro can only wait at the intensive care unit with a stony face, but internally realizing that now most likely there is going on in horror that now he can lose both Karin and their child, he just sits silently completely in shock

Abby s point:(totes unrelated note but what if she dies but he can't go back to soul society because of his mission, by the time he goes back to ss, she's already with family, without any memory of her living days anyway )

He no longer even believes that everything will end well, because he is primarily a shinigami and understands when people are on the edge of life and death.

When the operation was just over and Karin was still unconscious. The obstetrician recognized Toshiro as the father of the child and laid out all the information about the condition of Karin and her fetus to him

Toshiro, who no longer hoped for anything at all, realized that the worst had happened on the face of the obstetrician. Therefore when he was informed that Karin was still alive his eyes were already ready to shed a few tears of happiness

but this was replaced by frustration when the obstetrician said about the death of the fetus. The doctors reassured him saying that judging by the tests and Karin's general condition, she will be able to have children later when her body recovers

but toshiro silently realized what a blow it would be for Karin who found it difficult to love this child and as soon as she love him she immediately lost him

the obstetricians told him to issue documents for Karin's admission to the ward and he was not there when she woke up and the doctor told her about what had happened to her

Karin felt only pain and fear for the child even more than for her own life, but when she woke up, it became a little easier for her in the hospital. She felt tired and empty. Obstetricians reported that it was not possible to save the fetus Later, doctors will say that Karin was very lucky, cuz her body was always trained and always led a healthy lifestyle.

she realizes that she has lost her child and this leads her to complete emotional burnout. When Toshiro walks into her hospital room and sees her awake, she slowly turns her head in his direction and says softly: "I lost him"

"Yes, I know, and I'm sorry I was completely useless," Toshiro takes her hand,his facial expression twists and he looks away.

Karin does not react in any way she looks into empty space

......

Toshiro understands that she will need a lot of time, so he decides that he will give her as much as he can give and he will not leave her as long as he can be near in this world.

#hitsukarin #bleach #toshiro hitsugaya #kurosaki karin #hitsugaya toushirou #sorry i'm not a writer #maybe someday I will draw something on this au #ahahahahahahah

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dreamsmp-au-ideas · 3 years

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Ok, so I made a story that combines Magolor’s and Haltmann’s for Wilbur:

Wilbur’s life was going pretty good. His wife, Sally (a shapeshifter), was amazing, His dad (Philza) and brother (Techno) + the other Hero’s saved the universe from Dream, his little brother was about to be born. Then, Techno went a bit off the rails, going on and on about blood gods, voices and murder. Techno attempted to undo basically every they did to try and stop Dream from taking over the universe. So, much to the dismay of Philza, Techno had to be sealed away.

So, Wilbur and Sally had to get away from the family a little bit, which meant Tommy (who was born around the time Techno started losing it) never met his brother until the damage got to him. Flashforward a couple of years and Sally gives birth to a beautiful baby named Fundy. But, she later dies due to birth complications. Wilbur promises to be the best father he can to Fundy. He never ignored him and was always there for him. Wilbur even took him to places ancients existed to teach him about them.

Then he found this computer the ancients had that could grant wishes. Wilbur thought “Hey, this could stop Techno from going insane” and got to work on fixing it, with Fundy helping as well. But something went wrong and Fundy got absorbed into the computer. Wilbur thought he was dead and put all his time into figuring out how to both fix and control the machine, to the point it drove him mad. He forgot why he wanted to fix the machine, thinking he wants power and to control the world.

But the truth about Fundy, is that he was actually transported into the future and began working for King Schlatt as a treasurer (he was like 15 at the time, and he was transported to sometime during the equivalent of Kirby 64)

Wilbur hears about a crown, a master crown, that could control the ancient’s machines and the world, and it sits on the head of the dragon of the planet of halcanda. Wilbur, now mad but able to hide it, goes to try and fight the dragon for the crown and gets his *ss kicked. So he retreats, but his ship is completely ruined. He goes to the planet “DreamStar” (a planet Dream used to control, but now has very little power over it) and goes to the town “L’Manland” (I didn’t have a better name).

To his surprise, Wilbur sees his Father, now a head knight working under King Schlatt, and meets his brother Tommy for the first real time sense his birth (Tommy is now, in Kirby universe time, at the age of 16). He learns he a bit of a hero who has defeat multiple gods. They have a small reunion and Tommy is shocked to learn he has another brother and his happy he’s “sane”. King Schlatt and Tubbo stand awkwardly to the side as they reunite.

Wilbur explains he needs his ship fixed and asks Tommy, Tubbo, King Schlatt and Philza to help him find the parts he needs for his ship. The classic “Return to Dreamland” adventure happens but Wilbur seems to have lost many memories in his head and Philza has to remind him, but he still doesn’t remember.

Fundy learns of Wilbur is on the planet, he goes to met him after years of being apart, but Wilbur doesn’t remember him. Fundy is heartbroken he doesn’t remember he’s his son, but he remembers he has a son. Fundy then learns about Wilbur’s plan to take over the world and plans to sneak into the ship to steal it away before Wilbur can.

The gang then goes to halcandra, beat up the dragon, fundy steals the crown but the fight him and win, then Wilbur steals the crown summons the computer to grant his wish for world control, but gets controled instead and the fight for the world begins, with fundy helping out the best he can. Wilbur is fine after the fight but has to deal with the actions he caused and actively tries to fix his mistakes. Wilbur does ended up remember Fundy is his son and tries to fix his mistakes. So Wilbur gets a redemption arc and Fundy angst.

(Please enjoy this, it took me like an hour to write)

Oh pain! Pain and sadness for Mr Wilbur Soot! ANd oh no Techno!

This is perfect anon. It has the angst and we get the redemption arc for Wilbur.

#kirby of the stars au #wilbur soot #sally the salmon #fundy #technoblade #tommyinnit #tubbo #jschlatt #philza #ph1lza #ask

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darisu-chan · 4 years

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Kaien vs Ichigo: A Memories in the Rain Analysis, Part 1

Hello

It’s me again, back with my bs lmao

I finally finished the mini arc of Memories in the Rain pt. 2 and, as I’ve been sort of discussing certain stuff that’s happened in Bleach as I re-read the chapters, I decided I needed to talk about MITR as a whole. If you’ve been following my posts, I didn’t really analyze the first part. I saved it to compare it with the second part. I also thought that instead of just saying my thoughts as I have been doing thus far, I’d go the extra mile and truly analyze both parts, specifically comparing Kaien and Ichigo.

So, sometime ago, I wrote this post about how it bothers me how people compare Kaien and Ichigo as being the same, and using that to establish IchiRuki. When, honestly, you don’t need to. Ichigo and Rukia’s relationship stands on its own. In fact, it is so strong that, years after the ending, people keep being fascinated by IR. The LA was centered on their relationship as well. And it’s still the Ichigo and Rukia show, thank you very much.

And though I made some good points in that post, I decided to further explore Kaien and Ichigo, as well as the events of both MITR and how that relates to Ichigo and Rukia.

It’s probably been done many times before, but I’ve never analyzed them in much depth, so here we go.

The first part will soley be about Ichigo and Kaien as individuals. On the second part, I’ll finally explore MITR

1. The Shiba Gene

So, as we all know, Ichigo and Kaien look like each other physically, and in Everything But the Rain we finally found out the reason why: they are cousins. This put a stop to all the “Ichigo is Kaien reborn” theories people liked to come up with back in the day.

Now, in the story, this resemblance was pointed out by Byakuya and even Ukitake, to an extent. Which means Kaien was designed to look like Ichigo on purpose to further draw parallels between them. What I mean to say is that this is a seed that was planted in the readers’ minds, and as such, comparing both guys was done on purpose.

Interestingly enough, neither Kukaku nor Ganju are ever seen to believe Ichigo looks like their older brother.

In EBTR we see Isshin as a young man, and we can see how Isshin, Ichigo and Kaien resemble each other, meaning the Shiba gene is a strong one, and, if Ichigo had actually stayed in SS, that same resemblance could have been used as a way for him to claim that part of his heritage, but I digress.

We are all aware they look like each other because they are family, so we don’t need to go deep into detail in that aspect. Now the true question is, just how similar are they to each other?

Physically speaking, there are a few noticable differences, like hair and eye color. Kaien’s hair is longer and there’s the fact Kaien has very long eyelashes, as Kukaku and Ganju have. He’s also taller.

Although key differences, they are not enough to negate their similarities. Hell, Ichigo does look more similar to Kaien than Ganju, his actual brother.

But there’s something very important that sets them apart: Kaien always carries himself as if he didn’t have a care in the world. When we’ve seen Kaien, he’s always able to smile freely. Sure, he also scowls, gets upset, and the like, but he goes back to smiling. This is something Ichigo hasn’t been able to do since his mother died. Hell, there’s a whole chapter about that (Can’t Smile Don’t Blame). There are very few times in which Ichigo actually smiles, and all of them are short-lived. In fact, whenever he’s tried to give big smiles, they seem off, as seen when he smiled to Orihime back at the beginning of MITR and later on, in the Lost Agent Arc, when he smiled at Yuzu.

Even when Rukia has a flashback of Kaien while looking at Ichigo, their smiles look very different:

Ichigo more often than not smiles through his eyes, while Kaien tends to smile with his eyes closed:

Although brash and arrogant as well, Kaien is also more mature. He can go from joking around to having deep conversations with Rukia. Ichigo, as a teenager, has yet to mature and will become more and more like a grown up as time passes by. At this point in the manga, he really isn’t there yet. Now, this will be important later on.

In short, even though they look very similar, they carry themselves with different auras. Kaien is more of a free-spirit, while Ichigo is a person who seems to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders.

2. Prodigies

Ichigo, as the MC of a shounen manga, is obviously special. From the very first moment, we know he’s not like everyone else. He’s able to see spirits, which is not the norm. And then Rukia informs us his reiatsu is too powerful for a normal human.

And as time goes by, as he keeps fighting hollows, he grows exponentially.

When Urahara trains him, he realizes that, which is why he tells Yoruichi that if there is someone who can achieve bankai in 3 days, is him.

As the story goes on, we learn that Ichigo is even more special, as he is also part Quincy and Hollow. But he also has very impressive skills when it comes to swordmanship, shunpo, and the like.

What is more relevant is Ichigo’s ability to grow at a fast rate, always learning from his mistakes.

And although he was never taught how to be a Shinigami in the traditional way, we can see how he surpassed his peers.

Now, although Kaien is not as special as Ichigo, we learn from Ganju that, for Shinigami standards, Kaien’s very impressive:

Hisagi, for example, failed the final exam numerous times. Rukia says she barely passed the entrace exam. Finishing the curriculum in two years is a great achievement. And the fact that he made VC in 5 years means a lot. It took Renji, let’s say, around 35 years to be promoted to VC. And Renji was in the special class at the Academy.

People like Ichigo and Kaien are not the norm. They are very skilled and special individuals. Might be because of their genes (it’s never explicitly said, but they might come from a long line of Shinigami), or just because they were gifted with those powers, but the point is these characteristics set them apart as more powerful than the rest.

3. Brash, Rule-breaking, Arrogant

The words above can be used to describe both Ichigo and Kaien, and that’s certainly Byakuya’s opinion of them.

Kaien and his siblings are not like the nobles we know. They’re certainly very different to Byakuya and the Kuchiki Clan, but they also live very differently than Soi Fon, Omaeda, the Shihouin Clan, and so on. They seem to live more like the common folk than like dignified people. Hence, Byakuya seems very against this sort of attitude, at least early on in Bleach.

Because of being loud, less refined, brash, and with a penchant of rule-breaking, Kaien seems totally different to other nobles. However, I dare say these characteristics extrapolate what Ukitake meant in this scene:

Not anyone would be able to go against the whole Soul Society, specially if you are a Shinigami.

Byakuya was certainly not going to do any rule-breaking. As we later find out, he had even promised not to break anymore rules and was going to stick to that promise.

Renji, until confronted by Ichigo, had decided not to go against the SS.

Even Ukitake wasn’t about to start a revolution to save Rukia. It took him seeing Ichigo to decide on what to do.

Basically, only Kaien would have been upfront about his own intentions.

And what we know of Kaien is that he was the sort of guy who would break the rules when necessary. That means, that he would do the right thing. Specially when it comes to saving his peers. He even tells Rukia as much:

He might not have been the most elegant of individuals, but Kaien’s brashness and even arrogance came from the fact he had a good heart.

Now, who does exactly what Kaien would have done?

That’s right.

Ichigo.

Here the comparison of Ukitake trying to imagine what Kaien would have done is directly compared and contrasted to Ichigo, as before that scene Ichigo confronted Byakuya.

Now, Ichigo wasn’t raised as a noble. He had no idea he was one until almost the end of Bleach. But he was raised with the idea of protecting other people and of doing what is right.

We have seen him protect other people, even before he became a Shinigami (his friendship with Chad, Keigo and Mizuiru respectively reflects this, as he saved the three of them).

Ichigo is not the kind of guy who can just do nothing while an injustice is taking place.

Ichigo has been, from the first moment we saw him, brash, rule-breaking and even arrogant, but note that from his introduction, we saw him protecting a little ghost girl. It goes to show that Ichigo would go to extremes to protect others and do what’s right. So, it’s no surprise he jumps at the chance to go to SS to save Rukia, and that he grows stronger and stronger each time to save her, as he cannot let her die.

However, there’s a key difference.

If Kaien had been alive, he would have saved Rukia as 1) he would’ve probably figured out an execution was too hard a punishment for Rukia’s crime, 2) he told her he would always stand by her as long as they were from the same division, and 3) he wouldn’t let her just die.

But Ichigo’s reasons to save Rukia are much more complicated than that. As I’ve said in other posts, Ichigo is filled with guilt, as Rukia’s in this position because of him, firstly because she saved him by giving him her own powers to protect his family, and secondly, because Rukia got taken away to protect him as he feels he failed to protect her.

But, even then, it’s not only guilt that fuels him or the fact that he owes Rukia.

There’s the fact that Rukia is an important person to Ichigo regardless. Particularly, she is kind and good. Certainly not the type of person who deserves to die, much less because of a stupid rule.

Then, there is something else at a deeper level Ichigo doesn’t say out loud

My point with this is that Kaien and Ichigo are certainly the same type of rule-breaking people and that’s the sort of person needed to pull a stunt like saving Rukia from execution, in such a way that this person would even inspire others to help. Both guys are special in that way. However, in practice their actions come from different places. Certainly there’s a closeness Ichigo shares with Rukia due to circumstances that adds more complexity to his intent to save her and that, may I add, also fuels him to such a degree he refuses to lose.

Which brings us to...

4. Rukia

The last main common denominator between them is no one else but Rukia, a person they both have inspired in different ways. However, the type of relationship they have with her is different.

Let’s start with Kaien:

So, their meeting takes place shortly after Rukia was adopted into the Kuchiki Clan and graduated early from the Academy. Ever since, it seems she was judged for both not really being from a noble family and from having been adopted by one. We can say that no one is looking at who Rukia truly is, but they are making assumptions about her at this point. This is isolating to Rukia, who now has to deal with a new identity and a new way of living. She’s now apart from the one person she had known most of her life to that point (Renji) and is feeling out of place.

Then, Kaien swoops in and he treats her like he would treat any other subordinate. He doesn’t treat her like a street rat, a pampered noble or even a pet. And she says it herself that having that normality is exactly what she needed. Rukia didn’t feel comfortable at home with Byakuya, but she could at least feel more at ease in her division, working under Kaien.

Their relationship was that of mentor and mentee. Later on we find out Kaien trained her in swordsmanship and probably other skills.

But he also taught her important lessons about life:

And these are lessons Rukia will carry in her heart the whole series. Protecting others, making others feel welcomed, forming hearts with others. Rukia made hers everything that Kaien taught her.

He’s very special in her life because Kaien was the first person to make her feel as if she belonged in her division, and even as a Shinigami.

In short, he’s acting like a parental influential, or even being the brother Byakuya failed to be at this point in time. Teaching Rukia and accepting her, so that she could feel she had a place she belonged to.

And we know that Kaien was the one to make her feel good

But here we have a power imbalance. Because Kaien is doing the teaching, he’s changing her life, but we don’t know if it’s mutual. We don’t know if Kaien was affected by Rukia’s actions and words. It’s a very unilateral situation.

Furthermore, if we go with the route of Rukia had a crush on Kaien, there’s more power imbalance and impossibilities, as we know that:

She already couldn’t be the person closest to Kaien, as Miyako existed.

Rukia recognized Miyako as having great qualities, probably what Kaien even liked about her, and aspired to be like her:

So, Kaien and Rukia were never in a position of equality for several reasons, starting from the fact Kaien was her vice captain.

This is even exemplified when the find the hollow that killed Miyako:

Rukia acts like a subordinate, trying to be helpful, and is denied:

Finally, there’s a key aspect that I will be analyzing with more detail in another post, but Kaien is for Rukia what Masaki is for Ichigo:

The root of her trauma is that she failed to protect Kaien, who was the person who taught her so much and helped her when nobody else did. Rukia feels as if she didn’t do anything to save him from his fate:

And when Kaien became a hollow, instead of running or trying to help him, Rukia let instinct take in and we know what happens next:

And the fact she couldn’t save him is worse becase Kaien doesn’t blame her:

So Rukia ends up in a state of guilt, because she couldn’t save the one person she probably wanted to save the most.

This trauma will continue on for some time until HM, where Rukia comes to terms with what happened. However, that doesn’t change the fact that her relationship remains a one-way street.

Now, as for with Ichigo, they have a different relationship altogether.

It is true that Rukia was Ichigo’s first teacher when it comes to Shinigami stuff, but it is not as if he never taught Rukia anything.

Their relationship is so special because they’re two sides of the same coin. The fact that one is a Shinigami and the other is a human being makes it so that they end in a relationship of equals. As Ichigo needs to learn how to be a Shinigami, Rukia has to learn how to be a human.

Even when they just tell each other their names, the panel demonstrates this equality

Even the way they’re both holding the sword symbolizes this equality:

They’re both holding it and directing it towards Ichigo due to a common goal.

The fact they also call each other by their first names is important. Rukia always used “-dono” to refer to Kaien, a term of respect, while he called her by her last name. Meanwhile, Ichigo and Rukia call each other by their first names, symbolizing they’re close, something that is even pointed out within the story.

They also grow together.

Not only does Rukia teach Ichigo about his powers and her philosophy of saving others, Ichigo keeps surprising her at every turn:

Ichigo teaches Rukia how to be human, and not in the way of how to appear human or do human things, but how to feel, how to make connections with others

We always say Rukia changed Ichigo’s world, but he had that same effect in her:

It was always a mutual thing.

A relationship so different to any other in this manga.

But the best example of how different Kaien and Ichigo’s relationships with Rukia are is the fact that Rukia doesn’t think Ichigo is like Kaien from the get go.

She’s reminded of Kaien twice:

1. When Ichigo’s fighting Grandfisher, and I’ll analyze that part in the next post.

2. When Ichigo finally appears in front of her in SS and reassures her he’s not going to die. He smiles at her and Rukia remembers Kaien’s smile. She closes her eyes due to all the emotions she’s feeling.

My best explanation as to why Rukia thinks of Kaien in that moment is, as I said before, because Kaien was also reassuring in the fact he was not gonna die, yet he did and by her hand. Rukia doesn’t want to cause Ichigo’s death and she already feels guilty about turning him into a Shinigami, Byakuya hurting him, and everything else he’s gone through to try to save her. Rukia doesn’t want Ichigo to be like Kaien and die for her sake, as she believes she’s not worthy of being saved:

This is yet another thing Ichigo and Rukia have in common, they both feel guilty for having in some way cause harm to the other.

Because, above all else, they both want to protect the other.

The thing is, the two actually achieve it: Rukia saves Ichigo’s life in the first chapter and when Byakuya is about to kill him. While Ichigo ends up saving her from execution, making it so their relationship stays equal.

That is the beauty of IchiRuki.

It’s never unilateral, but their feelings parallel each other’s constantly.

They want to save each other and they do.

They learn from one another, and they have faith in one another.

One doesn’t take while the other receive, they both give and receive something in return.

Because, in their eyes, they are equals.

Anyway,

This is the end of this very long post.

The rest of MITR will be analyzed in a later post.

Thanks for reading!

#ichiruki #darisu-chan reads bleach #tagging it ichiruki because you're the only ones who'd like to read this #lol

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wyrmmaster · 4 years

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I started granblue recently on large part because of your posting about it. What happed with Yuel thata got you so upset?

Okay, I’m tempted to point you to some of my other posts but I’m not gonna do that and instead I’ll use this ask as a place to lay everything out, both for my sake and everyone else’s - sorry, this might get long.

Right, so. In the beginning you have Yuel. Unusually for an Erune, she has a massive tail on top of larger than average ears.

Yuel’s a bumpkin, a hyperactive goofball, and generally just all around a nice person. Yuel, bless her heart, is on a quest to discover artifacts that belong to the ancient royal family she serves to return it to glory but is a bit scatterbrained and can’t focus on one thing for too long so really she’s just On an Adventure™. You learn that beneath that ADD is an incredibly perceptive woman that can deduce the exact emotional state of everyone around her and cleverly cheer them up or offer them support without ever seeming to actually go out of her way to do it. She gets people to loosen up and enjoy themselves, even if they’’re miserable.

Later, you have Societte. Like, Yuel, she has a massive tail and larger than average ears.

Her introduction to you is freezing solid a small army of monsters that had you cornered. Societte is grace given physical form but, bless her heart, is shy to the point where even after that display of power she can’t actually talk to you. You guys just patiently interpret her mumbles and slight gestures until you get the gist. Turns out Societte’s the princess of that ancient royal family, and Yuel’s nominal master. You learn that the earlier freezing wasn’t a fluke: beneath that shyness is solid steel. Societte is powerful, brave, and fiercely protective even to her own detriment.

Through Societte, you learn that this ancient family ruled an empire lost to time under a benevolent nine-tailed fox goddess that gave them her power.

They meet in your crew, on your ship.

Yuel discovers that Societte is The Princess™ - this shocks her. She knew that Societte was Important, the local village ojou, but not the level of quasi-religious importance that she actually has. Yuel gets angry that she wasn’t told. They’re old friends, you see. More than that. Even this early on it doesn’t take much reading between the lines to assume they’re actually a romantic item.

Societte starts sobbing because she wanted to tell Yuel everything, she wanted to go with her when she left the village. But the knowledge that she’s the princess is dangerous. There are a lot of murderous people that are after her, to try and get rich. Some of them murdered her parents while she watched.

Turns out the tails and bigger ears are signs of the lineage, and massive red targets. This has given Societte a complex about her ears and tail, and in some of her homescreen lines she outright asks if they bother you and says she’s doesn’t want them.

So, to protect Yuel, she doesn’t say anything and lets her go far away. Then she leaves the village, to try and find out why all this is happening and to protect them from any more roaming bandits that come after her.

The two reconnect and Yuel gets Societte to calm down and look at her journey through a different lens: Societte’s not guilty of anything, she’s not on her miserable quest out of penance or obligation, the cruel world that’s taken so much from her and made her so scared isn’t all bad. They’re together now, and they’re gonna get to the bottom of this - together, as it should’ve been.

Now, enter Yuel’s 5-star fates.

This story obviously focuses on Yuel, and how she feels about Societte and her own role in the grand scheme of this situation. Yuel loves Societte more than anything, but she’s a bit jealous. Societte as mentioned is grace given physical form. Societte is gorgeous, extremely powerful, and a flawless dancer with natural talent that Yuel will never compare to.

However, we learn that Yuel is also a princess - and heavily implied to be the real heir over Societte. Remember: the ears and tail are signs of the heritage.

So, Yuel’s found some ancestral weapons of her own. They’re hers, and they give her memories of a dance, and she does it flawlessly - once. This unlocks her true power and massively boosts her magic.

But she can’t do that dance again. Just can’t. Societte tries to teach her, but again, Yuel does’t have her talent. She fails over and over again and gets angry.

That nine-tailed fox goddess doesn’t approve. Thinks Yuel’s a failure, and useless. Unworthy. So she turns that increased power back on Yuel and starts cooking her alive with her own fire.

This is alleviated when Yuel stops trying to follow an ancient dance and just does whatever comes to mind. Channel herself into the dance, yeah? And she ends up with something more special and beautiful than the traditional dance. Ninetails approves, and stops trying to kill her.

Moral: Yuel is special and talented in her own way; not lesser than Societte, if not exactly equal. They set out anew on the journey with the knowledge that both of them have much bigger roles in this than they assumed.

Then you have Societte’s fire version.

This story focuses on Societte’s trauma. She goes back to where her parents were murdered in an attempt to remember the dance they were doing there and do it herself to finish whatever they were trying to accomplish.

We learn that there’s more to this whole thing than there appeared to be - a fragment of Ninetails’ power is sealed in a stone, and it’s pumping out extremely dangerous poison gas. And it’s spreading more each day. This is not the only stone. And the gas will spread from all of them until the world dies.

Turns out Lady Ninetails ain’t so nice. They’re given visions their ancestors - Societte’s foremost among them - using the ritual dances in front of Ninetails, and channeling her power.

Here, Societte finds her true motivation and overcomes her grief. She will do what she must for the people she loves. She’s got to do what she needs to do, to save everyone. The journey continues on a very solemn but no less hopeful note.

Interlude: Summer Yuel.

We see how close the two are. Yuel follows a Societte who’s grown mostly out of her shyness and can apparently go out and meet people, sparking conversation herself. The change in behavior is so marked Yuel’s flabbergasted, and assumes she started dating someone.

But no, Societte was just doing that to find out where the best vacation spots in the area are and to commission swimwear for the two of them. They enjoy a fun evening with each other and the crew.

The fate episode ends with what amounts to a love confession.

Now, where it could’ve been great but starts to fall apart.

Their first event, Forgiveness and Gratitude.

Enter Kou.

Through him, we learn there were nine royal families, ranked from first to ninth.

We learn that Societte is the scion of the First, and Yuel of the Third.

Turns out that the empire was built around these families sealing an evil Ninetails away and stealing her power to bring about a golden age.

Kou for his part is of the Ninth. This family was mistreated, and basically used as nigh worthless servants by the other eight. In a bid for power, the Ninth betrayed the other eight and sided with Ninetails. The legends about her being a benevolent goddess and the royal families having a shitload of treasure were fabricated by them in order to set bandits after the heirs of the other families as the empire eventually fell apart, so the Ninth would be the only ones left.

Kou was supposed to Ninetails’s vessel so she could return to the world and conquer it.

But…. Now there’s two better candidates. One of them is super gullible and kind.

He tricks Societte into throwing herself on the chopping block instead.

This is important: Ninetails is ecstatic over this. Using Kou was like finding a broken, rusted sword. Getting Societte? The Scion of the First? Finding a fucking chaingun with fifty belts of rounds. She is by far the superior vessel, because again, Societte is just that talented and powerful.

This is solved by Yuel being Yuel, and using her bond with Societte to save her from the possession. Yuel, the freed Societte, and an apologetic Kou work together to defeat the apparition of Ninetails’s power.

That? That’s good. Don’t like how quickly Kou was forgiven, but it’s serviceable.

The bad part? The event is stuffed with onee-chan /ss/ jokes. And people ate it up.

So, we get the event that never should’ve happened.

We get Kou and The Hollow Existence. An event with a character’s name in the damn title.

This event, as you’d guess, focuses on Kou. Turns out the little dude’s actually the FInal Boss for Ninetails. He knows everything, and is inexplicably the most talented and powerful now. He’s the hero. Remember: he’s supposed to be the failure. The spare. The “I’ll take what I can get” for Ninetails. Not so anymore. With zero setup or explanation.

Then we get You. You is a cheap knockoff of Kou, but a Girl This Time, both in and out of story. It’s an actual plot point. You’s being tricked by Ninetails, who’s using her resentment to fuel a revenge streak. Ninetails is gonna use You as a vessel when she’s strong enough. Kou saves her from Ninetails and helps her out of her funk. By himself.

Yuel and Societte’s impact on this event is nonexistent. The major players and main characters don’t do shit but get jobbed and have extremely skeevy shotacon bait moments with Kou. There’s an entire scene dedicated to Yuel intentionally making him uncomfortable by trying to get him in a bath with the two of them.

Yuel goes from emotionally perceptive and kind to a near molester. Societte’s character development is scrapped entirely and it’s like she’s who she was in her first fate episode.

This event quite literally invalidated everything that came before it. Everything was scrapped to make Kou the hero and pander to shotacon fans.

That’s the end of their story.

It’s bullshit.

#gallingsiren

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anime-x-reader69 · 4 years

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Writing prompts

1. "Knowing you're different is only the beginning. If you accept these differences, you'll be able to get past them and grow even closer." (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid)

2. "Sometimes, I do feel like I'm a failure. Like there's no hope for me. But even so, I'm not gonna give up. Ever!" (My Hero Academia)

3. "fifty bucks says I can."

4. " Can you remove your hand off my boob?"

5. " I dance fine, thank you, sir!"

6. "Protecting someone means giving them a place to belong. Giving them a place where they can be happy." (Log Horizon)

7. " You don't want her angry."

8. " You don't want him angry."

9. " Women are from Mars, and men are from Venus, I don't know about you, but I got one giant P###!" ( FLCL.)

10. " Don't hide who makes you, use it, its a power greater than your own."

11. "Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls." (Angel Beats)

12. "People with talent often have the wrong impression that things will go as they think." (Assassination Classroom)

13. "Remember the lesson, not the disappointment." (Spice And Wolf)

14. " If you don't take the risk, you can't create a future." ( One pice.)

15. "people's lives don't end when they die. It ends when they lose their faith." ( Naruto Shippuden.)

16. " Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember a person you ever met." ( Charlotte.)

17. " I never thought I would be able to see any of you again... but I did one more time. This, alone makes me happy." ( Fairy Tail.)

18. " Remember me when I'm gone." ( Coco.)

19. " So, ya in my earth, I'm the one and only Supergirl."

20. "Feelings of love are just a temporary lapse in judgment. Like some kind of mental illness." (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)

21. "I'm not short! I'm fun-sized!" (Fullmetal Alchemist)

22. " How am I supposed to know he wasn't the guy?! He had a gun!!"

23. "Don't talk to me until I have my coffee."

24. " Wheres Wally?"

25. " No one is kissing me on the lips, ever!" ( Httyd.)

26. " Oh god, I feel we gone back to 2012."

27. " Today was about as much fun as a sandpaper di###." ( Deadpool.)

28. "Can we not talk about my nightly activities!"

29. " So, a lap dancer?"

30. "I'm a humanoid, not a robot."

31. "So, because I'm an omega, I'm supposed to me on my knees and beg!"

32. "You young lady are soo showing too much skin!"

33. " I'm a guy."

34. " Well, do I look like an Atlantean or what."

35. "I'm a humanoid, not a robot."

36. "Oh, your poor wife!" ( Deadpool.)

37. " You all be wondering why the red suit well that's so bad guys can't see me bleed, this guy got the right idea he wore the brown pants." ( Deadpool.)

38. " I never said this but don't swallow." ( Deadpool.)

39. " I'm supposed to be on the beach! With a tiny umbrella drink!" ( Flash.)

40. " My happiness comes from the kindness of those around me." (Fruits Basket)

41. " I'm not Superman. So I can't say anything big like I'll protect everyone on Earth. I'm not a modest guy who will say it's enough if I can protect as many people as my two hands can handle either. I want to protect... a mountain-load of people." ( Bleach)

42. "You're so adorable! I didn't even think you were a guy!"

43." Oh great, it's a kid! I thought I was rescuing a babe, a luscious damsel in distress, not some flat-chested little girl." (Slayers)

44. " Wake up my big strong alpha~"

45. "If humans don't want me, then why did they create me?." (Armitage III)

46. "I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together." (Julia Roberts)

47. "Our journey isn't perfect, but it's ours and I'll stick with you 'til the end." (The Fresh Quotes)

48. "I won't promise to be yours forever, because I won't live that long. But let me be yours for as long as I live." (The Fresh Quotes)

49. "If I get reincarnated.... I wanna become a clam." (One Piece)

50. "Stop complaining about fate and saying how it can't be changed!" (Naruto)

51. "The great question which I have not been able to answer is, "What does a woman want?" (Freud)

52. "I have a family, I have friends, but if you're gone...to me, ...it'll be the same as being alone!" (Naruto)

53. " Just because I'm an omega I suppose gey on my knees and beg!"

54. "Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch." (Ruta Sepetys)

55. "I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face of the earth and she was never coming back." (Melissa Kantor)

56. "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." (Marilyn Vos Savant)

57. "Theatre is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture." (TV Facts)

58. "Please don't tell people our bakery's motorbike ran you over." (FLCL (Fooly Cooly))

59. " Is this dress too much?"

60. "The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can. And that's what makes it so damn beautiful." ( Fullmetal Alchemist)

61. "Would you like to see my daughter? I have some pictures right here!" ( Fullmetal Alchemist)

62. " I'm not a girl!

63. " Your skin is soo soft and smooth."

64. " Batman is god."

65. "Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other." (James Patterson)

66. "What strange creatures brothers are!" (Jane Austen)

67. " I don't get pay enough for this shit."

68. " If you even break her heart, I'll break your spine."

69. "Happiness – when your brothers act like your bodyguard." (The Fresh Quotes)

70. "It's National Siblings Day, so I just wanted to let you know you are lucky to have me as a sister." "What are you putting in your body?"(The Fresh Quotes)

71. "It's okay if you don't like me. Not everyone has good taste." (Your Tango)

72. "Not all girls are made of sugar, spice, and everything nice. I'm made of sarcasm, wine, and everything fine." (Your Tango)

73. "Oh~ someone excited."

74. "Nice pants can I test the zipper." (Quotes for Bros)

75. "I don't care if you have small boobs I still want to see them." (Quotes for Bros)

76. " Kissing burns 6.4 calories a minute. Wanna workout." (Quotes for Bros)

77. "Excuse me, but are you by any chance the oddball in your family?" (Pokemon)

78. "Don't tell me he wants to conquer the world? Can't he come up with something more original?" (Slayers)

79. " What are you putting in your body?" (The Fresh Quotes)

80. "Hurt me with the truth, but never comfort me with a lie." (fairy tail)

81. " Don't judge me unless you have looked through my eyes, experienced what I went through and cried as many tears as me. Until then back-off, cause you have no idea." (fairy tail)

82. " I want to become a man who treasures his friends." (fairy tail)

83. " Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something." (fairy tail)

84." Kiss me."

85. " I'm having one of those days where my middle finger is answering all my questions." (Emalie Newhall)

86. "When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a b*tch." (Bette Davis)

87." Be careful whose toes you step on today because they might be connected to the foot that kicks your *ss tomorrow!" (Big Hivemind)

88. " Your me!!"

89. " According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful." (Robert De Niro)

90. " I'm having pups...I'm going to have pups babe!

91. " Don't stare you prev!"

92. " I cannot take any more; I'm so glad that I'll never fit in; that will never be me; outcasts and girls with ambition; That's what I wanna see." (Pink)

93. " You must look within yourself to save yourself from your other-self. Only then will your true self reveal itself." (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

94. " Is it your own destiny? Or is it a destiny someone else has tried to force on you?" (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

95. " I love you, I always have."

96. " I want to swim in a pool of noodles." (Patch Adams)

97. " Look at those abs, yummy~"

98. " Does this look weird on me?

99. " Dude, what happens to bros before hoes."

100." I'm s.l.u.t!"

#writting prompt #anime #send me asks #ask me anything #ask me things #anime x reader

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Things I would change about the Friday The 13th Franchise

I love Friday The 13th series, but there are things I would change about it.

My other Horror changes

Elm Street

Halloween

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Leatherface origin movie

Texas Chainsaw 3D

Friday The 13th

There isn’t anything I would change about the original.

Friday The 13th Part II

Do not kill off Alice. I feel like it just did not work to kill Alice Hardy so quick and so soon. One of the reasons, I can never see Jason ever leaving Crystal Lake, Jason walking the streets of her town, with or without the sack would draw too much attention. And I don't think Jason is developed enough to track her down

Jason’s appearance. Jason would not have hair or sideburns, he would be bald as he was as a child and his head would basically look like his unmasked look of Part 3

Do not kill off Crazy Ralph. I am saving him. for an important reveal.

The Hockey mask would be introduced in Part II. Jason would obtain the Hockey mask from Mark. Mark was said to be an athlete but a accident made him paralyzed. So what I would do is have him be a goalie and hold on to his mask as a keep sake. After Jason kills Mark, Jason dons the mask

Make it clear that Jason killed Paul. In the struggle before Ginny lands the killing blow, Jason kills Paul and as Jason lands the killing blow, Ginny uses the machete to hit him on the shoulder. And we see Jason yanking Ginny out of the window as planned.

Friday The 13th Part III

Remove Chris’ flashback of Jason assaulting Chris. It just felt so out of character and out of place. I don’t like that it’s implied that Jason attempted assault/rape when Jason has disgust for sex. So instead just have Chris recall that she was attacked by Pamela Voorhees and one of the only survivors to escape

Friday The 13th The Final Chapter

Replace Rob Dier with Crazy Ralph and reveal him to be Elias Voorhees, Jason’s father. Rob seeking revenge for Sandra just didn’t work or make sense. She died and it’s been two days since. And how he connected the dots to Jason just didn’t work. Everyone in Crystal Lake believed Jason to be dead. So instead, I would keep Crazy Ralph alive and have Ralph be connected to Jason in a big way The big reveal is that Ralph is Elias Voorhees. He raised Jason along with his wife Pamela. While Jason was born with disabilities, they loved him with all their heart. Have it mention that Elias also worked at Crystal Lake as the park ranger before the drowning, and that Jason learned some survival skills from his dad such as archery, laying traps for animals etc. When Jason “drowned” Pamela lost it and Elias left in fear of what she would do and pledged himself to warn everyone away from Crystal Lake in fear of what his wife would have done, and the town has labeled him as “Crazy Ralph” and as the years passed, he discovered that his son has survived, so in 1984 he tried to warn everyone away about Jason. That did not work. So he went to Trish and Tommy in the hopes of saving them and in the hopes of reaching his son. We get a moment between father and son. “Jason, father is here. I missed you my boy.” Jason is in shock and awe....he tries to go in to kill Trish, but Elias grabs his son. Jason drops his machete. This gives Tommy the opportunity to stab and “kill” Jason.

Friday The 13th V A New Beginning

As flawed and pointless as it is, I don’t see anything to change about it

Friday The 13th VI Jason Lives

Only thing I would change is keep in the alternate ending of Elias paying the grave keeper to tending to Jason and Pamela’s grave but make it clear that he knows Jason is not in the grave.

Friday The 13th VII New Blood

Keep in as much blood and death as they originally intended, fuck the MPAA

Just end the movie with Tina sending Jason flying and flung him at the bottom of Crystal Lake. Anything is better than Tina’s abusive father getting a heroic moment at the end

Friday The 13th VIII Jason Takes Manhattan

Jason kills everyone aboard the SS Lazarus

Cut out the stupid kid Jason flashes

Make Jason’s face more zombie like and less muddy and slimey

Actually give us what the title suggests. Jason goes to Manhattan and goes on a killing spree in Manhattan. Jason just kills his way across Manhattan, Jason kills in all the major landmarks in Manhattan killing a total of 50 people. By the end of the movie, Jason kills the main characters and swims back to Crystal Lake.

Jason Goes To Hell:The Final Friday

As for Jason Goes To Hell. It is the result of the last movie. Jason’s rampage In Manhattan is what gets the FBI’S attention. The FBI recruit the survivors from the previous movies. Ginny Field, Chris Higgins, Tommy & Trish Jarvis, Pam Roberts, Megan Garris and Tina Shepard and Alice Hardesty. Their plan is the same as the opening of the movie, only it is saved for the end. Tommy and co lure Jason to the FBI hit squad, but the plan fails. Jason kills the FBI agents one by one. So it’s up to the Crystal Lake survivors to finally end Jason once and for all. Jason is weakened from the gunfire and bombing but he still stands. Tina uses her telekinesis to hold Jason off, while everyone takes their turns to hack Jason to pieces. Ginny takes a pickaxe to Jason’s throat, Alice chops his left arm off, Megan shoots him in the chest, Trish stabs him in the back, Pam stabs him in the heart and It ends with Tommy decapitating Jason. Jason is dead. End credits. Freddy pulls Jason’s mask down to hell, thus setting up Freddy Vs Jason.

Freddy vs Jason

Keep Kane Hodder as Jason

Have Jason’s damage through the years be apparent. The axe scar, the missing left eye and the skeletal decomposition.

Have it be about Alice Johnson, her son Jacob and Maggie learning that Freddy is still alive, while also encountering Jason slaughtering the children of Elm Street. Tommy hears about this, but learns this is the work of Jason. So Tommy goes to Springwood to try and stop Jason. Jason kills his share of the Elm Street kids, this gives Freddy enough power to return. Freddy kills the majority of the Elm Street children, but leaves Alice, Jacob and his daughter Maggie for last. So Tommy, Alice, Jacob and Maggie goes to Crystal Lake in the attempt to wake Jason up and bring Freddy out in the real world. Maggie puts herself to sleep to pull Freddy out in the real world and remember, Freddy has a score to settle with his daughter. Maggie wakes Jason and Freddy traps her in her nightmare of forever watching Freddy kill her own mother, But Maggie gets free and brings Freddy to face Jason.

The fight between Freddy and Jason remains the same. It ends with Maggie decapitating Freddy and Tommy stabbing Jason in the heart. Jason rises from the grave and takes Freddy’s head to his shack and Freddy winks at the end

#Friday The 13th #Jason Voorhees #Elias Voorhees #Tommy Jarvis #Alice Hardy #Tina Shepard #Freddy Krueger #My Changes

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I only just learned that Christine Nöstlinger died last week. It’s the kind of news that leaves you both sad and slightly incredulous, because even as an adult, it’s hard to see someone like Nöstlinger as a real person. To me, she’ll always be a funny, exotic name on the cover of a book - she was one of my favourite writers when I was a young child, and I don’t think it ever occurred to me that those people - people like Roald Dahl, Astrid Lindgren, Bianca Pitzorno or Michael Ende - actually existed in the real world, and did things as mundane as wear pajamas or brush their teeth. In fact, as I was scrolling through a couple of obituaries today, I was surprised to learn Nöstlinger was Austrian, not Swedish (her books were side by side with Lindgren’s on my shelf) and that if her stories were always delightfully subversive, it’s probably because she grew up in Nazi Austria and experienced that reality first-hand. And while I do understand this is a thing that happens - that people have lives, that they must be born somewhere and do stuff and exist in actual reality - as I read of her death I became a child of eight again; what I found myself mourning was that name on my bookshelf - nothing more. I am slightly ashamed of that, of knowing nothing about this person who brought me so much joy, because over the last few years, I’ve gotten to know some YA writers and I now have a new appreciation of how hard they work and how determined they are to make a difference - not only to make children happy, that is, but also to teach them how to think for themselves, to help them engage with the world around them with full awareness. And so, to honour Christine Nöstlinger and her work, I decided to translate a speech she gave to the Austrian Parliament for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen. I couldn’t find an English version of it, and I think it deserves to be more widely read - especially today.

“I was almost two when the Mauthausen concentration camp was opened, and as the last survivors were freed by American troops, I turned eight. For this reason, you could think this is not a subject I remember hearing about or discussing.

But I do.

I didn’t know the word Mauthausen, but I was certainly familiar with the expression ‘concentration camp’. I would hear it again and again as my grandma grumbled about the Nazis with the dairywoman or at the grocer’s. That’s when someone would whisper in warning: ‘You’ll get in trouble!’, they’d say; or: ‘You keep talking like that, you’ll end up in a concentration camp!’.

One memory is particularly clear and vivid in my mind: my uncle, my mom’s kid brother, is visiting us. He stands in his SS uniform, tall and broad, very close to my mother, and says: ‘Ella, the Jews are all going to pass through the chimney!’. And my mother, who was much shorter than he was, went red with rage and slapped him across the face. I think that was the first and only time my normally placid mother ever hit someone.

Obviously, I didn’t understand what ‘pass through the chimney’ meant, but I could guess it was something really bad. And that was the day I understood that Mr Fischl had passed through the chimney.

Mr Fischl was a shoemaker, and he’d had a shop in our alley. He’d resole shoes, repair heels and fix the toe caps so that those who couldn’t afford it wouldn’t have to buy new shoes for their growing children. In 1938, shortly after the Anschluss, my mother witnessed a chilling scene as she was coming home from work: a group of SA soldiers had dragged Mr Fischl out of his shop and they were now forcing him to scrub clean the three white arrows some regime opponents had painted on the wall. A truck was parked in the street, full of grinning SA men. Mr Fischl, on his knees, was surrounded by his amused neighbours. My mother, with a heavy heart, moved to the other side of the street and walked on; she later heard Mr Fischl had been taken away that very day. Soon after those events, an ‘Aryan’ shoemaker took over both Mr Fischl’s shop and his apartment. Nobody ever mentioned Mr Fischl again - nobody, that is, except my mother. Again and again, she’d tell my sister and me what had happened to him. She always felt guilty she hadn’t done anything to stop it, and would always justify that choice to herself by saying: ��If I hadn’t had children waiting for me at home, I would have gone there and sent those thugs packing!’.

I was a child then, and when you’re a child you need to see your mother as someone who’s big and strong and powerful - especially if your father has been away in Russia for a long time. I hadn’t known then that adults sometimes lie to themselves. For this reason, I was thoroughly convinced that my mother would indeed have saved Mr Fischl if I had never been born. ‘Where did they take Mr Fischl?’ I asked once, and when my mother answered bluntly ‘To a concentration camp.’, I came to believe his death had been my fault.

This irrational sense of guilt started to fade away when I finally noticed that my mother was neither strong nor powerful: she was small and helpless, and definitely not capable of sending anyone packing.

But not being guilty is not the same as not being responsible. Many people have fully accepted this, and have done their best to bear witness for future generations - they’ve tried to explain where racism once led us; they’ve stood up and spoke out whenever the mood was souring against a minority group.

Now, that’s not an easy thing to do, and many others were simply too uncomfortable to even try. Instead, those people interfered with this effort to remember, pretended they hadn’t known what was going on, complained about what they themselves had lost in the war, and basked in the self-serving idea of a ‘new beginning’. In order to expedite this ‘new beginning’, our post-war governments were not particularly keen to prosecute those who’d been implicated in Nazi crimes. To be perfectly blunt, those people were simply too many to be locked away. Without them, there would have been no possibility to establish a functioning state. Where on Earth would we have found a sufficient number of teachers and civil servants with a perfectly clean slate soon after the end of the war?

Meanwhile, the efforts to welcome back home those Jews and political opponents who’d managed to flee abroad were lukewarm at best. And there was no question of even discussing how to better integrate the Roma and Sinti communities - or, those among them who’d survived. For all of those reasons, my generation and my children’s generation have grown up in a country in which racism, far from being a bad memory, was instead an ongoing, deep-seated conviction passed down from father to son and from mother to daughter.

And today, not much has changed for the better. The only difference is that racism now presents itself under a different guise. Nobody dares to use (and few to even think) words like ‘master race’, ‘subhuman’, ‘Rassenschande’ and ‘final solution’. There is a strong taboo around them.

No, our current form of racism simply rejects all that is foreign. It sees native people as being threatened by an unsustainable wave of immigration; it insists that foreigners have it easy, and what it means by that is: ‘Those people want to live off us, they want to take something away from us!’.

Those who think these things, those who say them openly when they know others will agree, well - they won’t write racist slogans on the walls, won’t vandalize Jewish tombs, won’t insult a veiled woman, won’t beat up black people or set fire to refugee centres. On the other hand, what they do is giving confidence and justification to the people who actually do all these things; the certainty that they’re acting in everybody’s best interest. They are the fertile ground upon which violence grows.

And the number of minorities against whom people ‘have something’ (in the best case) or ‘do something’ (in the worst) is already increasing. To the traditional victims of disapproval and aggression, today we can add asylum seekers and economic refugees (no matter where they come from); also people with a migration background (no matter whether they’re Austrian citizens or not). And obviously, people whose skin is a different colour. Today, however, unlike what happened in the Nazi era, total assimilation seems to protect from hostility. And I fear that when we’re talking about ‘more integration’, well - to the large majority of the population, what that really means is ‘assimilation’. We do not want to experience and get used to what is foreign and unknown; we want those who only just arrived to adapt to our traditional way of life, and that will rarely succeed. That’s why we are uneasy with living with people from unfamiliar cultures. For a long time now, our politicians’ solution to this problem has been to wait and hope that the issue will fade as those who’re already here slowly become more tolerant and those who have recently moved here slowly learn how to fit in. Often, these expectations have been met; but just as often they have not.

What we need to do is implement concrete measures: for instance, compulsory kindergarten attendance and all-day schools. We need properly trained teachers so that children who speak a different language at home can learn German quickly and efficiently. That way, as they start school, both their language skills and their chances to have a good education will be the same as those of the native speakers. This is the only way to prevent the emergence of parallel societies in vulnerable neighbourhoods. Better schools are also the only viable tool to weaken the deeply ingrained racism of most of our local population. Let’s remember that those who know nothing will believe everything, even the most outrageous nonsense and the most shameless distortion of facts.

That said, we still need to understand why so many people prefer to believe racists over those who say that it’s perfectly possible to coexist peacefully (if not to truly share our lives with others). Maybe there is a reason; maybe our skin doesn’t have seven layers, as we all have learned, but eight. Maybe this eighth layer is a ‘civilisation skin’. We are not born with it. It appears and changes as we grow up. Whether it’s thick or thin, well, that depends on how well we look after it. If we don’t care for it properly, it stays thin and tears easily. And what seeps from those wounds may lead to consequences that will again cause us to say: ‘No one ever wanted that’.”

Christine Nöstlinger, 2015

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Is COVID-19 a Bioweapon?

Story at-a-glance In his book, “Is COVID-19 a Bioweapon? A Scientific and Forensic Investigation,” Dr. Richard Fleming documents evidence showing SARS-CoV-2 is a bioweapon created over the past two decades Once you conclude that SARS-CoV-2 is a bioweapon, you must also recognize that the COVID shots are nothing more than the genetic reproduction of that bioweapon. In other words, they are bioweapons too The same people involved in the funding of this bioweapon are the same people who have interfered with doctors providing treatment to patients, and the same people who have been involved in the development of these COVID shots Health care workers are injecting people with something they cannot possibly give informed consent for, which means health care workers are violating their Hippocratic Oath Health care workers who give these COVID shots are also violating the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Treaty, the Nuremberg Code, the Declaration of Helsinki and other legal statutes

Helping you take control of your health in these crazy times is Dr. Richard Fleming, a prolific author in addition to being a physicist, a nuclear cardiologist, researcher and attorney.Here, we discuss his latest book “Is COVID-19 a Bioweapon? A Scientific and Forensic Investigation,” slated for release September 7, 2021. It’s currently available for preorder on Amazon. It’s an incredibly well-documented book and contains history that many of us aren't aware of. As it turns out, the creation of this virus goes back not a year or two but two decades.“My area of aptitude [is] physics and calculus, the mathematic language for that. Physics, and particularly high energy particle physics, is something that I find very fascinating.I eventually wound up doing some of that later on in life as a nuclear cardiologist. So, [I’ve done] 53 years of research in physics, and in medicine, I actually developed the inflammation in heart disease theory and presented it to American Heart in 1994.I joined American Heart in 1976 as the youngest faculty member at that time, and I got put in several standing committees as a result — basic and advanced cardiac life support as well as the physician cholesterol education faculty.I did a lot of research on dietary influences and factors that are critical, not only for in the end — heart disease — but other chronic inflammatory diseases, be that cerebrovascular diseases, strokes, diabetes or cancer,” Fleming explains.Standing on Principles of Ethics Fleming is also a scientific reviewer for more than 16 different journals. He was on the external clinical review board for The Lancet, but quit in protest of the fake hydroxychloroquine article they published — an act I believe demonstrates his dedication to scientific integrity. He also resigned from the British Medical Journal Open Quality due to similar concerns.“Eventually we either stand behind principles or we acquiesce and become nothing more than the German doctors of Nazi Germany during World War II,” he says. “And as history showed us, they eventually paid a price at the Nuremberg Trials …There are people — powers that be — that think that they have things going their direction, but it's very clear to me that they're not confident that they've got everybody under control. The way in which this is all being handled demonstrates that they're more worried about the truth coming out than not. And I think they're worried about the consequences, as they should be.”Digging Up the Truth Early on in 2020, Fleming started researching treatment options for SARS-CoV-2 using the Fleming Method, which you can learn more about on flemingmethod.com. Using this method, you can measure how a given intervention works on the tissue level, and how infection or inflammation is responding to the treatment.He ended up developing 52 treatment combinations, and over the course of that study, the length of hospitalization stays went from five to six weeks down to one to two weeks. But he also learned something else.“In the process of doing that research, I dug more and more and investigated what was going on, and that led me into the background of the research that many of these people had been doing,” Fleming explains.“Tens of millions of dollars have been funneled out of the U.S., and Anthony Fauci has helped with that. He's been on those committees. You can see the grant numbers in the book.” Is COVID-19 a Bioweapon? While gain-of-function can be used for benevolent purposes, it can just as easily be used for nefarious ones, “and that's kind of what you see happening,” Fleming says.“You see real efforts to produce viruses, coronaviruses, in particular. Spike proteins of coronaviruses to be even more specific, as I show in the book, paid for by the federal government by people who say they were not involved in gain-of-function research.Well, their fingerprints are on the documents, or on the published papers or on the grants or on the patents. You can't say that you're not involved in things when the documents show

differently. They show the work and the money that came out of the federal government that went to Peter Daszak at EcoHealth, that went to Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina, Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other places.For me, as a researcher, obviously, once I start to investigate something, the only way you can stop me from doing that is to put a bullet in my head. Otherwise, I'm going to stay after it. There are things that are not in the book that are going to come out in international criminal court, things I'm saving for that, because this virus is, by definition, a biological weapon.It violates the biological weapons convention treaty. You just have to look at the definitions. It provides nothing useful to humanity. It's dangerous. When Fort Detrick is involved and the Department of Defense is involved … and you see these monies and you see the people that are involved, you realize that … the United States was playing China, China was playing the United States, and you saw who got caught in between. And they're still playing the game.For lack of a better term, this book is an indictment. That's now my attorney hat going on saying that I have provided in this book evidence that I would take to a grand jury … I'm not somebody who is going to give up on having these people dealt with, because all the freedoms that we have lost, and the rights that we have lost as individuals, not to mention just the numbers of people who have died.My argument is … the reason why they died is because they didn't get treatment for the inflammation and the blood clotting that I and other doctors have shown works. The ultimate argument is that you can't kill somebody more than dead … they can't do worse than kill the patient. And we've already seen what doing nothing does. It kills the patient.At no other time in American history have doctors looked at patients and said, ‘We can't do anything for you. Go home and come back when you get sicker.’ We have always treated people with breathing problems with medications for breathing problems. We've always treated people with clotting problems with medicines to stop the clotting.And so, the reason why this is so critical to understand is because the same people who were involved in the funding of this bioweapon are the same people who have interfered with doctors providing treatment to patients, and the same people who have been involved in the development of these vaccines.”While Fleming carefully lays out the evidence in his book, he leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide whether SARS-CoV-2 is a bioweapon or not. However, he says, if you do come to that conclusion (and he believes you will once you’ve seen the evidence), “then you have to recognize that the vaccines are nothing more than the genetic reproduction of that bioweapon.” Hence, the COVID shots are bioweapons too.Warning to Medical Professionals If you are a doctor, nurse, pharmacist or other health professional administering these COVID shots, you may be wise to reconsider your participation in this scheme. A significant problem is there’s no way to provide or obtain informed consent. As noted by Fleming:“If you're injecting someone with these drug vaccine biologics, you are injecting them with something that you cannot possibly give them informed consent for, which means you're violating your Hippocratic Oath, you're violating the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Treaty, you're violating the Nuremberg Code, you're violating the Declaration of Helsinki.It's right across the board. It's not even something that you can pretend doesn't happen anymore. It's just in everybody's faces. And you can see that the powers that be are so stressed out right now that they are cajoling and coercing and manipulating and attacking. My friends in Italy tell me that vaccinated people are behaving in the same way that they did during World War II towards the Jews and the intellectuals.And let's remember, the first people Hitler put in

concentration camps weren't the Jews. The first people were the intellectuals, because if you take the intellectuals and the doctors off the street, if you stop people from talking, you can control the people.So, the pressure being put on the medical community in this country and in countries around the world to simply go along is nothing more than the equivalent of what Adolf Hitler and the SS did during World War II when they rounded up the intellectuals. One [thing] will lead to the next and there's nothing about this that has been a successful campaign to control an infectious virus …All you have to do is read the emergency use authorization documents. I'm just stunned at how many people have not read these. I'm stunned at physicians not having read these.”On flemingmethod.com, you can find several video presentations and PDFs where Fleming goes through the emergency use authorization documents. With that data in hand, Fleming suggests asking yourself some fundamental scientific questions, such as: “Is there any statistical difference in the number of people who developed COVID-19 or died among the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated?”The answer provided in the documents is no. There is no statistical difference between the two groups. The vaccines do not statistically reduce COVID-19 infection or death thereof. There are fewer cases in absolute numbers, but statistically there’s no difference. Add to that the risk of side effects. If you take the shot, you risk developing inflammation and blood clotting.The same people that were involved in the funding of this bioweapon are the same people that have interfered with doctors providing treatment to patients, and the same people that have been involved in the development of these vaccines. ~ Dr. Richard Fleming

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Great Inventors: They called Marconi a lunatic

It was during the summer of 1894 when an unknown twenty-year-old Italian by the name of Guglielmo Marconi called his parents into a room to show them how he could make a bell, on a far wall, ring by simply pressing a button. He had done so by using electromagnetic radiation, first introduced by the German physicist Heinrich Hertz in 1888.

Once Marconi’s father, a wealthy landowner, had checked for trickery (there were no wires) he handed over the contents of his wallet; enabling his son to buy the equipment he needed for some even more ambitious experiments. Within a year Marconi was able to send and receive electronic signals over a distance of two and a half kilometres, both around hills and through buildings. Convinced of the value of his invention, particularly to the military and the telegraph companies who were busy stringing wiring all over the world, Marconi wrote to Pietro Lacava, the Italian politician who had become the Minister for Post and Telegraphs in 1889, outlining his ‘wireless telegraph’ and requesting funding. Marconi never received a reply although the document did turn up much later at the ministry with the words ‘to the Longara’ scrawled across the top; a reference to the infamous lunatic asylum on Via della Lungara in Rome. Meanwhile the young Italian continued with his experiments, achieving ever improving results over longer distances and decided to travel to England in 1896 where he presented his ideas to William Preece, the Chief Electrical Engineer of the British Post Office, who had himself been experimenting with wireless transmission since 1892. Preece immediately recognised the value of Marconi’s new technology and introduced it to the Royal Society during a lecture called ‘Signalling through Space without Wires’ which was given in London on 4 June 1897, the very same year that the President of the very same Society, Lord Kelvin, had piously announced ‘Radio technology has no future.’ However, by early 1899 Marconi was transmitting wireless messages between Cornwall and France and in November of that year he was invited to America to demonstrate his equipment. On the return journey aboard the SS St Paul, Marconi and his assistants set up a transmitter and the passenger liner became the first in history to report its estimated arrival time from a distance of sixty-six miles short of the English coast. By 1902 Marconi had managed to transmit and receive messages between North America and Europe, he had built a station at South Wellfleet in Massachusetts and on 18 January 1903 famously connected the American President, Theodore Roosevelt, with the English King Edward VII in what was the first ever transatlantic wireless communication, using Morse Code, between America and mainland Europe. Within a decade Marconi’s company had built powerful transmitters on both sides of the Atlantic and was responsible for nearly all of the communication between ship and land, even establishing a nightly news service for Captains to relay to their passengers. It was a Marconi wireless telegram that alerted the British police to the likelihood that the notorious murderer Dr Crippen was heading for Quebec aboard the Canadian Pacific Liner SS Montrose, allowing detectives to board a faster ship and arrest him on his arrival on 31st July 1910. Albert Jack's 'AWESOME INVENTIONS' It was the first time wireless communication had ever been used to catch a killer. Marconi’s wireless telegram station also received news of the sinking of the Titanic in April 1912, allowing messages to be relayed to other ships in the area and saving countless lives in the process. As hard as it is to imagine now, it is quite possible that, without Marconi’s technology, all lives would have been lost and the sinking of the Titanic may, today, remain a mystery as nobody would ever have known why she failed to arrive in New York. In the same way that had the equipment been developed a little sooner then the fate of the Mary Celeste would not be a mystery. Ironically, the inventor himself had been offered free passage aboard the Titanic’s maiden voyage but had instead chosen to travel three days earlier on another ship. Back in the Marconi Station an employee called David Sarnoff was co-ordinating the rescue efforts and listing the names of the known survivors. Apparently he alone manned the station for seventy-two hours without a break, or so he claimed, but this was not how Sarnoff would secure his place in wireless radio history. Sarnoff has an even better story than that. For it was David Sarnoff, an ambitious Marconi employee, who realised there was a much greater potential for the use of wireless radio waves than simple point to point communication. The telephone had already been providing that service since 1892, albeit with the use of wires that limited its reach. Sarnoff, on the other hand, recognized that the same message could be picked up by multiple receivers, if they were all using the same radio wave frequency. If he could have one listener, he reasoned, then why not one hundred, or one million, or even ten million, for exactly the same cost to the broadcasting company? But he had to be cautious as in 1913 an inventor called Lee de Forest (1873 – 1961) who worked at the Federal Telegraph Company was being sued by the United States Federal Attorney, on behalf of shareholders who felt they had been defrauded by his own plans to develop wireless radio. The Prosecuting Attorney is recorded claiming that, ‘Lee de Forest has said in many newspapers and over his signature that it would be possible to transmit the human voice across the Atlantic before many years. Based on these absurd and deliberately misleading statements, the misguided public has been persuaded to purchase stock in his company.’ de Forest was later acquitted but nearly bankrupted in the process. Sarnoff learned the lessons and, instead of making public announcements, he quietly experimented until he hit upon the idea of broadcasting music, from a gramophone player. It was the first time the radio wave technology had been thought of as a medium for entertainment, rather than for transmitting information. His colleagues were less than impressed and one famously commented, ‘The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?’ Undeterred, in 1916 Sarnoff outlined his ideas in a memo to Edward J Nally, a vice president and General Manager at Marconi who, whilst recognising the potential, deferred the idea as the company was already stretching their resources thanks to the ongoing First World War. In 1919 The General Electric Company of America bought Marconi and Sarnoff again submitted his memo, this time to Owen D. Young the new Chief Executive who had formed the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) during the same year which had dealt primarily with military communications. Again Sarnoff was ignored but with the increase of amateur radio enthusiasts, using self-built receivers all across America, Sarnoff finally demonstrated the potential of his idea by arranging commentary of a heavyweight boxing match between the legendary Jack Dempsey and the French war hero Georges Carpentier on July 2nd 1921. It was billed as the fight of the century and the first with a million dollar ticket sales as nearly 100,000 people turned up to watch. Meanwhile a staggering 300,000 people listened to Sarnoff’s radio commentary on crackling, home-made receivers all across the country. By the end of that year the demand for home radio equipment had become so large that transmitting stations were popping up in every state and the radio industry had been born, despite the predictions of esteemed American inventor Thomas Edison who claimed, in 1922, that ‘the radio craze will soon die out in time.’ Sour grapes for Mr Edison? In truth, in modern times nearly 85% of Americans still listen to the radio at some point in each day, as do more than 90% of all Europeans. So, whatever happened to the Italian politician Pietro Lacava who had suggested Marconi was a lunatic as a twenty-year-old? Well, he went on to enjoy spells as the Minister for Trade and Industry and Minister for Finance in successive Italian Governments. No wonder the Italians never achieved meaningful anything after the Renaissance. I thought it was because they were all too busy having sex and watching football. Instead it seems to be because they had men like Lacava in charge. He died peacefully on Boxing Day in 1912, three years after the lunatic Marconi had been awarded a Nobel Prize for his work. – Albert Jack Albert Jack AUDIOBOOKS available for download here

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Speed Oriented and Art As Soul - Bugatti

On Bugatti's official website, TRADITION is placed in the most prominent position. A timeline spanning two centuries records every important event about Bugatti, but there are some blank years on this long timeline. These blank years are the ill-fated fate of the Bugatti brand, and those that have been remembered are a series of great moments in the history of the automobile industry. In the place where Bugatti was born, we will use museums and factories to find the heritage of this brand for a century.

● The quiet speed and old art in the museum

In the small town of Mulhouse in eastern France, the French National Automobile Museum Musée National de l'automobile is located here, and it has a better known name-Bugatti Automobile Museum. Among the more than 500 vehicles in the collection, more than two-thirds are Bugatti of various models. To understand the history of Bugatti, this is the place to be.

The Bugatti Automobile Museum was formerly the personal car collection museum of the Schlumpf brothers. The two brothers are Swiss, born in Italy, and operate a textile business in France. Bugatti’s founder, Ettori Bugatti, was also born in Italy, and later founded Bugatti in France. Perhaps due to the almost same life and cultural background, the Schlumpf brothers love Bugatti cars and began to collect various models of Bugatti cars when their careers were in full swing. In the 1950s, new car design trends swept the European automobile industry. People sold vintage cars from the 1920s and 1930s and replaced them with new-age streamlined cars. At this time, the Schlumpf brothers bought almost all the Bugatti cars worth collecting at a low price. . Today, these cars have become rare treasures, and some are even the only orphans in the world.

Bugatti cars are precious, mostly because of the bumpy fate of this brand. From the establishment of the factory in 1909 to the cessation of production in 1956, fewer than 8,000 cars drove out of the Bugatti factory, so every Bugatti in this museum is almost a limited edition of 1/8000. What's more rare is that each of these 8,000 Bugattis is a masterpiece of the perfect combination of mechanics and art.

● The color of the car

In the early European car races, each country had its own main color, and this tradition has been retained to this day. The most famous of these are the four racing powers: German Silver Arrow, British Racing Green, French Racing Blue and Italian Red Devils. For the history of racing colors, you can refer to the above four books. This set of books uses color as a clue to introduce the history of motor sports in these four countries in depth. After reading these four books, you will have a deeper understanding of the entire history of motorsport.

Every Bugatti's car is infused with Ettori Bugatti's persistent pursuit of cars. Less than 20 years old, Bugatti showed his footing in the auto industry and completed the design of the first car. In 1909, Ettore Bugatti founded his own automobile company-Automobiles E. Bugatti in Molsheim, France, and began to produce Bugatti cars.

He is an engineer who is good at designing and manufacturing high-performance engines, while focusing on lightweight and aerodynamics. He often said: weight was the enemy, and ridiculed that Bentley was the fastest truck in the world (at that time Bentley was Bugatti’s biggest competitor on the track). The high-performance engine and lightweight body not only allowed Bugatti to repeatedly break speed records, but also allowed his car to take the lead on the track. He is also an artist, born in an artistic family in Milan, his father is a furniture and jewelry designer. He used the artistic talents given to him by his family in his car design to create noble and luxurious large cars. Every Bugatti car is a galloping artwork.

Bugatti's mechanical and artistic attainments have helped him create a near-perfect car, but Bugatti cannot avoid a series of bad luck. In 1939, Ettore Bugatti’s son, Jean Bugatti, died unexpectedly in a new car testing accident. Bugatti was hit hard and he should have been Bugatti's successor. Not only that, Molsheim, where the Bugatti factory is located, is located in the Alsace region of eastern France, bordering Germany. Since ancient times, this has been an eventful place that has been conquered by Germany and France. After the outbreak of World War II, German cavalry occupied Alsace, Bugatti lost the factory in Molsheim, Ettore Bugatti had to move to near Paris to build a new factory to continue the development of Bugatti cars.

After the end of World War II, the whole of Europe entered into a rejuvenation and reconstruction. This should be the beginning of everything. However, the cloud that over Bugatti did not dissipate, but became more dignified. On August 21, 1947, Ettore Bugatti passed away. In the following years, Bugatti Automobile also closed its business. Since then, Bugatti has changed hands several times, and although there have been several signs of revival, they are all short-lived. The closest to success was Italian businessman Romano Artioli, who bought the Bugatti brand in 1987 and founded the Bugatti Automobile Company in Italy and launched the super sports car EB110. This is a super sports car that inherits the spirit of Bugatti and has Italian characteristics. It has 553 horsepower and a top speed of 343km/h. EB stands for Ettore Bugatti, 110 is to commemorate his 110th birthday, but this car is not able to turn the tide and save the Bugatti brand. The untimely EB110 just caught up with the weak economy in Europe and America, and the demand for super sports cars fell. In the end, only 139 units were produced.

Subsequently, Bugatti Automobile went through several equity transactions and was eventually acquired by the European car predator-Volkswagen in 1998. In the wealthy Volkswagen Group, Bugatti has ushered in new development opportunities.

● Molsheim's revival and Bugatti's future

In the Bugatti Museum shuttle between Bugatti of various ages, you can get three key words-speed, nobility, art, this is the history of Bugatti. Then there is the Molsheim Bugatti factory not far away, where there is Bugatti's future.

This is the residence of Ettore Bugatti and the earliest factory of Bugatti. After Volkswagen took over, it moved the Bugatti headquarters back to the place where the brand was born, and built a new factory to produce the new era of Bugatti cars. During this time, Bugatti has released several concept cars, and finally released the Weihang that shocked the world in 2005. This car not only announces the rebirth of Bugatti, but also makes this brand re-landing on the throne of the king of speed.

Perhaps only in Volkswagen, Bugatti can regain its former glory, not only because of Volkswagen's financial and technical strength, but also an indispensable figure-Ferdinand Piech, then president of Volkswagen. His persistent pursuit of machinery, desire for speed, and insights into luxury seem to coincide with Ettore Bugatti. Only he understands Bugatti's speed, nobility, and art, and only he can recreate Bugatti.

The Bugatti factory has only more than 80 employees. The workers on the production line use their unique rhythm to assemble parts from all over the world into finished products. There is no intense production atmosphere in the factory, only attention to details. The W16 engine comes from Germany. It has 1,001 horsepower, or even 1,200 horsepower. The dual-clutch gearbox developed for the Veyron is specially supplied by the British racing company. This amazing powertrain must be inspected by the factory before it can be installed on the chassis. The carbon fiber monocoque cockpit was shipped here from Italy. In the end, these materials are combined to become a unique Weihang.

Oliver Cramm, head of Bugatti’s quality control department, also added that: Weihang’s assembly method is different from traditional cars. We have no “wedding” here (the process of combining the upper part of the body with the chassis system marks the birth of a car. Volkswagen Group internally calls it a wedding), Weihang is composed of three parts: the front cabin, the cockpit and the rear engine compartment.

After a Weihang is born, it has to go through a sacred baptism before it can be handed over to its ultimate owner. This is the job of Pierre-Henri Raphanel, the Bugatti Queen’s test driver. Each Weihang has to break the speed of 300km/h on a nearby airport runway before it is finally completed. 300km/h is just a normal speed for Pierre-Henri. He once drove the Weihang SS to set a world record of 431km/h.

Pierre-Henri took the other people back and forth around the factory a few times. Everyone's expressions, facial features and facial muscles showed excitement, horror, surprise, and pleasure at the same time after getting off the car. This is an indescribable expression. The mental activity behind it is harder to figure out. Only by getting in the car, can you experience their mood.

One of Pierre-Henri's daily tasks is to drive Weihang with passengers from all over the world around the factory. Most of the passengers sitting in the co-pilot are customers who order Weihang. This is a very easy job for him. After coming out of the factory and quickly on the highway, Pierre-Henri couldn't wait to demonstrate how Weihang's dual-clutch gearbox works. "The gear changes are quick and smooth. This is the best gearbox in the world." He praised this gearbox more than once. Then he turned his attention to the engine, "Look, there are 1001 horsepower here, and the current speed is 110km/h, which only uses less than 200 horsepower." He pointed to the unique horsepower meter on the dashboard. Then he slowed down, stepped on the accelerator deeply, and then suddenly released the accelerator. "Hey, listen to this wonderful sound." It takes about 7 seconds for Weihang to accelerate from a standstill to 200km/h. This car accelerates fast, but it also has good comfort. Even if it is galloping at a speed close to 200km/h, there is no obvious bump in the car.

The design requirement of Weihang is to be able to maintain super-high-speed cruising in daily driving, and this car not only needs to run fast, but also to drive it to the concert. It is said that this is a request made by Piëch. Perhaps we have always paid too much attention to the horsepower and speed of Weihang, while neglecting that it is actually a luxurious GT sports car. No matter from which point of view, Weihang is the pinnacle of the GT sports car. Speed, nobility and art, Weihang inherits the spirit of Bugatti.

If one day another car brand breaks Bugatti's speed record, will Bugatti fight back immediately? Oliver talked about the difficulties of building a sports car with a speed of more than 400 kilometers per hour, and the conditions required to break the speed record, and finally he said the most important sentence: other brands cannot exceed the speed of Bugatti.

In fact, the record of 431km / h created by Bugatti Weihang SS has always attracted the eyes of other supercar manufacturers. Koenigsegg, McLaren, and SSC are all eager to try.It is said that Bugatti is already preparing a weapon for the challenge, and they are likely to have prepared a 1600 horsepower Weihang.Although there is no trace in the Bugatti factory, I believe that a new world record will be born soon.Because it is Bugatti's innate instinct to break the speed limit.

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TTYBW Should’ve Been Bleach’s Endgame: An Analysis

So given the fact the anime is coming back (...sigh...) I want to talk about why TTYBW won’t work in the anime either unless it has some major structural changes in the plot, battles and characters.

Let me explain why.

TTYBW is the final arc in Bleach as a story. It was the moment to tie down a lot of plot points that were left hanging for several years, starting from Ichigo’s true origins which remained a mystery from the very beginning. It was a way to introduce the Quincy too, an elusive race we really didn’t know much about except through what Uryu knew, as Ryuken never provided any new information. We wanted to know many other things related to several characters we had come to love through the years, but specially see where exactly Ichigo would end up, or rather, how much stronger he would become now as a true Shinigami given the end of the last arc.

And though we got some answers, character development was stunted for our main cast, even Ichigo after so many revelations didn’t grow as much as he should have. Rukia and Uryu got sidelined, which hurts in Uryu’s case as this was his personal arc. Aizen and Urahara, who had the key to much of the knowledge of whatever was happening, didn’t do much or provided many answers.The Quincy were forgettable at best, with few exceptions. Yhwach was the greatest disappointment as the final antagonistic force, and the final battle was probably the worst out of all the major battles fought. Wasting time and space for two full chapters about how all is well now, instead of immediate repercussions or a grander battle was also a let down and a very unreasonable decision to make.

This said, I don’t mean to imply the whole arc was a waste of time, but it definitely could have been much better.

The way it was set it was kind of like what Marvel did with Inifinity War and Endgame. After years of caring about a variety of characters, we were meant to see them confront their greatest foe yet, making characters who had never met or were at odds with one another unite against the same enemy. With the stakes raised so high, it was meant to be a dramatic experience that got the audience invested.

In Bleach’s case, the stakes were raised at an all time high. We were talking about the end of the whole world as we knew it. If our characters were to fail, not only would Soul Society (and the souls in it) cease to exist, but also the Human World and Hueco Mundo would have a similar fate. This was the set up for the whole cast to work together against the Quincy, to put their differences aside for a just cause. To a lesser extent, they did, but not in the level they were suppossed to be. Remember, this is the end of the world. This is not a one character will die, or only SS will be affected and the rest of us can move on. No. This was all or nothing, and the truth is the writing didn’t treat it like it was.

Yhwach wasn’t just a villain like Aizen who was still very human. Aizen wasn’t a force that couldn’t be dealt with. He was tough, not only because of his powers but because of his mind. That was what was the most interesting aspect. His intelligence against brute force, which is why it took Urahara planning ahead to defeat him. With Aizen it wasn’t a battle of strenght but more of wits. And every time characters treated it as a matter of strength, they failed (Shinji, Gin, Yamamoto, Ichigo). That’s why Urahara ultimately defeating him through Ichigo made sense. A lot of people got mad, but, really, only Urahara was suppossed to match Aizen in intelligence, no one else. Yhwach, on the other hand, was pure strength. I’m not saying he was an idiot, but his powers made him overpowered. Whereas Aizen used his own powers to accomodate his plans, he used other resources such as manipulation, distractions, and using his opponent’s weaknesses against them to win. Yhwach, meanwhile, didn’t need to plan that much ahead given the fact he was so strong. Yes, he did manipulate his followers into doing his bidding, but at the end they were distractions at best, as he by himself could have defeated everyone just by knowing the future. There were only two characters that could have defeated him: in one future, Ichigo, and according to Haschwalt, Uryu too held the key. But both of these defeats were related to the characters’ powers: Ichigo by using the OG Zangetsu and Uryu with his individual Quincy powers. There was no wit and no plans involved in here.

Yhwach was a forced not to be taken lightly. He defeated Yamamoto, the oldest Shinigami alive and the most powerful one. Remember that Aizen had to develop a Espada specifically to defeat Yamamoto and even then he didn’t actually manage to kill him. Yhwach did kill him. Which in turn made the system of the Gotei 13 collapse as a result, with the need to appoint a new Captain Commander, and also pretty much reducing the morale in the aftermath of the first attack. This results in the Shinigami in positions of power having to put their differences aside to save their world. But there’s a catch. We don’t hear of Central 46 in terms of help. The nobles, except for the ones who are Shinigami, are mute. This could have been the time to meet all inhabitants of the SS, and yet they weren’t present.

Now, back in HM, we know Harribel, the new queen, is being held captive. Urahara, along with Chad and Orihime, went to HM, probably to get help. When he came back, he brought Grimmjow and Nelliel with him. This was expected. If we are in the endgame, we need all characters to fight together, and Grimm and Nel are two of the most loved Espada. But here’s the thing, if this is a life or death situation, two Espada aren’t going to make it, specially given the fact that they weren’t even the two most powerful ones. And, alright, most Espada died in the Winter Battle, but there were others still alive. Remember, Yhwach shouldn’t be taken lightly. He defeated and killed Yamamoto. His Quincy defeated captain-ranked Shinigami. Why would Grimm and Nel be of that much help? What should really have happened is that Urahara should have used Grimm, Nel and other available hollow to free Harribel and, presumably, others working under her, and convince them to join forces with the Shinigami to save HM. Without SS, HM can’t exist. Urahara staying for so long in HM didn’t pay off when he was clearly needed in SS during that initial attack, when things really went south for the Shinigami. Remember that probably thousands perished then. Urahara’s absence has little payoff then.

Then, on those living in the Human World we have Chad and Orihime, who were sidelined time and time again. The few vizards left in Karakura, who didn’t do much. And, the most interesting ones, the Fullbringers. Remember this arc was set right after TLA one, where the Fullbringers were the main antagonists. Seeing them work together with Ichigo and co. would have reminded us about how high the stakes were, and that people can come together when in need. It would have been a sort of way to forgive and move on. And though we did see them, and Tsukishima and Ginjo did help... it wasn’t what it could have been in terms of impact. For one thing, the emotional impact of killing both Ginjo and Tsukishima on the last arc was entirely lost. The stakes of both fights were entirely diminished. Secondly, the ones who should have been in the actual fights and should have helped defeat Yhwach were the Fullbringers still alive and still very much humans. It wasn’t enough to see Riruka and Yukio. We needed the rest of them there and actually fighting alongside the Shinigami.

Another thing. Though some characters that weren’t Shinigami joined forces and fought against the Wandereich, we seldom saw fights in which we had a Shinigami and a Hollow fighting right next to each other, for example. Like imagine, I don’t know, let’s say Grimmjow fighting side by side with Rukia, a character he had amost killed in the past. There would’ve been a conflict of interests there, but they would have been forced to let bygones be bygones. Yukio fighting alongisde Hitsugaya is another example. The closest we got was Bazz B helping out, which was a great moment and made his death even sadder. But why didn’t we have any more of these moments with the rest of the cast? Bazz B was a character that had just been introduced. Imagine the emotional impact with characters we’ve known for a long time, now fighting together.

Remember the battle in Fake Karakura, where some captains and vice captains are fighting Aizen and the Espada, and there’s a moment when they feel like they could lose, and the rest aren’t coming any time soon as they’re in HM helping Ichigo and co., but then, out of nowhere, the Vizards make an appearance, ready to fight Aizen. And Shinji says they’re not there to help the Shinigami, but to help Ichigo. Remember what you felt the first time you read/saw that scene? Do you remember the tension, then the relief, then the emotions? Remember that feeling of pride for Ichigo, cause he’d made such an impact in the lives of so many people? Imagine that feeling, but to max capacity if Hollows and Fullbringers would have worked together with the Shinigami to fight the Quincy, and if the main reason is that Ichigo, the one character who belonged in some ways to all of them, had managed to convince them to fight together.

There was no reason to make Ichigo a human/Shinigami/Hollow/Vizard/Fullbringer/Quincy if not to unite all of these groups who were enemies. The only other reason was to make him insanely OP, and even then he wasn’t the strongest. It was a failed opportunity which really dimished the stakes of the story. If only two Espada are fighting, then things won’t be as bad for HM. Except we know they are. If only a few Fullbringers are fighting, then the Human World isn’t in trouble. Except we know it is. Somehow, we had this feeling that Karakura was more in trouble during the Winter War than in here.

And to top it all, we have Ishida Uryu.

As the audience, we know Uryu was trying to protect the world. That he was a lot like a Gin, in the sense he was in the enemy ranks with the sole purpose of backstabbing Yhwach, except in his case it was for a selfless reason. Haschwalt is onto him the whole time. But in the eyes of the Shinigami who had come to know him, he had betrayed them. Worst of all, in the eyes of his friends, he had betrayed them. In the eyes of the Wandereich, he was one of them.

So, if Uryu had actually managed to fight alongside Ichigo, imagine that sweet sweet impact. Both hold together by the shared history of their parents that had now come just come to light. Joined together by the fact their mothers had a very similar way, and that tragedy shaped them to be who they were. But above all else, they are joined together by the fact that, before they came to know all of this, before things were this complicated, Uryu and Ichigo were friends already. Despite their initial rivalry, they couldn’t hate each other, and time and time again they had joined forces. Uryu being the only one of his human friends coming to save Ichigo during TLA arc wasn’t in vain. It was to show how far they had come. And during the last arc, this relationship should have been taken to its highest point. Uryu and Ichigo being friends because ultimately being a Quincy or a Shinigami doesn’t matter. What matters is the bond the two have. It would have shown that things can change. That world moves forward. That old grudges can be put aside. That it doesn’t matter what you are. It is how you feel what is important. It should have been the culmination of their shared story.

We were robbed in terms of development of other characters. Since this was Uryu’s arc, his relationship with all of his friends should have been explored, particularly with Ichigo and Orihime. We sort of got it with Ichigo, as I stated above, it should have definitely been more emotional. Then with Orihime, because the two grew very close together. In SS arc they spend a lot of that time together. In HM, Uryu explicitly said he was going there to save Orihime, while the others had another agenda. He was there in the dome when Ichigo fought against Ulquiorra. During the time skip, it is shown they talk a lot together. At the beginning of the last arc, Orihime says this phrase “That’s what I like about you, Ishida-kun” in terms of his relationship to Ichigo. And finally, when they realized Uryu is with the Wandereich, Orihime calls out to him and they share a pained look. There was definitely much more to explore there, but sadly we got nothing and Uryu was sidelined in the final chapter.

Other characters needed more. We never did find out exactly what did Rukia promise to get her bankai. Rukia and Ichigo needed more moments together, as they had a conversation long overdue regarding Masaki and maybe even Kaien. We never see Hitsugaya and Hinamori talking after everything, even when Hitsugaya got stronger, and presumably discovered his true bankai form in his quest to be stronger for her. Hisagi should’ve gotten his bankai there. Ryuken and Uryu never did talk or anything. The six of hearts should’ve fought Yhwach together. In general the final battle should have gone for longer and been better. For a manga in which the fights were always the most important factor, this has got to be the sorriest excuse for a final battle if I have ever seen one. And Aizen’s whole character could have done more. My biggest disappointment was that he didn’t immediately jumped to the chance of being King.

There’s a lot more to point out, but let’s leave it like this.

Now, how can we improve TTYBW so it feels more like an endgame?

Let’s compare it to what is probably the best written arc in Bleach: The Soul Society Arc. Now I admit that the other arcs were great and I enjoyed them a lot, but the SS arc does something which is writing advice 101: keeping the stakes high, so that the tension remains high at all times. When there’s tension, there’s conflict, and conflict is essential for writing. If there’s no conflict, there’s no story. It is as simple as that. Now conflict can be purely psychological. But in stories like Bleach, which follow closely the hero’s journey, the conflict is not only psychological but physical as well.

What TTYBW did which is important is that it raised the stakes so high that now the whole world is at risk, which means our characters, particularly Ichigo, are not allowed to give up and must keep pushing forward. It is all or nothing. The problem was that at times it felt that the matter wasn’t as important. A lot of fights were pointless, there were scenes that could have been cut short, etc. In short, it felt that we were stuck in things that were irrelevant instead of working towards the main goal: defeating Yhwach. Now, in the SS the stakes are not that high for everyone, but they are high for Ichigo, our protagonist. Rukia is going to be executed soon. So, Ichigo must grow stronger to be able to save her. The more the date for Rukia’s execution is moved, the higher the stakes, and the higher the tension. For example, Ichigo has only 3 days to achieve Bankai or else Rukia will die. He cannot give up because if he does, Rukia will end up dead.

Everything Ichigo does in the SS is destined to his main goal: saving Rukia. Not only does every fight make him stronger and help him get closer to his objective, but each fight manages to befriend his opponents, which is key during Rukia’s execution, when his new allies come together to stop the other Shinigami from intervening. Even the side story is not pointless. Hitsugaya investigating Aizen’s death and the conflict that arises brings together Aizen’s eventual betrayal in one of the most shocking scenes in the series. Little by little we’re introduced to the key characters in this conflict, as well as have major world building and lore, which answer the questions we started having during the first arc, about who are the Shinigami, how is SS like, how does it work, etc.

If TTYBW had followed a similar path, expanding on the Quincy lore, introducing the new characters in memorable ways, having Ichigo’s allies uniting against a common enemy, the fights serving a purpose to advance the plot instead of being fillers, it could have very well been the best arc in Bleach history. But it didn’t and the payoff wasn’t great. As stated before, Bleach was primarily known because of its fights, having the very final battle against who could have been their greatest foe (as it was set up to be), would have made for one of the greatest battles in shounen history. But it was anticlimatic at best, forgettable at worst. Having a time skip of 10 years served absolutely no purpose whatsoever, and dedicating a chapter to attempt to recreate an Ichigo and Rukia relationship 2.0 with their children was inconsequential. It didn’t solve anything. Nor did it add another layer to the story. It was just an epilogue that was telling us to move on from this story. But we can’t. Because as fans we know the potential the story as a whole could’ve had. It should have been an epic conclusion to a story that was in the making for over a decade. The final battle should have made the audience emotional with pride, joy, and sadness but ultimately satisfaction at all that had been accomplished.

And I’m sorry, but if the only thing you liked about the ending were the ships and believe that makes it have a satisfying conclusion, we weren’t reading the same manga.

Will the anime somehow accomplish this?

Unlikely.

They would need to rewrite the whole thing.

It’s still possible, but do they have enough budget or even Kubo’s permission?

I do expect certain aspects of the story will be filled in as the medium allows for more time to expand on an idea. However, there are other aspects that probably won’t be changed, like pointless fights, or Harribel not being a part of the last arc, for example.

All in all, the potential was well but it was wasted. It is honestly a shame, but I won’t accept mediocrity and neither should you.

Let’s take this as a writing lesson to always strive for conflict within a story and the resolution of the main goals set by the protagonist. Secondary characters are secondary for a reason, and they shouldn’t interfere with the development of the MCs. Even the coolest battles need a purpose, or honestly what is the whole point of having them there. Resolution means resolution. We don’t need the answers to all the questions, as open endings do exist, but all main plot points should be resolved in some way or another, and not left for other materials, such as novels.

In conclusion, I have low expectations for the anime. I think it is a way for WSJ to cash some more money. But knowing how it all goes down, the anime won’t be such a let down. Just another segment of what could have been greatness but wasn’t.

#anti bleach ending #yes I just wrote a meta about ttybw #no I won't tag it in the main tag

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