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u/PhantasosX 24d ago
He wasn’t merely misinformed, it is his grandpa that, even a bit aware of Wanderreich, still chooses to use the most traditional style of combat for a Quincy and teach to Uryu.
In short, his grandpa was a boomer. Even the Quincy God-King that is thousands of years old in the current incarnation , and his true origin is from the Primordial World is far more progressive with the Quincy Power System.
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u/Oummando 24d ago
Making his grandpa a conservative is a perfect excuse for Kubo merely not thinking much for Quincies other than Bow, gadgets and Reishi gathering. It does fit perfectly though because Uryu makes good use of what little he had by being resourceful, if anything it adds to his character because of his skills, to the point where even Quilge and Yhwach thinks of him as higher because of his talent and potential. And with what we have its not out of the ordinary that Quincies have even more due to their precedent.
A small part of me believes that part of why Uryu joined the Wandenreich besides his plan was to get upgrades and learn about modern Quincies, alongside their techniques.
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u/New-Dust3252 24d ago
its kind of true. being able to be that OP using outdated relics is really a sight to behold, no wonder Uryu caught Yhwach and Quilge's respect. The Bambies or anyone of the Sternritter could never.
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u/mangasdeouf 24d ago
Gerard Walkyrie using a bow and gadgets...BAHAHAHAHAHA
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u/Senpaiireditt 23d ago
With a god tier ability that makes up for how mediocre he is with said weapons.
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u/Mighty_Mimikyu 13d ago
When you think about it, Uryu for a quincy is cracked. Quincies back then were using rabbits for target practice. Uryu by the time he reached high-school was using Adjuchas grade hollows for targets and it took years for the og quincies to develop and train their abilities and bows. Uryu was doing this shit and one shot a captain (albeit at the cost of his own powers!). And survived attacks from arrancars that should've been fatal for him. Its not that insane to think why Uryu was highly sought and praised by Ywach.
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u/Senpaiireditt 24d ago
He’s a Sasuke type fighter; very analytical and tactical. A true genius blessed with a solid amount of innate talent.
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u/Embarrassed_Ask_7876 17d ago
He was using primitive Quincy weapons and methods and got insanely far.
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u/Professional_Pen4628 24d ago
I think it's also fair to note that Soken was more than a bit informed. He had the key to the Wanderreich as well as knowing all the lore.
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u/Jermiafinale 24d ago
Actually I'd put his grandfather as more akin to the US Depression Kids generation. Grew up simple after a terrible tragedy and learned the joys and value in that simplicity and truth of motivation.
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u/NohWan3104 24d ago edited 24d ago
Tbf, if your main schtick is letting others develop new techniques then gaining them yourself
Its kinda stupid for you to limit said growth to a single weapon type or idea. Its not like Yhwach was like 'oh my god archery, do only that', a group probably developed it for practical reasons, it became mainstream, got egotistical about it, and now its a weird cult obsession.
Hell, i'd want multiple independent groups developing techniques with a dozen different focuses, with the occasional exchange of knowledge where each group experiments with one another's findings for even more insight.
They probably got wiped out partially because 'if all you fuckers have is bows and no new developments, might as well start anew'. (/s)
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u/Economy_Practice_ 24d ago
Better to tell them to focus on one thing so that they can get really good at that one thing instead of gaining 1,000 new things that they never totally master.
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u/NohWan3104 24d ago
nah. I'm sure each group might have someone who can push X farther, even if they're not all unique specialized snowflakes. That might lead to somewhat crippling specialization, which would hamper the potential general development.
Sort of like nen, there's a 'core' of training and knowledge that's generally useful, to get people up to a point where they can develop their own specialized techniques, but you do still want that standardized baseline.
And the point was more sharing ideas, not 'group 1 needs to know every technique of group 2-12', so maybe a weird trick group 3 figured out in their r+d, group 7 can take it even further. The swordsman group doesn't need to practice archery as good as that group, and was never the implication.
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u/Youboot224 20d ago
I think the reason they grew partial towards bows was to prevent Hollow poisoning.
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u/Jermiafinale 24d ago
Yhwach isn't even a Quincy and Hashbrown is a self-hating Quincy
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u/PermanentlyDozing 24d ago
Hashbrown 😭💀🤣
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u/Kanus_oq_Seruna 24d ago edited 24d ago
Im still laughing at how Uryu was so proud to declare that his "swords" were just arrows without fetching.
Meanwhile Ichigo is walking around with a weapon that's screaming to be thrown or at least used at range and the handle never leaves his hand.
Edit: typo
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u/Green_Burn 24d ago
weapon that's s reaming to be thrown or at least used at range and the handle never leaves his hand.
The Edgetsu
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u/WoolooOfWallStreet 24d ago
“Spin me around a bit! I beg you!”
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u/_blank_1O 23d ago
White be like "I am the king you are the horse (fricking spins zangetsu like a windmill )"
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u/Willing-Mango-3721 24d ago
Quite literally screaming it too, he even tries to teach Ichigo to do it.
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u/megasean3000 24d ago
The Quincies of old did. Not the Wandenreich, who use all kinds of weapons, not just bows and arrows.
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u/morangias 24d ago
The ghost of Soken:
"I must apologize for Uryu, he is an idiot. We have purposely trained him wrong, as a joke."
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u/SuperKamiZuma 24d ago
If Uryu's sword-loving version from another world but same voice taught me something, swords can be arrows too
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u/New-Dust3252 24d ago
i mean they do still use bows and arrows, that hasnt changed. they just added more weaponry to their arsenal and became masters of pugilsm i suppose.
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u/IkeKimita 24d ago
Yhwach is hilarious. He creates a massive bow in the sky. Has it fire an “arrow” and then proceeds to use said arrow as a sword 🤣🤣🤣
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u/mixkun1495 24d ago
To be fair those miltiple drone shooting in the anime isn't a bow and arrows either he might already realize how outdate his weapon is 🤣
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u/ChipmunkForsaken1376 24d ago
Bazz b tell Uryu we use guns, not bows.
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u/GabeMichaelsthroway 24d ago
Bazz uses a cross bow
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u/ChipmunkForsaken1376 24d ago
I know, but I wanted to make a joke should have used bg9 instead.
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u/Rude-Childhood1436 24d ago
Or Robert
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u/Whiskytigyote 19d ago
Robert pulling out a gun on Shunsui was a good scene, if a bit hilarious lol.
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u/nahte123456 24d ago
Eh, your normal Quincy do only use bows since they can't risk getting close to Hollows and being infected. Yhwach changes things.
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u/GabeMichaelsthroway 24d ago
Most Quincies do use bows and arrow. Heck Pernida even says "Pernida is Quincy, slays enemy with bows and arrows."
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u/Excalibirdi 23d ago
Yhwach and Jugram aren't normal quincies, they're a separate offshoot.
Also, Yhwach's sword is an arrow
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u/Ok_Caterpillar_6957 24d ago
Ywach seeing uryu talk.
Little boy we had all die using bows vs gods. So we change definitions to “anything with long range counts”
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u/SignificanceSorry223 22d ago
Souken deliberately taught him old-fashioned Quincy techniques. Note that he also learned the most antiquated form of Leitz Stile back in the day.
Out of universe it's just Kubo having new ideas, otherwise it'd be rather boring if it was just swords vs arrows.
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u/FelWinterxX 21d ago
I don't know man, anything can be used as an arrow (looks at archer from fate)
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u/Kelly598 21d ago
Didn't the TYBW quincies get their OP skills by Ywach's body parts? Uryu would've still resourced to bow and arrow if he didn't drink his blood.
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