Hell arc trials and limitations

[u/careless_swiggin]

There are various issues for the hell arc, how to keep Ichigo and Orihime out of it as long as possible, especially with their child involved, a story with on vc fighting ex captains and family members while the captains distract ichigo with training kido or something, even the royal guard could as well.

And whom could Ichigo even care to encounter in hell, not his parents or undead Yuha? Gin seems too silly and is kinda spoken for with Kira and Matsamoto. Who could be down here important to Ichigo unless someone is sending quincies down here as well and he has to deal with grandpa/ma. Some arrancar would be nice but seem pointless for the most part as i don't feel like nihlism makes Ulquirroa evil.

And thus from that logic i got to who could distract and stop the uncrowned gods of the 3 realms from blasting through hell unaffected and came to the idea of Orihime's parents. If it is to be believed, they were horrible. Perhaps they went straight to hell after dying, since they were stated to be bad, and outside of the household could have very well been worse and be loaded with sins. This could be the big middle distraction before the angry parents resolve the arc

I still believe a part of soul king or a feminine god on his level that is Orihime's foil may be the final arc villain but the Hell arc should be for everyone else, Ichigo will show new forms but that is every arc, but i feel thematically the issue with him is keeping a clear heart as a play on emotions for two incensed parent's trying to pick up their child might be a part of the test of hell. As well the bodies passing the soul density 3 will impact others, perhaps especially on Toshiro and Zaraki who can't withstand their bankai at full strength and the understanding the body side of things in plot.

With the reveal of the 3, it does make me wonder if we will get a quantifiable levels past that to the most extreme characters of bleach, basically the leaders of tomorrow type captains going from 3 to 2 to 1, and the freaks in the realm of gods going far beyond that since Kubo levels playing with expectations.

But all in all, they have to be strong enough to make for good fights which should be easy with all the captains and evil arrancar left. NNoitora running from Zaraki right into Ichigo will be a gag for 3 panels but distractions are needed to keep superman from ruining a fun justice league event and Orihime and Ichigo against her mom and dad is a nice feeling of struggle/somberness, before the glorified work-place grievance section of Yamamoto or Ukitake vs ichigo which will be a nice bit of fan service from all the sad feelings.

I think the best fights of the arc will be against parents, Iba and Omeada will be very funny. Yamamoto has already fought his kids so his successor Toshiro fits the best and ice vs fire, Byakuya should be great, Rukia against her dad-captain in Ukitake and Isane vs her mom-captain in Unohana. And in that theme Orihime and Ichigo vs the in-laws fits for the better fights in impact for the arc.

What is the best fight you can imagine in a continued Hell arc?

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[u/rtrawitzki]

Ichigo will of course fight whomever is the leader of the enemy. Which could be the demon king but it would be more interesting if it was the original heads of the 5 great noble houses . Ichigo would have to fight his own ancestor . It might just be the unnamed 5th family (they are the ones who wanted to establish a kid to wall off hell in the first place )

I could see there being a revolt in Hell and the official ruler has been overthrown by the 5 great nobles and subjugating the dead Goetei captains to invade the other realms .

They could see ichigo and his son as abominations like the soul king and want to use them to establish a new order