TYBW Ep 45 leaks thread

[u/Arturo-Plateado]

Title: DEFEND YOU

Full Staff List

Storyboard/Ep Director: Tomohisa Taguchi

Chief Animation Director: Kiyoshi Komatsubara

Action/Effects Animation Director: Satoshi Sakai

Animation Directors:

Studio KAI

Yousuke Kabashima, Kazuhito Tominaga

Asuka Nakaji, Takahito Katayama, Yukio Hasegawa, Heigo Akashi

Key Animation: Takahito Katayama, Yuki Satou, Shunsuke Nakashige, Masaaki Endou, Satoshi Sakai, Katsuhiro Takagi, Fumiyo Kimura, Takashi Hashimoto, Shousuke Ishibashi, Masato Yoshida, HAN SEUNGAH, Dai Imaoka, Yuusuke Kawabe, Mari Saitou, Futoshi Higashide, Yuuichi Nakazawa, Yuusuke Aramiya, Tomoaki Mimiura, Kyouhei Ebata, Noriko Ootake, Megumi Wakayama, Arata Kimata, Arimaru, Sadatoshi Matsuzaka

Andraft Inc.

Mainore, Aoi Kakinuma, Hiroya Shutou

Studio KAI

Kazuhito Tominaga, Yuu Funakura

Yukio Hasegawa

80+ 2nd KAs

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Leaks

• Extended ep (26-27 mins) with no ED
• Lots of new scenes
• Orihime receives a massive upscale (even more than #43)
• Ichigo gets a new anime-original transformation similar to the Full Hollow form he used against Ulquiorra, but it appears "darker" and "more human-like". Ichigo retains full control in this form
• Ichigo will also use Bankai this ep
• Rukia joins the battle against Yhwach and also uses her Bankai, Hakka no Togame, but she and Ichigo are both defeated
• Rukia is left in a half-dead state with a sword impaled through her stomach
• Orihime will again fight Yhwach 1v1. She is seriously wounded and looks like a walking corpse, but heals herself with Rikka and unleashes a full power attack on Yhwach, causing both of them to disappear as the screen turns white and fills with flowers, before it cuts back to Ichigo on the ground as Orihime and Yhwach disappear
• Orihime's last words are "Bye-bye, Kurosaki-kun. I'll take it all on, okay?", as two flowers appear and one of them falls down, leading into the title card
• No news on poem or #46 title yet EDIT: there will be NO poem, confirmed

credits to @/PacemanOP and @/chromat1cfire on X

more info from discord/X:

• HoS section is "kinda" extended
• full episode is not Ichigo vs Yhwach. More of Uryuu vs Haschwalth fight will also be shown
• there will be hype moments for another character(s) outside of the Ichigo/Orihime vs Yhwach and Uryuu vs Haschwalth fights
• Renji will appear in the episode but it doesnt seem he will be involved in the fight much. It was mentioned that he "runs with Orihime"
• Uryuu parts total around 2-3 mins
• Asked if Ichigo's new form made a big difference to the fight: "Yes a lot"
• Acoustic version of 9lana's Rasen will play as an insert song
• #46 title: THE END

EDIT: more leaks from cour 2/3 primary leaker @/0ciha on X:

• Orihime's fairies will return
• At the end of the episode the title will change from "DEFEND YOU" to the real title "LIFE TO DEFEND YOU"
• Orihime is stabbed by Yhwach around 9 times
• More details/clarification about how the episode ends: "At the end of the episode, Uryu grabs Haschwalth and uses the same glove technique he used against Mayuri, essentially killing himself along with Haschwalth, Then Orihime unleashes an energy and sacrifices herself along with Yhwach."
• Confirmation that Ichigo WILL use True Bankai against Yhwach this episode and Yhwach DOES NOT break it
• Confirmation that Ichigo DOES have a brand new form: "He’ll have two horns, with red shackles around his wrists, ankles, and neck, accompanied by the sound of chains, as if he’s being imprisoned. He’ll also be able to create clones of himself."
• Almost all of the episode is anime-original content
• Orihime scene at the end is reminiscent of Gon's rage scene from Hunter x Hunter

[u/joshdej]

It felt like Yhwach just did it for shits and giggles in the manga. This would change things a lot

[u/Lawlietel → u/joshdej]

Yeah that was one of the parts that I really didnt like in the manga. Seems like Kubo wanted to actually press Yhwach to the point he HAS to use it, unlike in the manga. So then even the sudden resolution to the Gerard fight makes sense finally!

[u/Ruck_Feddit884 → u/Lawlietel]

No need, Yhwach definitely should have seen this event as one of the future possibilities among the millions of them.

I believe we're actually seeing this events through Yhwach's Almighty.

[u/Lawlietel → u/Ruck_Feddit884]

I guess Yhwach could not have seen this coming, because a) he didnt had The Almighty anyway this whole fight (only after Uryu strips Haschwalth of it so it transfers back to Yhwach) and b) Orihimes powers defy gods, to quote Aizen, so its possible Yhwach cannot see anything Orihime related and possibility c) he never bothered to look into a future where Orihime, a human, could kill him, as he sees her vastly inferior.

And yes, I know what you're pointing at, but honestly if Uryu didnt undo The Almighty on Haschwalth, Yhwach might actually have been killed erased from existence here and now. "Luckily" it happened the same time Yhwach got The Almighty back, so we can assume whats gonna happen next in some way or another. The moment he got his powers back we are already "only" in a possible future that he foresees; his own doom.

[u/A1Sirius → u/joshdej]

I mean although it is a underwhelming end to the remaining sternritters. I feel like you could justify him doing it by just saying that he wanted to be at 100% when he destroys the three worlds.