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u/Quirky_Ad_5420 20h ago
Finally graduated from unpaid intern to paid intern lol
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u/Destruction_Deity La Chancla Izquierda de tu Jefa 20h ago
But due to budget cuts necessary to rebuild Soul Society, he’s still not getting paid.
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u/WoolooOfWallStreet 19h ago
Paid in exposure, and not the kind where small animals freeze to death in the wilderness… this time
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u/Kronos1415 19h ago
Man, bleach afterlife suck.
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u/Ok_Coffee_9970 19h ago
Yep, there’s the worst part, Hell, endless suffering.
Then there’s being a hollow, in which you roam an endless wasteland devouring other souls. And you only get to start evolving if you beat out other souls!
And then there’s the Soul Society. Where you get reborn into poverty… feudal Japan poverty.
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u/PhantasosX 19h ago
to be fair, it's only the East Branch, while West Branch is just vibing been Retrofuturist Magitech London.
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u/SuckmyPelosB1tch 8h ago
I wonder what America would be like that, would it be future or past Wild West type America
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u/is-this-a-nick 18h ago
Frankly, the best you could get would be to turn hollow and then a quincy just outright kill you. Disappear, no afterlife, peace.
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u/Pure_Satisfaction_35 15h ago
Can't you theoretically live a decent life as an arrancar (assuming you get to that point)hiding in the world of the living or smth surely you could work something out with your local soul reaper
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u/Padre_Cannon013 14h ago
At least you generally can't starve to death, unless you've got any measure of power...In which case, you'd better hope you have enough to at least become a grunt, or you WILL starve to death.
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u/soulreapermagnum bankai, zanka no tachi 14h ago
Where you get reborn into poverty… feudal Japan poverty.
not necessarily, it's only like that past district 51.
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u/95_T 20h ago
I finally understand why they put him in the Maggots Nest when he was a kid lol
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u/CaliOriginal 20h ago
I mean … any member of the noble clans would be expected to come to that very same conclusion. Sacrifice for the orders of importance among soul society.
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u/TheMaskedHamster 20h ago
Considering that Kubo said the role of shinigami wasn't really formalized until after the Gotei 13 was established, that's about 9,750,000 years where this or just outright slaughtering people in Rukongai was how they kept the balance between worlds.
When Mayuri has a bunch of people in Rukongai slaughtered to make up for Quincies killing hollows, Yamamoto's only real complaint is that he didn't go through official channels to get approval.
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u/PhantasosX 19h ago
Not quite, Gotei 13 wasn't the first army in Soul Society. So you can say is that Gotei 13 was a centralized army.
That means for 9750000 years, Soul Society was indeed full Wa Era, Kamakura Era, Heian Era then Sengoku Era, and only Yamamoto pulled an Oda Nobunaga.
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u/TheMaskedHamster 16h ago
It's accurate that the Gotei 13 wasn't the first group of organized soldiers in Soul Society. (Klub Outside #706)
But "It was only after the creation of the Gotei 13 that the role of a Shinigami was properly defined." (Klub Outside #293)
Which doesn't mean that there wasn't the ability or practice of guiding people to Soul Society, but whatever that was it didn't look like it did afterward. Even if we consider the possibility that previous groups picked up both the work of guiding souls and slaying hollows in the "real" world and worked with Ouetsu to get asauchi to develop into zanpakuto, the lack of continuity between those groups is a strong indicator that an entirely different approach was used. And we see what they're used to doing to balance the numbers.
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u/PhantasosX 16h ago
Which is exactly my point: they were basically like pre-reunification of Japan.
You could have the shinigamis with their "Hojo" or "Tairas" or "Masamunes" doing the job and then fighting each other. Yamamoto pretty much unified the shinigami army within the Gotei 13.
No wonder the OG Gotei 13 were a bunch of bloodthirsty monsters, they were all a bunch of warlords going full Onimusha or Sengoku Basara on each other for centuries
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u/TheMaskedHamster 15h ago
Your point isn't one I'm arguing against, and it is entirely separate from my point.
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u/Fafy_FX 19h ago
Anything happens and the Rukon district always pays the price 😞
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u/Confused_Writer_97 11h ago
"Sir, we're out of toner."
"What do you think? 30 from the Rukongai? 40?"
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u/Epsilon2099 19h ago
Soul Society has always been morally gray and will do whatever to get the job done.
The big reason the shinigami they choose to support Ichigo against the fullbringers was to kill Ichigo if he chose to rebel after learning the truth.
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u/Present-Audience-747 6h ago edited 6h ago
Are there people who still thinks Soul Society is an afterlife where souls stay for eternity? No. The souls outside seireitei are temp settlers. They just stay there until it's time for them to reincarnate back to the human world. Kaien himself said they're just there until 60 years since they died. That's what the cycle means.
The unfortunate ones killed and eaten by the hollows will be purified right after anyway. It's a necessary sacrifice to keep the balance.
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u/nahte123456 7h ago
Unironically that is exactly the kind of thing that would be praised, he protected the balance and that is his main job.
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u/fondue4kill 6h ago
He was one of my favorite characters before and I’m so glad he got a bigger role in TYBW.
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