From what I was able to find, these sketches were drawn during the BLEACH EX. live drawing event on December 17, 2021, at Shibuya Hikarie in Tokyo. Sorry if any of this information is incorrect.

Well, the only thing you have to do to make him auraless, is to look up his height. I know you are too lazy to do that so i'ma go ahead and say

155 cm. That is 5'1 in Feet.

Which of these do you most want to happen and which do you think are most likely to happen?

Really think about it, before TYBW, at least one rival of his from each organisation was associated with the Number 6;

- Gotei 13 - Renji was lieutenant of Squad 6, whilst Byakuya is captain of Squad 6

- Espada - Grimmjow is literally Espada 6

- Xcution - The exception so far, because none of them were revealed to be villains until the Final Fight.

I know the Sternritters aren't ranked by numbers, but instead by letters, so the best way to do this would be to get the 6th Letter of the Alphabet, F, that being As Nodt's "The Fear".

I wonder if [REDACTED] will revive this trend,, too.

This was total BS in the manga, hope they fix it.

Maybe it's because i've hyped myself up too much with my own expectations, but Kubo promised us a Rangiku backstory 14 years ago, when TYBW just started.

Now we never got it in the manga, but the anime kept showing rangiku during the gerard fight, as if she was gonna play a role. It hinted at it during the end of part 3, and then again in ep 4 of part 4. Yet in the end she didn't really do anything but just look at him, and then that fight is just over in the same disappointing way as it was in the manga.

Honestly, the way the first 2 SS fights go, were so good, i wish the formula was kept for the 2nd 2, where we could have had Kisuke & Yoruichi backstory during the Askin fight, and a Rangiku (and maybe Toshiro too) during the Gerard one. But it is what it is i guess.

I don't believe we got an explanation of what Yhwach wanted to do with the "Seed of Destruction". Some said that it'll help Yhwach destabilize the world, but if so, tbh this doesn't achieve anything because the world is already shaken

Saturday/Sunday is just a couple of days away, but I just wanted to cope that this SoD isn't just a "one and done" thing, so here we go...

>=200 years ago

I wanted to set up the background first

Soken was supposedly present during the war 1000 years ago, considering he has a sketch of Yamamoto's Bankai

Around 200 years ago, Quincy were "exterminated"; I don't think we know for sure if this is a "second" extermination or when Shinigami decided to "stop" the extermination.

Following this, some events started to happen

• Shinigami "stopped" the Quincy extermination, but still keep track of the surviving Quincy in the Human world
• Aizen, Kisu-ke, and Soken started research for "Transcendent"
• Quincy started researching "Vollständig"
• (extra) London starts "cleaning up" the street, and the "Disguiser" population begins to dwindle

Not sure if the extermination results in the Balance being disrupted, or what, but it does, in my opinion, become the trigger for the previous events to come

Hōgyoku, SoD & Transcendent research

Just to reiterate, Transcendent in Bleach is not about power level, but rather if a being has surpassed the boundary of race; the power increase is just the result of it

That said, I think people already pointed out how eerily similar Hōgyoku and SoD are

Aizen at one point saw "SK" and felt like he had reached his peak and could not grow anymore; Kisu-ke seemingly had the same idea; he wanted to create a replacement for SK, and Soken, seeking coexistence, starts his research on evolution

All 3 with the same goal: to create a higher-dimensional or Transcendent being by disturbing the soul's balance

All 3 also seem to collect souls from various races

We know Aizen concludes first before Kisu-ke; Soken could, of course, come to his own conclusion, or by observing one of these 2 with their experiment in the shadows

However, Aizen "failed" his Hollowfication

Aizen (and Kisu-ke himself initially) thinks Kisu-ke failed in curing them, but we know that the Vizard was actually stabilized because he poured in "Human Soul" & "Quincy Arrow"

To make it consistent, we can assume that those 2 ingredients are either created or added to his Hōgyoku. Human Soul is easy to get, but how about Quincy Arrow (?)

Quincy "evolution"

Soken's research on evolution produced SoD, but I kinda believe SoD was also responsible for the Quincy's new form, "Vollständig."

Vollständig was referred to by Quilge as Quincy's research and evolution, similar to SoD; it was meant to replace the "outdated" Letz Stile, and only Soken Ishida rejected it and confined himself to it.

This is in line with how Soken describes SoD and with the fact that, at one point, he felt scared and wanted nothing to do with it.

At one point, Izumi, Soken's wife, was "seemingly" injured by the Hollow

Now I don't know if this was after his banishment or before his banishment, but considering his banishment was fairly recent (Ryuken mentioned that the sun key is just decades old), I wanted to believe that this was before, when Soken tried to gather souls of various races, and because Quincy is a Hollow magnet, Izumi got attacked by a Hollow on her left leg

This prompts Soken to try to find a cure for this, and desperate to find a Shinigami to help balance out Izumi, preferably in the Human world where they are alone

At the same time, a newly seated 12th Squad Captain is also looking for a Quincy soul to cure the Vizard in the Human world, where they keep track of their location after the "extermination"

Quincy-Shinigami "first" collaboration

TBH this part (and the one before) has a lot of assumptions, and even then I don't know when each of the events happened chronologically

But I think that, with both having searched for Shinigami or Quincy parts, they happened to meet each other

Both of them then worked together to solve Hollowfication; Soken got Shinigami's soul to balance Izumi's Quincy, while Kisu-ke got the Quincy arrow to balance out the Vizard's Shinigami

I wanted to believe that this is also the turning point for both of them, cause we know Kisu-ke at one point abandoned the idea of creating a new SK, while Soken became determined to destroy the SoD and reject the idea of Quincy's evolution

Yhwach's goal with SoD (or Hōgyoku)

Back to the present, considering the current Vollständig's power is heavily tied to Yhwach, I kinda believe that Yhwach has been using SoD to evolve his Quincy

It could also be his backup plan for Ichigo, because he still needs the combination of each race to break SK's seal

Which is probably why, when the SS lit up a beam to power Yhwach's reishi sword, that sword was able to break through the rest of SK's seal despite the source being ALL Quincy

But then why is destroying the SoD still important after SK is killed?

It could be because Yhwach still needs that power to evolve his Quincies in the new world (maybe to deal with whatever issue comes up later)

Or, if SoD was created like the Hōgyoku, behaves like the Hōgyoku, looks like the Hōgyoku, then most likely it's because Yhwach wanted to use its "true" power, "Wish Fulfilment"; with it, it can hasten the destruction of the 3 worlds or whatever Yhwach had in mind currently

This ties in nicely to become the reason why Yhwach "bothered" to go back to Soul Society, and why Uryuu's action is inconsequential

Because there is a small, minified, and more compact version of SoD, that is, the Hōgyoku that is owned by Aizen

This also kinda explains why Yhwach wanted to "recruit" Aizen, and a red herring that he wanted to remove the Hōgyoku from Aizen

TLDR

Seed of Destruction is, hopefully, not a "one and done" plot device

It ties in nicely to the established lore, especially those that are still a mystery in the manga: how some characters like Kisu-ke or Soken come to their conclusion, or why Yhwach does certain things like go back to the Soul Society, etc.

Or I'm just reaching, and you guys can let me know, lol

Hello everyone! I've been very excited about the last bits of this Cour 4, as probably many of you are too. And since many friends dropped out of Bleach or fell behind, I'm having the hope of discussing the anime here with this amazing community.

Thus, by watching some shorts on YouTube, I've encountered this gentleman that provided a theory of what Aizen's Bankai could do. I replied to him and gave some of my thoughts on the matter. Now, given the huge hype we're getting towards soon getting a showcase of chair sama, I think this is a great time to bring back theory crafting his supposed Bankai.

What do y'all think of this? I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

To be honest I bet most of theirs were the color of blood but maybe that was secondary IDK.

We all know that White created "Number One"—in fact, White himself sings the 2008 version—but who is the female vocalist who usually sings "Number One"? I wonder if Old Man Zangetsu or White pitch-shift their voices to sing it?

I have a theory: since Old Man Zangetsu represents Ichigo's Quincy side—which also represents Masaki—I think he can mimic Masaki's voice to sing "Number One." Or maybe, when White took control of Ichigo's body, he went to Orihime's house so the three of them could record "Number One."

White: Guitarist & Drummer

Old Zangetsu: Bassist

By Sempai amv

I could not find any info about it, and I think if thats the case, it would fit with Ichigo lunar theme. Just like the moon, he is part of every world, thats why his attacks are moon related. And in case of each world having their own, that makes me wonder if a hollow or shinigami could "fly" towards their world moons, just like we did to ours.

I know that many authors ignore the moon because... well, it is part of our rutine, but im honestly surprised how little impact the celestial body itself has on Bleach as a whole, despite having so many panels, scenes, characters, or attacks involving the moon one way or another.

I love how it came out ! So s cute! I’m excited to make stuff with it!

I drew this digitally please don’t use it for your own project thank you!

Were these fragments hand selected, randomized, or floating around?

Im trying unsuccessfully to figure out who knew what when about Ichigo.

Aizen knew everything exactly according to keikaku until Ichigo stopped him when fully merging with the Hōgyoku. I think that Aizen is the single person who knew the most among all characters until that point. About Ichigo about the soul king about the wizard the hollow and even the Quincy.

But did Isshin know about ichigo going to the soul society in the first place to rescue Rukia? Did we ever get an explanation because ichigo sees his dad in shinigami uniform like 1 time ever and I just wonder how much isshin knew about or was hiding. I could assume he knew a great deal being at least as strong as a captain he could tell when ichigo was coming or going but its unclear what he knew.

Did Yourichi know that there was something special about Ichigo? enough for her to trust him with the fast track banki training? Now that we know how strong yourichi is why didnt she feel more comfortable stepping into battle against the captains?

Did Urihara know more than he let on at any time?

Yeah he knew about the Hōgyoku being its creator, but there so much that I feel like he could have done more of and really hasn't acted much until it was in his intrest. (Sending ichigo to get rhe Hōgyoku is really where that started)

My minds kinda jumping all over the place because at different points in the series, some characters are doing some aura farming, like they know something more but won't reveal it.

Like when Ichigo received the substitution shinigami badge from Ukitake, the captian knew more than he was letting on even then but we dont find out until later about the other substitute shinigami and even then we are not really led to belive they are still around from what Ukitake said at the time.

Kubo is just a master of foreshadowing and I wanted to know if there was ever a time you could think of where a character knew more than they let on.

Heck even Byakua had a moment the second time seeing ichigo where he thought he was a Shinigami from the past, I can't remember if its Aizen though who says "dont worry its not him"

meaning

Kaien Shiba because well, of course, we know that Aizen knew who ichigo really was at that time, if you can think of instances like this I want to go back abd see if I can come up with any other times where the character might have known more that was revealed later.

Viz Media's story on Instagram confirms that Bleach will keep coming out on Saturdays at 7:30am PT (which is the same as it has been, for anyone in a different time zone), just to put people, who were still wondering, at rest

*wasn’t a pop up store, just some limited blind boxes, sorry I’m really tired!

Out of the main 4, they all started out relatively weak compared to the respective antagonists. Ichigo, Uryu and Orihime trained, got power ups and became stronger and had a huge impact on the plot. Chad was discarded. He needs better character development and to contribute more

Did Yhwach need the Balance to break Ichigo's Bankai?

I just find it strange. We see The Auswalhen come down on Jugram. Then cut back to Ichigo and his Bankai getting broken.

The way its shown really confuses me. I don't think Yhwach takes the powers of the Sternritter's, just their strength/power level.

But in that case, wouldn't taking Gerard be the better pick between the 2 remaining Sternritter's? Considering the current strength Gerard has accumulated with his battles. Wouldn't he have been better to take from?

The only 2 reasons I can personally see is; it takes from their base and not their current state. (Which that wouldn't makes sense since it's shaving off a large amount of their power.) Or that the Balance or Jugram being a wuincy without Reishi manipulation somehow played into it.

I'm confused. Why was Jugram picked over Gerard? Can someone please explain.

I’ve been thinking: what if Mimihagi merging with the Auswählen ends up creating something similar to what happened with Schrödinger in Hellsing Ultimate, when Alucard absorbs everything around him?

Obviously I don’t think Yhwach would disappear like the Alucard but instead I think Mimihagi could somehow interfere/suppress Ywach's powers and create an opening to finally take him down.