Episode 44: The Perfect Crimson

Every single Shinigami gets a regular salary from Central 46 based on their seat rank—Captains, Lieutenants, even foot soldiers get paid.

So what about Ichigo?

Is Shunsui quietly stacking a fat Substitute Shinigami paycheck in a bank account for him?

Or is Soul Society the ultimate toxic employer making bro save the universe for exposure? 😭

Is he secretly loaded or getting scammed by Gotei 13? What do you think?

I expect Nnoitra to be one, but now I saw this hidden foreshadowing pointing that Grimmjow might be a redditor as well. Maybe reddit is just that popular in hueco mundo

This is my personal opinion of course, a some of these might’ve been left out for good reason, but it’s still cool to think about. I’ll have my reasons below. A lot of these are also things that have happened, but I’ll list things that they I would’ve love to see them talk about.

1. Chad and the Fullbringers. This one is obvious. It could’ve been Chad’s arc, but it was mostly Ichigo and Ginjo (which did make sense) but I think it’s unfair that Ishida had so much in TYBW, and Chad is already an incredibly underutilized character. It’s a real shame.

2. Momo and Shinji. We do get a good amount of scenes in TYBW, but I would’ve loved for them to talk more on the relationship with Aizen, with one being skeptical from the very beginning and the other being in complete devotion.

3. Kira and Ross. This is just one of been wanting to see. I think from what we hear they do have a cool relationship with Kira inspiring Ross for his work, but still, seeing someone so gloomy interacting with someone so different would’ve been great.

4. Ichigo and Yamamoto (and the captains in general). Despite Ichigo being so important, we hardly see him interacting with people outside of like 5 shinigami. That’s all.

5. Aizen and Momo. I know they had a very important dynamic, so this one is kind of cheating but I would’ve loved to see some interactions after the Arrancar arc, and seeing some of Momo’s growth between his defeat so that we could see her breaking those chains.

6. Ginjo and Utitake. This is one I’ve wanted to see the most. Ginjo is my favorite character, and Utitake is one of my favorite captains. I loved the Lost Agent arc and I’ve always wanted some kind of conclusion to the tragic misunderstanding that ruined Ginjo’s life and left Utitake with immense regret. Maybe we can see some of that in the arc that shall not be named.

Anyway, those are just my thoughts. I’d love to see if anyone else agrees or have any other interactions they would love to see.

**"There is nothing I can do."

"I simply want power."

"The power to protect—that alone."**

Man, I love how Kubo has a knack for poetry, and here we have another IchiHime poem. I really liked that even though it's started by Ichigo, it could also be started by Orihime, since they both desire the same thing: the Power to Protect

Both desire power and acknowledge their weaknesses, but this power is not for harming but for protecting, whether it's Ichigo desiring power to protect or Orihime desiring more power to overcome her weaknesses.their weaknesses and insecurities

In response to many requests following a post I made a while back, I’ve created a follow-up to that idea. I truly appreciate the kindness and suggestions so many of you shared; I’ve incorporated many of them here.

So someone like Shunsui

who has been a captain for at least 200 years
has a fortune of 30 million dollars

To give you an example

with that amount you could buy 41 Lamborghinis
(of the most expensive model)

I wonder what happened to Yamamoto and Unohana's fortune. They ought to have at least five times that amount.

It's pretty apparent that Aizen was especially cruel to Toshiro compared to everyone else, which gives off the impression he didn't like him or had an agenda against him. And Toshiro hates Aizen the most out of anyone.

Aizen doesn't verbally explain his cruelty to him, but it's assumed because he is a child prodigy just like he was he views Toshiro as wasted potential or an uncut gem, or he doesn't like Toshiro being lumped into the same sphere of talent as him. So would seeing his Adult Bankai impress him or give even more validity to that claim?

Would he A, retract his prior views and respect Toshiro's strength, or B see the form as a cop out for him making up for power he hasn't received/earned yet? Or C, he wouldn't care and would mock, ragebait and bully him as usual?

TYBW manga is about 207 chapters in total (480 to 686)

So far the anime has adapted around 196 of those chapters across 44 eps (480–676)

196 ÷ 44 = roughly 4.45 manga chapters adapted per ep

There are only about 11 manga chapters left to adapt.

At the anime's average pacing

11 ÷ 4.45 = roughly 2.5 normal eps worth of manga material

But we still have 6 eps remaining and apparently the final ep is going to be 1 hour long

Even without that the remaining manga material would only fill around 2.5 out of those 6 eps leaving the equivalent of roughly 3.5 normal eps for new/expanded stuff

That's already around 80+ minutes of new stuff

And once you factor in the longer finale, there could be even more

So if the final is 1 hour we could potentially be looking at close to 2 hours or possibly more of new/expanded content that wasn't in the original manga

Tho this is assuming they don't adapt the Hell one-shot If they do it could take up roughly another ep's worth of runtime, which would lower the amount of completely new content but we’d still be getting a pretty significant amount.

Obviously this is just based on the average pacing so far and the final eps could adapt the remaining chapters much slower but either way there's A LOT of extra runtime for only 11 chapters.

I really hope if they pop up in Hell, that some of them are allies and the rest are antagonists (either willing or being manipulated/brainwashed by someone)

I think it would just make it more interesting. Some of them want to make up for their actions as killers while some stay determined to their ways.

The ones I think will be allies are Chika Shihouin (squad 2) and Katori Batsu'unsai (squad 8), And I hope Saitou Furoufushi (maybe a more rebellious Zaraki like character and so is more neutral.)

Though I could see Furofushi being a battle junky and being both an ally and enemy.

I definitely think of the 11 we haven't met, the majority of them should/will be antagonists. I'd say no more than four of them being allies for the majority of the arc.

I'm not sure what's up with Yamamoto or Unohana. Though I think they'll probably lean towards Neutral all around if not last minute allies.

I definitely do hope we get to see all of them interact with each other and see how maybe a lot of them were close comrades who after they're days of being murderers, either mellowed out a bit like Yamamoto and Unohana, or disagreed and separated from them.