#Anti bleach ending

[dax-enfinity]

i think it’d be very funny if instead of the canon ships getting more fanon content thanks to the fact that tybw cour 3 is gonna push them, ships like ichiruki and others got a new rise of fan works

[sumbarbietingz]

Still feeling salty regarding the ending? Still arguing with origos and IH fans about who Ichigo’s true love is? Don’t worry gang, I got you.

Remember this?

This single detail is the reason why I don’t feel anything regarding the ending anymore. And it’s crazy cause we were so focused on who Ichigo and Rukia married that we all forgot about this very important detail

Ichigo dated, married and even had a kid with Inoue. Did Yhwach ever came back during these moments? Moments that were supposed to be the happiest moments of his life? No. Same thing for Rukia.

Chad became a boxer, his promise to his grandpa? To the trash. Uryu became a doctor, the very thing he despised, and will never be able to realize his grandpa’s dream of a coexistence between shinigamis and quincies, cause his entire race has been annihilated. Inoue had to drop out of college and the only reason her and Ichigo became a thing is bc Renji pushed him to date her. Wow great. Rukia is not a Kuchiki anymore. Renji has been unreciprocated as well through the whole manga. And Ichigo? Condemned to live a mundane life as a boring translator with someone he’s not happy with.

So yes IH and RR happened, but trust me, they’re not happy. Nobody in the gang is truly happy. And yk what the gag is? Yhwach comes back when Ichigo and Rukia start arguing again.

So now stop wasting your time with antis with big ass paragraphs. If you do, just use what you know now. If they still find a way to argue about this? They’re just delusional and don’t wanna see the truth about their so-called “happy ending” So take a deep breath, let that sink in, and find the peace you never got since 2016❤️

[medusasea]

Blaming the Anime

I find it funny when Ichihime shippers blame the anime for influencing people to ship Ichiruki by adding additional Ichiruki moments and pushng Ichihime to the side, when the manga never showed chemistry between Ichigo and Orihime either, most if not all pro ichiruki posts refer to the manga, not the anime and I've never ever seen anyone claim that an anime-only scene of ichiruki happened in the manga as well. As if you don't get all kinds of shippers in all fandoms, including those of fictional works that are exclusively in one medium. You have for instance tv shows that were not adapted from other works and still have shippers.

[renjihoe]

They would have healed all my trauma and I am so serious.

[hardstudentobject]

This is how Bleach should have ended:

[aurora-313]

"The Blade is me" and "The Quincy blood in you will not permit the Soul King to exist" are two fundamentally contradicting statements, and it's frustrating that people don't seem to understand that.

Which is it: Has Ichigo mastered himself and is in control of his powers in totality, regardless of where that power comes from, or is he enslaved to their whims like he always has been?

If "The Blade is Me" was a factually correct statement, Yhwach should have no power over ichigo whatsoever. Ichigo should've been able to pull out the sword at no risk to himself, or baited Yhwach by pretending go along with the compulsion before attacking him instead.

But the statement is factually false by Yhwach declaring "The Quincy blood within you will not permit the Soul King to exist" turning Ichigo's own Quincy side against him, declaring it will kill the Soul King regardless of Ichigo's own desires. Which narratively speaking tells us Ichigo has NOT mastered himself and never will.

I ask again: Which one is it?

What was the point of introducing that whole concept, and the Quincy parasite pledging fealty to Ichigo, if the idea was immediately contradicted by having the parasite betray him?

Kubo, pick a fucking lane, you hack.

[exo-raskreia]

They weren't (aren't) even together

[bgony]

I can't believe this is what Ichigo sees every day for 578976656 years.

[jijikuroneko]

so, im back on bleach fandom after 8 years, perhaps? my sister got into this bottomless pit of anime and i’m back on suffering for questions without answers

anyways. it’s been a while as i’ve said. can anyone tell me or link me to a meta or manga/plot analysis that explains why bleach ended that way? i mean, kubo has said he had always intended for the ending to be the way it was but let’s be honest, it makes no sense. specially the shipping stuff (i mean, ‘man in my heart’ speech, ‘i remember why i wanted to save you’, ‘black sun/white moon’ etc).

so, why did kubo write such beautiful character dynamics for it to mean nothing at all in the end?

[bleached-socks]

Bleach fans: What did you think about the Bleach ending?

Specifically this is about everything after the 10 year time skip, and includes the ending for all of the characters but especially the main characters (Ichigo, Uryu, Chad, Orihime, Rukia, and Renji). This is not just about ships, it’s about where the characters ended up. I want to know what people think about the ending as a whole.

Feel free to tell me what you like or don't like about it

[witchandhuntress]

Lmao...Those are choices. Kubo loves to troll but I do think that's exactly what happened. He could have shown a happy moment between Ichigo and Orihime but no he made Ichigo's best friend say facts about his relationship 😂

[sunflowersandcherryblossoms]

Tite Kubo changing the dialogue so he can "edit" his fanfic to make it look like Ichigo and Inoue had any chemistry whatsoever and failing spectacularly...

[renjihoe]

No shut up Ichigo’s outfit making a red heart as he is in pain thinking about Rukia. THIS IS FORESHADOWING!!! (I know I’m dramatic lmao I do not care!!!)

[hardstudentobject]

Rukia: I wish I could tell you how much I love you, but Kubo would rather have me end up with my childhood friend who handed me over to Soul Society so that Aizen could burn me alive and who tried to strangle me after not speaking to me for several decades. Ichigo: I understand your frustration, Rukia. I would rather join the 13th Division and deal with paperwork if that meant I could make you happy, but instead, I have to becoming a boring translator (instead of a doctor or a firefighter, somebody who actually saves innocent lives) and I will hook up with my friend whom I assaulted and traumatized after turning into bloodthirsty monster.

[aurora-313]

I never understood why there had to be such a massive conspiracy around Masaki. It detracts from the tragedy of Memories In The Rain and Ichigo's character as a whole that she was a Quincy.

Look at that flashback objectively if Masaki were a powerless human:

It's bucketing down rain, a deluge in the middle of monsoon season. You're eager to get your son home from his karate practice. Conditions are dreadful but as long as you're on concrete, you're both okay. Then your son suddenly stops. Something only he claims he can see catches his attention. You've indulged his talk about ghosts because he's a boy, he's allowed to have an imaginary friend and its never harmed anyone. But suddenly, your son's shouting. Launching into a full sprint down that steep slippery hill, at the base of which is a dangerous rushing river. Or potentially slip on a loose bit of stone or root, and break his neck. You can't see what he sees. As far as you're aware, your son's taken absolute leave of his senses and is charging headlong into a certainly fatal situation. Naturally, your response would be to freak out and throw yourself after your son, hoping to catch him before he could jump into the water, very probably drowning. Then CHOMP. Hollow chow.

Revealing Masaki was a Quincy is irreparably cheapening her death.

Let's pretend for a second Grand Fisher wasn't there. And the same thought process outlined above occurs.

In an attempt to stop Ichigo running down the hill, Masaki could've slipped, fallen and broke her neck instead. Or took a bad tumble, ending with a fatal blow to the head. The effect on Ichigo would've been the same. He would've developed a massive guilt complex because his tragedy of impulse caused his mother's death.

That is the whole crux of Ichigo's guilt. His actions caused this outcome. And it was the hardest lesson he had to learn.

Grand Fisher or no, if Ichigo hadn't acted the way he did, if he hadn't tried to save the 'girl' from falling into the river, then his mother wouldn't have died in the first place.

Revealing Masaki as a Quincy, and that her powers were """conveniently""" stolen at exactly the time she needed them most, completely invalidates the human randomness, tragedy and relatability of that death.

It invalidates the guilt that drives 99% of Ichigo's character and actions. That same guilt, now predicated on false pretenses, fueled his desire to protect, to suffer through hell if it meant he could protect the people he cared about (at times to their detriments). Especially since that desire can rage dangerously out of control, and at one point literally got Ichigo killed and reanimated as a monstrous hollow hellbent on destroying everything around it, muttering 'protect, protect, protect' like a zombie.

It's a flaw Ichigo had to overcome by coming to terms with it and using it to as motivation in a healthier manner. Not be absolved of.

A prime example of a character carrying their guilt and growing past it done well is Edward Elric from Full Metal Alchemist/Brotherhood.

Edward and Alphonse never got over Nina and Alexander. They were never absolved of their guilt. Its a mark permanently etched in their collective psyches and reconciling with the fact alchemy could be used in such vile ways drove a huge part of their early characters.

What they did was learn to grieve and cope and move on with it as motivation. They vowed never to allow that kind of monstrosity to happen again. Even when Ed's about to give up his alchemy forever, he declares 'I'm just a simple human who couldn't save a little girl. Not even with alchemy.'

Rather than have Ichigo go through a journey like this, EBTR removes the burden of guilt from Ichigo's shoulders completely when Isshin tells him "No, it wasn't your iconic recklessness that got your mother killed. It was an ancient prophecy and you never should've felt guilty in the first place."

Isshin may as well have said "Everything you believed about yourself since the moment you were born is a lie. The foundation of your personality since you were 9 is a lie. Have fun finding a therapist to deal with the crippling psychological ramifications of that bombshell, but do it after you win another war for us."

It irreparably damages Masaki, and by extension Ichigo's and Isshin's, characters that she had powers.

If Masaki was a Quincy from the jump. Cool, why didn't she teach Ichigo basic control of his reiryoku? Or how to tell the living from the dead - something Ichigo canonically struggled with for as long as he could remember? Basic safety measures that would've avoided those kinds of situations in the first place.

You don't wait until a toddler get splattered by cars before telling them not to play in a busy road, or not to stick a fork in a power point after they've been electrocuted and rushed to the hospital. You teach them rules and install safety measures to prevent those situations in the first place.

There's four main interpretations I take from Masaki's decision to willfully neglect Ichigo's education in the spirit arts:

Well-meaning but naïve and frankly reckless desire to preserve Ichigo's innocence for as long as possible. Fair and the most benign explanation.

Threatened into maintaining her silence by either Kisuke or Isshin (or both depending how generous I feel), lest the seal on her hollowfication "mysteriously" weaken.

Realizing she was a dead woman walking since been bitten by White, Masaki partook in the conspiracy to turn Ichigo into a living weapon and purposefully martyred herself to make it happen.

Masaki having powers is the cosmic retcon of retcons and Kubo didn't think about the implications of his own writing...

If Masaki absolutely HAD to be a Quincy for the sake of turning Ichigo into Aizen's gary stu project, then fine.Yhwach's influence should've been kept far FAR away from it.

Maybe Masaki couldn't use her powers because if she tried, it would've destroyed the seal keeping the hollowfication in check. When Grand Fisher emerged, she baited it to kill her instead.

"Oh, but we need to explain why Ichigo's so powerful."

Ichigo's sperm donor is an ex-Captain and member of one of the royal families, who are noted to have above average base stats. His powers took a hollow aspect thanks to the encroachment temporarily transforming him into a hollow at the base of shattered shaft. Hollowfied Shinigami are naturally stronger (on paper) than their non-hybrid counterparts.

"Why does he two spirits?" The awakening of his power was so fractious it literally splintered into its component pieces. The hollow is the repressed parts of Ichigo's, so its a psychopathic reflection of himself. The old man is the other half of his soul realising the best way to get through to Ichigo is by giving him actual fucking parent.

Sometimes Occam's Razor is the best solution.

[exo-raskreia]

IHs/RRs: We want official couple art

Kubo:

chicken scratches

IHs/RRs: We want official family art

Kubo:

🫢

Almost 10 years & still nothing ����😂