#anti-ichiruki

[jubileemon]

Why Ichigo And Rukia Ended Up With The Right People

In Bleach, Ichigo ends up with Orihime, Rukia is with Renji. Since it's part of the shonen genre, it doesn't center around romance and would be unlikely to focus on romantic relationships, as there were other interesting and exciting things happening.

The Problem With Ichigo X Rukia

Even though he becomes a Shinigami, he isn't technically a soul. He was not born in Soul Society and never died to go there. If he wanted to be with Rukia, he would either have to wait and die from old age or die right away and part with everyone else way too soon. Rukia is a soul who ages extremely slowly and will probably never die. Their families are in different worlds, so their priorities are incompatible.

This might be the single biggest factor in Orihime's favor against Rukia: she won't outlive Ichigo by hundreds of years. After all, Ichigo is a substitute Soul Reaper, but not a full-fledged one. It was only ever touched on vaguely because the shinigami are all spirits/souls, and things like time and age aren't something that hold much meaning to them anymore. Roughly in the beginnings of the series, Rukia mentions that she's 10 times older than Ichigo (who was 15 at the time).

Ichigo also looks like Kaien Shiba, Rukia’s mentor and the man that she admired. Due to this, even Byakuya himself understood why Rukia would feel a connection for Ichigo. Rukia realized the parallels between Kaien’s last fight with Ichigo’s battle against Grand Fisher, the Hollow that had killed Masaki Kurosaki. As such, she views them as similar and so would be unlikely to have romantic feelings for someone resembling her late mentor. In fact, she keeps comparing Kaien and Ichigo throughout the Soul Society arc.

Rukia and Renji

Rukia and Renji grew up together as orphaned Soul children in Soul Society. They shared the same experiences, jointly discovering the gift of Reiatsu that earned them a place in the Shin’o Academy. Their mutual goal was to become Shinigami, gain higher ranks, and grow stronger. When Rukia tells Renji the Kuchiki clan wants to adopt her, he acts happy but is deeply upset because he predicts they will grow apart. Still, he tries to hide his sadness because Rukia finally has a family. Unfortunately, Renji falsely believes that he's not important to her anymore.

While this saddened Rukia, he only reacted in the way he believed was best for her, and that ended up making him feel guilty about her potential execution. Chapter 98 was devoted to how Renji considered Rukia an unattainable “star” that he, a “tramp,” could never reach. If he just wanted friendship, why did he feel he had to stay out of Rukia’s way? If she just wanted friendship, why did she expect him to protest? The answer is simple: Her adoption didn’t get in the way of friendship, but in the way of the “something more” that they wanted.

Renji's feelings towards her have always been apparent, as far back as when they were kids. As they originally met around several years ago in the Soul Society, they've been around each other for quite a while. One evening, the two of them were unsuccessfully attempting to catch fish when Renji finally managed to snare one. When he turned around, he saw the rest of his friends staring at Rukia longingly. As anyone with a crush themselves would do, Renji admonished his friends for looking at her with love-struck eyes.

Renji's feelings for Rukia are crystal clear, even when he doesn't acknowledge them. On the other hand, Rukia finds it difficult to express her emotions, especially after joining the Kuchiki clan and her stranied relationship with her brother Byakuya. However, there are several instances that prove her love for Renji beyond the shadow of a doubt. In fact, Rukia obviously cares for Renji even after he attacks Ichigo in the Agent of the Shinigami arc. Although Ichigo and Rukia also love each other, their friendship is considerably less intense than her lifelong attachment for Renji.

Ichigo and Orihime

Orihime’s crush on Ichigo was evident from the first few chapters. She even had trouble being articulate in front of him, although part of her character development was how she gained confidence in herself. As for him, he was ready to sacrifice his life for her from the very beginning, when he put himself between her and her brother Sora (who became a Hollow). He almost always singles her out, speaks up for her and he even defends her.

When the Espadas allow Orihime to say goodbye to one person before she is taken to Hueco Mundo, she picks Ichigo even though he's still unconscious from an earlier fight. She explains how she could have picked one of the others, but Ichigo was the person she needed to see one last time. Orihime says how there were so many things she wished she had gotten to do and how she would like to live five times to try multiple different things, but that she'd always fall in love with the same person... Ichigo.

Ichigo literally came back from death for Orihime during his fight with Ulquiorra, all because she pleaded him not to die. Orihime also places her body between Ichigo and Acidwire to protect Ichigo. Ichigo puts himself between Grimmjow’s Ceros and Orihime without hesitation. Orihime more than willingly goes to fight Yhwach alongside Ichigo, serving as the latter's defense. Even Ulquiorra, Grimmjow, and Nnoitora all mocked him for wanting to protect her and underlined how she was the motivation for him to fight more fiercely.

In the early chapters, Orihime knew that Kon wasn't the real Ichigo when he was running wild inside Ichigo's body and being his perverted self. He jumped into Ichigo's classroom, made a move on Orihime, and then kissed Tatsuki before being forced to flee. Orihime knew right away that wasn't the real Ichigo, forgiving him of actions that would have got him in hot water with any other girl. It's a testament to how much Orihime cared about him. That said, Ichigo would have never acted that way in the first place.

Ichigo & Rukia Contributed To Each Other’s Relationships

It's kinda interesting to note that both Rukia and Ichigo have worked to boost each other's relationships. Remember, Rukia was the one who dragged Ichigo to apologize to an injured Orihime. Rukia was the initial reason why Ichigo and Orihime came closer together and were more expressive of their desire to protect each other. At the same time, Ichigo was the catalyst for Rukia and Renji to become close again after decades of avoiding each other. Ichigo was not meant to interfere in their relationship as a third party, but to help them realize the complete range of their feelings for each other.

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[dax-enfinity]

IR exploding right now on Twitter with just this one fan art Like , the engagement is insane IR shippers in the general audience - and canon shippers mad and insecure because of that Wish the actual fan artist got all that attention though - the only one downside

YES !!

The way people think it’s official due to how similar it is to Kubo’s actual style is kinda funny not gonna lie.

Seeing people in the general audience who aren’t into BLEACH ship IchiRuki and not immediately flock to IH/RR because those are the can0n ships is amusing lmao.

IH/RR shippers mad as hell, because, they have the CANON ships, married respectively with children, yet they need to be petty as hell to remind people that only IH/RR are canon.

I’ve only seen these people bitch about IchiRuki/IshiHime/TatsuHime/ByaRen, maybe it’s because I don’t get this stuff often on my TL but, have they done the same with GrimmIchi? I’ll assume so.

(It’s funny that the can0n shippers are gonna go batshit at the fact that GrimmIchi and IchiRuki are definitely gonna get a spike of general popularity again, LMAOOO)

(GrimmIchiRuki rising in popularity perhaps🙏…?)

(GrimmIchi in TYBW Anime Cour 3, Floppy’s new IchiRuki fanart, International IchiRuki Weekend coming up in December….)

Going back to said art, I’d wish people would find the original artist’s socials, instead of just posting it without credits.

[renjihoe]

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

[lunaneko14]

Prepare for the SECOND fall of Ichiruki

[chaztalk]

I made a post over a year ago about how it’s embarrassing to see canon shippers writing essays on their ships, hypothesizing that it’s a sign of weakness or insecurity for their ship. And I got some flack for it.

But how about shippers writing essays for non canon ships they don’t like? Wasting your day by making a 10 paragraph essay on a ship you already see as “non-existent”? If it’s so “non-existent”, why do you feel like writing multiple paragraphs about it?

[exo-raskreia]

They weren't (aren't) even together

[foolish-savant]

I just realized that we have no clue the ages of any of the Soul Reapers or Espada. Have you just been shipping a 17 year-old with people who may or may not be hundreds of years old and have just accepted it?

Yes this is about Ichiruki and I’m tired of pretending I’m comfortable with it. Same with any ship between a minor and a character who is very much an adult.

[butterflyknyfe]

“ichigo could literally kiss rukia and ppl would still say they have a sibling relationship”

omg girlypop, i KNOW! it’s like how ichigo literally fucked, bred, and married orihime and people are still acting like he doesn’t love her! what a silly fanbase, amirite?

[sidsinning]

Ichiruki king and queens of hetbaiting… atleast the heartbroken shippers can wear that medal proudly as the tears fall like rain drops (besides we all know Ichigo needed Orihime for her hair to cover up his bald spots)

YOU FOUL FOR THE END THERE 💀💀💀💀💀

[tanishark]

My IchiRuki headcanon ft. Renji Abarai, Orihime Inoue, Tanisha Chōdhori.

(Rukia and Renji visiting the Kurosaki Household after her appointment at the Saisei no Mori medical institution.)

Rukia: "Hey guys, guess what? My headache is finally beginning to wane after I took those strawberry-flavored pills Tanisha gave me back at the Saisei no Mori!"

Renji: "Yeah, those pills work wonders for stressed-out captains. I gotta visit Tanisha for some more."

Orihime: "I'm just happy Rukia is feeling better, especially with how busy she is these days."

Ichigo: "Uh, Rukia...? Did you read the note? It's quite...the message. About your cravings..."

The note in question:

"Dear Kuchiki-San, I hope you'll feel better once you start taking the medication. I've personally added the strawberry touch to the pills I've prescribed—knowing how much you've been craving a specific type of strawberry—but knowing it wasn't in reach for you— I've taken the liberty of satisfying your cravings." - Sincerely, Tanisha Chōdhori.

Rukia: Chokes on her water.

help, this is so creative! how did you even come up with this lmfaooooo. and tanisha's note is just...she knows, the WOMAN knows, Tanisha knows how badly Rukia wants Ichigo, but she can't do anything abt it cuz Ichigo is married and she's married to Renji...😭😭😭😭

[anishake]

My man Kubo really wrote a poem in the early stages of Bleach for Orihime thinking about being rain while it literally represents Ichigo's sadness and depression and which by the way was stopped because of entirely DIFFERENT woman but he still has the guts to say Ichi*ime was planned from the start to be canon.

Like just admit you are bad at writing a decent romantic build-up. Bruh

[princessbutler1316]

Ichihime fan's: They are hugging each other 😭❤️

Me: ...he didn't even notice he was being hugged

In fact, he always has a strange expression every time Orihime makes physical contact with him.

But he with Rukia

[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

[renjihoe]

Ichigo and Rukia could tongue kiss right now and some people would still say they have a sibling relationship.

[tachiha3]

Everything is temporary but shippers of "feminist ships" calling other female characters fat as an insult is permanent.

[lunaneko14]