#anti-ichiruki

[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.

[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.

💀🍓

[lunaneko14]

Please be true

[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.

[exo-raskreia]

Crazy how Ori has a poem of wanting to be the rain to connect two hearts yet it's Rukia who connects with Ichigo under the rain after an important battle for him...

This amazing post has an interesting interpretation of that poem as well.

Also, funny how when I looked up the poem on Google, one of the top filters was Ulquiorra 🤣.

Even though they didn't connect in the rain, Ori DID show Ulquiorra what the heart is...

[marunalu]

Ichihime: hugging each other (yes ichigo is reaching for orihime and holding her, you can see that clearly in the first gift)

Antis: they dont have any chemistry at all 😤

Me: oh come on, they could have kissed instead and you would still claim they have no chemistry but pretend that ichigo and rukia screaming at each other or kicking each other is hardcore romance!

Listen, Im not an ichihime shipper and I think both ships are cute in their own way, but its the endgame ship. Its canon and will stay canon. You dont have to like it, but it is what it is. Still ranting 9 years later wont change anything and kubo even said the more people will pester him about ichiruki the more he will draw ichihime content in the future. He debunked romantic ichiruki 8 years before the manga even ended. The anime studio changed and cut a lot of manga scenes when it comes to ichigos und rukias/ichigos and orihimes relationship which made tons of people believe ichiruki will be endgame and it didnt help that the director was a hardcore ichiruki shipper too.

Just let it rest. Ichigo and rukia have still one of the most beautiful platonic relationships in anime history and at least in my eyes, romance would destroy their relationship. So can you please just stop with the ichihime and orihime hate? And can ichihime shippers please leave ichiruki shippers also alone as long as no one starts a fight with you? Just leave each other alone and tag your stuff properly. Its really not that hard!

[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?

[aurora-313]

Some days I don't mind the idea of Ichigo wanting to live a quiet life.

I just don't buy the idea of him having the capability to live a quiet life.

Nor do I buy Ichigo willingly having children, knowing the horrendous experience his own twisted heritage brought him growing up, what with Urahara, Aizen, later Yhwach and Ichibei wanting to sink their claws in and rip him to shreds.

Unless Urahara managed to find the best damn shrinks on the planet to help deal with the mountains of unresolved PTSD (because isshin would never), I'd sooner believe Ichigo would crawl inside a bottle and never come out or simply disappear off the face of the planet than stay in a town he hates so much it represents despair and stagnation in his soul, especially with so many foul memories entrenched there.

If Ichigo's desire is to truly live a quiet life; he needs a completely fresh start. A completely clean slate.

That means leaving everything behind, finding a new place to pitch his tent and staying well, well away from anyone he once knew until HE's ready to rejoin that world... if he ever decides to rejoin that world.

[sumbarbietingz]

Isshin and Masaki’s love was a carbon copy of Ichigo and Rukia’s relationship but somehow the obsessive (and predatory) 304 who was ignored (unless she was in danger) and unreciprocated through the entire series makes more sense bc… she was… in love with him……….

I was debating with that Ichihime fan and it’s funny bc she accused me of not paying attention to the manga and not using my comprehension skills but when I said precisely why her ship makes 0 sense by using the manga she started saying that I twisted stuff and mischaracterized Orihime and the ship… girl everything I said was in the manga😭 (she couldn’t reply to the majority of my points, then started saying how hard it is to talk with Ichiruki fans, that both ships actually makes sense and denying one is being hateful💀..…. deep down they know this ship is absolute trash and are still insecure about it), but somehow Ichihishit was always predicted, but of course couldn’t prove how it was (funny cause Kubo hated ships, he wanted ppl to stop thinking Bleach was a romance and to focus on the manga so how was it always predicted especially when they had 0 development the entire time?)

8 years later and it’s still fuck Ichi**me, that ho, their dumbass fans (and Kubo) till the day I die

[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.

[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

[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?

[lunaneko14]

Prepare for the SECOND fall of Ichiruki

[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?

[renjihoe]

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