#arrancars saga

[hollow-triad]

[Voice Cast]

(🇯🇵) Fumiko Orikasa as Rukia Di-Roy: (🇺🇸) Spike Spencer // (🇲🇽) Ricardo Mendez

[🇯🇵+🇺🇸+🇲🇽]

Rukia: Mae… Sode no Shirayuki!

Rukia: Some no mai… Tsukishiro! Di-Roy Spanish VA // Rukia's Japanese VA // Di-Roy Spanish VA // Di-Roy English VA

[stealthydemocracy369]

“It is the nature of all living things to find some being greater than themselves and place their trust in that being, following it blindly. In order to escape from the pressure of that trust, those beings seek a still greater entity in which to believe, and those greater beings too seek still greater, still stronger beings to follow. This is how all kings come to be, and this is how all Gods are born. Do not trust in me yet, Hirako Shinji. I will take my time to teach you the nature of the God whom you face. Then, you shall believe.„~ Aizen's philosophy on godhood ~

[tredawakandan]

Being an Adult is realizing that :

Android Arc and Cell Arc are 1 Arc/saga 😁

Water 7 and Enies Lobby are 1 Arc ☺️

Hueco Mundo Arc and Fake Karakura Town are just 1 Arc😁

IDC what any official source says 😅. Thanks for coming to my Tre Talk 🫡

Still debating it but these may be my favorite arcs of each series (Can't decide if I like Water 7/Enies Lobby more then wano or marineford 😅) . The android saga introduced teen Gohan and trunks. Not to mention some of my favorite fights. Fake Karakura Town arc is slept on as well as hueco Mundo Arc. Folks only bring up Vasto lorde Ichigo and that's it😭. The arc and build ups were 🔥🔥🔥

[sunflowersandcherryblossoms]

And then Bleach Brave Souls picked up on this and made a new Ikkaku unit...

Man... This awesome intro...

I love the Zanpakuto Rebellion because it focuses on the ones that should have been the main characters throughout the entire series!

[flashybaby]

(Arriving in Hueco Mundo)

Youmu: You’ve been in Shikai since you got here. What’s that all about?

Marisa: Well, after extended exposure and focus, our bodies acclimated to the elevated state. We can sustain it without any loss in stamina.

Sakuya: What?!

Reimu: Also, we kinda forgot how to turn it off.

Marisa: It’s actually pretty concernin’.

Reimu: Yeah, for the Arrancar!

[platinumz0nvrmre]

something that could’ve been cool in the zanpakuto rebellion arc is

what if muramasa pulled out white instead of OMZ?

but white just fought back cause he’s badass like that

if it was canon (happening post fullbring ) that could’ve been something cool to go along with ichigo remembering white saying “I AM ZANGETSU”

it could’ve been something cool to hint at “the blade is me” and old man zangetsu not being ichigos true zanpakuto

also when zangetsu uses bankai for him to change form and transform into the soul world tensa zangetsu we see at the end of the arrancar saga

[wormwitched]

i am so sad every day that orihime was not granted the vengeance or satisfaction she deserved post-arrancar saga because girl was literally locked up and tormented daily until her friends could get to her, her powers were implied to literally rival those of gods and potentially be able to affect the hogyoku and yet all we got to see her do was fail to bring someone back from death (nerfing her ability completely and never even exploring the fascinating ideas about how her powers could alter SPACETIME!!!!) not being able to put peoples souls back in them after they’re gone is a perfectly fine limit but to not give her a single power up or truly impressive feat is so crazy. she could have hypothetically helped kisuke seal aizen by rejecting the hogyoku from his body. if she had been brought to her senses earlier she might have been able to undo tsukishima’s ability in the lost agent arc…so much to think about so much rage in my heart for this poor girl who was abandoned by negligent writing

[stargalaxyshooter]

Since it's probably coming up in this cour?? Or maybe in the next, but I will always be salty with how dirty Kubo did Ukitake throughout the whole manga - but especially in tybw. Not really utilizing him the way you utilized Shunsui was one thing, but not even giving him a fight before you take him out was dirty 😭

And don't even get me started on how his death was - from what I remember - ultimately pointless, he was giving up his life for the soul king only for Ywach to absorb him anyways. Maybe that did sorta help, idk my memory of it is kinda foggy, but it forreal felt like a "oh damn this guys still a thing gotta give him this random thing to do and then kill him off".

I appreciate that because he's gone, there was a vacancy in the 13 division but Kubo could've given ukitake a battle in tybw and maybe have him either die from said battle or survive it & choose to retire afterwards due to the injuries he sustained from it (like his body was already frail, so maybe he pushed himself too far after using his bankai WHICH WE NEVER SAW). Which then leads to canon with rukia being captain.

There's sooooooo many sternritter's that are introduced and instead of giving some of them to other characters - or have them group together if you don't want too many individual fights - we instead get the same characters have multiple fights with diff opponents or have some of the sternritter's off screened.

For example, we get characters like Kenpachi or Hitsugaya who are given multiple fights in this arc (not necessarily complaining I do like them), while Rukia, who is the second most important character in this show gets one actual good fight where we finally see her bankai. And is then not really utilized after that. That's wild imagine if Sasuke, who is also a deuteragonist, was only given one fight in the 4th war and then fades into the background while naruto/others go fight madara. Side tangent, but I'm just pointing out how weirdly characters were used from the main cast to side characters.

And it's not like it's just Ukitake, kubo also seemed to not like the visored (vizard?) either. Goddamn were they heavily underutilized, got introduced in the story as being one of the major new factions + given a backstory that gave them a connection to both the seireitei & aizen but were ultimatley cast aside for no reason.

Even their inclusion in tybw was pathetic, had them taken out anytime they tried to do something like what was the point Kubo what do you have against these characters?? At least chose to either have them fade into the background after only serving their purpose during the arrancar saga or have some die a meaningful death. (Not that killing characters off when they "serve" no more purpose = good writing. It just would've been something to actually chew on than what we actually got)

Idk something other than that half assed shit, as someone who likes the visored it was painful to watch. There's so many frustrating things about Bleach when I think about it, you have all these cool characters/designs who have interesting personalities, purpose, backstory and then they never get to do anything other than serve as "characters who get offed or beaten up to make the ones who save them look good", which sucks.

Hopefully, in the second cour, or third, some of these things change? I don't expect Kubo to care about ukitake or the visored now but maybe some other side characters like hisagi or yumichika who can finally complete his character arc of never using his shikai in front of others, he was about to use it but got taken out by a zombie. Oh, and also! Ikakku, similarly to yumichika, he also didn't get to have his character arc come full circle. We never got to see him use his bankai again, it seemed he was about to but got taken out by the same zombie - so maybe next cour...? Fingers crossed 🤞 that at some point both him & yumichika can show their concealed powers without fear of one not being accepted and the other not being allowed in the squad anymore. Especially when we know that at the end of the manga, ikkaku replaces yachiru as lieutenant

[thatinsufferablenerd]

Unexpected Feels

The weather has been rainy and as glum as I feel. My dogs don’t want to be outside when it’s this wet, and I’m still trying to house train the pup we took in off the streets a month or so ago. She’s fine when the weather is good. It’s just another thing on my plate to deal with. 

I’m not in the best place. I can feel myself sinking into the numbness that comes with my depressive episodes, the desire to turn off my brain and scroll endlessly, hit play on something, ANYTHING to put something else in there before it morphs into despair. Anyone who’s dealt with mental health issues on a long term basis might be able to understand. Clocking the signs before it gets bad again, ya know? Self awareness grants me the insight to see the hole is getting deeper and even whether or not I’m the one holding the shovel, but what do you do when you aren’t the one doing the digging?

Of course I’m disappointed by the election results. Of course I’m angry, I’m sad, I’m still trying to process that THIS happened. I wish I could scream to every single person who contributed to this mess, “Don’t you understand what you’ve done?? The leopards are going to eat your face too!” But I can’t. All I have is this dread. It’s so heavy. I believe that we should be building community right now, standing in solidarity with and carving out our safe spaces with trustworthy people, and making preparations like we just heard the Waffle House is closing. I believe that. I do. But how do I do that? My community is overwhelmingly red. Most of the online places I’ve been forcing myself to try to be social in are staunchly apolitical. How am I supposed to know who’s safe like this? How am I supposed to breathe when all I can do is be scared for the people I know are going to be in more danger than ever? 

My Twitter feed is full of pleas to stay alive. With all this bleakness closing in, I can’t believe how absurd yet poignant that small sentiment is. Stay alive. I must, I have children that need their mother and dogs that will end up shot by animal control if I don’t. I am scared because I don’t want to live, I want to thrive and I want that for everyone else, but I know it will be harder to do that. I must protect my children, my home, what meager comforts I’ve pried from the jaws of this capitalist hellscape. I’ve seen sentiments of ‘if you cannot sustain hope, then use spite instead.’ Is that enough? I don’t know. 

I’ve tried to be productive. It helps with the depression and focuses the rage I feel brewing. My brain has been like Grand Central Station all week with how many trains of thought are running through it. Making art is one of the only ways I have to combat all of this. I want to make art that helps me get through this, and if that art can help even one other person, then I must make it. I have a voice, and I will use it to tell stories about love, community, stepping into your own power, fighting injustice no matter how impossible it feels, and persevering through adversity.

That doesn’t solve a more immediate issue, however. Reckoning with the fact that I will likely have to get a job for the first time in nearly a decade is hard. I had a hard time keeping a customer service job and I couldn’t get anything else despite my best efforts. My heart rate picks up at the idea of getting a job, my breathing shortens at the idea of having to go back to the grind. It’s terrifying. I don’t want to do this. I want to cry just thinking about it. My experience in work places has been so overwhelmingly negative that it’s driven me to agoraphobia. But we need a second, stable income. Something to supplement the sometimes inconsistent work my husband gets. This is unsustainable and too much stress for him. I must find it in myself to overcome my fear. 

In the meantime, I have been making progress on my TBR. I’m over halfway through Bleach. My notes are getting lengthy as I’m hurtling towards the end of the Arrancar saga. This series has given me a lot to chew on in its themes and characters. I like its melancholy atmosphere, how internally focused the character writing is. The conflicts seem to be external representatives of the internal tribulations of the one fighting. It’s a nice layer to your usual big dumb anime fight scenes, which are admittedly beautiful in Kubo’s art style. 

The last couple chapters of Spy x Family have given me a lot to think about too. While I think there are valid criticisms of the series and its writing choices, I do enjoy it and am invested in seeing how the premise develops towards eventual resolution. Twilight, the main character, is forced into the role of caring for a child. Shenanigans do ensure, but also the predictable yet profound realizations of what that responsibility entails. How caring for a child can force one to look back on their own childhood and adjust their priorities. Being a parent is a lot of work, especially to a child as precocious as Anya. The conviction of wanting to keep war from breaking out, to punish those who would hurl the citizenry into poverty and despair for their own ends, or want the next generation to not experience the horrors of war isn’t enough. Even the actions in service of that goal don’t have immediate effects on the children living in front of you, in your care even. Children who grow up too fast are robbed of something difficult to articulate. It’s a severance of self, of trying to wear a coat too large and heavy to move properly in. Meditating on that and the truly fucked dynamics going on in another family in that series (and how triggering the cold silence around their dinner table is for me) has taken up more of my time than I want to admit.

I finished A Hero of France by Alan Furst. I did not go in with any expectations and walked away with very little. I didn’t care about the main character nor like him much. The other characters were pretty flat, honestly. But I don’t think that was the point. If I’m interpreting the story ‘correctly’, the circumstances are the story. Everything revolves around the French Resistance efforts and the day to day of living under the occupation. It captured the resigned mundanity of it all. Espionage and intelligence work–according to most actual spies–is a lot more boring than James Bond would have us believe. It’s a lot of paperwork, a lot of listening and data analysis, requires excellent communication skills. ‘Knowledge is power’, after all, and intelligence is a game of reactions. I liked how this story depicts the occupation. I like how it shows the curfews, the increased police presence, the rationing and black market, black out curtains, air raid sirens, watching the Allied bomber squadrons overhead, listening to the BBC radio broadcasts from the Free French in England, how prized bicycles are. I like seeing the difficult judgment calls of who to trust, the consequences of those choices, how the combination of observation, experience, instinct and information coalesce into how those decisions are made. I like seeing the strange mix of small acts of defiance in solidarity with the Resistance on behalf of the French countered by the acts of survival of those who fall in line with the occupation government. I like how most of the Resistance’s efforts here were forging papers, stashing people, serving as escorts, letting people borrow trucks or dropping off messages. That’s the on-the-ground work all of us can do. If there’s one thing that baffled me into laughing, it’s that the author has maps of Paris, knows the street names and public transport, but still uses feet, miles, and pounds as units of measure over metric units. 

I had to return my eldest’s overdue library book on Tuesday and snooped through the ‘new’ section near the check out. I picked up ‘House of Open Wounds’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky on a whim. His work is recommended across BookTube, from Dogs of War to Echoes of the Fall. I recognized the name, the premise grabbed me and the covers are beautiful. It wasn’t until I mentioned picking it up and adding it to my TBR this month that I learned it’s Book Two in the trilogy that’s wrapping up soon. I was furious for the next day. On top of everything else on my mind, the damn book had ZERO indication it was part of a series. Not on the spine, the blurb, the inner pages, nothing. I had to go back to the library and exchange it for City of Last Chances. And the worst part was that I saw on other series of his that they ARE clearly labeled. My impromptu TBR add became a whole ordeal. 

I’ve had less time in front of my whiteboard than I wanted. I’ll survive, but it doesn’t help my cluttered, stressed brain. I did get some writing done, though. Without going into spoilers, I had some really strong ideas and frankly a stroke of brilliance that carried me for a few days. It happens sometimes. I’m more of a gardener than an architect as far as style goes, so those spur of the moment, lightning in a bottle turns of phrase or convergence of ideas are so magical. We’ll see if it holds up on re-reads or I’ll experience a hangover after being drunk on sublime mediocrity. 

Unfortunately, I’ve had yet another crisis of faith in my own skill. This happens regularly. Constantly, it seems. The crushing weight of knowing how ambitious my plans are and how easy they are to completely fuck are a couple pieces of the imposter syndrome puzzle. Having a history of chronic anxiety and overthinking will do that. I went into this project hoping I could accomplish multiple character arcs and show how these people are living their lives off page without going into their individual perspectives. While I’ve wavered before, I’ve tried my best to stay the course. I want Adelaide to be a major (if reactive) player in her own story, to somehow balance the many moving parts of political conflict going on outside her office with the cataclysmic personal upheaval leading to her dramatic shift. I want it to feel like the world is so big out there, that all these big things are affecting and weighing on her while she is one woman doing her best, that this should be a small-scale personal conflict between two people but the walls are closing in from all sides. It’s just…so hard. How many times have I asked myself if it would be easier to switch perspectives for this chapter or if I understand the characters well enough to show that they’re making decisions, introspecting, changing, when Adelaide as the perspective character isn’t in the room? So many. 

So I’ve come to a tentative compromise. My story is broken down into two and a half longer arcs. The first from mostly her perspective and the second mostly from O, the other protagonist’s. These arcs are further broken down into installments, like acts in a play. But between these volumes, I’m going to write chapters from the perspectives of characters that aren’t Adelaide or O. Even if they don’t end up as part of the final product, it will serve multiple purposes. 1) It will help cement how the inherent unreliability of the narrator works and how narrow of a focus the main narrator has. 2) It will make the world feel more lived in, as Adelaide is one woman and--despite being telepathic--cannot follow everyone's journey. 3) It will create a sense of dramatic irony in the reader. 4) It will help develop and push characters forward on their individual arcs without having to be in the same room as Adelaide. Even though it will be a giant pain in my ass, I think it will be good exercise for my brain. 

If that’s the case, however, I am going to be spending A LOT of time in front of my whiteboard in the next week. Another drawback of gardening is the ‘make shit up as you go and then go back and make it look like it was on purpose’ of it all. I am going to need a lot more worldbuilding information. History and culture mainly, but culture is such a huge and complex beast. Politics, religion, social values, education, history, trends that become mainstays, fashion, art, slang, geography, industry, immigration patterns, etc., they all ebb and flow and intermingle. All the components are interdependent. I have a lot of basics already. I needed them before I jumped in, obviously. It’s become clear that I need a lot more in the last couple weeks. I’m going to be  hitting the books, taking a lot of notes and refining ideas for a good while yet. 

YouTube has given me some good fucking food, which I always appreciate. Michael Beveraggi, bennshouts, Steven in Stereo, and Chats and Reacts have all released their reactions to Halsey’s new album ‘The Great Impersonator’, which I watched. I know reaction content is controversial. I’m aware of the criticisms and I agree with some of them. When I watch reactors do music, shows, or movies, I watch it for the reactors, their personalities, their insight, their expressions, all of the things that come with sharing something you like with a friend–in the most non-parasocial way I can possibly say that. For the record, GOT Games is my favorite reactor of anything, followed closely by Danny Motta. Moreover, the album is viscerally vulnerable and musically dense, a work of performance art as much as a treat for the ears. Sharing the feelings I have about it with others helps spread the sting a little thinner. 

A couple of essayists I watch have done pieces on Tim Burton. Broey Deschanel talked about him as an auteur, as she does, and Lola Sebastian did a full on autopsy of his Sweeney Todd adaptation, both of which are great. In honor of Spooky Season and to add to the discourse surrounding Burton’s successes and failures as an artist, Girl on Film released her video “Has Tim Burton Really Lost His Magic?”. Her analysis focuses mainly on horror and feminist films (and the intersection of the two). I’ve enjoyed everything of hers I’ve seen, but this installment I think adds to the discourse in a much needed way as well as being just good fucking food.

Dr. Philip Chase over at The Best of Fantasy released the next installment in his One Piece review series, “English Professor’s Thoughts on the Marineford and Post-War Arcs”. Obviously I know Dr. Chase is a good writer, his trilogy of fantasy novels are known for their prose. Hearing him describe his experience with this stretch of the story was emotional for me in a sympathetic sense, in that I understood how heavy the material is and could see how emotional it made him, but also sent me back to how I felt watching these episodes for the first time. I went into One Piece spoiled. I knew what islands the crew visits, the bad guys they beat up, the major players they meet along the way, the big twists, surprise appearances, and I knew all the memes. It didn’t diminish my enjoyment of the story, not in any meaningful way. I still felt all the things in the places I was supposed to feel them. It hit a little different this time, which is probably why I watch stuff like this. I am catching up on the anime too. I want to watch the Fan Letter special and get it off my list while the anime is on temporary hiatus.

I watched Mother’s Basement put another installment in their “What’s in an OP?” series with the Dan Da Dan opening song “Otonoke”, and absolute banger, by the way. As if I need another reason to like this series. I watch Insider’s “How Real is it?” series, and even if I’m not a fan of all their experts, I still learn something every time I do. This week they had a former Army DI talking about boot camps scenes in films/TV. Series like these are so cool for laymen like me, same as WIRED’s Tech Support series. Having an expert or professional in any number of fields review scenes or answer questions from the public are so insightful for incessantly curious people like me. Nerd Level Rosing hosted the first session of BookTube DnD, which was a lot of fun. I was watching live and had a good time. The replay is available on his channel. 

I had someone recommend Super Eyepatch Wolf’s work to me, Zach the Storytelling Dragon, and I watched a few of his videos this week. One on each of the Big Three. We agree on some points, disagree on others. I got more out of Naruto and Bleach than SEW has, I’ll say that. He isn’t wrong as art is subjective and opinions on it are too, and it is worth pointing out that he took accountability for his previous mistakes in discussing Bleach in particular. I just find his analysis of both Bleach and Naruto to be fairly surface level and focusing too heavily on their faults. I think he misses some of what’s there because he’s not reading between the lines, even if I think plenty of his criticism is warranted. I would be happy to elaborate if prompted. 

Trope Anatomy posted a video essay called “Why Women in Fiction Sacrifice Their Hair” a few days ago. The thesis of that comes down to ‘while it’s true that characters of all genders cut their hair in stories, there’s a pattern of female characters who do it as a form of sacrifice’. He points out instances of transformation in identity or of selfless acts on behalf of a loved one. This does exist, I’m not saying he’s wrong. I just wish he had done some more research. Someone who never disappoints with their research is Unnatural History Channel, who released an amazing resource called “Spec Evo long: How to Build a Herbivore”. It discusses the ecological role herbivores play, their impact, their digestive morphology, their evolutionary strategies, how our biases are shaped by exposure, and all sorts of other delicious points for animal nerds and speculative biology enthusiasts alike. I rarely put a video in my ‘Liked’ folder, but I did that one. 

My mind has been a busy place. I have so many things going on, but I’m doing my best in this rock hurtling through space. Stay safe out there.

[troius]

Waaay back at the beginning of the Arrancar Saga I criticized Kubo for killing off a bunch of people in a way that failed to convey the horror and tragedy of it all...good to see he’s taken lessons since that time. These dude may be dead men walking, but they’re dead men walking with names and the barest hint of individual personality. That goes a long way!

[vahvah]

One of the reasons why defeating Aizen at the end of the Arrancar Saga seems like a more fitting ending than defeating Yhwach at the end of the Thousand Year Blood War is that there is no cost for victories.

To defeat Aizen, Ichigo became an ordinary human being. No more ghosts, shinigami and other otherworldly nonsense, ONLY ordinary life after saving the world. He said goodbye to Rukia - the one who completely changed his life and his understanding of the world. Broke the most important connection in life after the death of his mother. It was a SACRIFICE.

To defeat Yhwach, Ichigo needed the help of Aizen lol and his old huge piece of iron, which he calls a sword. And... well, you know, he remained a substitute shinigami. Yes, Yhwach took his Quincy powers, but up until the arc there weren't really any hints or significant details about them that couldn't be explained by the Hollow's power.

Thinking about what the ideal ending could have been - well, Ichigo would probably have to sacrifice himself to defeat Yhwach. Of course, he would become a permanent shinigami of the Gotei 13 (and Rukia's lieutenant?), but would be forced to sever his connection with the World of the Living, although thanks to Kyoraku tickets, his friends and sisters would be able to visit him.

Yes, that makes sense in my head.

p.s. Oh yes, this would be another detail in the inversion of the story of Isshin and Masaki.

[hollow-triad]

[Trilingual Dub] Bleach Ep117

[Voice Cast] X

Rukia: (🇯🇵) Fumiko Orikasa // (🇺🇸) Michelle Ruff Masakazu Morita as Ichigo // Fumiko Orikasa as Chappy Di-Roy: (🇯🇵) Takashi Kondō // (🇺🇸) Spike Spencer // (🇲🇽) Ricardo Mendez

[🇯🇵]

Hey… That Zanpakutō… // Sode no Shirayuki. // Ichigo's Japanese VA // Lady Rukia's ice-snow Zanpakutō. It's currently said to be the most beautiful sword in the Soul Society. The Zanpakutō's blade, guard, hilt, all of it… is colored in pure white.

[humanoerrado]

Qual a importância de arrancar uma página? O quão marcante uma página arrancada pode ser? O que parece uma expressão de se livrar daquilo esconde um significado diferente…

Vamos pensar em uma metáfora onde sua vida seja uma saga de vários livros. Aqueles que já passaram estão ficando na estante guardados, para pesquisas e até releituras esporádicas da sua memória. Assim como na sua vida, várias pessoas lerão e terão sua própria interpretação sobre sua história, mas só você, o(a) autor(a) da sua obra, vai saber o real significado daquilo que foi escrito, mesmo que esse significado mude ao longo do tempo.

Mas quando você arranca uma página, tenta "apagar" aquilo que foi escrito, mas tudo já foi escrito e não tem como apagar... Pense se você está lendo um livro e se depara com uma página arrancada. Seu pensamento vai todo para as suposições do que estava naquela página, acontecendo o processo contrário do desejado. Ao invés de perder o valor na sua história, aquilo ganha muito mais valor porque você tentou apagar.

Mas eu duvido que você consiga me dizer o que aconteceu na página 27 do último livro que você leu, ou, saindo da metáfora, exatamente o que aconteceu 270 dias atrás...

Na vida e nos livros, sempre há aqueles incômodos que seria melhor sem. Mas eles nos trazem lições e fazem parte da história. E a melhor forma de fazer essas páginas ficarem "apagadas" é escrevendo novas páginas melhores.

[sunflowersandcherryblossoms]

People on Reddit not paying attention to the filler arcs is quite something...

How did the person posting the question thought that the Zanpakuto Rebellion Arc could be placed after the Arrancar Arc?

For that we already have the Reigai Arc and the Hellverse Movie!

There's a good place right here between the 13th of August and the 1st of September...

And if this anomaly would somehow give them some more days, (it's an anomaly... It could still have them go back in time rather than moving forward...) you'd have another week to work with.

Some people on the post whee claiming it's impossible to retcon the Zanpakuto Rebellion Arc because there's nowhere to fit it in the Main Timeline. Nonsense.

It's right there!

[tumbleweeddesktop]

Ykw that "Arrancar Encyclopaedia" section in Bleach Hueco Mundo arc makes it feel like they're just actors playing some type of action series saga and honestly that makes it feel really cute

[fictionkinfessions]

Augh, after (finally) finishing the Arrancar saga, can I just say? What Isshin did with Mugetsu makes me really, really mad. He never mentioned the cost, he literally shoehorned me into giving up my reiatsu. Maybe I would have anyway, but the point is, he didn't give me a choice. And I've been seething about it.

As if the kicks to the face and the sixteen years of lies weren't enough.

~Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach)

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