#ichigo kurosaki

[jennshiro]

This is the best fucking thing I've seen today.

Of course Yumi had to come along, he can't just let his boyfriend have an adventure in the living world without him.

The Arrancar Advance Team: Is this a picnic?

[jeizet]

Horn of Salvation x Dragon Ichihime!

Someone in Reddit gave me the idea, and it was too good not to draw...

[qweaenr]

BLEACH - Cover Pages 1/5

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Music: Back To The Sky by Ólafur Arnalds, JFDR

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Been meaning to see if someone had done as detailed a takedown of RenRuki as IchiHime, thanks @exo-raskreia.

Renji’s Cowardice

So this is something I’ve been wanting to talk a bit about, even though I’ve commented on it to other fellow fans, but decided maybe I should make a post about it. This got longer than expected, so long post ahead:

I’m one of those few people who don’t believe Renji had feelings for Rukia, or if at all, they were so subtle, they were barely there - ‘cause they can easily be interpreted as that of friendship or siblings.

We know he certainly cared about her, they were childhood friends, helping each other through hard times, the ONLY survivors from their friend group in the Rukongai, & the only ones out of them who had reiatsu. So, obviously, they had a tight bond.

But…there was nothing more. That scene in the anime (ep. 32) where Renji stares at Rukia in the lake during his childhood memories? Filler - like most of the episode. It wasn’t in the manga. Check out chapter 98 (which also has a lot of the scenes I will mention here).

When I first watched that, I thought maybe he liked her (so then why did he hurt her?), but as I got further into the anime, no such scene ever happened again, nothing else that indicated he might like her. Then eventually I read the manga, & bam! - obviously there’d been nothing else, since the scene hadn’t been there to begin with.

So if you believe Renji was deeply in love with Rukia… Well, that’s not what I saw in the following scenes.

Keep reading

[josephmcdingle]

vasto lorde

[its-my-time-dear]

I feel like most adults would also be incredibly angry and betrayed if they went through this but I think Ichigo forgives everyone because it’s a part of his character. He is kind and he is loyal. He gives people opportunities to improve even when he likely shouldn’t. It is his drive to protect and nurture that is a fundamental part of his character that is not likely to change. Ichigo absolutely should be angry but he isn’t, which is personally the reason I find him a compelling character. Because, yes, he does give into anger a lot but it’s the kind of anger that dissipates. Ichigo shows how he feels very rarely.

I think the only time I remember his properly and freely showing how he feels is when he breaks down after Ginjo takes his powers. Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe that is the first time he has cried since his mother died, nearly 10 years before. That is not healthy. Ichigo does not deal with his emotions in a healthy manner. He hasn’t since his mother’s death and the guilt and self hatred, as misplaced as they were, were basically all he felt.

Another thing that amazes me about Bleach; about Shounen in general, but Bleach specifically: Despite being a teenager, Ichigo somehow found it in his heart to forgive his guardians and caretakers for lying to him his entire life.

Think about this for a minute;

Imagine you're Ichigo. You grew up believing you were human - albeit an extraordinarily gifted one. Then when you're 15-16, in the face of the worst enemy you've fought to date, you discover the hard way that you're not completely human. You're a human-shinigami hybrid with a dash of hollow spliced in. A fact proven when your Shinigami father - apparently a former Captain - swoops into the fray to save you from... talking?

You don't have time to process this event because there's more pressing concerns to handle, but the revelation has thrown you off your game. A tiny part of you has sunken into an existential spiral of doubt, wondering what else in your life you've been lied to about.

Then, in the face of that same enemy, your recently-revealed Shinigami father forces you to learn a technique that sacrifices all of your powers and a portion of your soul - the very things that give your life meaning. You do it because you've been convinced there's no other option and you're too emotionally distraught (and emotionally blackmailed) to even entertain the idea of saying no.

Then a couple years later, you discover, no, you're not human at all and never were. You're a Shinigami-Hollow-Quincy hybrid. A fact you only discover through the enemy's head honcho, who reveals himself to be your great times X grand sire.

Only after you've been thoroughly humiliated in trials organised by the High Lords of the Shinigami, trials they knew you'd fail, after you fought so valiantly to defend them against their new enemy, your father decides to come clean, all the while goading you with your own ignorance.

That intense conversation reveals the true species and fate of your mother, validating that tiny legitimate fear you've had since learning your father's true nature; your entire life is built on a lie.

In addition to that, the horrible tragedy that haunted your days since you were nine years old wasn't your fault in the slightest. Your father knew that with absolute certainty but did nothing to alleviate your guilt, which could've led to you healing that scar sooner. Instead he chose to allow you to continue believing your self-destructive lie, knowing full well what it was doing to you psychologically.

The entire conversation serves as proof the adults in your life, whom were entrusted with raising, caring and protecting you, knew the truth about what you were even before your conception, but did absolutely nothing to prepare you for what such a life would entail.

Even back when you were first thrust into your powers, those same "guardians" did the absolute bare minimum to prepare you before tossing you into the jaws of death over and over again as a convenient superpowered cudgel to solve messes they created.

And what's the cherry on top of this bullshit sundae? The being you're supposed to trust above all else, your own zanpakutou partner... isn't your zanpakutou. Its a parasite that's manipulated you against the one person - the only person - who has never lied to you, for its own selfish ends. And somehow it expects to be allowed to remain in your soul, thanks to shedding some crocodile tears.

That is Ichigo's life.

He has been lied to. He's been manipulated. His entire perception of self and reality has been shattered over and over again. And he's been fundamentally betrayed by everyone whose supposed to care and protect him. In the face of all that, a teenager like Ichigo would not be accepting. He should be angry. He should be furious. He should want nothing to do with these people anymore.

In the face of all this; I would've preferred if Ichigo went through the TYBW arc with the angry attitude of "this is the last thing I do for any of you. Once this war's over, I'm disappearing off the face of the planet because I refuse to associate with any of you again." because any teenager who had their trust so thoroughly betrayed on so many levels would.

[ichiruki]

｢ROCK MUSICAL BLEACH｣ ～Arrancar the Final～

[acaizen]

Posting again… Ichigo has been taking up my mind again, might post some hcs soon too

[distinguishedshoeduckdonut]

Bleach Soul Resonance

The beta start march 13th

Registration Feb 13th

We can expect more like trailer or others footages

[hardstudentobject]

Black and White

[moonymiw]

[deathberi]

[tt-rexxu]

Frostbite ❄️ Ichigo gently holds Rukia's face in his hands, the numbness takes hold as his fingers become frostbitten and stiff.

[derekscorner]

I just learned that Ichigo gets paid and the Shinigami didnt bother to even tell him.

[rukiadriedhisrain]

Yo. Kurosaki.