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alexiethymia · 2 years ago

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I really hate this panel because it shows that Aizen and Gin had already pinpointed Hinamori and Kira as the most vulnerable in that situation, and Aizen ‘picking’ Hinamori in particular.

And then I remember in the immediately preceding scene, it was Kira who screamed about not wanting to die, and Gin, in a way, answering it by killing that hollow, showing in a subtle way, how that strong loyalty could have been cemented from the very beginning.

And I keep forgetting that Renji was also in the fifth squad so his protecting Rukia from Aizen was also him standing up to his (former) Captain. Aizen must have undermined him for his brashness from the very beginning, but really that bullheadedness meant that he couldn’t be so easily manipulated so he was shunted off (but seriously that must have messed up his self-confidence). In other words, Aizen really gaslit all of them.

#bleach #hinamori momo #izuru kira #abarai renji #aizen sousuke #ichimaru gin #ramblings about bleach #squad 5 #seriously squad 5 dynamics #still on the fence which is the more messed up squad between squad 5 and squad 12 #aizen will forever be the worst #in the manga hinamori was the only one to fire off the kidou spell #so I do agree with others’ assessments that that made her stand out in aizen’s eyes #meanwhile the anime replaced it with her meeting eyes with him when he visited the shinigami academy #since all three of them cast the spell in the anime #the stray stars

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