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The Zanpakutō Arc is my favourite arc of the anime.
Really weird pick, I know. But when I saw it for the first time when I was much younger I loved all the cool spirits, I’ve always been super in love with the concept of Zanpakutō and getting a look into what the spirits are for everyone was so cool.
When I rewatched the Arc, I realized that I still very much love the arc, but for different reasons. Namely, the Antagonist, Muramasa. I love his motives, how he goes about stuff and his character. He might be my favourite character in all of Bleach and this is a filler arc.
But as much as I realized my love for the antagonist, I noticed that the stories of the Zanpakutō Spirits, as well as the designs and what they’re like seemed... Very lacklustre. I get that it’s filler and character development or anything isn’t allowed but.. oof.
This turned out rather long so the rest is under the cut, including Kazeshini mini-makeover!
So one day, I wanna rewrite that Arc and give it as much love as it deserves. Kind of a passion project that would take a shit ton of work, but the end product would be something I could not only enjoy and share, but look back on fondly for a very long time.
When/if I do that there’s a few things I wanna do for it.
We’re gonna play by AEIWAM (by @gallusrostromegallus, go look at the tag) rules.
Bleach without mods is very hard to play after having experienced Aeiwam and I can’t go back anymore.
This would very much be just me joining the bandwagon of creators playing in Gallus’ sandbox of wonder, but Aeiwam is what got me back into Bleach and the world building is too gooddddd. So, Zanpakutō Arc would once again be more of a filler (though Gallus if you find anything in it that you like please feel free to pick and choose if I ever manage to write this)
The Spirits need some serious make overs.
While some designs are cool, others are kind of uninspired and really do feel like filler. Some of the personalities are stereotypes pretending to be characters. The whole Haineko, Tobiume, Hyōrinmaru love triangle was kinda weird imho. Stuff like, just put a bit more autistic special interest spice in it, make it more funky. Spend actual quality time on the Zanpakutō spirits, their appearance, their characters and their relationships. Have more funky things like Itegumo the Avalanche (Courtesy of @gallusrostromegalus). Spirits like Hōzukimaru and Ruriirokujaku would are prime candidates f.E.
3. Muramasa deserves better.
For real. Did not deserve to turn into glitter after breaking himself over and over for his Shinigami. Absolute Love and Loyalty met with nothing but hatred. The guy stabbed him and broke the sword and Muramasa was still nothing but loyal.
Fun Fact: Maegawa's first appearance was in a story we later called Zanpakutō Stories: Stockholm Syndrome. Very good time.
Her powers were made specifically to be able to save him from death by getting the hollows out of him without hurting him.
Her name is a bit of a wordplay. Asahi, the morning sun of a new day. And especially Maegawa. Muramasa expresses multiple times to his Shinigami to leave behind the past and look forward. To move forward. Together.
Maegawa, roughly translated: forward river. Pretty on the nose, but I couldn't resist
Actual cool stories between Zanpakutō and Shinigami.
The conclusion of almost all sub stories between Shinigami and Sword Spirits was kind of a let down. The arc started strong in that regard, but then everyone broke swords left and right and they fixed it at the end with Mayuri Special Clown Magic. The premise of losing your powers forever if you kill your Zanpakutō Spirit was very cool but eventually ignored and even subverted by the Shinigami starting to purposefully destroying the swords halfway through.
It would be a lot cooler if instead of just defeating them in battle everyone has to properly engage their Zanpakutō spirit and work out whatever gripes Muramasa has drawn out and strengthened.
In that same vein, here’s an example I was pondering for this arc. A prime suspect of both ?? Design and very very unsatisfying story conclusion:
Kazeshini
The design was always really out of left field for me. A rude, battle-hungry being of slaughter with random cloth for decency and a vaguely scythe like haircut.
...And that’s... Shūhei’s Zanpakutō spirit? Shūhei from the 9th? Who doesn’t particularly enjoy bloodshed, is always ready to help others out and though trying to be edgy is actually very much a goof? That Shūhei?
That never really clicked with me.
I mean maybe it’s implied violent tendencies or some random blood thirst deep down but I never felt like we really had any proof for that with Shūhei himself. Though it might’ve very well have gone r/whoosh. I struggle retaining all the information sometimes.
But then I had a fun little thought.
At his very core, I feel like Hisagi is someone whose just intrinsically helpful. He wants to help, to do whatever he can and to prove himself to others.
He puts on a tough front and some people fall for it, but he’s actually extremely kind-hearted and a very hard worker.
Why would his Zanpakutō spirit not share that trait? The trait that’s at his very core.
Slaughter Demon Kazeshini is a front. A tough looking exterior from a Zanpakutō spirit that really just wants to help its Shinigami with all its heart.
The moment I saw Shūhei’s Shikai for the first time I actually had to think of Naruto for a moment. And when I pondered what those scythes might actually look like my thoughts returned to that thought: Kamaitachi.
("Kamaitachi" (鎌鼬) from the Kyōka Hyaku Monogatari by Masasumi Ryūkansaijin)
Kamaitachi are yōkai that resemble weasels with scythe-like front claws riding on dust storms. Now the version I’ve sketched is a ferret because I can’t keep my wiggly guys apart apparently, but also has the scythes more ferret-forearm-area. But Kamaitachi were the inspiration.
So this little guy is giddy as all hells when the Shikai first happens. Finally he can help his shinigami!! He’ll do his best and they’ll be so cool together and-
Shūhei looks at his blades in a mix of shock and repulsion. “They look like they reap life itself”
He hates his shikai.
Kazeshini is distraught. Why..? Why the hatred for their blades? Fear? He doesn’t know what to do. He doesn’t know _how to help_. But he wants to help! He needs to help!
And then he gets an idea.
He needs Shūhei to hate _him_. Not the blades. He needs Shūhei to be stubborn, to use these blades and become stronger.
So Kazeshini comes up with a plan. Shūhei doesn’t know his true form yet. He hasn’t seen the little ferret trying so hard to be a sword spirit he can rely on. And then Kazeshini does what he learned from Shūhei.
He puts on a front.
And that front is the rude Slaughter Demon Kazeshini, who never fails to infuriate Shūhei, to infuriate him to want to become stronger. To get Shūhei to show him that his blades can be used for more than death.
Their Zanpakutō Arc story would be this little communication disaster falling in on itself and Shūhei finally seeing Kazeshini for what he really is and coming to terms with the blades (and himself in a way)
(The initial idea was that Kazeshini sees Hisagi's hatred for a part of himself (Hisagi hating Hisagi I mean) made manifest in the blades and decides to redirect Hisagi's hatred against his own soul toward itself to protect him, but since Zanpakutō spirits in Aeiwam work a little different I thought I'll need that overhaul that a little hehe)
But yeah, there we have it. This has been steeping in my brain soup for a very long time. But I really need to finish Maegawa Backstory before I start anything else haha
#it's 1 am and I regret nothing#that was longer than 30 minutes but it kinda escaped me oops#my passion is palpable rn#love muramasa#bleach#japhyrambles#japhysart#bleach fanfic#zanpakuto arc
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Finally continued some of LB6
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Musical Touken Ranbu: Yorozu no Hana Utsusu Kagami (A Mirror Reflecting Myriad Flowers) Sengo Muramasa & Tonbokiri souki shutsujin
Karma: (in Hinduism and Buddhism) the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences. — Oxford Dictionary
I dedicate this one to the friends of mine who love Sengo and Tonbo. It's a beautiful performance with a wealth of interpretations, a myriad of feelings.
Keep in mind that these are only the subtitle files, timed and tled to the DMM senshuuraku and the bluray respectively. The archive version will have a talk at the start, so the starting times of the subs will have to be delayed accordingly.
You can find the subtitles and my TL document here!
#touken ranbu#toumyu#Sengo Muramasa#Tonbokiri#Water's translations#the souki references Tsuwa to some degree and TKO to a bigger degree which is always super fun#it IS a little sad how the two moons motif they went with is pretty much what Kogitsunemaru's two moons theme entailed#but at least the souki handled his themes better than Goumyu-- they actually make a lot of sense for Sengo and Tonbo and weren't 'offhand'#at the very least this means that all themes and roles I associated with Kogitsunemaru have been employed with/handed to others so I can't#be unpleasantly surprised anymore haha#it's clear the actors have a lot of love for their characters and it shows in every minute of the entire performance#I especially recommend Sengo's story part performance here-- it's very chilling
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i will make va jokes until the day i die and no one can stop me
#procreate#type : fanart#oda sakunosuke#akutagawa ryuunosuke#bungo stray dogs#bungou stray dogs#bsd#ononken and suwabe junichi my loves#touken ranbu#tkrb#monoyoshi sadamune#sengo muramasa#i kinda feel bad tagging them tho…#hmmmm just assume this is beast bsd#if it is those two its most likely be beast au#bsd odasaku
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He chooses violence all day every day, what else is new?
#[ HMMM i wonder what i should write today ]#[ i'm also thinking about whether or not i wanna keep all my blogs ]#[ i have 10 blogs - 11 muses ]#[ seeing how little i write on most of my blogs makes me think it's not worth keeping them ]#[ i DO enjoy writing them of course ]#[ but it's hard to build any actual bonds ect on the blogs when i'm not active on them ]#[ i'm also thinking i want to try my hand at OTHER characters ]#[ which means freeing up some emails ]#[ nnoitra is OF COURSE not up for discussion ]#[ and byakuya ; mayuri ; doflamingo are safe bc they are my fav to write (not counting nnoi) ]#[ i wanna put more effort into writing spandam which means moving him from his side-blog to a primary blog ]#[ might split my dual blog for caesar and perospero into two blogs bc i prefer single muse blogs and i love both my bois ]#[ so that leaves shinji ; muramasa and ashitaka ]#[ THINKING EMOJI ]#[ gonna keep them until the end of the year anyway bc otherwise my word-count system will be ruined LOL ]#[ ANYWAYS !! just some rambling ]#[ hope you're all doing good guys! ]#despair for me. ╱ in character.
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MODEROID Third-generation Seishuusengou Uemon-no-jou Muramasa. woman thats also a spider and also a suit of armor.........
just posted her :]
i love model kits ^_^ i am a model kit guy first and foremost as a figure collector i want to try + build every major line of model kits, but i havent gotten around to having a moderoid yet ! this one is really cool though i think ive seen figures of her in her human form as well but her kit is also really nice looking
#i love mechs that are also girls who are also mechs#<- have no idea if she is actually a mech? im not familiar w muramasa#talking#ask#i love talking about figures. you dont even have to send one in as a request (i assumed this was a request) i just love being able to talk#about them :)
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Holy fuck i must be doing the valentine's even for far too long for me to have forgotten I have never given Muramasa the chocolate yet
#This is unprecedented considering i love him so much#i am gar for muramasa#bot the old man him and the fact that his body is shirou
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collab drink cute!
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:D 🎶
No thank you. That was his immediate reaction to the aura of this Shinigami. It was unpleasant to him. Like murky water. Something sinister. Not evil, but - not with good intentions either. His eyes fell to the cane. The man's Zanpakuto, hidden - but not to him, of course. Her name? Benihime. His name? Unknown. ❝ I think that's close enough. ❞ Muramasa stated, tempted to hold out a hand to stop the other from approaching him any further. He didn't like him. Didn't like him at all.
#adsevel#[ kisuke: :D ]#[ muramasa: STRANGER DANGER ]#[ fjfjfj love that he had no problems with aizen but he draws the line at kisuke xDD ]#[ thank you for the ask! 8) ]#whisper. ╱ in character.#a calling. ╱ answers.
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#muramasa demon blade#vid#screens#this game is so beautiful#and the food sections are so pleasing#the fact that both the cooking and eating can be done slowly and you take your time when you could just click a button for status effects#really shows how much love they put into this game
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Guess whose manic interest metronome has once again returned to Bleach? Maybe I'll actually make it through the fullbringer arc this time, I always sink into long ass anime when I'm very distressed
When I was writing my diploma and had the worst entrance exams of my life I caught up in one piece.
But what do we do when we return to bleach brainworm? Of course, thank the brain for finally allowing me to enjoy some good aeiwam again while dusting off my blorbos
There's some things I wanna attempt finishing writing but we'll see how much brain permits me while freaking out about the disability card thing oof
#bleach old friend#we meet again#i didn't start yapping y'all ears off about how much I love Muramasa#and he's from a filler lol#and aeiwam again!#blessed day#i mean also not so blessed considering the circumstances#but at least I can dive back into this fandom#i have so many unfinished things#japhyrambles
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LITERALLY
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HOWLING WITH LAUGHTER!!!
just the thought of the lady servants just dunking on grandpa for giving a sword as a return gift is great. because it means that he also hangs out with them often enough for it to happen. 🤣
#papaya mumblings#papaya screams about fgo as usual#love grandpa mura so much thanks sir#muramasa fgo#fgo valentines 2023
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okay, the TMNT x Naruto announcement has given me fanfic ideas. Genin squad of April, Casey, and Angel. Whose their Jonin instructor? Could be a Naruto or TMNT character
#tmnt#naruto#naruto x tmnt#april o'neil#casey jones#angel bridge#admitedly i ain't got much so far#the genin like hanging out out at muramasa's gyoza shop#it's their equivalent of ichiraku#and splinter was yoshi's personal summons before yoshi was killed#and spinter was trapped in the human world#and he found the mutant turtles#also the genin are part of team gai's graduationg class#since we never meet anyone else they graduated with#and casey gets a kanabo#you know he would love one
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finished avalon le fae. SO! i really, really enjoyed it. like, a lot. some of if not the best writing in fgo (but it is still fgo so there was some loose ends that i'm still ??? about. morgan and tristan in particular but whateverrrr). i kinda wanted more oberon at the end, felt like that went by really quick which is a shame bc i fckin love that boy. i really liked how much it reminded me of babylonia in the sense that it had that melancholy, doomed feel but by god we're going to try, even if everyone dies, even if the world dies, we'll try because we have to and because we don't want to let our friends down- the sort of tone that fgo is excellent at, most of the time.
#alex plays fgo#personal#i REALLY loved castoria. feel like that goes without saying#and how much this one hammered home it's core themes#like EVERYONE had a role to play and it was all about how do you interact with your 'destiny'#and yes! i did cry over muramasa!
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