#pq vs bleach

[phantomqueen]

can we talk for a second about how in bleach almost all the male arrancars died but most of the female arrancar survived (Harribel, Nel) because Bleach is of the old shounen variety where the girls never die past the initial freezer kills like moms and what not, but what this means is that canonically (if im remembering right, it's been awhile) Hueco Mundo in late canon is just a ton of hot super powerful Hollow ladies and then Grimmjow. can we talk about that

WE CAN...i always thought that was a cool concept even though kubo didnt have the range to actually do anything cool with it. i can’t remember if her all-women fraccion survived but i hope they did and my relationship w bleach is just to constantly disregard canon narrative anyway so yeah hueco mundo is for the arrancar women now and weird angry stray cat grimmjow

idk if they survived the very last manga arc bc i didnt read that one and after skimming some wiki pages about it i dont acknowledge its existence

[phantomqueen]

mood. i literally only got far enough in to the last arc to confirm that Grimmjow and aforementioned hot hollow ladies were alive and then i noped out. Still losing it over the sitcom/comedic potential of this canon where all living together in this half ruined castle in Hueco Mundo is a bunch of really hot demon ghost ladies and Grimmjow, local cat man who canonically is weaker then most of them and also canonically super pissed off about that fact

he’d probably have an extremely half assed plan to like, knock them down a few pegs or whatever but they’re also the only company he has even if they’re like. mutually antagonistic lmao

harribel’s arrancar girl gang would probably do most of the antagonizing. like doing that thing with a laser pointer. harribel & nel are just like ah well there goes local cat man again back for smth to eat

[phantomqueen]

shuuhei

i dont have any bleach knowledge in my brain anymore. lets see how much of this is just gleaned from u and/or other pals and/or made up myself

favorite thing about them: he’s trying to look PUNK but he’s a nerd with a big ol 69 on his face. works for the newspaper. cant play guitar

oh his sword is mad fucking cool though

least favorite thing about them: sometimes ur my best friend who didnt Really get into bleach but remembered shuhei’s tattoo as a yin-yang symbol until one day in dairy queen their best friend (ellen, me) tells u it’s actually a 69. what was the question again

favorite line: im on google images right now and apparently he says “i may not look it, but i’m a good cook” in what i believe is a filler episode but he’s giving izuru bedroom eyes while saying it

brOTP: rangiku. also ur right he should be friends with ichigo. dumbass older brother energy

OTP: renji & izuru

nOTP: i guess ppl ship him with kensei sometimes but i dont see that a lot bc i follo ppl with taste & common sense. thats his dad, spiritually

random headcanon: @enderofdays & i once went off on a whole thing about shuhei being into true crime but in like, a my favorite murder or buzzfeed unsolved way. hes not weird about it he just does a lot of research and rambles about crimes in inappropriate settings

unpopular opinion: seems like a man who’d get a mullet.

song i associate with them: it’s just us now by sleigh bells. also young lover by st vincent makes me think about shuhei/izuru a lot but in a bummer way

favorite picture of them: i thought i would post a video of the entire omake where rangiku makes him & izuru take saucy pictures but im too lazy to dig through compilations to find it. here’s christmas shuhei from the first year i downloaded bbs instead though

((send me a character and suffer my nonsense))

[phantomqueen]

the ask meme for renji (suRPRISE)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would banghogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuffbest quality: cares abt his friends! does his best!worst quality: abrasive! ship them with: izuru and i guess also shuuhei yall have really sold me on 369brotp them with: rukia, ichigo, ikkaku & rest of 11th squad. also i still Really need to know if he & chad ever just. hung out that time they trained for 8 million episodesneeds to stay away from: byakuya lmao!misc. thoughts: let him wear ripped jeans

((send me a character for this thing)) ((im still doing this despite the 20-hour delay on these last few lmao))

[phantomqueen]

"Orihime decides to dress up as a zombie bride for Halloween" THANKS I LOVE IT

[phantomqueen]

9 25

9: Character I am most like: …………….izuru or rukia, with a dash of shuuhei & ishida mixed in there

25: Character I’d like to see getting a flashback: oh gosh. kind of a non-answer but i’d love to see shinigami academy flashbacks for every shinigami (well, all the ones i care about anyway). uhh did shuuhei ever get a flashback in an arc i didn’t read/watch? also i think the fullbringers could’ve gotten flashbacks bc i liked them and wanted to care about them even tho they were kinda flat. or DID they get flashbacks and i just don’t remember bc i read that entire arc in a day on an impulse decision

((bleach asks))

[phantomqueen]

1-4, 11, 13, 15. give me ur Least Faves

1: Favourite male character: renji & izuru and i recently discovered my HUge soft spot for ichigo and oh shit i almost forgot chad 

2: Favourite female character: i have to love all of them bc kubo obviously didn’t. but uh specific characters: rukia, orihime, lisa, riruka, and harribel & her fraccion. 

3: Least favourite male character: m a y u r i

4: Least favourite female character: i……..was not a fan of the way chizuru was written

11: Least favourite captain: mayuri also counts for this one but also byakuya

13: Least favourite lieutenant: HMMM do i have a least favorite lieutenant… the first & second division lieutenants were the ones i cared about the least but i can’t say i actively disliked them? i just. consistently forgot they existed

15: Least favourite espada: oh jeez i disliked or didn’t care about a lot of them. i Definitely actively hated nnoitra, aarionero, and baraggan too i think

((bleach asks))

[phantomqueen]

7, 8, 18, 20, 24

7: Most attractive male character: i think the first character i thought was hot was renji but that was when i was like 12 and i mostly dont feel that way about him anymore. i dont know what abt ikkaku does it for me but ikkaku’s kinda hot. and please dont judge me but grimmjow is also kinda hot

8: Most attractive female character: im Mega gay for harribel. i also lov rangiku & soi fon

18: Favourite vizard: lisa, rose, or love! shinji was cool too tho. all of them were Cool

20: Favourite fullbringer: riruka!!!!

24: Character I’d like to see getting more development: uhhh they ALL coulda used better development, lbr. renji had a great character arc set up in the first few arcs that just. went nowhere. all of ichigo’s nakama got sidelined i think. u could argue that ichigo himself could’ve used more development?? uhh idk. kubo should’ve developed into a better writer

(disclaimer: i never finished the series and i only watched the anime up to like…idek, hueco mundo i think, so that may or may not affect my answers)

((bleach asks))

[phantomqueen]

10 30 44?

10: Favourite captain: HMM i think i generally like most of them besides byakuya & mayuri. i like soi fon, ukitake, and komamura the best tho.

30: Favourite shikai: oh Jeez one of the few good things abt bleach was that it had A Lot Of Cool Swords. i like zabimaru and not just bc im super biased towards renji lmao. also liked suzumebachi, wabisuke, and haineko. and pretty much all of the visored had cool shikai, iirc? i like rose’s and lisa’s. i vaguely remember kensei or someone just having a knife?? a magic knife?? thats metal

44: Best character design: ……i wanna say renji again bc i lov everything abt him BUT ALSO lisa. but mostly bc i look a little like her lmao. mmm another actual good thing about bleach was that A Lot of characters looked hella cool. OH u kno who looked hella fuckin cool?? Love looked hella fuckin cool

((bleach asks))

[phantomqueen]

ENJOY THOSE 8 GLASSES OF WATER then tell me how u feel about Renji Abarai on this friday evening

me, knockin back hard cider: delicious. amazing. innovation. REFRESHING. more–me an hour later: Death By Dehydration

Why I like them: hes a good rowdy boy and always does his best and i kind of related to his conflict in the first arc a lot and he was really well-written for like, 5 seconds

also when i was 12 i thought he was hot

Why I don’t: Less well-written after those 5 seconds oops i still loved him mor or less unconditionally but like. all that wasted potential

Favorite episode (scene if movie): i too am loving the ichigo v renji fight on this friday evening (i also have a soft spot for the first part of his fight against szayel aporro HE DID HIS BEST)

Favorite season/movie: i mean the soul society arc is the only real answer here right

Favorite line: that almost-monologue to szayel aporro where he’s like, “hey i suck at kidou normally but tHIS TIME im gonna blow up ur entire face. come at me scrub lord im ripped.” im paraphrasing heavily.

Favorite outfit: that RED PINEAPPLE t-shirt

OTP: renji/izuru also 369 THANKS 4 that

Brotp: rukia & also ichigo & ALSO i need to know if he and chad ever just. hung out during that 8000-year trainign session that time

Head Canon: part of why i draw him as a trash punk is bc thats the only style i really know how to draw but also bc i truly believe he’d wear a tank top w obnoxiously large armholes 

Unpopular opinion: i hate those 2 popular ships he’s in lmfao.

A wish: idk how it would’ve worked out but sometimes i think abt him actually getting Actual longterm character development and if trying to b captain would fit into that? IDRK his whole sort-of-rivalry w byakuya just petered out into NOTHING and i cant retroactively fix it AND

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: i mean. cant get any worse right

5 words to best describe them: good excellent DYNAMIC (bleach wikia: “renji is a very dynamic character.”) loud son

My nickname for them: i call him My Son a lot

((send me a character))

[phantomqueen]

I fucking forgot I drew this and just finding it now, buried under the detritus of my desk, feels like accidentally reactivating an old family curse

[phantomqueen]

JESUS CHRIST FINALLY. FINALLY A SUMMONS I ACTUALLY WANT. HOLY GOD. FUUUCCK

[phantomqueen]

I never got this far in bleach so I had NOOO idea Yammy turns into like....a fuckin........espada centipede????like its 12 am I have a headache I'm just trying to play a crappy mobile game in peace I can't deal with This. "how can this be" indeed renji

[phantomqueen]

no offense but can bbs just fuckign give me a parasol grimmjow as an early graduation present. fucking Please

[phantomqueen]

This is the worst cutscene I've ever had to watch with my own eyes, I've lost 3 years of my life, I will never know peace, snakes are manifesting in my home,

[phantomqueen]

How do you feel about bleach

wow, a question for the ages. how DO i feel about bleach??

i feel Many things about bleach. on some level it’s a little bit of a comfort blanket. a sort of horrible, grimy comfort blanket that’s more scratchy than comfortable at this point and i should probably throw it out – but we’ll get back to that. my cousins first introduced me to bleach when we were tiny children. lots of blood and fantasy action, what more could Baby Ellen want?? plot? characterization? Baby Ellen has no concept of these things yet.

(i wasn’t a Baby baby. probably like…9-10 ish. a sort of baby.)

then i watched it again in uhh high school or middle school on my own. i don’t really remember this phase. i read a lot of questionable fic and also fell in love with izuru kira.

i forgot where i was going with recounting my entire life relationship with bleach. i’m sorry about this.

i have many mixed feelings about bleach. it’s a very flawed series that had some real potential but, not only did it Not live up to that potential, it eventually completely imploded in on itself. like all in all, it’s pretty Bad.

that said, i still watch it for a lot of nostalgic reasons, to poke fun at it, and because i genuinely like the characters, who were almost written well in the beginning and really deserved better. i Love the potential bleach had, but i Hate what it actually became. i’ll watch it for fun, or if i just Feel like it, but i will criticize it. (i’ll also lay awake at night thinking of ways it could’ve been actually good and how my favorite characters could’ve been utilized better. and i may or may not start to cry.)

tl;dr i have Strong love AND hate feelings for bleach, often at the same time

God if u actually got this far in this essay answer i just wanna say im sorry