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Sam Sax, “Bestiary” from A Guide to Undressing Your Monsters

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Orihime Rikka outfits! + Silly Ichihime extra

I've started watching Shugo Chara, crating this was my Canon event. I have no self-control. I was unable to draw ANYTHING unless I finished this shit.

This is the post, just a bunch of Hime Designs

Concepts:

Shun-no: nurse??.

Ayame: wife kind of outfit.

Lily: superhero.

Hinagiku: Superspy, that is an alien, so doesn't know how to dress.

Baigon: samurai??

Tsubaki: assassin

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i've always had the strongest headcanon that orihime is a long-time buyer/renter of physical media (DVDs, VHS etc) and i get so sad thinking about how sad she'd be that physical media is going out of fashion now....and then i remember that this is literally a headcanon and i do Not have to be sad about it but i still am

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btw, if you want to watch the (untranslated) Renji + Orihime hijinks -> Renruki handholding scene (with live Morita reaction), here it is.

thanks morita

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Soi fon/bleach

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I had a vision but now I'm just sad

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The ichiGOAT!!

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okay, it's been a few days since i watched the white haze and i think i'm ready to unpack all my feelings about TYBW & rukia.

tybw in general, as an arc, is about coming to terms with and closing a lot of plot points that began very early on in the story. it CONSTANTLY references the first arc, be it the truth about ichigo's mother's death, or uryu's pride as a quincy, or orihime's desire to protect ichigo on the battlefield, or even yoruichi & ganju being brought back for the trip to the royal realm. many series-long subplots close out here, there are loads of callbacks to earlier to the very first arc, and it's obvious that some of the 'how far we've come' nostalgia is for the characters but that it's also for kubo, who had been writing this story for years and years atp. so, keeping this context in mind, tybw's priority seems to be to reach a conclusion on rukia and byakuya's relationship. rukia always felt inferior as his sister, and her feeling like she's earned his pride is huge (it's also done very well in the anime! if you ignore the fact that they shoved the gremmy fight into the tail end of that episode for some odd reason).

it's also interesting that throughout tybw, kubo keeps rukia with renji and byakuya, whereas all the lieutenants in general seem to be with their captains. you had hitsugaya and rangiku share a fight together, momo and shinji are seemingly attached at the hip, unohana leaves isane an honest letter before she dies, and iba doesn't even bat an eye when he sees komamura's wolf form. these are all very meaningful and poignant moments that reflect on the depth of these captain-lieutenant relationships — the loyalty they have to each other, their squads and by extension, soul society as a whole. it's very believable that they care about each other and have worked together for hundreds of years. it's not your average boss-employee relationship.

but rukia's "captain" for this arc seems to be byakuya. her major emotional moment is with him, which is really sweet, but it does end up compromising her relationship with ukitake and kind of....alienating her from her squad. obviously, a huge reason for this is because, compared to the other lieutenants, she's a "main" character (and ukitake is not) so she's displaced from the regular action and placed on a slightly higher rung. but it does feel a little jarring when her captain dies this arc. you kind of,,,,forget why this would mean something to her (or i assume a casual fan would. i never forget anything of course).

this is one of the reasons why i liked her interactions with shunsui in WDKALY so much, because him passing on the captain's haori to her really placed squad 13 at the front and center of her story (while also obviously balancing that with her relationships with renji and byakuya), and this is one of the reasons i'm hopeful for the hell arc as well. because what little we've seen so far does center squad 13 and rukia's relationship with squad 13 (through its implications that her former mentors are in hell). it would also be interesting to see rukia try and embody her squad's values; she's not a free agent who can run off on missions anymore. she's responsible for a unit, a unit which used to be led by people who were important to her. i would love to see this side of her more, and honestly, if we get a hell arc and TYBW just feels like a stepping stone to that, i would definitely be more charitable towards it as well askdjfjf

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marching out the zombies was almost unwatchable for obvious reasons but seeing cirucci was a powerful reminder that uryu's fight against her in the arrancar arc was one of the most fun bleach fights EVER

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I love Bleach but I need more Orihime and Tatsuki interactions !!!

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ichigo being hit with orihime & chad's revealing new outfits and uryu's betrayal all within seconds of each other is soooo funny when you think about it

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also. just wanted to interrupt my bleach liveblogging to inform you that ichigo and orihime's musical actors posted pictures, in-character, of orihime giving ichigo valentines treats and ichigo grinning like an idiot

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i think this is fundamentally what BAFFLES me about tybw. when it was first announced that there was going to be an anime adaptation and that kubo himself was going to oversee it, everyone was excited that we'd have time to actually take the arc in, since it was SO rushed and weirdly paced in the manga. i think everyone assumed it was a given that we'd be given more time to breathe, extra scenes, more tightly controlled writing and that this was a lucky thing, because how many writers can get to say that they got to go back in and make some edits to things they weren't satisfied with?

but the end result is so weird because yes, there are extra scenes and some of them are good, but the studio also cuts scenes an insane amount. and these aren't just the goofy scenes (which i would argue should still be kept in if you want a faithful adaption of the source material), but important scenes like byakuya and renji at sasakibe's funeral, or rukia's weird fucking fear scene that does not have the same implications the manga did at all. we, the manga readers, can still fill in the blanks even with the scene cuts because of the additional context we have from the manga, but putting myself in the shoes of an anime-only fan makes me realize how much depth gets cut out due to these choices? like. as an anime-only, you're probably not thinking about renji during sasakibe's funeral or rukia's fear scene, but the manga either directly or indirectly alludes to renji in both those scenes. not to mention, every fight lasts 5 seconds long and so much information is dumped into those 5 seconds that my brain physically struggles to keep up with anything that's going on. what happened to the age-old shonen tradition of dragging the story out as much as you could? you could miss WEEKS worth of dragon ball episodes on TV and still be on the same plotline when you came back

bleach fights used to be 20 episodes long btw

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bleach fights used to be 20 episodes long btw