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I was rewatching some episodes of Bleach a few months back and I still have a fondness for it. It's one of the first animes I ever watched at all, though I never got very far past that first big Soul Society arc; I used to watch episodes on TV as a kid with my family and I saw cool Bleach cosplays and other stuff frequently at anime conventions. I have a general idea of what happens later thanks to some fanfiction and other forms of Fandom Osmosis.
And I realized while listening to the episodes play in the background that I had... no idea where Urahara's kids came from??? Why are there two children just living with the former Soul Society captains??? I'd never gotten that far (if it was revealed in the main manga or anime at all) and had never come across the information in fanworks or on the few wiki pages that I'd browsed. So, I looked it up on a wiki, and it turns out that Ururu and Jinta are artificial souls like Nemu (this is revealed in one of the novels). Which made sense! I'd been expecting something like that or adoption of random spirit-sensitive humans (this was my guess) or whatever.
But it does make me wonder HOW something like that happened... and also WHY? It's very funny to me that someone in the Urahara-Yoruichi-Tessai throuple (non-canon to my knowledge, unfortunately) apparently decided that they wanted kids (with superpowers, of course) and Urahara just... made some. (Or Urahara was just experimenting and then decided to raise his mad science experiments properly. Maybe it was a "I can do ANYTHING better than that fucker Kurotsutchi and I'll fucking prove it" kind of thing.) Ururu and Jinta are Ichigo's younger sisters' age (uh, maybe, hard to know with artificial souls), so it kind of looks like this mad scientist babymaking went down after Ichigo was born.
My mind keeps going back to that "Text your partner: 'I want a baby'" meme from several years ago as a fic idea.
Tessai: I want a baby.
Kisuke: we already have the cat
Yoruichi: I'm baby
Yoruichi: fuck kisuke beat me to it
Yoruichi: kisuke this is your fault I told you not to let him hold ichigo
Tessai: He's very cute.
Tessai: I want one.
Yoruichi: where are you gonna get one? I'm not doing it
Kisuke: we are also exiled criminals, that feels pertinent to mention here as a consideration when family planning
Kisuke needed, for his own sanity, to make sure that the kids under his care had the skills to survive a worst-case scenario. But he really didn't want to traumatize said kids by putting them through overt onmitsukido training. Hence: Kill-the-Hat.
Kill-the-Hat requires stealth, speed, strategy, and combat ability. It's perfect for both teaching the kids the skills they'll need if the worst happens and also making them laugh.
Watching the game scratches the paranoid-parent itch that Tessai and Yoruichi also suffer from, so they encourage it by making fun of Kisuke's style, calling the hat an eyesore at every opportunity, and rewarding the kids whenever they get close to demolishing the monstrosity.
(Kisuke would never admit it when the kids are around, but he agrees the hat isn't exactly the height of fashion. It's why he chose it, of course.)
Tessai, after hearing a loud noise, turning to look at Urahara: Did that come from your lab?
Urahara: No! No no no no no. No, there's definitely nothing wrong with my inventions because they for sure don't explode for no reason sometimes.