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My Top 5 Bleach Filler Characters, Appropos of Nothing
5. Inaba Kagerouza, Reigai Arc
Inaba is, simply put, the pinnacle of Soul Society worldbuilding. He's got this long dramatic backstory and a bunch of rage bottled up in his chest, but also a guy needs a paycheck, so he's just been doing the R&D grind for a hundred years. He knows a shit-ton about the Dangai, which is relevant to his evil scheme, but it's also just his day job (also the Dangai owns, I want a PhD in "the Dangai"). No one else in Squad 12 seems to have the least bit of beef with him, even after he builds an evil duplicate of every person in the Gotei. Unlike a lot of mad scientist characters, he's good with his weapon. Maybe he's weirdly jacked under his villainous smock?? Also, his evil scheme was generally well thought out, and took into account the fact that the Gotei is a bunch of buffoons. ngl, I kinda wish his plan had succeeded, if only for the fact that it would probably really piss Aizen off.
4. Ran'Tao, Bount Arc
Everything about Ran'Tao owns, including:
Sexy glasses
Condemned so hard by the Central 46 that they gave her a kidou seal back tattoo
KIDOU. SHOTGUN.
Stabbed Kariya in the gut
Noped out at the end of the arc because Who Needs the Gotei's Shit?
3. Kuchiki Kouga, Zanpakutou Rebellion Arc
I think that when you hear the story about how Byakuya was forbidden from marrying Hisana because she was a commoner, you're supposed to feel this great sense of injustice, like wow! Byakuya actually showed character by standing up for his love! And that's great and all, and then you get the Zanpakutou Rebellion Vintage Kuchiki Bullshit Flashbacks and it's like, oh, the last guy they married into the clan mass murdered a bunch of people and then they had to seal him up in a cave and I feel like that's an important piece of context in the entire Kuchiki Family-Being-a-Bitch-About-Who-Byakuya-Marries debacle.
Which isn't to exonerate the Kuchiki, here! It's very clear that Kouga wasn't that bad before he got pushed over the brink by Kuchiki family machinations. I mean, this is very much an Everyone's The Asshole situation.
I love the fact that they never come out and say that Kouga is Byakuya's uncle, but he's very obviously Byakuya's uncle.
I love the fact that he dramatically cut his kenseikan off with his sword and threw them at Ginrei and they made a gree card of it.
I love that he appears to be exactly Renji's height and has one chunk of hair that is the same color as Renji's and he over-accessorizes horrifically, and at best the Squad Six old-timer's had to be like "Byakuya don't do this to us again" when he hired Renji, and at worst there's a chance that Renji the secret baby that was born after Kouga was banished and he was hidden away in the Rukon so he didn't screw up the succession line but he's actually the true Heir to the Kuchiki.
2. Harugasaki Seizo, standalone episode 313
This dude had a homoerotic rivalry with Ikkaku (doomed, of course, because who could compete with Yumichika?), lost his shinigami powers when he took a blow meant for Ikkaku, and then spent the next hundred years putting his entire pussy into doing laundry for Squad 11. This man invented yearning, even if he did choose the worst possible person in the history of ever as the target of his affection.
1. Amagai Shuusuke, New Captain Shuusuke Amagai Arc
He looks like Ross Poldark. He can't hold his liquor. No one knows who witnessed his Captain's Exam. Ukitake and Kyouraku tried to talk him into a threesome. He was nice to Kira. His bankai was a tuba that made a foghorn noise when it belched out fire. His dad was the shinigami equivalent of a narc, who got done dirty by the Captain-Commander. He fought the Dangai Cleaner and won. I love him more than anything.
Honorable Mention: Kenryuu and Enryuu, New Captain Shuusuke Amagai Arc
Because they are an important reminder that for all the shinigami buffoonery I am forced to witness, day in and day out, some people graduate from Shin'ou, get shikai even, and still can't get hired by the Gotei.
#bleach filler#these are just my own cursed opinions you're under no obligation to share them#kenryuu and enryuu are also here because my husband loves them for absolutely no reason#i was trying to do this post out loud for him and i got to about no 3 and he was like 'kenryuu and enryuu right???' and i was like 'no dear#he also says they are married and will not hear arguments on this topic#i found (1) person on tumblr drawing seizo fanart and i respect that person to the bottom of my heart#i knew renji barely remembered seizo but imma write him into my squad 11 fanfic that i'm never going to finish see if i don't#procrastinating from my fanfic in some really epic ways today lads
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Izuru: You deserve a reward for putting up with me momo. I’m quite the handful I am sorry
Momo: well You’re my reward so I’m all doing good because I have you by my side Izuru dear *Izuru blushing*
*meanwhile*
Renji : You deserve a reward for putting up with me Rukia
Rukia: True very true, you can be really difficult at times and I mean lots of times with that but so can I be too.
Renji: that’s why we’re the most perfect couple Rukia
Shuhei: ugh
#incorrect bleach quotes#bleach fandom#rukia kuchiki#renji abarai#izuru kira#momo hinamori#renruki#bleach scenarios#bleach characters#bleach filler#bleach imagine#bleach headcanons#bleach renji#bleach rukia#shuhei hisagi#soul society#zanpakuto
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I had shower thoughts again so you're welcome
#kazeshini#izuru kira#shuuhei hisagi#kirikaze#sword beasts#zanpakuto rebellion arc#sword beast arc#bleach filler#bleach tybw#tybw#bleach#bleach memes
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Yoruichi-sama!
Ha-ah.
#soi fon#soifon#yoruichi#yorusoi#bleach filler#wish they fight together#in canon too#still manifesting
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5 Great Things About an Episode I Hate (7, actually!)
The Halloween episode is my least favorite episode of Bleach. It PAINS me. Viscerally. But we watched it last night as part of our rewatch—and have, for some reason, watched it as a stand-alone multiple times, on purpose?? So last night I figured I’d think productively about it and keep track of at least 5 things I like about it!
1. Ichigo Cannot Abide his Own Recap
This episode takes place in the context of the final moments of the Winter War. We’re talking like, Aizen is transforming, Ichimaru’s time on this earth is limited, Final Getsuga Tenshou, final moments of this 93-season-spanning arc. Ichigo and Aizen are about to face off and make clear what the difference is between the two of them. And then this.
But astute viewers of The Halloween Episode will find portentous spoilers here: Ichigo is about to launch into a long recap of the Arabian Nights episode… and stops himself!
This is in the immediate aftermath of Aizen having spent two entire episodes recapping the entire series. And this, friends, is the true difference between their mettles.
2. Pumpkin Ghost Orihime
ToT This requires no elaboration. She is so cute. I’m here for Pumpkin Ghost Orihime and Pumpkin Ghost Orihime only.
3. Pirate Renji
Well, that and mummified pirate Renji. LOVE HIM. We went into this episode muttering nutterishly, "just think about Renji and Orihime just think about Renji and Orihime" and look they’re stars, perfection, I survived this episode and am alive today only by their majesty.
4. Chad was spared all of this
Despite the fact that Hitsugaya and Matsumoto are Here For Some Reason (a feat I usually love for them but hate for them so, so, so, so, so, emphatically deeply in this episode), and even She Not Appearing Ever Hinamori is here(!!!), Chad is not.
I like to think it’s because he’s busy preparing an ofrenda for his grandfather and is taking an evening for himself. Self-care. 😌
5. It’s All Komamura’s Fault
The conceit of the episode is that this was all a dream of Komamura’s, similar to the Arabian Nights dream being Isane’s. Not that dream interpretation benefits from too linear an analysis ("X appears in Y way, so Komamura must think Z"), but it makes me wonder what reports Komamura was reading in bed, because there’s not really a strong reason he’d know all that much about Ishida and Orihime, or really even Ichigo. To say nothing of RYUUKEN and ISSHIN, who are also in this episode for some reason.
— Was Chad omitted because Kyouraku did not deign to submit a report after his ryoka fight?
— Did Ishida and Orihime make it in because Ishida’s a Quincy and Orihime has unusual powers/got kidnapped?
— Did Komamura visit Hinamori while she was recovering, and that’s why she skated into dreamland? If so, love that for them. So much.
— Does Ryuuken and Isshin being here mean that the Gotei has files on both of them? Kurosaki Isshin, that is, as Soul Society’s Best/Worst Kept Secret at this point?
Bonus Round: 6. Features my Favorite OP
I do not pay a lot of attention to Bleach music—though I’m more amenable to the OP/EDs than the score by far—but The Marble OP is probably my favorite one. I know it has a real name, and I know its real name, but it’s the Marble OP.
But something I wondered last night that I’d never wondered before… What is the room that the hougyoku is in here? Fake Karakura’s Fake City Hall?
Bonus Round: 7. It's followed by the Best Bleach Episode of All Time
The Hisagi Inn Episode is RIGHT AFTER THIS ONE, the most immaculate Bleach episode of our hearts. B3 loves this episode more every time we see it, and our immediate reflex after it ends—every single time—is to watch it again immediately. ALL HAIL THE INN EPISODE
#the halloween episode#bleach filler#bleach anime#komamura sajin#no brain just bleach#really into this idea of komamura hinamori bffs ngl#it's like princess mononoke except i guess not really#wow i'm so into it though#thank u for this bleach halloween ep#never speak to me again but thank you!
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Okay pt2 because tumblr doesn’t let me post more than ten pictures so…
The gays bring food to the gang and Yumi looks at Ikkaku so fondly. Ikkaku is just mesmerized by how humans make food.
He typey types
Everyone would be fucked without Yumichika we all know this. Especially squad 11
I just liked this screenshot. You don’t see those two together that much and I appreciate it.
Last scene of these two together in the four parter. Just take a moment to admire them.
Bonus
I know this post is about Ikkayumi, but Rangiku is such a wonderful person in these episodes. She’s so sweet to Shota and I just love this queen so much. Will definitely make posts about her in the future.
‘Till next time 😎😎
#bleach#ikkayumi#yumichika ayasegawa#ayasegawa yumichika#ikkaku madarame#madarame ikkaku#mastumoto rangiku#rangiku matsumoto#hitsugaya toshiro#toshiro hitsugaya#bleach filler episodes#bleach filler
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Are we just gonna sit here and pretend that Bleach fillers doesn't slap.I have been here for a long time and all I see people say is "skip the bleach filler, it's not worth it" bruhhhh.The reason I see people confused with some fanworks is bcuz they never watched the filler.They didn't know that Ichigo has his own Aladdin parody filler,they wouldn't know that Toshiro played football for Karin's football team,they wouldn't know the who karakura's superheroes are, they wouldn't know that the zanpakuto got physical forms.Yes,this is a sign to go and watch the bleach filler
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After getting inspired and studying the amazing art of a mutal, I’ve been able to a) better sketch and b) fill my sketchbook in a way I coulndnt before! :D
And now I’m very happy with it ssksksksksk
Here tumblr.
Take a sketch of Ura Vira and UraShin for now! These are sketch ideas so they will most likely be turned into digital drawings :3
#bleach#Anime#Manga#fanart#urahara kisuke#shinji hirako#shinji x kisuke#urashin#Ura Vira#bleach filler#Sketch#wip
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Senbonzakura would be the type of kid who's like "No my brother is the one who ate all of the chocolate!!" As he's standing there with it smeared all over his face
#senbonzakura#senbonzakura bleach#byakuya kuchiki#kuchiki byakuya#bleach#bleach anime#anime#zanpakuto#zanpakuto rebellion#zanpakuto spirit#zanpakuto rebellion arc#bleach filler
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I think the main reason I dislike the filler The Invading Army arc is because it got so obnoxious with the "power of friendship" trope to a degree that feels like preschool media. The villain was goofy too but like they tried to make him serious.
But damn that arc had some killer animation I cant deny that.
#im sorry but this trope is so overrated#bleach filler#i guess you could argue the main bleach has this trope but its not to a goofy degree#idk i have mixed feelings about that arc
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How Much Filler Exerted by Bleach Related to Others?
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I am never not thinking about Renji giving people rides on Hihiou Zabimaru, but somehow I forgot about the time Rukia used a Hakuren to launch Kon into the air during the kemari episode.
Reader, she was not sorry.
Unfortunately he started to go out of bounds, so Tessai felt it necessary to shoot him down with a Bakudou #99, p2.
I cannot emphasize enough that this was for a game of kemari to resolve some vague beef Rurichiyo and Kenryuu were having, there were literally no stakes whatsoever to everyone else, who just showed up and chose violence.
#rukia kuchiki#kon#bleach filler#all of the best bleach filler episodes are just ichigo trying to have a normal one while his friends have no chill whatsoever#kon only wanted to be on kenryuu's team so he could play with rukia this is so sad alexa play despacito#i almost posted this as a video#because they are playing 'senna' during this entire bit which is one of the best and most intense pieces of bleach fight ost#also there's a bit where orihime shields ichigo and he yells “THANK YOU INOUE” in exactly the way he yelled “THANK YOU CHAD” that time#but that was getting out of the scope of this post#it was so cute tho#renji and/or hitsugaya should have been in this episode i will never shut up about it#IKKAKU showed up a some point there is no reason we couldn't have had one if not both of our best soccer bros#i tell you rukia is constantly trying to steal renji's moves this is just like the time she blew herself up in the zan rebellion arc#i am sure he approves and supports her in this#it looks cooler when she does them anyway#maybe renji's entire bit is just test-ballooning Stunts for rukia so she doesn't have to embarrass herself on the ones that turn out lame#get you a man etc etc
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Renji: Why do you act like we’re three year olds?
Rukia, exasperated: WHY?!?
Rukia points at Shuhei : YOU TRIED TO HYJACK A CAR!
Shuhei: hey now! That car was in the way!
Rukia points at Izuru: YOU NEARLY JUMPED 20 FEET OFF A CARPARK!
Izuru: that’s cause I wanted to get rid of my depression.
Rukia points at Renji: AND YOU ATE MULTIPLE DRIED LEAVES AND ROCKS OFF THE GROUND!
Rukia: AND YOU ASK ME WHY????
Renji: fair enough.
#bleach headcanons#bleach sennen kessen hen#incorrect bleach quotes#bleach characters#bleach tybw#rukia kuchiki#renji abarai#izuru kira#rangiku matsumoto#bleach imagine#bleach fandom#bleach rukia#bleach renji#bleach scenarios#bleach filler#bleach brave souls#bleach anime#bleach manga
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Bleach Episode 303? A.K.A.: Yachiru Causes Chaos, Rangiku Shirks Work Again, Nanao Anime Glasses Glow, Ikkaku Being Baldest Baldy, Izuru Wakes Up and Chooses Violence, R.I.P. Shuuhei the Bleeder, Momo Was Here I Guess, Yumichika Is Uglier Than He Thinks, Giraffe Isane, Soifon More Like Simp-fon and a Very Tired Toshirou Hitsugaya
#bleach filler#bleach#kira izuru#shuuhei hisagi#nanao ise#yachiru kusajishi#rangiku matsumoto#ikkaku madarame#yumichika ayasegawa#tōshirō hitsugaya#momo hinamori#soi fon#sui feng#isane kotetsu
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Yoruichi’s Business to take care
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[Bleach e312]
Snake Wines and Beer Steins*: An Anthropology of West Rukongai
* I learned this morning that is not a stein, but I’m keeping it for the assonance!
Really down the rabbithole with this episode and cannot put it down, but this cap is such a completely fascinating glimpse at potential Rukongai cultures and trade routes!
The first thing that caught my eye, naturally, was the snake, which when this scene first came up I thought was just a completely undressed snake on a plate. But when I went to take the cap, no! It’s a snake in liquid! Which led me to believe it was a pickled snake.
But then my co-blogger brought up snake wine, which it definitely is. According to Wikipedia, the liquid part of habushu, snake sake from the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa), is mixed with herbs and honey, which is why it has a yellow tint. The Habu snake is a pit viper viewed as both a menace (it can launch itself and bite you from pretty far away) and as a god, bestowing health and virility. (Contemporary Ryukyuan/Okinawan literature sometimes includes habu snakes as an anti-colonial metaphor, such as Medoruma Shun’s 1999 short story, “Hope.”)
1. Increased Importance of Medicinal Food vs. Sustenance Food in Rukongai
Makes all the sense in the world to me that Rukongai would have virility wine. If you don’t need to eat to survive, I imagine the value of virility wine is quite high. ...I mean, what else is there to do out there?
2. Climate Profiles Suggest Far-Reaching Trade Networks
Because the Gate Guardian who shows up in this episode is Jidanbou, this means the village Oomaeda encounters is in West Rukongai somewhere—probably close to the gates, since Soi Fon expected him back after a day trip. (But per the Bount arc, Renji can apparently run to the ass-end of Rukongai to the Seireitei and back in a few hours, so there’s some wiggle room here.)
Nothing we’ve seen from West Rukongai suggests it’s climatologically similar to the Ryukyu Islands (or to southeast Asia, where similar pit vipers live), which are subtropical. Soul Society always gives the impression of being fairly temperate. At least, it snows in the Seireitei without mountain elevations being involved (Winter Fireworks chapter). West Rukongai is where Hokutan is, the mountains where Kaien and Rukia trained, which gave the impression of being pretty temperate. West Rukongai is also where Junrinan is—where Hitsugaya and Hinamori are from. Judging by Hitsugaya’s behavior in the Beach Episode, if Junrinan was anything like the Ryukyu Islands, he’d have perished long ago.
So… DID THEY TRADE FOR IT. DID THEY GET THE SNAKE WINE FROM ELSEWHERE. How far away is that elsewhere? How many different owners’ hands did it pass through to make it to this village, to this feast? Snake wine is intended to age fairly substantially, which in Rukongai could mean quite a bit of time. How old is this snake wine? What is its provenance?? Potential evidence of complex and far-reaching patterns of trade and shared ascriptions of value, is what I’m saying. snake wine snake wine snake wine
In my mind, I’ve mostly transposed Japan over Soul Society and imagine North Rukongai as northern Japan, West Rukongai as western Japan, etc. Except in my mind sometimes south is southern Japan and sometimes it’s northern New Mexico lol. East Rukongai in my mind is "idk, New Jersey?" Maybe the snake wine is from the version of southern Rukongai where Pirate AU Soi Fon lives, dominating the high seas…
3. Evidence of Glassworking and Alcohol Production Characteristic of the late 19th/early 20th Centuries
[For reference, Soul Society is typically described as being similar to the Edo Period of Japanese history, which spanned the 17th-19th centuries.]
The second standout beverage here is the beer stein, which I called a stein and then learned that the original beer steins came from the Bubonic Plague era and had tops, for plague reasons, and were made out of wood and leather and then pewter. What do I know, I don’t drink, LOL.
That is more technically a ten-sided handled glass pint, which became popular in the early half of the 20th century in England, though some sources place it in Austria a few decades earlier. Drinking beer out of various forms of glass predates that, and there was a whole period of ceramic drinkware and trade with China and Japan thrown in the centuries between, blah blah. But two things are probably true if there’s a glass beer mug:
1. Glassworking has developed enough to make this workable/not a holy pain, production-wise. But again, this is Rukongai—maybe this is the one mug in all existence in West Rukongai and not something intended for mass production. They’re toasting the once-in-a-lifetime event of a Gotei captain slumming it with them, after all. Heck, maybe they got it from the Seireitei, which definitely has more than one of these, though after a cursory look at two places I thought they’d appear, neither does. LOL. Welp.
2. Beer production has developed enough that it’s filtered and there’s not unseemly gunk floating around in it (made obvious by the fact that you’re drinking it out of a clear glass mug). This could mean Rukongai is pretty with the times with is alcohol production.
Not that that begins to touch why ten-sided handled glass pints from late 19th/early 20th century England and/or Austria are in West Rukongai, a place less likely to have them than the Seireitei, where weird anachronistic stuff seems like it would come into circulation with more regularity.
I love the idea that even if souls don’t remember their previous lives, there’s still imprints and rogue dreams and strange images floating around in their heads, their muscle memories. But like, specifically the version where sometimes the rogue dream is just a gigantic, bomb-ass cup that Some Guy then proceeds to spend his entire afterlife re-developing. He is a VISIONARY. A GENIUS. A rare mind inventing something the likes of which have never been seen is this world but that exist in his mind so clearly it is as though he has seen it in his hands before!!
#shinigamiology#this isn't even shinigamiology because it's not about shinigami but same vibe (i'm sure rukongai LOVES that attitude lololol)#rukongai#bleach worldbuilding#bleach anime#bleach filler#no brain just bleach
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