BLEACH animator find out there is a way to call IchigoxOrihime ship as IchiHime and IchiOri and he prefer/likes IchiHime. Please, show some love and retweet original post on twitter ❤

Encountered your blog about Ichihime and I thoroughly enjoyed your post why they are an endgame couple, much like what Kubo planned.

I'm just an ordinary guy following Bleach and I never cared about ships but honestly, I felt Ichigo x Orihime more, not Ichigo x Rukia. There is just something between them that sometimes I cannot explain and yet, they complement each other. With Rukia though, Ichigo's dynamics with her is just friends that tend to bicker at times and that's not unique since Ichigo also bicker with his other friends.

IchiRuki stans were aiming for Rurouni Kenshin-like dynamics of Kenshin Himura and Kaoru Kamiya, who eventually fell in love but Kaoru tends to hit Kenshin at times when he makes her angry. I don't like that dynamic since it's pretty much 80's-90's anime cliche where the FL/LI tends to hit the ML/MC when he makes a mistake or acts like an ass. Sure, that's funny at times but it's kinda repetitive and good thing Kubo opted out of the cliche for its main romantic leads (IchigoxOrihime).

Anyways, I really felt bad for Kubo after learning how Pierrot screwed him up a lot but I know he's not the only one they screwed. Fortunately though, looks like Pierrot management has learned its lessons and they pretty much avoid screwing mangakas from their works. I'm pretty much okay with how TYBW arc is adapted into anime and I understand the need of some scenes from the manga to be cut (i.e. - Rukia butt scene (it has not character implication to Ichigo, Ichigo's blush there is just similar to how he blushed when he first saw Yoruichi's human form or peeking thru his fingers when Rangiku was trying to unbutton her shirt in order to convince him to let her stay in his room), that scene in the manga is just fluff). Now looking forward on how Kubo plans to adapt the rest of the arc.

Lastly, already clicked alert me for notifications on your latest posts.

I appreciate that, thank you :) It seems like a lot of new people have found my blog recently (either through love or hate hahah) and I'm assuming that's because the new anime episodes have made the fandom more active again, so that makes me happy!

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Currently Reading: This Is How You Lose The Time War (still haven't finished it but I have annotated the first chapter and want to get back to it sometime soon, hopefully)

Currently Watching: Galavant, and also some cooking shows like Next Level Chef & Chopped, also need to continue watching X-Files, oh and planning to rewatch Tamers soon too

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Fave ships: IchigoxOrihime, RobinxStarfire, SonicxAmy, ZeldaxLink, & of course the respective MC's for Kaidan, Cullen, & Reyes :3

Favorite Color: Purples, but also black

Favorite food: Pizza and carne/costilla con chile

Spicy/sweet/savory? Savory, I can only handle so many sweets and so much spice lol

Last thing I googled: The target audience for Sonic the Hedgehog, lol I was having a discussion with my brother & needed an answer

Song stuck in my head: Bad Habits by Ed Sheeran :] it's a very catchy song and I am a sucker for catchy songs

Turns out it’s the second op that I love and remember well. But like…! Look how different in tone and genre it looks compared to the first one! Admittedly the anime had filler and dragged out the beginning? I actually liked reading Bleach. And ngl I probably rewatch this arc more than the actual beginning because it is more put together but… I also love the IchiRuki lol

Unfortunately I don’t get invested in the Orihime rescue mission the same way as this Rukia rescue mission. And I can see how ppl don’t like the repetitive nature of the plots. But I do feel like there are at least some differences. Like the emotional weight is different. Both of them “chose” to leave with the antagonists. But I feel like it was very different circumstances. It’s established Orihime has feelings for Ichigo. But I don’t feel it’s reciprocated. Ichigo wants to get her because she is a friend. For Rukia he feels like he owes her. And I feel like their bond it’s different from Orihime. He feels so strongly for her despite not knowing her for as long? But Rukia is also credited as being the one who “stopped the rain in his soul”. So like…!

But also Rukia was on a clock ro execution, Orihime was just a pawn and not in danger of being killed. They both left to protect Ichigo, and his friends. But Rukia left in front of his eyes and Orihime left secretly. I can understand Ichigo’s trauma and having lost ppl would make him sensitive to Orihime just leaving and not seeing it. But it was also way more clear for Rukia it was a lot more targeted to Icjigo. The others weren’t close to her like he was. They were helping for Ichigo. For Orihime they all had a vested interest in getting her back.

I’m already rambling but as I said I have a lot of feels for Bleach but especially IchiRuki.

Sugirandom: Yes, so the second opening does look more in-line with the genre of the show even though if I recall correctly Season 2 also had a ton of filler. It's interesting to read your explanation of the differences between Orihime's rescue mission and Rukia's. I don't remember if I ever saw both of them but I think if I did I also would be a lot more invested in Rukia's rescue. Even though Orihime does eventually get some kind of powers I think? I feel like she's more of a damsal in distress type of character and therefore didn't feel that invested. I do feel like Ichigo only views Orihime as a friend and that Rukia had a substantial impact on his life in many ways.

Skipping the second op for the rescuing Rukia part of the arc, and the two filler op’s? (You can get whiplash from op’s being high action and fast passed and dramatic/angsty, or more happy and slice of life feeling. I think this following one was for when they went to rescue Orihime (I’m not a big fan of the visuals or music)

I wasn’t a big fan of the above opening 6. But opening 7 is also one of my faves (I also just love Asian Kung-Fu Generation) Still rescuing her. But I also wanna admit I couldn’t finish watching or reading all of this arc despite it’s importance to the lore. It felt too dragged out and it only made me dislike Orihime more rhan before. Whereas for the Rukia mission I grew to like her more. I mostly waited until this arc was over and watched the final battle because I heard what happened. I didn’t come back to Bleach until the Fullbringer Arc which I don’t recall when that happened in the timelime

Sugirandom: Ahh, Opening 6 definitely gives off more IchigoXOrihime vibes and I'm not really a huge fan of the animal companions lip-syncing lol. Opening 7 is much better but I'm also bias in liking Asian Kung-fu Generation. Thanks for sharing these and sorry it too so long to post my responses.

Whom do you ship: ichigoxorihime or ichigoxrukia??

I think ichirukia. I just feel like it's so much more organic and not forced.

You can’t compare ChihayaxArata to IchigoxRukia. The latter was never going to happen because Kubo wanted them to just be close nakama, but ChihayaxArata seemed likely to happen in the end because they held mutual romantic feelings for each other or at least it seemed that way up until the final chapter. Plus the bond between IR is constantly highlighted due to being the main MCs, CA never got such dedication in the story. Arata isn’t even in Chihayas victory photo in the end so it feels like their bond is less than. I say this as someone that I shipped ArataxChihaya along with IchigoxOrihime that the comparison is just not it.

i'm not really trying to map them onto each other fact-to-fact though, the contextual circumstances are obv starkly different. i'm more interested in drawing a comparison on the basis of how fandom perceives a romantic relationship as being the ultimate and only testament to the strength of a bond between two people, and the lack of one being established between any two characters somehow implying that everything they've been through together is retroactively diminished in importance and value. it's true that ichigo and rukia are distinct in that they had no romantic feelings for each other, but what i find interesting is that people assumed they were meant to be simply by virtue of the depth of their relationship and importance to each other, as if a romance would be the only way in which to allow such depth of a relationship to culminate. them not ending up together didn't diminish their bond in any way. everything that they went through was still there and lent importance to how deeply they cared for and relied on each other. even kubo said it was a relationship that went beyond friendship, but people seemed to believe the only implied meaning of such a statement was to assume the bond was romantic, as if a platonic relationship couldn't maintain that level of depth in its own way

that's the crux of what i'm getting at with the comparison. i don't really agree that chihaya and arata's relationship is suddenly diminished in value bc they didn't end up together romantically, even if chihaya did have romantic feelings for him at one point. regardless of how those feelings shifted and changed on her part, arata remained a hugely important person in her life and their bond with and support of each other was heavily centered in the final arc of the manga. it's clear that bond will continue to strengthen as they support and challenge each other in their newfound positions as meijin and queen. i know people were upset about the final photograph but i personally think its implications were exaggerated, esp since shinobu wasn't in the photograph either. the focus of that photograph was chihaya's immediate support structure wrt her training. arata likely also took a photograph with his immediate support structure, inclusive of his family, his neighbors, his friends, and the people from his karuta society. those are distinct spheres in chihaya and arata's lives, but their lack of inclusion in them doesn't suddenly diminish the unique bond that they have with each other in a different context. people have different groups of friends and different relationships with people in their lives. i don't think we're supposed to suddenly take the fact that he's not in a picture as implying he means less when everything about the manga that came prior proves that's untrue. it feels like a really silly conclusion to make, and i would have said as much had the series concluded in the reverse with taichi being the person who was "left out". i don't think there's any benefit to perceiving relationships in this way and that's really my central gripe with the fandom in general

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"HINATA!!!!"

"I WON'T FORGIVE YOU!!!"

"I'LL PROTECT YOU!!!"

"DON'T YOU DARE MAKE MY NAVIGATOR CRY!!!"

Sooo....

I commissioned a piece back in December from the amazing, wonderful, talented and absolutely incredible @fire-in-the-starry-sky because I was toying with the idea of creating a new story. Needless to say, I never got around to posting that story for Christmas and so then I thought to myself, ‘Self, why don’t you take some time over the next couple of months and get it ready to post around Tanabata/Christmas in July and then that will give you a HUGE opportunity to work out some of the kinks in the story? Great plan, Self, so let’s go with that.’ Again, it should be very obvious to most that my plan went precisely in the opposite direction...

Anyway, I’m posting the picture she drew below and hoping to get the first part of the story posted before the end of today. There’s likely going to be a few installations and I’m not even entirely positive on the title yet, so yeah. It’s business as per usual with me.

I couldn’t be happier with the picture and was completely selfish for not posting it sooner...but @fire-in-the-starry-sky is too great of an artist not to share the amazing work that she does. I also just wanted to bask in the glory of it for as long as possible because she drew it to perfection and beyond my wildest imaginings. I just hope whatever I write lives up to this beautiful piece of artwork.

Stay tuned!

Soulmates, Ichihime

When the lights start to turn off

I quietly go to meet you.

They whisper and go against us

Why?

Even though we love each other to death.

In a world only filled with thorns..

I bloom as a flower, because of you.

Working progress of my new ichihime art :D ooohhh teasing teasing :p !! Thanks for the lovely welcoming of my first doujin <3 

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I’m making my own memes now!!! So happy! I forgot to add the quotation marks at the end sorry 

Orihimes power manipulates time and existence itself. Ichigo’s bankai broke? Just fix it. Ishida lost his powers? Just fix it. Hyourinmaru broke? Just fix it. Yamamoto lost his arm? Just fix it. Hinamori “dies”? Just fix it. Gin dies? Just fix it. STILL SHE DID NOTHING BECAUSE EVEN WITH THAT “POWERSET” SHES USELESS

I can imagine Rukia and Renji

Make little bets to see when Ichigo confess his love for Orihime, the prize is a little chappy. Chad and Ishida join as well for the bet, but were taken by surprise when Renji decided to give a little push to ichigo. Chad is very happy with the little chappy...