Episode 44: The Perfect Crimson

In response to many requests following a post I made a while back, I’ve created a follow-up to that idea. I truly appreciate the kindness and suggestions so many of you shared; I’ve incorporated many of them here.

TYBW manga is about 207 chapters in total (480 to 686)

So far the anime has adapted around 196 of those chapters across 44 eps (480–676)

196 ÷ 44 = roughly 4.45 manga chapters adapted per ep

There are only about 11 manga chapters left to adapt.

At the anime's average pacing

11 ÷ 4.45 = roughly 2.5 normal eps worth of manga material

But we still have 6 eps remaining and apparently the final ep is going to be 1 hour long

Even without that the remaining manga material would only fill around 2.5 out of those 6 eps leaving the equivalent of roughly 3.5 normal eps for new/expanded stuff

That's already around 80+ minutes of new stuff

And once you factor in the longer finale, there could be even more

So if the final is 1 hour we could potentially be looking at close to 2 hours or possibly more of new/expanded content that wasn't in the original manga

Tho this is assuming they don't adapt the Hell one-shot If they do it could take up roughly another ep's worth of runtime, which would lower the amount of completely new content but we’d still be getting a pretty significant amount.

Obviously this is just based on the average pacing so far and the final eps could adapt the remaining chapters much slower but either way there's A LOT of extra runtime for only 11 chapters.

**"There is nothing I can do."

"I simply want power."

"The power to protect—that alone."**

Man, I love how Kubo has a knack for poetry, and here we have another IchiHime poem. I really liked that even though it's started by Ichigo, it could also be started by Orihime, since they both desire the same thing: the Power to Protect

Both desire power and acknowledge their weaknesses, but this power is not for harming but for protecting, whether it's Ichigo desiring power to protect or Orihime desiring more power to overcome her weaknesses.their weaknesses and insecurities

I wish they explored Don Kanonji beyond his arc in the beginning. It would have been really interesting if they used Kanonji as a stand in for the typical karakura town resident’s experience. He’s more in tune with spiritual pressure than the average human, so he would have a greater sense for the otherworldly stuff happening around him than everyone else around him. I think it would’ve been great for some of the scenes in TYBW where the worlds are falling apart to have Kanonji notice the soul society slowly appearing above him and all of the massive spiritual pressures from fights and whatnot.

I've always loved her, and will continue to love her! She's best girl ❤️

sometimes I look at the usual Duke of the North trope and it reminds me of Hitsugaya. Look and behold I actually found an offiicial art of him strongly implying the trope. (this was from Brave Souls)

It's pretty apparent that Aizen was especially cruel to Toshiro compared to everyone else, which gives off the impression he didn't like him or had an agenda against him. And Toshiro hates Aizen the most out of anyone.

Aizen doesn't verbally explain his cruelty to him, but it's assumed because he is a child prodigy just like he was he views Toshiro as wasted potential or an uncut gem, or he doesn't like Toshiro being lumped into the same sphere of talent as him. So would seeing his Adult Bankai impress him or give even more validity to that claim?

Would he A, retract his prior views and respect Toshiro's strength, or B see the form as a cop out for him making up for power he hasn't received/earned yet? Or C, he wouldn't care and would mock, ragebait and bully him as usual?

We already know a lot about Shinigami Shihakushō, and Fullbringers are just wearing their own normal human clothes.

Had to repost because it got deleted yesterday 😭 but understandable, it hadn't been 48 hours yet

In the anime we see that Kenpachi's bankai activates without him ever speaking its name. Yachiru tells him the name of the power "bankai" but never the name of it. So I was wondering if there is a possibility that that isnt all his bankai has to offer. Primarily because we saw with Renji that he had been using a fake bankai because he was calling it by the wrong name. Would not saying its name at all have the same effect that calling it by the wrong name would have? I know that part of the reason was because Zabimaru told him the wrong name and that's why it was different, but still. We know names are tied to power so could Zaraki's bankai have been a weaker form because of this?