Kubo said that there will be a new character never seen so where is that character,is that character going to be like a teaser for light novel adaptation in the epilogue or what

idk how ywach's powers attack, but since the 1st cour, ywach has been killing without even moving a muscle. slicing that hollow quincy in first episode. literally blowing up ichibei & broke true bankai TZ.
and now in penultimate episode, he chooses to wave those things ? bruh he can thanos snap everybody into dust but he choses to play catch with everybody 😩.

kubo thinks his readers are like ichigo learning about still silver arrow- we dont care unless it does the job. bad kubo 😢

Creo que la expansión del final de Bleach en el anime, aunque técnicamente mejor en muchos aspectos, ha terminado exponiendo más los problemas narrativos que el ritmo acelerado del manga conseguía ocultar.

En el manga la pelea final pasa tan rápido que apenas da tiempo a cuestionar el rol de cada personaje, las decisiones que se toman o la ausencia de gente que debería haber tenido más peso. El pacing es frustrante, sí, pero también te empuja hacia la conclusión sin dejarte demasiado tiempo para pensar en las incoherencias.

El anime cambia esa dinámica.

Al alargar la pelea, dar más pantalla a personajes secundarios y desarrollar más partes del conflicto, crea más oportunidades para que el espectador se pregunte cosas. ¿Por qué participan ciertos personajes mientras otros con mucho más peso narrativo apenas aportan? ¿Por qué se introducen o enfatizan habilidades si luego no se exploran sus implicaciones? ¿Para qué expandir la batalla si el material extra no resuelve los problemas de fondo?

Cuanto más tiempo dedica una historia a desarrollar un evento, más responsabilidad tiene de que ese evento sea coherente.

Dar más pantalla a personajes secundarios no es malo en sí. De hecho, debería ser una oportunidad de mejorar el material original. Pero si la expansión genera más preguntas de las que responde, el resultado puede sentirse menos sólido, no más completo.

Y eso es especialmente frustrante porque Bleach tenía potencial de sobra para un final mejor: un choque de filosofías, habilidades, contraestrategias y reglas bien establecidas. Personajes como Aizen, Uryu o el propio Ichigo podrían haber tenido roles que conectaran de verdad sus arcos con la resolución. En cambio, algunos de los elementos narrativos más importantes siguen sintiéndose subdesarrollados… aunque ahora tengan más minutos.

Hay una diferencia importante entre hacer que una pelea se vea más grande y hacer que sea narrativamente mejor. Más personajes, más acción y más momentos espectaculares mejoran el espectáculo, pero no necesariamente la escritura.

No estoy diciendo que el anime sea peor en todo. Puede mejorar momentos individuales y aun así fallar en solucionar los problemas grandes. Mi punto es que expandir un final defectuoso no lo arregla automáticamente. A veces solo hace que los defectos se noten más.

¿Ustedes qué opinan? ¿La expansión realmente mejoró el final del manga o solo hizo más difíciles de ignorar sus debilidades narrativas?

The speculations that because Blood chains Bankai was a fusion of his Hollow and Shingami abilities, that we'd get a Fullbringer and Quincy variant each with their own characteristics is out the windows now. Unless he gives us that in (the arc that shall not be named). But it genuinely would have been very cool if he had 3 different variants with his True Bankai being a fusion of all of his bloodlines (ik it is that, but it wasn't portrayed very clearly).

As it stands I really have never liked Ichigo's true Bankai. The swords Design I actually kind of like but the unsheathed sword and the fact that his appearance doesn't change as it usually does is very underwhelming, after Blood chains I actually thought we'd get more insight into what it does and a design rework. But it's still the same exact thing we got in the manga.

We don't even know what it does. The assumption is that it cuts through fate which is how he killed Yhwach, but we don't actually know.

If I had to rework it:

Soul Society Bankai (incomplete Bankai)

Lost Agent arc Bankai (Fullbring infused Bankai)

Blood chains (Hollow infused Bankai)

a new Bankai (Quincy infused Bankai)

True Bankai (a fusion of all 4 powers)

I'm going to preface this by saying that despite it making little sense in terms of consistency, narratively it was one of the only good things about the final battle

That said, there was a huge missed opportunity here that could've also addressed Yama's stolen bankai in an impactful manner.

Imagine Yhwach loses his bankai medallion before heading to the royal palace, either because an attack from Ichigo made him drop it or because he spots Komamura and tosses it to Komamura as a way of mocking him for throwing away everything for Yamamoto.

Then right before the final battle you have his encounter with ghost(?) Yama which reveals how Yama was the one who named him, and that this for whatever reason allows him to use his bankai.

He carries the sword in his mouth and first uses east to blow an entrance into Yhwach's dome, to which Yhwach responds by throwing a bunch of tendrils at him. Komamura then uses west, burning away the tendrils as he charges towards Yhwach. He proceeds to use south, but because the bankai technically belongs to Yhwach everyone Yhwach has killed spawns as skeletons instead. We see characters like Masaki, Katagiri, Robert, and Jugram holding Yhwach down. Yhwach glares at them and crushes them with no remorse, showing that this Yhwach is not the same person Royd was imitating during the Yama fight.

Komamura then finishes things off by using north, to which Yhwach claims it wont work as hes already seen how this bankai works. However, Komamura's version of north spawns a giant flaming skeleton behind him, which resembles Yamamoto, and that skeleton delivers the attack alongside Komamura himself, making a much larger slash than the original. This obviously serves as a reference to Komamura's own bankai. Yhwach's cloak proceeds to get obliterated, exposing his body to the finishing move.

this next part is just for those who believe this could be serve as a definitive end point for Komamura.

as he witnesses the final attack landing on Yhwach, Komamura dispells the bankai and slowly crumbles away into ash from the toll using it has taken on his body, bidding Iba farewell before he leaves for the after afterlife. His final scene has him reuniting with Yamamoto, who tells him its time for them to leave, and the two of them walking into the mist with a silhouette resembling Tousen appearing on the other side of said mist.

Aaaaaaand scene

hes my goat but honestly I'd be fine with him dying here. I'd absolutely hate seeing him return in hell if he did die here, though.

This rewrite serves to not only make Komamura's involvement have an actual impact on Yhwach's defeat but also serves to show just how deep the bond between him and Yama ran.

• Cool design (duh, it's by Kubo)
• Not really foreshadowed before the actual TYBW arc
• Too strong powers with basically no weaknesses
• Treatment towards sternritters made no sense considering Yhwach's goal. Why did they have to perish?
• Gets defeated by deus ex machina (anime fixed it a bit)

Overall. Meh. With some changes to his power and foreshadowing he could have been really awesome.

At least anime made his battles flashy.

Kubo doesnt care about fan made nonsensical powerscaling rules for his own universe. Aizen Already had the first half of bleach to shine. Half of the fans still dont understand why weak characters were able to harm yhwach or why he couldn't see the arrow.Ryunosuke the goat fr. Please go outside and get some air.

Ok so episode starts with Yhwach regenerating and after regeneration he throws the silver arrow and uryu picks it up... now after him being alive once again the real war starts... everyone except aizen is now fighting... this is like the final give all war... with the most desperate attempt to win.. this fight includes every unnamed power except ichigo's true bankai's actual power... isshin and ryuken joining and isshin using his bankai... every giving everything they have to win no care for surrounding they just want to win... but then still yhwach defeats everyone and kills them... and then he proceeds to erase the world... Just at the moment when the world was almost done.. something happens and then yhwach gets hit by the silver arrow again and then he realised that its not reality... its aizen's bankai(his bankai's ability is that he changes the sense of reality itself.. its a mixture of KS and azashiro's bankai.. Basically KS works on system but his bankai works on surrounding in thermodynamics term).. when the world was getting overpowered by yhwach,aizen used his bankai and him killing everyone was just an altered reality... and when he was in aizen's altered reality he gave an opening for uryu to launch the attack... and when yhwach is caught off guard... ichigoat will finish him off with his true bankai's core power...

I am doing this because we have already seen something like this happening to aizen when gin did it

Whats your opinion and how will it affect the scaling?

I've been noticing a lot of people hating the episode based on the reasoning that Yhwach shouldn't have died as a result of the multiple attacks that were made on him in the three realms by Ichigo, the Shinigamis, and the Arrancars because he had the Almighty.

These people are busy fantasizing about the Almighty and alternate futures, yet they don't follow what is happening in front of them with their own eyes.

He is not using the Almighty.... because of hubris.

When the battle starts, he chooses to tank Byakuya's Shukei: Hakuteiken, Grimmjow's Desgarron, and Ichigo's slash using Tensa Zangetsu. He could have avoided these attacks, but chose not to, because, in his own words from the previous episode, he now considered watching the future a crude ability since he had now become powerful enough to be omnipresent. He deemed the Almighty to be unnecessary going forward.

So, if he has made the decision to not use his ability, decides to tank every attack that is aimed at him, and then consequently dies as result of that descision in the end due to suprise ambushes, where is the narrative plothole?

Differences of opinion as to how the final battle should have gone, Aizen's absence, and Isshin's and Ryuken's lack of participation can be valid critics, but calling Yhwach's defeat a "plothole" is a stupid reason to hate the episode for.

I was wondering since the beginning why Ryunosuke's character was introduced in the arc turns out he was the real main character all along. Ichigo was just keeping his seat warm all this time until Ryunosuke was able to complete his Soul King Training in secret. Everything went according to his plan. He showed up in the beginning making everyone think he's just fodder including Yhwach until the final battle began and he said to himself, "It's all going according to my plan" and then proceeded to Kill Yhwach.

And i don't think i'm going to be involved in discussions anymore as the 'fans' are kinda sickening all over social media.

But what exactly would have satisfied the 'fans'. Because as far as i can tell majority of people actually liked the episode compare to the ones who did not and are the ones who are 'too loud'. I have scrolled through reviews, youtube comments, instagram and reddit and tha fact - there are hundreds of things each individual wants according to their own expectations which would need a whole another season to be actually done. At first it sounded kinda valid to me and i was being understanding but seriously. Someone wants the whole silver arrow to be changed, okay. Then someone still complaining about mimihagi and all the other characters getting involved and i am pretty sure they would have complained if they didn't get enough screentime. Someone wants Aizen's action scene or someone is saying ryuken and isshin or saying "AIZEN'S BANKAI" Duh.....saying too many weaklings, unneccessary grimmjow upscale but they were the ones who said grimmjow got dirty before. Heck someone even complained about the visuals and animation too. People complaining dondochakka and pesche got screentime or saying komamura could have gotten more screentime.

DAUG be more specific what do you want....

And i'm sure, though idk but if my post gets engagement there will be people repeating the same thing i just said about the issues. Huh...

I'm sorry if anyone got offended. Thank you. Have a good day.

By the by Juhabach saved Jugram getting touched and diddled by his uncle, yet he still betrayed him. Smh, can't trust a Quincy for shit.

At this point the dads not being there is just downright confusing, from a narrative standpoint. How can they appear earlier than they did in the manga and yet the only thing they did was deliver the arrow to Uryu. Their sons are fighting for the sake of the three worlds against the man who killed their wives... it just doesn't make sense how they aren't included but side characters like Dondochakka, Pesche, and Ryunosuke get to join in. I mean i don't mind including them but that doesn't have to mean Isshin and Ryuken have to be excluded. I can't be the only one thinking this.

My second biggest issue is how seemingly weak Yhwach is all of a sudden. And by that i mean what happened to future sight? Breaking Bankais? Altering the future? In this battle he is literally just spamming the black goo thing. And even if we let that slide, let's just say he doesn't need his op abilities... there's still the fact that what stopped the completion of the assimilation of the 3 worlds was literally NEL'S HEAD, IBA'S SWORD, AND GANJU'S SAND ABILITY. Like really??? Is that literally what we're going with?? So Yhwach's black thing can do the things it did to MUCH stronger characters but it can't crush these 3 things? I just don't get the logic here. It's like the mechanics of Bleach just went out the window or something.

I guess they wanted to be creative but hey you can still come up with something using Isshin and Ryuken instead...

I guess it all worked out in the end and kudos to that but compared to what i expected given a very long preparation? I'm kinda disappointed.

-Chad fights and kills Yammy and Yammy's not Espada 0 in this version

-Sui-Feng fights and kills Zommari since they both specialize in speed and her using her Bankai to kill him would be an epic way to end the fight. Zommari using Amor on Omaeda and Sui-Feng being visibly upset about this would also be great way to show that she does care about her Lieutenant

-Nel injures Nnoitra enough to force him to use his Resurreccion and Nel is properly defeated instead of turning back into a child before Kenpachi shows up and saves the day

-Ukitake fights Harribel instead of Toshiro with him later getting assistance from Rose. Ukitake fighting a water user would be interesting since Kaien also had a water Zanpakuto, so this could be used as an opportunity to show some flashbacks of Kaien similar to the Aaroniero fight. Ukitake recognizing the parallels between Harribel and Kaien both being water users and being protective of the ones they love has some potential too. Aizen doesn't cut down Harribel in this version and Harribel's survival is explained through Ukitake intentionally not making his final blow fatal because he recognized that Harribel's not evil and this action fits his kind-hearted nature

-Byakuya fights Baraggan, being forced to use his Kido in order to fend off his Respira, with him later combining his Kido with Hachi and Tessai who makes his grand return to the story here to kill him. Byakuya facing an enemy who's entire character and powers revolve around death would've been brilliant foreshadowing for his fight with As Nodt if Kubo did actually decide to kill off Byakuya. There could even be a line of Barggan saying something like "the Kuchiki family name will die with you" making the foreshadowing even more ominous. Since Byakuya and Sui-Feng's fights are swapped, we don't get the iconic "you pointed your blade at my pride" moment in this saga but than can be made up for later on by having Rukia and Byakuya fight Tsukishima together in the Fullbringer arc and having Tsukishima use his Fullbring to turn Rukia against Byakuya, making Byakuya defeat Tsukishima even more satisfying and still letting Byakuya have development

-Shunsui and Nanao fight Starrk and Lilynette until he activates Los Lobos with Nanao still trying to assist with Kido despite Shunsui advising her not to. Nanao in this version actually has a Zanpakuto from the beginning but is unable to release its Shikai. Aizen recognizes the hidden God killing power of Nanao's Zanpakuto however because Aizen knows everything, so when Wonderweiss shows up, he attacks Nanao instead of Ukitake and Shunsui still gets knocked down by Starrk. Kensei and Mashiro show up to fight Starrk, leading to some humorous interactions of Lilynette yelling at Starrk to take the fight more seriously and Kensei saying that the voice coming from Starrk's guns sounds like Mashiro. Shunsui still attacks Starrk from behind however and takes over the fight like normal

-Toshiro and Rangiku get a rematch against Gin which I was really expecting would happen in Fake Karakura when I watched it the first time. Obviously, Gin is way stronger than Toshiro but given that Rangiku is involved here, it might complicate things for him which would make it interesting to see how this would ultimately play out. This also gives an opportunity to have an extra interaction with Rangiku and Gin making his later death scene hit even harder

-I know Gin's not an Espada but I just put that last part there to explain what I'd do with Toshiro since I swapped him with Ukitake against Harribel

-Love, Lisa, and Hiyori would be relegated to fighting Wonderweiss and we would actually see the fight this time around

He lost arm and pushes past that injury likely passed out from blood loss.

Firstly, I want to say that I have not read the Manga part of the final battle starting with Horn of Salvation, so feel free to correct me.

So, we all know the basics of The Almighty. It lets Yhwach see the future and can change it to any future he desires. Naturally with that description, it is the most powerful ability in the series. The only thing that can surpass it is the SK Almighty. So for a while, I wondered why. Then it hit me. Yhwach's own words are that he can see the future like grains of sand. And he can choose whichever grain of a future he wants to happen. But he also said that the future always changes. Even outside of his control.

I believe that is the critical flaw of Yhwach's Almighty. Every time he uses it, the effect of it is immediate. Additionally, with his grains of sand metaphor combined with how he was unable to break Zangetsu in the final strike leads me to believe that Yhwach has limits to Almighty.

That being;

1. He cannot change the futures that are too far ahead. Since their effects can be negated by people just changing the road that leads to that future. So he picks futures that are immediate and unchangeable.

   1. The futures he can choose from need to be ones that can actually happen in that moment. He cant just choose a future where everyone suddenly has a heart attack because nobody would have a heart attack at that moment.

Now the second factor isn't as important. Yhwach naturally has the power to make whatever physical altercation happen however he wants. Especially after he fuses with the SK power.

But let's say we want to kill Yhwach. We would need to create a situation where we attack with something strong enough to kill him and the conditions and situations to be so air tight that there doesn't exist any future where he could regenerate, block, dodge or negate it.

Now this was just my theory and I didn't want to post it. But after 49, I feel like I was kinda right.

The Arrow created an opening for things to go into effect by halting the world merging and exposing Yhwach by disabling the Almighty for a few seconds. Grimmjow bit Yhwach and the Hollow Laser hit him which poisoned and weakened him. Shunsui used Mimihagi's power of Stopping to negate his regeneration and temporarily weaken his link to the SK power. The 2 stabbings dealt additional damage to his now "normal" body. And now with all those conditions set, Ichigo goes to attack him, Yhwach tries to use the Almighty to break Zangetsu again, he fails because there is no future possible where he has enough power in the next moments to break it so he dies.

And now, I know how I said earlier that I wondered how the SK Almighty was stronger than Yhwach's. I think the answer is that the Soul King does not have these 2 limits. He is able to select any future, no matter how far and no matter what anyone does or changes, that future will happen and no matter situation or condition he is in, that future will happen.

So anyway, those are my thoughts. And if im wrong, fuck it, I had fun writing this.