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Cause of death - spoiler warning
Kie Kamado: Killed by the main villain of the series in his attempts to create a perfect demon. The death of Kie and four of her children sets off the journey her surviving children undertake - and she continues to support them from beyond the grave by appearing in dreams and visions.
Kurosaki Masaki: Yhwach awakened after he was sealed away for centuries and to regain his power he took away the power of the "impure" Quincy. Masaki was weakened to the point that the Hollow she was protecting her son from killed her.
Second Chance: Mayuri Kurotsuchi (Bleach) vs Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein)
Mayuri Kurotsuchi
Victor Frankenstein
Voting ended onJul 7, 2025
PROPAGANDA
Mayuri Kurotsuchi:
I don't think there are doctorates in the Bleach world… but if there were he'd have them all
Second Chance Propaganda
Mayuri is a mad scientist for mad scientists. No morals, only science! Everything he does is to further his research and inquisitive mind. He's injects surveillance bacteria into his enemies, proving that he's studying people even when not directly interacting with them. Within hours he was able to duplicate all of his internal organs. He's experimented on his sword so not only does Ashisogi Jizō have different strengths every every battle, but also new forms. He always changes the mixture of his poison between battles so when encountering old enemies, they aren't immune (he's even comments on how this is common sense).
His entire body is covered in surgical scars from experimenting on himself. He might have a sword, but his body is just as much a weapon as his zanpakuto. His limbs are enhanced to extend, he can pull a scythe from his ear! Not to mention, if he loses a limb, all he has to do is inject himself and it'll grow back immediately. And if his body is incapable of fighting, he will LITERALLY turn himself into goo. This isn't something a shinigami just does; he's modified himself to be able to do all of this.
I could go on about all of his feats and inventions, including Nemu! The daughter he created in a lab that went above and beyond his expectations. Nemu, with all of her abilities and heart, is his greatest creation.
Mayuri is always ten steps ahead of everyone, his intelligence is only matched by his madness and sadism. He saves the day with his science on several occasions. And every single time, the fans breathe a sigh of relief that he's not the protagonists' enemy. An antagonist early on, yes, but never a villain. And the sole reason for that is because Mayuri isn't good or evil, he's a unethical scientist. A man who only is interested in interesting things and people. If something doesn't interest him, he won't even bother. A man of science through and through!!
Victor Frankenstein:
I mean, he's THE mad scientist. We can't forget him. One thing I find interesting about him is that, in my opinion, he's pretty much just like the main characters in most Greek tragedies, just set in late 18th century Europe. It's mainly because, as he says alot throughout the novel, he brought upon himself his own downfall. He's a very interesting and compelling character, although not a great father, that's for certain.
The original mad scientist. Didn't get a PHD because school was too below him.
(Technically for the movie/"Henry Frankenstein" but I'm counting it) How can we organize this tournament without the classic? Henry is far less of a trembling mess than his book original.
Second Chance Propaganda
Please he's the most iconic mad scientist he's the mad scientist prototype he needs this
Round 1: Dr Frank-n-Furtur (Rocky Horror Picture Show) vs Keisuke Urahara (Bleach)
Frank-n-Furtur
Keisuke Urahara
Voting ended onJun 8, 2025
PROPAGANDA
Frank-n-Furtur:
He's a sweet transvestite from Transexual Transylvania. He also made a dude like Victor Frankenstein, but he didn't abandon it like HE did. Queer icon of the '70s
Keisuke Urahara:
Sealed up the evil mastermind, invented like half of soul-societies tech and is a master assassin, need I say more
Pronounced "Professor Triple Extra Large", this guy is one weird eccentric dude. He has a collection of rare diseases, and has replaced his body with a different animal part every time he appears (Turtle shell, crab claw, tentacles instead of feet, etc.) but his actual goal is just to create the world's most perfect Snow Cone.
Relius Clover:
A gifted alchemist known far and wide as "The Puppeteer." He is the one who turned Ada, Carl's older sister, into the Nox Nyctores Nirvana and also the mastermind behind the Murakumo units.
Dr J. S. Steinman:
"Why do we have two eyes? There's some law that says we must? Two arms, two legs, two ears, two breasts?"
A Picasso of plastic surgery, Dr Steinman MD uses ADAM to expand the possibilities of what can be done with a scalpel. He has seen Aphrodite, and she cut him into beautiful pieces and showed him a new kind of beauty to share with his patients.
Malus Thorm:
He performs grotesque surgeries on unlucky "patients", allowing his nurses to murder them under the belief that the absence of life is the only way to "cure" them.
The Collector:
A human-turned-immortal witch who has dedicated her life to the study of souls. She's trying to find a reliable method of unweaving souls in order to free the trapped and suffering Primordial Life by killing every living thing on the planet, including herself. She's known as the collector because she regularly kidnaps nature spirits for study, but she recently upgraded to city-gods. My favorite part of her characterization as a mad scientist is that her reasons for doing the fucked-up things she does are entirely selfless, informed by having touched the mind of an entity on a planetary scale. The best analogy i can think of is really gross so warning and apologies for that, but it's like a maggot living in a thoroughly rotten human corpse accidentally waking up that human and having their immediate agony and disgust projected into its mind. You know the human could reconstitute themself and go back to a normal life if what used to be their body's cells weren't being used to sustain smaller creatures, so the only moral option is to give back the flesh the maggots consumed. Right?
Dr Linksano:
Okay, the doctorate thing is complicated because Dr. Linksano came from a parallel dimension so whether his doctorate is considered legitimate in the one he now inhabits is up for debate; however, he is always called Dr. Linksano. Anyway, he's a crazy guy who tried to take over multiple worlds, but really just wanted to do experiments and get laid, so he decided to join up with the heroes instead. He's pansexual and polyamorous. He turned a clown into a jukebox. He's crazy and loves SCIENCE!!!
Dr Coyle:
She's rumored to have 52 doctorates. Her alias is 'The Rad Scientist'. She has no hobbies. She's dedicated her life to becoming the strongest ARMS fighter in the world. She experimented on herself in order to achieve this goal and it worked, as she's undisputably considered to be the best character in the game by the competitive scene.
Mayuri Kurotsuchi:
I don't think there are doctorates in the Bleach world… but if there were he'd have them all
This is not about the contents, it’s not about which you like best, it’s about which version is the “correct” one.
Anime only moments included things like the OG captains, the Reio lore, new fights, Uryu’s abilities, whatever’s going on with the changes to Katagiri, etc. And there’s parts of the manga that were cut out of the anime like Robert Accutrone’s death, that scene with Orihime’s outfit, and smaller character moments.
I’ve seen lots of people say that the anime is more canon because it’s what TYBW should have been, but is that the general consensus? Does that overwrite the manga?
Only one can be canon. You can’t pick and choose parts from each, you have to pick one to be the definitive version of the story.
Is the TYBW anime or the TYBW manga canon?
The anime is canon, the manga is not anymore (TWBW only)
The manga is canon, the anime is just an interpretation and not canon
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