#arrancar arc

[zakuroarts]

[Fake Karakura town battle]

The first time Azurra (arrancar #12 and Starrks fraccion) decided to not do what their packleader says. More on that later~

(I lowered the quality on purpose because of thieves)

Azurra © ZakuroArts

[mightbmel]

Nnoitra dear.. they could never make me hate you

[euphythefox]

Cero

Did not like the old version so i re did it

[nei-ning]

Don't know why but I REALLY REALLY like Grimmjow's look / art & coloring style A LOT more in Arrancar arc than in TYBW arc. Maybe I'm just an "old timer" or something...

But look at the difference! Colors and lines are MUCH more better and show better in Arrancar arc.! In TYBW they are... not so sharp. Too "bright" and "blurred" or something. Sorry, I lack the right word(s) I'm trying to use to describe the differences but you, hopefully, see the difference yourself.

[garbagelizard]

Them

wips under the cut

w/o hearts

sketches

[stardog-howls]

[insanecatlady67]

just finished bleach

i have no words its just so peak wtf was kubo on

n yes i AM a bleach glazer🥹✌️❤️‍🩹

LIKE ITS SO GOOD WHAT??? THE POWERS, THE CHARACTERS (well... most), THE DESIGNS, THE LANDSCAPES, EVERYTHING WOAH

now i feel that familiar post-series emptiness ugh

[a-knife-in-my-sandwich]

Orihime’s character in Bleach

I was rereading bleach and the brainworms have fully taken over

I can’t get over the way Kubo portrays Orihime. She’s fifteen and feels out of her league, preparing with her friends for a war she is not ready for. She hates violence so much it physically affects her attack power and people around her treat it like a weakness (except Rukia and Rangiku, bless their hearts). As if heading into war to protect the ones she loves, even though it goes against everything she stands for, isn’t one of the bravest freaking things to do.

And she’s so messy! She’s jealous of Rukia for being able to cheer up Ichigo but hates that feeling because she knows it’s unfair to her friends and she loves them both. She is scared for her friends and for her town and so she tries extra hard to help them all. She is determined and fiercely protective and she cries because she feels useless then feels selfish for crying. Like. That, right there, is a human girl. And her humanity gives the story an extra layer that most shonen simply don’t have.

Following that, I’m convinced that part of what makes Aizen so unsettling as a villain is because we get to see him from a human perspective. He is manipulative and cruel yes, but it’s his interactions with Orihime that make him truly terrifying (at least to me). It’s the comparison between the human and the monstrous, which Kubo also does with Ulquiorra and the two arrancar girls. Orihime doesn’t have an unbreakable shonen spirit. She can panic, she can break, she can beg for her friends to help her. She shows mercy to her enemies. All of these are things that the arrancar (and the shinigamis to an extent) consider weaknesses but they’re really not. They’re what makes her human and what makes the arrancar inhuman and just. I can’t get over this comparison. It goes so much deeper than the typical good vs bad storyline. Neither human and inhuman are necessarily evil or good they just are.

I probably didn’t phrase any of this the way I truly wanted to but ah well. Orihime is really one of the best characters, it’s a shame so many ppl write her off as stupid and useless