What are your thoughts on Tatsuki? I feel like she was one character that should’ve been with the crew. Like it hella confuses me because she was a larger OG than Chad. If Kubo used that potential in her character I feel like the endgame would’ve/should’ve been (again) ichiruki or ichigo/tatsuki. She should’ve been more involved in the story.
Oh yeah, Kubo really dropped the ball with her. Like she was introduced as Ichigo’s first and childhood friend, and then they just grew apart and in the end she never amounted to anything more in the plotline than Inoue’s friend. She was even given a decent at karate background, and you’d think she would’ve gained powers of her own after knowing Ichigo the longest, so it’s a shame she was just left on the sidelines and had to be saved a couple times, and even after that, it never resulted in her becoming stronger and playing a bigger part, even if it was just so she could protect herself or protect Inoue or help Ichigo. And if she’d become one of Ichigo’s main group, yeah, there’s def a potential of the childhood friends trope evolving into a romance. And it would definitely have made more sense than IchiHime.
As it is, because she never really grew as a character and sort of just remained two-dimensional for the most part, I personally don’t really care about her. Generally Ichigo’s human friends in Bleach are kind of boring for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.