#bleach anime

[zoobeyzoobeyzou]

𝙱𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙲𝙷: 𝚄𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚗 (𝚄𝚛𝚊𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊 𝚡 𝚂𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚓𝚒) 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚝.

C𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜: Kisuke Urahara & Shinji Hirako.

𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜 : 𝟽𝟿𝟶

𝚃𝚊𝚐𝚜: 𝙱𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑, 𝙺𝚒𝚜𝚞𝚔𝚎 𝚄𝚛𝚊𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊 𝚡 𝚂𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚓𝚒 𝙷𝚒𝚛𝚊𝚔𝚘, 𝚏𝚕𝚞𝚏𝚏, 𝚊𝚕𝚌𝚘𝚑𝚘𝚕, 𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝙿𝙾𝚂𝚃 𝚃𝚈𝙱𝚆, 𝙿𝚁𝙴 𝙲𝙵𝚈𝚆

A/N: This is my first oneshot! Thank you @urashin for the request~ 𖹭

The moon lit up the dark sky like a beacon shining its bright light to guide sailors home. It was quiet in Karakura Town, with most of its residents sound asleep in their homes. Kisuke Urahara was in his shop, humming as he adjusted his hat; lifting it upwards so that it wouldn't cover his eyes as he read the list of orders coming tomorrow.

He paused, a small grin appearing on his face as he looked towards the entrance of his store. The door was closed, but a familiar spiritual energy was approaching. "Well well, I wonder what he's doing here." The merchant muttered to himself, setting down his stack of papers.

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Shinji Hirako walked on the sidewalk of the street, his phone in one hand and a gift bag which contained some fancy sake in the other. "He's probably awake, I don't think I need to call him." He mumbled, closing his mobile and shoving it in his pocket.

With everything that had been going on these past few years, with Aizen and his invasion, and Yhwach's takeover of the Sereitei, he couldn't recall the last time he and Kisuke had shared a drink.

And if he had said 'thank you' for the latter's help over the years. Without Urahara after all, Shinji and the other visoreds would have...

As the merchant's goods store came into view, Shinji snapped out of his visit to memory lane, and took a deep breath instead, a lazy smile gracing his lips.He knocked at the door.

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Urahara slid open the door. "What do we have here?" He said lightly, seeing Shinji at the door. "It's been a while since we've last seen eachother, Shinji. To what do I owe the pleasure?" He chuckled.

Hirako laughed as he made his way inside, taking out the bottle of sake from the gift bag. "The pleasure is all mine, Kisuke. Hope it isn't too late for you to have drink with an old friend, is it?" He replied in turn, raising an eyebrow as he held the bottle up, almost like a challenge.

The shopkeeper laughed. "Too late to have a drink?" He waved the notion away. "Merely suggesting that kind of offends me." He joked.

The both of them walked deeper into the shop, into a small yet tidy living room, with a circular wooden table in the middle. Shinji settled on a small cushion that was on the tatami mat floor, setting the bottle of alcohol on the table while Kisuke took out some sake cups.

"You got the fancy kind." Urahara noticed as he sat infront of Shinji, taking the bottle from him to pour the liquid into their respective cups. "Any reason for that?"

Shinji sighed before taking a sip of the sake. "Perceptive as ever. I'm not here to ask for anything, God knows I already owe alot to you." He confessed, his face sobering into a solemn, almost sorrowful look, even if he was drinking.

Kisuke listened quietly, his hazel eyes examining Shinji's expression. The blond almost looked...guilty. It was an odd look on him.

He took a sip of his own sake, a small sigh escaping his lips as he spoke: "You're not usually the mopey type when you're drinking."

Hirako's eyes narrowed at him. "I'm not mopey." He replied.Kisuke poured him some more sake, before pouring himself another cup.

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The bottle had been emptied, with the two Shinigamis having drank enough alcohol to explain their current inebriated state:

Both of them had pinker cheeks than usual, with Kisuke slurring his words, while Shinji's movements were more pronounced and more frequent. His hands especially.

"I mean I never got to thank you!! You saved our frickin lives man!" Shinji said loudly, runnung a hand through his hair, closing his eyes and exhaling deeply.

Kisuke had a hiccough, before leaning forwards across the table, grabbing Shinji's other hand. "Don't wooorrryyy about it. What...what was I gonna do anyway, huh???? Jus...just leave you and the others to die??" He slurred the sentence out, his hat falling off his head.

Shinji coughed violently, choking on his spit in surprise at Kisuke's gesture. A moment passed, before he sighed and leaned slightly across the table, interlacing his fingers with Kisuke's. He looked away from Kisuke, and at his hat on the ground instead. It made him snort. "I don't know." He admitted. "But I can't imagine it was easy making a decision..."

Urahara hummed. "That's all in the paaast Shinji...I'm just glad I didn't...I didn't you know, lose you." He drawled lazily, the alcohol really doing a number on his speech skills.

Hirako squeezed his hand. "And I'm glad I didn't lose you to that bastard Sosuke either."

AKAKAKAKKAKAAK I KNOW THIS IS KINDA SHORT BUT I HAVE TO PREP FOR UNI! omg bro idk what I'm gonna major in, would psych help me write better fanfiction? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ Might lowkey end up like Easterman /hj LMAO.

How are you guys? 🥹 let me know if you have any requests, my next post is like 99% gonna be Outlast related. The other 1% is for Resident Evil, because of dada Chris. I luv Chris <3

That's dada right there TRUUUSSTTT! Loved him since I played re0-re9 + the revs and movies.

[cluckamok]

Man, the sun baby from the Teletubbies grew up to be kind of a whackadoo, but honestly there is so much unfair pressure placed on child actors, such things are bound to happen.

[writer-mags]

Started watching TYBW last night.

Me: is the pacing in TYBW actually as bad as it feels?

Best friend who introduced me to Bleach with the caveat of "I don't recommend this but it's one of my favorites": Everything in TYBW is as bad as it feels.

[stardog-howls]

[theaulait23]

Ichigo & Rukia’s Black and White Contrast: Is Kubo Building Rukia as Ichigo’s Counterweight? | Bleach TYBW Analysis

What I find compelling about Ichigo and Rukia is that they are the only Shinigami characters with a different colour of Zanpakuto, black and white respectively, and it is probably more than a design choice once viewed through the perspective of their origins.

Kubo gives Ichigo and Rukia opposing celestial titles: Ichigo is the Black Sun, despite his black Zanpakuto being named Zangetsu, “Slaying Moon,” while Rukia is the White Moon, whose white Zanpakuto and technique, Tsukishiro, “Moon White,” directly correspond with that title.

But beyond their titles, Ichigo’s nature as a hybrid of all races (Human, Fullbringer, Quincy, and Hollow) is what makes him a candidate for Reio, and that nature may be reflected in the black colour of his Zanpakuto, a colour that is later revealed to be associated with Reio’s power.

So, if Ichigo’s Zanpakuto colour is tied to his origin and the nature of his power, then the meaning behind Rukia’s white Zanpakuto remains unresolved, and her transformation in Bankai may be another clue to a withheld origin.

And the difference in how their Bankai affects their appearance adds another layer to the visual contrast between Ichigo and Rukia. Rukia’s Bankai transforms her Shinigami appearance, while Ichigo’s shihakusho stays unchanged. In Ichigo’s case, that visual choice can be read through his known origin: despite being a hybrid, he is still a true-blood Shinigami, born to a Shinigami parent, Isshin.

So when Kubo gives Rukia a different appearance in Bankai and a white Zanpakuto, those choices start to read as planted seeds that may trace back to her origin. And because these visual cues make her unique within the Shinigami category she is presented as belonging to, they could be hinting that Rukia and Hisana were not ordinary humans to begin with, but may have already been spiritually aware.

And the hints I’ve already covered seem to narrow that possibility further toward a Quincy origin, possibly even an Echt Quincy origin for Rukia, which would extend the contrast Kubo has already built between Ichigo and Rukia into their bloodlines. Because while Ichigo inherits Echt Quincy blood through his mother, Masaki, her blood was contaminated by White, making Ichigo’s inheritance part of his hybrid nature. If Rukia’s withheld origin were eventually revealed as pure Echt Quincy, it would create the inverse: the same bloodline expressed through purity rather than hybridity, and place Rukia, the deuteragonist and a Shinigami by occupation, as the counterweight to Ichigo, the protagonist and a Shinigami by birth.

And the reason for Rukia’s dual font in her name card is still withheld, but it is one of the planted seeds that hints she is more than just the Shinigami the story presented her as. Ichigo’s name card, by comparison, hints at his hybrid nature through a mixture of fonts. So if Rukia’s withheld origin is Quincy, then the unresolved meaning of her name card may be interwoven with the final arc itself, which makes the addition of Rukia in Bankai to the Cour 4 opening particularly interesting, it may be hinting at a role linked to that withheld origin.

If Rukia’s withheld origin is meant to become relevant through her power, her Bankai could also give the Ichigo–Rukia contrast a functional payoff. the contrast is not between two different bloodlines but between two expressions of the same one, and that difference in expression is what would give each of them a different function. Yhwach’s power depends on seeing and altering possible futures, while Rukia’s Bankai temporarily lowers her body into a state that is functionally dead.

If that death-state interferes with what Yhwach is able to perceive or manipulate, and his power already has established blind spots, as seen with Mimihagi, which governs stagnation, Rukia’s death-state could potentially function as another blindspot in the narrative, creating an opening for Ichigo to act.

And Urahara’s wording of leaving the rest to Ichigo and Rukia, and everyone else, could itself be foreshadowing, especially because Kubo places that line with the character he has already established as someone who prepares for countless possibilities. That makes Urahara’s connection to both Ichigo and Rukia more significant, Ichigo’s birth was only possible through his intervention, while the reason he specifically chose Rukia to conceal the Hōgyoku remains unresolved.

If that choice traces back to Rukia’s origin, then Kubo could be extending Urahara’s established way of preparing for future possibilities into the final arc, with the unresolved reason behind his choice of Rukia becoming part of a delayed payoff.

In that case, having Urahara name Ichigo and Rukia before everyone else could be a planted hint that the two characters will have a role in the eventual payoff.

[iluvbleachalot]

I went back and watched some of the earlier episodes of Bleach at work and I genuinely forgot that Byakuya was the bad guy at first, I literally said “oh yeah… I forgot Byakuya was the bad guy at first.”

[cherry-blossom-honey]

Is it unpopular to have Cirucci Sanderwicci as a favorite Espada? If you ask me, I feel like she is a Privaron because her crime was serving an illegal amount of cunt 🙂‍↕️

[neo-zone]

Again, it's ok. Could have been so much better

It's absolutely valid to be frustrated with how things unfold regarding our favorite characters, especially how other (insufferable piece of) fans chose to react and make another endless batch of unfunny jokes till they fucking died

But me? What's there to be angry anyway after the absolute shits in Cour 2. I just inhale deeply and moving on like it's another Saturday