“Ichihime was obvious from the beginning” Part 1
“Do you have any plans to make Ichigo and Rukia a couple?”
Kubo: I’m not going to confirm nor deny that. [laughs]
Kubo could have easily stated he would never make them canon or that they would always be just close friends. But no. So IH’s can shove “Kubo said it was platonic” up their asses. Practice what you preach and listen to the man who ass you want to kiss so bad.
lol what are Ichigo and Rukia doing at a resort on a beach making bedroom eyes at each other? Platonic vacation????
On JumpBang T.V. Kubo initially was going to draw Rukia, but just spontaneously draws Rukia with him.
When you cant draw the hero without his heroine.
Jaina from Anime Insider interview with Kubo
“For a shonen series, Bleach spends a lot focusing on the emotions and different bonds between the characters. I’m sure you’re asked this a lot, but will we ever see any romance by the end of the series?”
Kubo: I don’t really intend to make it a romantic story, but it’s one of the aspects of the series, so I put it in here and there.
“In the early stage of the manga, I did touch on the two’s relationship but after that I intentionally change the point of view to other characters beside them. But then, it was so nostalgic to dive deeper into these two’s relationship again. While I had fun, I also had a chance to observe them closely. And then once again I was reminded that they’re really a good combo.” - Tite Kubo
Kubo sure loved the hell out of this super platonic bros before hoes relationship. He even wanted to DIVE DEEPER into it!
“When someone changes your world, that’s when you know he’s important to you.” Tite Kubo
More important than your S/O apparently.
Ichigo and Rukia are both responsible for clearing the rain in each other’s hearts. Although the rain metaphor is more highlighted to Ichigo’s inner turmoil, Rukia shares a very traumatic event in the rain.
They probably barely knew each other’s favorite food and yet they established this deep trust in less than a day.
This poor girl is probably having traumatic flashbacks. She wanted to help Ichigo despite knowing she was physically incapable but she respected him and internally begged him not to die. She had to deal with the fact that she killed Kaien and was forced to watch Ichigo fight and pray that he didn’t die. We all know she would have jumped at the chance to sacrifice her life for him, after all she is a soldier and it’s her job to protect.
They protected each other. Rukia protecting Ichigo twice and Ichigo saving her from death, all the while changing the views of her world for the better. All of that because, to Ichigo, Rukia shouldn’t be crying. She should be happy and that was enough for him even though she wanted to stay in SS.
This is much deeper than Ichigo and Orihime have ever had between each other.
“It is a sin to draw what I do not like.” - Tite Kubo
And the IHs can go and argue that Kubo has made spread that have had Ichigo, Rukia, Orihime, and Renji all together, but theres also Ichigo, Rukia, Orihime, and Uryuu, so what? How many Renji and Rukia spreads did we get? Or Ichigo and Orihime spreads did we get? Go ahead and say “spreads don’t matter” but clearly it mattered to the creator to waste time making them for such a “platonic” bond that he couldn’t even spare some times for the “obvious from the start” canon couples.