#zabimaru

[cindytranart]

Zanpakuto (Art Print)

[captainvanesh]

[mariafornieles]

Couldn’t resist jumping on this trend with one of my favorite characters EVER: Renji

[swan2swan]

The way Renji's Bankai in the last episode displayed every flaw he's had and every technique he's ever used as just another element of his true power was phenomenal.

Remember that technique he used against Aizen? The one that absolutely sucks because he can only use it when Zabimaru is broken and damages the sword so completely that it takes him days to put it back together?

Yeah, that's because the technique is supposed to be used by shredding all of the baboon hair to lay a minefield of grasping, inescapable hands to pin the enemy in place.

The colossal, unwieldy giant snake blade that was Renji's incomplete Bankai? The one he could barely move while wielding that everyone criticized as being one of the worst in the series?

Yeah, that's because it's intended to be wielded by a giant baboon arm that Renji controls like a Gundam, not his own scrawny little limbs! More strength and greater size turns it from a cumbersome burden into a wieldy weapon.

And remember how Renji could never use that red fireball technique properly? The one where he's supposed to create a ball of energy and fire it like a cannon?

Yeah, that's because he's a man of the streets. He's not supposed to fire energy balls based on something he read in a book, using ancient chants. He's supposed to gather the energy up from his own soul and channel it through his Bankai's arm in a blast of fiery energy.

Renji is not a dog barking at the moon in a pool of water. He's a two-headed monster of flame, blazing his own light into the world, and he's finally shown it!

[stardog-howls]

[tropefiends]

ice princess and her monster girl

[dont-look-up]

So-Oh Zabimaru

[highseme]

Renji Abarai: Bleach TYBW - S01E18