This fight had no reason to go so hard but I love it

If so, if a zanpakuto is nabbed while in shikai state, will it automatically revert to base form? (Same goes for Bankai I guess, will Soi Fon’s cannon turn into the stinger or a base sword if someone rips the cannon off of her…?)

The confidence, the dual-wielded swords and his new golden spiritual pressure look amazing. I can't wait for Cour 4 in a few days

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If I had nickel for every time Aoi Yuki voiced a short, blonde ''German'' military officer bestowed with powers by a ''god'', accompanied by a soft-voiced, but tough taller comrade I would have 2 nickels.

-but it's odd that it's happened twice....

Why was he not prisoned for eternity?

Just got ths idea talking to people

Folks this award is for the character with the best overall design, not a single design or outfit🥀

So one of the things I've been thinking about recently is the actual relationship that Yhwach has with the Quincy and it occurred to me it probably is equivalent to the relationship between Zanpakuto and Soul Reapers.

Yhwach derives his lineage from the 'Divine Beings' category that mainly just includes himself and the Soul King (and the latter's various autonomous body parts), but it seems implied that they're an entirely separate type of life form from Humans, Soul Reapers and Hollows. The latter 3 are related in that they are of at least some shared ancestry but Yhwach and the Soul King don't even seem to lie on the same evolutionary tree.

Why the preamble? Because I realized what Yhwach is most similar to in the setting and it's a Zanpakuto spirit. One thing I noticed during TYBW is that both when the Shinigami lost their Bankai and when Auswahlen stole the lives of many Quincies and Sternritter that it didn't cause a full loss of power. Kubo recently answered that the reason Shinigami could use Shikai after having their Bankai stolen is because the Shikai is just the power of the Shinigami expressed through the sword, because the Zanpakuto spirit is new ego within the Shinigami themselves, while Bankai is the power of that alter ego itself externalized. Similarly, I was thinking about how Bazz B or Lilinette could use the basic version of their Schrift after Auswahlen while they lost their halo and wings and were unable to enter Voll Stern Dich.

Schrift is apparently a thing that shapes the power of its user, but seems to also be key in letting them use Voll Stern Dich and is acquired when they drink Yhwach's blood. As such, it seems like the Voll Stern Dich is actually the same process of Bankai, Externalizing the Schrift itself rather than just using their own power that has been shaped by it. This is also why it's blocked when using the Bankai Medallion: the Bankai as an expression of another Ego is literally blocking Yhwach's Schrift because they are functionally fighting for surface expression.

And where have we seen this before? With Old Man Zangetsu and Hollow Ichigo fighting to be the surface expression of Ichigo's power. But because they're both linked to the same person rather than two separated entities, Ichigo can use them both at the same time with sufficient training (initially through his Mask and Zanpakuto, later as a single entity in the Horn of Salvation).

If Asauchi are formed from layering human souls into something presumably more potent, which sounds like they're almost a form of artificial Soul King meant to be a de-centralized version of a Schrift, something that isn't tethered to a single being but is individuated and based on an individual's ego. I was thinking about what Cang Du said about not believing in Polytheism in regards to Zanpakuto spirits and it got me thinking that maybe this was meant as an allusion to the idea that Zanpakuto are closer in nature to the Divine Beings, since the power of stolen Bankai literally blocks the power of Yhwach until the Quincies are forced to give it up.

The collaborations were in moba games like Honor of Kings and Arena of Valor, and the bleach characters served as skins for existing heroes in those games. So did you like them?