These two old men are my favorite <3 I know Shunsui is part of squad 1 now but his best moments lay on when he was in squad 8 and I will forever miss their daddy Yamamoto
8/13
and Fuck you Kubo for not keeping your promise of curing Jushiro and then off screen killing him…
Thinking about how all the nice and kind characters in Bleach seems to get punished only for being nice and kind. Not in the actual plot most of the times, but often just by being forgotten and sidelined. I was thinking about Jushiro in the last arc and it just popped into my head other characters who got sidelined in similar ways and honestly all the nice characters end up like that. [Spoilers ahead] Jushiro never gets a proper fight and he is the ONLY Captain (novels included) to never get a bankai. He never gets an actual resolution in the last arc and even his big moment gets brushed aside by Aizen. He gets forgotten and everyone moves on in literally two pages (Also, related to the fact that he doesn’t have a big fight ever, he is one of the only two captains to never be featured on a volume cover. Sad). And it got me thinking that Jushiro is the nicest (arguably the only nice) Captain in the divisions. Don’t get me wrong, I love Toshiro, Hirako, Byakuya and everyone but they all kinda have a bad personality compared to the nicest characters. I am not saying they are bad people or their spots in the plot aren’t deserved, only that actually nice and kind people never get the same treatment as rude, more “unpleasant” (personality-wise) characters.
Like, sure, maybe Jushiro had just rotten luck and he never got a time to shine, but it’s the same for all the nicer characters. Taking the main 6, arguably Chad and Orihime are far nicer than everyone else (ok I love Renji and Uryu but you get my point. Ichigo even makes it a whole point of having a ~cool and edgy~ persona and Rukia’s favourite word seems to be ‘fool’. They are all very good people but you get what I mean). Orihime and Chad are the only two of them that get cut from the final arc up to the very last possible moment. There is barely a mention of them in Heuco Mundo with Urahara and while Orihime at least lands (1) moment for herself fighting alongside Ichigo, Chad gets completely forgotten the moment they take their eyes off of him. Chad seems to get the shorter end of the stick every time since he’s also the first “goodie” to go down in Soul Society, he never gets to fight an Espada in Hueco Mundo and well he gets to do whatever he was doing in the last arc with Ganju. Orihime gets SOME time but at some point her whole character gets thrown away and all that’s left of her is Ichigo, so I don’t know how better it is. They get some vindication in the Fullbringer arc but as soon as the others arrive they get conveniently kicked out of the plot.
Honestly I could go on forever. My son Hanataro has a similar fate, but he (regrettably) was a very side character so yeah. It was to be expected. Isane as well. Even among the Vice Captains it’s kind of the same thing since Momo has maybe 2 spoken lines in the last arc.
I am not saying that only nice people get forgotten by Kubo since Shinji (my beloved) was sidelined just as badly in the last arc, and I am not saying that the characters that did get the spotlight didn’t deserve it, but I am saying that there is a pattern in my opinion for the nicer ones. Maybe Kubo thought they weren’t interesting enough, I don’t know, but I liked some of them and I got kind of annoyed thinking about it.
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