What did you think of The Almighty as an ability for the final enemy of Bleach? Too overpowered? Or, with its weaknesses as they were presented, is it just right for a villain of Yhwach's stature? How did Uryu's antithesis play into his eventual defeat? Let me know!

Book of end-changes the past Kyoka suigetsu-changes the present Almighty-changes the future Zangetsu-fvxk everything in that direction

Kubo is the almighty, he saw the anime scene would be more befitting of bleach in the future so he waited 3000+ days for its finale.

Oh, I never noticed that the Soul King had four black irises, I thought he had a single white, cross-shaped iris on top a black "white" of the eye.

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Something that went over most people's heads, is the thematic opposition the Almighty poses to Ichigo. In the chapter Side A:The Sand, Ichigo laments being powerless against the gears of fate and being crushed like *grains of sand*. Yhwach himself compares the Almighty to sand grains, and its power to change the future does indeed render Ichigo powerless to do anything against it, just like he always feared. But, with help from the Still Silver arrow, his "blade that shatters fate" was able to finish off Yhwach. The execution could definitely have been better, but I'm glad this thematic underline was there in the final battle.

I was let down he absorbed Yamamoto's bankai but never used it. He had so many OP powers at his disposal

I really wished we could have gotten flashbacks to the original Gotei 13 fighting the Quincy so that the "blood war" actually felt like a "blood war." I would have loved to see scenes of the Quincy and Ywach barely surviving the onslaught of Soul Society and crawling away in anger and humiliation, spawning the conflict we see 9000 years later. Imo, TYBW kinda lacks in establishing an emotional motivation for the Quincies. I wished the sternritters had some sort of personal grudge they had been holding from the original fight b/w the soul society and the Wandenreich, or maybe even have it shown that those grudges against specific captains or Shinigami were passed down the Quincy generations. That way, statements like "Our 1000 year prayer has finally been answered" actually deliver on the emotional gut punch they are trying to convey.

I love how DeathBattle tried to say this dude wasn’t even a planet buster. I mean……….he became multi-universal by definition after absorbing the soul king’s power. But you know how it goes in DeathBattle; if you can’t measure a feat with TNT, it doesn’t count.

The Almighty felt broken, but it had to be. We had experienced the near unbeatable kyoka suigetsu for hundereds of chapters so Kubo needed to create an even more insane power for it to be as impactful

I would have to point out that Aizen’s complete hypnosis only worked on Ywach due to Aizen being close enough in power to his foe that it didn’t get erased by the divine spiritual pressure.

The Almighty is actually Aizen’s bankai… it was all part of his plan.

I think the only true counter to The Almighty is Ichigo’s unnamed power which I’ll call “Destiny Negation” until a more suitable name is found. Yawach himself said Ichigo’s power was very similar to Orihime’s, and her power is the rejection of phenomena. I think Destiny Negation is the complete elimination of futures/fates/destinies that don’t align with Ichigo’s will, and in TYBW it is to defeat Yawach and save Soul Society (and by extension the World of the Living and Hueco Mundo; the opposite of Yawach’s goal). This explains why Yawach felt like he had to repeatedly break his Bankai (he was trying to circumvent Destiny Negation). This ability is dangerous to Yawach because although The Almighty gives him the ability to see “all futures”, I believe he realized that Destiny Negation nips The Almighty at the bud by eliminating the number of futures he has to chose from; specifically any futures which result in the accomplishment of his goals because they are diametrically opposed to Ichigo’s. It makes Ichigo’s eventual victory a foregone conclusion because there isn’t a future Yawach can choose that doesn’t ultimately result in his own defeat; Destiny Negation has already eliminated any future where Ichigo’s desire to defeat Yawach and save Soul Society isn’t realized. If true, Kubo has essentially canonized plot armor and made it an ability in the Bleach universe.

I think it's an interesting power, but my guess is that Kubo was a little too caught up with trying to one-up Aizen's perfect hypnosis. It'd be interesting to see what whoever the Hell Arc's antagonist is has in store.

I think the power that was used to split up the souls and the realms was a combo of The Almighty and Auswhalen. The Almighty lets you see the possibilities for what could happen when you split the realms and decide which if going to happen, and then Auswhalen is what actually does it.

So back when I read it, I interpreted the ultimate weakness of The Almighty as being the hubris of the user. True it can show you a complete story, but that doesn't matter if you stop reading it 2 pages before the end because you think you know how it'll all turn out. In this case I think Yhwach stopped "reading" the story after he overcame death and broke Zangetsu. He thought he'd changed the end The Almighty had shown Haschwalth, but in his hubris he didn't realize he'd not even got there yet. Thus he didn't see Tsukishima or Ishida's actions coming because they occurred after he'd already put the book down.

What I really like about The Almighty is that once it is activates, Yhwach is often seen looking to the sides or away from his opponent. He no longer needs to pay attention because he has already seen it all.

Head Captain Yamamoto was the Only 1 that defeated Almighty Yhwach ^^ But wasnt able to Kill him🤔

The biggest and only weakness of the Almighty in my opinion is that there's seemingly infinite "gains" of realities that he can see and switch between but there must be some grains that inevitably lead to his end. This includes everything touched upon in this video.

Never thought of Uryuu's powers this way, it would make sense if close to the end of the fight, Yhwach starts asking where Uryuu is, saying stuff like: "I can't find him in any reality, i'm sure he survived in a few in this whole infinity that i can see, is this Aizen's powers?". Then the fight starts going in the heroes favor with Aizen taking Ichigo's place, Yhwach being cut in half, erasing his death, then Uryuu shows up and hits him.

Tite Kubo.. I'm so curious as to what he himself thinks of the ending..

I think is important to mention that Kazui also has the three iris. My theory is that the soul king plan was to make Ichigo defeat Juha, thats why Juha saw ichigo defeaying him in all possible futures and only choose the one who was most benefitial for Quincies, the one where Uryu shoots him. The connection between Ichigo and Soul King is the thing that make Kazui having the 3 eyes, and destroying the Juha reaitsus that left. I think the whole Almighty plot is far from be over, we can expect much more for kubo!

I think something that's really crazy is that it's implied in the manga and the novel's that the Soul King used the Almighty to completely change the future and the actions of the characters, leading to Ichigo's birth and the plot of Bleach. Who knows what he might have done had Bleach continued as Kubo originally planned.

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Ive heard about him. But im excited to learn the ins and outs lol

This was excellent and I really never thought about uryu using the almighty in that way

I always assumed that the reason the still silver worked was that either Aizen used Kyoka Suigetsu or the still silver, being created by Yhwach's Holy Selection, had the same property as the Mimihage of being immune to the almighty.

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The Almighty is a really awesome ability and i love that it has some natural weaknesses that we have been introduced to earlier. There was Kyoka Suigetsu and Book of the End that had been known for some time before the Almighty was revealed. I think Kubo should have found a way to end the final fight with these abilities. ( He kind of did but I think there has to be a way to defeat Yhwach without the still silver arrow)

Yhwach was Dabbing that 2 Key like no Anime antagonist ever had before.

funny thing is that early TYBWA Yhwach foreseen Ichigo killing him, but he thought it was just a dream

I don't think the irises are representative of mastery over the Almighty, so much as representative of the evolution of the Quincy power in general. The closest comparison I can think of is the Sharingan from Naruto. 1 iris is basic sharingan, 2 is Mangyoku, and so and so forth. That's why, when Haschwalth swaps powers with Yhwach, he gets Yhwach's eyes.

I do like your reasoning why Yhwach got hit by the arrow. I always just thought that the arrow itself had an immunity of some sort to the Almighty.

And if this was is true power 1000 years ago. How did he loose the 1st time?

I like that Uryu's counter to the Almighty is the same (essentially) as the one Shinji had made for Aizen. Shinji's plan if I recall (In some light novel?) was to use Sakenada on Ichigo so he would see the release of Kyoka Suigetsu from Aizen's perspective thus nullifying it's ability since Aizen himself is never implied to be effected by his own ability.

I wanted to see girikos ability interact with Ywach. Giriko setting in time that events must happen. means he has to manipulate the future in a way that they happen but lessen the effect on him.

Nice video, thanks. I always enjoy your bleach videos. Idea for a video ? What if Aizen kept gaining new forms from Hogyoku , is there a theoretical version of Aizen that could have solo’d Yhwach ?

I really like how you look at kubo's writing for each character, not just their ability or surface level personality. Can't wait for the gremmy fight analysis, that's a real underrated one

I think Kubo kinda messed things up at the end when you think about it. Tsukishima's ability is just to insert his essence into timelines for someone's past but he cannot change anything the almighty is the ability to be able to change the future events and the antithesis being exactly what it states the antithesis of the almighty should be the one to change an event in the past meaning Uryu's ability should have been the ability to restore Ichigo's Zanpakuto and not Tsukishima.

i liked your analogy of it being like a treadmill, and i also agree that the kind of ability that the almighty is makes things really messy and frustrating. being able to both *see* and mess with time is just a "well why he don't just choose to not lose" waiting to happen. which is why i really liked how you mentioned that Aizen's illusions were on him even before his eyes awoke because that is a really funny gotcha moment, even if it didn't inherently win the fight.

The issue with a power like this is that any defeat feels cheap or forced because theres no excuse for why Yhwach wouldn’t see that silver arrow coming.

It’s crazy even with yhwachs crazy Hax he still took precautions against yama with 1 arm May I add just shows how op Yamamoto really was

Hands down he was the best villain of Bleach ..Don’t get me wrong Aizen was a good villain and was the biggest plot twist in Bleach anime but Yawach is just everything Aizen wasn’t

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His power has always made both of my irises roll. Imagine playing a competitive game against anyone or anything and they have the power to just say "NUH UHHH" it's not fun. Not for players OR viewers.

I’ve gotta admit that Yhawch’s almighty quite a hax even compared to other anime! It’s completely broken!man kubo is one damn smart mangaka! Hat’s off to him! Also the panels like one in which yhwach telling about his Almighty looks so sick!

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Would love to see Zaraki fight against him

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Yhwach has one of my favorite character designs in the entire series. From his original Quincy uniform and his cloak, to the black eye-covered spiritual pressure around him. It all looks so good

One weakness I feel Bleach hinted at was during Bach's dream sequence where Ichigo killed him. Perhaps all futures led to his defeat?

Yhwach is the whole bleachverse in one person

I feel like what's more important than the number of eyes is the placement of the eyes themselves where the soul king is more uniformed and also has more eyes, while ywach has 3 and they are more dispursed, jugram's were more linear than the 3 of them which could mean a few things like he isn't able to see as well as ywach could. Just a bit of a headcannon but we all know kubo likes to hide details in plain sight... pun intended

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I always thought that the Soulking has a star like iris but in reality this is just the space between his four irises 🤯

I always figured that the silver arrow was not seen in the future. Once it’s shot thru ywhach, he “loses his powers” so I always figured he couldn’t see up until that point? Or up to that possibility. But the antithesis sounds like a better idea of what happened.

Millions? Ichibei made a statement about of Eons (Periods of billions of years) if i remember correctly; This would also make sense since Bleach canonically takes place in our universe (Or a directly parralel universe at least) and our universe is billions of years old, which would place Ichibei and the Soul King (Arguably even Ywach) at billions of years old.

I was on the fence about the abilities scale when it was described, but at the same time I feel it’s almost expected that Shonen series would end facing a godlike entity.

Thank you for this explanation. Without it I probably would have watched for everyone's finishing moves

I always figured Tsukishima altered the past around Zangetsu, which as a butterfly effect type of thing, created new possible futures. I think Uryu could have used the antithesis, but I also think that the Still Silver arrow itself could simply be immune to Quincy powers and thereby create a blind spot in the Almighty.

wow... just wow I had no real clue why or what was going on when I read this years ago. Thanks for clearing this up love the Info and videos. new sub here /wave

I think the concept of the Almighty was too vast for how many chapters were left in the series. Honestly, it's a power that would traditionally be shown at the end of the second act of a story and then the heroes have to learn how to beat it in the finale. But as we all know, Kubo had no time to flesh things out in the end.

I love the imagery and thematic implications of the Almighty. Sure, it is a overpowered ability, but it feels like a fitting and logical power for the final villain of Bleach. Especially when you factor in what/who Yhwach and the Soul King are meant to invoke. It also makes Aizen's main ability even more fitting...the man who seeks to dethrone the Ruler of the verse, has a power that is a one of the few that can actively combat said ruler's main ability.

Only just realised the soul king has four irises haha. Always thought he had diamond eyes.

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I think another broken ability is Complete Hypnosis. As bleach abridged eloquently put it: "there's the Deus ex machina"

Honestly I'd wish for this power in any fiction, it's versatile powerful and it's completely balanced by the users experience or inexperience, shown by the difference in mastery between Yhwach and Haschwalth.

I think Tsukishima and Aizen had powers that had limited effects on Yhwach. As he states, Tsukishima may have created new futures that he wasn't aware of, but he would inevitably have control of those futures in due time. And as for Aizen, Yhwach impaled him, which I think was a metaphor for touching the hilt of Aizen's zanpakuto, as it had technically become a part of him. And even if that weren't the case, I'm pretty sure when Yhwach revived himself, he remarked that he had removed all his weaknesses so that something like Kyoka Suigetsu wouldn't work on him anymore.

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This got me thinking; maybe the Soul King's first appearance with his limbs intact wasn't a plot-hole but perhaps evidence that he still has some level of "consciousness" and can still exert some control over those individual grains of sand.

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The explanation of Antithesis being used to give Uryu the opportunity to shoot the silver arrow is an interesting one I never considered. I always thought it was just as an overlooked point to allow a means of defeating Yhwach. I see the argument for it, and Uryu's conversation with Haschwalth provides an opening for it to be true. I think the vagaries of what constitutes something that has "already happened" still makes things a bit iffy and is one of the times I most wish I could read the original language. There's also the question of why Yhwach couldn't have affected Ryuken instead, making it so he never had the arrow to give Uryu to begin with. Still, I like the Antithesis idea, and it does make Uryu's ability to shoot Yhwach make much more sense than no reason at all. I'd still love any kind of explanation on why Uryu was immune to the Auswalhen, though. There's no sensible reason within the plot that he is even still alive at that point in the story, at least as far as I can tell. Ichigo is special because of his unique lineage. Uryu is special because... ?

Visionary: IS THAT IT? IS THAT ALL? YOU FORGOT ABOUT ME?!

You could say, The Almighty is a little like.....ZA WARUDO!

A bit off-topic but if the soul king has the almighty then surely it saw itself being sealed and eventually having its body parts removed from him and therefore could have theoretically stopped all of those events from happening. However, I believe I read or saw somewhere that 1) the soul king willing allowed himself to be sealed and 2) the soul king was the world's solution for hollows but when he did kill hollows it caused imbalance and would lead to eventual armageddon. (Somebody please correct me if I'm mistaken). So my theory is the soul king knew he would be sealed and what the shinigami were going to do with splitting the realms to avoid the armageddon scenario and agreed with the action thinking that it would be the best scenario for everyone. However was also acting under good faith that the shinigami would not follow a future where they desecrated his body, which they eventually did. Hence why Gerard (the heart) Pernida (the right hand I think) fought against the shinigami because they represented the hatred the soul king had against the shinigami for desecrating his body but there is also Mimihagi who attempted to stop Yhwach from destroying everything since he still felt that this course was still the best course for everyone. Just my theory.

I always felt like Aizen{s statement regarding Orihime having the power to defy even the greatest of gods. It{s not that Orihime herself can literally go toe to toe with a god like Yuha or such. But rather, and I think this was going to be the way Yuha was going to be kept reasonably a fightable character, is that her power can reverse space and time right? As in, even the greatest of gods need to exist within space and time to create or destroy something. To keep it short, Orihime's ability amplified by Ichigo and Aizen's tremendous reiatsu would do the job don't you think? My guess is Orihime's power does to space/time what Tsukishima does to memories. And this is also what Yuha does to future. And also, I think the reason why Kubo even whilst in a rush to finish the series decided to show us how Kasui gets rid of Yuha's remnants is because Kasui either reversed the existence of those remnants to when they weren't even in space/time or he inherited Ichigo's bankai ability to nulify hax and sht. (the random theory going around) If you've watched my hero academia and know about Eri's power, you know what I mean by this.

when you don't even need to move when anything happens. you can change a dimension as a whole by blinking and noone even notices then yeah that is pretty god-like

So with the hogyoku containing a nail of the Soul King, I wonder if it would eventually transcend Aizen to having something similar to Almighty?

There's also the possibility that he simply choose to get hit by the arrow because the almighty showed him in most futures getting hit and then blocking ichigoes sword leading to his victory after his power returns shortly after. Or because book of the end was activated he knew the arrow would hit but because he had broken ichigo's sword assumed that future couldn't happen and let it play through. You could also assume that there is a very small time frame before and after the arrow hits where the almighty cannot see anything due to it being shut off by the arrow assuming iryu used his antithesis to hide it before it hit so the aftermath of it hitting is blanked out and he just sees what would happen once he gets his powers back which doesn't happen because ichigo kills him with the sword that to him he shouldn't have.

10:46 so one thing has just wandered across my mind, if the power of the all mighty is to know the future (which is different from knowing the potential future like say trance Gemini from Andromeda, she sees what may come from a certain set of choices but not the final outcome) then he already knew that he would lose before he even started his invasion of the soul society but he still did it knowing it would lead to his ""death"".

I hope in the anime we get an expansion of the final fight where the ending makes things a little more clear exactly what happens. Possibly get better setup for the still silver arrow but I also would love to see more kyoka suigetsu trickery and maybe even have Tsukishima take a more active role as well. I feel like kyoka suigetsu plus book of the end could really mess with the almighty.

hot take: each iris can represents the form of time, first is the present, 2nd is the future, 3rd is the past, 4th is the alteration

On relook The Almighty is actually a pretty cool and thought out ability. When these chapters were releasing though I just remember being SO DONE with these BS powers (from the Askin and Valkyrie fights for example) that it felt like a slog. I guess that's just Bleach in general actually

I think first Shiba created final getsuga tenshou to become some sort of deity to save Reio from that fate. Or could it be another technique hm. Anyways, isnt Ichigo like poisonus to Yhwach? his powers werent lost when his mother died because soul reaper powers were coming from hollow Zangetsu. And in final arc he solidifies all of his powers which if you ask me is pretty wicked.

Maybe its cuz I don't look up other discontinued shows but other than bleach and hxh what other shows get constant theory crafting and explanations with dedicated KZfaq channels?

The way I always understood the almighty is Yhwach didn’t directly alter things in the future. Let me explain. So when Yhwach explained how he is able to see every possible future, he explains how they are each like a grain of sand. From what I remember he explains that he simply pick the one he likes best. Think about it, if he can literally alter the future to be exactly how he wants, there’s no real reason to see every future. So when I Hugo’s bankai breaks initially, he simply looked at every future and chose the one where he broke it. Which in turn makes that the path the present takes. Which makes sense when later, he wanted to break ichigo’s bankai again, but instead he just cracks it. Because there was no future in which he broke said bankai. This makes more sense when you understand that he lost in the past in some way. We never got to see exactly how it happened. We just know he lost. If his ability literally warped reality to whatever he wanted, he would basically never lose. But that’s not what happens. Possibly, when he lost to yama in the past, there wasn’t a future he could essentially hop to in which he won against him. So I like to think of the almighty as a low level reality warp. He does get to choose the future he wants, but only if it’s in the realm of possibility. There’s an infinite number of futures, but he has to have the power to make a favorable future be obtained. It also makes sense when he was fighting ichigo. Yhwach says that ichigo was changing the future. So basically yhwach had to keep hoping futures because ichigo was actively changing the outcome of the future yhwach had picked. When yhwach revived himself, he simply chose the future in which he didn’t die. But this is just the way I understood the power working. I haven’t read those chapters in years though

Goddamn it people always call it the Deus Ex Arrow because of how it defeats Yhwach but after hearing the explanation about Uryuu's Schrift it just seems so obvious. Haschwalt even goes out of his way to say that Uryuus antithesis is a counter to Almighty. Thanks for the video, man, another banger. Great work!

Just one question. The way they talk about Yhwach, they made it sound like he was at full power 1000 years ago and it took the entire 1000 years to regain it. A) did he have the Almighty back then? B) if he did, how did he lose?

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The eye motifs, is it because of that, As nodt n Lille can get such a drastic change in their vollstandig? As nodt n Lille both have their quincy cross in their eyes n their power revolves atound their eyes. And now that anime has shown Uryu using AntiThesis on that button y.h threw, would that affect the ending where y.h did not see Uryu firing the StillSilver Arrow?

One thing I'm interested about a comment said in the Hell Chapter where Szayelaporro mentions that the Warden of Hell is omnipotent and can see all, which is how Szayelaporro knew about Renji's daughter. I'm curious if this is the same or maybe the Hell equivalent of the Almighty.

Honestly even after he said all that stuff to Ichigo about the almighty letting him transform the future I kept thinking back to when he was able to use the almighty to give himself any power he wanted and He restored his voice after ichibe crushed his throat

20:13 Maybe the new timeline that Aizen created wasn't in Juha Bach's radar?

here is a question.... if Tsukishima can use book of the end to change the past.....can he use it to "undo" Aziens Kyoka Suigetsu?

i always interpreted it as, the stillsilver arrow is the only thing that deactivates the almighty. so the only thing that the almighty cannot see is the stillsilver arrow.

The way I see it, going from two to three irises was just his body getting used to having his full power back But that’s just my thoughts.

Still not as op as Kyōka Suigetsu, as we know Aizen did counter Yhwach twice using Kyōka Suigetsu. Not a fan of the Almighty, I think it's a bit overly complicated and boring. A simple ability like Aizen's or Urahara's was awesome because it was so simple and ridiculously overpowered and I think Bleach did very well with low-level sounding powers being way too op.