What do you think of the 8th Kenpachi, Azashiro and his unbelievable zanpakuto, Urozakuro? Who do you prefer - Azashiro or Kuruyashiki? Let me know!

The reason that Aizen's zanpakuto would be useless against Azashiro is because Kyoka Suigetsu can't work if the target is touching the blade. And since Azashiro can fuse with the air around them, it would be impossible for Aizen to keep Azashiro from touching Suigetsu.

His Zanpakuto looks like his sister is beautiful. In life she protected him, in death she was something of a guardian angel. They seem to have a similar personality as well

Azashiro is such an interesting character I would have loved to have him appear in the main story tbh

I wonder if, in addition to the unnatural awakening, the fact that he didn’t have a sword is part of the reason his Zanpakuto spirit is just always there.

I'm quite happy that he does in fact have 3 weaknesses. 1 getting absorbed. 2 being physically weak and only relaying on hax 3 he can't become things that are too powerful for him to control. Such a creative, fun and strong zanpakto.

Hell arc could be the perfect opportunity to bring some light as to who and what all of the 2nd,3rd,4th,5th,6th,9th were like along some actual Azashiro, Giganjo and Kuruyashiki integration

Didn’t know anything about these guys others than their names before these videos. So interesting and glad to hear they got a good response! :D stellar stuff Captain Tommo!

Another connection with Koga is that the era during Azashiro's youth when nobles were fighting each other is similar to Koga's backstory which described something similar.

The fact his zanpakuto looks like his sister is actually really tragic

The Hell arc seems like a prime opportunity for a deep dive into the Kenpachi lineage. If we do see a mini-"Kenpachi arc" would you want to see Azashiro make a reappearance?

We definitely need a side series examining the Kenpachi and their abilities, histories, flaws and how they play into the history of Gotei 13 even if it's obvious already. That would be something I'd rather like.

I find both Gremmy and Azashiro very interesting because of their almost limitless potential. One can imagine anything into exsistence while the other can fuse and control anything in exsistence. Both limited by their mastery and inexperience to an unstoppable force, being defeated by Zaraki's brute strength. I wonder what Azashiro would have been like if either he took part in the Thousand Year Blood War or if he tag teamed with Aizen to take down the Ywach as the soul king.

Tite Kubo still has a lot that he can do with Bleach. It would be amazing to get a history of the Gotei 13.

Never known or cared much about the novels, but you’ve sold me on Azashiro. Pretty fascinating character.

His zanpakuto being stuck in bankai reminds me of Ichigo's being stuck in shikai after training with Urahara. I feel like his zanpakuto is simply too powerful for him as a shinigami, Ichigo had to literally beat his into submission multiple times before he was able to finally access his true bankai. So when his bankai manifested when he was a child, its like when White would take control of Ichigo and fight in his place, It saw the fact that its user was too weak to survive on his own and would end up getting her killed too so she broke through his inner world barrier and due to the fact that she is his zanpakuto and connected directly to his soul, only he can see her.

So Spirits really are forever with you, his Zankaputo in a nutshell, quite fitting. Makes lots of sense why 7th Kenpachi's Bankai would have been an issue for him, imagine taking that big bite out of a place he fused too.

After your first video on the other Kenpachi, I decided to read a SAFWY summary to prep myself for this video and I loved it! I think my favorite revelation was the reveal about Azashiro's zanpakuto having the face of his sister's. It was so bittersweet but I felt like it was fitting for a character like him. I loved the light novel, and I'm glad you're covering it :D these videos are so enjoyable to watch

I just started to read manga and i never imagined how much more joy I get than watching an anime. Your delivery and perspectives are very insightful.

So his trauma / anger hit such a point he manifested his sister in the form of a limitless weapon that would protect him at all cost. I love how this was written. Would love episodes.

Reminds of Toshiro's backstory where he was so strong that his freezing powers were leaking out when he slept. Imagine if he never met Rangiku, never got a Asauchi or trained properly, and eventually Hyorinmaru manifested on his own to protect and fight for Toshiro.

Honestly, when it comes to bleach your videos are some the very best out there. Keep up the great work, can't wait to see your videos on how the anime portrays certain events. I'm especially excited given that Kubo gave them all of the supplemental information he has (from his own mind and maybe CFYOW) that the animators may choose to include in TYBW given that Kubo had to wrap things up earlier than he would have liked to. So hopefully we learn a little bit more about things like Uryu's power and history, the Royal Guard, Spirit King, etc. Exciting time to be a bleach fan.

I love villians like this ,where they have a kind of broken logic to their plan, it's very procrustean in it's reasoning I feel they could totally make this story into a movie since the anime is coming back, sometime late next year maybe or 2024

I always find it interesting that Yumichika has one of the strongest zanpakto for being a side character. The light novels really put it into the spotlight, and it’s shown how strong it can be with the fight against...love horn? I forget his name lol

These videos are so cool man! This Channel was one of the reason I started to watch bleach and I’ve just recently finished the manga, and your videos have been super fun to watch 😄

Yaaasss love it! Thank you for helping keep my love for Bleach alive, I’m literally too busy to keep up and go out of my way to search all of this up but just having your videos being in the background while I’m working and then being so well put together and researched I feel like I’m always in the know and caught up with bleach content so thank you so much for that 👏🔥🔥💃💃💃

Hand him that broken ability and still have him lose to zaraki, classic kubo 😂

I went from knowing nothing about this character to him becoming one of my favorite, Great video

im glad the reception to the previous video was really good, i will say that title and thumbnail were soooo good, nail on the head, always good to have the content back it up but yeah keep up those two things, gets people in

Thank you for approaching this character finally, I've been waiting impatiently. One addition I would like to mention about his childishness though: To me it feels like the action of never letting go of his Bankai state is some sort of regression, he fears feeling endangered and vulnerable once more like in his childhood. Sōya probably feels guilty about presenting any state of mind, due to the fact he believes that emotions almost lead to his premature demise.

been on this journey for a min and i still enjoy every video. love from the states✊🏼

He is essentially his own zanpakuto I suppose. Funny enough if the soul king wasn't introduced, azashiro would give you the impression of a soul king, being the air itself and being fused with all around him.

Bro honestly you’re the best bleach channel! I’ve learned so much man thanks!

This video was amazing. An incredibly good story. I think you should cover more of the supplementary material

Thanks 4 all the hard work.

Please, more videos like this one. Bleach novels are actually so good, that they deserve to be more debated on the community.

This also adds more evidence to the notion that as long as your spiritual pressure is intense enough, you can just negate enemies effects on you. Even with such a powerful ability, just Zaraki’s pure insane reiatsu just negs his ability.

This was literally my OC’s Bankai when I was like 14 but no one will ever believe me 😭😭😭

The love for all the Kenpachi, I love seeing it.. Especially because unlike most anime that have group the kenpachi has depth, not just hallow...

I have a theory that’s all the kenpachis Shika and Bankai share the same name, also share a living type (spirit type) bankai?

Amazing content as always

After watching this, I think what happened with his zanpaktou is that, when he saw his sister die, as she was, well, his sister, and at that moment, the only person he had left in the entire world, it essentially broke his mind, and his reality, and in that moment, he went into the deepest part of his psyche, his inner world, to a place where his sister was still alive, and could always protect him from everything, and thus his zanpaktou was born looking just like his sister.

Bro I love this character now the way you explain everything is so good put a whole new perspective on who this guy is love it

Absolutely killed it! What a pro.

If he was in the tybw it would be so cool but man he'd be going through a shit ton of pain

Not gonna lie, best analysis you've done so far

You deserve more subs.... this was an amazing vid. Also what was the convo that Azashiro had with Aizen?

For fans who haven't read (or can't access) the light novels and other spin-off series' these videos are very interesting and we'd love to see more discussions about them I really hope we get to know even more about old soul society, the other Kenpachis, etc in the future.

Would love to see a video comparing his bankai to Ichibe’s abilities and others within the 0 division and see who would theoretically win.

I love the relationship that he has with his zanpaktou that is essentially the exact same relationship one might have with their siblings, almost like an older sister that is constantly belittling the younger brother just because they are older and so the younger brother just starts to withdrawal into himself and thus keeps to himself a lot snd seems quiet.

love your videos and datails of the story of them :)

Awesome video as always. Keep it up

Wow I can’t believe there is a hard counter to Aizen’s Zanpakto.

Azashiro is my favourite among the 2, even though he's weaker than Kuruyashiki. I just love his design and Bankai ability.

Also I really appreciate you taking your time to mention Unohana in relation to Sōya. Imo due to him saying one must not enjoy battle because it's 'useless' and 'doesn't forsee Shinigami duties', he would probably be disappointed of the true core of the First Kenpachi. I imagine he would think that the title is rightful to him completely. All I needed from SAFWY was an interaction between the 1st & 8th Kenpachi

If the game Bleach Brave Souls accurately tells the SAFWY story, then my favourite part was getting to see a bit of Marechiyo Omeada's father, Marenoshin Omeada, in action.

Literally knew nothing about the characters in SOFWY and I gotta say Azashiro and Kuruyashiki do sounds like really cool characters in in Bleach! Happy to see these videos about them! :D

Goated video. It’s funny bcuz I thought u made this vid a while back but it was made only 3 hours ago. More importantly you should make a video on shinji and explaining his bankai

Thanks for this.

He must have crazy reiatsu as staying in Bankai forever has to be a constant drain.

They should try an animate Spirits Are Forever With You after they finish TYBW with that momentum still going. Slots in pretty well for the story, keeps the series interest going and maybe it'll motivate Kubo to write more than one chapter for the Hell Arc

Dam these videos are so good I can't get enough

Thanks!

Sometimes, it's abilities like this that make me wonder why he ever let himself get caught

Honestly I like them both Azashiro and Kuyuyashiki I don't hate them but I don't love them either, that said I admit I do love how they are both ridiculously strong, with super powerful Bankai but have exploitable weaknesses that make sense to their abilities.

Anything Bleach related I will always come to MrTommo2304. He explains everything so well. He is the equivalent of NCHammer to Naruto content. Truly amazing!

This video is amazing

Man these light novels sound awesome hope they animate them as movies or ovas or something they sound awesome

It would be cool if you could make Videos about other characters from the novels like Hikone or Tokinada

I hope they showed us this in the anime, I’d love to see this either as an arc or movie.

Just imagine all 3 kenpachis fighting in the final war

He's like a perfect the compulsory. Instead of using nerves to control things, he just fuse with them.

Idk why but I've had to rewind this video like 7 times because my brain keeps getting lost. But I'm really trying my guy!

This time period would make an AMAZING series in its own right! Azashiro deff one of my favorite bleach characters

Great character and great video. Hopefully they also adapt this novel into the anime. Keep up the great work.

I'm always thirsty for new bleach content. Just found you, think I'll stay while.

Hyped

He is a combination of shunsui and byakuya IMO. The way the woman drapes over him like shunsui’s zanpaktou is exactly the same.

Would've loved to see him talking to Zaraki (current)

I saw Bleach, and so I liked and subbed

Excellent analysis! Azashiro gives me some major Sephiroth vibes and I’m not mad at that at all. I love the dichotomy between Uro Zakuro and Azashiro because it feels organic… like he has this power that was thrust upon him and suddenly he doesn’t matter anymore, only the power that he has been given. And furthermore, it feels like there’s more to his Zanpakuto spirit than just him imprinting onto an asauchi. It’s almost like the love of his sister imprinted onto his asauchi THROUGH him. It kind of reminds me of Gaara’s sand in Naruto, though obviously a little different in premise. Loved this and the Kuruyashiki content brother, keep up the good work! If you’re considering suggested content I’ve been really thinking about some of the historical inspiration for characters in bleach and it could be cool content to explore. Someone like Sasakibe Chojiro possibly being inspired by Sasaki Kojiro

I definitely wanna see him in a new story

very cool story:)

yasssss waiting for this

It’s a weird coincidence that all the decently powerful nobles in bleach are pretty boys. The trend continues with tokinada. Young koga too I guess all the not ancient looking Kuchikis are like that. A fascinating fact that azashiro being able to cast multiple kido at the same time highlights is that normally a shinigami can only ever cast one kido at a time due to being limited by having only one mouth this only being able to chant one incantation or call one spell name. Kind of like how hands are required for hand seals in naruto. It also makes the relatively unimpressive seeming double incantation rukia used against aaroneiro a bit more impressive. I don’t want to say that kuruyashiki isn’t interesting but I think part of reception of the last video is that this content is new to many bleach fans. They aren’t familiar with this story or these characters unlike all the stuff in the manga. You say it’s good that azashiro was given weaknesses because otherwise it would be ridiculous but that’s basically what zaraki is in the novels. Novel zaraki could probably beat yhwach. The additions to lore from the novels is amazing but in terms of fighting and power levels and general writing the narita novels definitely have some shortcomings. Kubo said that narita understood zaraki’s power well but in the manga we see zaraki get owned by Gerard, Royd, pernida and if you reread the fight you’ll notice that even gremmy would’ve won if he hadn’t made the mistake of destroying his own body by imagining zaraki’s power. Seriously, kenny was so worn down at the end of that fight even the sternritter girls easily took him out and gremmy could still make clones and bodies. So what kubo says and what he writes are 2 different things.

Unrelated to the video, but could you do a vid explaining what happens when everyone dies in Bleach? Like where do humans go? Where do soul reapers/hollows go? I know you’ve mentioned these all quickly in different videos, but there are none on KZfaq giving a full explanation of where everyone comes from, and where they go when they die

Its cool to think that stories like this guys could be used as a filler arc for the new TYBW anime coming out, let hope that's true, seeing this guy animated with his story would be quite welcomed to say the least

Got this char on my first 10 pull after taking a break and not logging in for months lol neat animations and Hella chad stance lmao

Make a hypothetical battle between shunsui and urahara

i love Kuruyashiki this bankai is so cool and scary

How awesome would it be if we ever got an anthology story about the Kenpachi lineage - like a mini series detailing each Kenpachi’s rise to power, the highlights of their career, and how they lost the title to the next generation

I wonder if the title "Spirits Are Always With You" was a reference to the fact that Azashiro's Zanpaktou Spirit was stuck with him at all times.

Honestly I could imagine this as a filler arc during the return of the anime

I love how your so detailed about bleach bro. And I gotta ask, is Aizen your favorite character?

I just realized that his goal almost mirrors Madara from Naruto, I think he could be the next big bad if they decide to continue the story after the 1000 year blood war arc.

I really don't like him as a character or the conceit of 'he is actually a very weak guy but with the strongest bankai' when his bankai is always on and there's nothing to truly challenge that within the scope of his narrative. That said I think it'd be hilarious if a Sternritter just stole his bankai and this most overpowered-by-design character were knocked down a peg.

Would love to see this movie

So azashiro is basically a matter manipulator the ability to make or do anything he can imagine like the bleach version of Franklin Richards damn op as hell

Commenting to help the rhythm!

Both Kenpachi characters seem very interesting and unique to the series. I hope we get to eventually see who all the Kenpachi's were at some point in the future. Do you think this light novel will ever be translated in English I would love to read it and add it to my collection