What do you think of the all-powerful Fullbringer, Aura Michibane? Did you enjoy her role in CFYOW, and her limitless powers? What would you like to see from this character in the future? Let me know your thoughts!

An interesting detail about her power is that she almost had a food fullbring. The food that her father made her was pretty much the only thing she had an actual attachment to, but before the “attachment” could fully manifest, her father died and the meals stopped. When she managed to escape, one of the first things she found was a meal ingredient which she ate, but it was sour and rotten, completely halting whatever “attachment progress” she had.

I like the parallel between Aura and Gremmy. They were both kept isolated from people yet she was able to develop her abilities to the max while Gremmy could not.

Considering how Aura only relies on her base abilities to manipulate matter, the potential for other Fullbringers are almost limitless. If they organized like the Quincies did and had some system of institutional knowledge regarding techniques and powers, the Fullbringers would be a menace. Considering Ginjo's grudge against the Soul Society, Ginjo and the Fullbringers could have been recruited into the Wandenreich. As hosts of fragments of the Reio, Yhwach should have been interested in them.

As far as I’m concerned, Tsukishima’s fullbring is still the scariest of them all.

I think her ending up in Hueco Mundo is ironic given her father tried to save her from the fate of hollows, only for her to die to a hollow, and then be rescued by hollows (the arrancar)

Aura is the pinnacle of the fullbringers. She’s a moderate, strong, intelligent and beautiful woman. I hope she reunites with Hikone and Hisagi one day

Before the new feats of squad 0, she was considered to be the strongest female in Bleach. There was a good reason as to why as well.

I just also liked how she pulled a fast on Tokinada. Knowing his deviousness and willingness to use/discard others I'm sure part of him would've admired that about her. He was a true monster.

It's crazy how fullbringers are born with pieces of the soul king. Wouldn't that mean they could also potentially be candidates to replace the soul king, I mean Ginjo was.

Aura didn't meet hikonai, she created him with her powers and the body parts the antag collected. she is quite litterally Hikonai's birth mother

I think by attachment, they usually mean a connection between an object and the attachment to the world around you. Ichigo's badge relates to his pride and joy of his role and friends. Im guessing for Aura's sake, while she could develop a mental attachment to items, theres not a substantial connection to the world through them since she was completely sheltered

Personally, I love Aura. Her character comes from a place of trauma (like several other characters in the series), but in a completely different way than we are used to seeing. Also, to say that Fullbringers have been "criminally" underutilized and underappreciated is an understatement. From the use of their powers to the use of each of their characters, Fullbringers really have only received the bare minimum amount of love in the series. Thankfully, Aura's presents changes that.

Who else is excited for Grimmjow to be animated in the new art style???

. . . And Aura’s shipped with everybody as every Bleach female is.

Every single time I start thinking it’s been a few days since a new Mr. Tommo video… he drops another video. I love your release schedule

I was waiting for you to creat a analysis of her character

Finally a video dedicated to Aura 🙌

I wonder if we’ll ever meet a female Bleach antagonist that has her own personal agenda or ultimate goal, and isn’t just another underling or tool at a main villain’s disposal. Would be interesting for sure.

Yes!! Glad to see you finally making a video on Aura, she was my favorite character in TYBW.

I have a fun theory based on your video (didn't read the novel so I might be wrong): Fullbring is born from a hollow attack and harnessed through attachment. But in Auren's case it seems she was sheltered to protect her from people that wanted her for her power. Assuming the basement was empty and that she knew she was being protected because of her power, could it be that she grew attached to her powers itself? This could in theory create a feedback loop or kind of a "power^2" depending on how attachment and fullbring powers relate to eachother. But it could be a combination of the part of the soul king she has + the fact that she grew attached to her power (and, given her personality, what she could do with them) that she managed to become so absurd in her abilities. And parallell to this, if "attachment" is the key concept here and she is attached to nothing, could this create the inverse and that her power manifests (in part) from others attachment to her? Kind of like a god that's only as powerful as the anount of worship they get. Given her cult of personality, it would lend more credence to her being this powerful if Xcution has 700.000 people thanks to her. This is all just speculation and/or headcanon based on this video, please don't take anything as fact!!

Aura is pretty much the Ywach and Yamamoto of Fullbringers. Both powerful leaders of their respective race. Actually this got me thinking, could full bringers be a sub variation of the quncies or at least their are actually similar to the schrift. Since Ywach is the one who provides the qunices their Schrift and is the son of the soul king and the full bringer powers almost similar to Schrift and come from the soul king, I feel like it not a stretch. The only difference between them is that the full bringers were attacked by hollows.

Now she's one of Grimmjow's girl in his Hueco Mundo Harem Kingdom. Grimm..You lucky son of a gun.

Still crossing my fingers🤞🏽 that we get a CFYOW anime adaptation post TYBW. Will give Kubo more time to continue writing the Hell Arc.

So sad to see that, just because she has no killing intent, Orihime gets forgotten as the Fullbringer with the most broken ability and the potential to be one of the strongest beings in Bleach if she was trained properly. Never forget that her ability is to REJECT EVENTS. If she's strong enough, her Santen kesshun means your attack literally doesn't exist. If she's strong enough, her Koten Zanshun means whatever it hits are ostensibly erased. In the manga at least, she has been shown to be able to bring people back from what would be fatal (see her healing Menoly in the manga. Menoly would not survive that.)

What a great take! Love your use if the manga and Bleach Brave Souls panels and visuals to help us visualise what's happening as your explaining soo pls keep using and keep up the great content! You're a gem for us Bleach fans!

The lost agent arc is my favorite because I love the fullbringers so much. Aura is definitely one of my favorite characters in bleach.

Chad's Fullbring uses his medallion, which he got from his Abuelo, to manifest his arms. Ichigo uses the Shinigami Badge he got after the Soul Society arc. The emotion invested is paramount, beyond any other factor. If Aura became attached to something after escaping, it's possible she'd manifest a unique power

It is pretty well implied in the books that basically anything no matter how slight could become what a fullbringer attaches to. Aura speculates that because her only comfort in life for years was her father's cooking she likely would have attached to food as her fullbring had he not disappeared when he did. Even then, it may still have been her attachment had the first thing she ate upon getting free not been rotten.

Her name is literally "AURA" 🗣️🔥

With the unoriginality of the 'control and shapeshift everything' I felt too when I read it, though loving the concept, I went and did an OC with the opposite mindset, as in what if you leaned into the item attachment and usage aspect of Fullbringers instead with the Soul King's Saketsu's vessel. What I came up with was a huge homage to Kamen Rider. While the character's normal fullbring was something basic, a wrist charm or pendant to turn into a bladed weapon, I then picked on the idea that Fullbringers can have multiple Fullbrings. I went a bit wacky and imagined what if a person could reach out and reveal/grab their own Soul Chain, and if it is the Soul King's Chain of Fate could it in of itself be Full-...Brought? into an item itself - the Rider belt or Driver. The idea would be it's ability would be to don the user a suit in conjunction with the bladed weapon (if anyone is a Rider fan, think Saber's belt) to form a base powered form like Ichigo in his Soul Reaper body or what have you. Lastly, there's the fact that Fullbringers can share powers with one another. I went the next step up - what if specifically the vessel of Reio's Saketsu could even use other people's prized possessions as a secondary Fullbring - but limited to creating items that could be placed in the belt to power up the suit with others' abilities. Namely the character would gain friends of the other types of characters to form their main cast (Shinigami, Quincy, and an Arrancar) to which they'd gain an item from to turn into the objects that go into the belt that could replicate or more accurately, represent, the powers of the characters in a fashion mimicking the other races, ending in an all three powered on Fullbringer final form. As for the objects themselves, I picked snow globes (no real reason than it's a random collectable around my house lol). So I imagine a Fullbringer with a bladed weapon, who then grabs out at an invisible chain, Fullbringing it into a chained belt that the sword fits in. "Henshin!" We have a Bleach Rider. Their trusted friend tosses them their treasured possession when needed - boom, it morphs into a snow globe with a unique inside in it, to fit into the belt for an upgrade form. Call em Soul Globes. My wanting to share that idea aside - All that to say Fullbringers have a lot of potential and as amazingly cool as Aura and her situation as a well written story was, yeah they kinda took the less original route there - not that my idea is oh so super special awesome just that it's interesting that they went out of their way to pick the 'can do anything' option instead of really digging into the specific abilities of Fullbringers. Though with Aura's less original deal, the Fullbringers being criminally left alone in the TYBW arc, and the fact that even with Ichigo his Fullbring got like relegated to just a sliver of leftover power attached to his Shinigami powers that don't do anything, Fullbringers really got shafted in general throughout the whole story. They don't even feel like an equal 4th race like they should they feel like an afterthought or a mistake rather than a natural being like say the Quincy, who are also a biological anomaly of humans but still treated way more like one of the main core races of Bleach. And Aura feels like another step on that route, as if no one really knows what to do with Fullbringers as the 4th core race. Her story was amazing though, agree big success. I can't wait for the Tokinada video too.

It comes to thinking that I wish TYBW arc (anime series) could be extended till the invasion of Tokinada, years of the post war. Let's be real, majority of us had already considered the lite novels as part of the canon.

i realize i often forget to like videos but i love yours and your narrations

personal theory is that aura is her own fullbring, which is why she has so much self manipulation stuff (ie her head, her blood, etc.)

Its nice to learn the lore behind Aura glad she was able to end up in Hueco Mundo with Nel and Herribel. Now i gotta say I wish I knew of her sooner. Enjoyed the vid.

lol first few minutes I'm like "why is this dude trying to hype up this character" and then when you go into her abilities I'm like "that is fucking broken wtf"

Honestly, with Hell eventually taking place, I hope we get to see the residents of Hueco Mundo appear again. They got shafted pretty hard in TYBW, so it would be nice to see them take up much more relevance in the arc everyone has been waiting for. Not to mention, it would be great to see CFYOW, SAFWY, and WDkALY animated. These side characters and lore deserve some screen time

As the saying goes "Mommy Michibane"

Aura was first 5 star I got on my original BBS account, I guess i started with her first banner release with the other two

9:00 defy even logic itself, eh? 🤔 Kubo must be pleased as punch that he beta tested that fullbring boundary-breaking with Orihime 😅

It's actually not that hard to condition someone to not form an attachment to anything. Say one day her dad wants to teach her to read. He brings a book and then when he's done teaching her, he takes the book. The next day he decides to see how much she retained but instead of bringing the book he brings her a piece of paper and pencil to see how much she can write out. Then when he's done he takes those items. The next day he comes back but with a different book. And so on. So she could never really form an attachment to a certain object because the same object was never around her for long enough. Not only that but conditioned her to never form attachments because it was going to be gone soon anyway.

Great vid. Hooefully we get an animated ln lol

I love love LOVE Aura. She’s an example of how Bleach can have genuinely interesting, in depth, and beautiful female characters without just making them a joke or eye candy. The fact that Hikone, despite her not physically birthing them, was still her child she created is also another wonderful metaphor for chosen family and adopted family. And then we continue it after she passes where she ends up in Hueco Mundo with yet again, two of my favorite characters in the series. Both of the former Espada’s are loving, caring, and protective women who look out for each other and those they’ve chosen to protect. Their aspects of death are sacrifice and lamentation as well, which is also perfect reflection of what Aura embodied in her last moments while saving her child. She sacrificed herself for Hikone and had to lament on everything she did in her sacrifice. It was a beautiful ending to her old life and a hopeful beginning to her new one. It makes me hope that one day we get more from her character. Even if it is just a brief update.

Honestly, with her ability to manipulate matter around her, it would be badass to have a pen be her Fullbringer. She'd use the pen to rewrite the world around her to manipulate the matter around her instead of it just being an iniate ability.

I was thinking that perhaps it is her attachment to herself. If we think about it, she was alone and had to depend on herself for survival. Her full bringer powers could be linked to herself to survive which includes her great imagination. This is just an observation.

I would love to see the witches and reapers meet

I would love them to animate the light novel story arcs like filler before the hell arc

i hope the Bleach anime adapts these light novels.

Great topic!

Seems quite interesting especially at the end where she meets up and stays with other arranger in Hueco Mundo, what I'm finding interesting is she seems almost like a reflection of Kazui, she's apathetic but seen overall as a good person whereas Kazui seems very curious and is described as sinister 😆

Your videos butter My biscuits thank you

Poor Hisagi, failed to save someone again, it was sad that Aura had to die, but she is happy now

What fascinates me most about the novel is that every Fullbringer has a piece of the soul king inside them.

Apparently one of the bounts was a michibane clan member

it should be said, even if she did have some objects in the basement, those objects would have to be there long enough to develop that attachment or have something else like some memory that makes her grow attached. Added to that theres also her becoming apathetic and "empty" through her time locked up, so she might not even have the emotional capacity, at least at point in time to grow attachments as she would likely just go through the motions.

Yeah the whole Soul King's Chain of Fate thing was kinda weird, I always thought it was created after the fact and was connected to Hell Hollows in some way, due to how he was manifested.

i like this story since it showed soul society can win without Ichigo, and the new enemies were strong smart and complex, it might me like Hisagi more too as a result

I hope the fullbringers at the end get more screen time and additional scenes

Hey MrTommo, I would like to ask if starrk would be stronger if he is inside the heuco mundo since hollows gets a buff, and if uqora would be weaker if he is in the world of the living. Thank you

She doesn't need an object to draw her power from, she already has Soul King's within her.

19:28 Is the thing on auras chest considered the fullbringer or the xcution symbol? Kind of reminds me of the quincy symbol except its 4 instead of 5, makes me wonder if there could be another faction with 3

Everyone when they learn about Aura's head game 🤔

It's a crime that Ginjō, Giriko, and Tsukishima had such a minuscule role in the manga version of TYBW. Hopefully the anime will rectify this.

It makes sense that her time in the basement honed her ability. Left only to the stories and her imagination to occupy her.

Whole title is misconstrued. What I’ve noticed is that these light novels not written by kubo have characters acting out of character. Shunsui not doing anything when he should have. Byakuya not doing anything when rukia is insulted. Yoruichi showing up to a noble meeting when she isnt the head of the shiouin family any longer. Its literally like someone doesnt really anything about these characters.

Something I've been wondering for a while now is whether or not Don Kanonji is a Fullbringer.

I wonder if Aura might have been tortour ed to some extent so that she would never form attachment to anything. Messed up idea but it could help explain she doesn’t have a regular fullbring of her very own

All this does is make me hope and pray for a CFYOW anime, maybe sometime after TYBW. Would be a nice thing to have between TYBW and potentially Hell Arc. Or maybe Kubo brings some of the light novel characters into the main series. Issue there is the same problem Bleach always has, too many cool characters.

I think her fullbring is freedom, cuz if you think about it if shes been sheltered it would make sense that once she had freedom to do whatever thats her power. Just being outside gives her power

9:35 a little broken huh? lol too OP

"Babe wake up; tomo just dropped more bleach"

I haven't read any of the novels but I can't shake the feeling all of these new characters: Hikone, Aura, all those byakuya-ish dudes; have a fanfic "OC do not steal" vibe to them... "the fullbringer who is stronger than the main characters but also is a part of the soul King with shinigami, hollow and quincy powers a bankai unlike any other who ate a devil fruit as a kid and controls all 5 chakra natures since birth" I'm obviously exagerating but i hope you get my point

Really wish we see the light novels adapted after the tybw

Idk if he mentions this in the vid (or if this is a common theory in the community), but could the reason that Kazui can manifest his zanpakutō and shihakusho without sort of dying (like Ichigo and Rukia had to- leaving their bodies to Kon and such) be that Kazui's powers are more Fullbring than Shinigami? But like Aura, Kazui's fullbring isn't attached to an item, but, idk, his desire to help people.

Aura had ,desire. Her desire for freedom and company let her fullbring the very fabric of the world via the soul king. Her power works the same as all other full brings with just ta different focus on a more powerful object and idea.

She's powermaxxing

Going to be honest, i dont really like the idea of fullbringers' power coming from fragments of the soul king as this would imply that their would be a limited amount of them. I still dont know how i feel about this addition to Fullbringers over all.

*Mahito would like to know her location*

Wait, so, did we ever cover which fragment of the Soul King Ichigo's carrying around with him?

Did you hear the rumors of new chapters of the hell arc

Not only the whole pluses can become Hollows thing so Chains of Fate existed back then, but considering the all of Bleach's souls sort of teeter on that part of the body it makes sense. I mean you either have the chain, the saketsu pressure point, or you're a Hollow, there is no inbetween as these three aren't three equally neutral from each other states. So it wouldn't even make sense for him not to have it just because he's a deity. Not having it means Hollow, not having the chain just means a pressure point. I mean if you didn't have that you'd just have a blank space - like the saketsu already is - but not a pressure point there. Really it doesn't make logical sense to assume he'd have to not have one just because he's a deity. If anything the soul's power coming from that point it'd make Reio lesser for not having one rather than mysterious and godlike.

I know this is a stretch, but considering she had practically nothing else, and as we see with Riruka and Chad, the attachment can be to less concrete items (Cute Things in Riruka's case) or very personal things (Chad's skin and the pride connected to it), could Aura's Fullbring connection be to her own fullbring powers? It is the reason she is able to leave, and afterwards, it is the main connection she has to her family and her past, and since her growing connection to food was halted, could an attachment to her own Fullbring have formed without her realizing?

I had Aura in bleach brave souls and she is op

If each soul bringer possesses part of the soul king, what does Ichigo have?

why did it show roka when you mentioned nelliel

Now, if Ichigo had mastered and could still use Fullbringer powers it would be great.

So she can basically do Kamui

are you excited for the new arc announcement? the jaws of hell? the seven deadly sins? exciting!!?

they must make oav out of those books

why is her face so similar to the owner of the shop that ichigo "worked" at during the fullbring arc?

My interpretation is that aura was actually attached to nothing. Like not that she wasn’t attached to anything but she was attached to the nothing.

I haven't read CFYOW. But your opinion about Aura not being able to treasure anything could be actually the opposite. In a severe isolation wouldn't you actually treasure everything, because if you have nothing you can appreciate anything no matter how small or little it is. She knows the pain of having nothing and can be taken away, so she treasures all, and in that way it makes sense that she can manipulate all.

Hold up somone explain how her ability is different from the Azishiros abilities? She manipulates souls of objects and he injects his soul with objects essentially?

21:35 but she stays the same? she doesnt change what she looks like or anything?

She itself is the definition of "aura"

her not having attachment to any item to get fullbring from said item makes no sense? Sado has fullbring from his skin, Jackie from clothes (boots). So was she kept in isolation naked with shaved hair (cause she could get fullbring from her hair) and restrained?

Wait... the fullbringers come back?

I don't like that there are too many things related to ''a body part of The Soul King'', feels like ''a fragment of the Shikon Jewel'' which is one of the reasons why I'm not very fond of Inuyasha. Pd. Nonetheless, I love your content.

Smash, next?

The worst thing about Aura is when they put her in Brave Souls just for her to be an awful unit 😞 and cursed to probably never get another