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It almost felt like throughout his time in the series, Ulquiorra had his own personal agenda by questioning Orihime and Ichigo. It's as if he wasn't satisified with his own thoughts.

Ulquiorra was able to stop main character plot armor twice.

Ulquiorra didn't feel evil to me. I think he truly embodies the aspect of emptiness.

ulqiorra the only villain in anime that killed the main hero...twice...

He got the "l don't feel so good" treatment

in opening 12, it was kinda cool when ulquiorra reaches his hand for orihime and the singer says "I wanna change" still gives me chills whenever I hear it

All this time when he was questioning Ichigo and Inoue he was actually trying to understand human emotions, and up to his death he became fully interested in it 😪 the most human he’s ever been was at his death

The end of Ulquiorra was so bittersweet. It felt he could had been a good and powerful ally for Orihime and Ichigo. Like he could finally understand what a heart is and how it is to feel a bit human. Really sad that he had to die like that. Maybe he wont fight for Ichigo's side but having him as a friend for Orihime's sake would been very helpful.

”What is a heart?”

Ulquiorra and Grimmjow was the reason I was able to stomach the bount arc when I was still young

Interesting to note that Ulquiorra's death had a massive impact on Ichigo. Captain Unohana notes that Ichigo had changed and he wants to end the war before more Soul Reapers or Hollows die.

"...Or maybe you have become more like a human" Ulquiorra: *Suprise Pikachu Face*

one thing you should definitely talk about is the theme of deceit and how lies and dishonesty constantly dooms characters in bleach. like how in turn back the pendulum aizen points out to shinji that because of his distrust of aizen he couldn't tell when aizen swapped out places with someone else. or just talk about aizen. i love how unlike every other hallow who has a actual mask on there face aizens mask is HIS LITERAL FACE in his final form. anyways that is a theme kubo puts a lot of attention to and can be seen in everyone in aizen's army

My favourite Espada and the best villian after Aizen in Bleach.

I love how in the anime, both of Ulquiorra's voices give us a different take of the character that accomplishes the same thing. In Japanese, Daisuke Namikawa has this calm, deep voice that makes his threats quite jarring. Meanwhile, in English, Tony Oliver provides a bit of a softer sounding voice that doesn't sound intimidating at first, but that kind of makes his threats quite unnerving.

It honestly hurt me quite a bit when he died. While I was watching for the first time, part of me was hoping Orihime would reject his fading away in order to give him a chance to understand what he was searching for the whole time. I knew it wasn’t going to happen, but man. He is in my top three characters throughout the entire series and so well written. Thanks for including his backstory here, as I didn’t even realise it was explained in third party content.

Ulquiorra is so well written. Subtil in design and characterisation. I always compared him to Naruto's Sabaku no Gaara, where Gaara completely cut himself from the world, Ulquiorra whanderd. And his beautiful end makes him one on the most fond memories I have with Bleach. Really cool take on the chatacter, man. I would like to see you cover the Mala Suerte fight. It's not that essential of a fight, but it'a my favorite fight in the Bleach manga. I needs some love :p

I wish he didn’t die tbh. Same with Stark. I feel like Ulquiorra while maybe not an ally could have been a great side character to be brought back throughout the series if nothing else to see his change of “heart.”

"I am the fourth strongest espada" Ulquiorra lied as naturally as he breathed.

Alot of people think that Ulquiorra had feelings for Orihime thats why when he was fighting ichigo in jueco mundo he says Orihime is already 1 of them and he acts like he wants to keep her for himself. Also Orihime reaches out to him twice when he fades away into ash. And then Ichigo mentions how Orihime seemed more affected by Ulqiuorras death then Yammy did. I dont know how true it is but there definitely has been quite a bit of evidence presented on the subject including poems from both characters in different manga issues like the 1 you presented in thus video The Lust. It supposedly shows his lust and interest for Orihime because her helping him understand the heart gave his life meaning, and made him curious to learn more about human concepts. That might be an interesting subject if it is better analyzed and proved or disproved.

Uliquiorra was the opposite to life itself, he was the perfect hollow.

That's so weird I literally just finished Grimmjow's analysis cause it was randomly recommended to me, and was disappointed that I couldn't find an ulquiorra one, BUT HERE IT IS

A TRUE nihilist. My favorite espada, and definetely a great bleach character Hope you cover coyote stark next

of all the things that tried to kill Ichigo, I think Ulquiorra was the only one that did it, twice... One of my favorite character, and the most memorable one.

for me ulquiorra death is the best and poetic death in anime because "just when ulquiorra finally understand what a heart is he died"

Aizen's ideals and motivation throughout the arrancar arc and desire to transcend his limits though fear.

I honestly want Kubo to make a show with Ulquiorra as the main character. Like what if, after Ulquiorra faded away into ashes, something causes him to be born again? I find it unfair for Ulquiorra that Kubo decided to kill him off just as we were seeing a new layer of who he was underneath the thick layers of nihilism that forged his way of life. We knew he had some sort of feelings when the people he wanted to find companionship in rejected him. His eyes showed deep sadness upon being denied, in a way, friendship. He was lonely and stuck in an existence that he found no value in, he couldn't interact with anyone, he didn't look like everyone else, and he couldn't do anything anyone else could do such as talk, eat(which explains why he's so lean), smell, laugh, smile, hear(probably), interact, etc. Its like he was made to be isolated. Of course he'll find no meaning nor value in his hollowed existence. It's depressing and lonely, especially when the only connection you have with the outside world is your eyes. Which explains why there's no other color on him except his eyes. But think about it. He has no meaning/value/companionship in his hollowed existence, he's created(physically and literally) to be isolated rather he wanted that or not, challenges those who find meaning and value through the heart, finds the heart and value in it, and then dies before he can explore the heart he just discovered. Turning him back into isolated nothingness that his hollowed existence started out as. To make a long story short, his existence... is cruel. It's torment in the form of hollowed life. It's so bad that the only solace he found was in the form of a white (just like him), empty (just like him), isolated (just like him), meaningless and valueless (just like he views himself and everyone/everything around him) tree/bush thing that he submerged himself into just to alleviate the pain of his hollow life. I guess, in a way, he found companionship in something that was just like himself. It kinda makes me wonder what his human life was like before becoming hollow and what his role would be if Kubo brung him back to life.

The only disappointing thing about Ulquiorra is that we didn't get to see more of his Ressurreción Murciélago.

love the video. you're one of the few people who actually pay attention and don't mindlessly trash bleach. i appreciate and respect it and you so much for it as bleach will always hold a special place in my heart. no matter what you do i am here for it! just don't stop being you. stay blessed and i look forward to more videos.

Ulquiorra and Stark. The lonely bois of hueco mundo

Something that's also interesting about Ulquiorra is that he seems to be an anomaly hollow-wise. He's a Vasto-Lorde and it's been shown (albeit mostly filler only) that you still need to consume souls to keep your power set. However, Ulquiorra's Hollow Form made it so he has no hunger as well as no possibility of eating/consuming souls, which correlates to his questioning of the Heart since he couldn't consume a similar concept, souls. Also the obvious Segunda Etapa that gives him a demonic look akin to a Lucifer imagery but also is an inversion of colors for Ulquiorra : He turns into a darker form at the end of his life, when he finally understands the heart and emotions, while his nihilistic views were represented by his pure white color scheme.

They kill him off because they know he would take ichigo's girl 😅 and it's true

He basically exists in perpetual state of only being partially present. His sensory deprivation has turned his body into a prison and has made him a removed viewer of his surroundings, rather than an actual participant

Ulquiorra is the most likeable edgelord I've seen thos far in manga or anime! Of All Time? Now that's a stretch.

I’ve always loved that Saiyan Saga callback they did

"In the palm of my hand, was a heart." I cried so hard at that moment.

Ulquiorra is scary. And yet...learning human feelings to talk to Orihime a lot. I wonder if he was falling for her in the end?

Ulquiorra is one of the best written antagonist's of all time.

Ulquiorra became arranca by himself when he merged with the white tree. He and Stark are the only two that became arranca without the help of Aiken.

Ulquiorra was BY FAR the best and strongest Espada.

Wow I never realized the true strength behind Ulquiorria's words... He literally knew nothing...

Ulquiorra is literally the best written character in all of Bleach! He's the only character I actually cared for and felt something for. I also relate to him allot. 💀 Amazing video!

I love how his espada number marking is on the area that, if he were human, would be over his heart. Just one more layer to hammer home his theme of trying to understand what a heart is

Ulqiorra's search for understanding and his final line of "in your hands there isn't a sword. It's a heart" is one of the best and most chilling parts of bleach.

What always gets me is no one ever seems to mention is that line by Kaien, it may have been in a filler arc but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t. Kainen asked Rukia where she thought the heart was, to which she replied her chest. Kiaen claims to believe it is in his hand because ‘Every time you and I interact...a bit of "heart" is born between us. Heart isn't something inside you. But whenever you think, whenever you remember someone, that's when heart is born. I mean, if you were the only one alive in the whole world, heart wouldn't exist, now would it?’ This line always seems to add way more meaning to Ulquiorra’s last scene and why he believes his hear is right in his hand, even the visual of them reaching for each other’s hands. It just fits so well.

Ulquiorra was my favorite Espada just due to the fact that his character had more depth than most of the other Espada. I just loved how he himself persisted in delusion, just to come to terms with the truth in the end. He firmly believed that everything was pointless, but in the end he somehow found meaning in someone who had a conflicting perspective compared to his.

Best Espada, great character and had good development too. I always thought that the reason he died was because he accepted his heart which was contrary to his aspect of death and the way he lived so that essentially caused him not to regenerate and to fade away. By accepting his humanity, he rejected his hollow existence and then moved on. Obviously, Ichigo and the damage he dealt him played a part as well.

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once more, i find my self grieving for Ulquiorra. you woken up that sadness i felt for him and how much i loved the character. Great video

In Japanese culture the number 4 is bad luck, and associated with death. This makes me wonder if he was the strongest.

Ulquiorra is awesome, adorable, and fierce. Everything an espada needs to be.

I always thought a fight between Ulquiorra and Byakuya would be interesting

People always complain that the saving rukia arc essentially was rmade into the hueco mundo arc. But honestly, even if it were true who cares ? We got introduced to some of the greatest bleach characters in this arc.

There was so much mention of the “heart” that I was starting to think this was a Kingdom Hearts review.

I hope he is reborn as a smiling child who finally found what he could not have. “Meaning”

Ulquiorra is my favorite arrancar amongst them all and you did an amazing job going through and explaining hom

I'm surprised you didn't know about Ulquiorra's backstory in Unmasked until this video, hope you enjoyed it. Maybe there's other "side" Bleach stuff you don't know about yet? Ichigo and Ulquiorra was a coming battle with each gradually coming closer and closer to the qualities the other had until they not only bridge the gap but trade places for a time, which is ironic as it was Aizen's goal making the Espada and messing with the Hogyoku to break down or perhaps unify what separates Hollow and Shinigami/Man. If I didn't feel it would break the theme that's now on a roll of Bleach I would think of something outside of it to request for 10k Subs but I like the "flow" most of my requests generally follow a chronological order too...Maybe an analysis (of potential defence) of the Filler Arcs? If not a brief runthrough of all either the Zanpakuto Spirit or Reigei Arc, maybe a character analysis of Muramasa or Nozomi? Delving into the signifigance of Ichigo's (and maybe others even though there's only like 2) Inner Worlds and the symbolism found within? All decent ideas...maybe drawings of your portrayal of other's Inner Worlds?

I found it interesting that Grimmjow and Ulquiorra impale their victims through places where their own holes are. I noticed that it was a trend among Arrancars though I don't know if it has a deeper meaning....Grimmjows hole was through his stomach right? doesn't that mean he has an unquenchable hunger?

Your analysis was really great ! You’re one of the only youtubers I can listen for more than 25 minutes without being bored. By the way, I would like to add something about your analysis. Tite Kubo really cares about Ulquiorra’s design. I think it’s why he represents Ulquiorra with those marks coming from his eyes and going down until his chin which are really similar to tears. Those “tears” represents Ulquiorra’s sadness for not understanding the meaning of his existence. If you notice well, every time Ulquiorra released a new form, his “tears” became larger and larger as to emphasise this sadness. However before disappearing and after understanding heart’s true meaning, he came back to his normal form, the one with the lightest “tears” as to express that his sadness decreased.

Him and Starrk were my favorite Espada's. They had more depth then the other Espada's and the Sternritters.

In my opinion Ulquiorra embodies the individuals who are accomplished in life and competent in their area of practice yet suffering from a stem of lack of meaning and fulfillment in their lives.Such people often observe the people around them and wonder what metaphysical experiences life gave them but denies them. It is not that ulquiorra cannot feel emotion,it is that he does not understand them. This is quite frustrating and he copes by simply brushing them aside,while it makes him very objective and trustworthy in tasks it leaves the world colorless and he desires to strive to live up to something. Notice how he projects this frustration when beating up ichigo,he wonders how he can have the will to keep clinging to his sword as if he believes he can beat him,he is angry because ichigo strives for something while he is simply mechanical as a robot. Orihime was simply a pure embodiment of feelings,beliefs and emotions to Ulquiorra thus he harassed her to see if it was simply a delusion or something real to which orihime proves him wrong.She makes Ulquiorra desire such a feeling. Ulquiorra is a nihilist,but his nihilism is well challenged to which he gladly accepts as shown in his end.that was his turning point. A well written character indeed.

I've seen 3 or 4 character analyses of Ulquiorra Cifer, and you certainly stood out from the rest. Top tier

Damn that ulequiora backstory is heartbreaking 😥

I see parallels between Ulquiorra and Blackwargreymon when it comes to the heart, both had empty origins and when they died, they understood what the heart meant in their own way, truly amazing and well written characters.

Did you say absolute goat?!

I just recently got into bleach and ulquiorra has already become one of my favourite antagonists The amounts of detail to his character are insane , and the thing is that after learning about his story and morals you can actually understand his perspective even though it’s a flawed one (kind of reminds me of light yagami from death note)

I think the characters I am most interested in hearing your analysis of are Aizen Sosuke, Eren Jeager, Reiner Braun, Meruem, and Greed. All of these characters I believed had very well written character arcs.

Ah Ulquiorra you will always be my favorite bleach character and one of my all time favorite anime characters in general 🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤

What's most interesting to me is that, as any author or creator can attest, no matter what you do you always end up with favorites within your creations and thus put more effort into them than other aspects of that work. Ulquiorra seems clearly to me to be one of Tite's favorite characters there's just so much extra effort in both his designs throughout the manga and anime as well as the utmost effort in his backstory and philosophical backstory. He's written and developed beautifully and the VAs definitely did him justice in both english dub and the original japanese. Definitely hate that people type fast ulquiorra as "the edgelord" character as it's not befitting of him at all.

I feel like it's only ulquiorra, harribel and stark that actually respected and followed Aizen because he gave them a clear meaning /purpose..

Man I love the way you analyze characters. I love your content and I hope the channel keeps growing.

If ulquiorra didn't have a mouth before becoming an arrancar and never hungered the way most hollows do does that mean he didn't actually eat souls. I mean I know eating souls is kind of the typical way for hollows to get stronger but presumably they could maybe grow naturally the way soul reapers do. If it's true it could be a good explanation for why he was able to use the second release form.

And in the palm of my hand...is a heart

This video was so much better than I was expecting and my expectations were high after your analysis on Grimmjow. I just have to praise you for going into such depth on one of my favorite bleach character arcs.

Other enemy boss : *sent 2 weakest members in the beginning of an arc. Aizen : *sent 2 strongest espada (Yammy a.k.a Espada 0 and Ulquiorra with his 2nd ressurecction that has no number)

Still my favorite Villain in the story, especially with the power display when he took Ichigo to break through the canopy of Los Noches. "Under Lord Aizen's orders Two Things are forebidden below the canopy of Los Noches. The first is Grand re Cero which exists only for Espada, and the second is the sword release of Espadas with the rank of 4 or higher.....they are both so powerful that if released they would threaten to destroy Los Noches itself.........(ready's sword)........Imprision-murcielago (enter the black rain)". One of the best villains made to impose despair on any protagonist, both the way he talked and was the opposition to Ichigo's motive.

He kinda reminds me of Black Wargreymon from digimon and his story arc.

to undestand a heart.. it cost him everthing, even his life.

Most people probably don't realize that Ulquiorra shows many traits of being a schizoid (possibly not even Kubo knew this). Schizoid characters seem even rarer than schizoids themselves so it makes him memorable.

And people say bleach has no character development and writing....

Loving these character analysis’ bro. Great stuff keep up the good work. Since watching this one I can’t stop thinking about Ulquiorra’s death 😭😭😭

Love this video man. Ulquiorra is all time favorite bleach character and this video does him justice. RIP cuatro espada

"I see, right here in the palm of my hand... is a heart"

This video helped me so much to understand one of my favorite characters. There were some things I was spot on but I hated missing so many puzzle pieces. Thank you!

Inoue is the reason why he become a good person🥺❤️

Love your breakdowns man. Good to know there are people out there doing these in depth breakdowns of manga characters. You earned a subscriber.

I respect how much work, you put in these videos. They teach me a lot about the series and characters.

Can you imagine fighting a guy who is so strong you think he's the leader, and just to rub it in your face he's like "Nah...4th"

Death Note, about how it's law, society and death beliefs inside of it. thank you for reviewing Ulquiorra Cifer, The Heart. two words is emotions and meaningful.

Love your videos man. Looking forward to the Hollow Ichigo Video. As for character suggestions for future videos: I’d like to see a video on Mayuri Kurotsuchi. He’s my favorite captain and the TYBW gives him a lot of development.

Forgot to mention that Ulquiorra is actually the strongest of the Espada with his Segunda Etapa and said their was 3 others stronger than him to lower Ichigo's moral

I never thought Bleach would be this deep. I honestly hope you do more of this for this anime

Oh, wow. This is put so nicely together. Thank you for this work done, it is beyond impressive.

If Zangetsu hadn't taken over and Hollowied Ichigo's body, Ulquiorra would still be kicking.. and probably would've helped out Ichigo and company for the greater good of the world. I wonder how he would interact with everyone, especially Ichigo and Aizen in particular.

Another amazing video, keep up the great work!

Even his name "El que llora" means "he who cries", his markings look like tears.. which is ironic due to him having no emotions...I feel at the end, he did..at least somewhat

You just keep knocking em out the park great video man

I want to congratulate you for approaching 10k subscribers. Your way of describing characters is precise as well as poetic. I have been an avid followet of your content from the beginning. Well, for the 10k specials I would like if you did one of the three characters: As Nodt, Stark or Kyoraku Shunsui even if he is on the good side. Keep up the good work!

Amazing. Love your analysis videos. Can't wait for when you tackle Aizen Sama Kun Senpai