What did you think of Auswählen? Would you have changed how it worked? Let me know! Also I wholeheartedly apologise for any terrible pronunciation...

Bazz-B: Well...I lost my Holy Form but can still use my Script Jugram: Ugh...I'm dying of a heart attack. Bazz-B: Huh...freaky. How about you Robert Accutrone? Robert: *LITERAL SKELETON WITH HIS FLESH GONE*

Yhwach: Yes, I fought the original 13 captains of Soul Society. Soldier: Wow, that’s awesome, will you go into greater detail? Yhwach: No, that would be a grievous use of my time.

With Gerald it made the most sense to me? Because his power was literally holding him together, so him losing it kills him. Same probably would've happened to Lille. Robert's power, whatever it was, probably also kept him alive, hence his death. Giselle didn't get hit but she probably also would've died considering how much the Zombie effected her.

As a german, it's pretty funny to hear your pronounciation of the Quincy abilities :D

I do think Gerard might have disintegrated because he has died so many times, and it was his powers that kept bringing him back. When the powers were stripped away, I could see him dying right out

the impression I got from Gerard and Robert was that their powers likely had something to do with manipulating their physical form whether augmenting physical abilities or appearance and when it was stripped from them, their forms being augmented at the moment of taking were also stripped from them. But idk it was never really clear what Robert's gifted abilities were.

On a side note, I wish Yuha would have acknowledged Ryuken. And it’s a pity Uryu didn’t get to show off more of his newly acquired powers.

Holy selection seems consistent to me when you consider three factors: 1) How much the quincy in question relied on Yhwach's power compared to their own power - those who had no power of their own (or had soul king's power, thus having only quincy power) were instantly killed; 2) The character of quincy in question - those who were absolutely loyal to Yhwach were killed instantly, those were rebellious survived; 3) How worthy the selected quincy were - those who Yhwach saw as trash were kept alive for a while. Every quincy who were hit by holy selection falls within one or more of these points. It was mostly a matter of how quincy in question was willing to give their powers away versus how willing they were to rebel against Yhwach (during tybw event itself).

i think the reason it affected them differently is because the more power he gives you the heavier the price they'll pay just like the strongest sternritter died and the weakest ones survived.

I really like how kubo used so many different cultures and languages As someone who's German with a family with English backgrounds it was quite cool reading bleach And I really like how the Spanish is incorporated as well The most difficulty I had was pronouncing Yhwach's Name (to this day I dunno what the correct pronunciation is)

Kubo really wrote himself into a corner with Gerard lol. Without Ywach's intervention, I can't see how anyone could've stopped him besides maybe Toshiro just perma freezing him instead of killing him.

Ywach is literally Jesus mixed with stalin Hitler and anime

This ability was the one that Truly made me go "he is a true king" He has actual complete authority over his subjects, how many kings in anime have that? The only other character i know of is primate murder from the nasuverse, which has complete authority over humanity. I truly love the concept Edit: i lost the heart to make that correction lol r.i.p.

The varying results of the Auswählen are actually incredibly easy to understand. The light takes the power they were given by Yhwach and leaves them as they would be if they never had it. Accutrone was super old, to the point where without the power he'd have been long dead by old age, when the power is taken, he is left a corpse. Gerard's ability, the Miracle, literally allows him to ignore lethal damage, without that unique ability he'd have died a dozen times over from damage we saw alone. Earlier in the fight his head and body were shredded. When the power is taken, he is left a corpse. Jugram's ability, the Balance, generally involves taking heavy damage which is then balanced out. When the power is taken he is left on death's door, as he would've been without it. Other characters, like Bazz-B, likely cultivated much more of their power themselves, perhaps some of them were even given schrift befitting their abilities and enhancing them, rather than gaining those abilities outright from the schrift, which isn't really possible with weird conceptual powers like Miracle or Balance. When their power was taken, only the parts they would never have had without Yhwach, things like the volstandig, were lost.

So happy I found a channel that's all about Bleach! I've recently read all of the TYBW arc and it's good to have someone explain the characters and their abilities in great detail!

All these years I've never really thought about it but now I just realized... All for One is basically the Auswahlen isn't it?

Thank you MR Tommo.. keeping that Bleach alive after so many years.. keep up the good work!! Love your channel..

Thanks I was waiting on this for a while, I didn't really get what he could do.

Thank you! I've always wanted a video like this

Well I've never been this early, thanks for your videos man, always well thought out and easy to listen to.

Bro your channel is lit, I finished the manga a year or 2 ago and I never fully understood alot of the powers and concepts. You've made all of that clear as fuck so, respect for that fam 💯

I hope this inconsistency’s will be fixed when the tybw anime got released.

Love the video! Cant wait for Yhwach analysis! Personally I always understood Gerard dying to the Auswählen while others didn't was simply because he has already died countless times and the only reason he was still alive is because of the power given to him by Yhwach. With the powers stripped from him he dies.

Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. :) Jsi borec. Mám moc rád tvoji tvorbu

I wish more people would analyze bleach instead of just hating on it for views. You have a fantastic channel here!

Great video, keep up the good work!!!

I was wondering will you please make a video summarising the plot of the TYBW arc? No other bleach youtubers have done it, but everyone has talked up until the end of the Aizen arc to death. Not many people speak on post anime bleach. Your video have really good quality and structure so youre one of the only ones who could do it justice

I always thought of it in terms of interest payment. The older the quincies were, the more power and life they borrowed over time and they had to pay back more. That's why the young ones even kept some power. The light beam explanation didn't make sense to me so I thought it was a misunderstanding on their part. Feels like a stretch though. What always bothered me more was Ichigo not getting his Quincy power stolen. It supposedly kept the rest of his powers in check even during his inception so if removed it could have allowed for a more dramatized, intense an interesting power growth than the zampakuto reforging business. Like the actual growth Aizen was looking for. A shame it didn't go that way.

I think there is a concept of equivalent exchange with Holy Selection. Yhwach can only take how much he has provided to the Quincy ,that is the Quincy who were not depended on the power given by Yhwach they get there power stolen and the one who's existence is dependent on Yhwach power they get there life stolen. (But I also think Yhwach is a part of soul king himself , maybe he is the brain of Soul King 👑 manifesting with a will of his own.) TYBW ANIME REALLY NEED TO EXPLAIN THE HOLY SELECTION PROPERLY.

I've become a huge fan of you lately. I think it would be nice if you review Bleach Fan Art from your fans. Or Original Artwork inspired by Bleach. It would be good video content to slip in between your major uploads.

Interesting, Yhwach finally used the technique but only after all of his remaining Elites were beaten and he was about to be defeated himself, so it makes Yhwach look far less ruthless and makes it clear this time around it's more of a desperation last resort technique.

Damn kinda wanted another 30+ min video, love bleach content

Thank you for the lore videoes. I read the series but there are things I have a hard time understanding at times.

Yei I have pressed the 1000 like. Grats!

I think it was used at the end to kill fellow Quincy that were written into a hole and too hard to kill

Hey, Tommo, don't know if you had talked about it but there's one thing about the sternritters that's been bothering me since the arc and it's that outside of Bazz B, Jugram and maybe As Nodt and Roid brothers we don't know anything about their past or how they joined the quincy army. Wich is weird because looking back at all the previous antagonists we know all the backgrounds and motivations of all the shinigami, we know the backstories of all the espada (at least most of them) and how and why they joined aizen, even the Fullbringers get some background

The idea that Yhwach died because of a silver arrow is something poetic. Because it was formed literally from the hearts of people whose lives he stole. In comparison, Jesus died for the sins of mankind. He healed the physically and spiritually sick and poor. Yhwach on the other hand was used by people to heal themselves, but in turn bound their souls to Yhwach. Jesus knew from the beginning that Judas would betray him for silver coins, but he made him his disciple anyway, because without him, the crucifixion, and in turn, mankind's salvation wouldn't happen. Yhwach knew that Uryu would betray him, and ordered his men to keep a close eye on him. Both Jesus and Yhwach are sons of Gods. Though in Bleach's context, it means being sacrificed in a role to prevent worlds from collapsing. Eerily similar to when pagan tribes force people to become deities, to appease calamities. Both Yhwach and Jesus wanted a paradise, where life is eternal. Both were prophesied to come back, and some would say that it would usher the Apocalypse. Ichigo is the ultimate hybrid of Bleach. Aizen has been dubbed by many as the Lucifer of Bleach. And Uryu, to me, is the Judas of Yhwach's own making. All three of them teamed up to defeat the son of a god, and prevented the end of worlds.

I think a big factor in how they are effected could be how much they fight it or not. I think the ones stripped down to the bone completely gave over literally everything they had whereas the other resisted even if it was subconsciously.

Nice vid

One thing I still don't understand is why the Auswählen (which targeted all the Gemischt Quincy) was used on Masaki who was a Echt Quincy. I've heard people say it was because Masaki became infected with the hollow "White", making her a Gemischt Quincy. However, "White" was passed down to Ichigo which means that the hollow was no longer inside Masaki at that point. Even the link that was placed on Isshin originally to stabilize Masaki's soul from being destroyed by "white" was transferred from her to Ichigo. So wouldn't this mean that Yhwach used the Auswählen on Masaki on purpose despite knowing that she actually was still a echt Quincy?

I would have loved to see more backstory behind the Soul Society (more places outside the sereitei) and quincies (the towns they show when bazz is young, is it the world of the living or the soul society?) i think more backstory could help smooth over inconsistencies by providing more lore and allowing things that aren’t quite connected be connected

That's what adds to Ywach's lethally terrifying mystique. We know he's a god like being who is fully capable and willing to wipe out everything and everyone to get what he wants, transcending the concepts of good/evil in his narrow and twisted mind. He's neither here nor there in his overall state, he is known yet still an enigma.

"Everytime you go away you take a piece of me with you." "Take it! Take another little piece of my heart now, baby"

MrTommo, i know you like TYBW Arc very much (so do I), but would you like to make a few videos about Soul Society arc, or maybe even something that happened before ?

You should do a visards vs fullbringers what if battle scenario. That would be a real intresting video

Hi Tomo! :D

I really like that part kubo to be able to deliver complex story with well bended hax. I guess he had to leave some big loose because of rush. Hope we will get explanation through CFYOW

Maybe the affect of Auswahlen on the various Sternritter correlated to how much power he gifted them. So for instance it completely stripped Valkyrie to the bone because he was gifted a lot more power, whereas the Bas-B etc already had power of their own they were just boosted.

Maybe NaNaNa and Bazz B either moved away before the still silver could form or somehow used their schrifts(fire and weakness detection) to stop the silver from forming. While Haschwalth simply accepted it. Also Candice and Meninas where nowhere to be seen, so we can assume that the Auswählen heart clot got them, after Robert died, Shunsui saw from high ground exactly six lights( Bazz, Nanana, Giselle, Liltotto, Meninas and Candice) in ch 604.

I always felt the effects were based on how much of His power the victim was using, in addition to whether or not they were struck by the light. Robert died because he was old and by that point, was only kept alive by His power. Gerard was already well beyond his limits when the light struck him, his entire physical embodiment was purely due to His power. Anyone who survived being struck was not using Volstandig, anyone who was and was hit died immediately. Hashwald had grown accustomed to the power and, while not actively employing it in the moment, I think being exposured to it as closely as he was results in his death when it is gone, like a fractured vessel holding itself together as long as it is full, but crumbling as soon as it is emptied.

God damn this story is amazing I cannot wait for the anime. Everyday I think about bleach and the lore. I live for this shit fr

"calls them his children and then betrays them in a blink of an eye for their powers." Ah, so I see you've met my mother.

In my opinion the better explanation for auswahlen ability is that its more of a give and take. For example, anyone who wanted to live longer while on death bed got his wish granted by Yuha till the time he deemed it necessary, once Auswahlen is activated, that person would have everything stripped from their body as would have been the natural course of things had Yuha not intervened. Similary, anyone who wished for more power would get it from Yuha and once Auswahlen is activated they lose any additional power they obtained from Yuha without killing them

I wondered the same thing, but the show said those who given power by Yawbach when they die it'll go back to Yawbach, so I just assumed those that were given a larger portion of his soul had more taken away. So full blooded (because of family ties I'm assuming) or those given more power like his elite guards died. If given ability to walk, you lose all the power you gained in those legs. Like doing nothing but leg day for years and he takes it away.

Hey did you ever think about how Gerald Valkyrie would actually get defeated or killed?? I’m would love to know as to how that would happen. Also who could defeat him? Possible video topic. He was never actually defeated but just Auswahlened. Also awesome channel of course. Reawakened my Bleach fix.

I think the theory is whoever was given more of Yhwach's power who be ripped by the bone and who was given little could resist having one's powers ripped out of them and likely survive... well depending. I think it also depends on Ywhach "merciful" nature who will live or die as well... but that's stretching it.

I'll give Kubo the benefit of the doubt, I think he made the Auswahlen inconsistent on purpose, at the end of the day the Quincys were still human and all human beings are different on a physical level, with that being said I'm sure not all the quincies were same as each other on a physical or spiritual standpoint.

I wanted to see him used Yamamoto’s bankai. I’d be cool to see Ichigo fight that bankai. 🔥🔥🔥

I thought about the reason why yhwach used the auswahlen on haschwalth and Gerard as well as on ichigo when he took his powers. Maybe it was because, if yh uses auswahlen and takes back the powers he gave, he actually gains even more power bc of the experiences everyone had and the fact that they 'grow' over the time the series went on. And now that yh is close before his goal and thought that Gerard as well as haschwalth and ichigo gained enough power and experience, he chose that it was time to take all that in, in order to have enough power to basically eradicate the concept of death in his new old world, in which all the universes in bleach are one (hueco Mundo, soul society, human world etc). That may also be the reason why he would play with his son ichigo a Lil before actually goin or finishing ichigo up faster as he could.

Would love a Vollstandig video

Amazing yt account🤝

My take on the reason why some died immediately and some didn't was due to the amount of power he had given the Quincy. I'd imagine he gave Gerrard a ton of power

Perhaps the ones who where stripped to the bone should have been long dead but their powers where keeping them alive

Well we know that Gerard had already been killed and was only able to keep going because of his abilities, so perhaps he turned to bones because without his powers he would have been dead, perhaps Robert was in the same position (we never really saw what his schrift was). Hashwalf had just been beaten by Uryu and only turned the fight around thanks to his shrift, so now without his powers he was back to being beaten but not yet dead.

If Yhwach is reaching out for their power, it's likely that those who have more power, or powers he likes more, he would "pull" harder, damaging and killing them more harshly. That could be why some of the smaller Quincies, who may have been considered less important or less interesting to Yhwach get less damage done to them.

It is a possibility that Juha can take all or as much as he pleases of the power in question. Maybe those that were completely destroyed were considered more dangerous if left alive. Possibly, Juha just takes what is necessary. Or maybe those that were most powerful were literally being held together by their power and suddenly having it stripped is what did them in. Who knows.

Could be to do with Loyalty... Those who fully loved and worshiped gave everything back when called (to the bone). Those who actively followed their interests managed to hold onto what is their (bosted) powers.

I keep saying this, Kubo wrote as the story moved not thinking about details really. This week he did not know what the next week will bring, he would just have had to figure things out as the time was to write a new chapter.

Funny tit bit: Auswählen literally means „to chose“ or „to select“, which I found interesting as Yhwatch has chosen who to kill. I like it. But as a native German, I have to add: it’s pronounced „aus-waelen“, not „ausch-walen“. 😜 great overview of the ability!

@mrtommo2304 love your channel. Randomly found it today. The reason some survive has probably to do to the amount of loyalty to their leadership versus people who were only there to gain power.

A note on bazz b. If im remembering correctly hachwalth had a similar ability to gift power and was doing so to bazz b as a child so theoretically the power bazz was using originally came from hachwalth and wasnt taken by yawach.

Auswählen = Job 1:21 I came into this world naked from my mother's womb, and I'll return there: the Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord 👌🏾

Maybe it varies on how dependent on the power each character has. If they rely on it far more they are drastically effected, if they only use it a little and/or have very little of it to start (compared to the the far more powerful Quincy).

Random explanation for the differences in aushwahelen. Maybe the skin ripping/ actual life stealing thing is an at will thing. More of stealing every ounce of power a being has till the body is stripped of organic matter (woulda been cool and more in lore if they'd inspected the bones and noted marrow was gone or somrthing) and maybe in order to bring back the 4 schutzstaffel he needed to rob a couple sternritter of their lives completely in order to ressurect the ones that actually die. Gerard can't actually be killed due to the miracle. Barro looked like he got an arm chopped off but I'm not entirely sure he died and pernida kinda got stabbed through the face but we know he can just duplicate from later fights. I'm not entirely sure but from the video I believe you said 2 sternritter actually got destroyed in the process entirely. Could it be related to him having to bring back only two of the schutzstaffel as pernida and Gerard presumably survived?

If this was just his power and the almighty didn't exist, I would have loved it. The best fight was where Ibechie was taking his power and then yawach just grants it to himself

Could be proportional to the amount of borrowed power that they used (or received) as opposed to their latent talents. Gerard probably used more that a little bit of that borrowed power to reach that stature and for his age, Robert probably uses that borrowed power as naturally and subconsciously like a heartbeat. If you're only partially of Quincy descent, only that portion gets ripped out. This being a shonen series, it doesn't have to follow conventional genetics; it's more like getting the vertical threads disappearing from a knitted sweater, leaving just the horizontal.

Ah yes the thing that kills you unless it doesn't

I wonder if the degree of the severity of the Auswählen's side effects comes down to how much of his power the sternritter were leant and given to wield. It would at least make some sense of the effect on the weaker sternritter allowin them to survive where several of the most powerful were left in such severe shape.

It's probably a case of it differs depending on how much power you obtained from Yhwach versus how much power you had gained on your own and also both could coexist.. Bazz B was training super hard in the flashback manga panels.

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Great Video! If you care it is actually pronounced 'auz-way-laen'. :)

The silver arrow McGuffin is actually clever if you understand how blood works. Blood is actually a big theme of the story. It’s in the title for crying out loud😭

I know I’m a bit late but I wanna go into a theory on why Gerad’s flesh was torn off. Notice how as his flesh is ripped from his skeleton, underneath is the bone and covering it is the light (reishi) so the Auswhalen would target gerad’s flesh reasonably. Now for the other inconsistency he addresses, I would have to agree that it maybe has something to do with the age of the sternritter.

I think the reason why it does this, is due to the amount they leaned into the power given. If you think about it everyone eradicated were hardcore disciples of ywach. Where as you have people like bas Who grew against him. And even hasch too didn't seem entirely in line with ywach due to him and Bas's relationship and overall how ywach treated his underlings in general. So it would make sense that if they didn't rely on said powers as much as the others, that which is them and not the power would be stronger than those who relied primarily on said power given. Meaning more of what made them, them. Would be taken away.

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The damage dealt by the ability probably scales with how much strength yhwach gave you. Gerard's strength may have been entirely the result of his schrift, whereas the pink haired guy may not have gained as much from it.

I think it's entirely possible that the Auswählen is more subjective, because the Quincy's powers are given by parts of big boss man's (I forget how to spell his name) soul. It could be that there's some kind of emotional connection, which is why Haschwalth has that kinda touching final scene, while Bazz-B, who always gave me more of a cavalier sort of "I'm mostly just here to fight" vibe, and ostensibly doesn't have a super strong emotional connection to Yhwach, just gets kinda blasted and his powers yoinked from him. There's definitely still holes in the theory, but I think it fits okay overall

Yhwach needed "The Miracle" of Gerard Valkyrie to open the Portal you mentioned

I liked how Ryuken did it,it's like saying karma will always hit anyone who hits other's,even those who are considered deities or a level of a deity

Might be something of how mutch power you have been given like the unkilable person got a LOT of power from it so might have been the damage catching up or something like that

i think the inconsistencies in the auswählen depend on a variety of factors. one would be the physical condition of the person one would be the amount and the nature of the power that was taken one would be how much the person depends on the taken power to live. for example gerard dies because the miracle is keeping him alive, so when it is taken, he dies.

Can you do a “What if?” series? What if Rukia was never saved? What if Hichigo took over? Etc?

I think it depends on how their powers are applied. Some use the power (like Jugram) while others wear, or are their power like (like Gerard)

The power i think works on the ones who aren't fully committed, when the dude says the ones hit by the light will die meaning those who don't turely follow me will be killed and those who turely belive in the power will have less to worry about

Auswählen = Aus + wäh + len = H[ouse] + [va]mpire + Ber[lin] I think the different effects are a combination of the following things: - How devoted is a character to yhwach (more devotion = more energy stolen) - How much of the character "consists" of "power" ---> example: Gerards final form is made out of 99% "power", he is stripped to the bone. ---> example: Haschwalths body consists mostly of "human", without his power he can survive a bit. - How much power does a character need to survive (more power needed = losing it is more devastating) ---> a character that only lives because it uses power to "not die" will instantly die when stripped of the power. Most plotholes still remain but I wanted to share thoughts^^

My take is that there are two main factors: the degree to which their powers stem from Yhwach & their condition outside of their power. Take Gerard, who was on both ends of the Auswhalen - before being powered up he got one-shot, but afterwards his Miracle could revive him under seemingly any circumstances. When that power boost was removed, he couldn't survive any longer. Robert could've been subject to a similar, earlier usage of Auswhalen that saved his life, or otherwise have been kept alive by Yhwach's powers. Like the Sternritter that survived, Masaki was a pure Quincy & ostensibly awake after her powers were taken. Uryu's mom was the only mixed Quincy shown, but could be an example of the fate all the others met (besides Uryu, who resisted, and Ichigo, whose special circumstances made him either immune or not a target)

Can you do a character analysis on The captin

My head cannon for the Ashwahlen killing some Quincies to the bones and some just loosing their power is that Yhwach took what he gave them and should that be longer life of essentially infinite lives (Gerard) then he takes all that extra life and those that weren't so reliant of the power from him are the least affected.

I suppose it depends on how much he lends to you that probably dictates how much he takes back... The ones that were obliterated were likely given more.