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Tonight we are going over some bleach countdowns.
Not the chemicals, the anime.
The anime.
The manga, anime.
Yeah, not the chemical.
10 things you can do with bleach.
You can melt a body.
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But, alright, we have two sets here.
We have the top 10 worst, Bunkai, in bleach.
And we have the top 10 overalls on Pacteau, of bleach.
We'll start with the worst and...
I'll pretend I know exactly what's going on.
I'm good at that.
Sure.
Well, by the abilities, you might be able to at least tell.
You may not know the characters, but you can at least tell by the abilities.
So number 10 on the worst, we have Kensei Mugurama.
That's the little kid one with the blow with the white hair.
He does have white hair, but...
I have no idea what's happening.
That's the name of the person, the Bunkai is called Tekken Takekaze.
So he has...
He rolls off the tongue so well.
He does.
He has one of the most uninspired Bunkai of all the characters in the beloved fantasy
anime.
Whereas the most powerful Bunkais can bend time, space, freeze matter, or control everything
around them.
Kensei's rudimentary upgrade involves nothing more than a military knife turning into a
pair of knuckle blades.
That's all he gets.
I just heard he gets some hands.
I don't understand what the problem is.
He gets some hands.
That's all he needs.
I don't understand how it's not number one.
With a metal coat that covers his arms.
Oh, so he gets some real hands.
Kensei has left to defend himself with a surprisingly underwhelming and unremarkable Bunkai akin
to getting basically brass knuckles.
I'm real confused as to why this is not number one.
So he gets enhanced hands and somehow that's bad.
Worse yet, the full power of the Bunkai can only be used with sustained contact with the
enemy making it unwieldy even at the best of times.
Just keep giving him hands.
I don't understand the problem here, just keep giving him hands.
Number nine we have Ikaku Madarame and we have Ryu Hosekimaru.
Damn, these names are...
They're throwing you way the fuck off.
Ikaku is a kind of like martial artist character.
Ikakuman.
But basically he's part of one of the squads that they have.
Yeah, they have like seven or eight of them.
13.
100.
Haven't watched Bleach in so long.
He's part of the squad that doesn't have...
All of their zanpakuto don't have power.
It's all like physical abilities.
That was their whole thing for that specific squad.
So often hailed as one of the most laughable due to its feckless nature, Ikaku's Bunkai
looks cooler and far more intimidating than it is.
Despite the minuscule increase in power that it gives the character, his Bunkai have absolutely
no special abilities to speak of.
Rather, the Bunkai consists of a Dragon Crest Demon Light that sits above him, which essentially
functions as a standard Chinese monk's spade in a typical guando.
Moreover the Bunkai lacks defensive qualities and can be easily penetrated in battle, ensuring
that Ikaku takes a hell of a lot of damage each time that he uses it.
So that's the point of it.
Exactly.
That's why it falls on the list of the worst.
It makes him weaker I guess.
Wow, that's weird.
He's a handicap.
Yeah, because his original is-
He must be so fucking powerful, he needs a handicap.
He's a good fighter, yes.
But his Bunkai is-
That's weird.
Next one we have Sajin Kamamaru.
It would be like if I ate a devil fruit, right?
Yeah.
And it just gave me uncontrollable explosive diarrhea for the rest of my life.
Yeah.
And I'd be like, well, so I can't swim and I also get diarrhea all the way.
So I just, I didn't get shit.
I mean, I got shit, but I didn't get anything good.
Plus I lost the ability to swim.
So Kamamura's Kokyo Tengenmyo, which is-
You gotta work on these names, my man.
Like you know, Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, you know, Kakashi Sensei, Guy, you know, Luffy,
Zoro, these names pop.
These names on the other hand are like fucking mathematical equations that hurt my brain.
So Kamamura's Bunkai essentially turns the character into a gigantic version of himself
with black armored ropes.
Like he's his normal person, but he creates a gigantic version kind of of himself.
That's like an old warrior.
So everything that he does, it does.
Like a stand from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?
Kind of, yeah.
Accentuated his inherent supernatural abilities, clunky, cumbersome, slow and susceptible to
being hit in the same spot multiple times despite being protected.
Sajin's Bunkai lacks the awesome super powered diversity of many others.
While his Bunkai has an intimidating stature and the ability to inflict a good amount of
damage, it is not very effective in a wide area of battle essentially against the likes
of more versatile Toshiro or Yamamoto, which are characters that have extremely strong
zanpakutos.
Number seven, we have Ichigo.
Damn, this is bad, huh?
Tensei Zangetsu.
Despite being Bleach's lead soul reaper, Ichigo Kurosaki's Bunkai has some awesome
powers usurped when Yawak, which is the main villain in the Thousand Year Blood War, reversed
the upgrade with his ability, the Almighty, which cause he's like a god at that point.
So the shocking plot twist left fans reeling when Ichigo was left with a feudal Tensei
Zangetsu sword.
No powers with it though.
Moreover the true powers of the Tensei Zangetsu are unknown, leaving fans wildly underwhelmed
with the fate of the Bunkai after Yawak basically removed all of its abilities.
So he is left with basically just the sword at that point.
Of course overcoming the Setback is what makes the protagonist so heroic, so stripping Ichigo
of his Bunkai powers just so he can find a redemption arc later on is what's going to
happen.
Oh, okay.
So he...
He's even more powerful with technique, I guess?
Yeah, well it turns out that Ichigo has blood of all the styles of characters.
So what is this, Almighty and one for all?
Kinda.
That's weird.
Kinda.
So like he's got Soul Ripper blood, he's got Quincy blood, he's got Full Brinker blood.
Little bit of Mexican in there too, huh?
Yeah, probably.
It wouldn't be surprising.
Number six we have Rose with his Bunkai Kinshara Botodan.
Despite being the current captain of the third division, Rose's Bunkai powers leaves a lot
to be desired.
Essentially using music to manipulate the hearts and minds of his foes, the Bunkai consists
of a pair of large floating hands, one in which waves a baton and orchestrates a musical
instrument.
Rose conjures music to create physical illusions around his enemies, often dancing around to
cause confusion and inflict modicum amounts of damage.
Compared to the other, the more powerful captains, Rose's Bunkai is ill-equipped to take out
top challengers, essentially given its lack of defensive abilities within its own Bunkai.
So let me get this straight.
He gets multiple hands.
And instead of putting those instruments down and just giving hands out left and right,
he plays instruments with them.
Yes.
So you're telling me he's got more hands than the first guy with the brass knuckle
hands and he's not using them appropriately?
He should be dishing hands out left and right like he's Mike Tyson.
Next one we have number five, he's the blind swordsman.
Kaname tells him.
Kaname's Bunkai consists of a typical bleached katana zanpakuto and a secondary weapon that
transforms into a large black dome that can absorb energy.
While it may look like it's ominous and imposing, it is highly vulnerable to touch, meaning
anyone who physically contacts the eye.
I feel like my penis.
Is it black?
I don't know if it's darker than it should be.
I'm light skinned but this is real dark.
If you had to pick it out of a line up, you'd be like, that's not his dick.
Then he's like, that's his dick.
They come in all shapes and sizes and colors.
Basically it means that anyone who physically contacts the object's hilt will be immune
to the Bunkai's powers.
So basically it creates this gigantic area of effect basically where you have no senses.
You can't hear, you can't smell, you can't touch, you can't see, nothing.
I wonder what that would feel like.
Man, that would be disorienting.
Like pure deprivation of all your senses.
I'd probably just pass out.
It's just like being asleep.
In your dreams you still feel stuff.
I don't feel anything.
You might want to get that shit down.
That sounds like a you problem.
I think your sensor receptors need to be shut off.
That's kind of dangerous actually.
There's what do you call it, sleep paralysis?
No, I only had that once.
You know what I did, I was like, I fucking fart out of it.
It's so hard.
It took a lot of effort though, didn't it?
Hey man, ain't nothing getting on me.
So if Tosin sustains a bad injury or simply leaves the dome behind, it will inevitably
disintegrate and become ineffective.
Also for reasons never explained in the series, Tosin's Bunkai Neuro Shutdown will not work
on the death.
So nobody's explained that in the entire series.
Well, I'm sure he will eventually.
Well, he's dead so.
Well, never mind.
Number four we have Suifeng.
Sometimes referred to as Suifan.
Suifeng has an infamously weak Bunkai compared to the other Bleach Captains and Commanders
in Chief.
Essentially functioning as a missile, Suifeng Bunkai morphs her right arm into a golden
rocket launcher so huge and unwieldy that she prefers not to use it and hardly ever
does.
While the Bunkai deals decent damage, its recoil is so brutal that it is extremely difficult
to control and fire accurately.
Moreover, the kickback can kill her, making the weapon quite counterproductive.
Heavy, hard to move, and easy to spot from a mile away because it's a gigantic missile
that forms.
The Bunkai does far more harm than good for its owner.
It's not like Mike.
It's just a burden.
Number three we have Renji Abare.
Hikiyo Zabimaru.
His Bunkai was extremely useless when he first obtained it.
Simply a blade extruding from the mouth of a snake formed on his wrist.
The weapon has very few special powers to speak of.
It can crush its opponents and slash them to death, but beyond that the Bunkai appears
far more menacing than it is.
As such, Renji is often defeated at close range and is outmuscled in long range melees.
Many other Bunkais like Senbonzakura, Kageyoshi, and Hyorinmaru have much greater area of effect
skills making it difficult for Renji to defeat any one of no to other than a couple of low
ranking people with his incomplete Bunkai, which he eventually does complete it during
the Thousand Year Blood War if I remember right.
Number two we have Byakuyo Kuchiki.
Senbonzakura Kageyoshi.
Kuchiki?
Kuchiki.
Oh, not Kuchiki.
I mean...
Although it boasts a superior area of effect, Byakuyo's Bunkai is essentially the same as
the Shikai, which is the first release where it doesn't look like a normal sword anymore,
but the first time that it takes on a different appearance.
Yeah, well the effect it has.
So it's basically the same thing, just stronger in its Bunkai form.
I like that.
But it doesn't look any different.
It looks basically the same.
Super same, one and two.
Basically renders it almost entirely superfluous.
Upon dropping his sword, the Bunkai produces two thousand tiny blades that rise from the
ground and fly at enemies.
Aside from repeating the skill set of a Shikai, the Bunkai is vulnerable to a hurtless area
where enemies can explode a hole in the weapon's range of attack.
Basically when he uses his Bunkai, it forms this area of effect just slightly around him
where the blades will never come closer than that because it can't hurt its owner.
So if you can get within that little itty bitty range, you can fuck him up.
Because the blades don't reach that close.
So they'll fly everywhere around him but that little pocket.
And you can fuck him up after that.
For such an intimidating and high ranking 6th division captain, viewers would be expecting
a far stronger and more versatile Bunkai.
Yeah man, shove that shit down their throat.
We got a billion blades.
Number 1 for the worst, we have Gin Ichimaru.
With no real distinction from his Shikai, the same as Byakuya's, Gin's Bunkai is a
powerful spear or snipe that he uses to impale opponents to death.
As basic as they come, it's more about how Gin wields the weapon than the weapon's inherent
powers themselves.
The giant spear like weapon can extend up to 8 miles away, but Gin mainly uses it as
a verbal threat rather than a practical instrument.
Gin has even admitted to embellishing on the speed and force the spear possesses, meaning
it may be even weaker than it appears.
So he just lies basically.
Gin can go 8 miles?
That's pretty threatening to me.
If I'm walking around I get fucking cracked from 8 miles away.
I don't know about you, but that shit would be fucking terrifying.
Just out of nowhere it's like buckles.
I just see a shadow from the sun, right?
And I look up and a fucking spear slides me in half.
That would be bad.
Now we move on to the better, Muzanpukto's.
So this is Shikai or Bunkai, but just overall the best that there are.
Number 10 we have Sakanade from Shinji Harako.
Sakanade's special ability, Inverted World, is one of Bleach's most disorienting powers.
It inverts the perception of anyone who smells the mist released by the blade, reversing
their sense of direction and making Shinji's attacks incredibly difficult to counter.
The inversion is thorough, affecting all senses, and is so disorienting that even opponents
who are aware of the power struggle to adapt to it.
Despite its seeming lack of offensive abilities, Sakanade is incredibly potent in battle.
By disorienting his enemies, Shinji can create opens to attacks that wouldn't be there otherwise,
turning the tide in battle in his favor.
Basically it inverts all your senses.
So up is down, left is right, front is back.
I played a game like that once.
That shit was like, wow, fuck.
Just fucks you completely.
Real counterintuitive.
Yeah.
Basically, there's two weaknesses to this Shikai or Bonkai, Zanpakuto in general.
Rule one, Harako, Shinji, he cannot activate his Bonkai if he only faces one opponent.
And two, it's indiscriminate effects.
The effects of the Bonkai affect everyone in his spirit forces radius.
Range.
Meaning that he can't use it whenever a comrade is nearby.
So you gotta fight alone and fight multiple people at the same time.
It's a real handicap.
That's the weaknesses to this Zanpakuto.
Number nine, we have Sinbonzakura Kageyoshi.
The same one that was on the weakest.
It's technically on the strongest though too.
So the captivatingly strong Sinbonzakura is wielded by Byakuya Kuchiki.
Sinbonzakura, meaning a thousand cherry blossoms, mirrors its wielder's elegance and deadly
precision.
When released, the blade separates into a thousand tiny slender fragments, swirling
and dancing around the enemy in an ethereal storm of pink and silver, given the illusion
of a cherry blossom blizzard.
But don't be fooled by the displaced poetic beauty and a death sentence for anyone caught
in that swirl.
Where are they?
Just little blades?
Could just go up their ass and out their mouth.
Despite not being the most destructive in terms of raw power.
I realize that I would be a war criminal in a lot of anime.
Yes you would.
Hey man, I get the job done.
Despite being not the most destructive in terms of raw power, the versatility, precision
and wide area of effect conferred by Sinbonzakura earn it basically the spot.
Number nine.
The weaknesses.
The safety zone that I talked about previously.
There's that little area of effect around him where they don't come closer.
So if you can exploit that, he's fucked.
But other than that, it's basically just a wall of fucking spinning blades.
Yeah?
Where there itty bitty little shards that...
It's not something I would want to just walk in on.
Hell no.
It's like, well, you know.
Although one of the better scenes or whatever is whenever Ichigo first gets his Bankai in
the series, he counters every one of those blades all at once from Byakuya.
Because he just forces them all towards him, he just blocks every one of them.
That's a lot.
That's a lot of blades.
That's a fuck ton of blades.
Number eight.
We have Hyorin Maru.
Toshiro Hitsugaya.
Basically Hyorin Maru is wielded by Toshiro Hitsugaya, the young genius and the captain
of the 10th Division.
The one with the white hair?
Yeah.
I know him.
Everybody knows him though.
He was one of the cooler characters.
He was my crush.
My completely heterosexual crush.
It's like you want to be him.
I want to be in him.
No.
I just found him cool when I was younger.
When does Komadou come out?
It was a kid when it came out.
Yeah, it came out in 2000.
Oh shit.
That was 23 years ago.
I was a child.
Hyorin Maru, translating to ice ring, is the most powerful ice element Zanpakuto in the
Bleach universe.
Completely.
Even though it's wielded by a little kid.
Let me rephrase my statement.
I do not want to be in him.
Because I don't want to go to jail.
I think he's much older than that, but he looks like a kid still.
Because remember, the time moves differently in the Soul Society.
It's funny how he was just so cool, but he's just so quiet and serious.
Because I guess I was an introvert, so I just gravitated.
But I never liked Sasuke.
I fucking hated Sasuke.
That's weird, isn't it?
I liked him.
I liked Vegeta.
Here's the difference.
Hitsugaya is stoic.
Sasuke broods.
Oh, that's okay.
Yeah, I like stoism.
Stoism is much better.
I liked Vegeta too.
Yeah, stoic.
But they don't brood like...
Just crying all the time.
I'm gonna kill man with the sick.
Yeah, pretty much.
I'm gonna kill them all.
He's like, I want to be goth, but he wasn't pure goth.
He tried.
Hitsugaya is the opposite.
Because he's got that lieutenant with the big boobs.
It's funny because you got Sasuke, right?
And he's like super brooding.
And you got...
Believe it!
Quite the opposite.
Believe it!
A little fucking loud mouth.
Pretty much the loud kid that won't shut the fuck up.
In the Shikai state, Hyorin Maru allows Hitsugaya to manipulate water and ice, crafting it into
devastating attacks or solid defenses.
This includes creating massive ice dragons for attack, ice shields for defense, and even
flying by formed wings on his back.
If I hated the cold, I fucking hate the cold.
It's like a bullshit.
It's Bankai.
Daiguren Hyorin Maru takes these powers to the next level.
However, the true potential of Hyorin Maru is revealed as Hitsugaya achieves a mature
form in his Bankai after training, enhancing his abilities, and offering him almost godlike
control over ice and snow.
Damn.
Weaknesses to it though.
Time limit.
Being unable to sustain the power of his Bankai, Hitsugaya can only use it partially for a
certain amount of time.
If he goes beyond his limits, Hitsugaya receives great damage from it.
Extreme heat also.
Even if in general, Hitsugaya's Bankai can resist flames, when presented with the level
of heat generated by Yamamoto's Bankai, the former begins to melt and is rendered useless.
So if it's an overwhelmingly amount of heat, you can't stand them.
Still a lot of water though.
Yeah.
He's throwing that shit down his mouth when he drowns.
Number seven, we have Zangetsu Ichigo.
Zangetsu is the iconic Zanpakuto wielded by the protagonist Ichigo Kurosaki.
His primary power lies in the ability to focus Ichigo's spiritual energy into waves of force
known as Getsugatensho, which he can fire from the blade.
Its true power however, comes to the fore when Ichigo masters his Bankai, Tensei Zangetsu.
Zangetsu looks more elegant in this form with a sleek black katana.
It drastically boosts Ichigo's speed and reflexes while retaining his Getsugatensho's destructive
force.
Basically, instead of being a big unwieldy blade, it becomes a normal sized katana.
It basically concentrates all of its power into a normal sized katana.
Next up we have Nozorashi by Kenpachi Mizoraki.
The crazy one that Ichigo fights where he just loves to fight people with a patch on
his eye.
The red hair?
No.
That makes those whips?
No.
Those metal sword whips?
Remember that first one he fought?
The first-
Renji?
Yeah.
Like his Vegeta, his rival.
Yeah, that was Renji.
Yeah.
Like the long whip blade.
Yeah, where it extends out.
Yeah.
That was on the weakest.
He is?
That was one of the weakest.
He's the one to get the hands?
Yeah.
There you go.
He gets fucked up.
I don't hear anything weakness about hands.
Kenpachi Mizoraki is the one that fights constantly.
His blade's all fucked up in the beginning because he can't release any kind of Shikai
or any form.
He just fights with the fucking sword the way it is.
I mean, it's a sword.
Pretty much, yeah.
Still cutting people up.
It's all Iguan shit.
Yeah.
So, when he does eventually get Bankai, Nozarashi is a brute force Zanpakuto that perfectly
embodies Kenpachi's bloodthirsty and straightforward approach to combat.
This powerful blade takes the form of a massive axe-like weapon befitting Kenpachi's overwhelming
strength and battle style.
The primary ability of Nozarashi lies in its astonishing power to cut through anything.
This is not a Zanpakuto with nuanced abilities or intricate powers.
It's all about raw, unbridled strength.
Lightsaber.
Cut through everything.
Kenpachi's Bankai further amplifies his already staggering strength and ferocity.
It forms Kenpachi into a monstrous figure, increasing his physical power to such an extent
that he can bring down even the most formidable foes with a single swipe of his new Bankai.
Weaknesses.
Power overload.
By releasing more power than his body can handle, Zanpakuto's body will start breaking
down under the pressure of it.
And Berserker state.
While Zanpakuto uses his Bankai, he becomes a mindless Berserker that is unable to differentiate
between friend and foe and fights with no regards for his own well-being.
Just throw him at some enemies.
Leave.
That's basically what they do.
That's what they do.
Get out there and kill somebody.
Next one we have number five.
Benihime.
This is Kisuke Urahara, the guy that wears the hat in the anime with the green and the
white stripes.
If you see it, you know who I'm talking about.
I remember like three people.
I remember four people.
I remember five people.
I remember six people.
You just keep going.
Yeah, I just realized the dad, the girl that Ichigo first meets.
Oryhime.
Ichigo.
The big titty chick.
His rival.
The stoic kid.
That's it.
If I showed you a picture.
Oh, that guy with the glasses.
The Quincy.
No, yeah.
Seven.
Uriu.
Yeah.
Ichigo tries to suck.
Yaroichi.
Eight.
So you keep going.
You start remembering more and more and more.
Benihime.
As the former captain of the 12th Division and the founder of the Shinigami Research
Institute, Urahara's wit and versatility find their perfect mirror in the abilities
of Benihime.
Benihime can produce and manipulate crimson energy to create defensive shields, fire
destructive energy blasts, and even set energy nets, each corresponding to a unique verbal
command.
The Bonkai represents a significant upgrade in power and versatility.
It manifests as a giant female entity that can dissect and restructure anything it cuts.
This includes not only attack and defense capabilities, but also healing and enhancement
abilities, which Urahara uses in the Thousand Year Blood War because he gets fucked up,
like his eye gets messed up or something like that.
So he releases his Bonkai and it stitches up his eye completely.
Damn, an on-field medic, huh?
Yeah.
It's nice.
Weaknesses, though.
Limited range.
So Benihime only has a limited range in which it can use its powers.
If anyone were to move outside of this radius, any changes made to their body will revert
back to normal.
Oh, so it's not permanent when she heals you?
No, temporary effects is also a weakness.
Well, what the fuck, then?
What's the point?
The changes made by Benihime only seem to last as long as the Bonkai remains active.
If the Bonkai is deactivated by any means, all the changes it has made will revert.
So his eye got fucked up again after.
It's fucking useless, yeah.
But I guess if you're in battle...
I guess, but I mean, I want to be healed the whole time.
Yeah, not completely, no.
This fucking sucks.
So then he can't fight all out, like get his arm chopped off and then like, I'll just have
it healed later.
He heals a fucking limb.
If he knows that once he releases the Bonkai and there's a medic that can come and help
him once it's like over, he'll be okay.
But in battle, if he gets something chopped off, he can get it restitched and then he
fights again.
I knew why.
That's why he nerfed it for sure.
Yeah.
It'll make the guy unbeatable.
Pretty much, yeah.
So they had to kind of have a weakness for it.
Next one we have is Katen Kyokotsu.
Shun Tsu-e Kiroku.
It's the long name, I know.
This is the guy that is in the anime, but he wears the pink like overcoat.
Basically his Bonkai takes on the form of two large curved Chinese style swords and
their true strength lies in its unique power to turn children's games into reality, altering
the very rules of battle itself.
Each game has its own set of rules and effects and Shun Tsu-e can choose the game that best
suits his tactical needs in any situation.
The Bonkai takes this unpredictable combat style to a whole new level.
It creates a theater-like atmosphere and enacts a four-part act play of tragedy and despair.
Each act imposes a different condition that amplifies his opponent's damage, accumulating
in a final devastating blow that can take down even the most formidable foes.
A play?
Yeah.
It turns the entire battle into like a four-act play.
Jesus.
I'm gonna watch this whole thing, huh?
At the end you die.
Weaknesses.
Indiscriminate effects.
The effects of his Bonkai affects everyone in his spiritual pressures radius, even himself.
That is why in general he can't use it when there are comrades within his area, basically.
Next one we have one of the greatest villains of all time in anime, Sousuke Aizen with his
zanpakuto Kyoka Suigetsu.
Aizen, the former captain of the 5th Division of the Gotai 13 and later the primary antagonist
of Bleach, is much a master of manipulation as a warrior.
Fucking traitor.
A trait that reflects in his zanpakuto.
Aizen can activate his shikai, which has one of the most potent abilities in the Bleach
universe, complete hypnosis.
The ability is so thorough that the target remains under Aizen's control even after
becoming aware of the hypnosis itself.
The illusions created by Suigetsu are extremely detailed and indistinguishable from the real
thing, making it an incredibly versatile and deadly weapon in Aizen's hand.
The only known way to avoid the effects of complete hypnosis is by touching Kyoka Suigetsu's
blade before the hypnosis is activated.
A sword?
It just cut me up at that point.
Before he activates the hypnosis.
Still a sword though.
Just fucking stabbed me with it.
That's pointless.
And he knows every hato and keto that there is within that realm.
Damn.
That's why he's like an ultimate villain, basically.
Even during the Thousand Year Blood War, going back, before the Thousand Year Blood War,
Sousuke Aizen was sealed, basically.
That's how Ichigo lost his abilities and everything whenever the first series ended.
Because he beat Sousuke Aizen, he had to use all of his abilities to finally beat him.
They sealed him.
They couldn't even kill him.
All they could do was seal the motherfucker.
He was so strong that even during the Thousand Year Blood War, they released only, I think,
two or three seals so that way he could fight this god-looking dude later on.
They didn't want to release him completely.
He was still strapped to a fucking chair and still fought.
You can't get much better than that.
Number two we have Ryujin Jaka by Yamamoto.
Securing the runner-up spot on the list, we have an arguably the most powerful zanpakuto,
Ryujin Jaka, owned by the formidable Captain Commander, the bald old man in Bleach, Yamamoto.
Ryujin Jaka is essentially the embodiment of heat and fire.
The release of its shikai alone can change the Soul Society's entire climate.
Its bonkai is a deadly power-up that concentrates the intense flames of Ryujin Jaka into the
blade's edge, increasing its cutting power to the extent that anything it slashes is
eradicated from existence.
Not just burned, eradicated.
Moreover, it has additional devastating abilities like raising the dead to fight for Yamamoto
and emitting extreme heat that can incinerate things without flames.
That's so random.
I can activate volcanoes.
I can cause fire, meteorites to hit the ground.
I can raise the undead.
I can make lava rain down from the sky.
The reason being that it does that, it brings back their souls from hell.
Well, there you go.
It's anybody that he's killed, he can bring back.
The weakness, limit in time.
By his own statement, Yamamoto acknowledged that he can only use his bonkai for a short
moment and prolonged use of it will eventually destroy his opponent, Soul Society, and even
himself.
So he can't use it for very long.
This creator just made the randomness like limitations.
It's just too powerful.
I can't use it forever.
Guess what?
It's just too powerful.
I can't use that either.
Number one, Ichimonji and his owner, Ichibei Shiosube.
Taking the crown as the strongest zanpakuto in Bleach, you're presented with Ichimonji,
the extraordinary zanpakuto of Ichibei, the head of the Royal Guard.
Ichimonji's power is as unique as it is formidable.
With each swing, it releases ink that covers everything it touches.
This black ink is not only ordinary, but carries out the essence of Ichimonji's power, the
ability to control names.
When something or someone is covered in the ink, they are stripped of their name and with
it the power associated with that name.
The bonkai of Ichimonji elevates this power to another level.
Not only can it strip the names and powers away, but it can also allow Ichibei to give
new names and associated powers to the ink-covered objects.
Basically, he's the one that named everything in the universe.
What is he?
This is Soul Reaper.
He's been alive for a million years.
So he's basically the guy.
There's one person above him named the Soul King.
That's weird.
And it has more powers than him, but they sealed that Soul King away.
What'd he do?
He didn't do anything.
They sealed him away to create the universe and split it into the Soul Society, the Earth
and Hell, and then Huaco Mundo.
What did they seal him for?
Because apparently at the beginning of creation, when the Soul King was around, everything
was one.
Then you had Hollows, which are the main villains that they fight in the first part of the series.
That's all I remember is the Hollows.
Basically they were eating souls and completely removing them from reality every single time.
From the cycle.
Yes.
Basically, yes.
Because there was no cycle at that time.
It was all one world.
So they sealed away the Soul King and used his powers to split up that one world into
four.
So you have the Soul Society where all the Soul Reapers are.
You have Huaco Mundo where all the Hollows are.
Then you have Earth and then you have Hell.
And then Soul Society and Earth constantly, it's a cycle.
But why did he do something that would make him not want to split up the world or he was
just the whole world together?
Basically he controls all those kind of abilities of creation and destruction.
So since he was God basically.
I don't know.
The whole sealing away makes no sense unless he was opposed to the separation of the realms.
Well apparently he didn't fight back.
But I don't necessarily know that he wanted to be sealed.
I'm real confused.
This is the reason.
Well whatever.
I guess I have to watch it.
Like if he didn't care if they split the universe up, why did he have to put him in
the prison?
I think it was to steal his abilities to do it.
Like I don't know if he knew how to.
But he had the power to.
Hmm.
Weird.
It's been a while since I've actually looked into the main.
So you're gonna throw me in jail huh?
For what?
Well they sealed him completely.
They cut off his two arms, his legs.
Seal me in jail for what?
That's what I don't understand.
For what?
Fucking split up the whole universe.
I don't give a fuck.
Ichibei is also the evil one that wanted to turn Ichigo into the new Soul King and seal
him the same way.
So weird.
But those are the weakest and the strongest.
The weakest Banchai, the strongest Zanbukto.
Cool.
Names that Noe is never gonna remember.
I sure won't try either.
But anything else to say before we head out?
Banchai use user friendly character names.
That way they can blend very well into various different cultures.
To be fair Ichigo is normal.
That's as far as it goes it seems like.
Orihime.
Ichigo.
Uryuu.
They're getting harder the more you say them.
Rukia.
I mean look at Romance of the Three Kingdoms you had Guan Yu, Lu Bei, Xuan Xi.
Those I know because they just flowed.
These names are rough.
What about Chad?
There you go see there you go Chad.
And you go you get one guy.
He's a big motherfucker.
The dad or the other guy?
The friend.
Oh okay.
Where's Latino?
Who was the big big big titty name woman?
What was her name?
Orihime.
The one that he eventually has a kid with?
No he did hook up with her.
Motherfucker.
Not Rukia.
I didn't think they would ever get together honestly.
No I think it was Rukia and Renji.
The guy with the snake.
Oh.
What about the Quincy?
Uryuu.
Oh that's who he is?
Yeah he's a Quincy.
See I got this.
I can shoot a fucking bow and arrow out of my hand.
But after the thousand year blood war I don't think there are any Quincy's left.
That sucks.
He hyped up the Quincy's so much that they were a secret race.
They were.
And then he just fucking did whatever.
No at the very end that's where that character Yahweh comes from.
He's a Quincy?
Yeah he was the first Quincy.
Probably mad as hell.
And also the son of the soul king.
Ah I look what you did to my daddy.
And that's why his ability was called the almighty.
Cause it could create reality things.
But other than that I guess we'll head out.
Yeah.
Talk to you guys later.