#Kageroza

[f1lms4ever]

陽炎座 kagero-za [1981] dir. by seijun suzuki

#cinephile #asian film #asian movies #foreign film #japanese film #japanese movies #seijun suzuki #kageroza #1981 #experimental film #kimono #yukata #japanese culture

[johannepetereric]

Kon would be freaking out, at least internally, cuz THE SHINIGAMI ARE THE ONES WHO TRIED TO KILL HIM AND HIS PALS IN THE FUCKING FIRST PLACE, AND THEY FINALLY CAUGHT UP TO HIM!! THEY COULD ELIMINATE HIM RIGHT FUCKING THERE!!!

#tw attempted murder #kon bleach #dude has trauma #and that's barely addressed past his second episode #ep318 #izuru kira #kageroza #bleach

[bleachbleachbleach]

Today my students were working on a group project and got to talking about Naruto (the natural landing point when doing an activity about the carceral state... though HONESTLY, YEAH--)

Anyway, one of them said they always skip the filler episodes, and one of their group members shouted, NO.

NO, YOU CAN'T.

YOUR LIFE WON'T BE COMPLETE IF YOU DON'T WATCH THE EPISODE WHERE THEY USE RASENGAN TO MAKE RAMEN.

OR THE ONE WITH THE OSTRICHES!

I've never seen the Naruto anime, but man, same, kid, same. Not to gatekeep but Bleach filler is so

so

important to me, even though *we* never got any ostriches...

#no brain just bleach #the inn episode #the film festival #the kite flying #the karuta #byakuya's wakame ambassador costume #i also mean the full-on arcs #i love one inaba kageroza #renji's cell phone is arguably the most pivotal character in the entire mod soul arc

[attack-on-teen-titans]

Just finished the Mod Soul arc of Bleach.

Before any of this, I H A T E D Kon. Would skip all his episodes. Hated his arc and personality and antics. Literally could not stand him. Holy. Shit. When I say he came through, HE CAME THROUGH. The best character arc since they first found him with the gigai bit and he kept jumping off in Ichigo’s body. The epitome of “even when you think you’re absolutely powerless, you’re wrong”.

Watching Ichigo struggle was…a roller coaster. Going from losing energy to regaining a bit then being an almost full Hollow again to getting it back just for the fight was very whiplash-y. I did enjoy seeing his lizard-Hollow form again. He’s the same with or without Zangetsu - just much more hotheaded with him 😂

The whole first half when the captains started fighting the Reigai Army, I kept thinking “SLICE OFF THE BRACELETS”. Good thing they didn’t listen to me, that naughty Kageroza. I did NOT expect them to sacrifice themselves. Reigai Jushiro’s mini speech right before they die got me.

Nozomi/Kageroza/Oko Yushima - loneliness will make people do insane things. I personally have (finally) realized that Britney was right, yes, my loneliness is indeed killing me, so, I get it and I’m working on it. I’m glad it ends with Them unfusing to become friends. All the intricacies of the Reigai wanting to be the Originals and why, and Byakuya calling them out all speak to Yushima’s trauma. Aizen was lonely, Koga was lonely, Yushima was lonely…..I’m sensing a pattern here.

(what happened to Yushima’s body? What would’ve happened to their fusion if his real body died? How was he able to sustain his vegetable state for that long? Wouldn’t the body have zero spirit energy, or at least zero control of the energy?)

Good battle tactics against Raiku and later Sumitsukigasa. Amazing teamwork, punching the through line “friends do indeed make you stronger” between both the 13 CGS and Ichigo&Friends. The reveals were well paced and the animation of that last fight scene in addition to the dialogue was just….pure emotion.

This next arc is the last before the “indefinite” ending. Excited, nervous, but very intrigued by how Ichigo’s powers change next. And to learn more about Quincy powers and what all this “Soul King” business means.

#bleach #mod soul arc #nozomi kujo #kageroza inaba #oko yushima #ichigo kurosaki #kon #bayukya kuchiki #Reigai army #go mad raiku #seethe Sumitsukigasa

[sicsteph]

#bbs #bleach brave souls #nozomi kujo #ouko yushima #kageroza inaba

[metalporsiempre]

Light and Darkness, Two Souls: Chapter II

#bleach brave souls #Light and Darkness Two Souls #kageroza inaba #nozomi kujo #ichigo kurosaki

[afruza657539love]

Bleach as vines part 33

#bleach anime #nozomi kujo #kageroza inaba

[missingmayuri]

I have so many thoughts about this man and I have no regrets

I love how over time you can see the animation get better with Bleach. I think you see this most with Mayuri.

A lot of characters didn't change for the most part when the animation improved you can see clearly the more skill they out into our favourite scientist.

From a much more simple animation style back in the SS arc

To the jump to Mayuri VS Szayel where we start seeing signs of age in his face that brings more character

To the Kageroza arc where I am convinced most of the budget went into his face

Seriously they just added MORE DETAIL as time went on.

This is why you don't see Mayuri so much. His face takes up half the budget 🤣

#bleach #mayuri kurotsuchi #bleach mayuri #kurotsuchi mayuri #Yes this was a post about Mayuri wrinkles #Man looks good no matter what #no regerts

[cryinglittlepeople]

Not sure if you’re still doing hc share but I have a fun little thought that bounces in my brain that all of the characters from the bleach movies and filler arcs are actually not dead and that they’re squad zero captains (delusional) and that they get sent down to help fight the quincies in the sereitei after yhwach breaks into the soul king palace ((bounts and kokuto from the hell movie are the exception))

*they wouldn’t replace the current soul palace captains bc of how important they are to the main plot they’re more of just like the cavalry that they send if there’s a severe threat that they can’t step away from the soul king to deal with*

Rose and Kensei stay dead in this (sorry Izuru but I feel like that would make sense for his appearance in the hell one shot bc with Rose gone there’s practically nothing tying him to the SS anymore) and Nozomi + Kageroza from the reigai filler arc takes Rose’s spot ((Nozomi as captain/Kageroza as lieutenant))

It’s very unpolished and more of self indulgent brainworms than anything I just rlly liked the filler characters a lot and wish they got more development 😭😭 anyways as they say bye

HC share is 24/7 baby!!

Love the idea of izuru being like "well with my sugar daddy gone and all my 3rd div besties inside of me I got nothing left BYE"

He can now fulfill his role of being a spooky hermit in the forest.

[hozonkai1]

July 16 is Toshio Furukawa's Birthday!

#toshio furukawa #Happy Birthday! #piccolo #ataru moroboshi #taro soramame #dragon ball #dr slump #urusei yatsura #voice actors

[getsusun]

i am currently suffering over bleach plot, trying to link filler arc about reigai into my fic... the main problem are not reigai, but the beginning, as creation of mod souls. Mod-souls are canon, because we have Kon. (And also Nova, Kurodo and Ririn, because I made it so many more mod-souls were not destroyed a hundred years ago, and Urahara did not created new ones when he needed them for Bounto Arc). Also it is known that simple artificial souls were invented by previous to Urahara Captain to Twelfth Division, Kirio Hikifune, so mod-souls were the upgrade of her work. And here canon part ends and filler begins.

So, we have Oko Ushima, the head of "Spearhead" project, who, after the project was stopped, transferred his memory into empty mod-soul (how does it works? Kon is sentient, so did Oko deleted the personality of already existing mod-soul, or is the process of creating a mod-soul including separately creating of body and insertion of soul (usual plus soul? abomination from pieces of more than one soul?)?), but something went wrong and he got TWO mod-souls (where did the second body came from? was Oko's zanpakuto involved?). Apparently, one of them captured the other one, and blended with shinigami for a hundred years (while having another soul hidden under his bed, apparently). Did no one had any questions on from where Kageroza Inaba came from? Or did he just went to Shinigami Academy like a usual soul with reitsu?

But it is actually okay and even gives some reliability to plot of my fic, where zanpakuto, rejected by his shinigami, also goes to Shinigami Academy while pretending to be a shinigami. I guess Seireitei is just so chaotic that people are used to everything. Well, one of their Captains is a wolf, and another turns into a cat.

But the problem is, I a) need the project Spearhead to be incredibly cruel to mod-souls (because angst, whump and because my plot needs that), b) ...

Oh wow, while i was writing i found out that there are actually no big contradictions if i shift events a little? Well, excluding the second mod-soul created from Oko being captured by the first one. May be i'll just delete this plotline completely, and leave just Oko being the leader of the project Spearhead.

#ficwriter rambling #fanfiction is great

[yxsu]

Kagero-za, Seijun Suzuki, 1981.

#kagero-za #kageroza #kagero za #seijun suzuki #suzuki seijun #1981 #my stuff #**

[lifeofroblox21]

Anime character

Prison Pictures

#shinji hirako #gon freecss #hisoka #Byakuya #Grimmjow #rukia #yumichika ayasegawa #ikkaku madarame #hollow ichigo #ichigo #Jushiro #hunter x hunter #bleach #kageroza #anime characters

[metalporsiempre]

Light and Darkness, Two Souls: Chapter I

#bleach brave souls #ichigo kurosaki #Kageroza Inaba #genryusai shigekuni yamamoto #Light and Darkness Two Souls

[recurring-polynya]

As we all know, I am Perpetually Rewatching Bleach, and I hit the Reigai Arc a while ago, but I didn’t feel like recapping it, because recaps are a ton of work and I am Tired, but Bleach 333 might be the Bleachiest episode in all of Bleach, so I had to.

In the immortal words of Gideon the Ninth: “Things were happening too much.”

So, this is pretty deep into the arc-- all the lieutenants are in the World of the Living and all the (real) captains are in Soul Society, Nozomi has just unlocked her zanpakutou, and Reigai Zaraki and Byakuya showed up to start shit.

At the end of the last episode, all the lieutenants put their reiatsu in Nozomi’s sword (why does some variation of this happen every filler arc??) and she blew up Zaraki and Byakuya. The episode opens with Renji muttering “Did we get ‘em?” which is really how every episode should open. It looks like they successfully KO’d Zaraki, but Reigai Byakuya survived, and he proceeds to take out all the lieutenants with a single Soren Sokatsui.

This seems bad, but then, the Captain Commander shows up out of nowhere and sets Reigai Byakuya on fire. Yes. Really.

Ichigo and Rukia get Yamamoto up to date, but the best part of this scene is that Renji is just...lying there in the middle of it, like a sleepy boi.

All of sudden, more Reigai show up, and there’s a split screen reaction shot, but... it’s just of the unconscious lieutenants. Friends, I literally screamed. They made this episode just for me. We’re also going to start counting SSRS’s, because this episode has... a lot of them.

I also want to point out the Ichigo, Nozomi and Kon seem to be entirely uninjured; Rukia, Chad and Uryuu are able to get themselves up, Renji is Hanging In There, and all the other lieutenants are toast. I am pretty sure this Says Something About the Lieutenant Class.

Oh God, there is so much Peak Renij Dialogue in this episode.

At this point, Renji attempts to sit up, and falls down again.Good hustle, buddy, you tried.

Somewhere around here, my husband got up to let the dog out and he said, “pause it if anything good happens.” I had to pause it almost immediately because Reigai Ukitake and Kyouraku showed up and then this happened:

There’s like 4 minutes straight of releasing, literally everything is on fire, and after being told to stay back like 5 times, Nozomi jumps into battle and we get split screen reaction shot #2.

Nozomi attacks Kyouraku and Ichigo goes after Ukitake. Yamamoto literally grumbles “Those darn kids...” and then Unohana comes out of nowhere and casts four different binding in a row on Yamamoto while an electric bass guitar plays. I say this all the time, but this is exactly how I would fight if I were a shinigami fighting another shinigami: just bind the fuck out of them and then attack them while they’re down. This scene was incredibly gratifying to me, Unohana is the GOAT.

How’s Renji doing?

Keep working at it, you’re doing great, pal.

The true purpose of filler arcs is more fights for characters that we didn’t get to see fight enough, and this episode delivers with some excellent Kyouraku and Ukitake throw-downs. Whoops, here’s reaction shot #3:

Because his spiritual energy has been on its last legs this whole arc, Ichigo is supposed to use his powers very carefully, for example, not going to bankai or using Getsugas, except when he can’t think of anything else, which is constantly. #4.

Did I mention that Fake Ukitake and Fake Kyouraku are Very Real Husbands this episode? Because they are.

We cut back to Rukia and Renji (still prone) and Kon. Kon is Big Sad because he can’t help. I have no love for Kon, but I respect this great compliment he lays on Rukia after she punches him.

Rukia and Renji decide they gotta go help and-- and Renji is UP! The man is up!

Except that Yamamoto abruptly busts out of his wards and Rukia has to breathlessly gasp “What is this reiatsu?” as per her contract.

SHIT FAM the real Unohana is here and she’s got Dramatic Singers! Fake Unohana is literally about to pee herself and so would you if you say this coming for you:

Wards still be exploding, Obligatory Renji Protects Rukia (and Kon) Shot!

Split Screen Reaction Shot #5: Karakura Kids Edition

Then, um this happened.

AHEM.

This was my favorite SSRS in the episode because it was kinda high concept. Rukia starts talking in the left panel, but you can still see her arm moving the middle panel. Didn’t they do this in Pacific Rim, with the heads-up displays? Or maybe that was Voltron. I don’t care, I love this shit.

Anyway, when Renji picks up the dialogue, BAM, he takes over the middle.

The fireball has done nothing to the Reigai, so we get a walking-thru-flames drama shot that ends with... yet another SSRS.

They start to attack Yamamoto who is 1000% ready to throw down, but then Kageroza shows up and declares that he will be taking on the old man himself.

Ichigo gets real concerned that Kageroza will use Yamamoto’s power against him (Yamamoto is like, ‘whatever’). Nozomi volunteers to act like a decoy, and Kageroza does his villainous laugh, “you’ll never steal my spiritual pressure-- NANI??”  It turns out Nozomi already charged her sword up with the Head Captain’s spiritual pressure when Kageroza...was...checking his phone? I do not know how me missed this sneaky, sneaky maneuver:

I guess he didn’t see anything because they were behind Ichigo’s back. Sure. Fine. Whatever.

Anyway, it’s not enough, so Yamamoto attacks. That’s not enough, so Ichigo unleashes his final Getsuga (not, like, the Final Getsuga, just like, the last one he has. Very confusing naming scheme here.)

Does this count as another SSRS? It doesn’t do the BAM/BAM/BAM, so maybe Rukia/Renji/Kon have been in split screen mode this entire time, and it’s just a revisit. Whatever, I’m gonna count it. We’re up to 8.

Ichigo is now spent. He mumbles “Did I get ‘im?” and then falls out of the sky.

“I NEED RENJI TO CATCH HIM,” I scream, while my husband winces and pinches the bridge of his nose. “GET UP, RENJI!” I yell. “YOU CAN DO IT.”

He’s thinkin’ about it!

Oh, no, Ichigo, did not, in fact, “get ‘im.” Kageroza appears to have survived, which I guess justifies a SSRS #9.

Look at Renji’s face. He’s ready. He’s goin’.

And he’s off!!!! I LOVE THIS MAN.

UGH, we have to sit through Kageroza explaining how he survived the attack by absorbing Nozomi’s attack and Ichigo’s Getsuga who cares who cares who cares, get to the good stuff--

yaaaasssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Kageroza is powering up his attack, we’re gonna get the “To Be Continued..” any second, but NO there is STILL TIME FOR ONE MORE!

Ten. TEN. This episode is only 22 minutes long and they managed to fit in 10 split screen reaction shots. I suspect this may be the record.

This entire episode was just split screen reactions shots, people powering up, shots of my OTP, and Renji catching Ichigo and then cradling him lovingly. Perfect episode. 1000/10.

#bleach filler #reigai arc #the reason i don't get angrier about renji throwing himself in front of rukia all the time #is that he is obviously a tank #and she is a wizard #he's got like 900 HP and she's got 3 #but she's better at dealing damage #even when he's beat to hell he's still got more HP than her #his primary functions are absorbing damage and catching people #let a man do his job #y'know the art was really good this episode #everyone just feeling cute today #except for reigai byakuya #who is on fire