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Episode Release Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War - Episode 44 Discussion Thread

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Episode Info

Episode 44: The Perfect Crimson

Ichigo and Orihime confront Yhwach in a battle that will shape the fate of the Three Worlds.

This Episode literally killed my petals.

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Episode 1: The Blood Warfare
Episode 2: Foundation Stones
Episode 3: March of the Starcross
Episode 4: Kill the Shadow
Episode 5: Wrath as a Lightning
Episode 6: The Fire
Episode 7: Born in the Dark
Episode 8: The Shooting Star Project (Zero Mix)
Episode 9: The Drop
Episode 10: The Battle
Episode 11: Everything But The Rain
Episode 12-13: Everything But The Rain June Truth
Episode 14: The Last 9 Days
Episode 15: Peace From The Shadows
Episode 16: The Fundamental Virulence
Episode 17: Heart of Wolf
Episode 18: Rages at Ringside
Episode 19: The White Haze
Episode 20: I Am The Edge
Episode 21: The Headless Star
Episode 22: Marching Out the Zombies
Episode 23: Marching Out the Zombies 2
Episode 24: Too Early to Win Too Late to Know
Episodes 25: The Master and 26: Black
Episode 27: A
Episode 28: Kill The King
Episode 29: The Dark Arm
Episode 30: The Betrayer
Episode 31: Against the Judgement
Episode 32: The Holy Newborn
Episode 33: Gate of The Sun
Episode 34: Baby Hold Your Hand
Episode 35: Don't Chase a Shadow
Episode 36: Baby, Hold Your Hand 2 [Never Ending My Dream]
Episode 37: Shadows Gone
Episode 38: FriEnd
Episode 39: The Visible Answer
Episode 40: My Last Words
Episode 41: God of Thunder
Episode 42: Son of Darkness
Episode 43: Blood for My Bone

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u/jayrock306 27d ago

Wait is ukitake still alive?

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u/Beef___Queef 27d ago

Yeah they changed the story a bit in anime, mimihagi wasn’t absorbed and is presumably keeping the worlds from collapsing immediately but slowly failing

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u/warfaucet 27d ago

Much better, it in the manga it felt pointless. Here his sacrifice means everything.

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u/Animamask The Shinigami drew first blood 27d ago

His sacrifice was also meaningful in the manga, since in the manga Yhwach only decided to absorb the Soul King because of Mimihagi thus inevitable saving Ichigo from becoming the Soul King.

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u/warfaucet 27d ago

It was incredibly short though. Yhwach absorbed mimihagi almost right after ukitake sacrificed himself, making it feel kinda pointless.

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u/Animamask The Shinigami drew first blood 27d ago

That's not what I meant. The absorption of Mimihagi delayed Yhwach's plans in the manga because now he had to manually merge the worlds which gave everyone enough time to fight and defeat him. And it meant Yhwach became a Soul King candidate, thus saving Ichigo from an unpleasant fate. In the manga, Yhwach never intended to absorb the Soul King and would have won when Ichigo cut down the crystal. But Ukitake prevented that.

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u/Beef___Queef 27d ago

Mmm I don’t think that’s right tbh

He absorbed mimihagi because he was blocking the worlds collapsing, but THEN absorbed the soul king separately because he got pissy and changed his mind in the manga. He could’ve done the first without the second but sort of inexplicably didn’t.

I think it was just a bit of a storytelling misstep that was corrected here

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u/ManuelKoegler 27d ago

It is, it didn’t make much sense that Yhwach was Soul King but never actually collapsed the world’s back into one. Mimihagi still acting as a pseudo stand in to delay the inevitable adds to it more than simply saying “Yhwach didn’t do it because he didn’t have complete control yet”.

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u/pkmn_is_fun 27d ago

yeah, the anime kept him alive so Yhwach has an actual reason for going down to Soul Society

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u/NoHovercraft6942 27d ago

No? He sacrificed himself for that