Analysing YORUICHI & SOI FON'S New 'BEYOND BANKAI' Brave Souls Forms | Bleach Discussion

so i want to start this video by apologizing that it is a bit late i do try and get these bleach brave souls spirits are forever with you beyond bankai videos out kind of as soon as the characters drop in game or as close as i can possibly get as we have done in the past however at the end of the month last month and subsequently the start of march as well i was a little bit tied up putting the finishing touches on the character popularity poll results video as i really felt that couldn't be pushed back any further that and i was a little bit consumed by elden ring but the time has finally come now where we can talk about these brand new characters who have come to bleach brave souls as you know from our previous videos bleach brave souls has been running a promotion to tie in with the light novel spirits are forever with you where certain characters captain class characters have been achieving brand new forms non-canon forms but incredibly fun and interesting nonetheless where they somehow ascend to a power that is supposedly beyond bankai it's not necessarily a third stage of their xanpur toe but it's just a power that is supposedly making them more powerful than if they had just activated bankai and the two latest characters to receive this treatment are actually both the former and current captain of the second division funnily enough since we literally just did an in-depth overview of that division yoruichi shihoen and soifon and of course what's immediately interesting about this and what immediately caught my eye was the fact that they have chosen to give yoruichi one of these forms and it's fascinating because so far the overwhelming majority if not every single one of these forms has been intrinsically linked to a shinigami's zan to the point where it feels like many of them have even gone so far as to fuse with their zan puck toe in some way or another much in the same way as ichigo when he achieved his final gets a goten show the same is true for soyfon hers looks to be a pretty standard evolution of what we've seen before and it's very much in line with the rest of these so-called beyond bankai forms the game has given us but yodoichi is of course the truly intriguing one as of course we know that in the manga this character never even uses and barely even acknowledges the existence of her zan puck toe so with absolutely no record of what it is for uh for you know club to use in the game what were they going to do how were they going to give yaduichi a power that would transcend even ban kai when we don't even know what her zan puck toe is we had a bit of fun when these forms kind of first came out with ukitake because it kind of seemed like we may may have been getting the briefest of glimpses into a hypothetical bankai for him because his bankai is also unknown but at the very least we know what his sheikai is and can do so it was a nice bit of fun speculation as to what we were really seeing when it came to his form but yoruichi's would have to be something brand new the team at collab would have to create something entirely new and i somehow doubt that they would really be given the authority to design her entire zan puck toe for her presumably it would be done with kubo's oversight and blessing but they haven't done that instead of kind of focusing in on azan pak toe for yaduichi i really like the route they've gone which is to circle back round with this character and focus in on her noble roots and so let's start there as yodoichi is definitely the one that interests me the most and there are some neat little details with this character as i mentioned the design team at clab had even less to go on with yoruichi than they did with ukitake so what they've done is actually pretty smart i think and they have kind of gone a route that harkens back to yoruichi's kind of youngest days but also there's that tie-in with the nobility and their kind of connection to heaven the heavenly bodies of soul society and really giving off this aura of true almost divine power so in this form yoruichi is wearing the traditional ceremonial garb of the tenshi heiso ban which we've actually seen her wearing in the manga itself when soifon has a flashback to some of her earliest days and she looks up at yoduichi being paraded across one of the bridges of seoul society and she is wearing essentially this exact same outfit she has the same headpiece and the same kind of extensive golden gown although here this gown has been modified presumably to allow yarduichi to fight in it and i have to say i absolutely love how this looks this might be my favorite yoruichi look ever including her canon designs from the manga but i think this is this looks wonderful i love the intricacies of the design i love that they gave her you know the same head pieces that she is wearing in the manga but like i said the suit has been seemingly tailored to allow free-flowing movement as yoruichi is of course very hakuda focused so although the gown retains much of its kind of free-flowing sensibilities up on the top half the bottom half has been kind of cropped away to allow presumably for her to run fast kick hard and basically fight the way she normally would and i really appreciate that attention to detail her character's tag line in the introductory trailer is the fun-loving warrior princess and throughout bleach we have seen most of that of in yoruichi we generally get to see the fun-loving warrior but it often stops there and here we're getting to see that princess side that almost royal side of yoruichi because she is the head of one of the most all she was the head of one of the most powerful families in seoul society and i love seeing that regality adorning her here and because of that because of how this looks like i said this pretty much is probably my favorite yoruichi look ever and i think she just looks really special now of course the outfit itself is emblazoned with the shihoein family crest but almost everything she wields seems to be as well this strange golden blade that she utilizes is also emboldened with the same crest and at first i was wondering like what would make yaruichi choose to use a blade when she deems it never necessary in the canon manga and the only thing i could think of is maybe this is the ceremonial family sword of the shihoein family as we know from can't fight your own world they believe it is that the kuch ki house has one in muramasa i think it is and of course again in khan for your own well we know that the sunni yashido family has a ceremonial sword as well and ceremonial family swords have been seen in the canon manga too with shinken hakyoken for the issei family so potentially this is the shihoein ceremonial family blade that she's wielding here to dive a little deeper into yoruichi's kind of overall look and what some of it might mean of course this is mostly speculation it seems the shihoen clan is charged with the protection and looking after a number of pretty treasured ancient perhaps even royal relics tools armaments and garments including a couple of items called the hogu and bugu which i believe are just treasure tools and armaments and it's by looking after these items that the shihoen clan retains its title of defender of the realm and i wonder if they might be what she's utilizing here in this form but i just want to break away briefly to discuss something that has confused me a little bit and i wonder if it has any relevance to the form we're seeing now basically the chapter that yushiro shihoen is intra introduced in is chapter 606 i believe it is and it's titled divine division and of course that title is mostly referring to ichibai hiyosa bay and the zero division who are currently engaged in battle however i don't think it's a coincidence that this is also the chapter you shadow is introduced he's the current head of the shihoen clan and yoruichi's little brother and his first scene in the series carrying essentially a massive package that's wrapped up you can't see what's in it that he was intending to deliver to his sister now while we don't immediately know what the package contains yusudo is introduced as the keeper of the heavenly weapons in the viz translation of the manga so i'm assuming these heavenly weapons are maybe the hogu and bugu that we just mentioned a little bit earlier but it goes a little further than that as well and this is where things get a little bit murky in my opinion it's later revealed by kisuke as they try to ascend to the royal palace that the items you shallow brought with him are known as the tenshi heiso or the imperial soldier garments but it's difficult to see exactly a how they are garments and b what exactly they actually do i'm guessing because this is all we get to see but the tenshi hey so are the strange poles that are placed on top of the podium that myori creates to then fill with energy to send them to the royal palace or else i don't know what they could be you shadow doesn't seem to be wearing anything particularly different and i don't believe it's ever really mentioned again it's just kind of strange because i believe in i think it's the soul's data book the tenshi heiso are mentioned as being a heavenly kind of all-powerful item granted to the shihoein family by heaven or something like that so i guess it kind of works i'm just kind of wondering if there is any correlation between what yoruichi is wearing which certainly would appear to be some kind of heavenly garment and the items that yushiro was bringing because he originally says that he wanted to bring them to help yoruichi out whereas apparently they're just used to get into the royal palace so i'm not entirely sure if there's a correlation there but it kind of feels like they could be because the shihoen family look after these heavenly bodies and now that yoruichi has attained a power greater than bankai it would make sense for her to be draped in them if they are even actually garments at all i just know that when i first read the manga and i saw him there with with that package that he said was for yoruichi and we found him we knew him to be the keeper of heavenly weapons i figured he was bringing her some kind of spectacular armor and maybe even a weapon of her own to actually use in the final battle and while that didn't happen is it possible that what we're seeing here in in the game is that those items he was supposed to give her because it just seems to be a weird disconnect to me that those items were then apparently used to break into the royal palace but either they are just the stakes in which case i don't see how they are garments but then maybe the translation shouldn't be taken so literally in the first place or there was something else at work here regardless the whole thing is still awesome to look at and yoruichi's abilities in game seem to translate to different points of the shihoein crest her first special attack i believe it is creates the kind of star-like leaves that we see peppered around the crest and then it shoots light out of them and then i think the third special attack creates a big crescent of light which again can be seen in the shihoen crest in her kind of special ability her ultimate attack we see her utilizing the flying tool ryukotsujo that she gave ichigo in the soul society arc and that's really nice to see i think it's pretty much just there as a throwback to uh the soul society art but when you kind of delve deeper into it it's really interesting to see just how many special items the shihoen family were actually privy to inc you know not including everything we've seen here but also including the shihoei shield as well as the cloak that ichigo wears when he rescues rukia so at the end of that while yoruichi isn't evolving or fusing with her zan puck toe really per se she is seemingly unlocking the almost true heavenly powers that come associated with her noble family name which i think is really awesome although non-canon it's also an exciting glimpse at the true power of the noble houses meanwhile soifon is a little more straightforward hers is a bit more in line with what we have come to know from this tie-in promotion so far but it doesn't mean it's any less cool and i think they have basically done a really good job with siphon but i'm not going to lie it's kind of a bit eerie for me it's entered this kind of uncanny valley zone where it looks oddly familiar to a fan art i did of soy phone in 2014 depicting what i thought could be some kind of unlocked third stage of her zan puck toe as part of a small series i was doing where the captains would fuse with theirs on puck toes in the exact same manner that ichigo did at the end of the iran car arc and this looks eerily similar down to the fact that she has the wings of the hormone car coming off of her back but like i said this is a much more traditional fusing with the zan puck toe taking elements from both her stages but predominantly her sheikai i would argue since that is what she prefers out of the two of them but the bankai is here as well the gauntlet of suzumibachi is now extended and enlarged to cover her entire arm and the small pieces of helmet that she seems to have on the side of her head are references to the face guard that she gets when she activates her ban kai chakuho raikouben not only that but she has coming from the end of her braids two of the wings of the monkey the crest that appears when she stabs someone with nigeki kisatsu which again is a really nice detail and i love that they are bright neon red as well i think it goes really well with the rest of the design and of course i would assume is also a reference to her rayatsu when she kills geovega specifically in the anime the hormonka kind of twists and turns into that same neon red that she has here and so everything here right down to the kind of collar of fuzz that she has around her neck references this idea of a hornet a kind of stinger assassin someone designed to just kill and flee without being spotted she also seems to be projecting some kind of a shield in front of her at all times which really looks like to me the actual tip of suzumibachi itself just the golden part of the blade while the bottom half of her legs are encased in a kind of armor that really looks like jakuho raikou ben as well looks like her bankai and we'll see later on it actually acts as an extension and evolution of that ability referencing even further again the idea of her being you know horny a wasp b that sort of thing she's able to create a honeycomb shaped shield when she uses her special second attack and it would also appear that the bankai styled armor on soy phone's legs is not just for show but she actually now can kick mini jakku horizon missiles from her feet which is honestly pretty powerful and kind of a neat idea as well because i really enjoy the idea of soy phones most powerful form making the most of all of her limbs because we see how dangerous she is with all of them not just suzumibachi but she's an incredibly adept fighter in and of herself which we particularly see in the fight with yoruichi but what it really seems like this beyond bankai form for soyfon is all about is increasing the usability and ease of use of nigeki kesatsu it seems to me like she has abilities that basically allow her to laser target her enemies and when they are targeted they kind of instantly get the first homonca crest appear on them and then she's able to finish them off it proves it kind of skips the first stage and means that she only has to stab someone once to get the two-hit kill on them so her kind of final sort of special ability the third special attack is that she seems to kind of create a targeting laser in front of her which then whoever it appears is they get hit by that first crest and then she's able to take them all out in a single fail swoop and that's really why i i do really like this form for soy phone it's simple it's elegant and it really doubles down on the idea of her being an assassin of all of her limbs being totally lethal and i really like that and her kind of ultimate special move seems to follow mostly in the same vein as the third special attack but she actually uses the shield as like a sort of guided targeting system where she launches it in the air and that seems to create a massive hormone car crest and then whatever she hits within it will be instantly killed that seems to be what's going on there going back to this idea of making it much easier for her to pull off her two-step kill and that's pretty much it for these two characters yoruichi rather than kind of just creating a zan puck toe for her they've wisely chosen to circle it back round to her noble roots and kind of grace her with the heavenly power that it seems her family has always had access to in one way or another whether what she's wearing is the tenshi hey so that supposedly maybe you should was going to bring her in the final arc is is actually that or not or if the tenshi haso was in fact just a bunch of sticks that they put in the ground i really have no idea about that but it's fun to speculate nonetheless and soy phones is all about efficiency making it so much easier for her to land her hits and even pull off nigeki kesatsu without having to connect and that's it for this video guys don't forget to hit subscribe if you haven't done already don't forget to give the video a like and a thumbs up if you enjoyed it as it really does help me out helps the channel out and it means we get more exposure here on youtube and of course if you want to help support me a step further we do also have a patreon for this channel as well we can get videos like this one early and you can support me there for as little as a dollar a month everyone on screen is doing that right now they're supporting me there on patreon helping me make this reality and 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Published: Thu Mar 10 2022