BYAKUYA KUCHIKI vs TSUKISHIMA SHUKURO - Bleach Battle ANALYSIS | The End of Broken Bonds

during the weekly manga run of the fulbright arc i always wondered who would be given the honor of eventually bringing an end to the secondary main villain of that arc's kishima shukuro obviously fukushima had been well known at that point for bringing untold and unprecedented amounts of pain and suffering to ichigo driving each other to the point where he actually wanted to kill someone um so i always wondered who would eventually stop skishima's reign of terror and i have to be honest that biakia never actually crossed my mind i never anticipated that he would be the one to fight fukushima at the end and i think that's because i always saw fukushima as ichigo's enemy you know he was ichigo's villain he was more of a personal villain in that regard and yet in retrospect looking back now it makes absolute perfect sense for the one to kill him to be biaki akuchi someone who ichigo has personally changed on a real emotional level throughout their time together in this story nowhere better are the bonds of friendship that ichigo has been able to forge with the soul society more apparent than they are in biaqia and so a fight that is all about bonds that has bonds on the line you know that's where the stakes are found in this battle it makes so much sense for biaki to be the one to eventually stop this guy so today in our first bleach battle analysis of 2021 we're going to be looking at biyakia vs fukushima my favorite fight from the lost agent arc no questions asked and actually one of my favorite battles in the entire series before we begin however guys if you haven't subscribed to my channel yet make sure to hit that button now you're in the perfect place for bleach content like this every single week don't forget to give the video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it as well because it does help with the whole algorithm on youtube and also don't forget to hit the notification bell just so you stay up to date with all of my videos so yeah i'll admit in hindsight the uh poll for this one was a little bit skewed i think i kind of underestimated foolishly biakia's popularity and i thought that using a lost agent fight of biakias would maybe level it out with some lesser known fights but nobiaki versus kashima still absolutely destroyed in the poll but i'm not complaining about that because you know there's no denying i really did want to talk about this fight so hopefully the next poll will be a little bit more even but this one i do love this fight and i i did really want to talk about it quite a lot um i do think these two opponents are perfectly suited for each other and the lost agent arc kubo was still employing his method of mirror matching characters would face each other who were fairly similar obviously not in always similar you know giriko is not really like kenpachi in that sense it's more used as kenpachi is able to make an example out of someone who is way in over their head um but at least something there are some aspects of characters that are similar hitsugira and yukio kind of look the same uh i feel like renji and jackie are more physical fighters who also have this kind of honor code to each of their characters rukia and riruka both love cute things uh ikaku and moe are both are sort of strong uh almost like uh physical fighters you know they're kind of strong-headed um and then ichigo and ginjo are the substitutes shinigami and then of course you have biakia and skishima and these two characters are similar on a surface level they're both quite soft-spoken individuals with a bit of a dark nature to them they do look quite similar as well in some aspects but primarily the main thing bonding these two characters is that they have been major adversaries of ichigo at one point or another and that is entirely what's on the line in this battle and it's a subtext that i never anticipated until the fight actually happened and i think the way kubo plays it is fantastic uh and again it's just not something i ever expected which i think makes it really stand out as far as the lost agent arc battles go so this fight begins from chapter 464 once everyone splits off into the chat rooms that yukio creates and it eventually ends in 473 but the fight is absolutely not that long it is very chopped up but it does still remain regardless of that pretty much the second longest fight in this arc clocking in around three chapters worth of material with all the pages combined now after all the pain and misery fukushima puts ichigo through ichigo eventually pairs off to fight gingo because ginjo turns out to be the main villain of the ark and i think back in the day a lot of people reading this weekly kind of wanted ichigo to have the last word when it came to dealing with fukushima but kubo really was thinking a couple of steps ahead here i think and pairing him off against biakya ended up making a ton of sense looking at the fight from its very beginnings and there are already a couple of things different about this battle compared to the rest of the fights happening concurrently at the end of the lost asian arc for instance a lot of those fights feel like they're kind of being played up as almost light-hearted or a bit jokey it's very clear that the full bringers are out of their depth against the centuries-old shinigami whether that's kenpachi one shot in giraco or you know characters like ikaku lecturing moa on their kind of place in the world but the byakuya vs tsukushima fight is dealt with differently from the off there's a very sinister nature in the air something not quite right is is is in this is in the sky especially in the anime they give it like a blood red moon to really help kind of hammer home that actually this fight might be a little more dangerous than the others that are going on currently and that's obviously reinforced by kenpachi wanting to take on fukushima um just as the chat rooms close because he thinks that he is the strongest one there and kenpachi is generally speaking a pretty good judge of character and strength just by looking at someone so you know immediately that tsukushima is probably not going to go down quite so easily now biakia after his fight with ichigo actually gets handed quite a lot of these more sinister witchy opponents you know he gets zamari and that fight is actually really well done especially in the anime i love their choice of soundtrack before zamari releases it does give it this air of like unease you know there's something creepy going on in this battle something eerie and then of course later on after the fukushima fight biakyo fights as not and although the circumstances are very different you know the whole of soul society is under attack it's not exactly going to be slow paced as himself is of course a creepy opponent and very much the same thing happens here fukushima is the creepy full bringer it's all very eerie it's all very almost a bit spooky what's going on here and i kind of like that yaki is often used for those kind of fights because his personality deals well with that he's not someone to joke around you very rarely in the manga get full-on light-hearted comedic scenes with biaccia so generally his fights are handed with a bit more gravitas but they get separated into their different chat rooms and immediately sukishima kind of confronts biaki as saying like you shouldn't really be looking at the moon you don't have the time for that but yaki responds to him basically by saying i'm the right person to fight you although you've made ichigo kurosaki incredibly angry i don't believe he has it in him to wield his sword in a way that would actually kill you and kenpachi is even worse to fight skishima because of the way he's so bloodthirsty he would just rush right in and tsukushima would take him down with a very quick hit and that would be his book of the end ability activating immediately fukushima kind of deduces that the way biakir is talking makes him think that he's not going to hit him at all because as we know book of the end the moment he strikes someone with it he's able to insert himself into their past and in many cases that's it it's over whereas biakia pretty much says that's exactly right and as fukushima goes to try and strike him he summons his blade petals and blocks the attack now i remember when i was reading this and uh fukushima was going up against biyakia and he did successfully block him with symbol and zakara right at the beginning of the fight i was kind of thinking to myself if tsukushima hits biakia it is over like is he going to make biaki think he's his friend and then we're just going to kind of get chad norahime again or is kubo just going to make it somehow that fukushima doesn't actually hit b akira which case we're not going to have the most interesting battle on our hands kubo interestingly finds a middle ground compromise for that problem though i think he himself thought he had maybe had an issue on his hands where he didn't want the fight to just be one and done you know fukushima has to hit biakea at some point or else it's gonna be there's gonna be no tension whatsoever but biakia can't be defeated the moment he gets hit so there has to be middle ground and kubo does a really good job with that but we'll get there when things start heating up basically fukushima tries to hit biyaki obiyaki deflects it and says that i hate the way you fight i think tearing apart the bonds of friendship so they can do the fighting for you is the height of cowardice um and i am not only going to kill you i'm going to kill you and then just toss your body aside obviously piakian being very prideful is really looking down on fukushima here um and talking some serious smack to him after seeing fukushima walk all over ichigo for many chapters this was quite a satisfying way to open this battle but the fight is not revisited until most of the other uh fullbringers have been defeated ikaku and moe's fight has basically just ended and we go back to the battle arena with biakia and tsukushima and they haven't actually really moved yet it turns out that tsukishima's actually playing it very very coy he's being incredibly cautious about what to do next um he knows of course the powers of senbon zakara he knows that if he gets nearby he'll step within his range um now tsukushima hasn't actually hit biakia yet so he doesn't have all the insider knowledge he'll get later on but he at the very least theorizes that if he walks any closer biakia might hit him and i like the way skishima tries to almost feel bayakir out at the beginning of this fight and tsukushima tries to unnerve biakia by showing off his ability essentially so this leaf falls next him when he cuts it in half and he's like did that attack seem like it had any meaning to you and then he strikes the ground and he's like what about that one and biaki is like i don't think i should see these as meaningless acts at which point tsukushima takes a step towards him one thing i love about the beginning of this fight is how draw now everything feels and the manga in particular does an excellent job of amplifying that creep factor by just making sukishima look really really eerie the whole time you see him his step forward that he takes into biakia's range is exaggerated but it looks really really cool when you see biakio is just prepared for the anything this guy has and the moment scushima takes that step yakir activates senbonzakara we then cut away again from that fight but we return a little bit later and it looks like tsukushima is having absolutely no luck whatsoever he's down on one knee he's been injured a couple of times and it looks like biakia kind of has the upper hand however biakia takes a step forward suddenly to find himself caught in a trap he presses a switch on the ground and this basically this rock rises up and then tries to crash down upon him and fukushima basically reveals that he set a trap there when he came to this place a long time ago and biaki is like you've been here before and it's this point we find out the true extent of book of the ends powers um by cutting the ground earlier fukushima was able to insert himself into the arena's past and add a bunch of traps and that is not only incredibly devilish it's ridiculously overpowered as well that he can use on inanimate objects the way fukushima kind of gets around this always makes me laugh biakia says oh so your ability can work on inanimate objects as well and tsukushima's response is literally just i don't remember ever saying it couldn't and he's like yeah he's right he never i don't think he ever said he couldn't so fair enough um and i just really liked that and he he has biakian now on the back foot uh which which i really like because this fight ramps up quite fast so skishima basically appears immediately behind vyakki obiaki tries to come around and hit him but tsukushima grabs his arm and he basically says your sword and your techniques you know i've seen them all so many times they're just downright boring to me at which point he slices biaccia across the chest now this was a pretty big deal moment uh when i saw this the first time when i read it the first time i was like oh man where is kubo going to take this fight because we know what fukushima's book of the end does it's been the principal driving factor of the entire fulbright arc so far so is biyakia now essentially going to fall under skishima's spell and it doesn't seem to quite work like that because kubo takes a different route to make the fight a bit more interesting which like i said a minute ago i do actually appreciate so sukishima strikes biaki a really nice color page here as well in the manga where he just cuts biaccio across the front and there's a really cool looking dynamic shot of the two of them uh and tsukushima basically says a moment's hesitation has sealed your fate you know i've managed to strike you once so now it is over um and he basically starts talking to bianchi about this thing called the no damage zone or as it was originally penned in the manga the hurtless area which is a weird word that doesn't really mean anything but you know it works it means you can't get hurt there but it's essentially integral to how senbon zakara works and it means that you have this biakia has this ring around himself where senbon zakara can never come in and that's what protects him from the razor blades and it's what fukushima is exploiting now to damage biakia so he got close enough to biakia where he grabbed his arm and he hit him biaccio really couldn't do anything about it because of this whole no damage zone and biaki was like where did you hear the term no damage zone before and sukishima says from you so basically what's happened here is rather than insert himself as like a best friend fukushima has inserted himself as biakia's mentor his lifelong mentor who taught him everything he knows it's actually very very clever because it does mean that kashima is in the perfect position to defeat biakian now not only does he know every move of biaki as you know gokay senkai shukei hakuteke and all of that sort of thing he's not only in the perfect position to deal with all of those abilities but also perhaps the single most broken part of book of the end is that fukushima's own power and strength has risen to a proportionate level where he could realistically have been biakis mentor but either way before we get to that point basically tsukushima says none of your bankai abilities are going to work on me and uh he then steps in and the fight continues and we cut away once again so you see what i mean is quite chopped up but it is still longer than basically every other fight at the end of this arc when the fight returns in 472 razor edge requiem which is a really cool name for a chapter this is the full fight now this is the meat of this battle um and it starts pretty much with the two of them clashing and they go in for an attack fukushima dodges they clash and biak your sword breaks in half his arm puck toes spirals away and lands in the floor there are some really great dynamic shots in this fight in the manga specifically um the fight is just drawn really really well um and i love how the battle looks and tsukushima says oh your sword broke and biaki is like i can't believe the two years of training i have had between obviously the eisenhower can now would turn out to be completely useless in this fight and fukushima says they're not useless it's just i've grown by the exact same amount this is what i meant earlier when fukushima's own power can elevate him to a level that would make the lie that he creates believable he claims thanks to the past that he has created to be bayaki as mentor well human fukushima would never be that powerful but this new fukushima would be which is ridiculously good but it's pretty cool and i like how much depth it turned out book of the end actually had it's still one of my favorite abilities in the series one of the abilities i think is probably one of the best fleshed out you know because and that makes sense because like i said before it's a driving force of this entire arc but i love how book of the end works i love the way it's explained here and sushi was just a great character overall and one of the cool things about the lost agent arc in particular the art style in this arc is very it's quite minimalist you know it's a lot of close-up character faces there's a lot of singular characters in panels uh and it works wonders in these fight scenes you get really great troll faces from fukushima as his evil plan is kind of unfolding against biakia really great looks from him as he just looks kind of just super menacing and unhinged um and of course really badass shots of piacia as well but biaku kind of decides enough is enough with this uh charade and he drops the first half of his sword into the ground and then drops his hilt and says baankai that's pretty cool i love that he actually had to drop the first half i wonder if he did have to do that if he had to drop the entire sword i would assume so otherwise he wouldn't have done it but he basically then sends all of his blades towards kashima and he's like she was like i told you i've seen this a million times before i can deal with this easy and tsukushima immediately goes for the no damage zone he appears right behind biaccia tries to hit him but biakia is already thinking on his feet and changing the way he's been fighting for centuries and you know i think this fight and it's this fight is so interesting to me for this reason biaker is not necessarily fighting like this world-ending extremely powerful spada or this crazy stern ritter he's just fighting a human with admittedly broken ability but maybe more so than ever this fight forces biakia to re-evaluate who he is and how he fights um so fukushima is in the no damage zone he goes in for a hit but biakia brings the senbonzakara petals towards him into the no damage zone to block the hit and tsukushima is obviously massively shocked by this and he's like you know you never taught you that so biaku is having to learn on the fly a new way of fighting that his mentor has never seen before and that's basically a more reckless way of battle bringing senbon zakara's petals into the no damage zone to protect himself from fukushima's strikes fukushima basically hot-foots it over to a pillar and he's like you know i never taught you that before and byakuya says if you never taught me it you don't know how to stop it and tsukushima is basically like oh i see you just desperate you know you're just resorting to these desperate tactics cooper does this great thing in the manga which i think i've mentioned before where he basically like put a tone over kashima's face and then made his pupils pure white giving him this demonic look he does it a couple of times throughout the arc um you know where's almost like she was at his craziest essentially he gives him one here and he's basically like you know that'll never stop me and they basically get into this very very short skirmish where kashima's using bring a light to almost like dance around biaki obiaki is having to move send bonzaka akagi yoshi in and out uh and pretty much fukushima's plan is that he says to biakea the closer you you bring senbonzakara into yourself the faster it all speeds up and the closer it becomes to suicide and what about what i really like about this fight that i think personally the manga captures so much better than the anime is that feeling of desperation uh that feeling where biakia is in the middle of this razor wind just this whirlwind of razors that could cut him up at any moment and fukushima is like ready to throw him off and in my opinion the anime does so many things so well you know obviously it does you know but i would always recommend this fight in the manga over the anime because i think the anime gets the pacing a little bit wrong with this battle uh and that's only my opinion of course it's just from having read this fight a lot of times in the manga but i envision it as truly biakia is like encased in this tornado of razor petals there's inches from hitting him and he reaches out to move them towards kashima kashima knocks him off balance for a split second and that causes the petals just to rush down like a waterfall like a torrent of water and shred biyakia's outstretched arm but i was really disappointed watching it in the anime when biakia sort of moves and his moves are really sluggish it looks like tsukushima knocks his arm the petals kind of come down really slowly i don't know if they just depicted it like that so that it was a little bit more obvious what was happening but the manga conveyed that sense of desperation better in my opinion obviously you can't beat the soundtrack and stuff like that that really adds a lot to the fight but i think pacing wise the actual pacing of the battle i think was better done in the manga regardless biakia's entire army is just shredded by his own bankai that would come and bite him again not not far from here actually he'd get a lot worse than that uh in the thousand-year blood war arc but here he gets the first taste of that where his arm is just ripped apart and kashima's like you know you literally can't beat me and he kind of walks up to biaki or his arms wide open he's like you know there's nothing you can do and he says you know you can't use any bankai techniques you can't use your shikai i know your zampakto in an hour and biaki kind of slowly raises his shredded arm his fist closed tightly towards kashima and tsukushima being incredibly arrogant you know maybe rightfully so in this situation but he pretty much presses his chest up against biaki's fist and he's like are you going to use aikido well go ahead and i'll show you that i know ever i know how to defeat all of these keto and before we move on to the very end i would a part of me would have loved to have seen biake use shuke haku tekken just to see how skoshima would have actually counted it because i don't really know how he would have managed that same with the key though like i don't understand why just cutting byakia instantly gives kashima the entire notebook on how to defeat every single kilo ever made but regardless kashima walks up to biaccio and he's like you know it's over and then suddenly you turn the page and there's just this torrent of blades blasting through fukushima's back and it's a great it's a great way of finishing the fight and again i think it's better in the manga because you get that shock factor of turning the page and he's just like that just senbonzaka are going through his spine uh and he's like horrified he's like completely shocked and he like clutches his chest and he's like what happened you know i don't understand what happened and it turns out that byakia during the confusion when he got his arm shredded he grabbed a bunch of his own blades in his fist and then he just punched them through fukushima again completely unlike anything we've ever seen biakia do he's thinking on his feet in it to try and defeat this guy with something he has never seen before and i think it works fantastically well i think it's one of the best endings to a bleach fight ever i think it's so shocking but so in character it makes so much sense for biakia to have to search inside himself for a way of fighting that he's never done before and this kind of brutish grabbing the petals with his own hands punching them through fukushima is very cathartic kashima has been a thorn in the heroes and the reader's side for ages by this point and it's really good you know cooper had so much fun drawing biaki just trashing fukushima like that uh it just it works really well you know don't think about the logistics of it because there's no way biakia has that many petals in his hand because when you see fukushima it's like a massive beam going through him but it's still really really cool and uh you know kashim's kind of like i i'm surprised you did that you know you you did something i wasn't expecting and he collapses the floor and biaccia is like you know for the first time ever i felt sort of the thrill of battle so i thank you for that and then we get a very small little epilogue to the fight where's kashima's lying just dying on the floor and he basically says you know after everything i've taught you i can't believe you're still you're just gonna leave me like this and he's trying one last time to use book of the end to get biake to take pity on him and it's cool because up until this point we've never seen book of the end used in this way purely defensive kashima's trying to save his own ass essentially by lying on the floor and being like i need you to help me out here you know i've done so much for you and biaccia turns to him and he's like it's true you know i wouldn't be where i am without your help today but you are an enemy of ichigo kurasaki and for that reason i have to kill you and she was like damn it you know he didn't think of that and i i think that that is so good because the entire message of the fight is summed up in that final shot where it turns out that biaccio now values over almost everything else ichigo you know his friendship with ichigo the guy who changed his heart and changed his mind and perspective back in the soul society arc and tr i want to do a video on biaccio's character development because i think it's some of the best in the entire series but you know the cliff notes version biakia starts out as this guy who is immensely conflicted by the law and by his love for his family and then ichigo comes in this lawless urchin essentially who's determined to upturn the centuries-old laws and values of the soul society which are immensely out of date uh and rigid and then obviously he changes biacci as mine biakea learns to put family first in the wacom underwater again he's kind of putting on this front that he doesn't really care but he lets ruku and renji go and help ichigo despite despite strict orders from the up uh from the upper class not to um and then obviously biaccio arrives on the wacom and no battlefield himself entrusts saving karakura to ichigo uh there's a there's that lovely little moment between mayuri and biakia where like from the all words you think he's going to win and it's a really nice moment and then obviously now in the lost asian arc biakia values that bond with ichigo and that's why in hindsight it makes so much sense for these two to fight despite kind of feeling like ichigo maybe should have been the ones to take fukushima on it works so well that biakia is the one who is representative of those bonds you know ichigo has lost most of his major bonds at this point but the shinigami return rookie restores his powers but it's piyakir who defeats his tormentor and i i it works incredibly well it works incredibly well because not only does it reinforce this idea of bonds one of the main themes of that arc and tsukushima is the one who was tearing them apart and it's symbolic that biaku is the one who kills him not only is that very poignant but also it shows you how far bjakir has come and that's why i love this fight i think it's really really well done it has basically everything i like in a bleach fight uh it's not massively bombastic but i think it picks up nicely towards the end which is why i prefer the manga because i think it is more faster paced you get this idea of desperation when the when the panel of biaccia's face when tsukushima is like it's suicide and yaki looks really worried i think it's done really really well and i just think that the lost agent arc a lot of people don't really like it as i've said before i think that's i don't agree but i think this fight is truly excellent um definitely my favorite from the ark and one of my favorite in series and yeah that's basically everything i have to say on it i i it is one of my favorites and i i would recommend the manga and then go and watch the anime uh but either way this fight i love both the characters involved i like that sense of the sinisterness the eeriness going on i'm a big fan of that kind of tone and i think it's handled really really well and that's pretty much it for this video guys let me know in the comments below if you enjoy biakea versus fukushima is it one of your favorite fights in the series like it is mine if so why do you like it and if you don't like it let me know why in the comments below as well don't forget to subscribe if you enjoyed the video and give it a thumbs up but until next time guys i'll catch you later see you then

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Length: 28min 17sec (1697 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 18 2021