Can't Fear Your Own World (CFYOW) Volume 3 REVIEW and Discussion | Bleach Light Novel

okay so for the longest time now the most requested video on this channel has been for me to finally stop dragging my feet and discuss bleach can't for your own world volume 3 the final volume in the bleach light novel series designed to act as both a direct continuation of the thousand-year blood war manga but also a brand new story entirely divorced from the antics of ichigo and his friends and instead placed the focus squarely on the soul society their conflicts their inner politics and the effect those have on the world and characters around them and i'll be totally honest the reason for this delay lies squarely with me frankly it just took me a very long time to get this book for some reason but when i finally did get it yeah i admit it took me a little while to get through and then collect my thoughts about it as well but today i can happily say we are finally going to be discussing bleach cart for your own world volume 3. before we get started however guys if you haven't hit 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if i'm being completely honest i do normally approach these can't for your own world volume videos with a slight amount of apprehension um because they can be a little intimidating there's considerably more content here than you would find in say your average bleach chapter this is after all a full length novel and i don't want the video to balloon to a ridiculous size so the way we're going to approach this is again similar to those other videos rather than doing an extensive exhaustive plot breakdown of chapter by chapter instead we're going to do a slight plot overview to talk about the story as a whole and then do breakdowns by individual important characters throughout the story there's bound to be some things i either miss or simply don't cover but that's because i want to break out can't feel your own world into separate videos a bit later on specifically for some characters who get a bit more spotlight than others there's an awful lot of interesting stuff to talk about here so i feel like it won't be doing it justice just look at it in one video but with this novel can't for your own world comes to an end and for many of us fans who are left maybe a little unsatisfied with the ending of the manga itself can't for your own world offered something of an olive branch it was there to kind of plug in the gaps that were left at the end of the quincy arc some of the biggest lingering questions we had as fans were attempted to be answered here in this novel and i know i for one would have always rather seen it actually drawn out in the manga with kubo's wonderful sense of style and just his absolute amazing cinematic drawing style but instead we get it in a prose format and it's better than nothing and to be honest a lot of the answers we do get in this book i'm actually pretty happy with and before we kick this thing off properly i actually just want to discuss cart for your own world as a whole from the perspective of its author so can't for your own world is is not actually written by kubo himself it's written by ryogo narita who also wrote the light novel series spirits are forever with you that you can see behind me now narrator is obviously an enormous fan of bleach and the universe potentially in my opinion veering on being too much of a fan of the series and what i mean by that is if we discuss very briefly spirits are forever with you i'll do a video on this at some point in the future but perhaps to kick the video off with maybe an unpopular opinion i'm not really a big fan of that book behind me to me it reads a little bit like fan fiction from someone whose writing hadn't quite matured at the time and yet were left with a pretty hefty responsibility of telling a story in the universe we know and love so well and what i mean by that is so many of the characters and concepts that are introduced in that book feel ridiculous and overblown in a way the canon manga never does and i'm obviously a manga purist i think kubo knows his world obviously better than anyone ever could and to me it just feels like so much of what was introduced here is just so for lack of a better word broken both narratively and within the world it feel it feels like for some reason in spirits are forever with you every character that has to be introduced is either some kind of world breaking behemoth like the two previous ken patchy or a character like roca paramia who was an absolute nobody in the bleach manga and frankly could have stayed that way there's such a thing in storytelling as over explaining or trying to connect way too many dots and i just don't think she really needed to be anyone certainly not a character who can randomly swing a mugetsu which in my opinion diminishes the kind of special feeling of that kind of ability and like like i said earlier with the ken patches for example one of the kenpachi he's not allowed to by law release his bankai in seoul society while the other one needed the intervention of squad zero to bring him down and yet when you look at the bleach manga itself kubo has an absolute plethora of captains each of whom can believably exist in this world in a in a manner that makes a lot of sense and in my opinion really distinguishes the two in terms of their maturity it kind of feels like narrator got a hold of the pen and decided to use this opportunity to just go absolutely crazy and build just the most craziest characters he possibly could can't for your own world on the other hand feels like an enormous step up i think um i think naruto's maturity as a writer has truly evolved over the course of these three volumes into something that i think is absolutely worthy of carrying the mantle of bleach i think there's a lot here and it feels like predominantly the most important part of it is it feels like it can exist plausibly in the world of bleach this could quite easily before being written here have been a filler arc in the anime or something like that something that i could have easily sat there and been like this is conceivably a part of bleach and a lot of that is just down to how grounded it is and being grounded is a key term here to use with these books they feel like a part of bleach and i think that's why i enjoy it so much and i think that's why can't for your own world in particular more so than spirits are forever with you hold so much heft for fans and it does as i said a minute ago hold a real mantle of responsibility that mantle of carrying over from the slightly unsatisfying ending of the thousand-year blood war into something meaningful and giving us answers that we'd been waiting for if if any of you highly unlikely but if any of you had seen my reviews of the bleach manga back in the day as it was coming out the one thing i was desperate for was context about the thousand-year blood war the the millennium old battle between yamamoto and yuhaba and the foundations of which the world was built on and instead naruto was left with the responsibility to fill in those gaps and i think they've done an admirable job and so to get into the plot overview of this book like i said we're not gonna go crazy in depth here but it's actually very similar structurally to volume two for the most part this is an enormous battle royale a huge skirmish of multiple groups and races of characters coming together to try and stop the villain from achieving their goal a villain of course being token sooner yashiro the character who actually gets to grace the front cover this time this is by the way my favorite cover of the three of them as well i really like the use of color and he does actually just have a really cool design so tokinada's plan is quite devilish basically he's created this false version of the royal palace he with the help of his partner aura has basically systematically built this cult of personality called x well called execution taken of course lifted from ginjokugo um in the real world and he plans to transport this fake royal palace into the human world to basically completely destroy their values system and their society by revealing to them the terrible truth that will just blow their minds that the afterlife exists in this way it's a cool plan and i like how unique it is among the world of bleach obviously when it came to the two major manga story arcs both eisen and uhabar wanted effectively the same thing with slightly different outcomes that that was to reach the royal palace and now tokinada is after something a little different i really like how how that kind of comes into play here and i think the the implications for what it would do to the human world are crazy i mean imagine what the what our world would be like if some kind of an afterlife was literally appeared in the sky you know religious organizations would be tripping over themselves science would be completely just its mind would just be blown and i think that's a really neat idea because obviously bleach is specifically about the afterlife and yet it is kept so successfully hidden from the human world and it's honestly not something that's ever really brought up yes they do they do try and keep the secret from the humans the majority of the time i think it's something that is given more prominence early on with things like the men in black memory eraser they have and stuff like that but i really do like this idea but tokinada's motivation for doing this is not some grand design um he gives this this there's like a neat moment in the story where he gives this false idea that he wants people like ichigo to get the credit they deserve for saving the humans because of course that is true ichigo has something of a thankless job he puts his life on the line to save the humans not once but twice and none of them even know he's done it and so tokinada is like you know ichigo deserves to have his moment in the sun he saved all these people but of course that's not really why he's doing it and we'll get more into that when we delve into together's character but ostensibly it's just because he is a nihilist he as a child learns the the twisted truth upon which soul society is built and he felt because of that that you may as well lead a life of villainy and sadistic evil because there's just no reason to live virtuous a virtuous life um and so i think it's kind of neat that he just wants to see the world burn you know that kind of it's a bit of a cliche um but it's a cool one that we've never really seen in bleach before the the major villains generally have some kind of some kind of not necessarily relatable but understandable reasoning for doing what they do but tokinada is just out for a good time basically i think kyoraku even says that you just want to be sitting back eating rice cakes while you watch the human world collapse in on itself and that's pretty neat but back to the plot overview itself that's essentially what tokinada is trying to do and as this is the climax of can't fear your own world we are right at the end now and tokinada is also trying to supplant his kind of uh creation i guess hikone this young child onto the throne of the soul king as like a false king because hikone is an amalgamation of all the different races that tokinata himself has kind of mashed together and then stabilized using fragments of the soul king that his family the royal family suna yashiro have been after for years hikoni is an interesting character more of vessel than a character themselves they don't have an awful lot of personality motivation really or anything like that they are being almost entirely directed by this madman and that makes it difficult for me to really care about hikone hikone is a vehicle for tokinada's war machine essentially and so effectively that is basically the gist of it the good guys all converge and by good guys i mean shinigami quincy iranca fullbringer if you enjoyed those slightly marginalized groups in bleach you will have a lot to like hearing can't for your own world which has been true since volume 1. everyone is coming together here to stop tokinada and at the center of it all is of course the main character of this story which is shuhei hisagi the vice captain of the ninth division the everyman shinigami who originally just kind of set out to get a scoop for the sailrite a bulletin and has now found himself thrust into this kind of plot of tokinadas which is which is pretty neat and as i said i think in the last couple of videos i think hisagi does work well as a main character though i i do feel like his influence was starting to slip here narrator i think wanted to showcase as many characters as he could get major backstories included for characters like tokinada major revelations for characters like the soul king and he and hisagi maybe feels a little bit pushed to the side but he does get fantastic moments of his own as the story goes on and once tokinada is defeated and his plan is thwarted at the end he is eventually killed everyone kind of comes together and we get up until recently with the hell chapter we get what was the final kind of the final positions for so many of these characters that we know and love so many characters this is the last time we've seen them and while i enjoy the story of can't feel your own world i quite like the new characters included the real draw for me was that tantalizing law drop that we were going to get about the thousand-year blood war that we just never received when the manga was running weekly and i'm pretty happy on the whole and i'll get into that later so i think now's pretty good time just to kind of start looking at individual characters of importance throughout the story so if we kick things off with hikone ubuginu i believe it's pronounced i've never been quite sure but they are a very strange being in the bleach universe an artificially created young child who was basically just built by tokinada in something that to me feels like a genuine scientific breakthrough the likes of which maiori and kisuke have never really managed to achieve because tokinada is literally just putting together konpaku of various different races to try and essentially build a soul king candidate much like ichigo and gingo and the earliest part of this book is hikone's first thoughts as they come into being and their very soul is stabilized by a piece of the soul king like i said earlier hikoni kind of just acts as tokinadas um puppet essentially tokyo is of course completely controlling him tokinada himself believes hikone has no free will no thoughts of their own and therefore can be directed to do whatever tokinata pleases and for the most part this is true hikone is as they were in volume two involved in a large amount of the fighting here and actually naruto does an awful lot of really cool stuff with this character again stuff i would love to see drawn but hikoni's the unique aspects of this character really come out to the forefront during the fighting scenes so hikoni is built of all the different races in bleach hollow quincy shinigami human all that sort of thing and because they were they were created like this they've been using these powers since the moment they were created they can use them quite adeptly and there's just really cool imagery on display hikoni's doing things like combining cerro and high league file to fire this like cerro arrow at the quincy's their body is made up of both blut and hierro which means even characters like meninus macallon if they punch hikoni her fingers just smash into pieces really really nice little details like that that i think helped the character to really stand out and i imagine visually would just be awesome like much later on as well hikoni combines all of the different uh movement styles so sonido hirenkiyaku to just instantaneously teleport and it's that sort of thing that makes this character feel godly which is obviously what narrator is going for here hikone has to feel on a slightly different level to everyone else perhaps even just from their capabilities and i think that comes across really well there are a couple of nice moments surrounding this character too such as when the quincy giselle jewel says that they want to basically turn hikoni into their personal zombie as we've seen many times before but little toto lampert says you don't want to do that the holo reacts to inside this kid would be really bad for you so gisele can't turn hollows into zombies which i guess makes sense implying that they are somehow linked to their zombies if it would affect them negatively like that but it still brings into question how kyodopi was able to actually absorb ion there are there are a number of different theories i can think of but it's just a really weird one to me that and then later on hikoni kind of comes into conflict with ken patchy zaraki and of course hikoni is using the zanpukto ecomi kidomo which is basically a hollow that has been a primordial hollow that's been sealed into a massive sword um and is now being wielded by this child hikoni fights ken patchy and if i'm being completely honest kenpachi his presence kind of bugs me in this story because he's just a massive tension killer i don't really like it when kenpachi is handled with like this when there's no nuance to his character whatsoever and he's just a beat stick for the author to throw around like hikoni is completely causing enormous amounts of trouble for just about everyone but then kenpachi arrives and just busts hikoni's defenses with a single swing where's the tension it's basically been eradicated we're skipping ahead a lot here but much later when ikomi kidomo tries to regain his old name his true name and become a monstrosity kim patchy just annihilates it with a single hit and again just kind of killing the tension that was built up quite well beforehand it's a real shame to see i feel like again that does demonstrate a slight difference between kubo and naruto kubo's deft handling of kenpachi makes him a much more believable character without sacrificing any of the tension that comes with him kenpachi can still be monstrously powerful the strongest shiny guy cable will love cutting cleaving meteors in half but at the same time if he goes into a scenario headstrong he might still lose such as we see against pernider and gerard valkyrie kim patchy gets kicked around in the thousand-year blood war arc and it helps to make the villains imposing here apparently nobody can stand up to ken apache so why are they even trying because kim patchy just just bats away hikone at the slightest sign of trouble but that's a small gripe and once the story has kind of come to a close hikone having been sapped of most of their power decides to kind of almost like self-imposed exile upon themselves as being the only one of these new can't for your own world characters to really survive the ending of this story hikoni goes into rukongai to kind of live a life of solitude where they are eventually found by hisaki who takes them under his wing and it's nice it's nice to see his sagi kind of getting to evolve his role in the series a lot of people have called for his sagi to become a captain in the wake of tozens to defection uh but of course ken say muguruma came back and took that spot um which i think is fine i'm all right with it but i like this kind of nod to hisagi's leadership qualities and the fact that someone can now look up to him much in the same way he looked up to kensei as hirokone kind of tries to rebuild their life in the wake of tokinada's scheming so it's a nice ending for that character hikone doesn't really deserve a bad ending but there's a really nice moment between them and hisagi during the kind of final climax of their fight where hisagi basically says like you can know the difference between right and wrong you shouldn't allow yourself to be basically being manipulated by tokinada but at the same time you can't pass off the blame to tokinada every time you do something bad because yeah like i said you should know the difference and i really like that i like that he basically says that you know hikoni can't continue to be this completely oblivious happy-go-lucky child forever brutally murdering anyone tokinada tells them to they got to take responsibility for themselves i think that's the lesson hikone takes away from this which i really do like and speaking of tokinada our principal antagonist of this series of novels he's alright he's not bad i don't i don't mind him you guys know that i i generally love the bad guys and bleach is absolutely no exception i love bleach's villains so so much and tokinada is not not bad for me he kind of ranks somewhere in the middle i guess in terms of overall enjoyment as i said i like his generally spiteful nature his very nihilistic view on the world he is very unique in that sense the way he he is just evil for evil's sake and i i like that they managed to pull that off as well but at the same time i think a lack of a real motivation does make him difficult to look at him as a really sort of three-dimensional character he's perhaps quite a simplistic villain from that standpoint and in many ways he kind of feels a bit eyes and light to me but there is a lot of really cool stuff going on here and frankly i love nareta for actually exploring the nobility of bleach for once that's something i would have loved the series to go into we only got fleeting looks at it thanks to characters like the shiba clan the shihoein the the kuchki it feels like we see a lot of nobility but really it's just off the cuff characters getting involved with the the main storyline the nobility itself has never really been a focus and it feels like what we've got here is a great insight into that world how they feel like they can just get away with anything and tokina is kind of interesting because he is obviously a member of pretty much the biggest noble family in seoul society so obviously that puts him on a pedestal above so many other people soul society being very unfair and unjust to society as it is anyway but what i find to be kind of perhaps the most interesting about tokinada is that despite the way he lords it over kind of your average joe he is something of a runt within his own family he is a member of a branch version of his own family the main family holds all the sway and he is almost completely beholden to them and i find that to be really interesting perhaps clear where he has a chip on his shoulder um but also where he gets his kind of superiority complex from as well and in this book we kind of learned the truth behind the death of kaname towson's friend kakio who was married to tokinada and basically tokinada in his very kind of evil way wanted to let this peasant girl live a wonderful marvelous life as a member of the nobility and then snatch it all away from her at her happiest moment and watch her come crashing down and he kind of tries to give her this revelation but kakyo has seen through him for a very long time and so she's not really affected by his deception at all and this really breaks tokinata insiders he can't can't do what he wants with this person essentially she's not his play thing even though he thinks that all beings really should be but eventually kind of things come to blows with tokinada one of kakyo's close friends ends up attacking him and he kills him kakyo arrives on the scene and tokinada kills her uses this opportunity really to get what he wants which is to be free of this woman that he has no real use for anymore now that she can't be bent to his whim but there's a there's a nice there is a nice kind of finality to this as kakyo is dying she kind of gets the last laugh on tokinada because she's like you know i really wanted to open your eyes i wanted to clear the clouds from your sky and show you the stars because i love the stars and obviously it's you know a big metaphor for trying to write tokinada's world view and he freaks out about this the fact that she died still looking down on him as he says and he rants to her that he is the cloud you know he's been standing on the clouds this whole time um and you know it's meaningless her trying to change him but he even admits to himself that he might have possibly loved her at some point because he because by trying to bring her down to his level he wanted to show her the world as he sees it and of course being a massive fan of shun sweet kyodaku i absolutely love that these two have a really kind of uh not close relationship but they have a relationship from a time gone by when they were both considerably younger this kind of rivalry between them kyoraku has always been a very perceptive man poking his nose into tokinata's affairs and basically ensuring that this very spoiled monstrous noble man can't get away with the evil he's trying to get away with and he's been a thorn in tokenada's side for a very long time and of course they do come to blows here in the finale i absolutely love the way shen sweet initiates the fight just immediately disappearing into a shadow the moment the light changes appearing behind tokinada that shot that kubo drew of kyoraku and tokinada clashing is probably my favorite in the entire book i just think it looks really cool um and i just think they have a great great relationship with this kind of kyoraku of course has been seen for a very long time to be kind of morally depraved like you know he's all about drinking and partying and women and just having a great time you know living this hedonistic lifestyle but the core of kyolaku's character has always been unequivocally good he is a good person and a highly perceptive person and when you have someone like tokinada who is more uh outputting a respectable member of the nobility but deep down inside he has a black heart you know he is a truly evil being kyoraku isn't going to stand for that and he's always going to do what he can to undermine him and i think that's such a cool dynamic between the two of them and as a kiraku fan i love reading it and there are just great moments peppered throughout this book as well little insights into characters that i would have loved to have just seen more of like yoruichi showing concern for biakia building on that relationship the two of them had um and basically saying like you know tokinadi insulted hisana and biaki was this close to losing his call so she's glad he's not here at the moment i think that's really nice that's kind of what i mean by toki nada feeling a bit eyes and light in the sense that he can get under character's skin in much the same way eisen could but just different characters this time tokinada's zan puk toe is initially believed to be called kuten kyo koku but as kyoraku correctly determines this is actually a false name tokinada gave his blades in a way of insulting kyoraku's cat in kyokotsu and as a matter of fact tokinada is actually using the sunni asher of ceremonial blade enra kyoten which basically allows him to replicate any zan puck toe he has ever seen it's a little uninspired it kind of feels like this has been done before particularly in filler um it really reminded me when i first read it it just reminded me so much for some reason of kagaroza inaba from the rhaegar arc but i like how it's implemented here it's powerful enough to be the main villain of an arc but with some serious and well thought out weaknesses as well primarily tokinada's rayatsu which is believed to be around the level of bayakir and yonowichi that he can only kind of copy something to that level so he can bring a weaker zampacto up to his level but his unpacked toe like rujin jaka which is wielded by yamamoto is going to be practically ineffective when wielded by someone as comparably weak as tokinada which is used to nice effect in the big final battle now bleach isn't really about these kind of big battle royale so i'm surprised that the can't feel your own world like novel series places such emphasis on them it just kind of feels like naruto was really keen to get as many characters involved as he could which i think is absolutely fair enough and i love seeing characters like the quincy being involved in the iran car as well or using their resurrections um but there's also some really nice strategy involved in these fights as well particularly against tokinada who is using eisen's kyokus suigetsu obviously not to the level eisen can but enough to be effective and they do some really cool stuff with that when hisagi gets involved in the fight he starts fighting blind much as his former captain tozen would have done and the amount of respect hisagi still shows to tozen is very interesting to me especially with kensei around and i always found it kind of strange that kensei never had a real problem with it which is something i brought up in my manga review as well of one of the very older chapters in the thousand year blood war arc when hisagi is training for baankai um about how he he doesn't like kent say badmouthing tozen and i've always just found it to be really weird because cancer has every reason to bad mouth toes and because tozen betrayed him and there about the pendulum and subjected him to hollow vacation which effectively ruined his life for a long time so i've always felt kent say it's just kind of weird to me that hisagi is still so openly respectful of the captain who betrayed them but that's for another time there are some great moments though where hisagi's kazushini the unpredictability is used really nicely it's wrapped in the rayatsu concealing cloak so that no one knows where it's going and shinji uses sakanade to reverse hisagi's perception to avoid kyokus so he gets something again i think it's just a really cool strategy something really neat and it makes the most of these big group battles eventually tokinada is defeated by the collective but flees after activating the fail safe which brings the royal palace kind of crashing down and he ends up back at the tsuna yashiro noble household where he's actually just stabbed from behind by a nameless child assassin and maybe i've missed something here i don't i'm not entirely sure but i think it's left highly highly ambiguous as to who actually ordered the hit on tokinada it could be the kind of assassins who were all kind of murdered much earlier on and can't feel your own world by toking on to kind of keep the secret of him killing off a bunch of suniyashiro family members but i don't know i don't know if you're really supposed to think too deeply into it i think it's just supposed to be a nice moment of karmic retribution togenada has just been wronging so many people for so long it was bound to come back and stab him in the back quite literally at some point in the future and i think that's just the way you're supposed to see it sure a faceless assassin has killed him but the way to look at it is soul society has finally put this guy down i think that's kind of the way you're supposed to see it but also tokinada goes out on this wonderful rant about how none of the people he's actually wronged were able to bring him to justice themselves kyoraku hisagi toaster and all that sort of thing he just you know is laughing at these people as he actually dies i think that's a real that's just a really cool moment and as i said to you tokyo i don't think he's necessarily the most compelling bad guy but naruto makes a really strong case for him in this book and his finale as a character is nicely handled particularly that end monologue where he just kind of you know screaming you can imagine him like collapsed against the wall but with a huge smile on his face as he laments that kiraki wasn't around kiraku was unable to finish him off and and bring him to trial that sort of thing in that sense he feels like he's won even though seoul society has finally pulled his number essentially his time is finally due of the new characters introduced in can't for your own world i do think the full bringer aura michievanna is my least favorite i find just i find her the least interesting that's all but she still is quite cool i like the emphasis on the full bringers here it's really nice to see them brought into the spotlight especially with her working with yukio as well of all characters but of course aura is immeasurably powerful because as a young girl she was a full-bringer who had no attachment to anything because she was essentially kept you know locked in like a basement for however long um and she kind of wanted to go along with token artist's plan the two of them kind of came together as both these people who didn't really see any meaning behind the world but eventually she kind of finds that meaning in hikone when the two of them kind of form this almost mother and child bond she eventually realizes that she doesn't want hikona to be subjected to this and betrays tokinada to help this child out again it's a nice scene tokinada really really acting eisenlight here it's almost to the point of self parody where he's like i knew you would betray me from the very beginning that's literally eisen's line to gain um and and again as well tokyo just constantly surveilling people as well as very eisen but it's a nice moment for aura she also kind of goes out very gallantly sacrificing herself for hikoni when ikomi kidomo turns on on them tries to attack the child and aura gets in the way and hikomi kidomo just tears a chunk out of her side there's a part of me that kind of feels like the end of this story is a tiny teensy bit rushed like not not anything too bad but aura is just wiped out komikidomo just suddenly like gets teeth i think and just attacks her uh and then not only that but ikomi kidomo devours the fragments of the rayo inside hikone and is then just one shot by ken patchy so any threat again that was there is just completely nullified but aura kind of dies as she's like bringing the the falling royal palace into waco mundo she falls into aca mundo and you kind of think she's dead but actually she reawakens and although her human body has died she lingers on as a spirit now in wake mundo but part of this new collective that rules waco mundo as a much fairer civilization harabel neliel etc and it's cool to see aura join up with them i think that makes an awful lot of sense and so she can kind of continue to lead because obviously she was basically leading the execution cult but she's you know can help kind of continue to push waco mundo towards being a much fairer and more civilized society so i think that's a that's a good ending for her and there is kind of the thread left hanging that she and hikoni are trying to find each other again in the future so if we look at ikomikidomo briefly because i think this is one of those characters that deserves their own video although i'm not convinced about how well they're handled overall i do think the concept is really cool basically ikomi kidomo is this primordial ancient hollow like properly ancient hollow who was so powerful that when they ran into one of the earliest vasto lord baragan they kind of like made this pact never to interfere with each other which i think is really interesting although i do kind of it is a bit weird imagining barrigan accepting somebody like living in his kingdom that he can't do anything about especially with his abilities being what they are i'm kind of surprised he wouldn't just try and kill ikomikido mode but it's still pretty cool nonetheless to imagine these kind of massive hollows making that agreement back in the earliest days of waco mundo and then this is the kind of thing that i would just have loved to have seen in the manga but ikomi kidomo escapes wae komundo and attacks the freakin soul society where he actually manages to defeat a young yamamoto and tries to eat the soul king like like reaching up into heaven to try and grab the sulking now i've got to be honest a hollow that can defeat yamamoto like that i'm not really sure why this is the reverse of what i was saying a minute ago why they need to fear barrigan that much they have to make a pact with him but we're not gonna we're not gonna go into that right now but basically ikomi kidomo is defeated by ichibe who arrives using his abilities of ichimonji to blot out ikomi kiramo's name then using his bankai shira fuji ichimondi to rewrite him a new one and seal him within this sword like that is so cool and i would have loved to have seen ichibe do something that badass in the map like that is the sort of thing that would be told fought like just told through the generations as a legend forevermore and that's so awesome to imagine ichibe doing something like that like appearing out of nowhere wielding his massive brush and just rewriting this hollow's name and managing to get rid of it before it can devour the king is a really amazing visual it's cool as well to imagine nehemiah working alongside him nehemiah's the one who actually seals the hollow into a blade as he was working on a saucy research at the time but again it's like this is the kind of thing that people would have loved to have seen from the royal guard the real the sort of thing that would have really made them feel like something beyond a regular shinigami like itchy bay just rewriting this hollow's name nimaya coming in sealing this gigantic soul into a blade would have been so cold but at least we got it here in the volume so being the quote unquote main character of the novel we should probably talk about hisagi although i have done a video relatively recently on his bankai which actually covers an awful lot of this moment from the story but really his sagi doesn't do a whole lot up until kind of about two-thirds of the way in when he really joins in in this fight and actually starts taking on tokinada and then takes up the battle against hikone uh which is hisagi's probably crowning moment and it feels very much as i mentioned earlier he's stepping into the role of the captaincy even though he's not a captain yet but he's really teaching hikoni while taking you know so many hits and so many blows himself being bifurcated and killed over and over but it's ban kai kazushini fushi no kojo which gets official reveal here and can't fit your own world and is really cool looks really cool conceptually and obviously was designed by kubo kubo had his hand in this it's just really nice to see for hisagi to get this kind of spotlight in the story that he held from the very beginning there are some small details in this book that i i do just kind of struggle with and again this might be that notion of explaining things that didn't need it so for example the true nature of dual zan pakto basically claiming that they don't exist except for ichigo because he's obviously his own thing but they're basically saying that kat in kyokotsu is of what we see in the manga which is that kyokotsu was birthed from katan in order to hide na now shinken hakyoken okay that's fine because that's actually in the manga but then the book tries to say that because that's a thing sogio no kotawari is also not a true dual bladed zompunk toe but the only reason they can muster for that in here is that maybe it has something to do with mimi haggy okay you know that that that smacks of really not being able to come up with something and then kazushini is that the blades are not the sun toad the chain is which again i struggle with it because i just don't think it was ever i don't think that was ever intended in the manga you know the whole time when hisagi releases his arm puck toe for the first time in fake karakura town the emphasis is on the spinning whirling blades their unpredictability not on the chain but that's fine i don't mind it it's an extra piece of law that i don't think we needed but we have it anyway and actually right at the end of the story hisagi does actually decline a captaincy role which again i think is good for his character because it kind of feels like with all of his banter back and forth with hikoni about blame and responsibility it feels like his sagi is going a long way to maturing but if he feels like he's not ready yet that feels like the ultimate acceptance that actually he probably is ready but it's just something that he needs to needs to decide for himself i guess needs to be needs to know when to step into that role rather than have it thrust upon him which i think is really cool and the last thing i want to talk about regarding hisagi is actually this kind of ending bit about him and kisuke because obviously the khan for your own world novel series really kind of began with hisagi wanting to get an interview off of the mysterious urahara from the very beginning and i think again the novel is stretching itself a bit too much here to create mystery out of nothing so hisagi starts questioning kisuke's reasoning for creating the hogyoku and eventually comes up with this idea that kisuke was trying to strengthen the khan paku of shinigami to the point where they would all have the powers of the rayo and therefore could maintain the stability of the worlds themselves and rayo could be freed from his eternal imprisonment and hisagi believes that to be true and leaves satisfied with that answer but kisuke basically says to yarawichi once his sagi has gone that's not the case and he made it for more selfish reasons than that kisuke basically says that he just created the hogyoku because he wanted to open a door and see something brand new first of all that just feels like a call back to the ask in fight which is what i think it's supposed to be um kisuke telling asking that if a scientist wants to see something new he or she will create it with their own hands but also i just think again this is creating something out of nothing i think turn back the pendulum already explained why kisuke came across the hogyo who came upon this answer because the shinigami the soul society were already researching and looking into reasons to strengthen the khan paku of shinigami just to make their soldiers stronger so that's completely reasonable and something i could easily see a military organization like seoul society prioritizing getting their research and development department to look into ways to artificially improve the strength of their soldiers there's it doesn't need to not everything needs to be connected to the soul king as much as i love the knowledge about the sulking and all this sort of thing not everything needs to come back to him and i i think tomato pendulum already explained it and maybe the novel wasn't satisfied with what was relatively simple answer which is just that in do in his research keys case stumbled upon the hogyoku which initially was conceived as an idea of breaking down the barrier for hollow vacation and so i just kind of read that bit and i was like this feels unnecessary to me and there's a lot of questions about kisuke's future morality as well which is again something i don't think is ever going to come to fruition and i've been asked this a few times as well and again i think i'll do a future video on this but as for kisko's morality let's just say i think it was set in stone a while ago moving on to ginjokugo and this is not going to be a long segment ginjo is one of my favorite characters so you know for sure i'm doing my own video on this in the in the future because i just have to but it's nice to get resolution for this character here in a way that works really well i think so gin joe you know kind of learns the truth that ukitake was deceived that in many ways tokinada is really the architect of all of gin joe's misfortune and everything horrible that's happened to him and his full bringer allies as well the massacre that happened to them and the fact that genji was essentially painted as a traitor and a criminal by the soul society which forced him on the road on which he went and you know what i like the route they go with gin joe here because gingo's convictions are very important to him as a character that kind of running parallel against the morality of the soul society is what makes him stand out as such a compelling villain slash anti-hero at this point and i think the novel does a great job of that it does a really good job of kind of absolving genjo and kind of absolving ukitake but also not really shifting the blame from either of them uh instead introducing tokinada as a new recipient of the blame and it's kind of cool because gin joe is like i don't regret my actions you know that's good the conviction of ginjo is a key part of his character but he does say that he thinks he should have killed tokyo first and i like that i think that's really that's that's awesome and you know you kind of get to the end of the novel and kyoraku oh in a scene i would have just i would love to see drawn like two of my favorite characters talking about the resolution the genjo's character arc would be amazing but you know kiraku kind of says tim can you find peace can you forgive ukitake now that you know the truth kyolaku basically says that yes although ukitake was lied to and effectively went along with this lie he never wanted to call ginjo a criminal and it never sat well with him either because obviously ginger was the first recipient of their substitute shinigami program it's a big deal to the shinigami as much as it was to ginjo that things went south between them and i think that's really nice to get that perspective now i don't necessarily like that the book feels like it is trying to worm ukitake out of trouble and make it so that he was this innocent bystander all along i don't necessarily like the fact that such an ancient and wise captain could be quite so deceived like he was again tokinada feeling like a bit eyes and light there but at the same time it's a nice resolution for gin joe and i i obviously love the moment at the very end where he kind of asks where ukitake's grave is to perhaps pay his respects or not even that but to at least just go and acknowledge the man as well if in the future we do get more chapters of this hell arc where it seems like ukitake could potentially play a role i would obviously love these two to meet in the future and i also love the tiny little detail about kiraku giving ginjo one of ukutake's books about seogyo and tsukushima being like yeah i've already read that that series essentially it wasn't bad i that's so that's such a nice little detail and i and and i like tsukishima actually also kind of helping kiraku alleviate the tension in the situation between them as well and of course the final kind of major component i want to discuss is the soul king the royal palace everything i ever wanted from the book well most of it anyway it's not quite all covered but there is an awful lot here regardless now again this will be its own video and i don't want to keep you much longer than we are already going uh but there's there's a lot to unpack here you know and even then so much of it is still so nebulous but i think that's the way legends work and it kind of makes a lot of sense but the soul king that basically before the soul king the universe of bleach existed as one primordial turbulent world of chaos there was just chaos life and death were one there was no cycle everything was just twisted and a horrible you have to imagine forsaken place to be and then as if born from this chaos itself the soul king emerged basically a got literally a godlike figure the sulking truly is the closest thing to actual god bleach has he was born from the darkness and the light to become this almost like savior who would save the humans of this very early world from the hollows who were preying on them and this earliest world is of course what you have was desiring what he wanted to return the world to while also freeing his father from a lifetime of just complete humiliation but the soul king was born perhaps as a response to the rising power of the menos at the time and the soul king emerged between stagnation and progression a balance between the two of them um just this being who you know was yin and yang all kind of rolled into one effectively and at the same time extraordinary beings like ichibe and nemaya were also birthed into the world at the same time in order to continue protecting the humans of this primordial world the being who would become known as the soul king killed countless hollows just so many of them he mowed them down and the soul king was on such a different level to even characters like ichibe as well however by doing so he threatened to turn the world away from the balance it had found and actually threatened to destabilize everything they currently had so the five ancestors of the noble houses suni yashiro kuch ki shiho and shiba and i believe the fifth one is actually still unnamed which is weird because this seemed like the perfect opportunity to actually name it all came together with something of a sinister plan the five of them decided that in order to help with the stability of the world and to get what they wanted they all wanted totally different things but they decided to take their primordial world and split it into three and to do so they needed a transcendent being and the power of the almighty to carve this world into three different areas in doing so they bound the soul king and used his power to split the world creating life and death and the cycle of souls as well the soul king didn't fight his binding or the fact that he was sealed within this crystal and each obey takes that to mean he thinks the sulking four saw something very far into the future that implied he agreed with the binding perhaps he foresaw his own son coming to end his misery at one point and just completely flipped the world of the shinigami on its head in the future it's safe to assume i think that the the soul king's future site only goes as far as the moment he is killed by ichigo in the thousand-year blood war um but at least at that point he would assume that uh was going to take over the world which is perhaps just a theory of mine and something again we will dive much deeper into in a separate video but the ancestor of the sunni yashiro family didn't trust the soul king's intentions one bit and so forcibly removed his organs his arms and whittled away his legs until they rendered him completely in this status between life and death this horrible undying existence that we know the soul kingdom have had in the present day of bleach and yet despite all of this ichibe believed the soul king may still hold some glimmer of a will of his own as he helped to guide ichigo to the royal palace at the very end that that is really a cliff notes version of this huge revelation but i still very much enjoyed it that's what i went into this book hoping to get out of it the most i feel like i did and i'm pretty satisfied with it and i'd honestly love to draw that history at some point in the future it's definitely something i'm going to try and do i think um you know i absolutely love drawing bleach stories so for me that would be an awful lot of fun but ichibe is also an interesting character and the portrayal of the royal guard is exactly what i wanted from the manga which i don't feel like we really got it's definitely emphasized a lot more here and that is just how on high they feel how completely divorced from the actual soul society and the goatee 13 they feel particularly ichibe who is a truly fascinating character i think he's so completely neutral it's like nothing we've ever really seen before ichibe actually being someone who is around and can talk and can act from stat that far ago in the past means he has seen everything everything and he has seen it so many times that he's effectively numb to it all and i think that's so interesting you know bleach it does a great job at introducing morally grey aspects to the story but for the most part you know the good guys are and you know the bad guys are and you can root for one or the other and itchy bay kind of fits squarely in the middle although from a narrative sense he is on the good guys side he's done some very questionable things he oversees very questionable things all in the name of the status quo he's like kisuke taken to the extreme in many regards you know obviously the the sick truth about what was going to happen to ichigo would be that he would have to take the position of the sulking and live that damned existence forever ichibe was completely unfazed by this all this man cares about behind that kind of very soft and yet sometimes incredibly intense face is his mission and that's so cool and i love the conversation he has with nehemiah where they talk about helping somebody out down there because you know things are going crazy and ichabee ichiba is doesn't even care about the nobility he's so far removed from it it means nothing to him nothing holds any consequence to the monk of perception and that's a very fascinating very fascinating character to have in a series like this um he even says at one point that he he likes this current iteration of the goatee 13 and if he was to help out he probably would help out the kyoraku lad but he's not going to because he has to remain impartial that is so cool it's so cool to see someone talking about kyoraku like the like the kyoraku lad like he's just he's still a little boy to each obey um yeah i like this current iteration of the goatee 13 they come and go times change and you just kind of assume as well that yamamoto has maybe been around similar amount of time but it's difficult to say exactly but it helps to it helps to i guess hammer home why the zero division just didn't seem that bothered after the events of the first quincy invasion although that doesn't entirely sit right with me because characters like hikifune should i think still have exhibited some sadness and some concern but ichibe certainly can remain completely removed and so finally as we wrap things up here in this absolutely mammoth video which is i think the longest video i've ever done on this channel but really it was never going to be anything short of that for this i just want to point out a couple of really nice little moments i saw during the story so quite early on the quincy's and the iran cars are discussing morality and somebody kind of comes along and makes a comment on that about how these two races are discussing this now and that shows you how far the universe of bleach has actually come and i i really enjoy that quincy's and iran car are of course two beings known for being primarily villains in bleach and now we get to the point where they're actually discussing the moral ambiguity of the kind of situations they find themselves in so i think that's really nice world development shinji hirako's bankai sakashima yokoshima hapo fusagari which was teased at the end of volume two is revealed in full here um and it's a nice bankai it's something i'm going to make a video on in the future but i really do enjoy it and i think actually this is really quite creative and this is the kind of thing i'm always jealous of and i just don't think i would have the skills to come up with myself as to how deep they actually take the theme of reversal to the point where shinji even comments that his bankai is useless against powerful opponents while his sheikai isn't he says something about how oh my shikha is useful against the strong ones but my bank is useful against the weak ones why do you always do everything so backwards sakanade that's really nice and i do love his ban kai i don't feel it's given as much prominence as fushi no kojo but it is really cool nonetheless to actually get his banakai here and i think there's maybe some neat ways they could have used it in the thousand year blood war but a lot of what shinji says here is kind of just him making excuses for why he didn't use it um and if that makes him feel better about himself then fair enough but i still think we could have seen it in that war somehow especially with the amount of sold that running around there's a nice moment between ikaku umachika and giselle obviously referencing the fight that they once had in the thousand-year blood war arc and how although ikaku you know can't really forgive her for what happened they are still effectively in in this new scenario together um and that's cool because i think that fight has the propensity to be overlooked somewhat particularly after mayuri joins in and snatches the spotlight away entirely so that's really nice and it's even nicer that ikaku actually goes out of his way to mention shishigawara mo from the lost agent arc as well that's again just a nice attention to detail there's also a moment where ken patchy mentions wanting to fight grim joe and this feels like the ultimate fan service request to me uh i this is something people were desperate for back in the day when the manga was coming out around the iran car arc was a was a just a bloodbath battle between kenpachi and grimjoe we basically got that with the neutral fight anyway but obviously grim joe is more popular out of the espada and i think he was so so popular that this was even teased in the animated intro of the video game soul carnival i believe it was called where the two of them sort of like run at each other and clash briefly um but it was kind of neat to see it here even though it doesn't actually pan out and just a really small point here but one of the surviving quincy is nana na najakoop for some reason and i'm bitter but it does kind of hurt having him alive and not asking but at least asking is referenced by him when he mentions about how asking would have said that it was something was fatal but i mean asking should be alive out the two of them and the very final point i want to make in this video if you're still with me by now which i really do appreciate make sure to subscribe if you haven't is about eisen and tozen and obviously tosin and his view of justice in the world plays a large part in kant for your own world because it's all about hisagi effectively and his world view and we kind of we get an almost tender moment between these two villains between eisen and tosun which i think is interesting because if you look back at the canon manga tozen is very much the third wheel in their trio and it's and it always felt like that as well it always kind of felt to me no pun intended that tosin was the blind follower of eisen like blindly loyal to him just following his every word and eventually just dies a pretty pitiful death um as a result of it whereas gene always felt to me like the one who was eisen's right hand man eyes and even says himself he never sought anyone but gene as his lieutenant and it always felt to me that game was much more privy to eisen's inner workings than tozun was than anyone was like gene always felt to me like not so much eisen's son but certainly the only person who eisen even remotely opened up to because eisen obviously saw himself in many ways as like a god-like being not on the same level as other people and that was emotional as well and but here they actually kind of try and rectify that in a way and actually show eisen and kaname having a delicate conversation with one another which i think to be kind of interesting but at the same time i'm a little unsure on it basically isaac asks for asks anime what he wants because he's been following him so loyally and he wants to give him almost something in return and tosin basically a roundabout way of saying it but he when he when he is eventually kind of if tozen gets to the point where he feels he has forgiven the injustice of soul society or where he has found forgiveness in his shinigami enemies he wants eisen to effectively kill him because he has lost sight of himself and of his original vision which is something that is brought up against the battle in the battle with common order when he mentions about how to live in a world where which can operate like this is is is evil where people who are not given the justice they deserve that is evil and that is obviously a core component of tozen's character but so what i think we're supposed to believe here is that when tosun blows up in the iran karak that's supposed to be eisen killing him because at that point he finds forgiveness in hisagi and komomura the three of them come to an understanding tosun even starts crying and i'm just it just doesn't necessarily work for me because it feels like it's in completely ignoring the soul suicide law that kubo introduced in everything but the rain which felt to me like it was designed to be an explanation of tozen's death tozen was a shinigami hollow hybrid in the purest sense at that point in the story and so you can assume that his shinigami side was constantly holding back his hollow side but at the moment of his death it couldn't anymore and he just blew up his body just ruptured and that's essentially what i always thought it was and the idea that eisen is mercy killing him at this point despite the fact that tozen is literally about to die feels kind of weird to me i could be reading into this whole scenario wrong as with the rest of this novel please do let me know in the comments below the novels more than anything open the floodgates up for for crazy discussion but to me it did kind of feel like a betrayal of of that law and also that scene as well it just doesn't really make a lot of sense to me tozen's literally about to die it's not like he's found forgiveness in his enemies and he's going to rejoin the ranks of the goatee 13 he is on his deathbed and it just kind of feels like a bit of a clash to me as well because this whole scene with eisen and tozen feels very respectful it feels like the two of them are talking to each other like comrades like they have been working together now for a while and eisen genuinely respects tocin detonating him like a bomb does not speak of respect to me like tosin's body parts go flying it's one of the most gruesome scenes in the series and eisen just is smugly grinning at komomora as komora is enraged about what's just happened now i will admit that komamura turning around to yell at eisen the moment tosin dies is kind of weird because it's like why is komomora blaming eisen but at the end of the day i'm not necessarily i'm not sure how i feel basically about this final conversation between eisen and tozen i like it i like the respect that's shown here and the fact that tozen feels less like a third wheel in there in their trio but i'm i'm just not sold on it necessarily overall and that is it for our absolutely massive video on cart for your own world volume three and yet there's still so much to discuss so i will be making individual videos on almost every aspect of not just this book but can't feel your own world as a trilogy i'm sorry once again but it took me so very long to get round to this book but i hope you enjoyed this video i hope this video was at least somewhat worth it i really did try and condense it as much as possible but there is just an awful lot here but i really hope you enjoyed the video guys don't forget to leave a like if you did and subscribe if you haven't done already and let me know in the comments below what you thought not just of can't for your own world but also of this particular volume as well what you thought of the final volume volume 3 and also who your favorite character in these novels was not just new characters but any character in the story alright guys but until next time i'll catch you later i'll see you then

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Published: Wed Dec 15 2021