Sosuke Aizen: THE FALSE GOD | BLEACH: Character Analysis

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your support I want to really break down and analyze Aizen and C's character for what he is and not just some memes and funny one-liners for society [Music] who feels betrayal deceit and dreams of becoming a god sosuke aizen is a very nuanced character a one that really pushed me to my limits of analysis before we can delve deep into his character let's draw some attention towards how he is introduced to us and what we begin to perceive about him Aizen makes his debut appearance in Chapter 79 of the manga and in episode 23 of the anime we understand that he is a very well-mannered intelligent a soft-spoken individual he used to be a well-respected member of the gota 13 holding the Honorable position of a captain prior to his defection he is incredibly kind and compassionate having many of his underlings admire him including his former lieutenant Momo hinamori however lying beneath this facade is an incredibly manipulative and cunning mastermind he has someone who appears to care so much for his underlings but in actual fact he couldn't care less about them whether if this is his subordinates within the soul society or the arrancars in his army he regards everyone around him to be either disposable or a small pawn in his carefully constructed plan to fulfill his ambitions for the sake of these ambitions he does not think twice before manipulating a loved one or even killing others as long as it progresses his plans forward what exactly did Aizen desire which led him to construct a plan of events which spanned over 100 years this century-long plan was made to fulfill his ultimate desire to dethrone the soul king after learning the truth about the current system of reality he adamantly disagreed with it refusing to blindly serve the soul king and growing to hate the soul society for reinforcing and protecting the system set in place to protect the soul king his plan leads him to defect from the soul society so that he may stand at the top of the world himself as his rightful ruler his own hubris and feelings of superiority drive his ambition as he refuses to accept a world with a vacant king who acts without power to rule he soaking exists to mainly maintain the order of reality he is an absent ruler and it's this that disgusts Aizen who deems himself to be far too intellectually superior to be ruled by such a pitiful excuse of a king this is backed up in chapter 421 when he is being sealed by or Ahura he yells that he despises him telling him where the mind as brilliant as his why does he accept the soul king and the nature of reality he asks how he can keep obey that thing or ahora tells him that without the soul king the soul society would become divided it is the soul king who binds them together hora hora accepts the way that the world is what Aizen is enraged by this mentality he tells him that his logic is that of a losers aizen's last words before he is sealed by hora hora reveal a lot about his mentality he is so frustrated and for once overcome with emotion he blurts out the logic that underpinned his entire plan it states that a victor does not ask how the world is but rather how it should be this one quote should be enough to understand aizen's obsession with changing the status quo in his first appearance we see Aizen speaking with Renji he begins his manipulation very early on if we analyze this first appearance retrospectively we can see that es planting seeds of doubt into Randy's mind about the circumstances of rukia's execution he discreetly asks for his opinion if he thinks that Rukia deserves to die detailing how the punishment is excessive for the crime that was committed the time until the execution being shortened from 35 to 25 days and lastly the use of the sokyoku to execute her as typically it is reserved for captain ranked Soul Reapers Aizen who already knows who is behind all of this begins to make Renji doubt what is happening he reveals that he thinks someone else is behind all of this Renji is surprised to learn of a possible conspiracy there subtle manipulation is enough for him to question the events and eventually begin to conspire against the execution of Rukia after he is defeated by Ichigo Aizen manipulated the entire soul society and even as the reader into trusting him and feeling sorry for him after we are led to believe that he was killed all of this effort all for the purpose of changing the status quo through acquiring the Hokie oku after this brief look at his psychology and motives for his actions and now want to delve into the subtleties of his behaviors pulling back his deceptive mask that he puts on so that we can reveal the truth behind his lies it is all about motive and there is plenty of motive when it comes to Aizen to understand Aizen we need to see how he behaved and the consequences of his actions during the different points of the story I'll be focusing on three key moments within the story firstly before his betrayal secondly after his betrayal and lastly how he acts after his defeat naturally we begin the story prior to Aizen announcing his betrayal to everyone from his appearance to his actions everything about him during the soul society arc is so unassuming I don't know about anyone else but I grew to develop a respect for Aizen especially after seeing his caring nature that he shows towards his lieutenant Momo hers Faxon faith in a captain is incredibly infectious leading you to suspect nothing when we discovered that he has died he fools everyone including us his manipulations extend beyond the pages of the manga I remember the shock that I felt when I learned that Aizen had been killed and especially in the manner that he was murdered seeing him pinned against a wall with blood running down it a brutal murder on display for everyone to see how could someone so calm and well respected deserve to be killed in such a dishonorable way these are the types of questions I remember asking myself prior to his betrayal I stated earlier how eysan began his manipulations with Renji his deceitful lives lead everyone to believe in a conspiracy which causes factions to form within the soul society who are either in favor of or opposed to the execution of Rukia the key component of Aizen executing his plan to acquire the hogyoku was the removal of the central 46 in chapter 168 we learned that the central 46 have all been murdered they represent the highest court in the soul Society the decisions that they make are absolute it is apparent that they were killed a long time ago and the orders that the soul society were receiving were false and from another party which of course is Aizen he orders for the date of rukia's execution to be moved up and deliberately plans for her to be killed by the sokyoku so that a body may be destroyed while the hogyoku within her remains intact he also deceived everyone into believing he was killed making it appear as though it was gain who killed him he even manipulates his lieutenant MO to believe that he was killed by hitsugaya who she has known since a childhood Momo is incredibly loyal to Aizen that is because he says it himself in Chapter 173 he trained her so that she could not live without him in chapter 169 Momo meets Aizen after his supposed death she is relieved beyond belief to know that he hasn't died we see how he speaks to her softly places his hand on her head like a paternal figure these subtle behaviors deeply affect Momo she is too caught up with his deceit to even question why he faked his death she's just happy to know that he is alive he apologizes for making her worry and thanks her for all the time that they spent together he literally butters up and lowers her defenses makes of your comfort and happiness before we experienced his treachery for the first time he bids a farewell by impaling her through the chest with his zanpakuto he just looks at a lifeless body with no remorse a psychotic act which demonstrates his lack of conscience it is the way that he casually charms his victims with his lies the min and uses them for whatever purpose he requires before discarding them like trash there is no empathy or moral qualms with the extent that he has to go to to fulfill his ambition witnessing this treachery after mourning for his death reveals how terrifying it is to be manipulated into believing a certain truth when it couldn't be further from the truth he takes advantage of people's ability to trust blindly believing without questioning and that tendency to live by the status quo not willing to leave their carefully constructed comfort zones for Momo it would be too much to expect her to doubt a captain despite him always having been this way when he reveals himself to be a traitor he states that he had always been like this there is no change of personality or motives nobody realized his true nature and he took advantage of that like the opportunist that he is he orchestrated all of this just so he could acquire the Hokie of who which is sealed within rukia's body all for his ambition which is revealed to us in Chapter 178 as Aizen is ascending ukitake asks him why Aizen reveals he did all of this in the pursuit of greater heights but ukitake asks him if he has allowed himself to fall solo from his respected position Aizen tells him not to kill himself as he leaves while revealing his true ambition stating that nobody has ever stood atop of the heavens before not even the gods this vacant spot is now reserved for him as he declares the vacancy to now end from now on he himself we stand at the top as the ruler this is the point where his betrayal is known and his carefully constructed plan is executed however what occurred during the century long build-up leading up to this point we learn more about Aizen schemes and experiments via to flash banks the first is the turn back the pendulum arc and the second is everything but the rain we need to explore the purpose of each of these events in relation to aizen's ambition and how they are a part of his carefully constructed plan to overthrow the soul king the turn back the pendulum arc occurs 100 years before the present day the truth behind a mask of the visoreds was revealed during this arc as well as the hollowfication experiments that Aizen had been conducting during this flashback Aizen was the lieutenant of squad 5 under the care of captain shinji hirako Aizen had been studying to create a Hopi oku of his own a device that blurs the boundaries between a hollow aneasha Nogami the hope Yahoo allows the individuals of one race to attain the powers of the other it also has the ability to sense the desires of those around it and brings to reality what their heart wishes for despite Aizen presenting the souls hundreds of Shinigami to it his ho Kyo who was still incomplete he had learned that the hogyoku that hora hora had created was also incomplete after learning this he desired to steal hora hora sokyoku and fuse it with his own this ties in with d-10 back the pendulum arc because 101 years ago Aizen conducted a twisted experiment which is known as the hala fication incident through testing out the true limits of his hokey oku he forced shinji and several other captains and lieutenants to undergo hollowfication Aizen framed hora hora into being accused of conducting the experiments on his friends and peers this accusation forces him to flee to the human world along with the Shinigami who had been experimented upon the Shinigami eventually gained control of their hollow powers and formed a group called the visoreds and hold a bitter grudge against Aizen for what he did to them the turn back the pendulum arc is the earliest phonological version of Aizen that we see at this point he is already conspiring against the soul society conducting experiments and furthering his ambition we don't really get to see when he had the Eureka moment of realizing the truth behind reality and thus going against the soul king and everything that he stands for but it doesn't matter as his motive is strong and backed up by the flashbacks we see and his consistent actions throughout the series which serve to forward his ambition and the pendulum arc introduces us to the concept of the hokey oku as well as explaining why hora hora created his own hokey aku as he desired to find a way to strengthen Shinigami through using hollow powers we then see how Aizen uses his hokey aku through the everlasting trauma that Aizen inflicts onto his peers and comrades before the soul society arc he had already ruined and sacrificed the lives of multiple people in pursuit of a selfish desires we once again see the devastation that Aizen leaves behind in his wake causing or Ahura to lose everything he exiled and the visoreds who ended up being involuntary subjects to his inhumane experiment this results in them being treated no different hollows and were ordered to be killed by the head captain or ihara was forced to pick up the pieces left by Aizen having lost everything he desired to destroy the hogyoku that he had created but it was not possible to do so he deactivated it and placed it into the soul of Rukia he gave her a gigai which would convert her soul into a normal human forever his plan was for the hokey aku to lay dormant within her however he did not know that it was Aizen who deployed Rukia to ose kuru kuru town and deliberately led to the events which caused ohhara to place the hogyoku within her not only this isin also had a deliberate hand to play in orchestrating ichigo's development after he had learned by the special circumstances of his birth once Ichigo became a Shinigami he caused several events to occur which put ichigo's powers to the test we see this revealed to Ichigo in chapter 397 we learned that he deliberately hastened his development he does so by sending the hollow vishuddhi to attack his family or causing orihime inoue become a hollow making a menos grande appear after who you had used the hollow bait and also being behind the capture and execution of Rukia and finally along with setting up all of the encounters that Ichigo had with his opponents throughout the series he literally treated the protagonist of the story as his own little research experiment fans of the series rarely reacted unfavorably to this revelation that all of the events that we experienced within the story had played out in the palm of aizen's hands it is difficult to just accept this out of the blue but once we had the events of everything but the rain occur this is explained well and we really get to understand what Aizen meant by describing Ichigo as being the best subject for his research when he reveals this to him it causes Ichigo to ask him at what moment he was convinced that he was a perfect test subject Aizen replies from the very beginning the moment that he was born he knew that Ichigo was special because he was born a human and a the answer to this interrupted sentence is given to us and everything but the rain another flashback where Aizen once again ruins the lives of unassuming individuals to forward his own selfish ambition sometime after the holo fication incident Aizen becomes the captain of squad 5 during this time ichigo's father ition is also a captain who is leading the 10th division Aizen is still conducting experiments which involve hollows he's also trying to locate where the wisest have been hiding Aizen creates a hollow called white while ition investigates a city called naruki where the station Shinigami there had died in an accident along with recent reports to further casualties in the area at the time ition left alone to find the cause of the deaths hitsugaya and runge kuhu are as underlings are aware that he went alone to investigate as he did not want to get them involved because the possible threats seemed to be above their current level of strength Aizen has been working closely with chosen and Ginn who at this point are captains as well they continued that twisted hollowfication research while also tracking down shinji and his group they have equipped hollows with the ability to hollowfied their targets but the souls of ordinary people and even the souls of Shinigami seemed to be unable to handle the hollowfication process issue endures out aizen's hollow creation white he does so by elevating his own spiritual pressure he knows that the hollow is black and has an incredibly sinister mask along with a deathly shriek before he charges at the captain as it locks in on its next target Aizen and the others watch ish in battle their creation from a distance realizing this could really affect their plans Aizen feels like it is a great opportunity to get closer to the action our witness at first hand using gray at SU concealing cloaks they sneak behind ition just as he activates his shikai to get rid of white Aizen attacks him from behind it appears that there is no shortage of people that Aizen won't backstab in order to progress with his plan he smirks after he thanks Sora Hara for providing him with the inspiration to create the rats who concealing cloak after he used a similar cloak to try and surprise attack Aizen at the end of the pendulum arc Tosun reveals that white was one of the many hollows that Aizen had created but the difference with this hollow which made it special is that it was created from the soul of a Shinigami they leave ish into battle white confident that in his current state he won't be able to activate his bankai and deem white to be another failed prototype not pairing if it is destroyed by the captain before Aizen can leave he sees Misaki joined the battle as she arrives to protect Asian chosen states that he will kill her but Aizen being the cunningly perceptive type who wishes to see what will happen now that a Quincy has joined the battle it is safe to assume he wants to see what will happen if white locks onto Misaki as its target and attempts to Hollow fire a Quincy being hollowfied is indeed a rare sight not to be missed sure enough Misaki allows white to charge at her and bite her whilst she fires at point blank range a Quincy arrow right through its head killing the hollow white Aizen is very surprised by this turn of events as before white died it self-destructed once Aizen Tosun and kin leave we learned through Towson's rant that white was successful in Hull fighting its targets Misaki as it advanced from the target hollowfication phase to the final metastasize phase what is surprising is that a advance to the next stage on a Quincy Chozen deems this experiment to be a failure the plan had been for white to Hollow fire Shinigami not a Quincy but Aizen being optimistic states that white indeed strayed away from their initial goal but it ended up exceeding their expectations an unexpected situation occurs this is the hollowfication of a Quincy this is a situation that they did not dict Whitaker this excites Eisen as white was created from a dead Shinigami it then chose a Quincy as his target for hollowfication Aizen is intrigued to monitor what happens next this explains why Aizen had been closely watching mission and Misaki and knew about Ichigo from the moment that he was born from the very beginning he knew the significance of his birth being the first born to a Shinigami and a Quincy who hadn't attempted hollowfication this explains why Aizen planned for certain circumstances to occur in each girl's life along with testing him through making him battle several different opponents chosen especially by Aizen in order to develop Ichigo strengths he stationed Rukia in kuru kuru town and was behind fishbones d attacking his family this chain of events led to Ichigo becoming a substitute Shinigami and from here on out he was just another piece of aizen's plan he monitored each go closely to understand how a Shinigami powers can be amplified by hollow powers he does this alongside orchestrating rukia's execution which would let him acquire aura hores hokey oku we learn eventually that the hollow white was transferred to Ichigo Aizen is impressed by ichigo's growth during the battle with byakuya this is why he asks Akira to assess him Ichigo continues to develop his current pace when he become an obstacle to his plans further down the line I feel now that we have an understanding of aizen's past and his history with the protagonist explained we can now better understand why he behaves the way that he does after his betrayal let's now look into what leads up to Aizen being defeated by Ichigo also commenting on his ambition to become a god in an attempt to ascend new heights how this ironically leads to him being banished to the deepest depths of prison far removed from the heights of the soul king that he was so determined to take the place of after departing from the soul society Aizen forms his Espada he is very manipulative even with his own men this is demonstrated in Chapter 213 when chosen brings the disobedient Grimmjow to him so that he can be disciplined for going to the human world without permission Tosun demands that Grimmjow apologizes to Aizen for disrupting his peace but Aizen states that he is an angry a grim ghoul and considers his actions to be an overzealous display of loyalty in demongo we see Aizen glaring at Grimmjow asking him if he is wrong to describe his actions or such grimmjow says that he isn't Aizen knows that hosing will not be satisfied by this alone he lets this scrap between his men unfold before his eyes knowing full well that Tolson will want to seek some form of justice for Graham Jones actions he indirectly allows for Graham gels arm to be severed and then prevents Graham jail from retaliating it is entertaining to see Eisen behave as a villainous ruler maintaining order amongst his group of arrogant and egotistical subordinates after Grimmjow leaves Ginn is revealed to have been eavesdropping he sarcastically remarks that he is cruel for playing with his men like that confirming that he knew how Tosun would have reacted after what Eisen had said about grim Jones overzealous display of loyalty this also acts as a foreshadowing to Aizen showing little to no Cara when his underlings are killed in fake her koreatown and how he disrespects her Ebell by attacking her when he begins to lose his patience and shows his true colors Aizen is very intuitive and can predict how his opponents will react to his actions this is demonstrated firsthand when he requests for Akira to kidnap Orihime and has planned to use her as bait to load the gota 13 to hueco mundo to separate their fighting power in order to launch a counter-attack against them in fake kuru kuru town when Aizen arrives in Caracara town he is not the least bit affected by the goat i13 replacing the real kuru kuru town with a replica he is also not fazed by head captain yamamoto stealing him Ginn and hosen with his ability yoga COO Enzo he isn't worried as he expects his Espada to be able to defeat the gota 13 without their help he calmly waited for a subordinates and planned to go to the soul society and freight the oken there Aizen remains relaxed consistently when his plans are altered and unaccounted for obstacles appear before him we see this when he doesn't expectation to be fighting against white when he didn't expect shunsui and akitaka to destroy the senkaimon in the soul society arc and even now not expecting kuru kuru town to be replaced with a replica one aspect of aizen's story that I find intriguing is his relationship with Momo and how hitsugaya develops a hatred for Aizen because of how he betrays her trust in him in Chapter 334 she appears on the battlefield to confront Aizen after she was stabbed by him in Chapter 169 in the soul society arc hitsugaya discovers that Aizen is still alive after questioning him he learns of his true nature when he looks to the floor in chapter 170 he sees his childhood friend Momo bloodied and impaled appearing to have been killed Aizen apologizes to him for the way that he discovered her and suggests that he should have chopped up a body into pieces and hidden them instead a sickening thought that he thinks about someone who he tricked into trusting him the very person who respected him greatly hitsugaya understandably becomes overcome with his emotions which is something that eysan loves to do to others he loves making them feel blinded by rage and when they act based on emotion he tactfully takes them down by remaining calm and composed what I smoked bastard as he casually Yun says hitsugaya's questions revealing that he has been conspiring against the soul society from the very beginning since he became a captain he dispatched Momo without any care as he didn't consider anyone but getting to be as true lieutenant his Gaia realizes that this whole time he was deceiving them all to which Aizen smiles we learned that Momo only joined the goat i13 because she desired served beside Aizen she worked incredibly hard for this singular purpose Aizen heartlessly responds by saying that this is exactly what made her so easy to manipulate he purposefully requested for more to serve under his division hitsugaya is made to feel betrayal through Aizen turning his back on them then learns about Momo's condition and on top of that he sees no remorse in his enemy like a pressure cooker steadily building up heat hitsugaya erupts and attacks out of anger wasting little time by activating his bankai he declares that he will kill Aizen himself but the ever saw smoke Aizen smiles and advises he shouldn't make rash threats as it reveals his weak nature he takes advantage of hitsugaya's over the emotional state and swiftly takes him down with ease all the while smiling as he does so Aizen quickly becomes a detestable character from the very beginning of his betrayal so how does he react upon seeing Momo after so long he is surprised to see her alive as she looks at him nervously yet holding a zanpakuto determined to battle hitsugaya is concerned for her after seeing her appear on the battlefield momo states that she is not here as captain aizen's lieutenant but rather as a Shinigami ready to battle against him rangiku notes how she referred to Aizen as captain Aizen and advises her to be careful this reveals how deep-rooted aizen's manipulation is and how subtle Kubo is with his use of one word to demonstrate a character's emotional instability this also validates hitsugaya and runge coos concerns for her arrival on the battlefield later Aizen tricks hitsugaya into attacking Momo by using his kyoka suigetsu and switching places with her he once again is overcome with anger and tries to attack Aizen but it results in him and his comrades being cut down he really is a master of manipulation predicting the actions of his opponents through distressing them emotionally so that they act without thinking leaving themselves wide open for attack either knows precisely how to take advantage of the weak-minded nature of his former comrades after disrespecting all of his prior comrades Aizen displays the very same lack of empathy and manipulative behaviors towards its current subordinates after aizen's he stocks to fees he interrupts horribles battle by attacking her stating that she is not strong enough to fight on his side he treats his subordinates with such little respect and consideration not caring for their deaths and surprisingly even attacking and defeating one of them himself he disrespects the Espada by telling Harry Bell that he alone is more powerful than all of them this angers her Ebell who falls victim to aizen's taunting she charges at him but is swiftly taken down by Aizen he knows that once his opponents have become emotionally affected by his words he has already won the battle when his former captain hirako shinji conference Aizen he shows disgust towards how he treats his underlings by not trusting in their abilities will then hear that Aizen thinks that relying on others is a sign of weakness shinji is puzzled as to how he can say this when he gathered the Espada to serve under him surely he must have relied upon them and asked them to trust in him however Aizen reveals he never told them to trust in him he simply invited them to come with him and advised them to not trust in anyone including himself as in states that you would have to be incredibly strong to only trust in yourself and your own ability there are very few capable of such a feat eyes intel shinji that ultimately people want to put their faith in something bigger and better than themselves he states here that he will become a god and force everyone to believe in him looking back at all of aizen's underlings throughout his history his relationship with Guinea tomorrow is the most intriguing it helps us to learn more about Aizen as a character through observing their interactions and analyzing Ginn's final act before he is defeated Ginn is able to see past aizen's lies and his manipulations he frightening Li is always around the corner listening in on his boss and seems to know more about Aizen than anyone else in the series he comments on how cruel Aizen is to toy with his underlings in the Huracan window arc or how he was enjoying watching ichigo and his friends progressed through los noches in Chapter 255 and how he noticed Aizen was surprised to see Momo was still alive in Chapter 334 these subtle observations seemed to remind Aizen that he is being watched and his every behavior is being analyzed it would seem that Ginn was doing this in order to learn ever he could about Eisen so that he could exploit a single weakness to take him down Aizen is about to draw his blade to kill ichigo's friends but Ginn casually places his hand on his zanpakuto offering to go after them himself but he surprises Aizen as Jin's impacto extends and impales him through the chest Ian reveals that the only way to be free from aizen's complete hypnosis is to touch his impacto kyoka suigetsu while it is in his unreleased state and gain remained with him patiently for decades just to learn this information from him and when did gain his most loyal subordinate decide to betray Aizen in Chapter 415 we see a flashback why Ginn observes Aizen from afar as a child as he watches him obtain daeho kioku from three Shinigami he notices that these three Shinigami who were reporting to Aizen were behind rangiku's collapse when he first met her as you remember seeing them leaving the area where he found her this flashback of run Kiku and Ginn meeting is first shown to us in chapter 129 and in Chapter 415 we understand that Aizen fed pieces of Souls from hundreds of Shinigami and rukongai citizens who are potential to the hogyoku in an attempt to complete it thus explaining why and Runge who collapsed when they first met King declares that he will kill Aizen when he witnesses that he is the one who was ordering the three Shinigami to take pieces from the souls of rukongai citizens learning that it was Aizen who was responsible for Rangi cooze weakened state Ginn as a child resolved to Runge kutte that he would become a Shinigami and changed things so that she won't have to cry anymore he pretended to be loyal to Aizen so that he could return to Runge kutte that piece of a soul that was taken from her back in the present Aizen who is wounded states that he expected Ginn to betray him Ginn then reveals that he lie to Aizen and his zanpakuto's true ability is a poison that breaks down cells he activates this ability and takes the HOH kioku from Aizen and manages to get away however Aizen transforms into a new winged form and hunts down Ginn telling him that the hogyoku has already accepted him as its owner as it disappears from Ginn's hand and back into aizen's chest Ian remained close to Aizen and was able to enjoy being in his company Aizen is someone who wanted to become a god Ginn due to a revenge desire to defeat this false god but ultimately failed Aizen attacks Ginn and thanks him for reminding him of the feeling of fear stating how this is necessary for evolution as progress is made when you realize the fear of being killed at anymore thanks to Ginn he now has surpassed both Shinigami and holo acquiring the form of existence far above them this realization of fear contrasts with the end villain of the series you watch and I will later go into the differences between these two antagonists and how they both had differing ambitions and ideologies now after covering aizen's path to becoming a god he has now arrived at the edge of reason and is confronted by ichigo his special research subject appears before him Aizen is disappointed as he states that he doesn't feel any spiritual pressure from Ichigo however again who is about to die looks up at Ichigo and is reassured just by looking at ichigo's eyes saying that he appears to be stronger than before he dies after feeling like he can leave the rest to Ichigo now a man on the verge of death is able to see what Aizen is so oblivious to this first act of arrogance foreshadows aizen's downfall let's now look at the final battle between Ichigo and Aizen when Ichigo first arrived in fake kuru kuru town to challenge Aizen he was very vulnerable to aizen's taunting but on this occasion after having learnt the final getsugatensho now it is Aizen who is baffled by who stands before him in chapter 417 Ichigo silences Aizen by forcibly escorting him away from a densely populated area so that they can fight without any casualties Aizen after evolving and becoming incredibly egotistical is speechless when Ichigo man handles him he then proceeds to declare that he will end this battle quickly by defeating eysan eysan soon understands that ichigo has also evolved however his evolution is very different to his own he admits that they both are at their peak evolutionary states in Chapter 418 Aizen states that he can destroy ichigo's blade with a single blow when he attacks ichigo stops his attack with his hand which is a great call back to Aizen stopping ichigo's attack with his finger during the soul society arc in Chapter 174 Ichigo proves to have the upper hand taunting Aizen who then transforms into a new form but his efforts are futile ichigo decides to end their battle with the final getsugatensho Aizen still cannot feel any spiritual pressure from Ichigo he begins to think that each go may have surpassed him to which his ego has a difficult time to accept as he states that it is impossible Ichigo uses his technique mu gets you which severely wounds Aizen allowing or horror to intervene to finally seal Aizen resulting in his defeat we have so far covered aizen's rise and fall over the cost of the series let's now further analyze aizen's monologue his desire to evolve and sense and and ultimately how and why he tried to become a God and failed bleach is riddled with references to religion and philosophy aizen's character is expanded upon further when we begin to explore these references and their meanings let's begin with the very device which propelled his ambitions and allowed him to manifest his heart's desire the whole concept of the hogyoku is rarely underappreciated for the most part it is perceived to be essential to the immediate plot and motivation of the characters but considered in the grand scale of the story to be insignificant comparisons of the hogyoku to what screenwriters would call a MacGuffin a common i don't think that hijo kioku is an unexplored tool made just to drive the plot of bleach the core principles behind it stem from the Hindu and Buddhist interpretations of the Philosopher's Stone called the Chintamani jewel similar to the hooker who did Chintamani jewel has an ability to fulfill wishes at some point in the story both Eisen and aura Hara realized the origin of their reality and the truth behind the sole king the truth behind the current state of existence in Bleach is explained by the original sin which is revealed to us in the country your own world novels published after the serialization of bleach the original sin is an event from the past which changed and shaped the world but because of its morally questionable nature any mention of it is purpose for the erased from history the fall of Eisen King Jo's grudge against the soul society and the 1,000 year Quincy blood war these complex are linked to the original sin for the purposes of this video we need to know that in the beginning the world was complete and death didn't exist Danny Shinigami separated the world into different realms hueco mundo soul society dodonga and the human world the god of the previous reality had his powers and body parts separated via a special ritual he was then sealed forever inside a crystal prison and was now referred to as the soul King a lifeless corpse who hasn't exactly died but isn't alive either the new realms that the Shinigami created were unstable so they placed the soul king as the linchpin to maintain the balance of the world before death existed there was eternal existence petition Nogami introduced the concept of death through the changes that they made to reality the consequences of the original sin include Shinigami ruling the order of the world and the existence of hollows since the very beginning of bleach the main conflict has always been between Shinigami and hollows a self-inflicted feud caused by the shinigamis original sin they in to use death to reality and thus led to the creation of hollows in Abrahamic religions the original sin is described as man being banished from the Garden of Eden comparatively the shinigamis original sin was to create the current fake world and turn God into a lifeless corpse but why would they do this this is answered by the Buddhist belief that without suffering you cannot make progress and evolve the Shinigami desire to create an imperfect world believing that too much happiness would lead to ignorant and will prevent enlightenment which a Buddhist believes is the only way to attain nirvana and escape the cycle of reincarnation the approach of the Shinigami is devoid of God similar to Buddhism whereas the original state of reality had a god and was overseeing a perfect world alike to the Ibraham ik interpretation of reality prior to the banishment from the Garden of Eden the leech vol 48 is titled God is dead this is in reference to the truth behind the Soul King and thus introduces us to the conflicting philosophies behind urahara and aizen's worldview after they lent the truth about the reality the Greek philosopher Plato believed that the world of the living didn't matter as it was not eternal he accepted that reality was imperfect due to the concept of death however he states that the pursuit of true wisdom and knowledge was the everlasting world of the gods he elaborates upon this by stating that it is philosophers who stand above men to gaze into the world of wisdom and to return with knowledge which will improve the human world both isin and/or Ihara can be likened to the fundamentals of plato's philosophers in terms of the desire to comprehend beyond their sense of perception we live in a world of visible and intelligible things our five senses form our visible world thus it is subject to change an uncertainty however the intelligible world is made up of unchanging rules of reason like mathematics and abstract definitions thus the intelligible world will always describe the eternal form of things for example a human will always take up the form which applies to all humans despite the variations of skin color sizes and gender the physical form has an abstract definition the human form will always be what it is now the individual human like yourself is however a physical object which is subject to the uncertainty of the visible world if a human is dropped from a skyscraper then it ceases to fit that intelligible eternal human form Plato imagines that the visible and intelligible world are divided in the middle half consists of the visible world and the opah half is the intelligible world he states that each half represents a type of knowledge the visible world representing opinion and the intelligible world representing true knowledge and the Word of God the big reveal within Bleach is that the world of God Plato's intelligible world has been altered and changed because of the original sin orchestrated by the Shinigami the catalyst that causes aura Hara and Aizen to take action is learning that the intelligible eternal form of God and the nature of reality is riddled with uncertainty and subject to change both of them realizing the truth of the world consequently undertook differing philosophies to deal with the truths presented to them Arara accepts the way that the world has come to be and adopts the approach of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche likely title of bleach vol 48 God is dead the soul king is a corpse and not in control he exists merely to maintain the balance of the worlds through learning that the Shinigami killed God it grants us freedom from subservience but our hora also comes to accept we must now undergo struggle to make progress Nietzsche stated God is dead upon the advent of scientific knowledge in defiance to Christian beliefs he states that humans killed God through finding meaning and understanding of reality from science as opposed to religion through our own hand we killed the murderer of all murderers an approach which some consider to be nihilistic but objectively offers a realistic outlook on reality which puts the power into the hands of individuals instead of an all-powerful deity Aizen however refuses to accept things just as they are forming in line with Plato's views he desires to attain greatness and become God himself to return intelligibility to the world like a true philosopher of Plato he desires to go to the world of the gods so that he may return with wisdom and knowledge which will serve to benefit humanity through progression and enlightenment they both have their own reasons for creating the Hokie oku which stems from these very philosophies that I have just gone over initially introduced as a device that blurs the boundaries between Shinigami and Hollow it is then revealed to fulfill the desire of the possessors hot aizen's actions were driven by his desire to overthrow the fabricated hypocritical system which is in place considering the Shinigami to be a mindless herd who blindly served their sole king aizen's drive can once again be explained by Nietzsche who allows us to further analyze the polarity between or ahaa and aizen's differing ideologies Nietzsche introduces to us a hypothetical concept called the ubermensch which literally means the over man this concept represents the ultimate goal that everyone should aspire towards only attained by rejecting the status quo desiring to be more than just a member of the herd free from the constructs of society and his morals the over man quite literally believes in no higher power and fills the void with ambition innovation and desire for true understanding of the world this individual believes that there are no limits to their own possibility consequently they aspire to take down the current flawed system and replace it with a superior system of their own Aizen is this over man which explains the lengths that he goes to in order to bring about the systemic collapse of the Shinigami he proclaims before he leaves the soul society that nobody has ever stood atop the heavens before not even the gods this once again draws parallels to Nietzsche's famous concept of God is dead as Ison states neither them being the Shinigami herd or himself have ever attained the heights to which he seeks but he will be the one to do so his actions solidify his intense desire for this purpose through his manipulation betrayal and lack of concern for disrupting the status quo the desire to overcome that the over man possesses is defined by Nietzsche as the will to power aizen's will to power is the hokey oku which allows him to become more than just a Shinigami he transcends into a being superior to Shinigami and hollows after he places the hogyoku within himself this rich grunting urban aizen's will are synced due to the very nature of the hogyoku fulfilling the heart's desire similar to the over man concept Nietzsche also mentions the idea of the last man like Leo Berman the last man is aware of the nature of the world and its flaws but it cannot bring themselves to change the way of the world choosing acceptance rather than the more arduous task of altering and improving the world the last man is represented by aura Hara Eisen and hora hora are very similar in terms of intellect talent and knowledge of the world the difference between the two of them is focused upon in Chapter 421 as or ahora justifies the existence of the world and the soul King Aizen is baffled as to how someone who is as intellectual as urahara can accept being ruled by that thing hora hora states that without the soul king the world's will crumble simply stating this is the way the world works this is what infuriates Aizen as he in ohhara and his final words echo his Overman philosophy the victor should speak of the way the world should be in not the way it is her horror seals aizen horizon is so blinded by his delusions of grandeur and his superiority complex he fails to notice that he has weakened the seal takes effect as or Ahura explains that he ho kioku no longer recognizes Aizen as his master when Ganga Ichigo and Aizen begin to battle they both have attained transcendence Aizen has four forms he goes into a cocoon form then emerges from his cocoon into a second form his third form he grows wings and in his final form he resembles a literal monster the chapters which include the final confrontation with Aizen are named after the title deicide which means killing of a god this term is derived from the latin term Dissidia which is made up from Deus God and Sid iam killing the naming of these chapters for shadows aizen's downfall we also get to experience the differences between Ichigo and aizen's transcendent forms Aizen believes that you transcend the norm by breaking the limitations of a Shinigami and I holo thus becoming a mixture of both of the species this explains his obsession with hollowfication experiments a transcendent being possesses spiritual pressure which exceeds the norm Ichigo indeed possesses this and it confuses Aizen as he cannot feel his spiritual energy he wrongly assumes that Ichigo exchanged a spiritual power to elevate his physical power in Chapter 418 Ichigo indeed has power that is greater than the transcended Aizen who cannot stop gloating about a superior evolved state during their battle Aizen is in his third form which has a closed eye placed on his forehead I believe this represents the opposite of the spiritual third eye which is open through enlightenment as it is a spiritual internal eye not a physical eye you can outwardly see on the face the third eye is an esoteric concept which is referenced in several religions and is referred to as the invisible mind's eye the difference with this third eye is that it is inverted it is visible on his forehead and is awakened by rage as Aizen infuriated by ichigo's claims of him being stronger than him causes him to transform into his final form which appears to be an outward manifestation of the monster he has internally allowed himself to become as a result of his hubris Aizen attained transcendence why the hogyoku as opposed to Ichigo who is a hybrid being who literally attained power that was beyond that of a Shinigami hollow and even a Quincy a natural evolution made through ichigo's willingness to sacrifice contrasted against aizen's forced evolution he attains thanks to the will of power generated by the hokey oku in Buddhism transcendence is attained through absence of suffering only then can the state of Nirvana be achieved it is ichigo's powers which thrust him into the front lines of battle which caused him to feel suffering he chooses to relinquish his powers via learning the final getsugatensho he attains Nirvana but liking the Buddhist interpretation of transcendence this is temporary and only reserved for mortal beings Ichigo returns from his evolved state after he uses the technique muga Tzu and Aizen is forced to relinquish his godly form once his loneliness overcomes his heart Aizen became a false god who was consumed by his false sense of enlightenment he was defeated by the self-aware Ichigo and banished to the bhojas level called mukhin of the soul society's underground prison it is ironic that he desired to stand on top of heaven reaching heights that not even God's could fathom but instead he is banished like Lucifer to the lowest realm of reality after aizen's defeat in Chapter 422 each go questions or Ahura he wonders if the Hokie oku rejected Aizen describing it to be a device that reads the hearts of those around it and makes their wishes come true did Aizen ultimately desire to lose his powers ichigo states that he could feel aizen's blade in battle once he became strong enough to challenge him as an equal ichigo states that he felt loneliness emanating from Aizen zanpakuto he theorizes if indeed he was born with exceptional power he may have just seeked for someone who could see things from his perspective someone who shared his world view during his battle with ichigo he eventually gave up looking for someone who shared his perspective and in the end just desired to become a ordinary Shinigami ultimately coming to terms with the world and his own feelings of loneliness this is what causes Ichigo to feel remorse towards Aizen as his eyes are drawn with sadness urahara notices this and reassures him that he did the right thing by defeating Aizen through his battle with Ichigo Aizen is deeply affected to the extent that his heart desires for normality causing rejection from the hogyoku which is his will to power and thus reverting his godlike form Aizen retained his immortality but no longer held a form of a transcended being the idea of Aizen being lonely is touched upon by Kubo in Bleach databook 3 he describes him to be very ambitious someone who never gives up overcoming his loneliness due to his goal preoccupying his mind preventing from thinking about how lonely he actually is now that he has become this evolved being and is at the cusp of achieving his desire to overthrow the sole king he realizes how lonely it must be to stand at the top with nobody beside him none of his subordinates survived and he has nobody to call upon as an equal possibly or ihara but his acceptance of the status quo is in direct conflict with isin disposing him to be alone in his pursuit this is why he may have wished to be a normal Shinigami in the end like Ichigo mentions in Chapter 422 thus causing Lee hope Yahoo to reject him I mentioned this earlier while Aizen was speaking to Shinji his states that he believes people place their faith in someone or something which is more powerful than they are leading them to become dependent upon blindly following that thing the recipient of that faith seeks to follow someone who is above their own position so that they can place their faith in them in order to escape the pressure of being blindly followed the recipient of that faith too seeks out someone who is more powerful in order to put their faith in he believes that this hierarchy of faith and power explains the way in which all Kings are born and how all gods upon as in describes here the hurt who accept reality without questioning it living within the limited scope of reason in volume 48 the poem at the beginning states people are all imitations of monkeys gods are all imitations of humans this ties in to isin speech to Shinji as the poem expresses his frustrations with the importance the Shinigami give to superior beings were unworthy of it when Aizen leaves the dung guy to arrive in the real kuru kuru town he states that reason exists solely for those who must cling to it for survival now let us go to the edge of all reason the edge of reason is the limits of existence to push one selves beyond what is thought to be possible in the pursuit of progression to become a superior being worthy of the position aizen's The Edge of Reason quote is a great elaboration to the poem that Kubo writes at the beginning of vol 12 which is titled the flower on the precipice we think that the flower on the precipice is beautiful because our fear makes our feats stop at its edge instead of stepping forward into the sky like that flower this poem comments on the fearlessness to exist in a place where no other can reach to challenge you their fears associated with the cliff edge and stepping out into thin air caused them to admire the beauty of the fearless flower from afar did those who have the courage to step forth and overcome their fears only they get to see what lies beyond the precipice of course for Aizen his desire to stand on top of heaven to occupy the vacant throne in the sky is his interpretation of fear thusly stepping over the edge of the precipice even after his defeat and imprisonment Aizen still desires to not of any one rule over him remaining true to his view of the way the world should be Kubo gives Aizen the honor of delivering the final speech on courage Aizen like you watched desire to change the norms of society however they had differing reasons you watched desire to rid the concept of death from reality the stopping the primal fear that we relate to our mortality when Aizen is betrayed by kin he thanks him for reminding him of the feeling of fear stating that without fear that can be no evolution of progress now that he has become immortal he has in some way lost that fear of dying only he could comment on you watch his desire to rid the world of death as his immortality has allowed him to consider the consequences of forming a world without this fear Aizen thanks kin for reminding him of the fear of being killed at any moment and so based on these words you can assume that without the fear of dying there is no progress relating back to the Buddhist belief that without suffering you cannot be free from it and thus make progress to accept that suffering exists in life is the first of the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism suffering includes the fear we have due to realizations of our own mortality eyes and speech in Chapter 686 answers why it is necessary for the fear of death to exist he states that in a world without the fear of death people would not search for hope they will merely exist without purpose the very act of existing while fending off fears is a different a more admire elite according to Aizen he reveals to us that living in such a manner is the very essence of courageousness this final rendition of aizen's character who speaks after his defeat demonstrates to us a character who still holds his views on the way the world should be but as accepted that he could not achieve his desires thus with his failure combined with his desire for progression he is able to show us his growth through his final speech about courage describing in effect the most admirable aspect of the world he wished to alter the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism really helped to bring more insight into the flaws of you watches ideology like I said the first noble truth is to accept that suffering in life is inevitable during our lifetime we will feel pain through loss sickness injury tightness and the ultimate suffering which is to die to accept the first noble truth you realize that whatever happiness you try to strive to it will not last all moments in life come and pass so too will we the second noble truth is to understand that our suffering arises from our attachment to our desires for you watch his suffering which is his fear of death arised from his attachment of life and existence the third noble truth speaks of the end to suffering which will result in ultimate freedom the state of Nirvana which translates to freedom from suffering worries and pain this state cannot be comprehended by those who have not attained it the third noble truth speaks of achieving the heightened state of Nirvana which explains aizen's thoughts and progression and how he related the fear of dying at any moment to his own progression when he is reminded of his mortality he was made to suffer this ceases once he rids himself from his attachment to life and reaches a heightened state of being through evolving after Ginn's betrayal suffering stops once we rid ourselves to the attachment to our desires our selfish cravings lead to our ultimate demise which is exactly what happened to you watch Aizen merely comments on the necessity of death in relation to making progress and living fearlessly in his final speech on courage aizen's character undergoes change from his first appearance in the story to his last this is pretty evident if you have been following the video up until now in a typical positive change arc a character believes in a lie they then encountered the truth and it is this truth that helps the character to overcome the lie that they believe by finding and accepting the truth aizen's changing the story flipped this positive change arc on its head as he undergoes what is known in screenwriting as a negative change character arc in a book creating character arcs came violent states that a negative change arc tells the story of a character who ends in a worse place than that in which he started the negative change arc has three types of arcs within it the disillusionment arc default arc and the corruption arc I believe that Aizen undergoes two of these negative arcs one in the past and one in the present online of bleach the disillusionment arc occurs for Aizen when he learns the truth about reality the real purpose of the soul King this entire truth he learns is a negative one due to not knowing much about aizen's past it is difficult to pinpoint what other than his innate talent and pursuit of knowledge led him to learn about the truth of the soul King we don't know the initial lie that Aizen tells himself that leads him to the truth which causes his disillusionment we can infer that some form of dissatisfaction with the world caused him to desire to understand the world which led to him learning the truth of the world in the story the earliest that we see isin is after he has learned the truth and begins his hollowfication experiments we observe his negative change unfold from this point onwards in the present day Aizen undergoes the fall auch after his disillusionment occurs it results in Aizen developing his fatal flaw or lie his lie he believes is that he is the only one worthy to rule over others not allowing himself to be ruled by anyone else especially the soul king who he D personalizes by referring to him as it or that thing instead of overcoming this light through finding acceptance or another truth to resolve his concerns Aizen instead falls further into this lie ultimately resulting in his defeat and imprisonment Aizen rejects the truth of the world unlike or ihara he cannot accept it like the over man that he is Aizen seeks to change the world into how it should be unlike the hood he cannot blindly place his faith in a God that is given power by the people who solely rely upon reason for existence he realizes the soul king is a powerless linchpin his hubris and superiority complex makes him believe that he himself is worthy of becoming a height and being deserving of others faith Aizen clings to his lie and warped belief of how the world should be to such an extent that it causes him to manipulate and betray anyone who ever made the mistake of trusting him this ultimately leads to Aizen folding from his well-respected position as a captain and ultimately falling far from his desire to sit at the top he has now bound to a chair powerless and sealed deep underground where his immortality will cause him to lament over his feelings for eternity if you enjoyed this video on would like to see more like it then please consider supporting my channel on patreon I have multiple tiers with the rewards including access to an exclusive discord server video scripts as well as being the first to know about unreleased upcoming videos thank you for your time and whatever you choose to contribute I will appreciate and it will mean a lot to me [Music]

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