SQUAD ZERO VS THE ELITE STERNRITTER - Everything NEW We Learned (+ How the Anime REDEEMED The Fight)

before we get started there will be spoilers for the Thousand-Year blood War Arc of bleach in the video to come so by now we've all seen the Epic conclusion to bleach the Thousand-Year blood War Ark anime part two featuring a completely reworked and revitalized battle between the zero Division and uabar Sh stle as the war for the Royal Palace escalates into a fullblown showdown of divine proportions before episode 24 air I made it clear that this was an area of the story that I felt needed to be shown in full that needed a hefty amount of additional content to bring it up to par and that without it the Thousand-Year blood War Ark anime would be missing a huge opportunity laid bare before it I posted a video detailing the entirety of the battle between the two sides as seen in the source material and how I felt that despite the showdowns immense po potential and excellent buildup it then failed to execute any kind of meaningful payoff whatsoever and now several months on from the end of the second core it's time for a followup of sorts a postmortem if you will a sequel though based on how episodes 24 25 and 26 ended up turning out it might feel more akin to a Victory lap we all know by now that the team succeeded in trans forming this much maligned battle into something far more befitting of its place in the narrative a truly explosive fight between two sets of monstrously powerful warriors battling for essentially the fate of the world as we know it in the source material the zero division had been hyped up immeasurably since day one in fact the very moment these captains arrived on the scene in chapter 516 was punctuated by kyaku claiming that the five of them together were stronger than the entire combined might of the go 13 itself and yet rather than this statement acting as the badge of honor of anticipation for these characters that it should have done it instead wound up acting as little more than a heavy noose hanging around their necks all of that's to say we never saw that fabled strength of theirs really play out the anime however has done everything in its power to rectify this error helping the zero division redeem themselves with a Litany of new skills and abilities while keeping the fight as even as possible so in this video rather than lamenting what could have been as was the topic of the original video on this fight we're now going to take a look at everything new added to the battle between the zero Division and the shut stle in the Thousand-Year blood War Arc anime for the members of squad zero and well they added a lot so let's Dive Right In I think the easiest way to approach this video is to look at it character by character to see how each individual member of the zero division was given more to do and more chance to show what they're capable of as it's mostly the same as the source material albeit with a few Cuts here and there I won't be looking at ich B's fight with youu habach in this video I'm planning a Battle Analysis specifically for their fights in the weeks and months to come so let's begin then with kinji tenjiro the hot springs demon and inventor of the healing power of kaido in the original version of The Invasion tenido actually had an additional scene that was removed here in the anime when hash wolf initially summons a squad of soldats to rush the palace entrance tenido is first on the scene sweeping the Quincy soldiers off their feet with his sealed zanak toe tenjiro then challenged uabar directly before Conjuring a swirling torrent of boiling hot water to surround and scold the soldat as uabar faced him down the hot springs demon activated his shikai kinpa before the scene cut away to a different part of the war the next time we saw tenido UAB Bak had somehow evaded all of his attacks leaving tener's overall contribution tion a little lacking especially considering in the source material this is basically the extent of what he does this is all removed in the anime's version on the one hand I find this to be a little bit of a shame as I think the actual introduction for tenero here is really well done really epic and looks fantastic but on the other hand I totally sympathize with why they removed it it's a little awkward to fit in with everything else they've got going on plus it does end on that very disappointing cutaway where we never saw tenido or his shikai ever again so personally I'm very happy to see the way they kind of reworked tenjiro into the fight later on instead speaking of which tenjiro instead first appears on the scene after hikifune has trapped uabar and the rest of his men inside her cage of life and he leaps down from above Landing in a splash of water after oetsu has seemingly butchered the shut stle tenido manifests an ball of water which he then flings down at hash wolf and uryu trapping the sternritter grandmas in a rushing prison of liquid as water surges endlessly around hashw tenero prepares to battle him in a totally new fight sequence activating his kimeka which we actually get to see used here tenero whips the lid from his or the short blade of his shikai immediately Illuminating the battlefield in a brilliant golden gleam tenero then dives into battle flinging himself at the water and watching it part as he appears above hash wolf his shikai glowing brightly overhead in perhaps one of the most surprising scenes of the entire new fight Teno completely dominates hash wolf flitting around the Quincy with his fabled extreme speed as he continuously slams his sword into hashw Shield sending sparks flying with every hit it's difficult to say what kinpa itself is actually bringing to the fight here unless it's simply making it harder for hashw to see however as hash walth challenges tenido to break his shield tenido drives kinpa into it with a forceful strike shocked to see hashw managed to stop his attack however tenido was only fainting and with a powerful twist wrenches hash wal's shield from his hand sending it clattering away across the wooden floorboards and in an instant rendering hash Wolf's FR Shield completely useless as hashw draws his blade tenero Dives towards him in the two Clash resulting in the sternritter Grand Master being cut down in a violent spray of blood I think everyone was honestly pretty surprised by this and tenido earned a lot of respect for his rapid manhandling of one of the strongest villains in ble after this tenero assists oetsu in defeating Asin in the same way he does in the source material but at least now we know why tenjiro was available to help being the first to defeat his opponent in battle by quite some way later as Hun's cage of life is obliterated by U harbach's Al Veil and tenido leaps onto one of the shattered branches staring in disbelief at what just happened as the shut St are all revived by their King tend stands alongside the zero division brandishing his shikai ready for round two of the fight as a newly powered up Le blasts oetsu tenjo and hikifune leap into action attempting to block the sniper shot with their zanak tow again this scene does occur in the original chapter and as both of them realize in horror that oetsu was still struck through the chest this is where the original fight came to an end and was the moment in the epod episode I was on the edge of my seat for thankfully the anime continued on past the source material which is exactly what I wanted to see as tenido unleashes kinpa once more I feel like here we really see what the point in his shikai's ability actually is tenero UN sheaths kinpa in an instant and temporarily blinds Le with its light enabling the zero division to regroup admittedly if that is the whole purpose of kinpa shikai it's probably a little underwhelming especially since it is the first light type zanak toe in the cannon material so its ability to essentially just temporarily blind tener's opponent is possibly yeah like I said leaving something to be desired but still it's very cool to see it nonetheless and to see it used in such a dire situation as this to such great effect as tenido reminds the shut stle that the zero division are stronger than the entire goatee 13 the two sides split off into battles once more this time tenero is facing Asin tenero sends a torrent of his blood hell pond water into the air causing a rainfall of blood that showers the battlefield clearly an attempt to counter Asin shrift now that tenero has some idea of what it does tenero leaps into the air and activates kinpa once again blinding Asin br ly causing the stern Ritter to turn tail and run tenero catches up to Asin and swipes at him but Asin slides underneath the strike and summons his staff as tenero brings down a wave of blood towards Asin the sternritter transforms his staff into five different gift balls however tenero seemingly destroys the gift balls with his strike as they dissipate into the blood and he gives Chase once again as we return to this fight T Dives onto the scene attempting to strike Asin once more but as Asin continues to run we see that he has successfully managed to poison tener's blood rain with his earlier gift balls turning the rain toxic and infecting tenero tenero then steps into a puddle of poison which oddly was a totally random green color in the original anime before being fixed in the Blu-ray version and instantly comes to a allowing Asin to Vault over him before shooting him in the back with an arrow bringing down the zero division member finally tudo along with the other wounded zero division members cuts his own throat to enable senjumaru to activate her banai and he dies on his knees as the ground is soaked in Crimson around him next up KIRO hikifune is perhaps the zero division member with the least amount of new content afforded to them throughout this fight the that doesn't mean she didn't get anything at all hikifune plays the support role in this battle overall meaning she isn't as actively engaged in combat as the other three at least not initially anyway like in the source material hikifune first appears when she releases her cage of Life trapping the shut stle inside a prison made up of colossal trees along with the other members of the zero division hikifune gets a new introduction where she swings down from up high using Vine like branches extending from her Palms before facing off against the Quincy as the battle begins hashw uses the balance to split hik aun's cage apart which is again really cool forcing her into action although she doesn't know what magic hash wolf used to destroy the cage hikifune scales the tree trunks before blowing several seeds into the air now hik aun's powers on the whole I would say are probably the most nebulous of the four and they do get the least amount of explanation out of them as well but we do get a decent understanding of what she can do just by watching and seeing what's on show the seeds sprout and grow in midair wrapping themselves around the splintered cage and pulling it back together again like I said hikifune plays a supportive role early on and I love seeing her managing the cage of life and reacting on the fly to ensure it isn't completely destroyed as the battles rage down below hiku watches from her perch and Muses that this is what she'd expect from a fight involving the zero division hikifune later watches as her cage is utterly decimated by U harbach's power she and the other zero division members then prepare to face the resurrected shut stle and she attempts to save oetsu alongside tenjiro as the battle then begins a new hifun claps her hands together and from the floorboards beneath their feet new Bud Sprout colossal twisting Vines bursting out of the woodwork and ens snaring the Quincy inside a new Messier prison this time the walls are so densely packed together as to shut out all light now separated hikifune finds herself against the mysterious perida unfortunately we don't get to see hikifune shikai in action or at least not in any explicit way while we don't learn its name or what it can do we do see her utilizing her zanak toe in combat in a way that might give us some Clues hikifune launches several seeds into the air and then wafts her giant spatula behind them rapidly accelerating their growth as more Vines burst forth speeding towards perida although perida is able to destroy several of the vines before they reach it with the compulsory hik overwhelms it seemingly crushing the Quincy beneath a gigantic contorted mess of a tree which buries itself into the woodwork before her however hiun is shocked to see perida destroy the tree from within before the Quincy attempts to grab her with its wendish wings hikifune leaps out of the way catching the outstretched Wings in more vines before summoning an even denser tomb with which to imprison perida in the new spell is so powerful that it expends much of hikifune stored up ratu reverting her to her slender form this is cool because in the source material when we returned to see the offscreen fates of the zero division hikifune was in her slender form implying some kind of a struggle or at least exertion on her part and now we know why however despite hikifune giving it her all it's simply not enough as perida manages to break free once again this time diving straight for hikifune and defeating her in seemingly a single strike considering pera's ability the compulsory and the way it works I do wonder how it manages to take someone down like this without completely destroying their body or a part of it at least maybe it just kind of slapped hikifune and wiped her out and so with hikifune down the prison of tree branches around the fighters begins to crumble letting the sunlight spill in once more then hikifune along with oetsu and tenido kills herself to release senjumaru true power interestingly we see hikifune shrink her spatula down to size before revealing a blade within now I wonder if this is actually her shikai as the shikai of both ich and tenero turn their otherwise unorthodox zanako into a more traditional bladed weapon up next we've got shuara senjumaru now I'm not going to go in depth into all of senum maru's new scenes here as I've done at least a couple of videos looking at her already suffice it to say that of the zero division members sju Maru receives not only the most new content of the lot but also plays clearly the most exciting role of the bunch as well although some of senju maru's encounter with uabar is altered slightly at the start of the invasion senjumaru retains her entire sequence against nanel from The Source material while also receiving a brand new fight against uru here we get to see her shikai shigar Army in action as she effortlessly utilizes both its offensive and defensive capabilities against the Quincy wielding her Limitless racy threads that flow like webs from her sewing needles thanks to her shikai's power senjumaru easily dispatches uryu before the next round of fighting begins as the shut stle are revived senjumaru faces off against Gerard Valkyrie displaying even more of her shikai's powers when senjumaru attempts to kill Gerard with shigar armi moving to pierce his heart with her needle she finds that she's unable to do so foreshadowing Gerard's true nature as the vessel that contains the heart of the Soul King Gerard breaks free of senum maru's threads and punches her in the face knocking her down to the ground where he proceeds to stamp on her before violently tossing her against a nearby tree slump over senjumaru appears defeated however her fellow Squad zero members all kill themselves in order for her to use her Bankai shatat kagar shigar armi no suji as Kubo later revealed in his Q&A it was determined Sim Maru was best suited to take on so many enemies at once thanks to her reputation as the one with a thousand hands with the Blood Oath seal now broken senjumaru releases her ban Kai and imprisons all of the shut stel inside a Hall made of tan mono Fabrics each one experiencing their own reality as an illusion of senjumaru picks them off one by one as the second core came to a close the last we saw of senjumaru showed her defeating the entire shut stle Squad along with uryu and hashw seemingly sealing their fate though we know better of course as I mentioned I've created a couple of already looking at the new additions for senu Maru in particular but it's safe to say that she was handled extremely well in the anime and I couldn't be happier senjumaru genuinely has one of my favorite designs in Bleach but until now that's really all she was a cool looking character without much substance to her which is an issue that plagues the Thousand-Year blood War Arc unfortunately it's not just limited to send you by any means however the anime has gone some lengths to amending this and while I'd always love to get more this is more than I already imagined if I had been sat down and told outside of ich Bay you've got one member of the zero division that you can really highlight you can showcase their shikai their B Kai who would you pick I would have chosen senum Maru without a second thought and finally the blade God Naya oetsu is up next and like kapun before him he doesn't get an awful lot in the way of totally brand new content the main reason for this is because oetsu was the only Squad zero member again outside of maybe senjumaru who actually got a decent amount of screen time during the invasion in the source material not only taking down the entire sto an incredible style but even battling Asin one-on-one as well and all of that has been kept here in the anime thankfully oetsu makes his flashy introduction in the same manner as the original chapter a spotlight blasting into life as he appears before the Quincy with his experimental zanak toe SAA fushi by his side the only difference is U's introduction now caps off a series of new introductions for the other members as well as oetsu takes down the sternritter with ease blitzing each of them and cutting them down in sh hours of blood he and the other zero division members are then shocked to see U harbach manage to escape the cage of Life thanks to uryu's antithesis abilities regardless oetsu then challenges both uryu and hashw even going so far as to mock them over the idea of not knowing who the successor is actually supposed to be out of the two of them but the two Quincy are quickly wrapped up in battles against senjumaru and tenjiro respectively leaving oetsu with no one to fight the anime very cleverly Segways this new sequence into U's battle with Asin making it feel like a totally natural bridge between the new content and the old once the stern Rit are revived oetsu demands to know what's going on as hashw explains the owl's veent to him with round two upon them oetsu stares down the resurrected Quincy alongside his fellow zero Squad members before being blasted in the shoulder by leb's enhanced power here we continue with chapter 604 resulting in oetsu almost being shot dead by the sternritter however he's rescued at the last second by senjumaru who whisks him away before healing his wounds with an unusual cotton-like substance that stitches him back together again now back on his feet oetsu gleefully challenges the Quincy mocking them for thinking they could mount a comeback simply by sprouting some some wings at the very top of hikifune new prison oetsu du's Le now darting and leaping out of the way of the Quincy's ex axxis ability oetsu appears to be too quick for leil who tries to blast the Shinigami over and over again striking only hik ofun trees before he's able to move fast enough however Le is horrified to see oetsu is already upon him the squad zero member bringing SAA fushi down with a grin as we hear the blade slicing through the air however oetsu is perplexed when he realizes his blade has simply passed right through leil completely unaffecting him jumping backwards oetsu Muses that leil has an interesting trick mirroring what Le said to him during the initial Blitz a few episodes ago but Le keeps his cards close to his chest simply attributing his survival to the fact that he's now used to oetsu speed preparing to blast oetsu again Le is surprised when oetsu repositions himself briefly before lunging towards the sternritter seemingly accepting his fate suddenly leil realizes U's plan the squad zero member has positioned himself directly in line with u harbar meaning he thinks Le can't shoot him lest he also strike his King unfortunately U's Jubilation is shortlived when leil punches a hole in him regardless Leo reveals that U misjudged the power of the x-axis the blast doesn't keep traveling infinitely instead it merely stops upon reaching its designated Target in this case it's oetsu himself I'm kind of surprised sjim Maru doesn't just pass some of that cotton out to each member of the zero division so they can use in situations like this unless it's really only her that can use it because with a massive hole in himself once again oetsu could have just stuck some cotton in the wound and maybe he'd have been okay instead he collapses to the ground lying defeated along with the other Warriors of the zero division however oetsu is the first to stagger back to his feet and despite the blood running from his mouth he takes charge and orders senjumaru to release her power and take the Quincy down lifting SAA fushi to his neck oetsu cuts his throat instantly ending his life and allowing senum to take control of the battle and so that's just about everything new added to the big showdown in the Royal Palace for the zero division as you can see there's quite a lot and in looking at the zero division we've really gone over everything new for the shut stle as well now certain characters were still treated better than others even with all of the extra time afforded to this fight obviously senjumaru is the total standout here but I really feel like the anime's extended version of the this battle was also a real Boon to none other than tenero who got to Showcase some of his shikai kinpa in action at last after being teased in the source material all those years ago not only that but his effortless takedown of hash wolf was both genuinely surprising and impressive giving us a chance to see why he was known as Lightning Fast tenero and I think honestly elevating this character in the minds of much of the community but regardless of who your favorite member of the zero division is there can be no denying that they all got a chance to shine here finally sadly with their deaths it does seem like this is the end of the screen time for oetsu tenjiro and hikifune but I mean who knows what could happen in part three the anime had the unenviable task of trying to redeem the zero division in the eyes of the community who after all of their insurmountable hype were defeated in a pretty pathetic fashion off screen originally but now thanks to the anime's version we get a glimpse at what these Shinigami are really capable of the incredible Heights they're able to so casually reach admittedly it is a little weird when you go back to chapter 61 a new harbar announ that Squad zero has fallen you see all these characters lying defeated it's a little strange to think now that most of them are just there because they killed themselves unless something else does happen in the wake of whatever happens with senim maru's barai but regardless after witnessing U's unparalleled skill with a blade Hun's power over life itself stemming from her very body or senjumaru banai the arrival of which was heralded by the trembling of the three worlds of bleach itself it's not hard to imagine that they might actually at long last be capable of living up to kaku's words from chapter 516 which have defined them or should I say damned them for so very long and that is a true victory for the anime in my eyes but that's it for the video guys as always I really hope you enjoyed it what do you think of the new content added to the final battle of part two for the zero Division and by extension for the sh stle as well this is probably the last time we will see most of the zero division unless something drastic happens in part three so I'd love to hear your thoughts on the new fight that we got and what you'd have liked to have seen added to them as well if we're being a little greedy so make sure to let me know all of your thoughts down in the comments below and as we leave I want to end the video as we always do by saying a massive thank you and giving a huge shout out to my supporters over on patreon I really do appreciate each and every one of you so so very much and your support means the absolute world to me really more than anything if you like what I do here over on YouTube and you want to support me on patreon as well you can do just that to get your name in the credits like this this and to get every video I release 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Length: 28min 36sec (1716 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 12 2024