THE LIGHTNING CAT - Analysing Yoruichi's Questionable ULTIMATE Technique | Bleach Discussion

as far as techniques and abilities go in bleach shunko is a pretty unique one and it's one that we see used very sparingly throughout the canon manga essentially a very high level and advanced hand-to-hand combat technique the user of shunko combines kedo with hakuda to create a combination technique that is vastly more powerful than anything they could achieve simply using their body alone so basically they just drive kedo into their arms and legs and it essentially infuses all of their physical attacks with that power now what's really cool is like i said this is used very sparingly throughout the series and in fact we only actually see three practitioners of shunko throughout the manga itself yoruichi soifon and yushiro and what i really liked about this was the way kubo gave each of these individual users a slightly different elemental twist to their shinko capabilities which is not something i was ever expecting but yoruichi uses lightning soifon uses wind and yusudo uses fire however the one we're going to be focusing on in this video is yoruichi the main practitioner of shinko throughout the series and the inventor of the technique itself as she revealed to soifon during their climactic battle in the seoul society arc and what's so interesting about yoruichi is that she's taken shinko to such an extreme degree that we see her using a completely new form in the thousand-year blood war arc that seems to stem from shunko but honestly brings with it a ton of new questions before we begin however guys if you haven't hit subscribe yet make sure to do that now you're in the perfect place for bleach content like this every single week also don't forget to give the video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it i really do appreciate the support and it helps the video get out to more bleach fans like yourselves and facilitate an awesome discussion and if you do want to take that support from me another step further the channel has a patreon now where you can support me for as little as a dollar a month it all really helps and you can get early access to videos just like this one as well and as always with every video i want to say a massive uh shout out to everyone who is supporting me on patreon so far i really appreciate and thank you so much so when it comes to yoruichi obviously she is a very unique character among the bleach cast for a number of reasons primarily the fact that she is a captain level shinigami who never uses her zan puck toe instead she always favors hakuda combat i've done an entire character analysis on yaroichi which you can obviously check out but in this one we're really going to be focusing and doubling down on her shunko abilities in particular the very strange ability of shinryu kokubio senki that she uses in the final battle she has against askin naklavar now she is the self-proclaimed inventor of shunko as we see way back she's completed her lightning shunko a long time ago although she still struggles to use it completely flawlessly specifically during her battle with askin we see just how capable she actually is with this ability and in my opinion kubo shows us a couple of different stages to this power that i personally us i think are supposed to reflect shikai and ban kai although obviously not quite so literally anyway for a bit of context surrounding yoruichi's powers and her application of shunko when she uses this ability like i said for her it takes the form of lightning they seem to be like these huge lightning wings that burst out of her shoulders and they strike down in that area and overall just have a really awesome look to them she uses shouldn't co twice prior to the asking fight in the canon manga obviously against soy phone although that's incredibly brief basically just to prove to her that she was able to do it first um and is far superior with it and then she uses it against eisen in the fake karakura town battle in what i think is a pretty unique application of this power i'm pretty sure she just activates it momentarily um to enhance her punch and that allows her to break sort of the first outermost layer of eisen's cocoon um as it were at the time i remember honestly thinking that moment was really cool back in the day um how she just triggers it for a split second it seems and you see it shoot out the back almost of like her elbow i think in that particular scene because she's obviously wearing that anti-hiero armor at the point so you sort of see it fill up with lightning and burst out the back as she punches eyes and square in the chest and that was honestly a really cool moment but actually when you think about it when you take just the canon manga into account she doesn't really use and showcase shunko until that battle with askin in varvelt so basically as soon as the battle begins she activates shunko she gets those massive lightning wings that seems that they seem to come down from the sky although obviously they're coming off of her but it's a cool little visual trick i think um and this is really the first time we've seen shunko being depicted properly as wings now obviously you don't really get to see a whole lot of it in the soul society battle between her and soy phone then siphon uses it again against bg9 um and again it kind of appears like massive butterfly wings when she uses it the first time but then it kind of just transitions into being this whirlwind around her arm it does also look awesome to be fair but here kubo's really just flat out drawing it as a pair of wings and he'll do the same thing with you shadow later as well there's an amazing bit of choreography here where asking fires a pair of arrows at yoroichi she just grabs one of them spins around and throws it straight back in his chest which is a wonderful moment that will hopefully look awesome in the anime but then she activates what seems to be the first stage of her shunko shunko raijin senkai um and in this form she doesn't really change too much she brings her arms around her in like this kind of arc and in reflection of that she gains this kind of connected arc of elemental orbs of lightning behind her essentially which take the form of i believe rygen's drums um being a god of lightning and thunder and storms in japanese mythology and the shinto religion and raijin's drums are something that have been depicted in fiction numerous times it's not unique to bleach but i've seen plenty of characters have that kind of symbolism behind them before and it suits jonoichi really well and she looks awesome as well um also when she activates this form her some of her hair stands up on ends to kind of look like cat ears which is actually a nice little piece of foreshadowing for what was to come a couple of chapters down the line but basically when she uses his ability she like i said brings her arms around her and it basically creates a massive bolt of lightning that smashes down upon asking so this is all well and good and it's pretty awesome seeing yaroichi actually controlling lightning like some kind of genuine goddess that's honestly really really cool and again something else i just can't wait to see animated she has a wicked look on her face when she does it as well she looks awesome that panel or essentially i think it's a whole page even of her bringing down her hand and screaming you know rygen senke as asking it's like being electrified that's i love that that's one of my favorite uh battle panels i think in general i just think it has so much energy to it but what we're really here to talk about is the second and presumably final form of yoruichi shunko prowess which is quite a mouthful but it's shinko raijin senkai shinrio kokubio senki um for ease of use basically she turns into a lightning cat before we continue i just want to bring up a small point so shinko is a fusion of hakuda and kido to this end it's not surprising that the only people that seem to use it are hakuta experts like we see even yushido shihoen is already quite proficient with shunko creating these fiery wings and hitting asking with the force of a bomb essentially but i kind of wonder you to be able to use shunko you presumably have to have a pretty high level of kedo competency as well um and so clearly by combining the two you can really use it but i wonder if a just a keto user could use shunko at all or if or if they would just create the kind of winged effect but obviously not be able to competently fight at close quarters i'm just trying to imagine someone like hachi using shunko and it looking completely ridiculous because he can't actually really land a punch but it's just something to think about because obviously you have to have a serious a decent you would think level of keto knowledge to be able to use it and anyway talking about yoroichi's final form it seems to be a combination of that keto prowess but also her feline transformation from much earlier in the story and so we can't talk about yoruichi's final form without talking about her cat transformation because it's um pretty i feel like we kind of forgot how important it was because by the time you're at this fight you're so far removed from the soul society but it was it was a major part of her character it defined her entire character for the vast majority of the soul society arc i thought i thought she was a man for ages because i was introduced to bleach through the anime um and i i thought i thought yoruichi was probably going to be a guy because he the cat had a really really deep voice and so that defined her character for a long time and it's i don't think ever really explained how or why she can do this um transforming fully into a cat the point where it creates a pretty impressive disguise seems to be a pretty big deal to me that's just never really addressed um maybe it's addressed in the supplementary material if it is i don't really remember the only card for your own world thing i think yoruichi is you know really uh kind of revelatory is her talking about her zampakto which we'll get into a bit later um but yes so and the cat thing is funny because it is actually brought up again in the thousand-year blood war arc yolowichi herself mentions that she can still do that transformation which is kind of neat because i think many of us thought cooper just kind of forgot about it and then also when ichigo and his friends are trying to imagine one of yodauichi's family members they have a comedic moment where they imagine it as a cat and yoruichi is like i'm not a literal cat but you know they could be forgiven for thinking that because why can't she do that is she a member of the beast realm clan like commonwealth again like if you watch the last video i literally put out we spoke briefly about you yaya hara the new vice caption of squad eight and there are some similarities here for sure you you seemingly liking to just use hand-to-hand combat mostly the the apparition of the bear behind her again giving her this kind of feral um i guess move set is the right word but it's that's kind of similar to yoruichi although yuu hasn't actually showcased actually transforming into a bear but regardless i'm going off on a bit of a tangent here but i do think that the cat transformation is obviously key to this final transformation but it's so weird that we never really know how it works and i say that because this feline transformation is clearly intrinsically a big part of who yodoichi actually is the fact that this final shinko form seems completely linked to that when she activates this transformation or as we'll get into has the transformation activated for her um she undergoes a change that changes some of her body her hair now stands up completely like uh electrify of cat ears as it did in raijin senkai but also now lightning seems to actively course through her hair down her ponytail and out and off of her body she seems to be breathing lightning at certain points as well um and some of these comparisons in my opinion at least are very similar to yamamoto's west ability in bankai when he was breathing fire when fire or you know rayatsu shaped you know disguised as fire essentially was was air being off of his body very similar here in many ways it looks like yoruichi has become lightning but now she has cat paws for her feet her hands have become clawed lightning has enveloped her arms and legs to create essentially long gloves and boots she now also seems to be wearing a lightning bikini as well and just top things off she has a tail so here's my uh gambit i guess i'm gonna kind of lay it down what does this form actually do [Laughter] i'm not really sure because it's only showcased for an extremely short amount of time which is not yotoichi's fault but it's kind of it's kind of weird to think about when you consider the context it's being used in you know yoruichi is already essentially the fastest character in the series so does this form make her even more nimble does she move even faster than she did before she certainly seems to spring off of the floor and go absolutely flying when she first uses it so that could certainly be an element of it does this new form infuse all of her physical attacks with lightning well it certainly seems so because when she strikes asking at one point he gets literally blasted by lightning but i feel like that is kind of similar to what shunko did anyway it certainly seems to me at least that this form was essentially contrived just to counter asking's death dealing because the only really unique aspect of this ability is the fact that it makes her fickle and moody like a cat and because of that it changes her rayatsu you know exponentially it changes apparently 48 times a second which is a totally arbitrary number and in my opinion it seems to really be the only justification for this power to literally defeat the opponent she is up against which is asking who has to be beaten in this way now i'm not saying this form is useless because quite clearly she becomes quite a force of nature but then what i mean is yodoichi already kind of was before and i do feel like as much as i enjoyed this fight there are some there is some strangeness to it that kubo kind of arrives at certain points that don't feel completely natural in my opinion as much as i like asking i have a really hard time believing he managed to land a hit on yoruichi with one of his gift balls that completely wiped her out yoruichi at that point in the fight being fit as a fiddle and should never have been hit by anything he can do obviously asking is very capable as well but yoruichi is not like grim joe she's not just going to smack one of the attacks out of the way and get affected by it but then maybe she did we never saw it so we'll never know all we know is that she did somehow get hit by it and that obviously forced her hand for the rest of the fight as to how she would perform so i'm not saying the form is worthless because quite clearly she is very very capable as a fighter but then at the same time um it's not like she went into this form to escape asking's poison that already happened because kisuke injected her with a drug she was able to move around and fight with raijin senkai again despite this now she she was still physically weakened by askin's poison even though ki scared got her up and moving again asking was able to land a punch on her this time because she had now slowed down so i'm kind of assuming at the end of all that the reason for this transformation is to really jazz her up basically and kind of i guess get her back to full power again because after kisuke's um drug that staved off the poison a bit she was still nowhere near 100 and it was enough for asking to be able to get the drop on her so she had to go in this form to to kind of not only keep up with him but continue to absolutely dominate him now i have to be honest i have a ton of questions regarding this form where did it come from is it the natural end point of her shunko training if so why is it a form that she absolutely hates how does that really work that's something that does kind of confuse me if it was something to do with her zan puck toe then i could maybe see her not liking that because that feels to me like something she wouldn't have real control over but we can assume that this potentially has nothing to do with herzon pucktober this is just an external ability and yet she hates it she calls it undignified half cocked she doesn't like that form at all and she would never transform into it of her own will the whole thing is just really weird and i think we we needed more explanation because if you go back and read this fight this form is like been gone in about a chapter it's literally about a chapter uh i think basically kubo just wanted to give yoroichi something really awesome before essentially seeing her on her way which i think is totally fair and i think the fans you know wanted to see something really cool from her i just think that this this begs a lot of questions this form you know like how did she get to this place how did she train to have an ability that you have to assume she had some control over because it's not hers arm puck toe and then she hates it it's just really really weird and it all comes down to where does this cat form come from i think that's the crux i appreciate i'm probably looking into this way too much considering how little time this thing actually spends in the manga but there are again just more questions still why can kisuke control it why is he able to remotely activate it and bypass jodowichi herself how does that work the whole thing about pulling off the paper when he says there's he shows her a piece of paper and it says when i peel this off you'll transform how does that work is that is that actually transforming her or has he done something prior to that that we haven't seen that's making her a change i have literally no idea and so when it comes to my personal opinion about this ability i don't really know where i stand with it because i do think that yoroichi deserved to have kind of her moment in the sun especially with the end of the manga rapidly approaching and it was cool that you know if we were really never going to see her zan puck toe that she got some kind of transformation and on that sense it makes total sense to combine two of her most recognizable aspects the fact that she had a cat transformation and the fact that she has a lot of lightning basically so you turn her into a lightning cat at the same time when the form is used in the way it is with keisuke forcing it upon her she doesn't actually want to use this ability and it transforms her into essentially a mindless cat it doesn't sit right with me removing yoruichi's agency is feels like a real shame because this character has always been depicted as incredibly capable very strong very experienced you know she's quite an old captain at the end of the day she's very capable of duking out with the absolute best of them outside of the contrived rayatsu changing ability that was suitable only for asking and maybe making her a bit more mobile and kind of allowing her to i guess keep up with him again and get back into the fight for a short while um i can't really see what it actually did and like i said i do think this is a bit of a shame just the way it's handled particularly because outside of the light novels this is the very last time we ever see this character in the manga and she can't speak she can't understand people anymore she kind of jumps around and it's kind of i guess cute and funny the first time you see it but it kind of wears off when you realize that yoruichi is like gone and it's just a bit weird if we get down to brass tacks a part of me does think that this form is just exists for the fan service element um and that's kind of again kind of strange to me because yodoichi has never really been used in that way obviously she is depicted as being an incredibly attractive character that's something we know and have known for the entire series but she's never been explicitly used in a fan-servicey way almost every other time we've seen her has made logical sense her best design is still far and away the soul society arc design where she just looks really cool um but particularly towards the end of the thousand year blood war kubo is just full on using her as fan service and it's definitely a bit of a shame when you consider it is the last time we ever see her and that lasting impression of the character in my opinion at least is virtually unrecognizable from the character we have all come to know and love up until now in my opinion i'm pretty sure i've mentioned this before probably in the yoroichi video but there was a way that you could have done this to really satisfy the fans and give them revelations they actually wanted now i know in khan for your own world it is mentioned that she is stronger without her zan park toe yeah okay that's i guess that's fair enough can't for your own world didn't exist when these chapters came out however and in my opinion the powers and stages we see could have easily translated into zan puck toe abilities and then we could have satisfied the fans curiosity about what a hazan puck toe actually is you could have potentially really heightened the kind of tension essentially in the situation by having yoruichi a character who never uses her blade actually use it not because she's you know weaker with it which i'm still not entirely sure how that works but because the situation necessitates it the sheikai could have been raijin senkai and the ban kai could have been shinrio kokubio senki um but potentially she even keeps her mind in this form because it's actually her choosing to use it i personally would have liked that but i can kind of see why people don't want her to use his arm puck toad that is kind of her thing um but the thousand year blood war up until well pretty much the entire way through has been about kind of breaking these conventions ken patchy gets a chicai because the situation necessitated it because people were in real trouble kisuke is actually on the front lines from the very beginning and actually uses ban kai because the situation necessitated it and i think it just would have been really cool um if kubo had handled it in that way but regardless it's still really neat to see that basically you have to as soon as the full gamut of shunko abilities and yoloichi running through all of them in her fight against asking and you really do get to see her lightning power is used in really cool and creative ways but that's it for this video guys on youtube's ultimate technique let me know in the comments below what youth what you thought of this power i would really love to hear it because i do have like i said a ton of questions about how this thing works where it came from how it ended up to be a power that she actually hates and what you think about having this translated as her zan toe abilities instead how do you think that would have worked let me know in the comments below um i would really love to hear what you think all right guys but like i said make sure to hit subscribe if you haven't done already and until next time i'll catch you later see ya

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Published: Mon Oct 18 2021