The Top 10 MOST SHOCKING Plot Twists in Bleach (Manga) | Ranking

i've set myself an arduous task in this video i want to rank what i believe to be the top 10 most shocking plot twists in all of bleach over the course of the canon manga kubo dropped several mind-blowing and shocking twists events that forever altered the course of the story and transformed the world we thought we knew so well these are the series's craziest moments moments that stayed with fans like you and i for years after we first read them so narrowing it down to just 10 was pretty difficult but overall i'm quite happy with the list we've got before we get started guys if you haven't hit subscribe yet make sure to do that now for more bleach content just like this every single week and if you enjoyed the video make sure to give it a thumbs up as well as it does help support me and the channel by getting us more exposure on the whole youtube algorithm and if you really enjoy what i do here i do have a patreon for this channel as well if you want to take your support another step further you absolutely don't have to do that but if you did you can get videos like this one early and you can support me over there for as little as a dollar a month everyone appearing on screen is a patron of this channel currently i really well and truly appreciate your support thank you guys so much for letting me do what i love so like i said getting this list down to just a firm 10 was pretty difficult there are so many twists and turns within the story of bleach so if i've missed any that you think should have been on here or if your list just looks different to mine please do let me know in the comments below i'd love to see which were the most shocking plot twists for you guys but because i had such a tough time getting this down to just 10 before we get started there are three honorable mentions i want to i want to discuss before moving into that numbered list and of course one piece of housekeeping there will be major spoilers in this video for just about all of the biggest plot twists in bleach so if you don't want the series spoiled for you if you haven't reached the end you have been warned so our first honorable mention then is perhaps the most recent plot twist on this list and it comes from the relatively new hell chapter we just got and that's the shocking revelation that all of the captains who have died in the series so far have actually been going to hell this whole time this completely upends what we thought we knew about the cycle of rebirth in bleach which with a story set in the afterlife predominantly is a pretty big deal as we thought that deceased shinigami simply got reincarnated in the human world as a brand new person but no all of the captain level shinigami so far have been doomed to spend out the rest of their days as a denizen of hell and what makes this twist even crazier is that it's their own comrades who have been inadvertently sending them there this is a massive deal the reason it's only an honorable mention is because really this is just a concept so far there's been no expansion on this idea and unfortunately we have no idea if there ever will be however if kubo does deign to continue his hell arc in the future this twist could move up with the major ramifications it has for the bleach universe our second honorable mention is a shocking revelation from the iran car arc when it's revealed that nell the wacky comic relief child who's been clinging on to ichigo all this time is actually not just the cutesy character she appears to be but is in actuality the former third espada meaning she was once a high-ranking official of eisens army this was a really awesome moment for nell in generals it really helped to flesh her out add an entirely new dynamic to this character who i thought was honestly pretty played out by the time we got this reveal i thought she was mostly just there to be this ultra hyper exaggerated comic relief character who also helped to lend ichigo a little bit of humanity during his descent into wei komundo but this really transformed the character and has affected her throughout the rest of her tenure in bleach as well so i think it's a really cool twist that just adds an entirely new dynamic to someone we thought we knew our final honorable mention is also involving a member of the espada and this is a twist i've talked about on this channel before is one i personally do really like and that's the reveal that ukiyora wasn't the first to sparta not even the second or the third but in actuality was only the fourth espada all along this is devastating in its simplicity and its effectiveness kubo is playing with expectations here all kia ora has been built up all this time to appear on the surface to probably be the leader of the aspardas he has eisen's favor eyes and lets him carry out missions at his behest ichigo uses everything he has to bring this guy down and it barely scratches him only for all kiara to reveal crushingly he's only the fourth espada in terms of strength meaning that no matter what ichigo does even if he scraped a victory here there would still be three espada more powerful than all kiara obviously the point of this was to make the asparagus seem like a completely insurmountable enemy a summit ichigo would never reach now of course whether or not the first three of spada actually lived up to expectations is always up for debate but this twist will never not be effective and that brings us then to our top 10 our list of what i believe to be the most shocking plot twists in all of bleach as i said let me know in the comments below your list i'd love to see it but at number 10 this is a difficult one for me i was considering actually only making this an honorable mention and the reason being although this is a pretty big and earth-shattering moment the climax of a character arc and i think people generally speaking would have this twist lower down on their list for me it loses points for being i think pretty obvious i think i thought it was coming a mile away and that is the moment of course where gene betrays eisen right at the end of the fake karakura town arc in the day aside mini arc as eisen edges closer to completing his ultimate goal gene suddenly turns on him his right hand man he turns literally and stabs him through the heart with his bankai kamishini no yari as the conclusion to a centuries-long plan for revenge against eisen it's a cool cool moment an awesome twist that is there was so much fun to read as well but again i think many people saw it coming there's the obvious fact that it really feels like gene is helping ichigo helping him kind of understand the situation and trying to get him to dig deeper to find the power necessary to defeat eisen back in the fake karakura town but there's the fact that these two despite seemingly understanding each other on a level more than anyone else could they've always had that air of suspicion about them gene is an inherently very suspicious character so for me i just kind of always saw this coming but it didn't really diminish the impact of the twist when it happened which is why it managed to make number 10 on here if you've got it lower down i wouldn't be surprised but for me this feels like the right spot and coming in at number nine is another plot twist that while shocking i think was quite heavily telegraphed and i think a lot of people would would consider this to be another one that was fairly obvious but again i think it was very effective and that's the reveal that gin joe cugo was in fact evil and the main villain of the lost agent arc this is a weird one because i think kubo does it really really well from the offset it looks like genjo is a bad guy he's portrayed as being ultra suspicious very shady almost comically evil in the way he kind of comes across to ichigo and then slowly but surely over the course of the art genjo the walls around him seem to come down ichigo lets him in a bit more and they seem to become firm allies maybe even friends and i think kubo was very very smart with this character very very savvy very genre savvy in that he makes us think that genjo is a good guy and then plays with the expectation that his audience clearly thought ginger was still evil giving us this whole fake spiel about genji being a bad guy pretending to be evil and then in actuality supposedly cementing himself as a good guy only to much later on reveal that no it was all fake genji is actually evil and the first substitute shinigami like i said maybe for some people this wasn't a twist because maybe they never stopped doubting ginjo but i just think it was done so very well and that panel that twist of his actual reveal is so effective so for me i'm happy to have this moment at number nine okay so at number eight i think we have something of a controversial plot twist although in my opinion no less shocking than the rest and that's the reveal that yami largo is in actuality the zero espada not the tenth espada as we've been led to believe all this time what didn't you know that this video was actually going from zero to nine rather than ten to one it is dumb it is stupid but i said most shocking plot twists not the best plot twists i don't think this one is particularly very good in fact you know my opinion of this plot twist i made an entire video about why i think it doesn't really work but it is shocking nonetheless i don't think anybody expected this kind of glow up i guess from yammy of all characters who up until this point had just been a total buffoon who existed only really to be a punching bag for basically everyone he came across now the reason i don't think this really works i'm not going to go into super detail about it but yami just doesn't really earn this position a position a coveted position by the way that the fan base had been theorizing about for years whether or not there was actually a zero espada or not yammy was very unpopular just in general considered to be a bit of a letdown overall and just a really kind of weak character who didn't earn that twist or that position but it was still shocking nonetheless i was personally shocked mostly the fact that the fans idea of a zero espada even existed at all but the idea of this twist has been pretty brutally lambasted among fans ever since the whole didn't you know the espada actually went from zero to nine rather than one to ten was really really dumb and people people didn't like it but it was a shocking moment nonetheless so i think it earns its spot on the list coming in at number seven is a twist i really enjoy and it was very shocking for me to the point where i remember like audibly gasping when i turned the page and saw this and that is the fact that common order has a human form in the thousand-year blood war arc now it's already a bit of a twist that when common water first loses his helmet in the soul society arc he's actually a freaking wolf fox man underneath but of course we grew to know and love common more over the years that would follow however in the thousand-year blood war arc after he undergoes some very interesting training with an elder of his clan he returns to the battlefield with another helmet over his face and i should have known something was up at that point i should have been like i just thought it was a call back to the soul society up because kubo had been doing that quite liberally in the final arc as it was but when the helmet is destroyed and you turn the page and komamora is now a human i was so i was shocked i couldn't believe it and like i said maybe i should have seen it coming there is a small hint where you see komamura's hand and the smoke is just sort of clearing on it and it doesn't look the same as it used to but this moment blew my mind and i love it and i still have as i say to this day i think commonwealth has the best story out of everyone who lost their bankai and this is the ultimate culmination of that the results of komamura's barbaric humanification technique which you know involves the tearing out of his own heart this transformation was just so cool took me completely by surprise really caught me off guard and i think it's one of the best one of the most shocking plot twists in all of bleach rounding out the top half of this list with plot twist number six is an interesting one again and one that i think just really came out of absolutely nowhere which i think are often the most effective plot twists of all and that is the reveal that when aranero ararueri the ninth ispada removed his mask he was kion shiva underneath i mean this just this is just enormous now we've actually talked about cayenne relatively recently in our video on kukakushiba but his entire relationship with rukia is her emotional core the crux of that character and it all seemed to be quite neatly tied up with a bow at the end of the soul society arc when the sheba family kind of accepts ruki's apology and you know they say that she wasn't to blame anyway however kubo being the devil that he is wasn't ready to let rukia off the hook quite so easily and the reveal that the ninth espada was in actuality her former commanding officer was absolutely crazy it was just an insane moment that was only compounded as the fight went on sure this wasn't exactly cayenne that she was fighting it was an it was kind of an eldritch abomination using cayenne's face however the twist only evolved the further into the fight we got when it was actually revealed that yes this is literally cayenne's spirit body aragnero devoured metastasia when it returned to waco mundo and took with it all of its memories including the body it took from cayenne meaning rukia was actually fighting her former commanding officer in this fight it's an emotional gut punch a seismic gut punch and it's handled really really well and basically transformed what could have been just another generic espada fight into one of the most emotional battles in the iran car arc and so kicking off the top five of our list is a plot twist that is pretty shocking and i think has been foreshadowed for years up until this point which i think is very impressive and that's the reveal that ichigo's mother musaki kurasaki is in actuality a quincy all along not just a regular human this is a great twist as i mentioned already it has seemingly been foreshadowed for ages by ichigo having quincy cross bedding which maybe implied some kind of quincy lineage or heritage within his family which is pretty cool to think about but what i like most about this plot twist is it adds another dynamic to ichigo's mysterious mother who was deceased since before this story began so he never really got to find out much about her and it seemed like she was maybe just the normal one of ichigo's parents whereas ichigo's father was a shinigami all along but no this means that they were both interesting spiritual beings their coming together has a lot more weight to it with them being on opposite sides of the spiritual spectrum essentially these two races never really supposed to come together never really supposed to interact it adds additional legitimacy and weight to basically the entire flashback as a whole and the entire relationship these two had and the fact that ichigo is a perfect hybrid of all four races of bleach overall i think this plot twist is just handled really well everything but the rain in general is full of these kind of reveals and twists the fact that ishima zashiba masaki was actually adopted by the ishida family and was supposed to marry ryuken but overall this one about masaki being a quincy is the pivotal twist that kind of ties it all together and i think it just it works really really well some people think it's a little contrived that ichigo has to have the powers of every single race but that that's where i think this plot twist comes in into making it all make sense and adding legitimacy to the whole thing so i really do like it on the whole coming in at number four on our list of the most shocking bleach plot twists is one that i absolutely love and i remember the fan base just completely losing their minds when this was revealed for the first time it was a huge moment that forever altered not only this character but basically our perception of the history of soul society and that's the reveal that the kindly medical healer captain retsu unohana was in fact the first ever ken pachi the bloodthirsty yachiru unohana and the very first captain of the 11th division a thousand years ago this is this is monumental and this has been foreshadowed ever so slightly with people being terrified of unohana but we just didn't know why and ken patchy even mentioning that he named ya chiru after the only person he admires and that's why i think this twist is so popular and so effective because it all kind of coalesces really nicely and just it all makes an awful lot of sense adding this new layer to unohana is fantastic the fact that she is the one who created the tradition of ken patchy in the first place is so wonderful and i remember people thinking it was a little bit jarring because her characterization as ya chiru was so wholly different from how she had been from the rest of the story but i liked it i liked this kind of uncaulking of her true nature her true personality her role in the thousand-year blood war arc might be divisive might even be a little disappointing the fact that she's killed off the moment she really becomes interesting but this actual twist this reveal is one of bleach's finest and absolutely one of the most shocking in the series to think that this kindly matronly old woman was actually just this bloodthirsty criminal but also more importantly the founder of what would become an absolute staple tradition of soul society the title of kenpachi was earth-shattering for many people and it just worked so well it was so awesome to see unohana transformed like that involved in the story like that and i'll never forget it um it was just such a crazy moment seeing her enter the central 46 behind kyoraku shrouded in darkness it was obviously a massive moment and i think it was pulled off perfectly we're into the top three now and i think all three of these twists are massive monumental mind-blowing twists that forever altered at least something to do with the world of bleach whether it was the perception of a character whether it was the plot of bleach these are all huge shocking plot twists number three is and it was really difficult to rank these to be honest i always had number one in my head i kind of knew what that was going to be but any of these could probably take the cake number three is a crazy one and that is the reveal that ichigo's dad ishin was a shinigami all along and that's just a crazy that's crazy it's so good it's so effective because ichigo's dad up until this point has just been seen as that bumbling comic relief who is completely over the top seems totally dedicated to his kids he's not particularly cool he's not particularly suave he's just an idiot and that is played up for a decent amount of time which is why why i think this is so effective ishin plays that role for all of the agent of the shinigami arc that's our first impression of that character and then he is that role as well for the soul society arc beginning and end but through the soul society arc we had a chance to meet shinigami with had a chance to meet historical characters like kisuke and yoruichi and to kickstart the iran karak with the reveal that ichigo's dumb old dad as khan calls him was actually a shinigami but not only that has the tattered remains of a captain's heyori on his shoulders was enormous and the amount of questions that it posed were crazy how could he have a human family how could he you know father children as a shinigami what captain what squad was he the captain of when was he in the soul society why did he leave the soul society what happened to his powers just with this reveal kubo opened a veritable pandora's box of intrigue and that's why it was so so exciting it was so exciting so shocking to see this reveal he's right there it's ichigo's dad but he's wearing a shinigami shihaku show he has a zaan puck tote he one-shots grand fisher it was an it was just an insane moment that totally changed this character but then by adding on to him a dynamic with characters like kisuke urahara it really opens up so many questions about his history and the role he plays in the larger universe of bleach so for me this twist will forever and this is another one of these twists where it's become so ubiquitous it's become so well known that i feel like really any new readers to bleach would already know this and that's a big shame but for me i remember seeing it just being like what like i couldn't i couldn't believe it and so it absolutely deserves its spot at number three now in my opinion the second most shocking plot twist on this list is again maybe a controversial one i'm not entirely sure actually where people stand with this one because it forever alters one of the most one of the core dynamics and relationships of our entire series revolving around our main character which you would feel is sacred ground that you as a writer might not want to mess with too much but kubo goes there and he forever changes the perception of this character moving forwards and that is the big reveal that zangetsu is yuhabak and i just those three words forever changed ichigo they changed the dynamic he had with the person he thought he knew the best in many ways it was the ultimate betrayal but it wasn't quite framed like that so basically you know ichigo's zan pukto up until that point in the story was zangetsu old man zangetsu who was supposed to be his closest partner his closest confidant someone who ichigo could speak within his inner world you have the very emotional loss of zangetsu with the final get sugar tent show all of these moments are built on a foundation of trust zangetsu wanting to protect ichigo ichigo wanting to work better with him the relationship between shinigami and their zan paktou spirit should be the most personal thing in bleach the most personal deepest connection ever and then we find out in the thousand-year blood war arc that ichigo's has been built on a lie now it's not a literal lie but it feels like that and it feels like it to ichigo as well when the thousand-year blood war arc began and we were first introduced to the villainous yu harbach many people pointed out apparently to kubo's detriment that uh mark was just a carbon copy of zangetsu looking a little bit different but people clamored that kubo had run out of character designs and that he would have the audacity to design his final villain in basically the exact same way as zangetsu well lo and behold kubo that was his plan all along because it's basically revealed that old man zangetsu inside of ichigo's soul is actually a remnant of you harbach himself and is actually the the core of ichigo's quincy powers not his zan pakto as we have been led to believe this entire time if that's not an earth-shattering revelation i don't know what is and it turns out that hollow ichigo quote-unquote hollow ichigo who we had known as that all this time was actually zangetsu's zanpato spirit all along and what's crazy about this of course is that as when i say it's built on a lie but not really a lie that's because neither of them really ever lied to ichigo holo ichigo literally says i am zangetsu you know over and over again during their clash in the iran karak but you just you never quite believe it because he comes across as this antagonistic force but i like that though the weight this is given is obviously monumental the moment zangetsu in quotation marks says that no i'm not zangetsu you see one of the buildings they're on just break in half as ichigo's world metaphorically is just being destroyed around him torn down around him and ichigo has all the questions that the audience have he's like are you really you hobart who are you can i trust you are you a friend are you my friend or are you my enemy in the end i think this twist is very effective you know obviously insanely shocking but i think it is hand waved away a little bit which does disappoint me somewhat there aren't really any ramifications to what should be an enormous gut punch it's effective in the moment but ichigo very quickly just kind of forgives them all he's like you know i don't think you were ever trying to lie to me can i still call you zangetsu is that all right with you and basically the next time he faces off against you harbaugh he doesn't even really mention it he just says i know that you're the root of my quincy blood so what and i think that's a bit that's a little bit disappointing um but in the moment this twist was completely just groundbreaking you know i couldn't believe it again and i and i said that with basically the last two twists but this was another one where it was just so difficult to comprehend just the upending of the series is core dynamic i think it was a ballsy move by kubo and in the end i think it all made sense which is the most crucial part of a twist like this but for me there could have ever only been one twist to take the number one spot the most shocking plot twist of them all in bleach is unrivaled in my opinion and it it actually is the plot twist that hooked me onto the series forever made me totally fall in love with a series that i was enjoying i really really liked it but this reveal cemented it as something that i would continue with moving forwards and that of course is the monumental mind-blowing shocking plot twist that sosuke eisen was not only alive all the time but actually the main villain of the series and you know this is another twist much like ishin being a shinigami where eisen is so famous now as being one of the most famous anime manga villains of all time that i think you'd have a very tough time starting this series and not already knowing he was a bad guy which is a bit of a shame because that impact is probably lessened but for someone like me who had no idea i i was shook i was totally shook the soul society arc is phenomenally well written meticulously crafted and you are supposed to think that gene ichimaru is the main bad guy outside of biaqia acting as an antagonistic force to discover however that gene was working for eisen this whole time that his gruesome death was faked that his zampa tokyo suigetsu allows him to create perfect illusions was absolutely crazy and then to add on that eisen then just goes on some rampage taking out momo taking out hitsugaya going to the soak goku hill taking out renji como mora ichigo discovering that he was massively powerful discovering as well that tosin worked for him i mean this twist sets up the next like five years of bleach basically it sets up the entire iran car arc which is the longest potentially most impactful arc of bleach on the franchise as a whole it sets up eisen as one of the most famous anime villains of all time i will never forget this moment it's just it's handled so well when he reveals himself to hinamori who is you know the most tender character to him the closest character to eyes and emotionally and he's like i'm so sorry you know you poor thing you've lost weight you know you must have been so upset i i you know our joy our time together was a joy to me as he like you know embraces her and then he suddenly says goodbye and he stabs her through the chest and you get this amazing sequence of panels where she like looks down at her at his bloodied hand she looks up at him and you no longer see the warm smile of captain eisen you see this cold indifferent villainous look it's so good and that's followed up with him saying let's go gene and he says yes captain eisen and then you get this amazing panel that is one of my favorite panels of eisen in the entire series when you realize that this guy is a nasty piece of work as he's walking away he's like looking down and i think you're supposed to think i think you're supposed to think that he's sad about what he's just done to hinamori but then he lifts his head and he has like just the most evil grin and i was like what is going on like i remember thinking like i just couldn't believe it it was it was so crazy to me that the kindly captain eisen who is killed apparently in a gruesome fashion was a mastermind evil machiavellian villain who just takes pleasure in decimating his former comrades it was just so good and of course you know i'm blathering its importance can't be overstated it is probably the most shocking twist in all of bleach but for me on a very personal level like i said it cemented my love for the series moving forwards that's it for my video on what i believe to be the top 10 most shocking plot twists in all of bleach what do you think do you agree with me let me know in the comments below i'd love to hear what you think are some of the most shocking twists as well i'm well aware there were some i left off here things like yodoichi's true form for instance the revelation that kisuke was actually a captain you know there's all of these sorts of things that i just never didn't think quite made the cut but if you disagree let me know in the comments below make sure to hit subscribe guys if you haven't done already and until next time i'll catch you later and i'll see you then

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