THE ZERO DIVISION'S ZANPAKUTO - What are They? A Speculative Ramble | Bleach Discussion

when bleach fans discuss the things they'd have liked to have seen done differently in the thousand-year blood war arc one of the same moments comes up time and time again and that's of course the battle between the zero division and the shutstoffel for the fate of the royal palace and honestly it's not hard to see why in fact for me this is absolutely up there as one of the moments i want to see the anime expand on when it comes out in the future now this is a battle for the very linchpin of the bleach universe we as readers have been told over and over that it is of vital importance that the soul king be protected at all costs lest all three worlds of bleach be destroyed and of course it's the zero division's entire purpose to ensure that the king is protected so when new harbach and his shutstoffel finally invade the palace at the crux of the thousand-year blood war i don't think it's unreasonable that we were expecting these guys who are all hallowed captains to kind of give it their all to defend what is essentially their life's purpose what we got instead was a weirdly truncated fragmented battle that was mostly set up and very little payoff which in the end left us as readers with more questions than answers regarding the zero division's capabilities and their zan puck toe so in this video we're going to take a look at the very little we know about the zero division zan puck toe in bleach itself and also speculate on what the other members zampato might be what their abilities might be what their powers might be based on the evidence we have in the manga again what very little there is before we get started on the video guys if you haven't hit subscribe yet make sure to do that now for more bleach videos just like this every single week if you enjoyed the video don't forget to give it a thumbs up as well as it really does help support me and the channel as it gets us more hopefully exposure on the whole youtube algorithm and if you want to take that support for me another step further if you like what i do here on this channel we have a patreon as well you can get videos like this one early and you can support me over there for as little as a dollar a month all the names coming up on screen right now are people who did just that they are supporting me over there on patreon helping me to bring you bleach content like this every week and for that i'm incredibly grateful so a huge shout out to each and every one of you thank you guys so much so when it comes to the mysterious zero division in bleach i actually like an awful lot of what we saw from these guys i absolutely love their weird eccentric but ultimately totally unique character designs which is something i valued an awful lot when a new character was introduced at such a late stage in the game and to be honest over 500 chapters deep into the story by the time these guys were introduced i was always so impressed that kubo was still able to concoct characters that looked absolutely nothing like anyone we had ever seen before in bleach's massive cast and the fact that the zero division managed to look wholly unique meant that they slotted nicely next to the already existing captains without stepping on any toes while also lending them this sense of importance i also really loved the royal palace as an ecosystem in bleach i thought this new area was introduced really well established in the law nicely i loved the layout i loved the structure i thought seeing ichigo and renji moving through the different palaces one at a time was a really cool way of doing a little training arc for them it was awesome seeing how the different palaces reflected the different members of the zero division that they were representing at the time and overall i thought this whole kind of mini arc did a great job of both training ichigo and renji while introducing and establishing the zero division in this universe it was well paced and really enjoyable ultimately just providing amazing world building and the same can be said as well for the other thing i love about the zero division which is the fact that you to be promoted to that special squad you have to have contributed to soul society's overall history you have to be considered by the spirit king to be an embodiment of soul society's history i thought that was super unique really really cool totally different to what i think many of us presumed before this arc which was just it was a power thing that was how you got in there but no it was totally unique and really really cool to see and again it helped to lend each of these individual characters a real sense of gravitas a real sense of importance in the bleach universe as a whole i loved all of that and what i didn't like quite as much was again the fact that we didn't really get to see these guys in a proper fight whatsoever and again it's just so strange their initial introduction in chapter 516 is heralded on the basis of kyoraku saying that these five combined are more powerful than the entire goatee 13. that immediately some kind of expectation in the reader's mind whether it was entirely true or not is very difficult to gauge but i think many of us were definitely hoping for some kind of an awesome fight involving the zero division especially since it seemed like the quincy being so efficient as they were as villains would absolutely make it to the palace this time and again like i said despite being a squad made up of just five incredibly influential incredibly powerful captains whose zan puck toe alone should have been touchstone moments of excitement used for the reader we get to find out so very little about their capabilities about their zanpac toe but let's begin with the member of the zero division who's unpacked we do actually get to learn basically through to completion and that is the de facto leader of squad zero himself ichibe hiyosa bay now i've recently done a video on ichirabe's bankai shirafu day ichimonji but i just want to reiterate that if we could only see one member of the zero divisions powers which is what happened i'm glad it was itchy babe and i think that's quite obviously why kubo went the route he did he didn't have the time to truly flesh out all five members so he went with the most ancient the most powerful and the most influential of them all and i think that was the right call to make although i would have obviously liked to have seen a proper fight in general but regarding his zampakto we get to see basically the entire thing ichimonji in its base sealed form takes the form of a big calligraphy brush which ichibe can actually use to write with and you can use it in battle as well every time he swings the brush it splashes ink all over the place and anything this ink touches and covers loses its name this is a really really cool ability very conceptual very weird and just something i would totally expect to see from the zero division particularly someone again as influential in the annals of history as ichibe when it should be activates his shikai with the release command blacken ichimonji you again get to see its immense power and i i talked about this briefly before but what's so cool about itube is that it again kind of feels a bit meta obviously it's a black and white hand-drawn manga series ichibe is using this calligraphy pen to control all black in the universe so kubo really gets to use ink in a very cool very creative way creating like these jet black speech bubbles for each ebay you know you get the sense that each of they could author the bleach universe which i think is just such a weighty lofty power for it to seem like he has but that's why it comes across so well that's why his zampak toe feels so effective in terms of his chicai not a lot changes the brush head at the end of the calligraphy brush in its base form is now replaced with a hefty flat blade but the rest of the sword i guess you can call it remains the same but the way this changes is quite simple it still splashes ink all over the place but now anything he cuts with the blade doesn't cut flesh but cuts names meanwhile his bankai shira fude ichimonji is used so blase that it feels like it's nothing to him to use it and again i really liked that as well but now the blade at the top of the of the weapon is replaced entirely with what looks like almost like an open white ink pot which is now leaking white ink everywhere he can swirl it around it follows the the blade itself it trails behind him and when he activates his bank creates a big white ring above his head and basically all sure food jumanji does is allow ichibe to rename anything he has taken a name from again giving him that almost god-like author power and that's itchy based zan puck toe it's very simplistic but i think that makes it more effective it's quite easy to grasp and therefore it's easy to grasp the repercussions this ability has as well and that's about it for zero division san pacto that we really know in the series which is absolutely crazy when you think that there are four more characters waiting to be fully fleshed out and that's a big shame but let's start with the next character who i feel like we maybe know the most about but a lot of this will be speculative moving forwards i will indicate when i am speculating although i think it will be fairly obvious um as we just really don't know anything at all about really any of these guys uh zan park toe now nimaya oetsu is the blade god he is the creator of the asachi and therefore by proxy the creator of the zanpato in general and this means he was always going to be a bit weird when it came to having a zan puck toe does he even own a zan toe of his own i would assume so because he must have some kind of you know inner spirit he must have as on azan pak toe spirit but it seems like he can kind of run the gamut and just pick and choose almost any zan puck toe he has to hand to use in a fight we also see in his palace that he is surrounded by zan pakto spirits now a zampacto spirit i thought was supposed to be a very personal thing for a shinigami not something that oets you can just manufacture like on a set on an assembly line um so are they all his zan pucktoe spirits it's never really explained they i guess they could be because he can freely create himself as unpacked toe over and over perhaps he also has the sword five that group of distinct looking women who help him to create zampucto in his forge now i always thought that girl mera who i think has red hair you know she hangs out with him the most we see him during his introductory chapter and she's the one who goes and gets ichigo again i remember reading thinking that she was his zan pakto and that was what it was going to be revealed as that the rest of them he i guess just created but that she would be his actual zan pakto in a fight that doesn't happen oetsu again can just seemingly pick and choose any zompakto he has ever made to use that hasn't been given to a shinigami to use in a fight and that's precisely what he does he clearly chooses the zan puck toe he thinks will be the most effective to take on the shoot stoffel and so we see him using a blade called saya fushi which he keeps basically um with it suspended within a va of a jelly-like substance again this is really cool this is super unique and essentially the gimmick with this sword is it's a failure of oetsuz again he's a blacksmith he creates weapons and he considers this sword to be a failure it's way way too sharp and it's way too smooth blood just runs right off it it will never chip and it's so powerful it's so sharp that it cleaves through basically everything in a single hit he claims that he would put other sword makers totally out of business it's basically like a cheat mode sword that he thought was so powerful that he could never justify sending it down to the sailrite so it said it's like basically this bastardized weapon that he has no real use for but he just leaves it in this jelly vat because he can't create a sheath for it any sheath he creates the sword will just cut straight through like butter and so he's very happy to finally get a chance to use this experimental blade of his in battle and sure enough we see him kill gerard valkyrie in a single hit cut straight through lil barrow's arm and his gun impale pernader in the head and then take on askin naklavar and i i like this but it does leave us with a lot of questions regarding oetsu's actual zan puck toe if he even has one i like the no because i feel like the fact that he is a blacksmith is kind of underplayed which i know is a weird thing to say because we actually get to see him in the forge creating ichigo's true zan puck toe but it does feel a little underplayed it makes a lot of sense that as a swordsmith he would want to bring kind of like his prized possession to the fight and we do get to see just how good it is but i'm under no illusion i don't think this is his unpacked toe i feel like this is a this is an associate that just came out way too powerful but maybe it is his armpit maybe there is a spirit within it like i said his palace is absolutely filled to the brim with spirits but again these spirits seem to have been manufactured to look the way he wants them to look i'm assuming here it's very hard to say and owetsu is a really weird one and i kind of thought he was always going to be um the site it's cool to see sayafushi in action he the way he does actually kill basically all the stern before they're unfortunately revived is really neat for him but he is a really strange character when it comes to the basic principles of being a shinigami so going back to our principal question does oetsu even have a personal zanpakto of his own i'm gonna say yes because if he's creating a souchie for all of the other shinigami to use to bond with to create a pact with i imagine he probably did it for himself at one point and i still think it's probably that mirror girl and i always envisioned that she would be a fire zone puck toe especially since she even blows the flame to create the forge i think that would be really cool but again that is speculation on my part now moving on we have karinji tenjiro and he's the member of the royal guard we get to see in action first and so he's the one we actually get to see azan pakto of technically first in chapter 580 now his son puck toe again in its sealed state is weird looking it takes the form of essentially like a massive paddle or almost like a robo ore or something like that and he can seemingly use it to he basically smacks the sold out with it but it looks like he can also manipulate his hot spring water with it as well now again this is where things get really weird because karinji tengiro seems to be able to manipulate his hot spring water as a totally separate ability we get to see him do this numerous times where he brings in the the normal water to scold the sold at when they arrive in the palace and he summons up the blood water to rescue oetsu from asking so i'm guessing this water manipulation of his has nothing to do with his zarnpak toe which again is really really strange how is he doing this i don't know the fact that he's an inventor of of the hot springs means that he can just summon water that seems to be pretty powerful but there's no real explanation for how he is doing it the fact that his arm puck toe is shaped like a paddle like an oar of some kind would imply that that is used as a conduit in doing this but then he actually activates his zan puck toe and it seems to me to be totally unrelated kirinji is the only other member of the zero division to actually give us a full zanput toe release command which is glisten or shine brightly kin pika and he activates his arm puck toe he pulls the sheath off the end of the oar it's only the very tip of the paddle that he removes again kind of similar to itchy bay revealing a kind of squat flat blade underneath and he just sort of brings the the weapon forward to attack you harbaugh as he does so as he activates his arm puck toe the blade itself glows a brilliant illuminating light and this is what i mean by being so weird his unplugged toe seems to be a very rare light themed zan puck toe so i'm you know what what is this sound puck toe if kirinji's power is to manipulate water to manipulate his hot springs what's the role of this it is impossible to say maybe his zampato is used for maintaining the different temperature of the water maybe that flash is more of a heat thing like it's lighting up the water it's heating it up but the water's already boiling by the time before he has unsheathed his armpit toe so there's a lot of weirdness here and i don't know how the two correlate especially since we do get to see karinji fighting with this sampucto briefly he brings it down to attack youhabak and he just seems to be using it as a pure melee weapon it could be that his zampakto's shikai ability is literally to give off a blinding flash and then after that it's just a basic weapon but that seems a little underwhelming to me it's definitely really really strange that kubo would actually show kirinji unsheathing his zampakto with his foot no less activating it with glisten kin pika only to just never ever show it again never tell us what it does it's infuriating and also that panel where the blade glows next to his face i've always thought it's drawn really weirdly from a perspective point of view it kind of looks like the weapon is like bending and then there are some lights going like behind his head but some coming out in front it looks really strange and i just wish we had some answers about it because on the whole i think he looks really cool now we move on to curio hikifune who i believe is the zero division member to have the least amount of screen time as a whole and i theorized i think everyone did way before that her massive spoon that she has is her sealed form of hers unpacked toe and it's only recently that kubo i believe came out actually confirmed that in a club outside q a but what is the point of this spoon how does it work we have absolutely no idea a a long time ago now i did start drawing my own version again showing you just how much i want this scene to be fleshed out of this fight and in that fight i speculated on kyrio's abilities she was the main character i actually got around to showing off and i theorized in her sealed form the spoon could almost act similarly to nellie elle's ability to swallow rayatsu the spoon can absorb rayatsu and kind of power kiriyo up and the reason about the reason for that is i based i predicated all of hikifune's abilities again around her contribution to soul society which was creating the artificial soul which would eventually turn into jikhon gun and so she mentions during ichigo and renji's visit to her palace that her kind of speciality is taking foreign reiatsu ingesting it and allowing it to power you up and so i kind of just gave that ability to her zan puck toe we're really going into speculation territory here but again in that mini comic i did i basically gave her shikai the true form of a pair of chopsticks the first chopstick would hit the enemy very very lightly to the point where they would just brush off and be like what is this pathetic attack but in reality that chopstick would be absorbing that foreign rayatsu giving it to hi to hikifune and the next hit would be immensely more powerful as for her bankai i never got around to actually drawing it on paper but i i knew what it was going to be basically she was going to trap this sounds ridiculous but she was going to trap the shut stoffel in a massive ramen bowl which would slowly fill up from the bottom up with their rayatsu as it was draining out of them and it would eventually be something that she could again ingest of course this is that is just totally my own uh kind of head canon there are a couple of little interesting tidbits about kirio san pakto however it is the first of all the zero division zampakto we actually see kirinji's is the first one we see properly actually get released but hikifune is wielding her enormous spoon in 521 another interesting thing to note again this is speculation on my part but i feel like there's evidence in the manga the small spoon that she keeps in her hair i think is probably hers unpacked toe and i'm guessing it just shrinks down for convenience and that and that is like her sheath having it in her hair and then she can just bring it out again at first i thought maybe it had something to do with her taking ingesting and then expelling rayatsu like when she was very fat her sword was tiny but she would then expel rayatsu and it would uh her zombucto would have to become massive but we see her when she's very big in the in the fight against the shutstoffel with the full-sized spoon so again it's difficult to say but i do think that it that is the same spoon the one that comes out of her hair is the one she actually uses in combat hikifune mentions numerous times throughout the you know food is life food is power you know she eats things and she creates life with her rayatsu so i feel like that would have to factor in somehow with her zan pakto's abilities and so that's why i kind of felt like she would her zampacto would be all about eating and digesting power to then somehow i guess expel outwards afterwards and then finally we come to the ever mysterious shooter senjumaru who is absolutely my favorite member of the zero division purely from a visual perspective and senjumaru actually gets a decent amount of screen time decent being relatively speaking but in comparison with the rest of the zero division she's about kind of in the middle i would say ichibe obviously gets the most then oetsu then probably hurt then tenjido then hikufune despite this however i think senjumaru is the one we know absolutely the least about when it comes to her zanpac toe and there's only a few things we can infer now she seems to have a spider motif you know she has lots of arms behind her she weaves things with silks and stuff like that and it's difficult to know if any of the things we see her do are hers on puck toe at all there are a couple of things and the weird thing is senjumaru actually kills a stern ritter and we still have no idea how she does it we know that she is the one who creates the shinigami shihaku show she creates these special fabrics of the royal division and presumably that's what she's doing here basically when she kills nyanzol weisel we see that she has a very small and that's crucial sewing needle in one of her false arms and it's attached to a thread which is then attached to weizel and somehow she has pulled this off without him noticing but she has re-stitched his outfit to basically be hers to control it is a very cool moment to be fair and it's also absolutely brutal when she impales him with just thousands of needles um but i don't think this is a zam puck toe power i think this is way more akin to kirinji tengiro using his water abilities this is more like her contribution to the soul society being an extraneous power that she has she can control i guess all fabrics to basically bend to her will it's pretty brutal and it's like i said a really nice moment when she actually takes him out i do think we get to see the sealed form of hers unpacked toe albeit extremely briefly when gerard valkyrie arrives on the scene he rushes at her and you see her in the background two of her arms look like they're drawing weapons now i think that there's a chance that she is a bit like general grievous and might have four different blades but we only actually get to see one of them and i do think this is her sealed sunpuck toe if you look closely you will notice it is a massive sewing needle that she's holding but unfortunately it is instantly shattered by gerard now i wouldn't take that to be any kind of um indication of her zanpakto's power or its brittleness or anything like that it's fragility because this whole setup is fake we know that the whole thing turns out to be false senjumaru has created this fake fabric world which again i think is more likely to be akin to tengido's water than any zompunk toe ability so it's a massive shame that we just we i think senjimaru is the hardest one to pinpoint down anything about her because i don't think we know anything about hazam pakto it seems to me to take anything away from this which i knew would be a very speculative video but it's fun to theorize all the same to take anything away from this video it seems to me like the zero division have two sets of powers they have their normal shikai bankai zanpakto set up that all captains have but they also have a new power that they can organically control based on their contribution to soul society now each of these is weird because it's combined like his zampato is all about names oetsu on the other hand i'm wondering if the living breathing zanpato spirits that are all materialized around him in the world they live in which remember you technically can't do under very specific circumstances you can't see someone else's zanpato spirit unless they are training for bankai generally and they have actually managed to externalize it so oetsu has loads of zampakto spirits just walking around and i wonder if that is his own weird power that he can just do that that he can create living breathing zampakto and that's where the sword five come from but i still theorize that mera is potentially his actual blade and again saya fushi is just sort of a failed experiment that he felt like showing off tenjiro this one feels like the most cut and dry which is ironic because he's based on water but his his summoning of the different hot springs that's his kind of innate ability that he has based on his contribution presumably the soul king gave them these powers i've absolutely no idea and then we have his separate zanpakto kin pika which seems on the surface to be a light type weapon but very difficult to say exactly then there's hikifune who again seems to have the power to basically allow people to ingest foreign reyatsu and then get buffed from it she can actually put that into her cooking and again this is is all part of the way her character transforms she goes from fat hikiphone then expels all of her rayatsu to go down to kind of slender hickafune that's all part of the weirdness surrounding her innate ability and then we go to send yamaru she seems to have the power to control fabric to bend it to her will to create false almost illusions but like literally false realities um because it's kind of weird when you think about it the fabric that she creates to show off the royal palace must have depth because lil shoots the palaces from miles away but then it turns out the wall is right next to him so she is kind of like again basically dealing in illusions and hers is the zompuck toe that we really don't get to see at all which is a bit of a shame but that's basically it for this video on what is the zero division zan puck hoes because we really have no idea and that's the crux of this video the main issue with this is that we just don't know very little has been revealed and we can only hope that kubo will go into this at some point in the future i do think it's a little bit strange and coincidental that all five members of the zero division have these weird zanpak toe like when you consider the majority in fact virtually every captain in bleach has a normal zan puck toe but then you get to these five and they all have very weird sealed zanpak toe and the reason that's a huge coincidence is because we we know for a fact that characters like hikifune were just normal captains so where does this come from maybe it's something that happens when they get imbued with this additional power that we're theorizing they have that's very likely i think it's possible but unfortunately like i said there's not a huge amount to really glean from this topic but hopefully it was fun speculating it anyway maybe you think some of my ideas might be on the right track let me know in the comments below what you think about the individual members of the zero division zan puck toe do you think i'm right in theorizing that they have two separate abilities the normal gamut of powers a shinigami has plus brand new additional abilities that are now innate to them as part of their contributions to soul society that's it for this video guys don't forget to hit subscribe i really hope you enjoyed it and until next time i'll catch you later i'll see you then

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Published: Fri Apr 22 2022