Uryu Ishida: THE ANTITHESIS | BLEACH: Character Analysis

this is the final video leading up to the ichigo kurosaki character analysis that i've been promising for so long in this video i'm going to be covering the character who is ichiko's rival as well as his closest ally of course i'm referring to uryu ishida the title that i've given him is the antithesis this is because the quincy are the complete opposite of the shinigami and this is in regards to the way that they deal with hollows and this is also in reference to the shrift that yuhabak gives to uriu later on in the thousand-year blood war arc similar to the videos that i made on chad and orihime there is a lot to unpack about udyu but there are a few things about his character that stand out from the other characters that i've analyzed up until this point uryu is a very complex character in my opinion and within the story of bleach he plays a very specific role unlike any other he was initially introduced as an enemy but then became an ally of ichigo and the others so without further delay let's begin my character analysis of uryu ishida uryu first appears within chapter 29 of the manga and in episode 7 of the anime his appearance gives off the feeling that he likes to keep himself to himself with his iconic glasses and his black slicked down hair which frames the side of his face you will also notice his blue eyes which complement the fact that he is a quincy and is very tall in slender build and when it comes to the quincy uniform it directly contrasts the eastern design of the shinigamishihaka show in my opinion the design of the quincy uniform takes a lot of inspiration from western clothing adding to this idea that uryu is the direct opposite of ichigo the shinigami uru appears throughout the story of bleach but its most significant appearances occur within the thousand-year blood war arc and when i discussed that portion of the series i'm going to be talking about his connection to yuhabak in particular about how they both share the same shift of the letter a yuabak has the almighty while uryu has the antithesis this results in uryu being the only quincy with the ability to actually counter yuho back similar to uru's grandfather soken ishida udu operates on the principle of the pride of the quincy this is his moral ethical code which leads to him having a very strong sense of justice and it is for this reason that he defends rukia from renji when they first arrive to take her to the soul society and he spends his time protecting orihime during the soul society arc you will also notice a very particular trait about uduku's character he will only use lethal force as a last resort now that we are briefly introduced to uru's character let's now go through his past and try to understand the events of his past which have made him into the person that he is during the series we learned during the everything but the rain flashback that uru's father had married kanai katagiri prior to his first appearance within the actual manga his mother had lost consciousness on the same day that ichigo's mother had died uriu's mother had then died three months after due to yuhobak performing ashwalen and taking her powers during some flashbacks within the first ark and the soul society arc we learned that uryu had spent a lot of his time with his grandfather soken ishida this was because his father ryuken didn't show any passion about being a quincy his reason being that being a quincy isn't a profitable profession and you could tell that ryuken didn't have the best relationship with his father soken and it is for this reason that uru doesn't entirely respect his father since he refers to his father by his name uru's grandfather had told uru that he would one day understand the motives of his father but uru remained disgusted with his father throughout the story and these feelings of resentment were only added when uru had witnessed his father dissecting the body of his mother in chapter 659 we see uru pleading with his father to stop what he is doing after witnessing the dissection of his mother at such a young age uru had vowed to never become a doctor in chapter 46 we learned that uru's grandfather was killed in front of him by hollows at this time udyu was powerless to do anything about this credited to this situation uru had developed resentment towards shinigami who didn't arrive in time to save his grandfather a lot of uru's past comes back to haunt him throughout the series but because of these situations that occur within the story especially during the thousand-year bird war arc odu is able to understand his father a bit more because of the situation with the still silver arrowhead he's able to understand why his mother was being dissected and i'll speak more about this when i talk about uru's involvement in the thousand-year budwell arc and why he plays a very significant role in defeating yuhabak udu's first appearance within the story occurs in chapter 29 but it is very easy to miss between pages five and six you can see that a character is also present with ichigo and the others during a live broadcast of don quinonji's tv show in karakura town when don kononji is about to use this staff to turn a plus into a hollow a mysterious character is seen who is about to intervene that is until ichigo jumps over the barrier and beats him to it now this individual who's about to stop donkey ninja believe it or not is udu and it's a small detail that even i missed when i had first read these chapters odu's first formal appearance within the story occurs in chapter 33 why he clearly observes ichigo in his shinigami shihaku show running down the street as we know ordinary people cannot see ichigo when he is in his spirit form but udyu having turned his back and directly witnessed ichigo running here kubo perfectly plays upon the screenwriting concept of sho dongtel as you immediately deduce that udyu will play a significant role within the upcoming story ichigo is continuously alerted to the presence of hollows but when he arrives at the location that hollow has already been dealt with behind the scenes we know that uryu is the one who is actually defeating the hollows in chapter 34 odyu introduces himself to ichigo after they once again arrive at a location and there is no hollow to be seen uru is very condescending and judgmental as he comments on how ichigo is unable to even sense the presence of a hollow and it is in this chapter that udyu manifests his bow and arrow and eliminates a nearby hollow with one of his arrowheads he introduces himself as uru ishida a quincy but he doesn't forget to mention that he hates shinigami in chapter 35 we learned that udu excels in academics as he is the number one student in his first semester final exam scores with other characters like orihime scoring in third place chad being 11th and ichigo being in 23rd place in this same chapter we find out a bit more about udu's personality as we observe that he is also good with arts and crafts as he easily fixes another student's ripped up dull ichigo obviously bothered by udu's prior statement that he hates shinigami follows udu home but it doesn't take long for him to notice that he is being followed udu is able to sense ichigo's presence very easily because ichigo has no control over his own spiritual energy he allows it to overflow and radiate out of him he may as well be announcing his arrival with how little control he has over his spiritual energy uryu knows exactly when ichigo had become a shinigami and he knows the true identity of rukia after revealing that he too has the power to kill hollows he challenges ichigo to a game in order to determine who is stronger a quincy or a shinigami ichigo agrees to this competition so uryu explains the rules by using holobait stating that hollows will be attracted towards this location once he breaks the hollow bait he tells ichigo that whoever defeats the most hollows within 24 hours will be declared the victor after learning about what uru intends to do ichigo of course protests as he is concerned about the casualties which may occur if huddles begin to converge within karakura town but uryu tells him that he should stop being concerned for the lives of others if he is truly powerful then he should be able to protect everybody udu's challenge begins within chapter 37 as he is the first to gain a point by eliminating a hollow it is too late for udyu to undo what he has done the hollows are already emerging within karakura town uryu reminds ichigo that hollows are attracted towards people with high spiritual energy ichigo realizes that his family is in danger so he rushes to protect them but uryu knows that ichigo's family aren't the only people who have high spiritual pressure he is determined to ichigo with his own despair because of his inability to protect everybody udyu is of course referring to orihime chad and tatsuki who have all spent considerable time with ichigo and as a result will attract hollows towards them udyu wants to prove that ichigo is unfit to be a shinigami he lacks the ability and the discipline to take up such a role would use hatred for the shinigami leads to him inadvertently training ichigo in this instance as you'll see ichigo is forced out of his comfort zone in this scenario and when the situation later becomes out of hand any menace grande appears the two of them are forced to work together but before this occurs uru had realized that the situation was getting out of hand in chapter 44 when far more hollows than he had expected started to appear he had eliminated that many hollows with his quincy bone arrow that his left hand started to bleed after introducing himself to rukia for the first time he acknowledges that even if ichigo doesn't have the strength to continue on then he will protect the citizens of karakuritan with his own life udu wants to prove the strength of the quincy by allowing an inexperienced ichigo to become exhausted while he pushes forward while the shinigami in his presence is forced to stand by and do nothing because as we know from uru's past he determines the shinigami to be unreliable and via this contest he wants to prove this point in chapter 45 when the hollows begin to converge on a crack that's appeared within the sky uru declares that he is the last of the quincy and charges towards them this is where ichigo learns that the quincy were eliminated 200 years ago rukia explains to ichigo that the surviving quincy despised the shinigami and this hatred was developed when the quincy were annihilated by the shinigami all those years ago as urohara explains the shinigami had no choice but to eliminate the quincy while shinigami cleanse and purify hollows quincy eradicate hollows if allowed to continue then they would have caused an imbalance of souls between the soul society and the world of the living it would have resulted in the collapse of the entire universe as it is the duty of the shinigami to maintain order in the world and to maintain a correct balance of souls between the two different realities in chapter 46 udu reveals to ichigo that he holds no grudge against the shinigami for their decision to eliminate the quincy all those years ago he in fact admits that when he had heard the story of the quincy and the shinigami he had sided with the shinigami he had only started to hate the shinigami once his grandfather was killed in front of him we learned that uru's grandfather was a very understanding man and he had explained to a very young udu that despite the quincy being eradicated it didn't matter about who was right or wrong he explains to udu that the most important lesson to learn from this is how to never let this happen again he tells him that seeing the sad faces of humans quincy's or even shinigami pains him uryu reveals that his grandfather who is also his master had taught him to never hate anybody since he was one of the last surviving quincy he was under constant watch by the shinigami he had desired for both quincy and shinigami to work together it was well known that shinigami within the soul society are quite late to respond to hollows that appear within the real world he had argued that it would be preferable to have some quincies in the real world who could quickly respond to hollows and to eradicate them quickly before they cause casualties but these shinigami had continued to dismiss these suggestions telling seokan ishida not to interfere with their work and it is because of that ignorance that sokken ishida ended up dying in the end sokhan ishida was killed by five large hollows and it was evident that he was no match against them would you helplessly watched on as the shinigami were too late to respond they had arrived two hours after his grandad had started to fight the hollows but sokka and ishida had already been dead an hour before they had arrived would you in the minutes that if the soul society had taken up the philosophy of udu's grandfather then he would still be alive today if they had only recognized the strength that the quincy's have the whole purpose of this exercise was for udu to demonstrate to ichigo the strength of the quincy's something that his grandfather wasn't even able to do and it is for this reason that he is refusing ichigo's help in this battle against the hollows because he is a shinigami they have very different ways of thinking but once udu stops talking ichigo explains to him the true desire of his grandfather he enlightens him that his grandfather's point wasn't to prove that the quincy are stronger than the shinigami sokka and ishida had desired for both the quincy and shinigami to fight together as a team and ichigo relays to him that if they don't do this now then they may never get another chance to ichigo encourages urdu to fight alongside with him they are up against overwhelming odds and he prefers if they are fighting back to back this speech convinces udu to work alongside ichigo to take down the menos grande that has appeared in chapter 49 uru notices that ichigo's reactsu is flowing into his boat this results in him coming up with an idea to take advantage of ichigo's large reiatsu odu's plan is to use ichigo's reaction to fire a large arrow at the menos grande but he is shocked to learn that ichigo has never controlled his spiritual energy so it must always be on full release all the time when the menos grande begins to charge your face cerro it is fired in each ghost direction and he is able to successfully block the sorrow with his zombuch dough thanks to ichigo repelling this arrow it lands an attack on the menos when the menos retreats ichigo declares a victory on that competition but after the encounter with the menos ichigo collapses with the integrity of his zambocto going out of control the only way to assist ichigo is for uru to absorb his ratsu into his bowon to fire it out with the arrows uryu is confident that he can take ichigo's excess spiritual energy and focus it into an arrowhead and fire it off into the sky he resolves to continue doing this until ichigo's spiritual energy stabilizes he begins to sustain injury onto his hand that's firing off the arrowheads while attempting to stabilize ichigo's spiritual energy ichigo notices that uru's arm is getting torn up and tells him to stop but uru stubbornly continues stating that he hates shinigami and if ichigo doesn't survive then how will they have their opportunity to fight each other this compassionate but reckless attempt to help ichigo results in udu telling him to survive so that he can beat him up one day in this chapter in an internal monologue we see would you tell himself to endure the pain because if ego's spiritual energy continues to overload like this then his body will be blown to pieces and if that happens then it will be uru's fault it was thanks to his recklessness by using the hollow weight that this situation had occurred in an attempt to avenge the death of his grandfather he had been searching for shinigami for years and when he had finally found ichigo he had wanted to prove to the sunigami that he was superior udyu had known that using the holobate would have been dangerous and despite doing all of this udyu was surprised that ichigo had wanted to join forces with him and to fight the hollows together in the end after this encounter he apologizes to his master as he acknowledges that he never hated the shinigami his only desire like we have mentioned was for the shinigami and the quincy to work together perhaps this entire time uryu was trying to forget his own powerlessness it was because of his powerlessness that he wasn't able to risk his life in order to save his grandfather instead of blaming himself he had been blaming the shinigami trying to forget the shame that he had felt by just standing by and doing nothing watching as his grandfather had faced off against those five hollows through helping ichigo he asks for his grandfather's forgiveness he calls himself a weak student somebody who back then wasn't willing to risk his own life in order to protect his master after stabilizing ichigo's spiritual pressure he collapses to his knees with a very somber expression on his face apologizing and asking for forgiveness for misunderstanding the teachings of his master we then see uru in chapter 52 when he arrives to assist rukia against renji and biakya when they first arrive to take her back to the soul society he dislikes that two armed men have confronted one defenseless girl he introduces himself to renji as a classmate arukia who just so happens to hate shinigami as expected uru doesn't stand much of a chance against renji and is easily defeated after rukia is taken to the soul society he is treated by urahara but before he leaves urahara's company he tells him to look after ichigo in chapter 57 udu admits that he wasn't as strong as he thought he was and he believes that the only person who can save rukia now is ichigo he later trains by himself and rejects an offer by orihime chad and urichi to train alongside them he requested train alone because the method of training that he is using cannot be seen by anybody in chapter 61 we see him open up a box which contains the sanre glove within a week uryu masters the sanrei glove and he joins ichigo and the others to go and rescue rukia from the soul society it seemed highly unlikely that uryu was going to assist them to rescue rukia but at the last moment he had arrived uryu had gone into hiding and prioritized his training after he had lost to shinigami we know that when uryu and the others arrive in the seoul society they are fired into the serete thanks to kukakushiba's cannon the group ends up being separated but in mid-air chad throws udu towards orihime's direction with the intention that uriu will look after orihime after encountering and defeating a few shinigami they disguise themselves in shinigami attire they appear to be wearing 12th division uniforms and are approached by members of the same division udu suspects that there is something strange about the 12 division members but just as he wants orihime they self-destruct as we learned that the leader of the 12th division mayuri kurosuchi had been tailing orihime uryu for a while he had used his own squad members as bombs to injure the intruders uryu is disgusted by the captain's actions after he comforts and reassures arihime he challenges mayuri the captain begins to express interest in turning orihime into a research subject even attempting to make a deal with uru in exchange of orohime uryu appears before mayuri and draws his bow revealing that he is a quincy this is where myrie reveals that admittedly the quincy are a rare species but he had already completed all of his research on the quincy years ago and he is no longer interested in them while mairie knows about the nature of the quincy udu on the other hand knows nothing about his opponent leading mairie to comment that it is foolish for udyu to have charged into the soul society without having studied his enemy after the captain releases his spiritual pressure udu tells arihime to run away when orihime retreats udyu stands before mary and protects her despite myri having revealed his ranking as a captain who do you stands before his opponent with no fear or hesitation and this is of course credited to the strong moral and ethical code that uriu leads his life by this battle against mayuri is one of uyu's most significant moments within the entire story it leads to him losing his powers as well as understanding the true circumstances behind the death of his grandfather and we see an entirely different side to ulu's character after reading these portions of the story for the first time woody's character really did grow on me especially after his first appearance while he was reckless by using holobait and condescending towards ichigo however howie demonstrates his quincy pride during this battle really redeemed his character mairie explains to uryu about how he wants to experiment in orihime until there is nothing left of her body internally he refers to mairie as a monster like the tactician that he is he tries to devise a plan to take down mayory while he is speaking he has already deduced that the captain's spiritual pressure is strong but it is unstable his aim is to buy enough time for arihime to get away and then find an opportunity to escape himself uriu begins his offensive strategy by firing an arrow towards mayri which narrowly misses his head what is evident is that mayuri has indeed studied the quincy very well as he is able to identify all of the abilities and techniques that uriu is using in chapter 122 mairie decides to kill udyu as he activates his shikai widu tries to react to mairi releasing his zambakdo but he is distracted by nemu who appears in front of him she grabs a hoard of him as the captain attacks both udyu and his own assistant in total disbelief he is confused as to why mairie would attack his own lieutenant he is then angered by witnessing the depraved myri beating up nemu for not following his orders after being cut by mayuri shikai uru is immobilized mayri then loses interest and tries to leave but uru tells him to stop the captain comments on how uriu had felt sympathy for nemu despite the fact that she's his enemy he then comments on the pride of the quincy he tells udu that the honor of being a quincy must mean a lot to them since it's the only thing that they speak about before they die he then reveals to udu the sick and twisted research that he had done on the quinces torturing them while they were alive making them kill their own children he had studied the quincy race until there was nothing left of them he then adds to his prior comment that every single quincy that he had experimented upon at one point had mentioned about the honor of the quincy when mairie ordered these quincy test subjects to do deplorable acts they would respond by saying that quincy pride would not allow them to do such a thing when myrie had become the head of the sole society's research and development institute the quincy were already a very rare species this had led to the sole society monitoring very closely the last few remnants of the quincy race and it is here that we learned that myrie was responsible for ordering the shinigami to delay in responding to hollow attacks that occurred to quincy when the shinigami had arrived and the quincy had been defeated by the hollow they would take the quincy souls back to myrie where he would turn them into research subjects he then goes to describe how one of the final quincy that he had experimented on was a nasty old man he had kept calling out the name of his student mairie then shows a photograph to udu of what was left of this old man after he had concluded his experiments looking at the photograph in the reflection of udu's eyes we can see the bloodied face of soken ishida udu's grandfather mairie seems to have difficulty remembering the name of the student that is last quincy test subject had been continuously repeating but uru overcomes the paralysis of mayuri shikai and stands up to reveal the name of that student unlike the many quincy before him who had died at the hands of mairie udu declares that on his honor as a quincy he is going to kill mayuri after learning what had happened to his grandfather he can't let mayri get away now his plan was to originally buy enough time for uhime to get away and then for him to devise a plan to escape himself but now he intends to kill the captain for what he has done in chapter 124 we get a flashback where udu's father ryuken tells him not to go and see his grandfather he believes that there is no sense in saving the dead from hollows that's a shinigami's job he instead advises udu to spend his time trying to save the living ryuken expresses that he is not interested in quincy's he would prefer if the quincy's died out with his father's generation in this chapter we learned that uru had confided in his grandfather and had told him that he wanted to become a powerful quincy desiring to protect everybody from hollows by accomplishing this he hopes that his dad will think that there is some worth to quincy's in this same chapter soken ishida explains to uru that one day he will understand the reasoning for his father's hatred for the quincy udu then results to using the sanrei glove in another flashback udyu's grandfather explains to him that once the sunray glove is worn a quincy needs to train for seven days and seven nights resulting in the individual having reached the peak of their quincy powers but he warns udu that once the glove has been worn it can never be taken off because if it is taken off then that individual will lose their powers as a quincy but in order to defeat mayory udu has no choice but to take the glover resulting in him transforming into his quincy final form which causes a vast increase in his quincy powers but this comes at a cost after the form wears off then udyu will lose all of his quincy abilities mairi then activates his bankai as the two of them have one final clash to determine the victor of their battle udu's final attack deals devastating damage to mayri resulting in him liquefying his body in order to escape mairi declares himself as the victor as he leaves since it's too late for uru now that he has been poisoned by the captain's bankai but thankfully nemu is still around and offers udu the antidote to the poison she ends up thanking uru she knows that uriu could have killed mayuri by aiming for his head but he didn't she expresses her gratitude for him not killing her captain udyu doesn't want to admit that he showed some mercy towards mayri but this is a reflection of the person that he is i mentioned at the start of the video that uryu only uses lethal force as a final result and this point is proven here during this battle even while up against somebody who tortured his grandfather he couldn't bring himself to kill another person after taking the antidote from nemu udi was told to get away since the other shinigami will be closing in on her location while escaping he admits to himself that his time as a quincy is up he wonders if orihime is okay in the meantime he heads towards rukia's location hoping to meet ichigo and the others there he jokes to himself that at this rate he'll be the first person to save rukia he knows that it would get on ichigo's nebs if he were to beat him to it but before he can advance further he is confronted by kaname tozen who subdues and captures uru and this is where his involvement in the soul society arc really ends for the rest of the arc he is held prisoner and he is later reunited with orihime in chapter 137 he later accompanies orihime and the others to watch the battle against ichigo and biakia in chapter 182 after leaving the soul society we see uru question ichigo about the device that ukitake had given him it is revealed that he was given a substitute shinigami badge an item that ichigo needs to keep close to him but udu thinks to himself that this is quite strange he doesn't outright say anything but you can tell that he is questioning the motives of ukitake but he shrugs off his concerns by telling himself that he is just overthinking it we know that this brief panel where uru is thinking foreshadows the events that occur within the fulbright arc where it is revealed that the substitute shingami badge is a surveillance device and this was hinted at all the way back in chapter 182 when uru is dropped off home ichigo tells him that it would be fun to do this again but uru reminds him of that position stating that he is a quincy and that the next time they see each other there will be enemies this of course frustrates ichigo but orihime reassures him that uryu is just kidding and she likes how he purposefully teases ichigo like this in chapter 185 we see that udu is confronted by a menos he tries to use the quincy equipment at his disposal to try and defeat it but he is unsuccessful and he ends up being saved by his father in chapter 186 we learned that ryuken is indeed a powerful quincy uru is surprised to know that his father has quincy powers considering that he hates the quincy ryuken admits to uryu that he did indeed try to give up his powers a long time ago but his abilities were far harder to get rid of than ud's were whether if yukin likes it or not he is the only heir to the powers and skills of the late soken ishida as it stands he is the last quincy we learned that he inherited the quincy cross from soken ishida after dealing with the menos he tells uru that he wasn't ready to go to the soul society and as a result he ended up losing what little power that he did have ryuken admits to him that he can restore his powers if he wants and he is only willing to do this on one condition udyu must swear to never involve himself with ishinigami ever again udu ends up agreeing to this condition and we see in chapter 226 that he begins his training with his father in a secret underground training facility under karakoram hospital ryuken reveals that the only way to restore somebody's quincy powers is to push that individual's mind and body to their very limits and while they're in that condition they need to be struck by a quincy arrow 19 millimeters to the right of the heart sino-atrial node that is the only way to regain one's spiritual powers once they have been lost through using the quincy final form at the end of his training ryuken is disappointed that uriu didn't try to injure him but ulu's intention during their training was to immobilize his father not to leave a wound on him this is once again adding to the idea that uru is very compassionate and merciful and even though he doesn't entirely respect his father he still holds some feeling towards him enough that he wouldn't want to hurt him even in training while training udyu is confronted by urohara in chapter 241 he reveals that orihime has been abducted by the ispada udu wanting to honor the promise that he has made to his father refuses to assist them since he cannot help the shinigami or partake in any activities with them he instead suggests that if orihime needs saving then he can do it by himself uruhara then reassures udu that the soul society doesn't want anything to do with rescuing orihime and that ichigo is going on his own under these circumstances udyu is comfortable with assisting ichigo while on his way to huecomundo he explains to ichigo and chad that because ichigo is a substitute shinigami it's not like he is working with the soul society or the other shinigami ichigo is in fact disobeying direct orders from the soul society and it is for this reason that udu feels okay assisting him this loophole prevents him from breaking the promise that he had made to his father upon arriving in huecomundo they immediately encounter two iran cars udyo and chad tell ichigo to step back as they take care of the iran cars by themselves they easily defeat the iran cars and can see the castle off in the distance los noches where orihime is located later the group is accompanied by rukia and renji who disobey orders from the soul society by deciding to help their friends no matter the cost when they arrive in los noches the group splits up uryu is of course confronted by the previous espada sirucci udyu activates an ability called zele snyder and easily defeats the pre-round espada but instead of killing the enemy he spares her in chapter 272 uryu reunites with renji and ends up saving him from being killed by the eight espada xyloporo the threat of an espada proves to be too much for both renji and uru as they are easily defeated by zaldo poro's voodoo doll technique all hope seems to be lost until chapter 298 when they are rescued by mairi kurosuchi who arrives to defeat xylopodo during the fake karakora town argh urdu accompanies orihime while ichigo is better than ukiyara he arrives in chapter 343 to protect orihime from the isbada yami by using a tactical landmine he takes out the ground that yami is stood on which results in him falling through every flaw of los noches since uryu on his way up the tower had been destroying the pillars that were supporting each flaw clearly anticipating that this act would be of some use in the not too distant future what uryu lacks in strength and power he makes up for in his forward thinking and how he can plan out scenarios in his mind which ultimately lead him to victory against his enemies udyu later accompanies orihime while ichigo battles ukira in chapter 349 after ichigo is attacked at point-blank range by one of ukira seros udu is forced to intervene into the battle he buys time for arihime to try and attempt to heal ichigo ukira is surprised by urdu sudden action having assumed that he was one of ichigo's most calmest friends but uriu retorts that it is because he is calm that he has the composure to fight against ukira he knows that he has no match against this opponent and it is this calm composure that will allow him not to be overwhelmed by ukira's immense spiritual pressure and how the odds are stacked against him in this battle during this brief battle uru is dealt heavy injury this moment is heavily censored within the anime but his left hand is actually severed by ukiyara repeatedly he fearlessly charges towards ukira but he tosses udyu aside that he is nothing of course in chapter 350 ichigo's inner hollow is awakened as now his vast aldore form battles against ukiara in chapter 352 when ichigo's vast adoreform attempts to kill ukira who do you stops him stating that there is no need to be merciless and to dismember an already beaten corpse since ichigo has clearly won the battle ichigo having lost all sense of reason stabs uryu in the abdomen this form has no carol consideration for even one of ichigo's friends when he prepares to fire asero towards uryu ukiara appears and stops the sorrow from being fired by cutting off one of ichigo's hands when ichigo awakens out of his vast odore form he is devastated to see that he has hurt uryu but uriu is just glad that ichigo has returned back to normal he smiles despite the immense pain that he must be feeling after the battle against ukiyara is over ichigo of course goes to fake karakura town but uru stays behind with orihime so that she can heal his wounds and this pretty much sums up uru's involvement within the iranka arc the next time that we see him is in chapter 422 after the defeat of eisen he is also present to witness ichigo saying goodbye to rukya after having lost his shinigami powers 17 months after the defeat of eisen the fullbrink arc begins he has also had a slight change in appearance as his hair is now mostly slick to the right hand side ever since ichigo lost his shinigami powers uryu has become the main protector of karakura town defending the citizens from the regular hollow attacks during this arc uru orohime and chad behind the scenes were very concerned about ichigo there came a point where ichigo had stopped being himself and he had started to have a hard time dealing with the fact that he had lost his shining army powers especially when all of his friends and family around him were in danger by a unknown threat and he was powerless to do anything in order to protect them in chapter 427 udu comments with orihime that there is a strange presence around ichigo later that same day he goes to ichigo's house in order to investigate if anything is going on after investigating around karakura town he eventually comes across a strange individual who appears to be walking through the air who do you chasing after this silhouetted figure is eventually attacked by this unknown individual in chapter 429 you see uru lying on the street in a pool of his own blood ichigo having felt that there is a strange presence and that his friends and family are in danger has his worst fears actualized by uru actually being hospitalized udyu getting hurt was the catalyst that ichigo needed in order to seek help from execution in order to activate his forbidding abilities this whole time udu and the others had been trying to look out for ichigo in chapter 430 we even see uriu scored ichigo for coming to visit him in the hospital clearly not wanting him to get involved when ryuken enters the room and mentions that udu was cut down ichigo asks him what enough happened if oudio couldn't handle the situation on his own then he should have gotten help from the others but he refuses to tell ichigo anything like i mentioned it is the frustration that nobody is telling ichigo anything that leads him to seek help from genji kugo and his organization execution udu spends the remainder of his time in a hospital bed that is until chapter 458 he arrives to witness ichigo and genjo working together to battle against fukushima upon arriving he tells ichigo to come to his side but ichigo believes that he too is being manipulated by tsukushima's abilities he aims his quincy bow in ichigo's direction as he reveals that the person who had attacked him is the individual who is standing behind ichigo after having exposed ginjokugo's true intentions he attacks ichigo sukishima then attacks udyu as he helplessly watches as ichigo's fulbright abilities are taken away from him in chapter 464 when ichigo has his shinigami powers restored and is facing off against kinjokuko uryu arrives revealing that he was healed by rukia in chapter 470 udu wants ichigo that after genjio had taken ichigo's fullbring abilities ichigo's riatsu had mixed into genji's meaning that genjo is now able to use ichigo's abilities but ichigo doesn't seem to be bothered by this or genjo taunting him that the soul society has been using him this entire time udu witnesses genjio trying to apply psychological pressure to ichigo he believes that ichigo won't be able to handle what genjo is telling him but ichigo appears unfazed as he activates his bankai revealing that he doesn't care if ukitake was trying to deceive him this covers the extent of uru's involvement within the fullbring arc this now leads us into the thousand-year budwar arc which has uru play a very significant role within the story at the start of the arc udyu quickly learns that the quincy have returned after nell arrives and informs ichigo and the others that huikum mundo is being attacked by quincy they all agree to go to huican window in order to help her in chapter 486 we see uru decline the offer to assist ichigo which is understandable since uri wouldn't want to fight against his own kind after the first quincy invasion of the soul society in chapter 537 hashwatt brings udu to yuhabak he is wearing a sten ritter uniform as he is welcomed into yohabak's army in chapter 543 in an assembly of the quincy yuho back introduces udyu as the last surviving quincy and appoints him as his future successor this revelation shocks the stone ritters their argument is that how can somebody that they barely know be given such an honorable position at the end of this chapter yuhobak performs a ritual with uru where he bestows upon him a shrift or in other words a sacred letter udyu is given the same letter as yuhabak the letter a in chapter 544 udu questions yuha as to why he was made his successor udyu is right to assume that by doing this yuhabakas caused tension to form between the standard members yuha responds to him by asking him why is it that he is still alive nine years ago when he had performed ashwalen every mixed-blooded quincy was killed aside from uriu he is the only quincy ever to have survived the ushwanan and this is the reason why yuhobak refers to him as the last survivor udyu possesses a power within him that can even surpass juha box and it is for this reason that he is still alive and has been chosen as the successor in chapter 546 when the second invasion of the quincy begins on the soul society udyu arrives along with yuhobak and hashwat his motives are clear and it is confirmed that he has betrayed each go and the others admittedly it is strange and very out of character for uru to side with the enemy we know that he isn't really a die-hard quincy who believed that the quincy were right and the shinigami should be punished for killing them all those years ago his siding with the quincy here was always very questionable and doubts about his loyalty to yuhabak are first caught in question by hashward in chapter 565. in this chapter hashwatt explains to udu that all of the quincy are connected to yuha and he explains the unique ability that yuar has he is able to share a piece of his soul with another quincy by bestowing a shrift upon them the letter a was engraved into his soul when udyu had drank the blood of yuhabak taking a part of him into his own body this of course shocks urdu and this expression confirms the doubts that hashwatt had in uryu as he pins him against the wall and asks if he is having regret now he assumes the real motive for uru having joined the quincy was to avenge the death of his mother he tells him that uryu has no way of going back now he is trapped he lost the opportunity to retreat the moment that he joined yohabak's army he explains that every person that is engraved by yuhabak eventually have their powers returned to him upon dying an individual soul is offered up to you habakkuk thus making him stronger and resulting in him living for longer this is the only way that he can survive if yuhabaku were to stop absorbing sores then he would eventually return to a state where he could no longer see hear or move and it is for this reason that juha back will continue his battle against the shinigami he explains to udu the situation that he is in their lives literally belonged to yuhabak now they serve to live and die for him in chapter 586 before yuho back what and uru make their way to the soul king's palace ichigo arrives attempting to stop them it is here that he discovers that uryu has sided with the enemy questioning what he is doing uru tells him to just leave explaining that ichigo has no chance to stop yuho bak each go angered by uru's supposed betrayal stubbornly remains in place uru is forced to attack him by showering multiple quincy arrows in his direction uryu ends up turning his back on ichigo and leaves with hashwatt and yohabak as they enter the soul king's palace symbolizing that he has turned his back on his friends for good after they take out the royal guards in chapter 619 they are once again confronted by ichigo and his friends udu protects yuho bak by attacking ichigo and the others even going as far as to fire an arrow into yurichi's shoulder while yuhobak destroys the soul king udu threatens ichigo chad and orihime ordering them not to move otherwise he will attack them ichigo of course doesn't listen to his warning and an arrow is fired in his direction ichigo tries to reason with udu explaining to him that if they don't stop yuhobak then the soul society the world of the living and even hui komundo will disappear but uryu states that he is aware of this this further angers ichigo not only has udu sided with the enemy he knows full well the consequences of doing so so ichigo asks him if he knows the reason as to why they are fighting then why is he not joining them to stop uh back from destroying the world that they know in a very cold manner uru explains to ichigo that he has sided with yuhabak because he is a quincy himself assisted by gerard valkyrie udu throws ichigo and the others off of the soul king's palace it seems that uru's actions were sufficient enough to convince gerard that he is one of them now not that it was a very convincing betrayal from the get-go but you can see the fear and worry in uryu's face while yoho back is absorbing the soul king in chapter 659 when udyu returns to the palace he is confronted by hashwat he reminds udu that his powers are switched with you back while he is asleep and he reveals that at present he can see into the future he also reveals to urdu the detonation devices that he had planted all around wahhawalt his suspicions of urdu proved to be true he had infiltrated into the quincy army in order to sabotage them from the inside they are interrupted when ichigo chad and orihime arrive hashwa tells uru to prove that he isn't a traitor by killing ichigo and the others in this instance this leads to him attacking ichigo while ichigo tries to talk some sense into udu uru tells him to go back to the world of the living he reveals his true intentions to ichigo finally as he states that he is going to stay here and take out warwalt himself through the detonation devices that he has implanted ichigo argues that they have to work together in order to defeat yuhabak but uryu is resolute that there is no way to defeat him udu had purposefully come up with his own plan to take out yuhobak and his army without involving his friends because the devices that he has implanted across waherwald can only be activated by uriu's spiritual pressure after hash war discovers that udyu is indeed a traitor he arrives to stop uriu ichigo and the others but uriu notes that the powers of the almighty outweighed hashwat at the moment due to yuhabak currently being asleep he advises ichigo to take advantage of this opportunity by climbing the tower and defeating yuhobak while he is asleep in chapter 661 you truly get to appreciate how far both udyu and ichigo's characters have come their rivalry has blossomed into a strong friendship udyu offers to stay behind and hold back hashwalt granting ichigo the opportunity to confront yuho back who do you full of hope challenges the second in command stating that the power that hashual possesses is far from almighty most of their battle occurs off-screen but we do get a follow-up as to what is happening in chapter 672 we see that it is now the morning and newhabak's powers have been returned to him as well as this we see a very bloodied udyu who appears to be losing the battle hashford is glad that it's the morning now since his powers have been returned to him stating that his original abilities are more suited for battles like this since he desires to punish udu for his traitorous acts in chapter 674 we see udyu knocked to the ground lying in a puddle of his own blood hashpot uses an analogy of a weighing scale and how each of our identities are formed through how we divide right and wrong on this weighing scale the morals and ethics that we choose to lead our life by give us form hashwatt knows that udyu has done the same but he struggles to identify the form that uriu has taken based on how he has measured the rights and wrongs of his life he questions who uru truly is does he truly desire to risk his life in order to save humanity udyu who gets back on his knees states that he will know who he is once he has defeated yohabak and his army the purpose of this battle was for odu to buy enough time for each girl to defeat yuhabak but hashwat is convinced that each goal will fail udu causes bluff but hashwal states that the true power of the almighty is not to see the future but it is something much more powerful than that he is willing to reveal this to udu after he defeats him in chapter 679 hashual tells udu that his ability is called the balance his abilities allow him to give misfortune to the fortunate and to transfer any misfortune that would fall upon him onto his shield but hashford is forgetting that ud u2 has a shrift he reveals that his shrift is called antithesis it is able to reverse any events that have already taken place between two designated spots in this instance he was able to reverse the wounds that were inflicted onto him by giving them to hashwat he now understands why yuhobak has taken an interest in uryu since he has an incredible ability he even admits that if udu has the ability to reverse events that have already taken place then he may well be the only person who can challenge yuho back here hashwalt's true intentions for facing off against uru were revealed he had been holding him back so as to prevent an encounter between the two of them hashwal then reverses the good fortune that udu had received after he had used his antithesis ability the misfortune that was inflicted on tashward is transferred to a shield while uriu is back to square one uncovered in the same wounds he is able to transfer the misfortune onto udu one more time inflicting him with two lots of injury udu determined to still face off against juhabaka begins crawling it appears that hashwald has declared victory holding his sword up in the air above udu's body he is about to impale him he states that uryu is no different than his foolish friends who cling on to their beliefs in chapter 680 uryu admits that he doesn't mind being called an idiot if it means that he has similarity with ichigo orihime chad rukia and even renji after all they are the type of people to not think too into situations if they desire to help somebody then they will do it up until this point uru had believed that he always remains calm carefully making decisions so as to not put himself into danger but in this instance he is happy to be compared to ichigo and the others he even tells hashwat if he had the choice to be on his own or to be with his friends then he would choose to be with them there is no self-interest or self-conflict no right or wrong the friendship that he shares with ichigo chad and orihime is unconditional this attitude completely angers hashwalt and before he can cut down udu a blinding beam of light shines down onto him in his final moments hashwell speaks to udu about how he is glad that he was of some use to youhobak but before udu leaves hashua tells him to transfer his wounds onto his body since it makes no difference because he will die soon he reminds udu to place the decisions that he makes onto her balance he tells him that udyu has made the decision to go and help his friends but what use will he be if he is injured this is why hash ward reminds him to balance the decisions that he makes onto a scale reminding him not to make decisions that will lead him to feel regret udu had decided to battle hashwat he had decided to kill him why is it now that hashwate is laying on the ground that he is feeling pity this is what leads to hashwat telling guru that he should go and help his friends and to follow through with the decision that he made even if this doesn't change anything the whole point of this is that uryu had made a decision and he should honor this with no regrets similar to how hashward has no regrets in pledging his allegiance to yuhabak despite his master having sacrificed his most loyal subject hashwat still has no regrets because that's the decision that he made so after transferring his wounds udyu rushes off to help ichigo and the others while on the way he encounters his father and ishin his father fires an arrow in his direction upon examining where the arrow had landed he sees the silver arrowhead ryuken explains to udu that all quincy who are subjected to ashwalen develop a silver thrombus or a blood clot which forms in the heart and this ultimately results in the quincy dying the arrowhead that he is giving to uryu is made out of that silver and in this panel we see uru realize the reason behind why his father was dissecting his mother it makes sense to him now ryuken tells him that this arrowhead should be fired by him in chapter 684 while ichigo is battling against juha back and all hope seems to be lost udyu arrives out of nowhere and fires the still silver arrowhead through yuhobak's heart we learned that this knowledge was passed on to ryuken from udu's grandfather the silver that forms within the heart of a ashwalen victim is called still silver when this silver is mixed with the blood of the individual who activated ashwalen then all of that person's powers will cease to exist momentarily paralyzed and powerless thanks to the still silver arrowhead yuhobak is defeated by ichigo this was the last appearance of udu within the thousand-year budwell arc and the next time that we see him is in the epilogue in chapter 686. ten years after the defeat of yuhobag uru is now a doctor in chapter 659 during a flashback we get a discussion between ichigo and uru where udu tells ichigo that he wouldn't want to become a doctor himself due to his own personal reasons which we nowhere due to him witnessing the dissection of his mother you can assume that uryu had come to understand the reasoning behind his father's actions and it is for this reason that he changes his mind and does become a doctor in the end we see him on his lunch break supporting chad by watching one of his boxing matches on his phone one issue that i and several other people had with udu was in regards to the still silver arrowhead i don't have any issue with the actual concept i just believed that the execution was very rushed so many things happened one after the other during the final moments of the thousand year budwar arc immediately after udyu leaves his battle with hashward he meets his father in ishin no proper introduction or explanation is given just that ryuken hands over the still silver arrowhead to uriu and we are given a brief explanation about it after yuhobak has it fired through his heart it's just one of the many frustrations that i have with the ending of the thousand year budwar arc and one of the things that i am very hopeful for in the anime adaptation which we'll be getting in 2022. hopefully moments that were glanced over and scenes that felt like they were rushed are given the proper context and detail that they deserve within the anime adaptation and i would love to see how udu becomes understanding of his father and accept the profession that his father had dedicated his life to leading him to change his mind on becoming a doctor we can only assume that he had understood why his father was dissecting his mother which was the sole reason behind why he didn't want to follow in his father's footsteps now the ending of the thousand-year bodwell arc aside i want to now talk about how uru embodies this concept of the antithesis there's a very interesting contrast between the characters of youhabak and uryu especially in regards to the same lettered shrift that they have yohabak's ability the almighty allows him to become a god while udu shrift the antithesis is the perfect counter to it now let's compare the origins of both uru and yuhobak as they both seem to share very interesting relationships with their fathers yuho back refers to himself as the first quincy he had taken this title from his father the soul king while in contrast uriu calls himself the last quincy and later after udu loses his power ryu and later claims this title for himself and when it comes to their powers there is also a very similar contrast urbac had gained its true abilities after he had stabbed the sulking in the chest thus taking his father's powers while udyu had gained back his quincy powers after he was shot by ryukan in the chest during the iranka arc resulting in him regaining his powers in addition to this both udyu and yobak had lost their power in very similar circumstances going up against an opponent that was stronger than them yuhobak had lost his abilities a thousand years ago during his battle against yamamoto while udyu had sacrificed his quincy powers by using the quincy final form during his battle against mairie in the soul society arc yuhobak had been trying to avenge the soul king during his battle with yamamoto while udyu was trying to avenge the death of his grandfather soka ishida in similar circumstances yuabak's father was disfigured by the soul society a lifeless corpse of his former self while udyr's grandfather was experimented upon by maori until there was nothing left of his body you can say that yurobak had lost against yamamoto while udyu had won against mayuri they have these very similar circumstances that occur to both of the characters but udu's outcome is always the antithesis of yuhobak's outcome a thousand years ago when yoho back had invaded the source society he had lost many of his comrades while uryu who had invaded the soul society with his friends ended up saving the life of rukia you can also compare and contrast the interactions that udu has with ichigo with the interactions that yuhabak has with ichigo and even in these uru still appears to be the antithesis of yuhobak udyu is first introduced into the story of bleach when he challenges ichigo while we last see yuhabak after he is challenged by ichigo and is defeated by him during that duel between ichigo and uru udu drains ichigo's spiritual pressure in order to save his life while in the final battle yua bak had drained ichiko spiritual pressure in an attempt to kill him that challenge between ichigo and udyu was never completed because they were interrupted by the appearance of a menos but ichigo was able to kill youhobak because udu himself had interrupted the battle and the last point that i want to mention is that thanks to ichigo uryu was able to fulfill the dream of his grandfather that a reality can exist where shinigami and quincy can work alongside with each other peacefully and comparatively because of ichigo yuhobak's dream of an ideal world without death was shattered thus we can poetically conclude that uryu is the perfect opposite to yuhabak the almighty and the antithesis this comparing contrast between yuho back and udyu was done by one of the users over on the bleach subreddit the individual called revi had posted this excellent comparison between yuho back and udu two years ago now i've drawn a lot of the comparisons from this post so if you want a more detailed and in-depth comparison between the two characters then definitely go and check out that post that i'll link in the description and in regards to my final thoughts on udu's character i believe that he is one of the most complex and well-actualized characters within all of bleach we see proper growth from beginning to end where at first he isn't accepting of the shinigami but then ends up befriending a shinigami and working alongside with one we see him gain and develop his powers and then ultimately lose them and then go through the struggle of regaining his abilities and throughout the story he remains loyal to his friends and to the ideals of his grandfather the only disappointment that i feel about his character is that we didn't get a proper resolution to the problems that he has with his father at the start of the series soken ishida had told udu that one day he would understand why his father has distanced himself with the quincy of course after having seen the thousand-year blood war arc we can infer some things but nothing is outright stated and no attempt is actually made within the story to resolve the bitterness that udu has for his father admittedly ryuken did assist udu in returning his quincy powers and uryu got to understand that his father hasn't completely distanced himself with being a quincy but that resentment for his father still remained in the end uryu did become a doctor which means that he did eventually mend a relationship with his father it's just that we never got to see it in the actual manga and i'm hoping this is one of the areas that is expanded upon in the anime adaptation of the thousand year blood war arc so yeah these are my thoughts on the last quincy udu ishida a vital character whom without the final antagonist of the story would not have been defeated by ichigo after having made it to this point in the video what are your thoughts now on udyu are you fascinated by the growth that he undergoes or were there aspects of his character that disappointed you i make these videos with the intention of keeping the discussion surrounding bleach alive so that we can create more of a burst surrounding the series until the anime returns next year so definitely leave a comment under this video and let me know your thoughts on udu's character i want to know if there are any points about his character you think i glanced over or didn't even mention so definitely continue the discussion of this character in the comments so now that we have covered uriu orihime and chad i think you're ready for ichigo all three of these videos have been leading up to the ichigo kurosaki character analysis video and i've dubbed them the road to ichigo so while you're waiting for me to upload the ichigo video which will be the next video i upload definitely check out these three videos on ichigo's friends and subscribe and turn on the bell notifications so 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Length: 53min 22sec (3202 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 11 2021