Who is YHWACH? A Conversation About Bleach's Final Villain | TYBW Discussion

in chapter 484 right at the start of the thousand-year blood war arc the bleach universe is introduced to its final most devastating and most terrifying villain yet the all-father and progenitor of the quincy race juhac now despite you harbach or for my own sanity just yuha's first official appearance in the story not coming until over two-thirds of the way through his influences undeniably felt much earlier than that manifesting primarily as ichigo's main power source and then later on as the burgeoning quincy threat finally materializes in the form of the final arc itself and uh has always been a hugely fascinating character to me i loved him from the moment we saw him i absolutely love his overbearing and powerful character design but i also think he's just incredibly important to the bleach story overall considering the fact that he is not only the progenitor of the quincy race but also the son of the soul king his mere existence should have massive ramifications for the law of bleach despite this and despite how important the character he is in the history of bleach i feel like he is a true enigma we really don't know much about uh at all considering his importance in the universe we don't really know much about where he came from or what he truly wants it is explained to us eventually that he wants to destroy all three worlds and then create something brand new a world without the fear of death but i do feel like there is more to this character than that so this video is not going to be a proper full-on character analysis although that will obviously come for you horror at some point but in this video i want to take a quick look at bleach's final main villain look at what makes him tick what makes the character who he is maybe where he comes from what he truly wants and why he is so mysterious for a character so steeped in the history of bleach and so many important events revolving around him i do feel like he is a character we really don't know much about at all but before we begin guys if you haven't hit the subscribe button yet make sure to do that now because if you're a bleach fan you're in the perfect place for content like this every single week don't forget to give the video a thumbs up as well if you enjoy it really does help with exposure on youtube and also don't forget as well to hit the notification bell to stay updated with all of my videos now yuha's introduction into the bleach universe does kind of come out of nowhere especially for such a major player in the bleach storyline such an important bad guy his first appearance is in chapter 484 titled the buck beard which is what everyone used to call him way back in the day before he found out his true name um and he is immediately captivating as far as i'm concerned i i love like i said his design i think it's incredibly overwhelming i think he's clearly designed by kubo to be a hulking shadowy character someone who takes up masses of panel space and is always going to be the center of attention and i think uh did that very well he was always in my opinion a scene stealer someone who felt that they had an enormous presence both artistically and within the story and that's something that kubo captures right from the very off with this guy so i was immediately drawn to him in that regard i felt as far as the comparisons with eisen go and there will be a few of those uh was already someone who leapt off the page whereas izum always felt to me like more of a subtle bad guy um at least apart from at the very end but you has already a man of contradictions he claims to love peace and hate fighting he doesn't enjoy conflicts and yet he is the one spurring this millennium blood feud onwards so there's definitely an interesting notion of contradiction with this character but i said already that yuhar is steeped in the history of bleach and that's true immediately from the off we find out that he has this millennia-old relationship with head captain yamamoto where yamamoto failed to kill him a long time ago and that is now coming back to bite them essentially and of course one of my biggest issues with uh and the final arc in general is that we don't get that all-important thousand-year flashback the namesake of the arc we never get to see and i think we're missing an integral piece to this character but you hire himself is incredibly interesting and i actually think he does a lot of the heavy lifting in this arc i think uh does a lot to really help this arc and carry it forwards with a massive momentum that we don't see in previous arcs and a big part of the reason why the thousand year blood war arc was so successful earlier on was because of yuha in my opinion and the way he acted completely differently as a villain to eisen i love eisen he is my favorite character in the series but as far as bad guys go he is quite lethargic he prefers to sit back and let other let things play out i think uh was designed intentionally to be the complete opposite of this yuhar is incredibly proactive leaping into battle the fact that uh was on the battlefield in the first major fight of this arc i thought was really really cool um he himself deals the final blow to yamamoto admittedly he sort of cheaps out by having royd lloyd take his place but regardless i love seeing uh take on ichigo from almost the get-go in the final arc and basically this is a guy who means a business he gets things done he is a warlord after all like a thousand years ago he was on his horse conquering the licked reich and now he's back to devastate the soul society and i love that and i also love the notion of a historical bad guy a historical enemy coming back from the past to finish what he started i think that's really good and again another reason why i would have loved to have seen the flashback of a thousand years past because i love that context being added to a bad guy but even without it i think uh is an effective villain but we see that uh and his quincy's have already successfully invaded and conquered waco mundo and now they're making a move on seoul society itself and the fact that yuhar and his stern writers set foot in the seireite i think is such a brazen and bold move that i absolutely love um it really is sticking it to the captain class themselves basically by having the stermiters walk the streets of the sailrite i think that's an incredibly powerful statement to make and uh is obviously at the very front of that wanting to actively trample soul society um and i i do think that despite the fact we don't get enough on the past and the relationships involved with this character you do feel his hatred come through yooha's speech to yamamoto at yamamoto's deathbed is one of my favorite moments for this character in the entire series where he basically chastises yammer saying that you've changed you've become weaker the goatee 13 a thousand years ago was a band of merciless thugs but at least you were powerful at least you knew what it meant to have power whereas now you become complacent your children in comparison and i love that because uh does feel like a carryover from a more brutal era um where the goatee 13 captains were merciless murderers like the old version of yamamoto and yachiru unohana they used to rule the roost through strength alone and you get the idea that they've mellowed out but yuha has stayed the same and he's you know just this monster from a time gone by where power meant everything and because of that he is ready to take on the soul society but it's not just that it's also the advancements that the vanden reich have seen in comparison to the goatee 13 as a whole uh and i i i think that uh does bring about this real image of a war machine you know he is at the front of the random right but the vandenberg has also got these advances in technology that make them technologically superior to the soul society things like the bankai stealing medallions all that sort of thing but what i'm trying to get at is i love the way this early version of uh pushes the invasion train he's at the forefront of the fights he's on the battlefield i love that um we don't obviously find out much about him at the very early point of the arc by i think he makes an incredibly strong first impression and i think most people's first impression of uh was quite good because he felt very different to eisen um kubo seemed to kind of go out of his way to distinguish these two characters and i think it worked very effectively and was a big part in what made the thousand year blood war arc so successful now i want to talk briefly about how yuha was integrated into the law of bleach because i do feel like this character does kind of come out of nowhere and for a character who is so important to the series i think that's a dangerous ground to be on um to basically introduce this god and be like yeah this guy's been around this whole time and he's really really important but i actually think kubo does an admirable job of integrating uh into the world of bleach making him feel like this deity that has always been there so basically what happened was a thousand years ago yamamoto defeated yuhobark in some undisclosed way and something happened to uh he was effectively sealed um in in kind of accordance with this quincy song known as the kaiser gassang probably butchered that pronunciation but basically it's a quincy legend that details this uh sealed quincy king who would regain uh his i think i don't remember exactly but it's like his body in 900 years his mind in the next 90 and then his powers in the next nine or something like that basically saying that you hobbit would reawaken after a thousand years and answer the prayers of the quincy uh and presumably bring back this quincy nation that i at least have always believed was probably there before the soul society you know the shattered bearish had to have come from somewhere right but i think that the idea of uh works really well and i i actually liked the twist that he was the one responsible for masaki's death he's this character who is so powerful that life and death don't really mean anything to him in that sense he's just happy to draw the powers out of every quincy and also i i want to tie this into this eye this twisted idea of fatherhood which is also integral to the character and something else that i really really loved i i love the idea that he considers himself the quincy's father he calls them my children he calls early my son hashwath my first son but he doesn't care about any of them really he thinks that they should all act like comrades they should all be willing to die for each other but uh himself just sees them as disposable which i really did like i thought that was cool it's very it's typical for the villain to see his subordinates as disposable but i like this twisted idea that he considers himself their father um at least not necessarily in literal sense but almost like a religious way now one thing i did want to bring up as well is during his fight with ichibe ichibe mentioned something along the lines of uh always having been a a troublesome brat like he's the same troublemaking brat he's always been and knowing what we know about uh the fact that he's the son of the soul king you know can we assume that yuha maybe grew up around the royal guard or around the royal palace or something like that again something i'd absolutely love to have seen before he decided to you know maybe abandon his father and start conquering the human world as which is where we see him in the flashback much later on um but my one of my absolute favorite interactions we know for a fact that uh names are very important in bleach each ebay has told us as much and we know that names are important anyway zampatos are called out by their names and we know that uh's name is effectively made up um he he we i assume he was nameless when he kind of came into the world um and he we discovered that he basically heard a bunch of humans worshiping god and i like that uh took the name that he heard them chanting and made it his own it is like a sort of bastardization of that idea of god but i think it's actually really clever and yes it leads to a slightly difficult to pronounce name but i think it's really original and it says a lot about the character as well that he just kind of took this name that people were worshiping and made it his own but one of my favorite interactions regarding uh is when ichibay says something like uh what do i can't remember exactly what it is but it's something like it's not like the name you have ever meant anything anyway and you know coming from the guy who has named everything that's quite uh quite an important statement it's basically saying like you called yourself that but it doesn't mean anything you know no one gave you that name you gave it yourself um but you ha has taken it to mean he's the one who takes everything you know and he says to itchy baby i am you hobart the one who will rob you of everything um and i think it's that's just really cool i think that's a really really cool notion that ichibe is kind of like almost snobbish about how yuha has acted in the past and the way he has kind of chosen to uh name himself and each base doesn't mean anything you know and that name means nothing you gave it to yourself and then he kind of pays the price for that uh hubris um as for what you harbach actually wants i personally always found the motivation to be really flimsy this idea that he wants to destroy all three worlds to create a world where there's no fear of death it is a motivation that is literally given to us in the final chapter it's mentioned a few times prior that uh does want to destroy all three worlds asking for instance mentions that he is only following yuhar because he wants to see what uh will create um but this idea of a world without the fear of death i never really got it i thought it was really weird you know the fear of death is integral to the way uh runs his military organization so the fact that he wants to build a world without it felt a bit out of character to me um i wondered if maybe it had something to do with the fact that it's mentioned that in the chapter god like you which is a great chapter about the the history of uh um that he kind of exists in this liminal state between life and death where if he doesn't take souls because basically he's one of these rare quinces who only come around every 200 years or so who don't necessarily just take power but they can also give it out and uh if he doesn't give power out and bring it back he will eventually become this almost like uh blind mute death state which i guess is like death for him and i always kind of when i read the final chapter of bleach that was my immediate thought it went back to the godlike you chapter and i was like so yuhar is obviously terrified of that death-like state so maybe that's what he's trying to get rid of but it felt a bit flimsy to me i actually much prefer the idea that he hated what the shinigami did to his father uh and so wants to end his father's as he calls it in the manga endless humiliation um by killing him and he only actually turns against the sulking when mimi haggy tries to attack him uh the soul king clearly having grown some kind of affection for the shinigami over the years which juha can't understand i like that and actually i think kubo could have done a lot with that um i would have loved to have had the royal family involved more in the final arc um because you know uh becomes the soul king at the end of the series basically uh and i would have loved for the you know the the outward motive of the quincy is to have been this huge like we want to destroy all three worlds to build something brand new but really it's more of a personal story for uh who's trying to essentially avenge his father can't for your own world does go into some more detail about the very earliest beginnings of the universe of bleach including the characters of the soul king and couch like ichiba and stuff like that under noble houses stuff that i would have loved the manga to have done but regardless um but i think that would work really well and uh does mention in the manga i'm here to end your endless humiliation so as far as i'm concerned that is that that's one of his motivations and his plan kind of adapts as he goes along but regardless i don't think there's any denying that for me at least uh is a very effective villain for about the first two-thirds of the thousand-year blood war arc i kind of started liking him less after he became the soul king he felt a bit more generic to me then he wasn't really saying as much he was just spending his time in his chair he wasn't being quite as proactive and i guess you could argue that he has achieved his goal uh for the most part anyway he's become the soul king he's got all his power he just needs to destroy all the world but you know i i kind of went off him a bit more towards as the as the arc kind of came to a close but he is a very cool character nonetheless and like i said he is a total enigma there's so much about the character that we just don't know so everything a lot of a lot of the stuff in this video does feel like speculation but there's a lot to a lot to like and a lot to talk about regarding uh which is why you know the the inevitable actual character analysis will be a lot of fun to do i think but yeah i just wanted to talk briefly very briefly about this character um you know he's a character that a lot of people are fascinated by unsurprisingly so um i think there's so much so many layers to you han we we don't get anywhere near enough time to wholly appreciate this character um and everything that he he has but yeah i just briefly wanted to go over what i liked about him you know his overwhelming design uh the shadowy nature of his design as well on a physical level i think this character is incredibly overpowering and has a massive presence in the manga um but i also like how he's integrated into the lore i think it's cleverly done i think the kaiser gassang works well i like that he's responsible for masaki's death because it again drives those personal stakes i think kubo definitely tried to make uh both a personal enemy to ichigo and a major military enemy to the to the soul society kind of cover all bases whereas eisen in my opinion only ever really felt like a soul society enemy um which is not not a bad thing at all but um whether you prefer uh or eisen as a main villain that's definitely another video but um yeah really this was just a kind of casual chat about you heart uh a character that i think there's so much to unpick um it would be difficult to just kind of cram it all into one video but i just wanted to go briefly over the kind of more shall we say less tangible qualities of uh himself like his motivations and some of his backstory and stuff like that and where his name came from and everything um i do i would recommend re-reading god like you again i think it's chapter i want to say 565. um i know it's just before the rookie and has not fight uh but you know if you're interested in uh that's a great place to begin because it is really the only insight we get into the earliest days of his life and also when you think about it those sh those shots of him as a teenager when he looks like tenses and gets soon that sort of thing that is probably the single oldest period in bleach we ever get to see and it is like for only a matter of panels but that's got to be 2 000 years at least i'd have thought so that's kind of fascinating that is really interesting um but yeah that's pretty much it for my video on uh it's a bit of a ramble but i just wanted to sit down conversation about this character i think is fascinating and there's so much more to talk about as well but i just briefly wanted to kind of go over who is you hubbuck you know who is this guy he's the progenitor of the quincy's um he's the one who started it all but he is also the son of the soul king i think there's a lot to go over there all right guys but i hope you enjoyed this video um if like i said if you haven't subscribed already make sure to hit that button now um but until next time i should catch you later see you then

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