I sort of interpreted Stark as a character who had the potential to be the most powerful but lacked the desire to be so. To him having the most power is isolation, it's torture.
@@sergueileonardoafonin7950 pretty much. I think it's the major problem with using hollows, fundamentally tortured/broken souls, as a base for your army.
@@trueworld6787 we can't say that because Kubo never went deep into his character... he chicken out and left him at surface level . What a waste , he could ahve been the Jetstream Sam of Bleach
I realized, the rankings do make sense if they’re based purely on the amount of reiatsu an Espada holds. The original rankings make sense based on the reiatsu each Espada has in their unreleased forms. Yammy after releasing has the most, but still has the skill of a number 9. Ulquiorra is 4th among the Espada when unreleased, but in Segunda Etapa loses his number completely and outclasses them all.
If Stark lived, I like to believe that he would still let Harribel be the ruler of hueco mundo because of his laziness and not wanting to deal with the responsibilities it comes with lol
@@209Richsta I always wondered what Starrks 'Existence of how he was' means for the Future: I mean, is PEACE possible? If Starrk and Harribel (especially Starrk) are 'possible' in themselves, then cant there be a 'real Kingdom', very unlike the one made by Barragan? A Kingdom where the Arrancer and smart Hollows destroy the Hollows that cant control themselves? Yes, those uncontrollable ones will always exist, but that is like all Societys may have Criminals, ya know? Can the Arrancer be at Forever-Semi-Perfect Peace with the Shinigami? ?!
I acompletely agree starkk at his heart is just a lonely man who only wantwd compqnion ship and dosnt have a lust for death and power like the other make esapda its really sad he didnt get so luckly like hallibel
I don't know as soon as ulquiorra pulled out his segundo resurrection, I immediately accepted the fact that he was secretly the most strongest espada and was deliberatly placed on a lower ranking for Aizens own purposes.
Aizen: I got you listed as 4th, but if you REALLY want 1-3 I think you got a case for any of the Ulquiorra: I’m fine with 4, 2, 1, or even purple. It’s all the same to me
@@jadedgamer2162 aizen knew about ulquiorra 2nd release. He on purpose let him fight ichigo to test ichogo true power. If ichigo came out alive out of that fight would mean that aizen knew that ichigo was insane powerful and could prepare against him better
Honestly he was my favorite Espada regardless of what people think of how his character fleshed out. Everything about his fight with Shunsui was awesome to me and I'm so hype you actually made a video about it!
He fought 4 captains while trying half heartedly and made Shunsui consider using his bankai . If it wasn't that he didn't want to fight in the first place he would have been a real problem. But people sleep on him as he didn't have that much screen time.
Starkk relationship with lillinette mirrors the relationship Shunsui had with nana older sister before she became a vizored. Stark is basically a espada shunsui
Would've loved to see a scene where Kyoraku and Starrk hide and chill with each other instead of fighting but then get discovered and be forced to duke it out.
Stark fought 2vs1 against hard counters. One guy can send his own attacks back at him… and the other can ignore his speed by teleporting into shadows and attacking out of it… two big counters… 2 of strongest shinigami as his enemy other than Yamamoto
Meanwhile Bankai Hollow Ichigo's Getsuga Tenshou couldn' even SCRATCH 1st ressurrection Ulquiorra. But Shikai unmasked vizards and Shunsui could easily make him struggle, or at least counter his attacks and make him hurt.
@@undary0u But still, they all had the intent to kill him while he himself did not want to fight and had not gone serious. Even if they were not at full power, 4 captains with shikai and 2 of them with visored boost yet he was still able to keep up with them and almost killed the visored without even trying
Stark was really just a lonely chill dude literally too strong to make friends, forced to die against the only dude who probably would have been a real friend to him under different circumstances 😭
@@mp6640 He didn't exactly create her. There was a person before the two of them who was so lonely that he split his soul into two. We don't know what the person they split off looked like and niether both Stark and Lilinette.
@@mp6640 he didn't create her they are siblings. A vasto lorda who was considered to be strongest divided himself into 2. Stark is more mature then lilinete and she just lets him be incharge. Remember she is most of his powers, the guns and wolfs are her powers without her he is really weak.
@@gravethestampede3454 that doesn't really mean anything regarding power level. Stark is incharge is what it means and for all we know lilynette could have been the one who is more closer to their orignal form and stark was made cause she desired someone she wanted to depend on. Stark is the main focus instead of lilynette but she is exactly what stark is missing a childish and more caring side with drive to live and lilynette is missing the mature, lax and smarter side. I think stark is the focus cause he would be liked more by the fans even though he is equal to her.
@@glowstonelovepad9294 really? Nel is a centaur, (I know shes a former espada but I was just including her) sazyel (I know I didn't spell that right) seems like a sea coral or anemone, one of the two. Coyote stark is likely a wolf (or a coyote) given by how his spirit energy manifested as wolves. Yammy looks like multiple creatures in his different forms so that ones a wash.
43:10 does that mean it dissolved when he transformed against ulqiorra? does that mean the badge megically reshaped when he transformed back into his normal human form?
I'm surprised you included the "One gun fires faster shots and the other fires more powerful shots". When Shunsui mentioned that to Stark, his response was "No one said such a thing." I always assumed it was just something Stark was doing to trip up his opponent, rather than an actual mechanic of his Ressurection.
I was also surprised by him saying that. To me it was more of a "Oh did it look like that... Well it's not" situation. As in, Stark wasn't trying to trip him up, but neither is the statement about his guns true.
@@nathanielmikeemileusvandaa8914 Clyde had an Narrative to spill in this video which was to debunk Starrk being the 2nd Strongest Espada. For years now Clyde has been saying Ulquiorra is the strongest and this is his way to grandstand his position. As someone who debated Clyde before ik he has put his own personal bias over actual statements and feats.
I honestly felt we got a grasp of Starrk's power and he definitely deserved Primera. Barragan died to 2 mid level captains and a low lieutenant. Hallibel lost to a single mid high level Captain. Starrk Fought not only the 2 Highest Level Captains after Yamamoto. But also two more Low High level captains with Hollow masks activated. All 4 of them in their Shikai. And didn't have a downhill battle. He kept up the 4v1. Only Starrk and Ulquirra gave us a idea of how truly powerful the upper Espada were
Bruh, completely wrong Ukitake was attacked from his back by that arancar(the one that sealed ryujin jakas flames) and kyoraku was back stabed by stark when he tried to help ukitake. Otherwise ukitake and kyoraku could have easily defeated stark by just reflecting his attacks Theoretically the ranking of strongest would go like this Baraggan Ulquira Stark Yammy
@@hashiramauchiha2877 Uhhh. No? Just because Ukitake was taken out of the fight by Wonderweiss doesn't mean everything Starrk did is null and void. Bro did still hold that 2 v 1. Starrk would've still lost eventually. But that doesn't mean he didn't manage to hold his own
Interesting how Starrk and Ulquiorra are the only two natural Arrancar among the Espada, yet they are the two that are most often discussed about in regards to being the strongest one...
Well i still think barragan was at least above ulq, and have in mind that being a arrancar doesnt mean you are the strongest, the hollow that fought with barragan and acknowledged his as a king of hueco mundo fought with yamamoto and survived
Something people in the community over estimate is destructive potential in comparison to technical feat, in the sense that like you said, you could destroy a city with a machine gun, it would just be unfeasible in terms of time. Starkk feels like the character who could trounce nearly anyone in terms of raw reserves and intelligence, yet falter when placed against exotic techniques or enemies with more combative experience.
For some reason I took “Let’s go Stark” as Lilynette taking over the main body for some reason and Starrk being in the wolves, so the guns are her but he’s the wolves, the body is just a fusion of the two. I thought it made the character even more neat
I think Stark would have gotten along well with the two captains that fought him. Also I don't think Starrk was fighting all out. He was serious yes, but he was not that dig down and destroy my enemy with everything level. I think #4 was stronger but I think Starrk could have done more.
Stark is my favorite, during my Anxiety and Lonely times I can remember the guy. The style is cool and his atmosphere and aura is something I can kinda relate.
I always wondered what Starrks 'Existence of how he was' means for the Future: I mean, is PEACE possible? If Starrk and Harribel (especially Starrk) are 'possible' in themselves, then cant there be a 'real Kingdom', very unlike the one made by Barragan? A Kingdom where the Arrancer and smart Hollows destroy the Hollows that cant control themselves? Yes, those uncontrollable ones will always exist, but that is like all Societys may have Criminals, ya know? Can the Arrancer be at Forever-Semi-Perfect Peace with the Shinigami? ?!
Finally a PERSON who comments that he’s your favorite and doesn’t just shit on every character than stark. I respect you and others like you my friend stay safe in such a narcissistic world we live in my guy
The one thing I hate about Bleach powerscaling is that somewhere in the middle of it all, everything just starts to sound like headcanon to prove a point
@@swayeddrunk4763 Not to mention a shit ton of assumptions, like Clyde always assuming that hollowification is stronger than bankai because Tosien prefers to use it instead of a bankai the people he’s fighting already know how to counter.
@@cryamistellimek9184 no tosen straight up said hollowification is a bigger boost then bankai and that bankai is such a small power compared to what lord aizen gave him which was the hollowification
@@cryamistellimek9184 secondly clydes not assuming it's easy to tell Espadas release is stronger then a captains bankai hallibel and hitsugaya was at a standstill cause of element combat kurosutchi also only beat sayalopporo granz due to poison and chemicals more then technique
43:10 does that mean it dissolved when he transformed against ulqiorra? does that mean the badge megically reshaped when he transformed back into his normal human form?
"Its hard to get a soul reaper and have them swap their sword for an ak47" I mean he DID literally have an entire group of soul reapers that were unable to return to the the soul society and had lived over 100 year in the human world ,adopting human culture and living among them in false bodies. I feel like that might have been a PERFECT chance to do that.
@@driplord7286 It's not even arguable. Ulquiorra in his 2nd release is the strongest Espada by leaps and bounds. None of the Espada's power comes close given Ulquiorra's Lanza del Relampago.
@@stormbringer7773 Starrk also only lost because he pretty much gave up on the fight. I'm sure that his Infinite Cero shot can put Ulquiorra's Lanza Del Ranpargo to shame
Im sure someone mentioned this by now, but the "Starrk's Wolves" ability you mentioned is actually named, atleast in Soul Resurreccion, "Comarada" (literally Comrade in spanish and Companion/Soul Bretheren in japanese), which further sells his depiction as "loneliness", as his only friends, or comrades, are those of his own creation, fragments of himself. His only friend being, fittingly, himself.
The Espada ranks are very well known to be somewhat BS. However, the powers are not what makes the story interesting. The different drivers to their being is what makes some Espada interesting. Stark, Ulquiorra, and Grimmjow are by the coolest Espada not for their power, but because we got to explore what makes them tick.
@@RASIII9 they are tho. Ulquiorras second release and yami throws it all into skepticism. Especially yami cuz even tho hes rank 0 he aint shit lol. 2 captains no diffed him when stark was against 4
@@blvck1635 eh not rlly watch the show again he was battering them all except the captains. Maybe ichigo wld body him if he had his full cloak but he didnt. Yami isnt 10 tho hes atleast 9
I was really hoping Stark would have a second release, or a moment he got a "serious" boost to really push Shunsui and Ukitake. Would have been super cool
@@Howtostartaforestfirehe is strong sure but theres a huge difference in what i saw from starrk and what i saw from ulquiorra, when i saw starrk as number 1 i was really hyped to see something even stronger and flashier than ulquiorra but it was disappointing tbh.
@@flaviojarvis3567 thats a horrible argument. Ulquiorra said that before ichigo knew of segunda. Why would he just randomly explain his segunda to ichigo when he knows that aizen has a big screen tv watching their fight. He was just explaining that he is only number 4 in terms of aizens ranking. When we know that his segunda form has no ranking.
I always thought shunsui's different attitude between fighting Chad and fighting stark was because Chad is a human (its his job to protect humans) and stark is a form of hollow (it is his job to cleanse hollows)
@@Mugetsu2021 Well I think there's a difference in what you believe plus things you won't say that are sentimental in terms of respect and what you say out loud especially when he's enraged just to get a reaction and or power himself up
@@tehcookievanilla1323 copium, there was one panel where he was surprised he died, called him trash and then attacked the shinigami, stop reaching for things that aren’t there.
@@Mugetsu2021 "Stop reaching for things that aren't there " How is that reaching, I haven't read the manga, but your evidence doesn't refute the idea of having respect for someone and showing something else to other people on the outside, like how is that reaching when you are enraged and in battle the respect will often turn into disappointment or pride going up in confidence of one's self, his death aspect is rage so it would make sense so I don't see how it would nullify him having respect before. Plus surmising that the details from the one shot are true from the video, I don't see how it's farfetched to any degree, you've really not said anything that would make my thoughts so 'unbelievable'. These are typical human emotions, and since the espada are have shown to some degree of the same, connecting the dots here and coming to that conclusion doesn't seem "reaching for things that aren't there" at all.
@@Mugetsu2021 Yammy had to keep being angry and psyche himself up otherwise he would lose strength. The author literally stated he felt despair when Ulquiorra's reiatsu disappeared. Keep in mind White's reiatsu even with half a shihakusho was confirmed to be more than Yammy's in his monkey form. His ability to sense reiatsu is very basic and amateurish. Point is, of all the Espada he respected Ulquiorra the most hence why he felt despair when he died. This is all canon information from data books and manga, you are the one who is reaching my friend.
Always saw him as the strongest but lazy. It’s because of that he’s not really taken seriously by most of the espada as shown in bleach brave soul by Grimmjow,nnoitra, and barragan. However he’s clearly powerful as unlike the rest of the espada we’ve seen with full on fights he doesn’t fight aggressively like Grimmjow,nnoitra, yammy and Ulqiourra as they fight like actual beasts or creatures. Stark being a vasto lorde prior and splitting himself into two are huge feats. His reiatsu and power aren’t an exaggeration as he blasts out countless cero like nothing which is a deadly move especially by the espada as it takes concentration from all of them except stark who looks like he’s very proficient in blasting one off no issues. I see it as the strongest don’t really have to fight physically as they can just depend on their immense powers such as barragan just releasing his breath around him as they do the work same can be said who fires off so much cero without and signs of fatigue.
for ulqiorra, is there anything to be said about the fact that in his segunda etapa, his number just vanishes. for yami, its shown that he went from 10-0 but for ulqiorra it just goes and its not mentioned. recon thats just a design choice or could it imply that at this point he was simply beyond the other espada?
This was definitely a narrative implication and a really nice way for Kubo to show us how powerful ulquiorra actually was in his second release. People always talk about yammy being 0 but never about Ulquiorras number simply dissapearing
@@firionnel7833 I think there's is just a design mishap or hidden by clothes, maybe? Idk but I don't think it has the same meaning ulquiorras does (he has a second release and commonly refered to in that form as the strongest espada) idk tho maybe ulqs was also a design mistake lol
Aizen never saw the form. Not to say that he didn't know about it because it's implied that he did however aizen is the one who gave the espada their ranks. So since he never saw the form how could he ever place a ranking on it? That's the reason why the rank isn't shown if you are curious. However there is an argument in favor of ulquiorra above the espada. Aizen specifically relied on ulquiorra to test the vasto lorde form and he was relative to it. So aizen needed to fuse with the hogyoku before he could deal with people like kenpachi and vasto ichigo. This was the same aizen who in base was already above the other espada. So that puts ulquiorra as relative to vasto lorde ichigo who is above base aizen who just outscales any of the other espada
Easy one of my favorite characters in the series. Love the Guns and wolfs aesthetic in the series. Wish he stayed around longer. Character I could relate to with his loneliness, was always a personal favorite for me. Love that he's getting a video now, this was amazing.
I would’ve liked it if Starrk, Ulquiorra, and Lilyneete survived the Arc as well, Starrk and Lilynette making actual friends would’ve been an interesting contrast for the rest of the Hollow based characters other then Harribel and her Fraccion, as Nel’s and her own Fraccion they have mostly negative attributes to their personality’s, Ulquiorra finally learning what his “heart” is would’ve been pretty interesting to see that development and seeing stronger Starrk and Ulquiorra throw down with the Sternritter would be awesome
I really enjoyed this analysis clyde,a lot of honest really well thought out contextual examples along with great character analysis. Made a lot of things that I was not certain about make more sense.
One thing I will say, is that the idea of "Hueco Mundo amps Hollows and Arrancar" has been backed up by Can't Fear Your Own World. It introduced Reimyaku, which is a unique spiritual energy that permeates throughout the worlds literally exactly like Uryu was describing. We've seen it be used for two things. The first is that Ichibe can harness it within the Soul King's Palace to revive the Zero Division as long as their living quarters is in tact, and the second is that Reimyaku is what Hado #99 runs off of. So it's really powerful stuff, it's specific for each world like Uryu was explaining, and we already know that small Hollows are able to sustain themselves just through the air of Hueco Mundo. So what's /probably/ happening, is that people with spiritual energy that's hollow in origin (like Chad and the small hollows) are able to harness the Reimyaku of Hueco Mundo, just like Ichibe can for the Soul King's Palace and just like practitioners of Goryutenmetsu. And harnessing that ridiculously strong type of spiritual power, they get an amp from it. (Again, as we saw with Chad.) BUUUUUT there's no way to quantify the amp that it gives so uh...doesn't help much in the discussion, unfortunately.
At first, Espadas were ranked by power in ordinal scale, but then Tite Kubo decided to put the three digit Arrancar, some secret Espadas, second resurrection, Espada 0, and had abilities like that "time advancing fire" or body control. Honestly, I think Espadas were ranked by their espiritual pressure and not by their fighting power and definitely not by their luck.
Sure Starrk lost to Shunsui's shikai. But there is no shame in that considering Shunsui does become Yamamoto's successor. And Yamamoto's shikai alone is as powerful as most captain's Bankai. I would even argue that Shunsui's shikai is stronger than any other captain's Bankai who is under Byakuya
This video was so amazing. I can't believe an hour passed by that quickly. I feel like Seth & Swagkage are lacking in their video structures because you fucking nailed it Clyde. Kept me entertained the entire duration of the video. Can't wait for more Bleach content.
@@ClydeUA-camr Don't get me wrong, I like their content. They're the reason I started watching your channel. It's just that the way you structure your videos keeps me interested & entertained. It's not easy to keep someone enjoying a video for an hour straight. You've got a natural talent not many people have. Can't wait for more.
Wait i thought it was obvious that the reason why aizen destroyed the train in dangai is because he wanted ichigo to reach his full potential. Also chad's power being aggressive in hueco mundo was to show that it has hollow nature to it which can be considered a small foreshadowing to chad being a full bringer. Also man stark's fate is tragic 😭
While I do feel that Starrk was fighting seriously against the Captains and Vizards, I think he wasn't trying his *hardest* during most of the fight because of his characteristic lazy personality and dislike for the Karakura War as a whole. You can see this when Love knocks him down into the ground and he's just lying in the rubble, not really wanting to go back into the fray, but eventually pushing himself to keep fighting. It's similar to what happened to Minato in the War arc, the so called "Minato's Daze". He was fighting seriously (c'mon, the guy was in KCM), but not to the full extent of his capabilities because of the mental stress he was suffering from thanks to the guilt about Obito. Maybe Stark could have fought harder, but I don't think he would really bring himself to fight with the lust or honor or pride that guided the other Espadas. It was just not in his nature.
@@emptymelody5179 That’s such a perfect way of putting it. If Starrk was really out to kill Shunsui, he most likely would either be injured or just be killed. Starrk had a few opportunities to kill Shunsui and even Ukitake.
Shunsui and Stark were my two favorite characters while reading. And though the fight was cool, I really had hoped for more from the two of them in this fight given how highly regarded each of them were. I really think they're abilities were downplayed from a writing standpoint to balance longevity of the Manga if it was going to continue past Aizen. Had there not been a continuation in mind, I think the two of them would have been shown to be as strong as viewers were lead to believe up to this point
I think what he meant when he said "Let's go Starrk" was that he was trying to motivate himself. Like a "let's go Starrk, it's time to get serious, you can do this"
You know Espada Arc is the best Bleach Arc, when even to this day its even talk about, and being debated, and also show how great and well design the characters when to this day its still well remember and well debate like Ulquiorra ( Arguable the best and the strongest Espada), Starrk ( debatable if he is truly above Ulquiorra or vice versa) and how cool looking Grimmjaw is.
@@thelastgalvanizer after Byakuya got destroyed by his own bankai vs As Nodt.. ya I'd say it was downhill for TYBW, sad to say. some interesting ideas sure but executed in an incredibly underwhelming n messy manner for sure.
I mean he talked abt stark for 20 mins and then the people who are stronger than him (Yammy and Ulquiorra) for the remaining 30 so it’s not that bad. I mean starrk barely had any backstory and actual screen time so it’s hard to talk abt him for a long time
He’s actually pretty strong if you think about it. He was able to fire ceros at the rate that a Gatling gun fired bullets, hence the abilities name. He could likely overwhelm both Barrigan and Halibel with that ability alone.
Love how aizen was lonely because he was "too strong" and wanted to develop ichigos powers to fight but was that afraid of Yamamoto to where he made a being specifically meant to seal his zongpakuto
Yamamoto had already reached his peak while Aizen was far from it so yes, he was too strong because he would eventually surpass Yamamoto and reach far higher height it was just a matter of time and he did when he fused with the Hogyoku. Plus let's be honest, if not for plot Aizen could have easily at any moment one shot all of the captains by cutting off their head with KS. Aizen was simply on another level compared to everyone else, he was a genius who knew every Kido and Hado, his shikai is the most broken in the show, we haven't even seen his bankai yet, his reiatsu is leagues apart from other captains and he is just as smart if not smarter than Urahara. Ichigo being a fusion of all races (Shinigami/Hollow/Quincy) was the only one who could stand in front of Aizen as equal because he had just as much potential as him.
Definitely Starrk has a better chance of taking Ichigo's fully charged attack. As Aizen so blatantly put it, these fights are a fight of reiatsu. Starrk definitely has greater reiatsu than Nnoitora despite Nnoitora likely having the greater hierro
My idea was that Nnoitora having the strongest hierro or the other guy having the fastest sonido was they had the best hierro/sonido in respect to their reiatsu. So if they had the exact same level of reiatsu, nnoitora would have the strongest hierro
I was always of the opinion that Ulquiorra was the strongest because his second form was never known to anyone hence his number didn't reflect his actual power that was displayed in the last fight.
@@theredheadrevolution4156 it's still a valid point the 3 people in front of him who could be him in 1st release would be confused like is aizen favorite #4 so it makes since he would rank him not taking his 2 release in mind
@Argentina Argentina I don't have time to read your entire post right now and form a full rebutal on every point ATM. (I'll try to come back later and take a more in depth look) This is in response up to the part where you write (Ulquiorra fight) The core of your argument seems to revolve Ichigo being weaker than the top espada hence ulquiorra can't be as strong. But this logic kinda misses my whole point on the subject. My whole theory is that ulquiorra's true form was hidden from everyoneone and hence he was actually the strongest espada but none of the other espada or aisen knew this. Ulquiorra obviously can completely beat the shiz out of Ichigo without needing to enter his final form despite Ichigo having his mask on which is ichigos strongest form up until this point in the story. Ulquiorra destroys Ichigo who is assumed to be weaker than other espada doesn't somehow prove ulquiorra to be weaker than those espada also. If this was the case then Aizen would be the weakest for steping on an ant because ants are weak and anyone can kill them. No my whole point is that ulquiorra is the strongest espada and Ichigo while in vosto lord form completely curb stomps ulquiorra. Hence ichigos vosto lord form is in fact stronger than any of the espada as well. I don't think I explicitly mentioned that in my past posts but it was implied. -- PS I just skipped and read the last line of your post and can see you say ulquiorra second form strength is unknown and could be stronger but there is no way to know for sure. So I assume you probably understand my point.
IMO Stark and Gin are the two most fascinating bleach characters attempt to power scale. For Stark it’s because of his under utilization and Gin because of just how much of a outlier he is.
I really liked Starrk a lot because of his backstory. What I think his primera espada rank or number 1 espada rank means is that, he's on the very top, no one could reach him ever. He's too high to be reached. It's shown by the hollows disintegrating hollows that he wants to make friends with by accident. He was on top which doesn't let him reach anyone. He's number 1, all alone. The only one. That ranking might actually be something poetic and not just a ranking of powerscaling. I don't have anything else to say because, this is all i thought of what the number 1 could've meant for him.
Great video Clyde, I always liked Stark, he was definitely underappreciated and underutilized. If only he survived like Grmmjow and Hallibel. I wish we got a 5* base form of him in BBS, maybe a tag team of him and Lillinette. Sadly until a new Bleach game comes out, it's all we got.
Uryu's comments regarding hollows in Waco Mundo may have been generally true for most hollows (and makes a certain amount of sense given some of the trouble they see early on in the arc), but the buff is relatively negligent past a certain power level- one which I imagine all the Espada would certainly surpass. Arrancar weren't exactly a well-known breed at the time, and they already buck some of the supposed rules regarding hollows. It may just be that this is another instance of this.
I don’t think Aizen literally gave uqiora and Yami their second forms but I do think he made it possible for them to make them. Like Aizen made clay and gave it to them but the creations are unique to them. So Aizen “created” the second release while still not technically knowing everything about them
I think starrk had by far the highest amount of spirit energy out of the Espada but in terms of raw strength and fighting experience he may be weaker in that sense
Stark had nothing on secunda etapa from ulquiora. Only time we saw liquid spiritual pressure. not even aizen could replicate this. Im just baffled how much people underestimate VASTO LORDE Hichigo. Does anyone really think Aizen or Yamamoto or anyone stands a chance against vasto lorde Hichigo at full power in hueco mundo?
Not sure if people mentioned this, but I feel its significant that Ulq's aspect is despair. He tells Ichigo in the battle that its hopeless since Ichigo can't even beat him, rank 4, and that therefore he has no chance against the others (maybe it was just in the anime not sure). Aizen and/or Ulq just wanted to fck with ichigo by having him battle the strongest espada, but think he was fighting someone of lower rank, thats true despair
I always get a bit upset thinking about how they shafted this man. Even then they had an opportunity to develop him more and give him some great moments for the TYBW instead for some reason Mayuri recovers the bodies of and zombifies crusty characters like Luppi and Charlotte? GTF outta here maaaaan 🤣
I'm not sure his corpse is intact and recoverable. We see his chest start braking apart, almost shattering, as he falls so I wonder if he got the Ulquiorra/Barragon treatment and there's just nothing left.
@@Raver-1601 yeah but he still had a corpse, even if it wasn't fully intact. Plus we never saw what Szayel and Mayuri did to it. Rebuilding the top half is still more believable than completely rebuilding a body from nothing. At that point the person would just be a robot or something like Nemu. Bringing back Luppi was dumb, (it should have been one of the other Espada like Nnoitra or Zommari) but at least there was something left of him.
If stark actually just sat down and drank a cold one with shunsui, the war arc would've been a little more interesting. Maybe he could've also gotten a second release, another *excuse* for kubo to put guns in.
Starrk has to be the most demotivated "strongest" I've seen in any manga. Dude literally just quits when his friends got punked. Starrk is what a person with power but no ambition looks like.
Starrk's my favorite among the Espada, his personality & style resonated a lot with me and his fight(s) with Shunsui were some of my favorites in the series just sucks Kubo didn't utilize him more before his death. While I don't think he's the strongest Espada I'd say he's at least in the top 3-5.
I'd say he's probably 3. It's made quite clear that Ulqiora is the strongest and it's heavily implied, as Clyde mentioned here, that Yami is stronger than the rest of the Espada. Whether Yami could beat Stark in a fight 🤷, personally I think not, though he probably has more raw power.
@@rhysgarland9295 i mean strength doesn't mean raw power. Starrk is much more smarter and perceptive than Yammy and i believe much more faster. He would most likely be second strongest
I sort of interpreted Stark as a character who had the potential to be the most powerful but lacked the desire to be so. To him having the most power is isolation, it's torture.
Aren't all of Espadas antics their downfall?
@@sergueileonardoafonin7950 pretty much. I think it's the major problem with using hollows, fundamentally tortured/broken souls, as a base for your army.
@@sergueileonardoafonin7950 Yes.
@@STALKER777LK Stark is the ugliest Espada
@@Dentongmail1534 drippiest*
You know when starrk was falling shunsui looks down thinking like “if you and I were on the same side, we could have been friends”
If shunsui somehow managed to stall until after the mugetsu, there's a chance they couldve been friends
@@TakiyaTalon yeye
@@TakiyaTalon what does the mugetsu have to do with them being friends. It’s not like it was preventing it
@@ndc6550 because then stark won’t be serving aizen anymore, bc he’s dead.
@@Produmb2 defeated not dead
Ulquiorra: *shows Ichigo his first release and wiped the floor with him*
also Ulquiorra: do you wanna see me do it again?
Then Ichigo grows horns and fucking nukes Ulquiorra
Ichigo: Up down up left up right down x b a o o
Cheat code activated
Ichigo: Crouch,Special ability 3rd grade,Transform*
And processed to get nuked
@@brabbits5308 TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING
I still can't get over the fact that Stark never got to be on the cover of bleach volumes 😭😭
49:20 who says AAAAA?
@@lorddukfoxyzeppeli7921 stark is trash strong but trash character
@@trueworld6787 why do you say that? i think hes pretty cool
@@trueworld6787 huhhhh
@@trueworld6787 we can't say that because Kubo never went deep into his character... he chicken out and left him at surface level . What a waste , he could ahve been the Jetstream Sam of Bleach
I think Aizen trusted Ulquiorra so much because of his temperament. Ulquiorra would be the least likely to deviate from orders.
49:20 who says AAAAA?
Ulquiorra wanted to attain/understand Humanity, to the point that I believe he would have eventually pursued his own goals.
@@MountainSlayers Ulquiorra has Quattra Etappa
He trusted him so much because he knew he was the only one who could test and push Ichigo to get stronger.
@@lorddukfoxyzeppeli7921 Segunda* meaning second in Spanish, unless you telling me he had four which makes me even more hype for Ulquiorra
I realized, the rankings do make sense if they’re based purely on the amount of reiatsu an Espada holds. The original rankings make sense based on the reiatsu each Espada has in their unreleased forms. Yammy after releasing has the most, but still has the skill of a number 9. Ulquiorra is 4th among the Espada when unreleased, but in Segunda Etapa loses his number completely and outclasses them all.
Smart man
@@ClydeUA-camr I love that you replied to this almost a full year later!!!
You deserve more thumbs up for this
I honestly think 4 fits Ulquiorra since 4 as a number stands for death.
I feel Ulquiorra is still behind Stark
If Stark lived, I like to believe that he would still let Harribel be the ruler of hueco mundo because of his laziness and not wanting to deal with the responsibilities it comes with lol
I could see that lol. He straight up didn't hesitate to let Barragan be in charge.
@@209Richsta I always wondered what Starrks 'Existence of how he was' means
for the Future:
I mean, is PEACE possible?
If Starrk and Harribel (especially Starrk) are 'possible' in themselves,
then cant there be a 'real Kingdom', very unlike the one made by Barragan?
A Kingdom where the Arrancer and smart Hollows destroy the Hollows that cant control
themselves?
Yes, those uncontrollable ones will always exist, but that is like all Societys may have Criminals,
ya know?
Can the Arrancer be at Forever-Semi-Perfect Peace with the Shinigami?
?!
I could even see Starrk and Shunsui drinking sake and sleeping together
@@tface8366 huh😂😂😂
I acompletely agree starkk at his heart is just a lonely man who only wantwd compqnion ship and dosnt have a lust for death and power like the other make esapda its really sad he didnt get so luckly like hallibel
One thing I always found interesting is how Starrk's aspect of death (solitude) is the one that most closely resembles or maybe describes Aizen
yeah starrk is the closet to aizen . you can even say that all the espada aspects of death resemble aizen
49:20 who says AAAAA?
Actually there is a small difference between solitude and isolation which might be the difference between aizens character and stark's character
Also when he died. Aizen seems kinda sad or maybe dissapointment who knows, but immediately says "lets finish this" and knock down hallibel
Okay Oh okay @@ayusshanubhav2097 I
I don't know as soon as ulquiorra pulled out his segundo resurrection, I immediately accepted the fact that he was secretly the most strongest espada and was deliberatly placed on a lower ranking for Aizens own purposes.
Aizen: I got you listed as 4th, but if you REALLY want 1-3 I think you got a case for any of the
Ulquiorra: I’m fine with 4, 2, 1, or even purple. It’s all the same to me
It's too bad Kubo is such a shitty writer. Would have loved clarity on this and which Espada were actually Vasto Lordes.
@@jadedgamer2162 aizen knew about ulquiorra 2nd release. He on purpose let him fight ichigo to test ichogo true power. If ichigo came out alive out of that fight would mean that aizen knew that ichigo was insane powerful and could prepare against him better
@@TheStatisfiedOne ulquiorra literally stated in the fight against ichigo that he didnt tell aizen about segunda etappa
@@Numnutz ulquiorra didn’t tell aizen. But aizen knew it himself. Ulquiorra didn’t knew that aizen knew about it
Honestly he was my favorite Espada regardless of what people think of how his character fleshed out. Everything about his fight with Shunsui was awesome to me and I'm so hype you actually made a video about it!
PREACHH BROTHER !!
They would've been friends if they weren't enemies though
He fought 4 captains while trying half heartedly and made Shunsui consider using his bankai . If it wasn't that he didn't want to fight in the first place he would have been a real problem. But people sleep on him as he didn't have that much screen time.
Ulquiorra tho
Starkk relationship with lillinette mirrors the relationship Shunsui had with nana older sister before she became a vizored. Stark is basically a espada shunsui
Would've loved to see a scene where Kyoraku and Starrk hide and chill with each other instead of fighting but then get discovered and be forced to duke it out.
what in the filler🧐
@@micahgunn876 just in general
Right! I could imagine them chilling and drinking tea or something.
That would go heavily against Shunsui's character
It would be cool if Stark survived like halibel
Stark fought 2vs1 against hard counters. One guy can send his own attacks back at him… and the other can ignore his speed by teleporting into shadows and attacking out of it… two big counters… 2 of strongest shinigami as his enemy other than Yamamoto
4v1 and pawned 2 Captain level with visored boost
@@tobiasreaper6494 yes, you get it. It was not even close to an even fight
Meanwhile Bankai Hollow Ichigo's Getsuga Tenshou couldn' even SCRATCH 1st ressurrection Ulquiorra.
But Shikai unmasked vizards and Shunsui could easily make him struggle, or at least counter his attacks and make him hurt.
None which actually went all-out against him so that's quite literally not an excuse
@@undary0u But still, they all had the intent to kill him while he himself did not want to fight and had not gone serious. Even if they were not at full power, 4 captains with shikai and 2 of them with visored boost yet he was still able to keep up with them and almost killed the visored without even trying
Stark was really just a lonely chill dude literally too strong to make friends, forced to die against the only dude who probably would have been a real friend to him under different circumstances 😭
Well said
I think the fact that Stark died for nothing emphasizes what his character is about even more.
Granted it's not satisfying but as a tragedy it works.
He was born alone and died alone even though he created lilinete out of loneliness
@@mp6640 He didn't exactly create her. There was a person before the two of them who was so lonely that he split his soul into two. We don't know what the person they split off looked like and niether both Stark and Lilinette.
@@mp6640 he didn't create her they are siblings. A vasto lorda who was considered to be strongest divided himself into 2. Stark is more mature then lilinete and she just lets him be incharge. Remember she is most of his powers, the guns and wolfs are her powers without her he is really weak.
@@sarthakarora3212 Lilynette is still considered the fraccion and Stark was given the Primera tattoo though
@@gravethestampede3454 that doesn't really mean anything regarding power level. Stark is incharge is what it means and for all we know lilynette could have been the one who is more closer to their orignal form and stark was made cause she desired someone she wanted to depend on. Stark is the main focus instead of lilynette but she is exactly what stark is missing a childish and more caring side with drive to live and lilynette is missing the mature, lax and smarter side. I think stark is the focus cause he would be liked more by the fans even though he is equal to her.
Other Resurrecciones: *animal-hybrid forms*
Stark: so anyways I started blasting
Facts
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Only 4 of the Espadas are. Grimmjow: Panther, Nnoitra: Mantis, Ulquiorra: Bat, Halibel: Shark
@@glowstonelovepad9294 really? Nel is a centaur, (I know shes a former espada but I was just including her) sazyel (I know I didn't spell that right) seems like a sea coral or anemone, one of the two. Coyote stark is likely a wolf (or a coyote) given by how his spirit energy manifested as wolves. Yammy looks like multiple creatures in his different forms so that ones a wash.
so what you are saying is that Stark is the hollowification of Danny devito?
Not like it took 2,000 years. Seeing the video length, the wait was worth it.
Your name and pfp almost scared me
He had multiple videos since the mugetsu one but he deleted them all
43:10 does that mean it dissolved when he transformed against ulqiorra?
does that mean the badge megically reshaped when he transformed back into his normal human form?
Holy, sup m8. Never expected to see you here.
Facts
I'm surprised you included the "One gun fires faster shots and the other fires more powerful shots". When Shunsui mentioned that to Stark, his response was "No one said such a thing." I always assumed it was just something Stark was doing to trip up his opponent, rather than an actual mechanic of his Ressurection.
I was also surprised by him saying that. To me it was more of a "Oh did it look like that... Well it's not" situation. As in, Stark wasn't trying to trip him up, but neither is the statement about his guns true.
I know right? It was more of Shunsui making a false assumption.
@@nathanielmikeemileusvandaa8914 Clyde had an Narrative to spill in this video which was to debunk Starrk being the 2nd Strongest Espada. For years now Clyde has been saying Ulquiorra is the strongest and this is his way to grandstand his position. As someone who debated Clyde before ik he has put his own personal bias over actual statements and feats.
What chapter
No chapter
I honestly felt we got a grasp of Starrk's power and he definitely deserved Primera. Barragan died to 2 mid level captains and a low lieutenant. Hallibel lost to a single mid high level Captain.
Starrk Fought not only the 2 Highest Level Captains after Yamamoto. But also two more Low High level captains with Hollow masks activated. All 4 of them in their Shikai. And didn't have a downhill battle. He kept up the 4v1.
Only Starrk and Ulquirra gave us a idea of how truly powerful the upper Espada were
Barragan didnt lose to soi fon ameda or hachi he lost to himself of pride and arrogance
Bruh, completely wrong
Ukitake was attacked from his back by that arancar(the one that sealed ryujin jakas flames) and kyoraku was back stabed by stark when he tried to help ukitake. Otherwise ukitake and kyoraku could have easily defeated stark by just reflecting his attacks
Theoretically the ranking of strongest would go like this
Baraggan
Ulquira
Stark
Yammy
@@hashiramauchiha2877 Uhhh. No?
Just because Ukitake was taken out of the fight by Wonderweiss doesn't mean everything Starrk did is null and void. Bro did still hold that 2 v 1. Starrk would've still lost eventually. But that doesn't mean he didn't manage to hold his own
@@spartanonymous113ukitake and kyoraku didn't even use their bankai, they were literally going easy on him until wonderweiss came
@@hashiramauchiha2877they weren’t going easy, I swear majority of y’all didn’t even read bleach or at the very least just skimmed through it.
Interesting how Starrk and Ulquiorra are the only two natural Arrancar among the Espada, yet they are the two that are most often discussed about in regards to being the strongest one...
Ulquiorra isnt a natural arrancar?
Unmasked showed his mask breaking before Aizen found him.
@@Mugetsu2021 He is. Re-read unmasked.
Well i still think barragan was at least above ulq, and have in mind that being a arrancar doesnt mean you are the strongest, the hollow that fought with barragan and acknowledged his as a king of hueco mundo fought with yamamoto and survived
Ummm.....Barragan was as natural as they come. He was the King of Hueco Mundo
Something people in the community over estimate is destructive potential in comparison to technical feat, in the sense that like you said, you could destroy a city with a machine gun, it would just be unfeasible in terms of time. Starkk feels like the character who could trounce nearly anyone in terms of raw reserves and intelligence, yet falter when placed against exotic techniques or enemies with more combative experience.
People in the shonen community thinks if it's not a dragon ball z level attack its weak.
@@dec2567 dragon ball z makes absolutely no sense in terms of power or scale
@@walkerred8220 I'm basically saying people like big blast feats over technical feats. To prove how powerful something is.
@@dec2567 I know, and I completely agree with you on that
If it's not a Universal level feat it's fodder..
For some reason I took “Let’s go Stark” as Lilynette taking over the main body for some reason and Starrk being in the wolves, so the guns are her but he’s the wolves, the body is just a fusion of the two. I thought it made the character even more neat
I think Stark would have gotten along well with the two captains that fought him. Also I don't think Starrk was fighting all out. He was serious yes, but he was not that dig down and destroy my enemy with everything level. I think #4 was stronger but I think Starrk could have done more.
Yeah agree
He had the potential, just the lack of drive
He fought 4 captains. He was without a doubt the strongest, but he didn't want to win.
Yes he wasn't in a berserker mode
No he definitely was the strongest
Stark is my favorite, during my Anxiety and Lonely times I can remember the guy. The style is cool and his atmosphere and aura is something I can kinda relate.
I always wondered what Starrks 'Existence of how he was' means
for the Future:
I mean, is PEACE possible?
If Starrk and Harribel (especially Starrk) are 'possible' in themselves,
then cant there be a 'real Kingdom', very unlike the one made by Barragan?
A Kingdom where the Arrancer and smart Hollows destroy the Hollows that cant control
themselves?
Yes, those uncontrollable ones will always exist, but that is like all Societys may have Criminals,
ya know?
Can the Arrancer be at Forever-Semi-Perfect Peace with the Shinigami?
?!
Finally a PERSON who comments that he’s your favorite and doesn’t just shit on every character than stark. I respect you and others like you my friend stay safe in such a narcissistic world we live in my guy
The one thing I hate about Bleach powerscaling is that somewhere in the middle of it all, everything just starts to sound like headcanon to prove a point
You are right. I'm not even trolling.
That’s what sucks about it, the lack of feats leads it to alot of calculation, and HEAVY scaling to know where a character stays in terms of power
@@swayeddrunk4763 Not to mention a shit ton of assumptions, like Clyde always assuming that hollowification is stronger than bankai because Tosien prefers to use it instead of a bankai the people he’s fighting already know how to counter.
@@cryamistellimek9184 no tosen straight up said hollowification is a bigger boost then bankai and that bankai is such a small power compared to what lord aizen gave him which was the hollowification
@@cryamistellimek9184 secondly clydes not assuming it's easy to tell Espadas release is stronger then a captains bankai hallibel and hitsugaya was at a standstill cause of element combat kurosutchi also only beat sayalopporo granz due to poison and chemicals more then technique
I would have loved to have him return in the TYBW as perhaps the only true ranged combatant against the Quincy menace.
i really hope he comes back in the anime Starrk has so much more to tell plus he felt unfinish he gotta come back
43:10 does that mean it dissolved when he transformed against ulqiorra?
does that mean the badge megically reshaped when he transformed back into his normal human form?
I was so upset that Kubo brought back Luppi instead of Starrk.
@@Zorkii More tentacle fanservice
I dislike him to
Wished for Uryu's grandpa , Ulquiorra and Rudborn
@@Jack.Martson Why would he even come back? The manga never mentioned Stark to be alive. Hallibel ruled Hueco Mundo.
48:08 it's actually funny cuz after you made this video Kubo might give us that Arc.
"Its hard to get a soul reaper and have them swap their sword for an ak47"
I mean he DID literally have an entire group of soul reapers that were unable to return to the the soul society and had lived over 100 year in the human world ,adopting human culture and living among them in false bodies.
I feel like that might have been a PERFECT chance to do that.
Ulquiorra: "Do you want to fight me in my First or second release?"
This gives the same energy as when madara said 'do you want my clones to use susanoo?'
The "What if" form when infused with Hōgyoku from Brave Souls.
you do realize that ulquiorra is only arguably the strongest in his second release right ?
@@driplord7286 It's not even arguable. Ulquiorra in his 2nd release is the strongest Espada by leaps and bounds. None of the Espada's power comes close given Ulquiorra's Lanza del Relampago.
@@stormbringer7773 Starrk also only lost because he pretty much gave up on the fight. I'm sure that his Infinite Cero shot can put Ulquiorra's Lanza Del Ranpargo to shame
I wish Coyote had more screentime... Starrk was my favorite character hands down...
Clyde upload? Day just got 10x better
Who’s that character in ur pfp???
@@sorcerer4703 ok I was thinking that but wasn’t 100% sure since I haven’t seen how he looks in the manga thx 🙏
And it was on my birthday no less!
@@brandonmcdaniel5447 happy b day random person 😃
@@brandonmcdaniel5447🥳Happy Birthday🥳
I clicked on this soo fast. Father Clyde granting the masses sustenance
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Why would you do that??
49:20 who says AAAAA?
Im sure someone mentioned this by now, but the "Starrk's Wolves" ability you mentioned is actually named, atleast in Soul Resurreccion, "Comarada" (literally Comrade in spanish and Companion/Soul Bretheren in japanese), which further sells his depiction as "loneliness", as his only friends, or comrades, are those of his own creation, fragments of himself. His only friend being, fittingly, himself.
The Espada ranks are very well known to be somewhat BS. However, the powers are not what makes the story interesting. The different drivers to their being is what makes some Espada interesting. Stark, Ulquiorra, and Grimmjow are by the coolest Espada not for their power, but because we got to explore what makes them tick.
They're ranked by their reiatsu
theyre not BS. Theyre ranked by spiritual pressure
@@RASIII9 they are tho. Ulquiorras second release and yami throws it all into skepticism. Especially yami cuz even tho hes rank 0 he aint shit lol. 2 captains no diffed him when stark was against 4
@@nabilshah9184 yammy’s biggest feat in his releases form was hurting rukia a little
@@blvck1635 eh not rlly watch the show again he was battering them all except the captains. Maybe ichigo wld body him if he had his full cloak but he didnt. Yami isnt 10 tho hes atleast 9
I was really hoping Stark would have a second release, or a moment he got a "serious" boost to really push Shunsui and Ukitake. Would have been super cool
He is strong people just meat ride Ulquiorra all the way home.
@@Howtostartaforestfirehe is strong sure but theres a huge difference in what i saw from starrk and what i saw from ulquiorra, when i saw starrk as number 1 i was really hyped to see something even stronger and flashier than ulquiorra but it was disappointing tbh.
@@keri7031 ulqoirra fought the mc, of course he had to be flashier than the rest (monetization go brr)
@@keri7031Pretty sure ulquiorra himself said that there were 4 espadas above him
@@flaviojarvis3567 thats a horrible argument. Ulquiorra said that before ichigo knew of segunda. Why would he just randomly explain his segunda to ichigo when he knows that aizen has a big screen tv watching their fight. He was just explaining that he is only number 4 in terms of aizens ranking. When we know that his segunda form has no ranking.
I always thought shunsui's different attitude between fighting Chad and fighting stark was because Chad is a human (its his job to protect humans) and stark is a form of hollow (it is his job to cleanse hollows)
and Chad was never a threat for him to begin with.
I do like the detail that Yami despaired for Ulquiorra, small details like these make me really want to know more about them
He then proceeded to call him trash lol
@@Mugetsu2021
Well I think there's a difference in what you believe plus things you won't say that are sentimental in terms of respect and what you say out loud especially when he's enraged just to get a reaction and or power himself up
@@tehcookievanilla1323 copium, there was one panel where he was surprised he died, called him trash and then attacked the shinigami, stop reaching for things that aren’t there.
@@Mugetsu2021
"Stop reaching for things that aren't there "
How is that reaching, I haven't read the manga, but your evidence doesn't refute the idea of having respect for someone and showing something else to other people on the outside, like how is that reaching when you are enraged and in battle the respect will often turn into disappointment or pride going up in confidence of one's self, his death aspect is rage so it would make sense so I don't see how it would nullify him having respect before.
Plus surmising that the details from the one shot are true from the video, I don't see how it's farfetched to any degree, you've really not said anything that would make my thoughts so 'unbelievable'.
These are typical human emotions, and since the espada are have shown to some degree of the same, connecting the dots here and coming to that conclusion doesn't seem "reaching for things that aren't there" at all.
@@Mugetsu2021 Yammy had to keep being angry and psyche himself up otherwise he would lose strength. The author literally stated he felt despair when Ulquiorra's reiatsu disappeared. Keep in mind White's reiatsu even with half a shihakusho was confirmed to be more than Yammy's in his monkey form. His ability to sense reiatsu is very basic and amateurish. Point is, of all the Espada he respected Ulquiorra the most hence why he felt despair when he died. This is all canon information from data books and manga, you are the one who is reaching my friend.
I feel like Hallibel was the only other Espada Stark could consider a true friend in my opinion
She seems to hold a grudge against Shunsui about his death
This went from a Coyote Starrk character study to an Ulquiora study...
In the anime when shunsui says "it's finally just the two of us facing off" gives me chills every time
You should see the manga panel of his face.
@@hereticsign what chapter?
Yeah him saying mad him realize he loss his only companion that girl Esparda I forgot her name
@@dragonk5543 Don't remember. It's been a long time since i read bleach.
49:20 who says AAAAA?
I can tell this is going to be one of my favorite video you have made this year which isn’t a lot.
Always saw him as the strongest but lazy. It’s because of that he’s not really taken seriously by most of the espada as shown in bleach brave soul by Grimmjow,nnoitra, and barragan. However he’s clearly powerful as unlike the rest of the espada we’ve seen with full on fights he doesn’t fight aggressively like Grimmjow,nnoitra, yammy and Ulqiourra as they fight like actual beasts or creatures. Stark being a vasto lorde prior and splitting himself into two are huge feats. His reiatsu and power aren’t an exaggeration as he blasts out countless cero like nothing which is a deadly move especially by the espada as it takes concentration from all of them except stark who looks like he’s very proficient in blasting one off no issues. I see it as the strongest don’t really have to fight physically as they can just depend on their immense powers such as barragan just releasing his breath around him as they do the work same can be said who fires off so much cero without and signs of fatigue.
for ulqiorra, is there anything to be said about the fact that in his segunda etapa, his number just vanishes. for yami, its shown that he went from 10-0 but for ulqiorra it just goes and its not mentioned. recon thats just a design choice or could it imply that at this point he was simply beyond the other espada?
This was definitely a narrative implication and a really nice way for Kubo to show us how powerful ulquiorra actually was in his second release. People always talk about yammy being 0 but never about Ulquiorras number simply dissapearing
Not sure it means anything : Harribel's number also disappears with her resurreccion, and I think Nnoitorra's does too.
@@firionnel7833 I think there's is just a design mishap or hidden by clothes, maybe? Idk but I don't think it has the same meaning ulquiorras does (he has a second release and commonly refered to in that form as the strongest espada) idk tho maybe ulqs was also a design mistake lol
Don't all their numbers disappear when they release?
Aizen never saw the form. Not to say that he didn't know about it because it's implied that he did however aizen is the one who gave the espada their ranks. So since he never saw the form how could he ever place a ranking on it? That's the reason why the rank isn't shown if you are curious. However there is an argument in favor of ulquiorra above the espada. Aizen specifically relied on ulquiorra to test the vasto lorde form and he was relative to it. So aizen needed to fuse with the hogyoku before he could deal with people like kenpachi and vasto ichigo. This was the same aizen who in base was already above the other espada. So that puts ulquiorra as relative to vasto lorde ichigo who is above base aizen who just outscales any of the other espada
Easy one of my favorite characters in the series. Love the Guns and wolfs aesthetic in the series. Wish he stayed around longer. Character I could relate to with his loneliness, was always a personal favorite for me. Love that he's getting a video now, this was amazing.
I did not realize this was an hour video till I was almost finished.
Great work!
I would’ve liked it if Starrk, Ulquiorra, and Lilyneete survived the Arc as well, Starrk and Lilynette making actual friends would’ve been an interesting contrast for the rest of the Hollow based characters other then Harribel and her Fraccion, as Nel’s and her own Fraccion they have mostly negative attributes to their personality’s, Ulquiorra finally learning what his “heart” is would’ve been pretty interesting to see that development and seeing stronger Starrk and Ulquiorra throw down with the Sternritter would be awesome
Starrk and Ulquiorra have always shared the number one spot on my list of favorite Bleach characters
I really enjoyed this analysis clyde,a lot of honest really well thought out contextual examples along with great character analysis. Made a lot of things that I was not certain about make more sense.
First the manga returns and now Clyde returns
Clyde casually posting almost an hour long video is just what I needed.
One thing I will say, is that the idea of "Hueco Mundo amps Hollows and Arrancar" has been backed up by Can't Fear Your Own World. It introduced Reimyaku, which is a unique spiritual energy that permeates throughout the worlds literally exactly like Uryu was describing. We've seen it be used for two things. The first is that Ichibe can harness it within the Soul King's Palace to revive the Zero Division as long as their living quarters is in tact, and the second is that Reimyaku is what Hado #99 runs off of. So it's really powerful stuff, it's specific for each world like Uryu was explaining, and we already know that small Hollows are able to sustain themselves just through the air of Hueco Mundo. So what's /probably/ happening, is that people with spiritual energy that's hollow in origin (like Chad and the small hollows) are able to harness the Reimyaku of Hueco Mundo, just like Ichibe can for the Soul King's Palace and just like practitioners of Goryutenmetsu. And harnessing that ridiculously strong type of spiritual power, they get an amp from it. (Again, as we saw with Chad.)
BUUUUUT there's no way to quantify the amp that it gives so uh...doesn't help much in the discussion, unfortunately.
At first, Espadas were ranked by power in ordinal scale, but then Tite Kubo decided to put the three digit Arrancar, some secret Espadas, second resurrection, Espada 0, and had abilities like that "time advancing fire" or body control.
Honestly, I think Espadas were ranked by their espiritual pressure and not by their fighting power and definitely not by their luck.
Sure Starrk lost to Shunsui's shikai. But there is no shame in that considering Shunsui does become Yamamoto's successor. And Yamamoto's shikai alone is as powerful as most captain's Bankai. I would even argue that Shunsui's shikai is stronger than any other captain's Bankai who is under Byakuya
This video was so amazing. I can't believe an hour passed by that quickly. I feel like Seth & Swagkage are lacking in their video structures because you fucking nailed it Clyde. Kept me entertained the entire duration of the video. Can't wait for more Bleach content.
Their videos are still amazing, I appreciate your kind words, though.
@@ClydeUA-camr Don't get me wrong, I like their content. They're the reason I started watching your channel. It's just that the way you structure your videos keeps me interested & entertained. It's not easy to keep someone enjoying a video for an hour straight. You've got a natural talent not many people have. Can't wait for more.
Clyde with the content I’ve waited for
Wait i thought it was obvious that the reason why aizen destroyed the train in dangai is because he wanted ichigo to reach his full potential.
Also chad's power being aggressive in hueco mundo was to show that it has hollow nature to it which can be considered a small foreshadowing to chad being a full bringer.
Also man stark's fate is tragic 😭
Starrk is the best character in all animes (for me). He's personallity and the behavior, is really interstend. Amazing work by Tite Kubo
The potential in him was so so much
Wish they could have just brought him back in TYBW arc
zura janai katsura da!!
While I do feel that Starrk was fighting seriously against the Captains and Vizards, I think he wasn't trying his *hardest* during most of the fight because of his characteristic lazy personality and dislike for the Karakura War as a whole. You can see this when Love knocks him down into the ground and he's just lying in the rubble, not really wanting to go back into the fray, but eventually pushing himself to keep fighting.
It's similar to what happened to Minato in the War arc, the so called "Minato's Daze". He was fighting seriously (c'mon, the guy was in KCM), but not to the full extent of his capabilities because of the mental stress he was suffering from thanks to the guilt about Obito. Maybe Stark could have fought harder, but I don't think he would really bring himself to fight with the lust or honor or pride that guided the other Espadas. It was just not in his nature.
True. Fighting to defeat is not the same as fighting to kill which was the case for starrk
@@emptymelody5179 That’s such a perfect way of putting it. If Starrk was really out to kill Shunsui, he most likely would either be injured or just be killed. Starrk had a few opportunities to kill Shunsui and even Ukitake.
@@chillguy7687 shunsui didnt even go bankai bro
@@ceyuh he wouldnt go Bankai regardless or else his teammates would die
@@chillguy7687 well kyoraku wasnt going all out either
Shunsui and Stark were my two favorite characters while reading. And though the fight was cool, I really had hoped for more from the two of them in this fight given how highly regarded each of them were. I really think they're abilities were downplayed from a writing standpoint to balance longevity of the Manga if it was going to continue past Aizen. Had there not been a continuation in mind, I think the two of them would have been shown to be as strong as viewers were lead to believe up to this point
I think what he meant when he said "Let's go Starrk" was that he was trying to motivate himself. Like a "let's go Starrk, it's time to get serious, you can do this"
If you talking about the part when he shows his wolves then he's not saying it to get motivated, the wolves were part of his and lillinets soul
@@bahumut01 I'm aware, im saying I dont think that's what he meant when he said that line.
You know Espada Arc is the best Bleach Arc, when even to this day its even talk about, and being debated, and also show how great and well design the characters when to this day its still well remember and well debate like Ulquiorra ( Arguable the best and the strongest Espada), Starrk ( debatable if he is truly above Ulquiorra or vice versa) and how cool looking Grimmjaw is.
@@CBT_Gaming123 I feel like the first half of the TYBW is Bleach at its finest. The second half of it, however, is a complete mess...
@@thelastgalvanizer kubo was rushed to finish the manga that's why but the tybw is still top tier
@@thelastgalvanizer after Byakuya got destroyed by his own bankai vs As Nodt.. ya I'd say it was downhill for TYBW, sad to say. some interesting ideas sure but executed in an incredibly underwhelming n messy manner for sure.
I love how this video talks about starrk for 5 minutes then goes on a 30 minute tangent on how strong and sexy Ulquiorra is
I mean he talked abt stark for 20 mins and then the people who are stronger than him (Yammy and Ulquiorra) for the remaining 30 so it’s not that bad. I mean starrk barely had any backstory and actual screen time so it’s hard to talk abt him for a long time
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Glad he talked about starks speed! A lot of people underestimate starks speed like he’s slow or something
I'M ABSOLUTELY LOVING THIS VIDEO SO FAR!!!!!!
That was a great watch. I had x5 different comments i would have liked to write but i'm sure you get enough theory. Thanks for sharing the video.
He’s actually pretty strong if you think about it. He was able to fire ceros at the rate that a Gatling gun fired bullets, hence the abilities name. He could likely overwhelm both Barrigan and Halibel with that ability alone.
Agreed he is better in the areas that barrgan and halibel excel the most (raw power for barragan and strategy for halibel)
@@megabladechronicles962 I'd swap those two. Halibel dropped an entire ocean on someone. Barragan took someone's arm.
Half of this video is just praising ulquiorra and Aizen lol
dawg went from analyzing stark's power to glazing ulquiorra
Love how aizen was lonely because he was "too strong" and wanted to develop ichigos powers to fight but was that afraid of Yamamoto to where he made a being specifically meant to seal his zongpakuto
Stark was also lonely due to being too strong
He wanted an equal, reached his peak, saw Yamamoto and was like nah
I always thouhght this too. Like he wanted to find someone strong just no not Yamamoto strong
@@daneelderozan263 yeah he wanted someone who could match him, Yamamoto surpassed him
Yamamoto had already reached his peak while Aizen was far from it so yes, he was too strong because he would eventually surpass Yamamoto and reach far higher height it was just a matter of time and he did when he fused with the Hogyoku. Plus let's be honest, if not for plot Aizen could have easily at any moment one shot all of the captains by cutting off their head with KS. Aizen was simply on another level compared to everyone else, he was a genius who knew every Kido and Hado, his shikai is the most broken in the show, we haven't even seen his bankai yet, his reiatsu is leagues apart from other captains and he is just as smart if not smarter than Urahara. Ichigo being a fusion of all races (Shinigami/Hollow/Quincy) was the only one who could stand in front of Aizen as equal because he had just as much potential as him.
Definitely Starrk has a better chance of taking Ichigo's fully charged attack. As Aizen so blatantly put it, these fights are a fight of reiatsu. Starrk definitely has greater reiatsu than Nnoitora despite Nnoitora likely having the greater hierro
My idea was that Nnoitora having the strongest hierro or the other guy having the fastest sonido was they had the best hierro/sonido in respect to their reiatsu.
So if they had the exact same level of reiatsu, nnoitora would have the strongest hierro
@@timothypickarski5234 pound for pound so to speak
I was always of the opinion that Ulquiorra was the strongest because his second form was never known to anyone hence his number didn't reflect his actual power that was displayed in the last fight.
I mean...it wasn't unknown to EVERYONE. Kubo has stated that aizen always knew bout the form.
@@theredheadrevolution4156 it's still a valid point the 3 people in front of him who could be him in 1st release would be confused like is aizen favorite #4 so it makes since he would rank him not taking his 2 release in mind
@Argentina Argentina I don't have time to read your entire post right now and form a full rebutal on every point ATM. (I'll try to come back later and take a more in depth look) This is in response up to the part where you write (Ulquiorra fight)
The core of your argument seems to revolve Ichigo being weaker than the top espada hence ulquiorra can't be as strong. But this logic kinda misses my whole point on the subject. My whole theory is that ulquiorra's true form was hidden from everyoneone and hence he was actually the strongest espada but none of the other espada or aisen knew this. Ulquiorra obviously can completely beat the shiz out of Ichigo without needing to enter his final form despite Ichigo having his mask on which is ichigos strongest form up until this point in the story.
Ulquiorra destroys Ichigo who is assumed to be weaker than other espada doesn't somehow prove ulquiorra to be weaker than those espada also. If this was the case then Aizen would be the weakest for steping on an ant because ants are weak and anyone can kill them. No my whole point is that ulquiorra is the strongest espada and Ichigo while in vosto lord form completely curb stomps ulquiorra. Hence ichigos vosto lord form is in fact stronger than any of the espada as well. I don't think I explicitly mentioned that in my past posts but it was implied.
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I just skipped and read the last line of your post and can see you say ulquiorra second form strength is unknown and could be stronger but there is no way to know for sure. So I assume you probably understand my point.
yk the ulquiorra said before he died in his segunda that there were others stronger then him
Stark would've been a cool Espada to juxtapose Shunsuis new position. More so than Harribel, but then again Stark doesn't have her staying power lol
IMO Stark and Gin are the two most fascinating bleach characters attempt to power scale. For Stark it’s because of his under utilization and Gin because of just how much of a outlier he is.
I really liked Starrk a lot because of his backstory. What I think his primera espada rank or number 1 espada rank means is that, he's on the very top, no one could reach him ever. He's too high to be reached. It's shown by the hollows disintegrating hollows that he wants to make friends with by accident. He was on top which doesn't let him reach anyone. He's number 1, all alone. The only one. That ranking might actually be something poetic and not just a ranking of powerscaling. I don't have anything else to say because, this is all i thought of what the number 1 could've meant for him.
Great video Clyde, I always liked Stark, he was definitely underappreciated and underutilized. If only he survived like Grmmjow and Hallibel. I wish we got a 5* base form of him in BBS, maybe a tag team of him and Lillinette. Sadly until a new Bleach game comes out, it's all we got.
I think we will get another Stark for fierce battle like you described
Uryu's comments regarding hollows in Waco Mundo may have been generally true for most hollows (and makes a certain amount of sense given some of the trouble they see early on in the arc), but the buff is relatively negligent past a certain power level- one which I imagine all the Espada would certainly surpass.
Arrancar weren't exactly a well-known breed at the time, and they already buck some of the supposed rules regarding hollows. It may just be that this is another instance of this.
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I don’t think Aizen literally gave uqiora and Yami their second forms but I do think he made it possible for them to make them. Like Aizen made clay and gave it to them but the creations are unique to them. So Aizen “created” the second release while still not technically knowing everything about them
Ulquiorra was a natural Arrancar though
I think starrk had by far the highest amount of spirit energy out of the Espada but in terms of raw strength and fighting experience he may be weaker in that sense
It is his lack of conviction, not raw strength and fighting experience, that puts him at a disadvantage.
@@hereticsign that makes alot more sense really
@@hereticsign this makes a lot of sense
Yammy has the most spirit energy. that's why he's number 0.
Stark had nothing on secunda etapa from ulquiora. Only time we saw liquid spiritual pressure. not even aizen could replicate this. Im just baffled how much people underestimate VASTO LORDE Hichigo. Does anyone really think Aizen or Yamamoto or anyone stands a chance against vasto lorde Hichigo at full power in hueco mundo?
Not sure if people mentioned this, but I feel its significant that Ulq's aspect is despair. He tells Ichigo in the battle that its hopeless since Ichigo can't even beat him, rank 4, and that therefore he has no chance against the others (maybe it was just in the anime not sure). Aizen and/or Ulq just wanted to fck with ichigo by having him battle the strongest espada, but think he was fighting someone of lower rank, thats true despair
Ulqs aspect was not despair thats number 5s aspects. Ulqs aspect was either Nihilism or emptiness
But ulqiorra aspect of death is emptiness , despair was nnoitra
Ulq was not the strongest espada. It was definitely Starkk.
Cylde uploading on my birthday what more of a gift can i ask for
Happy birthday bro!
@@ClydeUA-camr thanks man what other bleach videos are you planning to upload in the future
No spoilers, but the next one is a BIG character.
@@ClydeUA-camr alright I'll keep that bell icon on for when it drops
@Roman Francis it's clearly Kon
You give a man an indestructible spoon and all of a sudden he becomes universal
Only a spoonful!
Alternative title:
Why Ulquiorra is badass
To this day I never really understood why Luppi got revived but neither Stark or Barragan did.
Because Luppis body was laying around
Such an underrated badass!
I'm glad you're saying Espada and not _Espader._ Seriously. I'm fuckin proud of you.
I always get a bit upset thinking about how they shafted this man.
Even then they had an opportunity to develop him more and give him some great moments for the TYBW instead for some reason Mayuri recovers the bodies of and zombifies crusty characters like Luppi and Charlotte? GTF outta here maaaaan 🤣
Same! I feel like if anyone could have come back it was Stark and he could've had so many cool moments with Shunsui
@@spenceee09 He was one of the few Arrancar that actually deserved a second chance, storywise and characterwise.
I'm not sure his corpse is intact and recoverable. We see his chest start braking apart, almost shattering, as he falls so I wonder if he got the Ulquiorra/Barragon treatment and there's just nothing left.
@@corruptangel6793 Luppi's whole torso was destroyed tho
@@Raver-1601 yeah but he still had a corpse, even if it wasn't fully intact. Plus we never saw what Szayel and Mayuri did to it. Rebuilding the top half is still more believable than completely rebuilding a body from nothing. At that point the person would just be a robot or something like Nemu.
Bringing back Luppi was dumb, (it should have been one of the other Espada like Nnoitra or Zommari) but at least there was something left of him.
In a Bleach PS3 game, the wolf technique Starrk uses is called Comarada.
24:26 I didn't notice but that's funny lol. Great video man.
50:27 I think the difference there is that Chad is a young living human, where Stark been a hollow means reapers have a duty to... well, reap.
If stark actually just sat down and drank a cold one with shunsui, the war arc would've been a little more interesting. Maybe he could've also gotten a second release, another *excuse* for kubo to put guns in.
his “Let’s go…Stark” special move is called “Stark”
Yes Clyde it’s been a while since you’ve posted
Dam, i feel like this was "Was Ulquiorra REALLY The Strongest Espada? PART 2" with Starrk sprinkled in XD
Welcome back it’s been a while ✌️
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Starrk has to be the most demotivated "strongest" I've seen in any manga. Dude literally just quits when his friends got punked.
Starrk is what a person with power but no ambition looks like.
Starrk's my favorite among the Espada, his personality & style resonated a lot with me and his fight(s) with Shunsui were some of my favorites in the series just sucks Kubo didn't utilize him more before his death. While I don't think he's the strongest Espada I'd say he's at least in the top 3-5.
he is 2 Yammy is the strongest
I'd say he's probably 3. It's made quite clear that Ulqiora is the strongest and it's heavily implied, as Clyde mentioned here, that Yami is stronger than the rest of the Espada. Whether Yami could beat Stark in a fight 🤷, personally I think not, though he probably has more raw power.
@@rhysgarland9295 i mean strength doesn't mean raw power. Starrk is much more smarter and perceptive than Yammy and i believe much more faster. He would most likely be second strongest
Ulqiora is probably the strongest the yama and then stark
@@binitbey ulquiora is stronger
He never used his second release so no one knew about it
Hence why he was ranked lower
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