What did you think of The Almighty as an ability for the final enemy of Bleach? Too overpowered? Or, with its weaknesses as they were presented, is it just right for a villain of Yhwach's stature? How did Uryu's antithesis play into his eventual defeat? Let me know!
I never had a problem with The Almighty and it being over powered, Kubo just needed to do a better job at setting up the foreshadowing of Uryū’s schrift and the whole blood clot arrow thing. Hopefully this will be better executed in the anime.
Absolutely too overpowered. There's no real way to beat Yhwach without it being very obviously plot. Same with Gremmy. When you have a power that's so completely broken it isn't feasible to beat, it's a problem for the story. All Yhwach and Gremmy did was cheapen the story. As much as I love Bleach's broken abilities and power scaling, Yhwach and Gremmy specifically rub me the wrong way. Either one of them could solo any verse no matter how strong. It's so dumb that we have three characters that just rise THAT far above the power scaling of Bleach. ETA: It's also ridiculous how the plot arrow that literally deactivated Almighty wasn't enough. Jugram had to actively select a future in which Yhwach had died and disguise it as a dream, meaning that without the help of an ANTAGONIST, Yhwach would've won. And on top of that, the only reason this worked was because Yhwach didn't simply use Almighty to kill anyone in front of him because everyone dies eventually.
I felt like the Arrow canceling his powers was a bit of an A**pull, but there was literally no other way to stop him when he’s this OP. Kubo wrote himself into a corner with this one but I still enjoyed the All-or-nothing nature of Bleach’s final battle.
I wonder what effect the Respira ability would have on Ywach. To me it came off as a possible counter in the sense he could be aged to a state to when he no longer had access to the Almighty. Although he can alter futures where he has "lost", coming into contact with the same abilty would just age him again anyway if he attempted to alter it. I have been thinking about Respira as a possible counter to everything in bleach haha. For example when Ichibe summoned the black from 100 nights which can certaily be aged past that point. Since the amount of darkness Ichibe gathered can be quantified (in some sense) then it has a limit, and against Respira all limits are reached . I had hoped Hollows would play a greater role near the end of the story and was certain after the Almighty was reveaeld Barragon/his ability would serve as a king v king cage match but alas.
That is what I thought too for the longest time too! Then I googled the wiki for the Soul King and it explained it was four irises and I was like oooooooh. That makes more sense actually. lol xD
Something that went over most people's heads, is the thematic opposition the Almighty poses to Ichigo. In the chapter Side A:The Sand, Ichigo laments being powerless against the gears of fate and being crushed like *grains of sand*. Yhwach himself compares the Almighty to sand grains, and its power to change the future does indeed render Ichigo powerless to do anything against it, just like he always feared. But, with help from the Still Silver arrow, his "blade that shatters fate" was able to finish off Yhwach. The execution could definitely have been better, but I'm glad this thematic underline was there in the final battle.
I really wished we could have gotten flashbacks to the original Gotei 13 fighting the Quincy so that the "blood war" actually felt like a "blood war." I would have loved to see scenes of the Quincy and Ywach barely surviving the onslaught of Soul Society and crawling away in anger and humiliation, spawning the conflict we see 9000 years later. Imo, TYBW kinda lacks in establishing an emotional motivation for the Quincies. I wished the sternritters had some sort of personal grudge they had been holding from the original fight b/w the soul society and the Wandenreich, or maybe even have it shown that those grudges against specific captains or Shinigami were passed down the Quincy generations. That way, statements like "Our 1000 year prayer has finally been answered" actually deliver on the emotional gut punch they are trying to convey.
Part of the problem is that most of the Sternritter weren't there 1000 years ago. People like Az and the twins were recruited after the fact. There should have been an emphasis on a divide in mindset between those who survived 1000 years ago and those who weren't there.
I get that, but that would go against some of the Sternritters personalities. Specifically, Askin. Askin literally tells Kisuke that he was genuinely curious about the world Yhwach wanted instead of saying the typical stuff about his majesty
@@MythicShadow04 I know that. I’m saying I wish this WAS part of their personality instead of what we got. I personally found the sternritter to be a lot more badass and ruthless than the espada but the espada were a lot more interesting and easier to get invested in bc we had already seen sooo many scenes of arrancars fighting shinigami so the conflict was a lot more believable and easier to engage in
It's not something I noticed myself, but someone pointed out that Ichibe actually blacked out the Zanka no Tachi medallion when he used Ichimonji against Yhwach. That's the in-universe reason why Yhwach never used it after, although he really had no need to when The Almighty was so OP.
I love how DeathBattle tried to say this dude wasn’t even a planet buster. I mean……….he became multi-universal by definition after absorbing the soul king’s power. But you know how it goes in DeathBattle; if you can’t measure a feat with TNT, it doesn’t count.
No one over the age of 13 should be watching death battle, or any power scaling youtube channel, that's up there with the cringiest shit on the Internet
@@MC-up7rl Nah, venom and Carnage both lost fights to anime girls. Death battle makes bleach lose to Naruto every time because the latter has a bigger fan base.
The Almighty felt broken, but it had to be. We had experienced the near unbeatable kyoka suigetsu for hundereds of chapters so Kubo needed to create an even more insane power for it to be as impactful
So back when I read it, I interpreted the ultimate weakness of The Almighty as being the hubris of the user. True it can show you a complete story, but that doesn't matter if you stop reading it 2 pages before the end because you think you know how it'll all turn out. In this case I think Yhwach stopped "reading" the story after he overcame death and broke Zangetsu. He thought he'd changed the end The Almighty had shown Haschwalth, but in his hubris he didn't realize he'd not even got there yet. Thus he didn't see Tsukishima or Ishida's actions coming because they occurred after he'd already put the book down.
I think the only true counter to The Almighty is Ichigo’s unnamed power which I’ll call “Destiny Negation” until a more suitable name is found. Yawach himself said Ichigo’s power was very similar to Orihime’s, and her power is the rejection of phenomena. I think Destiny Negation is the complete elimination of futures/fates/destinies that don’t align with Ichigo’s will, and in TYBW it is to defeat Yawach and save Soul Society (and by extension the World of the Living and Hueco Mundo; the opposite of Yawach’s goal). This explains why Yawach felt like he had to repeatedly break his Bankai (he was trying to circumvent Destiny Negation). This ability is dangerous to Yawach because although The Almighty gives him the ability to see “all futures”, I believe he realized that Destiny Negation nips The Almighty at the bud by eliminating the number of futures he has to chose from; specifically any futures which result in the accomplishment of his goals because they are diametrically opposed to Ichigo’s. It makes Ichigo’s eventual victory a foregone conclusion because there isn’t a future Yawach can choose that doesn’t ultimately result in his own defeat; Destiny Negation has already eliminated any future where Ichigo’s desire to defeat Yawach and save Soul Society isn’t realized. If true, Kubo has essentially canonized plot armor and made it an ability in the Bleach universe.
@Dexulosi how about the power to negate anything not just powers or fate but undo or destroy anything that stands in his way granted that would be too overpowered but it would make sense considering this is the second to last arc if you think the hell arc Is more than just a one shot that is
@Dexulosi that’s what I ended up thinking too but I didn’t wanna make the post go off into a thousand different directions. This ability would explain for example how Ichigo unlocked Bankai in three days and defeated Byakuya and how he ended up coming to a virtual tie with Kenpachi, an otherwise impossible task… Destiny Negation eliminated any future where Ichigo’s will wasn’t realized. It’s a completely broken ability if it’s true 😂
What I really like about The Almighty is that once it is activates, Yhwach is often seen looking to the sides or away from his opponent. He no longer needs to pay attention because he has already seen it all.
I think the power that was used to split up the souls and the realms was a combo of The Almighty and Auswhalen. The Almighty lets you see the possibilities for what could happen when you split the realms and decide which if going to happen, and then Auswhalen is what actually does it.
Never thought of Uryuu's powers this way, it would make sense if close to the end of the fight, Yhwach starts asking where Uryuu is, saying stuff like: "I can't find him in any reality, i'm sure he survived in a few in this whole infinity that i can see, is this Aizen's powers?". Then the fight starts going in the heroes favor with Aizen taking Ichigo's place, Yhwach being cut in half, erasing his death, then Uryuu shows up and hits him.
@Rimtia Crowing Aizens Bankai was also used to make the Japanese lose WWII causing Imperial Japan to be no more and adopt the new culture and society that eventually led to Kubo writing Bleach.
I think it's an interesting power, but my guess is that Kubo was a little too caught up with trying to one-up Aizen's perfect hypnosis. It'd be interesting to see what whoever the Hell Arc's antagonist is has in store.
I think something that's really crazy is that it's implied in the manga and the novel's that the Soul King used the Almighty to completely change the future and the actions of the characters, leading to Ichigo's birth and the plot of Bleach. Who knows what he might have done had Bleach continued as Kubo originally planned.
Maybe that's why he willfully surrendered himself to the ancestors, even if they mutilated and reduced him to a state worse than death he sure saw what would eventually come to pass. And how the ancestors descendants would be the ones who pay for their sin. Can't blame Shunsui for hating the ancestors and their greedy actions.
@@manuelacosta9463 I thought the reason he willingly surrendered himself, is because he did want to save humanity and create a world where they would not constanly live in fear of hollows and such. Since it was that sacrifice that allowed the "One" world to become "three" and separated them. Although I haven't read the books, so I could be very wrong on that
the anime needs to pull an FMA. animate the manga, then do a Bleach: Brotherhood so we get Tites original vision and not the rushed crap the manga ended up being.
@@hoofhearted4 I believe that is a misconception. It was partially rushed, on Kubos end because of some health issues he was having. He has stated in interviews that shonen jump didn't rush him, and that he was happy with the ending.
The biggest and only weakness of the Almighty in my opinion is that there's seemingly infinite "gains" of realities that he can see and switch between but there must be some grains that inevitably lead to his end. This includes everything touched upon in this video.
I really like how you look at kubo's writing for each character, not just their ability or surface level personality. Can't wait for the gremmy fight analysis, that's a real underrated one
I think is important to mention that Kazui also has the three iris. My theory is that the soul king plan was to make Ichigo defeat Juha, thats why Juha saw ichigo defeaying him in all possible futures and only choose the one who was most benefitial for Quincies, the one where Uryu shoots him. The connection between Ichigo and Soul King is the thing that make Kazui having the 3 eyes, and destroying the Juha reaitsus that left. I think the whole Almighty plot is far from be over, we can expect much more for kubo!
The Almighty is a really awesome ability and i love that it has some natural weaknesses that we have been introduced to earlier. There was Kyoka Suigetsu and Book of the End that had been known for some time before the Almighty was revealed. I think Kubo should have found a way to end the final fight with these abilities. ( He kind of did but I think there has to be a way to defeat Yhwach without the still silver arrow)
Still aizen and tsukishima would both lose to yhwach anyway, not like they can pierce him even hado 99 didn't scratch him only ichigo could damage yhwach
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 yeah Ichigo has to defeat Yhwach he is the MC but they should have found a way to enable Ichigos strike that is not Uryus arrow
i liked your analogy of it being like a treadmill, and i also agree that the kind of ability that the almighty is makes things really messy and frustrating. being able to both *see* and mess with time is just a "well why he don't just choose to not lose" waiting to happen. which is why i really liked how you mentioned that Aizen's illusions were on him even before his eyes awoke because that is a really funny gotcha moment, even if it didn't inherently win the fight.
I always assumed that the reason the still silver worked was that either Aizen used Kyoka Suigetsu or the still silver, being created by Yhwach's Holy Selection, had the same property as the Mimihage of being immune to the almighty.
Yhwach has one of my favorite character designs in the entire series. From his original Quincy uniform and his cloak, to the black eye-covered spiritual pressure around him. It all looks so good
I like that Uryu's counter to the Almighty is the same (essentially) as the one Shinji had made for Aizen. Shinji's plan if I recall (In some light novel?) was to use Sakenada on Ichigo so he would see the release of Kyoka Suigetsu from Aizen's perspective thus nullifying it's ability since Aizen himself is never implied to be effected by his own ability.
I would have to point out that Aizen’s complete hypnosis only worked on Ywach due to Aizen being close enough in power to his foe that it didn’t get erased by the divine spiritual pressure.
@@ExtraVictory uh… Ichigo wasn’t even there, that was an illusion Aizen cast. It was actually Aizen and Renji fighting Yhwach, with Aizen taking a few hits as “Ichigo” Edit as for Chair-Sama, Aizen was sealed by it and failed to overpower the seal from within. Yhwach damaged it from without while not sealed, a very different situation. While you are probably correct about sealing an Almighty Yhwach with his eyes open, Aizen had to be weakened before he could be sealed… and Yhwach with his eyes closed properly could be sealed (and thus prevented from activating his stronger powers as Aizen was while sealed)
@@sh4d0wfl4re your memory failed you, read the last chapters again. Or watch Tommos video on the final battle, Ichigo was the one that killed Yhwach with a bankai getsuga tensho through the back. Yhwach then rewrote his own death and swallowed up Aizen and ichigo. They were talking to each other about how Ichigo never saw Aizen release and was immune from Kyoka Suigestsu Even using Kyoka Suigestsu, Aizen was getting bullied lmao. Yhwach ripped off his arm
@@sh4d0wfl4re your memory failed you, read the last chapters again. Or watch Tommos video on the final battle, Ichigo was the one that killed Yhwach with a bankai getsuga tensho through the back. Yhwach then rewrote his own death and swallowed up Aizen and ichigo
I think Kubo kinda messed things up at the end when you think about it. Tsukishima's ability is just to insert his essence into timelines for someone's past but he cannot change anything the almighty is the ability to be able to change the future events and the antithesis being exactly what it states the antithesis of the almighty should be the one to change an event in the past meaning Uryu's ability should have been the ability to restore Ichigo's Zanpakuto and not Tsukishima.
that's true but Tsukishima can also do the same by simply telling the Zanpakuto spirit that he never fought Yhwach which is why Orihime is able to fix it.
@@JxFTW yeah, and Tsukishima's power is a continual process so he's not just inserting himself into the past of something in one slash but able to alter the actual past of his target from that moment on until he undoes his ability. So when Yhwach tries to break the bankai again using the Almighty, Tsukishima should be able to alter that moment as it's happening. That or Tsukishima is controlling Ichigo's existence so the Almighty has a hard time altering someone's future if their reality is ambiguous.
@@JoseSerrato0420 i think tsukishima power is to insert fake past/ since the normal timeline cant be change when ywach alter the future orihimes cause and effect healing powers doesnt work so tsukishima put a fake past so that ichigo zanpaktou can be remade.
Same. I always figured it wasn't Uryuu that was the blind spot, it was the arrow that was the blindspot. Why would Yhwach ever bother dodging a regular old arrow after all, it wasn't even made of reishi, it'd just ping off his soul king goop.
I wanted to see girikos ability interact with Ywach. Giriko setting in time that events must happen. means he has to manipulate the future in a way that they happen but lessen the effect on him.
10:46 so one thing has just wandered across my mind, if the power of the all mighty is to know the future (which is different from knowing the potential future like say trance Gemini from Andromeda, she sees what may come from a certain set of choices but not the final outcome) then he already knew that he would lose before he even started his invasion of the soul society but he still did it knowing it would lead to his ""death"".
He doesn't just know the future, he actively changes it. He sees every possible future at the moment and erases all potential futures except for the one most ideal to him. The present then adjusts itself to match that future.
I think the reason why juha Bach didn't able to see his death in the future before he started his invasion of the soul society is because juha is still have no future in soul society, it means that juha cannot see his future to a place that he still never visited such as like the soul society.. in order to see his future to that place he needs to go there personally... For me that is the reason why, I could be wrong
The issue with a power like this is that any defeat feels cheap or forced because theres no excuse for why Yhwach wouldn’t see that silver arrow coming.
I don't think the irises are representative of mastery over the Almighty, so much as representative of the evolution of the Quincy power in general. The closest comparison I can think of is the Sharingan from Naruto. 1 iris is basic sharingan, 2 is Mangyoku, and so and so forth. That's why, when Haschwalth swaps powers with Yhwach, he gets Yhwach's eyes.
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 You can still compare things without debating about power, since the almighty is obviously above the sharingan, also, when I try to type sharingan, the auto correct says sharing instead of sharingan.
I’ve gotta admit that Yhawch’s almighty quite a hax even compared to other anime! It’s completely broken!man kubo is one damn smart mangaka! Hat’s off to him! Also the panels like one in which yhwach telling about his Almighty looks so sick!
I don't see what's so smart about making a villain so damn overpowered that they can only be defeated by a dues ex machina. Sounds like very stupid writing in my opinion.
I don't see what's so smart about making a villain so damn overpowered that they can only be defeated by a dues ex machina. Sounds like very stupid writing in my opinion.
I feel like what's more important than the number of eyes is the placement of the eyes themselves where the soul king is more uniformed and also has more eyes, while ywach has 3 and they are more dispursed, jugram's were more linear than the 3 of them which could mean a few things like he isn't able to see as well as ywach could. Just a bit of a headcannon but we all know kubo likes to hide details in plain sight... pun intended
@@norddorian5791 But that doesn't necessarily mean that Yhwach used the almighty when he fought Yamamoto in the past. Now this reason might sound like headcanon but don't you think if either Yama or Ichibe ever witnessed Yhwach using the almighty in action at least one of them in their fights would've said "I gotta look out for that one ability". Or "Yhwach hasn't used that technique yet".
This got me thinking; maybe the Soul King's first appearance with his limbs intact wasn't a plot-hole but perhaps evidence that he still has some level of "consciousness" and can still exert some control over those individual grains of sand.
I was on the fence about the abilities scale when it was described, but at the same time I feel it’s almost expected that Shonen series would end facing a godlike entity.
I think Tsukishima and Aizen had powers that had limited effects on Yhwach. As he states, Tsukishima may have created new futures that he wasn't aware of, but he would inevitably have control of those futures in due time. And as for Aizen, Yhwach impaled him, which I think was a metaphor for touching the hilt of Aizen's zanpakuto, as it had technically become a part of him. And even if that weren't the case, I'm pretty sure when Yhwach revived himself, he remarked that he had removed all his weaknesses so that something like Kyoka Suigetsu wouldn't work on him anymore.
Millions? Ichibei made a statement about of Eons (Periods of billions of years) if i remember correctly; This would also make sense since Bleach canonically takes place in our universe (Or a directly parralel universe at least) and our universe is billions of years old, which would place Ichibei and the Soul King (Arguably even Ywach) at billions of years old.
I think Bach said that he thought that particular sequence was a dream. So he didn't consider it as one of the grains of a possibility, but just as a dream of his.
@@D2TD4Life but ultimately it wasn't a dream and he was actually working towards his own death unknowingly since he tought he shattered the old zangetsu but the old zangetsu showed up at his death
Nice video, thanks. I always enjoy your bleach videos. Idea for a video ? What if Aizen kept gaining new forms from Hogyoku , is there a theoretical version of Aizen that could have solo’d Yhwach ?
Honestly I'd wish for this power in any fiction, it's versatile powerful and it's completely balanced by the users experience or inexperience, shown by the difference in mastery between Yhwach and Haschwalth.
His power has always made both of my irises roll. Imagine playing a competitive game against anyone or anything and they have the power to just say "NUH UHHH" it's not fun. Not for players OR viewers.
I love the imagery and thematic implications of the Almighty. Sure, it is a overpowered ability, but it feels like a fitting and logical power for the final villain of Bleach. Especially when you factor in what/who Yhwach and the Soul King are meant to invoke. It also makes Aizen's main ability even more fitting...the man who seeks to dethrone the Ruler of the verse, has a power that is a one of the few that can actively combat said ruler's main ability.
21:10 Wouldn't holding the true silver arrowhead (or whatever it was called, I forgot) be enough to block Yhwach's "clairevoyance" of Ishida? It's said that the Antithesis ability swaps whatever Ishida's affected with onto someone else, but how could this work with the future sight aspect of the Almighty? The future altering ability isn't affecting Ishida unless he affects him specifically. Ishida would also have to know that Yhwach affected his future, which comes back to seeing the future which is only possible through the Almighty. It might've been possible that Ishida stole the Almighty's ability when Haschwalt had the Almighty just long enough to choose a future where Yhwach wouldn't see Ishida shooting him from behind 🧐🤷♂️.
Remember Uryu was able to evade the Almighty gaze when Hascwalth was wielding it. This led Haschwalth to assume that the Antithesis countered the Almighty.
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I have 2 theories. First, is that Yhwach couldn't overcome Zanka No Tachi because of the Almighty's limitations. He can only alter the future by way of inserting himself into that future. He says his power works the same we anyone alters the present. Meaning, his ability to alter is limited by what he can do at the moment of using it. Its literally an inversion of Book of the End. Only difference is that the more powers and abilties Yhwach absorbs, the more ways he can alter the future. And since he was facing an ability that is literally just a spammable fire Mugetsu (as explained to be Yamamoto's Bankai when he originally fought Yhwach), he simply couldn't create an alternate possibility in which he could win. Second theory is that Yamamoto used the Ise God Killing sword, but at great cost to his vitality which is why he aged so much in the 1,000 years since, while Unahana for example hasn't aged a day.
Hands down he was the best villain of Bleach ..Don’t get me wrong Aizen was a good villain and was the biggest plot twist in Bleach anime but Yawach is just everything Aizen wasn’t
I think the concept of the Almighty was too vast for how many chapters were left in the series. Honestly, it's a power that would traditionally be shown at the end of the second act of a story and then the heroes have to learn how to beat it in the finale. But as we all know, Kubo had no time to flesh things out in the end.
I think all 5 "threats" should have been the final fight.... it would've been cool af if Ichigo, Ichibe, Zaraki & Kisuke were all fighting Yhwach in soul palace but then someone from soul society went & "unreleased" Aizen & he just drops the whole palace with his spiritual pressure like he originally wanted to, then the final fight begins. Of course after the fight everything will be restored but all that destruction would've been cool to see.
@@JxFTW Me to I would of love 💘 to 👀 see all five war potentials ( Bach uses the stole BANKAIS ) random sole-dats , random Quincies and sternritters vs everybody and random captains.
I always figured that the silver arrow was not seen in the future. Once it’s shot thru ywhach, he “loses his powers” so I always figured he couldn’t see up until that point? Or up to that possibility. But the antithesis sounds like a better idea of what happened.
It would make sense that Yhwach didn't notice a few seconds of missing future of one possible outcome. Can he see the futures where he doesn't exist anymore?
@@JoseSerrato0420 Probably not, but he did say that he would “come back at the Time when everyone is most happiest and then ill strike.” But then its show that ichigos son takes care of it, which we still don’t know how both happen.
@@haydenfgood He was still technically existing when Kazui destroyed him in the future. Even Mayuri stated that Yhwach was still alive dur to his energy signature up until Kazui did his thing and all traces disappeared.
A bit off-topic but if the soul king has the almighty then surely it saw itself being sealed and eventually having its body parts removed from him and therefore could have theoretically stopped all of those events from happening. However, I believe I read or saw somewhere that 1) the soul king willing allowed himself to be sealed and 2) the soul king was the world's solution for hollows but when he did kill hollows it caused imbalance and would lead to eventual armageddon. (Somebody please correct me if I'm mistaken). So my theory is the soul king knew he would be sealed and what the shinigami were going to do with splitting the realms to avoid the armageddon scenario and agreed with the action thinking that it would be the best scenario for everyone. However was also acting under good faith that the shinigami would not follow a future where they desecrated his body, which they eventually did. Hence why Gerard (the heart) Pernida (the right hand I think) fought against the shinigami because they represented the hatred the soul king had against the shinigami for desecrating his body but there is also Mimihagi who attempted to stop Yhwach from destroying everything since he still felt that this course was still the best course for everyone. Just my theory.
I always felt like Aizen{s statement regarding Orihime having the power to defy even the greatest of gods. It{s not that Orihime herself can literally go toe to toe with a god like Yuha or such. But rather, and I think this was going to be the way Yuha was going to be kept reasonably a fightable character, is that her power can reverse space and time right? As in, even the greatest of gods need to exist within space and time to create or destroy something. To keep it short, Orihime's ability amplified by Ichigo and Aizen's tremendous reiatsu would do the job don't you think? My guess is Orihime's power does to space/time what Tsukishima does to memories. And this is also what Yuha does to future. And also, I think the reason why Kubo even whilst in a rush to finish the series decided to show us how Kasui gets rid of Yuha's remnants is because Kasui either reversed the existence of those remnants to when they weren't even in space/time or he inherited Ichigo's bankai ability to nulify hax and sht. (the random theory going around) If you've watched my hero academia and know about Eri's power, you know what I mean by this.
The explanation of Antithesis being used to give Uryu the opportunity to shoot the silver arrow is an interesting one I never considered. I always thought it was just as an overlooked point to allow a means of defeating Yhwach. I see the argument for it, and Uryu's conversation with Haschwalth provides an opening for it to be true. I think the vagaries of what constitutes something that has "already happened" still makes things a bit iffy and is one of the times I most wish I could read the original language. There's also the question of why Yhwach couldn't have affected Ryuken instead, making it so he never had the arrow to give Uryu to begin with. Still, I like the Antithesis idea, and it does make Uryu's ability to shoot Yhwach make much more sense than no reason at all. I'd still love any kind of explanation on why Uryu was immune to the Auswalhen, though. There's no sensible reason within the plot that he is even still alive at that point in the story, at least as far as I can tell. Ichigo is special because of his unique lineage. Uryu is special because... ?
I always figured Tsukishima altered the past around Zangetsu, which as a butterfly effect type of thing, created new possible futures. I think Uryu could have used the antithesis, but I also think that the Still Silver arrow itself could simply be immune to Quincy powers and thereby create a blind spot in the Almighty.
I always figured that since Tsukishima's power literally alters the past of an individual/object when he hit Ichigo he put Ichigo into a timeline outside of the Almighty. In terms of an analogy, Yhwach said that futures are like grains of sands, so the hourglass that contains these sands has Ichigo as a foreign material like dust or dirt. So Yhwach trying to damage Ichigo's things through the Almighty is like trying to damages a doll and expecting the person it's based off of to get hurt. It hurt the Ichigo of the reality where Tsukishima wasn't controlling Ichigo's past. That being said, I feel that if Tsukishima undid his slash, Ichigo's sword might shatter.
The way I always understood the almighty is Yhwach didn’t directly alter things in the future. Let me explain. So when Yhwach explained how he is able to see every possible future, he explains how they are each like a grain of sand. From what I remember he explains that he simply pick the one he likes best. Think about it, if he can literally alter the future to be exactly how he wants, there’s no real reason to see every future. So when I Hugo’s bankai breaks initially, he simply looked at every future and chose the one where he broke it. Which in turn makes that the path the present takes. Which makes sense when later, he wanted to break ichigo’s bankai again, but instead he just cracks it. Because there was no future in which he broke said bankai. This makes more sense when you understand that he lost in the past in some way. We never got to see exactly how it happened. We just know he lost. If his ability literally warped reality to whatever he wanted, he would basically never lose. But that’s not what happens. Possibly, when he lost to yama in the past, there wasn’t a future he could essentially hop to in which he won against him. So I like to think of the almighty as a low level reality warp. He does get to choose the future he wants, but only if it’s in the realm of possibility. There’s an infinite number of futures, but he has to have the power to make a favorable future be obtained. It also makes sense when he was fighting ichigo. Yhwach says that ichigo was changing the future. So basically yhwach had to keep hoping futures because ichigo was actively changing the outcome of the future yhwach had picked. When yhwach revived himself, he simply chose the future in which he didn’t die. But this is just the way I understood the power working. I haven’t read those chapters in years though
when you don't even need to move when anything happens. you can change a dimension as a whole by blinking and noone even notices then yeah that is pretty god-like
I think first Shiba created final getsuga tenshou to become some sort of deity to save Reio from that fate. Or could it be another technique hm. Anyways, isnt Ichigo like poisonus to Yhwach? his powers werent lost when his mother died because soul reaper powers were coming from hollow Zangetsu. And in final arc he solidifies all of his powers which if you ask me is pretty wicked.
i always interpreted it as, the stillsilver arrow is the only thing that deactivates the almighty. so the only thing that the almighty cannot see is the stillsilver arrow.
There's also the possibility that he simply choose to get hit by the arrow because the almighty showed him in most futures getting hit and then blocking ichigoes sword leading to his victory after his power returns shortly after. Or because book of the end was activated he knew the arrow would hit but because he had broken ichigo's sword assumed that future couldn't happen and let it play through. You could also assume that there is a very small time frame before and after the arrow hits where the almighty cannot see anything due to it being shut off by the arrow assuming iryu used his antithesis to hide it before it hit so the aftermath of it hitting is blanked out and he just sees what would happen once he gets his powers back which doesn't happen because ichigo kills him with the sword that to him he shouldn't have.
Just one question. The way they talk about Yhwach, they made it sound like he was at full power 1000 years ago and it took the entire 1000 years to regain it. A) did he have the Almighty back then? B) if he did, how did he lose?
He did have The Almighty, as he said he regained it after 1000 years. That definitely raises huge questions about how Yamamoto defeated him, though, especially when Zanka no Tachi was weaker back then (or at least lacked its OP abilities). There's nothing to indicate that The Almighty was weaker in a similar way in their first battle, plus Ichibe never contributed as implied by his battle with Yhwach.
@@purerage7963 Kiske states that a soul reapers wrist are the outlets for spiritual powers so even tho Yamaji Bankia is more powerful he was only capable of using half his powers after loosing his arm.
If he isn't already under Kyouka Suigetsu then its possible he could use Book of the End on him to change something that makes him win. If he's already under hypnosis then he could try and act as support by stabbing an ally and changing something in their past that allows them defeat Aizen like he did with Ichigo and YHWACH
Honestly even after he said all that stuff to Ichigo about the almighty letting him transform the future I kept thinking back to when he was able to use the almighty to give himself any power he wanted and He restored his voice after ichibe crushed his throat
Confession: I haven’t read the TYBW and am looking in as an outsider (I don’t mind since I have been spoiled on A LOT already), but I have a question about this power. Does it allow Yhwach to change the future in literally ANY way he wants, or would it have to be in a way that is possible within the range of his existing capabilities? For example, if Kon had this power and was fighting Kenpachi, would he be able to go into the future and win the fight, or would he lose since he has no strength of his own to be able to harm him at all?
If you were to take ONLY the ocular abilities of The Almighty and nothing else then it would be a draw. As Kon on his own won't be able to beat, as although you can alter the future and rewrite his own death, he can't self augment his power out of nowhere in the case of someone like Gremmy can. The Almighty in conjunction with Ywachs alright potent abilities as the Soul Kings son is what makes it a deadly combo
Goddamn it people always call it the Deus Ex Arrow because of how it defeats Yhwach but after hearing the explanation about Uryuu's Schrift it just seems so obvious. Haschwalt even goes out of his way to say that Uryuus antithesis is a counter to Almighty. Thanks for the video, man, another banger. Great work!
Still not as op as Kyōka Suigetsu, as we know Aizen did counter Yhwach twice using Kyōka Suigetsu. Not a fan of the Almighty, I think it's a bit overly complicated and boring. A simple ability like Aizen's or Urahara's was awesome because it was so simple and ridiculously overpowered and I think Bleach did very well with low-level sounding powers being way too op.
Maybe its cuz I don't look up other discontinued shows but other than bleach and hxh what other shows get constant theory crafting and explanations with dedicated UA-cam channels?
A hyperthetical I thought you might have interest in what do you think would have happened if the hollow in kaien who was Aaroniero had possession of Jushiro and by extention the soul Kings arm when his sickness made him open?
On relook The Almighty is actually a pretty cool and thought out ability. When these chapters were releasing though I just remember being SO DONE with these BS powers (from the Askin and Valkyrie fights for example) that it felt like a slog. I guess that's just Bleach in general actually
Yeah, I've had this same issue with Bleach. I was entertained but also felt done with it. During my re-look at Bleach I keep finding myself saying "damn, Kubo might almost be a genius..." It's strange but it's difficult to get my friends or others to also look back into it because the first time around is the most important usually, especially with anime for some reason.
@@wizcaster77 Imo Kubo is great at themes and symbolism (just look at how he uses the Espada to represent 10 aspects of death), but sometimes sucks at executing plot threads and elements on a technical level (e.g. inconsistencies, dropped plotlines, deus ex machina, and plot armour). Rereading the manga, I loved the themes and symbolism more as they became clearer with time and aged incredibly, while the technical issues stood out more as well. I suppose you can call it a...balance :). Still, it's definitely worth appreciating how he created such an insanely large cast of characters and managed to make as many of them work as possible. It's one hell of a task and he definitely deserves credit for reaching for the stars.
wow... just wow I had no real clue why or what was going on when I read this years ago. Thanks for clearing this up love the Info and videos. new sub here /wave
What did you think of The Almighty as an ability for the final enemy of Bleach? Too overpowered? Or, with its weaknesses as they were presented, is it just right for a villain of Yhwach's stature? How did Uryu's antithesis play into his eventual defeat? Let me know!
I never had a problem with The Almighty and it being over powered, Kubo just needed to do a better job at setting up the foreshadowing of Uryū’s schrift and the whole blood clot arrow thing. Hopefully this will be better executed in the anime.
Absolutely too overpowered. There's no real way to beat Yhwach without it being very obviously plot.
Same with Gremmy. When you have a power that's so completely broken it isn't feasible to beat, it's a problem for the story. All Yhwach and Gremmy did was cheapen the story.
As much as I love Bleach's broken abilities and power scaling, Yhwach and Gremmy specifically rub me the wrong way. Either one of them could solo any verse no matter how strong. It's so dumb that we have three characters that just rise THAT far above the power scaling of Bleach.
ETA: It's also ridiculous how the plot arrow that literally deactivated Almighty wasn't enough. Jugram had to actively select a future in which Yhwach had died and disguise it as a dream, meaning that without the help of an ANTAGONIST, Yhwach would've won. And on top of that, the only reason this worked was because Yhwach didn't simply use Almighty to kill anyone in front of him because everyone dies eventually.
I think the Almighty is cool but how can someone who can see and change the future be beaten in a way that makes sense?
I felt like the Arrow canceling his powers was a bit of an A**pull, but there was literally no other way to stop him when he’s this OP.
Kubo wrote himself into a corner with this one but I still enjoyed the All-or-nothing nature of Bleach’s final battle.
I wonder what effect the Respira ability would have on Ywach. To me it came off as a possible counter in the sense he could be aged to a state to when he no longer had access to the Almighty. Although he can alter futures where he has "lost", coming into contact with the same abilty would just age him again anyway if he attempted to alter it. I have been thinking about Respira as a possible counter to everything in bleach haha. For example when Ichibe summoned the black from 100 nights which can certaily be aged past that point. Since the amount of darkness Ichibe gathered can be quantified (in some sense) then it has a limit, and against Respira all limits are reached . I had hoped Hollows would play a greater role near the end of the story and was certain after the Almighty was reveaeld Barragon/his ability would serve as a king v king cage match but alas.
Book of end-changes the past
Kyoka suigetsu-changes the present
Almighty-changes the future
Zangetsu-fvxk everything in that direction
Kubo is the almighty, he saw the anime scene would be more befitting of bleach in the future so he waited 3000+ days for its finale.
Not what happened.. like at all but ok..
@@reallyhimongod yes it is clown
@@reallyhimongod Kubo is really him on God. Just look at the data books.
And 300 days from the trailer and 30 days per episodic release
lol
You beautiful bastard you've done it again! You've "opened my eyes" 🌝 to what the hell happened during the final fight. Keep up the amazing work ❤️
Wow, thank you so much - that's really kind!
Oh, I never noticed that the Soul King had four black irises, I thought he had a single white, cross-shaped iris on top a black "white" of the eye.
same
Me too
That is what I thought too for the longest time too! Then I googled the wiki for the Soul King and it explained it was four irises and I was like oooooooh. That makes more sense actually. lol xD
Soul King has 4, Yhwach 3, and Pernida has 2, I wonder if there's anything behind that.
Bro I thought the exact same thing until I found out he had the almighty. Personally I liked it better when it was crossed shape
Something that went over most people's heads, is the thematic opposition the Almighty poses to Ichigo. In the chapter Side A:The Sand, Ichigo laments being powerless against the gears of fate and being crushed like *grains of sand*. Yhwach himself compares the Almighty to sand grains, and its power to change the future does indeed render Ichigo powerless to do anything against it, just like he always feared. But, with help from the Still Silver arrow, his "blade that shatters fate" was able to finish off Yhwach. The execution could definitely have been better, but I'm glad this thematic underline was there in the final battle.
I really wished we could have gotten flashbacks to the original Gotei 13 fighting the Quincy so that the "blood war" actually felt like a "blood war." I would have loved to see scenes of the Quincy and Ywach barely surviving the onslaught of Soul Society and crawling away in anger and humiliation, spawning the conflict we see 9000 years later. Imo, TYBW kinda lacks in establishing an emotional motivation for the Quincies. I wished the sternritters had some sort of personal grudge they had been holding from the original fight b/w the soul society and the Wandenreich, or maybe even have it shown that those grudges against specific captains or Shinigami were passed down the Quincy generations. That way, statements like "Our 1000 year prayer has finally been answered" actually deliver on the emotional gut punch they are trying to convey.
Damn...this would make for a nice anime only flashback...
@@wizcaster77 trying to manifest it 🙏🏽
Part of the problem is that most of the Sternritter weren't there 1000 years ago. People like Az and the twins were recruited after the fact. There should have been an emphasis on a divide in mindset between those who survived 1000 years ago and those who weren't there.
I get that, but that would go against some of the Sternritters personalities. Specifically, Askin. Askin literally tells Kisuke that he was genuinely curious about the world Yhwach wanted instead of saying the typical stuff about his majesty
@@MythicShadow04 I know that. I’m saying I wish this WAS part of their personality instead of what we got. I personally found the sternritter to be a lot more badass and ruthless than the espada but the espada were a lot more interesting and easier to get invested in bc we had already seen sooo many scenes of arrancars fighting shinigami so the conflict was a lot more believable and easier to engage in
I was let down he absorbed Yamamoto's bankai but never used it. He had so many OP powers at his disposal
It's not something I noticed myself, but someone pointed out that Ichibe actually blacked out the Zanka no Tachi medallion when he used Ichimonji against Yhwach. That's the in-universe reason why Yhwach never used it after, although he really had no need to when The Almighty was so OP.
Yeah I had to read bleach again to pick up the fact that Ichibe essentially destroyed Yamamotos bankai which explains why Yhwach couldn't use it
Thanks for the info, I never realised that.
I love how DeathBattle tried to say this dude wasn’t even a planet buster. I mean……….he became multi-universal by definition after absorbing the soul king’s power.
But you know how it goes in DeathBattle; if you can’t measure a feat with TNT, it doesn’t count.
No one over the age of 13 should be watching death battle, or any power scaling youtube channel, that's up there with the cringiest shit on the Internet
Their bleach analysis has been consistently terrible both by not understanding the bleach cosmology and using outdated information
@@gerhmanthefirsthoonter161 Agreed. They did half-assed research so they could feed ichigo and Aizen to Naruto characters.
"If the author wasn't white, the character loses the fight"
- Death Battle, probably
@@MC-up7rl Nah, venom and Carnage both lost fights to anime girls. Death battle makes bleach lose to Naruto every time because the latter has a bigger fan base.
The Almighty felt broken, but it had to be. We had experienced the near unbeatable kyoka suigetsu for hundereds of chapters so Kubo needed to create an even more insane power for it to be as impactful
Making a villain so hideously broken that he can only be defeated by a dues ex machina is not good writing.
@@bqw2094 I still don't understand how he lost
@@bqw2094 exactly A for the almighty? more like A for Asspull powerup lol
@@bqw2094 somebody doesn't watch jojo
@@bqw2094 Agreed , Kubo does fvckup sometimes...
So back when I read it, I interpreted the ultimate weakness of The Almighty as being the hubris of the user. True it can show you a complete story, but that doesn't matter if you stop reading it 2 pages before the end because you think you know how it'll all turn out.
In this case I think Yhwach stopped "reading" the story after he overcame death and broke Zangetsu. He thought he'd changed the end The Almighty had shown Haschwalth, but in his hubris he didn't realize he'd not even got there yet. Thus he didn't see Tsukishima or Ishida's actions coming because they occurred after he'd already put the book down.
I think the only true counter to The Almighty is Ichigo’s unnamed power which I’ll call “Destiny Negation” until a more suitable name is found. Yawach himself said Ichigo’s power was very similar to Orihime’s, and her power is the rejection of phenomena. I think Destiny Negation is the complete elimination of futures/fates/destinies that don’t align with Ichigo’s will, and in TYBW it is to defeat Yawach and save Soul Society (and by extension the World of the Living and Hueco Mundo; the opposite of Yawach’s goal). This explains why Yawach felt like he had to repeatedly break his Bankai (he was trying to circumvent Destiny Negation). This ability is dangerous to Yawach because although The Almighty gives him the ability to see “all futures”, I believe he realized that Destiny Negation nips The Almighty at the bud by eliminating the number of futures he has to chose from; specifically any futures which result in the accomplishment of his goals because they are diametrically opposed to Ichigo’s. It makes Ichigo’s eventual victory a foregone conclusion because there isn’t a future Yawach can choose that doesn’t ultimately result in his own defeat; Destiny Negation has already eliminated any future where Ichigo’s desire to defeat Yawach and save Soul Society isn’t realized. If true, Kubo has essentially canonized plot armor and made it an ability in the Bleach universe.
You know what canonized plot armor would be a better term than destiny negation
@Dexulosi how about the power to negate anything not just powers or fate but undo or destroy anything that stands in his way granted that would be too overpowered but it would make sense considering this is the second to last arc if you think the hell arc Is more than just a one shot that is
@Dexulosi that’s what I ended up thinking too but I didn’t wanna make the post go off into a thousand different directions. This ability would explain for example how Ichigo unlocked Bankai in three days and defeated Byakuya and how he ended up coming to a virtual tie with Kenpachi, an otherwise impossible task… Destiny Negation eliminated any future where Ichigo’s will wasn’t realized. It’s a completely broken ability if it’s true 😂
@Dexulosi I never thought of that
"[Kubo] has essentially canonized plot armor" 😂😂😂
What I really like about The Almighty is that once it is activates, Yhwach is often seen looking to the sides or away from his opponent. He no longer needs to pay attention because he has already seen it all.
I think the power that was used to split up the souls and the realms was a combo of The Almighty and Auswhalen. The Almighty lets you see the possibilities for what could happen when you split the realms and decide which if going to happen, and then Auswhalen is what actually does it.
Never thought of Uryuu's powers this way, it would make sense if close to the end of the fight, Yhwach starts asking where Uryuu is, saying stuff like:
"I can't find him in any reality, i'm sure he survived in a few in this whole infinity that i can see, is this Aizen's powers?".
Then the fight starts going in the heroes favor with Aizen taking Ichigo's place, Yhwach being cut in half, erasing his death, then Uryuu shows up and hits him.
The Almighty is actually Aizen’s bankai… it was all part of his plan.
not true, Aizen's bankai is to hypnotize the author to control him into rewriting the universe to Aizen's linking.
@@Rafaela_S. so basically, he can give himself any bankai he wants.
@@Rafaela_S. "Draw me winning." "Nani!?"
"I said draw me winning, Kubo-san."
@Rimtia Crowing Aizens Bankai was also used to make the Japanese lose WWII causing Imperial Japan to be no more and adopt the new culture and society that eventually led to Kubo writing Bleach.
I think it's an interesting power, but my guess is that Kubo was a little too caught up with trying to one-up Aizen's perfect hypnosis. It'd be interesting to see what whoever the Hell Arc's antagonist is has in store.
I think something that's really crazy is that it's implied in the manga and the novel's that the Soul King used the Almighty to completely change the future and the actions of the characters, leading to Ichigo's birth and the plot of Bleach. Who knows what he might have done had Bleach continued as Kubo originally planned.
Maybe that's why he willfully surrendered himself to the ancestors, even if they mutilated and reduced him to a state worse than death he sure saw what would eventually come to pass. And how the ancestors descendants would be the ones who pay for their sin. Can't blame Shunsui for hating the ancestors and their greedy actions.
@@manuelacosta9463 Yeah, the Soul King probably had some grand master plan, but even he couldn't predict Bleach's abrupt end.
@@manuelacosta9463 I thought the reason he willingly surrendered himself, is because he did want to save humanity and create a world where they would not constanly live in fear of hollows and such. Since it was that sacrifice that allowed the "One" world to become "three" and separated them. Although I haven't read the books, so I could be very wrong on that
the anime needs to pull an FMA. animate the manga, then do a Bleach: Brotherhood so we get Tites original vision and not the rushed crap the manga ended up being.
@@hoofhearted4 I believe that is a misconception. It was partially rushed, on Kubos end because of some health issues he was having. He has stated in interviews that shonen jump didn't rush him, and that he was happy with the ending.
Yhwach was Dabbing that 2 Key like no Anime antagonist ever had before.
This was excellent and I really never thought about uryu using the almighty in that way
The biggest and only weakness of the Almighty in my opinion is that there's seemingly infinite "gains" of realities that he can see and switch between but there must be some grains that inevitably lead to his end. This includes everything touched upon in this video.
Yes, but let's not forget that Yhwach rewrote a future where he died, so it still wouldn't work on him.
funny thing is that early TYBWA Yhwach foreseen Ichigo killing him, but he thought it was just a dream
I really like how you look at kubo's writing for each character, not just their ability or surface level personality. Can't wait for the gremmy fight analysis, that's a real underrated one
I think is important to mention that Kazui also has the three iris. My theory is that the soul king plan was to make Ichigo defeat Juha, thats why Juha saw ichigo defeaying him in all possible futures and only choose the one who was most benefitial for Quincies, the one where Uryu shoots him. The connection between Ichigo and Soul King is the thing that make Kazui having the 3 eyes, and destroying the Juha reaitsus that left.
I think the whole Almighty plot is far from be over, we can expect much more for kubo!
The Almighty is a really awesome ability and i love that it has some natural weaknesses that we have been introduced to earlier. There was Kyoka Suigetsu and Book of the End that had been known for some time before the Almighty was revealed. I think Kubo should have found a way to end the final fight with these abilities. ( He kind of did but I think there has to be a way to defeat Yhwach without the still silver arrow)
Still aizen and tsukishima would both lose to yhwach anyway, not like they can pierce him even hado 99 didn't scratch him only ichigo could damage yhwach
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 yeah Ichigo has to defeat Yhwach he is the MC but they should have found a way to enable Ichigos strike that is not Uryus arrow
I think the still silver arrow is perfect: it's the arrow of karma.
i liked your analogy of it being like a treadmill, and i also agree that the kind of ability that the almighty is makes things really messy and frustrating. being able to both *see* and mess with time is just a "well why he don't just choose to not lose" waiting to happen. which is why i really liked how you mentioned that Aizen's illusions were on him even before his eyes awoke because that is a really funny gotcha moment, even if it didn't inherently win the fight.
I always assumed that the reason the still silver worked was that either Aizen used Kyoka Suigetsu or the still silver, being created by Yhwach's Holy Selection, had the same property as the Mimihage of being immune to the almighty.
Same. In my logic it was aizen messing with the almighty
Yhwach has one of my favorite character designs in the entire series. From his original Quincy uniform and his cloak, to the black eye-covered spiritual pressure around him. It all looks so good
I like that Uryu's counter to the Almighty is the same (essentially) as the one Shinji had made for Aizen. Shinji's plan if I recall (In some light novel?) was to use Sakenada on Ichigo so he would see the release of Kyoka Suigetsu from Aizen's perspective thus nullifying it's ability since Aizen himself is never implied to be effected by his own ability.
Even using Kyoka Suigestsu, Aizen was getting bullied lmao. Unable to prevent Yhwach from ripping his arm off and impaling him
Ive heard about him. But im excited to learn the ins and outs lol
Thanks!
Love your videos thank you for supporting bleach.
I would have to point out that Aizen’s complete hypnosis only worked on Ywach due to Aizen being close enough in power to his foe that it didn’t get erased by the divine spiritual pressure.
EOS Aizen teamed up with EOS bankai ichigo and they both still lost lmao. Got swallowed up
Aizen unironically couldn't even break the chair, chair sama being above aizen meme but canon. While Yhwach broke it casually so yeah lol.
@@ExtraVictory uh… Ichigo wasn’t even there, that was an illusion Aizen cast. It was actually Aizen and Renji fighting Yhwach, with Aizen taking a few hits as “Ichigo”
Edit as for Chair-Sama, Aizen was sealed by it and failed to overpower the seal from within. Yhwach damaged it from without while not sealed, a very different situation. While you are probably correct about sealing an Almighty Yhwach with his eyes open, Aizen had to be weakened before he could be sealed… and Yhwach with his eyes closed properly could be sealed (and thus prevented from activating his stronger powers as Aizen was while sealed)
@@sh4d0wfl4re your memory failed you, read the last chapters again. Or watch Tommos video on the final battle, Ichigo was the one that killed Yhwach with a bankai getsuga tensho through the back. Yhwach then rewrote his own death and swallowed up Aizen and ichigo. They were talking to each other about how Ichigo never saw Aizen release and was immune from Kyoka Suigestsu
Even using Kyoka Suigestsu, Aizen was getting bullied lmao. Yhwach ripped off his arm
@@sh4d0wfl4re your memory failed you, read the last chapters again. Or watch Tommos video on the final battle, Ichigo was the one that killed Yhwach with a bankai getsuga tensho through the back. Yhwach then rewrote his own death and swallowed up Aizen and ichigo
I think Kubo kinda messed things up at the end when you think about it.
Tsukishima's ability is just to insert his essence into timelines for someone's past but he cannot change anything the almighty is the ability to be able to change the future events and the antithesis being exactly what it states the antithesis of the almighty should be the one to change an event in the past meaning Uryu's ability should have been the ability to restore Ichigo's Zanpakuto and not Tsukishima.
that's true but Tsukishima can also do the same by simply telling the Zanpakuto spirit that he never fought Yhwach which is why Orihime is able to fix it.
@@JxFTW yeah, and Tsukishima's power is a continual process so he's not just inserting himself into the past of something in one slash but able to alter the actual past of his target from that moment on until he undoes his ability. So when Yhwach tries to break the bankai again using the Almighty, Tsukishima should be able to alter that moment as it's happening. That or Tsukishima is controlling Ichigo's existence so the Almighty has a hard time altering someone's future if their reality is ambiguous.
@@JoseSerrato0420 i think tsukishima power is to insert fake past/ since the normal timeline cant be change when ywach alter the future orihimes cause and effect healing powers doesnt work so tsukishima put a fake past so that ichigo zanpaktou can be remade.
You could say, The Almighty is a little like.....ZA WARUDO!
I do like your reasoning why Yhwach got hit by the arrow.
I always just thought that the arrow itself had an immunity of some sort to the Almighty.
The question is.....does he need to "activate" it? Or can he see everything 24/7
Same. I always figured it wasn't Uryuu that was the blind spot, it was the arrow that was the blindspot. Why would Yhwach ever bother dodging a regular old arrow after all, it wasn't even made of reishi, it'd just ping off his soul king goop.
The arrow would have make more sense if it was created from some part of SK since Yhwach can't see anything related to SK.
I wanted to see girikos ability interact with Ywach. Giriko setting in time that events must happen. means he has to manipulate the future in a way that they happen but lessen the effect on him.
10:46 so one thing has just wandered across my mind, if the power of the all mighty is to know the future (which is different from knowing the potential future like say trance Gemini from Andromeda, she sees what may come from a certain set of choices but not the final outcome) then he already knew that he would lose before he even started his invasion of the soul society but he still did it knowing it would lead to his ""death"".
He doesn't just know the future, he actively changes it. He sees every possible future at the moment and erases all potential futures except for the one most ideal to him. The present then adjusts itself to match that future.
I think the reason why juha Bach didn't able to see his death in the future before he started his invasion of the soul society is because juha is still have no future in soul society, it means that juha cannot see his future to a place that he still never visited such as like the soul society.. in order to see his future to that place he needs to go there personally... For me that is the reason why, I could be wrong
The issue with a power like this is that any defeat feels cheap or forced because theres no excuse for why Yhwach wouldn’t see that silver arrow coming.
I don't think the irises are representative of mastery over the Almighty, so much as representative of the evolution of the Quincy power in general. The closest comparison I can think of is the Sharingan from Naruto. 1 iris is basic sharingan, 2 is Mangyoku, and so and so forth. That's why, when Haschwalth swaps powers with Yhwach, he gets Yhwach's eyes.
Don't even compare sharingan, almighty is infinitely more powerful as yhwach can just erase sharingan from existence
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 obviously. I compared them in terms of how they evolve, not in what they do.
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 you can compare things without saying they are in the same ballpark in terms of power.
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 You can still compare things without debating about power, since the almighty is obviously above the sharingan, also, when I try to type sharingan, the auto correct says sharing instead of sharingan.
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I’ve gotta admit that Yhawch’s almighty quite a hax even compared to other anime! It’s completely broken!man kubo is one damn smart mangaka! Hat’s off to him! Also the panels like one in which yhwach telling about his Almighty looks so sick!
I don't see what's so smart about making a villain so damn overpowered that they can only be defeated by a dues ex machina. Sounds like very stupid writing in my opinion.
I don't see what's so smart about making a villain so damn overpowered that they can only be defeated by a dues ex machina. Sounds like very stupid writing in my opinion.
Tite Kubo.. I'm so curious as to what he himself thinks of the ending..
the whole bleach verse is aizen's bankai
He likes it
I feel like what's more important than the number of eyes is the placement of the eyes themselves where the soul king is more uniformed and also has more eyes, while ywach has 3 and they are more dispursed, jugram's were more linear than the 3 of them which could mean a few things like he isn't able to see as well as ywach could. Just a bit of a headcannon but we all know kubo likes to hide details in plain sight... pun intended
It’s crazy even with yhwachs crazy Hax he still took precautions against yama with 1 arm May I add just shows how op Yamamoto really was
He fought him before he got the almighty
@@theotakukaiser7892 it was implied Yamamoto fought with allmighty ywach
@@norddorian5791 no, we know that the almighty awakened during his fight with the zero squad, which happens way after Yamamoto's fight
@@theotakukaiser7892 he hade almighty 1000 years ago it was implied he got his powers "back" after 1000 years
@@norddorian5791 But that doesn't necessarily mean that Yhwach used the almighty when he fought Yamamoto in the past. Now this reason might sound like headcanon but don't you think if either Yama or Ichibe ever witnessed Yhwach using the almighty in action at least one of them in their fights would've said "I gotta look out for that one ability". Or "Yhwach hasn't used that technique yet".
This got me thinking; maybe the Soul King's first appearance with his limbs intact wasn't a plot-hole but perhaps evidence that he still has some level of "consciousness" and can still exert some control over those individual grains of sand.
I was on the fence about the abilities scale when it was described, but at the same time I feel it’s almost expected that Shonen series would end facing a godlike entity.
I think Tsukishima and Aizen had powers that had limited effects on Yhwach. As he states, Tsukishima may have created new futures that he wasn't aware of, but he would inevitably have control of those futures in due time. And as for Aizen, Yhwach impaled him, which I think was a metaphor for touching the hilt of Aizen's zanpakuto, as it had technically become a part of him. And even if that weren't the case, I'm pretty sure when Yhwach revived himself, he remarked that he had removed all his weaknesses so that something like Kyoka Suigetsu wouldn't work on him anymore.
Yhwach is the whole bleachverse in one person
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Millions? Ichibei made a statement about of Eons (Periods of billions of years) if i remember correctly; This would also make sense since Bleach canonically takes place in our universe (Or a directly parralel universe at least) and our universe is billions of years old, which would place Ichibei and the Soul King (Arguably even Ywach) at billions of years old.
One weakness I feel Bleach hinted at was during Bach's dream sequence where Ichigo killed him. Perhaps all futures led to his defeat?
I think Bach said that he thought that particular sequence was a dream. So he didn't consider it as one of the grains of a possibility, but just as a dream of his.
@@D2TD4Life but ultimately it wasn't a dream and he was actually working towards his own death unknowingly since he tought he shattered the old zangetsu but the old zangetsu showed up at his death
Nice video, thanks. I always enjoy your bleach videos. Idea for a video ? What if Aizen kept gaining new forms from Hogyoku , is there a theoretical version of Aizen that could have solo’d Yhwach ?
Honestly I'd wish for this power in any fiction, it's versatile powerful and it's completely balanced by the users experience or inexperience, shown by the difference in mastery between Yhwach and Haschwalth.
His power has always made both of my irises roll. Imagine playing a competitive game against anyone or anything and they have the power to just say "NUH UHHH" it's not fun. Not for players OR viewers.
I love the imagery and thematic implications of the Almighty. Sure, it is a overpowered ability, but it feels like a fitting and logical power for the final villain of Bleach. Especially when you factor in what/who Yhwach and the Soul King are meant to invoke.
It also makes Aizen's main ability even more fitting...the man who seeks to dethrone the Ruler of the verse, has a power that is a one of the few that can actively combat said ruler's main ability.
21:10 Wouldn't holding the true silver arrowhead (or whatever it was called, I forgot) be enough to block Yhwach's "clairevoyance" of Ishida?
It's said that the Antithesis ability swaps whatever Ishida's affected with onto someone else, but how could this work with the future sight aspect of the Almighty? The future altering ability isn't affecting Ishida unless he affects him specifically. Ishida would also have to know that Yhwach affected his future, which comes back to seeing the future which is only possible through the Almighty.
It might've been possible that Ishida stole the Almighty's ability when Haschwalt had the Almighty just long enough to choose a future where Yhwach wouldn't see Ishida shooting him from behind 🧐🤷♂️.
Remember Uryu was able to evade the Almighty gaze when Hascwalth was wielding it. This led Haschwalth to assume that the Antithesis countered the Almighty.
Head Captain Yamamoto was the Only 1 that defeated Almighty Yhwach ^^
But wasnt able to Kill him🤔
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I always thought that the Soulking has a star like iris but in reality this is just the space between his four irises 🤯
Now the question is: How did Yamamoto beat the Almighty 1000 years ago?
Ywach probably wasn’t as powerful back then
@@gammafrost I was just about to say this lol he was a scrub back then but now all the hoes want him now😂
@@gammafrost I really doubt that.
I have 2 theories.
First, is that Yhwach couldn't overcome Zanka No Tachi because of the Almighty's limitations. He can only alter the future by way of inserting himself into that future. He says his power works the same we anyone alters the present. Meaning, his ability to alter is limited by what he can do at the moment of using it. Its literally an inversion of Book of the End. Only difference is that the more powers and abilties Yhwach absorbs, the more ways he can alter the future. And since he was facing an ability that is literally just a spammable fire Mugetsu (as explained to be Yamamoto's Bankai when he originally fought Yhwach), he simply couldn't create an alternate possibility in which he could win.
Second theory is that Yamamoto used the Ise God Killing sword, but at great cost to his vitality which is why he aged so much in the 1,000 years since, while Unahana for example hasn't aged a day.
@@corruptangel6793 wow I like this theories a lot and yeah it is a little weird that unohana hasn’t aged in the slightest
Hands down he was the best villain of Bleach ..Don’t get me wrong Aizen was a good villain and was the biggest plot twist in Bleach anime but Yawach is just everything Aizen wasn’t
I think the concept of the Almighty was too vast for how many chapters were left in the series. Honestly, it's a power that would traditionally be shown at the end of the second act of a story and then the heroes have to learn how to beat it in the finale. But as we all know, Kubo had no time to flesh things out in the end.
I think all 5 "threats" should have been the final fight.... it would've been cool af if Ichigo, Ichibe, Zaraki & Kisuke were all fighting Yhwach in soul palace but then someone from soul society went & "unreleased" Aizen & he just drops the whole palace with his spiritual pressure like he originally wanted to, then the final fight begins. Of course after the fight everything will be restored but all that destruction would've been cool to see.
@@JxFTW Me to I would of love 💘 to 👀 see all five war potentials ( Bach uses the stole BANKAIS ) random sole-dats , random Quincies and sternritters vs everybody and random captains.
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I always figured that the silver arrow was not seen in the future. Once it’s shot thru ywhach, he “loses his powers” so I always figured he couldn’t see up until that point? Or up to that possibility. But the antithesis sounds like a better idea of what happened.
Yeah maybe, not that it was enough anyway since the arrow's effects didn't last long enough for the original plan to work
@@shadymann9468 that’s true too
It would make sense that Yhwach didn't notice a few seconds of missing future of one possible outcome. Can he see the futures where he doesn't exist anymore?
@@JoseSerrato0420 Probably not, but he did say that he would “come back at the Time when everyone is most happiest and then ill strike.” But then its show that ichigos son takes care of it, which we still don’t know how both happen.
@@haydenfgood He was still technically existing when Kazui destroyed him in the future. Even Mayuri stated that Yhwach was still alive dur to his energy signature up until Kazui did his thing and all traces disappeared.
A bit off-topic but if the soul king has the almighty then surely it saw itself being sealed and eventually having its body parts removed from him and therefore could have theoretically stopped all of those events from happening. However, I believe I read or saw somewhere that 1) the soul king willing allowed himself to be sealed and 2) the soul king was the world's solution for hollows but when he did kill hollows it caused imbalance and would lead to eventual armageddon. (Somebody please correct me if I'm mistaken). So my theory is the soul king knew he would be sealed and what the shinigami were going to do with splitting the realms to avoid the armageddon scenario and agreed with the action thinking that it would be the best scenario for everyone. However was also acting under good faith that the shinigami would not follow a future where they desecrated his body, which they eventually did. Hence why Gerard (the heart) Pernida (the right hand I think) fought against the shinigami because they represented the hatred the soul king had against the shinigami for desecrating his body but there is also Mimihagi who attempted to stop Yhwach from destroying everything since he still felt that this course was still the best course for everyone. Just my theory.
Thank you for this explanation. Without it I probably would have watched for everyone's finishing moves
I always felt like Aizen{s statement regarding Orihime having the power to defy even the greatest of gods. It{s not that Orihime herself can literally go toe to toe with a god like Yuha or such. But rather, and I think this was going to be the way Yuha was going to be kept reasonably a fightable character, is that her power can reverse space and time right? As in, even the greatest of gods need to exist within space and time to create or destroy something. To keep it short, Orihime's ability amplified by Ichigo and Aizen's tremendous reiatsu would do the job don't you think?
My guess is Orihime's power does to space/time what Tsukishima does to memories. And this is also what Yuha does to future.
And also, I think the reason why Kubo even whilst in a rush to finish the series decided to show us how Kasui gets rid of Yuha's remnants is because Kasui either reversed the existence of those remnants to when they weren't even in space/time or he inherited Ichigo's bankai ability to nulify hax and sht. (the random theory going around)
If you've watched my hero academia and know about Eri's power, you know what I mean by this.
The explanation of Antithesis being used to give Uryu the opportunity to shoot the silver arrow is an interesting one I never considered. I always thought it was just as an overlooked point to allow a means of defeating Yhwach. I see the argument for it, and Uryu's conversation with Haschwalth provides an opening for it to be true. I think the vagaries of what constitutes something that has "already happened" still makes things a bit iffy and is one of the times I most wish I could read the original language. There's also the question of why Yhwach couldn't have affected Ryuken instead, making it so he never had the arrow to give Uryu to begin with. Still, I like the Antithesis idea, and it does make Uryu's ability to shoot Yhwach make much more sense than no reason at all. I'd still love any kind of explanation on why Uryu was immune to the Auswalhen, though. There's no sensible reason within the plot that he is even still alive at that point in the story, at least as far as I can tell. Ichigo is special because of his unique lineage. Uryu is special because... ?
Only just realised the soul king has four irises haha. Always thought he had diamond eyes.
I always figured Tsukishima altered the past around Zangetsu, which as a butterfly effect type of thing, created new possible futures.
I think Uryu could have used the antithesis, but I also think that the Still Silver arrow itself could simply be immune to Quincy powers and thereby create a blind spot in the Almighty.
I always figured that since Tsukishima's power literally alters the past of an individual/object when he hit Ichigo he put Ichigo into a timeline outside of the Almighty. In terms of an analogy, Yhwach said that futures are like grains of sands, so the hourglass that contains these sands has Ichigo as a foreign material like dust or dirt. So Yhwach trying to damage Ichigo's things through the Almighty is like trying to damages a doll and expecting the person it's based off of to get hurt. It hurt the Ichigo of the reality where Tsukishima wasn't controlling Ichigo's past. That being said, I feel that if Tsukishima undid his slash, Ichigo's sword might shatter.
I think another broken ability is Complete Hypnosis. As bleach abridged eloquently put it: "there's the Deus ex machina"
And if this was is true power 1000 years ago. How did he loose the 1st time?
Would love to see Zaraki fight against him
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The way I always understood the almighty is Yhwach didn’t directly alter things in the future. Let me explain. So when Yhwach explained how he is able to see every possible future, he explains how they are each like a grain of sand. From what I remember he explains that he simply pick the one he likes best. Think about it, if he can literally alter the future to be exactly how he wants, there’s no real reason to see every future. So when I Hugo’s bankai breaks initially, he simply looked at every future and chose the one where he broke it. Which in turn makes that the path the present takes. Which makes sense when later, he wanted to break ichigo’s bankai again, but instead he just cracks it. Because there was no future in which he broke said bankai. This makes more sense when you understand that he lost in the past in some way. We never got to see exactly how it happened. We just know he lost. If his ability literally warped reality to whatever he wanted, he would basically never lose. But that’s not what happens. Possibly, when he lost to yama in the past, there wasn’t a future he could essentially hop to in which he won against him. So I like to think of the almighty as a low level reality warp. He does get to choose the future he wants, but only if it’s in the realm of possibility. There’s an infinite number of futures, but he has to have the power to make a favorable future be obtained. It also makes sense when he was fighting ichigo. Yhwach says that ichigo was changing the future. So basically yhwach had to keep hoping futures because ichigo was actively changing the outcome of the future yhwach had picked. When yhwach revived himself, he simply chose the future in which he didn’t die. But this is just the way I understood the power working. I haven’t read those chapters in years though
Kubo wrote himself into a corner with the almighty tbh.
Definitely, the almighty alone was hideously broken, but then kubo decides to give ywach 10 other op abilities. It was ridiculous
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Crazy god-like ability. Also, somewhere in the corner, cries a girl with some bazooka.
when you don't even need to move when anything happens. you can change a dimension as a whole by blinking and noone even notices then yeah that is pretty god-like
I think first Shiba created final getsuga tenshou to become some sort of deity to save Reio from that fate. Or could it be another technique hm. Anyways, isnt Ichigo like poisonus to Yhwach? his powers werent lost when his mother died because soul reaper powers were coming from hollow Zangetsu. And in final arc he solidifies all of his powers which if you ask me is pretty wicked.
i always interpreted it as, the stillsilver arrow is the only thing that deactivates the almighty. so the only thing that the almighty cannot see is the stillsilver arrow.
There's also the possibility that he simply choose to get hit by the arrow because the almighty showed him in most futures getting hit and then blocking ichigoes sword leading to his victory after his power returns shortly after. Or because book of the end was activated he knew the arrow would hit but because he had broken ichigo's sword assumed that future couldn't happen and let it play through. You could also assume that there is a very small time frame before and after the arrow hits where the almighty cannot see anything due to it being shut off by the arrow assuming iryu used his antithesis to hide it before it hit so the aftermath of it hitting is blanked out and he just sees what would happen once he gets his powers back which doesn't happen because ichigo kills him with the sword that to him he shouldn't have.
Kubo was going way too far when he thought this ability would be fair🤣
Just one question. The way they talk about Yhwach, they made it sound like he was at full power 1000 years ago and it took the entire 1000 years to regain it.
A) did he have the Almighty back then?
B) if he did, how did he lose?
He did have The Almighty, as he said he regained it after 1000 years. That definitely raises huge questions about how Yamamoto defeated him, though, especially when Zanka no Tachi was weaker back then (or at least lacked its OP abilities). There's nothing to indicate that The Almighty was weaker in a similar way in their first battle, plus Ichibe never contributed as implied by his battle with Yhwach.
@@purerage7963 Kiske states that a soul reapers wrist are the outlets for spiritual powers so even tho Yamaji Bankia is more powerful he was only capable of using half his powers after loosing his arm.
here is a question.... if Tsukishima can use book of the end to change the past.....can he use it to "undo" Aziens Kyoka Suigetsu?
That’s a very interesting question and it could definitely be possible.
The issue would be if Aizen already has him under it he probably wouldn't be able too use
If he isn't already under Kyouka Suigetsu then its possible he could use Book of the End on him to change something that makes him win. If he's already under hypnosis then he could try and act as support by stabbing an ally and changing something in their past that allows them defeat Aizen like he did with Ichigo and YHWACH
He has recognition. In novel he can find out history weakness by a glance. In anime he defeated butterfly aizen in multiple past though.
hot take: each iris can represents the form of time, first is the present, 2nd is the future, 3rd is the past, 4th is the alteration
Honestly even after he said all that stuff to Ichigo about the almighty letting him transform the future I kept thinking back to when he was able to use the almighty to give himself any power he wanted and He restored his voice after ichibe crushed his throat
The way I see it, going from two to three irises was just his body getting used to having his full power back But that’s just my thoughts.
I doubt it since we see him with the three irises back in the flashback with Hashwalth and Bazz B iirc
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Maybe the new timeline that Aizen created wasn't in Juha Bach's radar?
Confession: I haven’t read the TYBW and am looking in as an outsider (I don’t mind since I have been spoiled on A LOT already), but I have a question about this power. Does it allow Yhwach to change the future in literally ANY way he wants, or would it have to be in a way that is possible within the range of his existing capabilities? For example, if Kon had this power and was fighting Kenpachi, would he be able to go into the future and win the fight, or would he lose since he has no strength of his own to be able to harm him at all?
If you were to take ONLY the ocular abilities of The Almighty and nothing else then it would be a draw. As Kon on his own won't be able to beat, as although you can alter the future and rewrite his own death, he can't self augment his power out of nowhere in the case of someone like Gremmy can. The Almighty in conjunction with Ywachs alright potent abilities as the Soul Kings son is what makes it a deadly combo
Goddamn it people always call it the Deus Ex Arrow because of how it defeats Yhwach but after hearing the explanation about Uryuu's Schrift it just seems so obvious. Haschwalt even goes out of his way to say that Uryuus antithesis is a counter to Almighty.
Thanks for the video, man, another banger. Great work!
Still not as op as Kyōka Suigetsu, as we know Aizen did counter Yhwach twice using Kyōka Suigetsu. Not a fan of the Almighty, I think it's a bit overly complicated and boring. A simple ability like Aizen's or Urahara's was awesome because it was so simple and ridiculously overpowered and I think Bleach did very well with low-level sounding powers being way too op.
Wayyyyyy more op than kyoka are you kidding
Maybe its cuz I don't look up other discontinued shows but other than bleach and hxh what other shows get constant theory crafting and explanations with dedicated UA-cam channels?
A hyperthetical I thought you might have interest in what do you think would have happened if the hollow in kaien who was Aaroniero had possession of Jushiro and by extention the soul Kings arm when his sickness made him open?
If Metastacia had taken over Jushiro instead of Kaien? Oh wow, that's a cool what-if.
On relook The Almighty is actually a pretty cool and thought out ability. When these chapters were releasing though I just remember being SO DONE with these BS powers (from the Askin and Valkyrie fights for example) that it felt like a slog. I guess that's just Bleach in general actually
Yeah, I've had this same issue with Bleach. I was entertained but also felt done with it. During my re-look at Bleach I keep finding myself saying "damn, Kubo might almost be a genius..." It's strange but it's difficult to get my friends or others to also look back into it because the first time around is the most important usually, especially with anime for some reason.
@@wizcaster77 Imo Kubo is great at themes and symbolism (just look at how he uses the Espada to represent 10 aspects of death), but sometimes sucks at executing plot threads and elements on a technical level (e.g. inconsistencies, dropped plotlines, deus ex machina, and plot armour). Rereading the manga, I loved the themes and symbolism more as they became clearer with time and aged incredibly, while the technical issues stood out more as well. I suppose you can call it a...balance :).
Still, it's definitely worth appreciating how he created such an insanely large cast of characters and managed to make as many of them work as possible. It's one hell of a task and he definitely deserves credit for reaching for the stars.
wow... just wow I had no real clue why or what was going on when I read this years ago. Thanks for clearing this up love the Info and videos. new sub here /wave