Aizen also breaks the trope of the illusionist being weak in physical combat. Usually you would win once you break see through the tricks but Aizen will also just beat your ass in straight combat.
the crazy part is Show Hayami the VA of Aizen said he never knew that Aizen will turn out to be evil, he said that he was also fooled by Aizen's hypnoses and already accepted defeat
@@pixlv6384Show Hayami: Oh this one off character I voiced and died was kinda interesting, I wonder if they figure out who killed him in the manga *reads the latest chapter* AYO WHAT THE FUCK?!
"How long......have you been under the illusion that I wasn't using Kyoka Suigetsu?" is hands down one of the three coldest lines in this series. It is also one of the biggest flexes in not just Bleach, but in the shonen genre in general I feel.
@@agamotto5354 when aizen said he wanted to go even higher he actually meant "I wanna ascend to the real world" he then got what he wanted, had a son just so that he could one day read bleach, a manga that he tricked some Japanese guy into writing, to thousands of people to reveal the fact that he got out from his dimension
I mean... terchnically the readers actually DID see Aizen activating his Shikai before, and it was not so long ago. Remember the flashback of Barragan? Aizen held up his sword, and said to Barragan that this is his sword, "Kyoka Suigetsu". In a way, you can say that this is not only intended to hypnotize Barragan, but also the reader >=D Sure, people can say that during the Soul Society Arc we have NOT seen him release his Zanpakuto, and we still saw the fake Aizen impaled, but still... I like to think that we all got hypnotized, and that is why even the readers did not notice the switch up here ;D
I think he lost that requirement when he achieved bankai and just let everyone else assume it still had that prerequisite to work. It’s far more sinister and spooky if he never has to cue to you that he might be using his complete hypnosis before you even know he’s there or the instant his spirit pressure hits you.
Agamotto 2 mins earlier: "Now I think he will put an hollow mask, transform or something..." Aizen: "How long have you been under the illusion that I wasn't using my Kyoka Suigetsu?" Agamotto 2 mins later:
10:43 This is my favorite part of this whole sequence. Ichigo could have been SHOUTING non-stop the WHOLE time. The panel where his shout are heard by the captains are purely because Aizen ALLOWED it. And it also make so much sense why Ichigo don't just rush there to attack or snap them out of it. He's currently being too careful with Kyouka Suigetsu's power. He is too afraid, he is literally the only hope. He definitely wouldn't want to mess it up.
Yet apparently alot of fans hate her. I never understood how fans can hate her, she goes through the most traumatic stuff in Bleach so I think it's wierd behavior to hate her as a character.
@@ChrisMS0815 I think the fans look at her and the only thing on their mind is "She's weak therefore I must hate her", when she has gone through severe mental damage. It's there way of saying "Pssh I could've done better than her".
I believe the illusion started the moment after the last captain was injured by eisen. As you might have noticed at some point, Aizen stopped countering and dealing damage to the soul reapers and just started only repelling their attacks. I believe that is the starting point when he activated the illusion and swapped with momo.
With this theory of yours, who was attacked by Kageoni? Aizen? Momo? The air? No one has that ugly gash from being stabbed by a scimitar once the illusion drops. Or is that an anime-only part of the exchange?
@devonm042690 Momo would have had to be the one to take Kageoni, As It would have been too late to swap with momo at that point where they thought they trapped Eisen in the ice.
@devonm042690 The entire sequence is a bit of a plot hole because, as I mentioned, it would be too late, the moment they thought they had aisen trapped in the ice, but it would have also had to happen after soi fon used her Shikai on the illusion aisen, since momo didn't have the butterfly insignia on her And she was distinctively not dead.
@@chainsofscarlet9054 it's also possible kageoni just didnt hit anyone. If zanpaktou are also under hypnosis, then kageoni believing it was inside a shadow could result in the ability activating even when no one was even there. Or perhaps kageoni NEVER activated but everyone THOUGHT it did
it could be that there was actually no one there. as visualized in earlier chapters, aizen is capable of faking living creatures [his corpse. can manipulate all senses. possibly even the sense of depth, too]. so if everyones sense of sound was altered to ignore ichigo then aizen fastly swaps places with momo whilst everyone still thinks thinks theyre dancing with aizen, it could be possible.
Nobody has ever written an illusionist character quite like Aizen. Kubo deserves his spot in the big three. Thank you for making these vids. I can't even remember how I felt first seeing this twist. Hearing you describe it is like reliving it for the rest of us in the fandom so I appreciate your effort a lot.
@@Blackmustache870I dont think Ulquiorra was blindly loyal to Aizen at all. He didnt even show Aizen his segunda. The blindly loyal espada would be Zommari
I always felt that was kind of a weak reasoning as to why he targets her. Aizen intentionally manipulated and molded Hinamori to be blindly loyal to him from the very start, as he told renji in the final act of the soul society arc. Would he hate her for letting him achieve his outcome? And during the fake karakura arc she joins the battlefield and says that he is the enemy of soul society, her blind loyalty to him had ceased at that point. I think a much more interesting theory is that Momo is his final tie to humanity, as he played the role of the kind and noble captain for so long with her... maybe it affected him in some way, maybe a supressed part of his psyche longed for genuine connection but couldn't accept it from someone who he considered so inferior to him, it also tracks with his view of bonds, reliance and trust as a fundamental weakness. Momo is also a character defined by her bonds of friendship throughout the story, even though Aizen's manipulation strains most of these relationships, you get the sense that she truly cares about Hitsugaya, Kira, Renji and Rangiku. So i think that by targeting Momo he is trying to rebuke any trace of humanity within himself, as that would lead him to become the ultimate self reliant being (which is spelled out in whole "how gods are created" dialogue he has with shinji) Its essentially why he is attempting to fuse with the hogyoku, to no longer be a normal shinigami and ascend to godhood. A neat detail is that the hogyoku starts to accept him only after the switch with momo occurs
@@bluepill2288 nah I don't like that as kubo has put in place that Aizen and Momo have slept with eachother but I dont even want that myself I would rather it be like Aizen giver her away to company members,
Instantly clicked. Great preview. Was waiting this part of the plot upd: Really few people get that captains CAN'T hear Ichigo and don't understand why he's just standing and I am glad you got it on your own.
This moment is what cemented Aizen as one of the most iconic villians in ALL of anime and Manga. His line to Shinji is also one of the most famous quotes in the series. He is a truly a magnificent bastard and we all love him for it, haha!
"How long have you been under the **illusion** that I wasn't using Kyoka Suigetsu?" is one of the best, most perfect, well-written lines in the entire series for me. it's absolutely perfect and i my love for kubo's writing stemmed from how perfect aizen was and only grew with the following arcs! get excited, mr agamotto, what's to come is *better*
Gin ichimaru :"That’s right. Aizen isn’t feared because he can use Kyokasuigetsu. Yes, Kyokasuigetsu’s power is terrifying. But that alone would not have been enough to subdue those who would rather die than to obey. That was the only reason why those powerful espadas were able to function as a group despite their personal motives. Because he’s strong. All of Captain Aizen’s abilities are far beyond everyone else’s. Youre going to take precautions against Kyokasuigetsu? Your plans aren’t good enough. You’re going to take precautions against everything else? Your plans still aren’t good enough. Even if you gather your minds against unfortunate events like the sky falling or the earth splitting, Captain Aizen’s abilities are far beyond your plans."
To this day I'm still 50/50 on if Aizen was telling the truth and he's simply has so much more power that he can "no sell" her death in two strikes or if she never actually hit him and Aizen was messing with Soifon's head. Because both options are completely in character.
@@presticus As strong as Aizen is I don't think under normal circumstances he would've been able to stop suzumebachi. He got attacked by a Soi Fon that had lost an arm which alone had Grimmjow kicked out of the Espada temporarily and secondly she fired two Jakuho Raikobens in one day when she herself said she can only manage to fire once every 3 days. By the time she attacked Aizen she was exhausted and weakened.
The way I see it, the switch had to have happened between Sui Feng's and Shunsui's attack. If it was earlier than Sui Feng's attack, her shikai attack would have killed Momo, while if it was after Shunsui's, Aizen would have had a visible wound after revealing himself (or at least his coat would have had a hole in it).
I think it was active before then and Aizen just manipulated everyone’s vision that she hit the same spot twice but it was actually two different spots. Then Aizen bluffed saying he was just too strong for it so she’d stop trying to use it on him
I think the switch happened after Soi Fon used suzumebachi on Aizen. If the switch happened before that then suzumebachi would've killed Momo due to Momo not having as much Reiatsu as Aizen which would mean the difference in strength would have to be extremely large for this to be the case. On the topic of Suzumebachi Aizen negating it with his Reiatsu has caused many people to assume that just simply being stronger than Soi Fon stops her Shikai from working not taking in the fact that she lost her arm which is something that made Grimmjow get removed from the Espada and that she fired two Jakuho Raikobens which she said she usually can only manage once every 3 days meaning she was exhausted and missing an arm which means she was very weak when she attacked Aizen. But yeah these chapters were brutal and the upcoming ones further drives the feeling of hopelessness even more and more. Glad you're getting soo invested in this btw.
At this point, I’m convinced Aizen just hates Momo and Toshiro. Mind you, he still fights everyone, but if I was either of them, I’d be taking it personally.
He definitely went out of his way to mess up both of them. I personally think he was mainly targetting/testing Hitsugaya for something, maybe he wanted to see how much stronger a Hitsugaya filled with hatred can get within the time in between he left soul society and they finally fought in Karakura.
I@@salmannazeer2688i do think he wants to take down hitsugaya early cause he can really be a threat for him. Yamamoto and hitsugaya Can nuke a huge area with their power, and even with illusion and great power, it s hard to protect yourself from Yamamoto's power and hitsugaya 's ICE. Plus hitsugaya had shown that with time he Can defeat stronger opponent. To enrage him and make him do mistake IS a good plan to not have to care about him.
@@finel3141 Taking threats our early doesn't make much sense when it comes to Aizen as he could've assassinated all of them without them or their allies noticing relying entirely on Kyoka Suigetsu. Aizen needed actual challenges to evolve himself. That was the whole point the Fake Karakura arc fight was building up towards. He was also curious to see how far his experiments could go. I am of the opinion that he was putting Hitsugaya through all that just to see the rate at which a prodigious pure shinigami can progress when motivated by hatred. He could've been trying to see if Hitsugaya can progress like Gin did
Fairly certain Aizen blocked SoiFon and then left, partially for a spoiler-y reason. But nothing confirmed. Beyond that though, I think it's interesting that Aizen seems to really care about "geniuses", he recruits Gin, he talks about Urahara, and goes out of his way to torment Toshiro. I wonder why the genius Aizen seems to care so much about other geniuses like this...
He left AA as a member of the Espada when reforming them. AA has the memories of and goes around looking like Kaien Shiba who was another one of the "genius" characters.
@grahf4215 not sure your point? I didn't say he hated geniuses or anything, just he pays them special attention. And before it was Aaroniero it was Metastacia who Aizen made so he's still involved.
I love Aizen always taunts his enemies that they dont understand him in the slightest, yet he only uses illusions he never even shows them his real self. It’s like when someone begs for help but doesn’t open up
I think Aizen did actually fight those guys for a while, then just flash stepped to slip Momo into the fight in his place at the end. Otherwise, Ichigo could full well have spoken up sooner. Unless he did, and nobody else heard him till Aizen allowed them to.
Tōshirō's scream after stabbing Hinamori hits so hard in Japanese (sub) Along with fully hollowfied Ichigo scream against Ulqiorra as well the last Bankai activation from Ichigo from original Bleach
one important thing that sets aizen apart from all the other hypnosis wielding badies in fiction is that not only was this whole thing extremely well orchestrated to demonstrate the absolute control he has over any situation involving himself, but it was also entirely unnecessary, aizen could have killed all of them easily without using his hypnosis, hell without even drawing his sword, yamamoto and ichigo are the only ones there who even so much as represent any sort of risk to him should he decide to fight them the old fashioned way, he could instantly drop anyone beneath the rank of captain by exerting his spiritual pressure alone and even the captains wouldn't stand a chance against him.
That's just not true though while Aizen has higher Reiatsu than most captains he was still able to be cut by Shinji and we know that wasn't an illusion because the second time Shinji tried to attack and Aizen appeared behind Shinji he still had a wound on his arm. This alone proves captains around Shinji's level are still able to damage him unless if they're already weakened.
Thank god you understood that Ichigo could have been screaming for minutes but thanks to Kyoka Suigetsu nobody would have hear him until Aizen wanted to. Many don’t get it
So what's beautiful about the sense "what is reality" is re-reading or re-watching bleach and seeing the illusions and wondering what is really happening
this fight, and that exact sequence with Hitsugaya and Momo left me completely dumbfounded, I have no idea how Kubo pulls it off, but that man is a genius, I remember a few videos ago you mentioned about Hitsugaya and Momo actually having a chance at Aizen in battle and all I could remember was this exact moment, there's a reason why people love Aizen as a villain, and I believe it's cemented on this part of the story, it's so twisted because he actually allows Momo to see that it was Hitsugaya and not an illusion, it's brutal and horribly demoralizing for the good guys, at the same time this is still just starting.
You should talk to Mespy about bleach he basically just speed ran all of it and his videos and yours have been amazing to watch and see y’all go through a series I love so much. Anyhoo love the videos keep up the awesome work.
These chapters are basically Aizen flexing like the absolute monster he is. It’s always hilarious to see people react to the Bamboozlement from Aizen as well because it feels like you’re always on the back foot. Honestly it’s so fun you’ve gotten to this part! And yeah I’d love to see you do character analysis once you finish Bleach!
I’m pretty sure the shikai release requirement to experience Aizen’s illusions was either always a red herring or completely irrelevant after Aizen achieved bankai. I do not recall seeing the fake “water” release as the reader/watcher, but the body illusion from the Soul Society Arc and all of Aizen’s other illusions are still directly visible to us as the audience. I think Kubo would have kept it consistent rather than having to retcon that, since us being under his complete hypnosis is canon like [REDACTED] redacting [REDACTED]’s name in the early chapters while Ichigo trains with Urahara in the first arc.
This right here is a moment I have been waiting for months. Your reaction to the Momo moment 😂 Now, there are a couple more moments after this I want to see your reaction of. "You are both a (redacted) and a..." iykyk 🤫😉
I do kinda love how the espada are dead, Tosen has just died, the biggest in threat has just popped in out of nowhere and Aizen is surrounded by high level captains and Gin's just sat there on the side like "lol"
Knowing what we know about "the heart" in Bleach, I wonder if at 1:50 that panel "I can almost reach your heart" had a deeper significance than just a simple threat? Just conjecture but I've not had this stuff on my mind so heavily on a read through, and there it is right after his last big battle, where ulquiorra could almost reach their hearts. There's usually some kind of understanding Ichigo gets about his opponents while fighting them, and here it could be Aizen saying you're almost there with me, but not quite? Or is he just shit talking again?
Personal take, I believe that we were given a hint in the anime as to when Aizen started using his hypnosis, which was when there was a flash of white when Komamura tried to get Aizen, but that's just a personal take, and I'm not sure about when Momo suddenly got pulled into the mix. If anything, now that I think about it, and this is assuming Momo actually hasn't achieved Bankai at this moment in time, during the fight with Halibel's fracciones, we saw (in the anime, not sure if this was the case in the manga) that Momo seemingly deactivated her Shikai for a moment, only for her to use Tobiume again without even calling out its name, which is something only Soul Reapers who have attained Bankai could do. So, if Momo had yet to achieve Bankai, that means that Momo's presence was already being manipulated starting from that point on. She might not have even been wounded by Ayon :v but idk, crackpot theory right here. All with the assumption that that one scene with Momo activating Shikai without calling its name might mean _something_.
The best Explanation I've seen of why Ichigo "didn't speak up" is more that it's not that he didn't speak up, but instead he was trying but they couldn't hear his cries. After all, it's not just "hypnosis". Aizen controls all 5 senses. He can just make sure they can't hear Ichigo tell them they're fighting the wrong guy. The only real Issue I have is that it's the same Aizen that Ichigo had been fighting. So unless he HAD hypnotised him for that moment, but released it for later.
Now that you mention how long in advance Aizen prepared the use of his shikai, his plan to some extent depends on the Gotei 13 being a rather unchanging, one might call it conservative (I mean this in a neutral sense, please understand this separate from real-life politics), organisation. He put them under his spell a century ago but if the personnel was replaced on shorter timescales, he'd have to make a show for every one or at least every new member ever so often, which would have been much more suspicious. In part this is justified by soul reapers being basically immortal (even though they do seem to age), so it makes sense that such changes happen over much longer timespans than in the case of human organisations, which makes this conservative nature part of the worldbuilding. While Aizen is also absurdly strong, his plan could not have worked the way it did, had he not put the entire Gotei 13 under his spell. Another consequence would have been that there'd be less of a justification for Ichigo's role to be exceptional.
(Not really a spoiler because the only answer is that WE NEVER GET AN ANSWER): My best guess for the switch after many, many years is that Aizen did something to Momo's Lieutenant badge, allowing him to switch places in a pinch. Some Kido enchantment. There was focus on how she'd donned the badge for her return... The question is always when he activated it. There's no Homunka mark on Momo, so it wasn't between stabs from Soi Fon. It can't be before the stabs, because Momo wouldn't have survived two (durable as she is). Something had to cast a shadow on the ice for Shunsui to use his power. So someone was THERE. But his outfit doesn't appear damaged later...though it's possible he swapped with Momo, healed himself, fixed his outfit with a spell, and then sat up. That's the best I've got.
Side note Unironicaly momo is considered one of the most durable ( both mentaly and phisicaly ) in the manga People actualy believe that if she were to train into some hand to hand she could become a female version of yama 😂
This video got recommended to me out of nowhere so i was just wondering if you were reading this in color or black and white since you used colored panels in the video, if you are reading in color then i would recommend the black and white version since kubos use of black and white is leagues above any other mangaka
@mult1versal so what? She was manipulated and played like a fiddle by the enemy, and attacked a superior officer and friend with intent to kill. A basic psychological assessment would declare her unfit for duty in 3 seconds, and if i were Yama i would have her detained on suspicion of high treason anyway.
@ by this logic you should also detain kenpachi for attacking tosen, shunsui and ukitake for attacking Yamamoto, Renji for attacking Byakuya, or literally everyone else who fought somebody during the soul society arc
Momo lowkey might be the most durable character in the series
The perfect punching bag! :D
That fact isnt even debatable at this point
Only second to chair-sama.
Nope. Hits were not very devastating plus healing in Soul Society is very good.
@@Eryomisnope, chair sama still died after getting struck by a FCKING GOD
But momo, *IS STILL FCKING ALIVE*
WHY.?
“And Momo is around somewhere”
-Agamotto in a previous video
Aizen also breaks the trope of the illusionist being weak in physical combat. Usually you would win once you break see through the tricks but Aizen will also just beat your ass in straight combat.
Yup‚ he's not threatening because of Kyoka Suigetsu. He's not threatening because of everything else. He's just unbeatable because he's Aizen
"Hah! I countered your illusions!"
Aizen: Hado 90.
Naruto as well kinda
the crazy part is Show Hayami the VA of Aizen said he never knew that Aizen will turn out to be evil, he said that he was also fooled by Aizen's hypnoses and already accepted defeat
Everything according to Keikaku .
Aizen ain't evil though
Ain't no way Aizen tricked his own VA
@@pixlv6384Show Hayami: Oh this one off character I voiced and died was kinda interesting, I wonder if they figure out who killed him in the manga *reads the latest chapter* AYO WHAT THE FUCK?!
@@Castiel_01x Tf do you mean? Did you read the series? 😭
"How long......have you been under the illusion that I wasn't using Kyoka Suigetsu?" is hands down one of the three coldest lines in this series.
It is also one of the biggest flexes in not just Bleach, but in the shonen genre in general I feel.
Silly agamotto, assuming you ever weren't under aizens control
Specially knowing his dad suspiciously looks like glasses aizen
@@matiaspereyra9392are you telling me I’ve been under his control since I was in the womb?
@@agamotto5354 when aizen said he wanted to go even higher he actually meant "I wanna ascend to the real world" he then got what he wanted, had a son just so that he could one day read bleach, a manga that he tricked some Japanese guy into writing, to thousands of people to reveal the fact that he got out from his dimension
I mean... terchnically the readers actually DID see Aizen activating his Shikai before, and it was not so long ago.
Remember the flashback of Barragan? Aizen held up his sword, and said to Barragan that this is his sword, "Kyoka Suigetsu". In a way, you can say that this is not only intended to hypnotize Barragan, but also the reader >=D
Sure, people can say that during the Soul Society Arc we have NOT seen him release his Zanpakuto, and we still saw the fake Aizen impaled, but still... I like to think that we all got hypnotized, and that is why even the readers did not notice the switch up here ;D
I think he lost that requirement when he achieved bankai and just let everyone else assume it still had that prerequisite to work. It’s far more sinister and spooky if he never has to cue to you that he might be using his complete hypnosis before you even know he’s there or the instant his spirit pressure hits you.
Agamotto 2 mins earlier: "Now I think he will put an hollow mask, transform or something..."
Aizen: "How long have you been under the illusion that I wasn't using my Kyoka Suigetsu?"
Agamotto 2 mins later:
10:43 This is my favorite part of this whole sequence.
Ichigo could have been SHOUTING non-stop the WHOLE time.
The panel where his shout are heard by the captains are purely because Aizen ALLOWED it.
And it also make so much sense why Ichigo don't just rush there to attack or snap them out of it.
He's currently being too careful with Kyouka Suigetsu's power. He is too afraid, he is literally the only hope. He definitely wouldn't want to mess it up.
Poor Momo she never did anything to anybody and they keep doing this to her.
Yet apparently alot of fans hate her. I never understood how fans can hate her, she goes through the most traumatic stuff in Bleach so I think it's wierd behavior to hate her as a character.
@@ChrisMS0815 I think the fans look at her and the only thing on their mind is "She's weak therefore I must hate her", when she has gone through severe mental damage. It's there way of saying "Pssh I could've done better than her".
@@chaossmash64Its crazy how fans think Momo is weak, Isnt she a lieutenant? That isn’t weak
@@Notaaaaprshe is also a master in kido, especially with the illusion one and with combining multiple kido together
Yep, she saved rangiku from haribels fraccions and the only way they could heal themselves was by going into their resurrection. @@AlexSalvatore00
Momo, is affectionately called “Kubo’s punching bag” in the fandom. You can maybe start to see why XD
I always saw her as more of a pin cushion, but that may just be me
@ lol true XD
You finally understand why Aizen is considered the Troll King.
I believe the illusion started the moment after the last captain was injured by eisen.
As you might have noticed at some point, Aizen stopped countering and dealing damage to the soul reapers and just started only repelling their attacks. I believe that is the starting point when he activated the illusion and swapped with momo.
With this theory of yours, who was attacked by Kageoni? Aizen? Momo? The air? No one has that ugly gash from being stabbed by a scimitar once the illusion drops. Or is that an anime-only part of the exchange?
@devonm042690 Momo would have had to be the one to take Kageoni, As It would have been too late to swap with momo at that point where they thought they trapped Eisen in the ice.
@devonm042690 The entire sequence is a bit of a plot hole because, as I mentioned, it would be too late, the moment they thought they had aisen trapped in the ice, but it would have also had to happen after soi fon used her Shikai on the illusion aisen, since momo didn't have the butterfly insignia on her And she was distinctively not dead.
@@chainsofscarlet9054 it's also possible kageoni just didnt hit anyone. If zanpaktou are also under hypnosis, then kageoni believing it was inside a shadow could result in the ability activating even when no one was even there. Or perhaps kageoni NEVER activated but everyone THOUGHT it did
it could be that there was actually no one there. as visualized in earlier chapters, aizen is capable of faking living creatures [his corpse. can manipulate all senses. possibly even the sense of depth, too]. so if everyones sense of sound was altered to ignore ichigo then aizen fastly swaps places with momo whilst everyone still thinks thinks theyre dancing with aizen, it could be possible.
Agamotto - "It hit me as hard as the other characters"
Momo - "press x to doubt"
11:00 Ichigo doing the walter white scream from behind the car door
Nobody has ever written an illusionist character quite like Aizen. Kubo deserves his spot in the big three.
Thank you for making these vids. I can't even remember how I felt first seeing this twist. Hearing you describe it is like reliving it for the rest of us in the fandom so I appreciate your effort a lot.
There is a theory that Aizen just really hates Momo for being so blindly loyal to people hence why he keeps targeting her.
he dislikes hitsugaya alot more then momo
I wonder how he really viewed ulquiorra than
@@Blackmustache870I dont think Ulquiorra was blindly loyal to Aizen at all. He didnt even show Aizen his segunda. The blindly loyal espada would be Zommari
I always felt that was kind of a weak reasoning as to why he targets her. Aizen intentionally manipulated and molded Hinamori to be blindly loyal to him from the very start, as he told renji in the final act of the soul society arc. Would he hate her for letting him achieve his outcome? And during the fake karakura arc she joins the battlefield and says that he is the enemy of soul society, her blind loyalty to him had ceased at that point.
I think a much more interesting theory is that Momo is his final tie to humanity, as he played the role of the kind and noble captain for so long with her... maybe it affected him in some way, maybe a supressed part of his psyche longed for genuine connection but couldn't accept it from someone who he considered so inferior to him, it also tracks with his view of bonds, reliance and trust as a fundamental weakness. Momo is also a character defined by her bonds of friendship throughout the story, even though Aizen's manipulation strains most of these relationships, you get the sense that she truly cares about Hitsugaya, Kira, Renji and Rangiku.
So i think that by targeting Momo he is trying to rebuke any trace of humanity within himself, as that would lead him to become the ultimate self reliant being (which is spelled out in whole "how gods are created" dialogue he has with shinji)
Its essentially why he is attempting to fuse with the hogyoku, to no longer be a normal shinigami and ascend to godhood. A neat detail is that the hogyoku starts to accept him only after the switch with momo occurs
@@bluepill2288 nah I don't like that as kubo has put in place that Aizen and Momo have slept with eachother but I dont even want that myself I would rather it be like Aizen giver her away to company members,
Instantly clicked. Great preview. Was waiting this part of the plot
upd: Really few people get that captains CAN'T hear Ichigo and don't understand why he's just standing and I am glad you got it on your own.
This moment is what cemented Aizen as one of the most iconic villians in ALL of anime and Manga. His line to Shinji is also one of the most famous quotes in the series. He is a truly a magnificent bastard and we all love him for it, haha!
"How long have you been under the **illusion** that I wasn't using Kyoka Suigetsu?" is one of the best, most perfect, well-written lines in the entire series for me. it's absolutely perfect and i my love for kubo's writing stemmed from how perfect aizen was and only grew with the following arcs! get excited, mr agamotto, what's to come is *better*
Gin ichimaru :"That’s right. Aizen isn’t feared because he can use Kyokasuigetsu. Yes, Kyokasuigetsu’s power is terrifying. But that alone would not have been enough to subdue those who would rather die than to obey. That was the only reason why those powerful espadas were able to function as a group despite their personal motives. Because he’s strong.
All of Captain Aizen’s abilities are far beyond everyone else’s.
Youre going to take precautions against Kyokasuigetsu? Your plans aren’t good enough.
You’re going to take precautions against everything else? Your plans still aren’t good enough.
Even if you gather your minds against unfortunate events like the sky falling or the earth splitting, Captain Aizen’s abilities are far beyond your plans."
Momo probably got there right after Soifon attacked because that would have killed her.
Or since she's so much smaller than him maybe she didn't actually connect with her just to keep the illusion feeling real?
@@matiaspereyra9392Judging by where Soi Fon was attacking I'm pretty sure it would've connected with Momo
To this day I'm still 50/50 on if Aizen was telling the truth and he's simply has so much more power that he can "no sell" her death in two strikes or if she never actually hit him and Aizen was messing with Soifon's head. Because both options are completely in character.
@@presticus As strong as Aizen is I don't think under normal circumstances he would've been able to stop suzumebachi. He got attacked by a Soi Fon that had lost an arm which alone had Grimmjow kicked out of the Espada temporarily and secondly she fired two Jakuho Raikobens in one day when she herself said she can only manage to fire once every 3 days. By the time she attacked Aizen she was exhausted and weakened.
I think Agamotto is beginning to see why so many people love Aizen as an antagonist.
The way I see it, the switch had to have happened between Sui Feng's and Shunsui's attack. If it was earlier than Sui Feng's attack, her shikai attack would have killed Momo, while if it was after Shunsui's, Aizen would have had a visible wound after revealing himself (or at least his coat would have had a hole in it).
I think it was active before then and Aizen just manipulated everyone’s vision that she hit the same spot twice but it was actually two different spots. Then Aizen bluffed saying he was just too strong for it so she’d stop trying to use it on him
“She’s been through enough. You hear me Kubo? She’s been through enough” -Agamotto FTRB #32
And this is why so many people claim Aizen as one of the, if not the, best characters ever.
He’s been hands down my favorite Bleach character since he first revealed himself back in the Soul Society.
Readers/Toshiro: What did Momo do to deserve this?
Aizen/Kubo: Exist.
Aizen is just the GOAT antagonist.
Soifon: has a broken ass shikai
Aizen: "ahhh but have you considered: no"
I think the switch happened after Soi Fon used suzumebachi on Aizen. If the switch happened before that then suzumebachi would've killed Momo due to Momo not having as much Reiatsu as Aizen which would mean the difference in strength would have to be extremely large for this to be the case.
On the topic of Suzumebachi Aizen negating it with his Reiatsu has caused many people to assume that just simply being stronger than Soi Fon stops her Shikai from working not taking in the fact that she lost her arm which is something that made Grimmjow get removed from the Espada and that she fired two Jakuho Raikobens which she said she usually can only manage once every 3 days meaning she was exhausted and missing an arm which means she was very weak when she attacked Aizen.
But yeah these chapters were brutal and the upcoming ones further drives the feeling of hopelessness even more and more. Glad you're getting soo invested in this btw.
At this point, I’m convinced Aizen just hates Momo and Toshiro. Mind you, he still fights everyone, but if I was either of them, I’d be taking it personally.
He definitely went out of his way to mess up both of them. I personally think he was mainly targetting/testing Hitsugaya for something, maybe he wanted to see how much stronger a Hitsugaya filled with hatred can get within the time in between he left soul society and they finally fought in Karakura.
I@@salmannazeer2688i do think he wants to take down hitsugaya early cause he can really be a threat for him. Yamamoto and hitsugaya Can nuke a huge area with their power, and even with illusion and great power, it s hard to protect yourself from Yamamoto's power and hitsugaya 's ICE. Plus hitsugaya had shown that with time he Can defeat stronger opponent. To enrage him and make him do mistake IS a good plan to not have to care about him.
@@finel3141 Taking threats our early doesn't make much sense when it comes to Aizen as he could've assassinated all of them without them or their allies noticing relying entirely on Kyoka Suigetsu. Aizen needed actual challenges to evolve himself. That was the whole point the Fake Karakura arc fight was building up towards. He was also curious to see how far his experiments could go. I am of the opinion that he was putting Hitsugaya through all that just to see the rate at which a prodigious pure shinigami can progress when motivated by hatred. He could've been trying to see if Hitsugaya can progress like Gin did
Bro wake up, another agamotto video
Saw the thumbnail and knew had a pretty good idea what your reaction was going to be. You did not disappoint. 👍
I saw the title card and said oh poor Momo and poor Agamotto, duped again I see. Fooled by the most broken ability, Kyoka Suigetsu, as were we all
Fairly certain Aizen blocked SoiFon and then left, partially for a spoiler-y reason. But nothing confirmed.
Beyond that though, I think it's interesting that Aizen seems to really care about "geniuses", he recruits Gin, he talks about Urahara, and goes out of his way to torment Toshiro. I wonder why the genius Aizen seems to care so much about other geniuses like this...
He left AA as a member of the Espada when reforming them. AA has the memories of and goes around looking like Kaien Shiba who was another one of the "genius" characters.
@grahf4215 not sure your point? I didn't say he hated geniuses or anything, just he pays them special attention. And before it was Aaroniero it was Metastacia who Aizen made so he's still involved.
@@nahte123456 Not sure your confusion. Was just adding another to your list to further your point.
I love Aizen always taunts his enemies that they dont understand him in the slightest, yet he only uses illusions he never even shows them his real self. It’s like when someone begs for help but doesn’t open up
Aizen's talk about how kings and gods are born gives me shivers everytime
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IIIIIITT
Just saying Momo took on like 5 captains before coming down she’s tough
I love how aizen still has time to stare back at ichigo while battling everyone like you want some of this too?
Since when did you think Kubo wasn't going to traumatize Momo.
This is what I was waiting for ever since you posted your "First Time Reading Bleach #9"..
I will say the smackdown that was dealt here made me feel that "everything is lost, you're not winning this one" sort of dread
You have no idea how much I was pulling at my hair watching the Aizen fight for the first time. A true Brain Breaking scene for sure.
I think we can all agree : Aizen is a master baiter
I think Aizen did actually fight those guys for a while, then just flash stepped to slip Momo into the fight in his place at the end. Otherwise, Ichigo could full well have spoken up sooner. Unless he did, and nobody else heard him till Aizen allowed them to.
Tōshirō's scream after stabbing Hinamori hits so hard in Japanese (sub)
Along with fully hollowfied Ichigo scream against Ulqiorra as well the last Bankai activation from Ichigo from original Bleach
Poor Toushy-chan easily gets taunted every time Aizen speaks. His blind rage, despite being called a prodigy, is his downfall.
I mean blind rage, seeing rage, it didn't even matter he had no chance regardless of how he took it
Since when you were thinking that I'm not gonna click into this video the moment I see it.
one important thing that sets aizen apart from all the other hypnosis wielding badies in fiction is that not only was this whole thing extremely well orchestrated to demonstrate the absolute control he has over any situation involving himself, but it was also entirely unnecessary, aizen could have killed all of them easily without using his hypnosis, hell without even drawing his sword, yamamoto and ichigo are the only ones there who even so much as represent any sort of risk to him should he decide to fight them the old fashioned way, he could instantly drop anyone beneath the rank of captain by exerting his spiritual pressure alone and even the captains wouldn't stand a chance against him.
That's just not true though while Aizen has higher Reiatsu than most captains he was still able to be cut by Shinji and we know that wasn't an illusion because the second time Shinji tried to attack and Aizen appeared behind Shinji he still had a wound on his arm. This alone proves captains around Shinji's level are still able to damage him unless if they're already weakened.
Another great video ❤
And yea, when ichigo yells there, everything just snaps into place, loved it 😅
another shinji foreshadowing is how he wrote his name backwards when he introduced himself to class
I never even thought about the fact the Aizen probably prevented the captains from hearing Ichigo’s warnings.
Thank god you understood that Ichigo could have been screaming for minutes but thanks to Kyoka Suigetsu nobody would have hear him until Aizen wanted to. Many don’t get it
So what's beautiful about the sense "what is reality" is re-reading or re-watching bleach and seeing the illusions and wondering what is really happening
Aizen was just practicing his Substitution Jutsu from Naruto 🪵🗡️
Been waiting for this one very impatiently lol
this fight, and that exact sequence with Hitsugaya and Momo left me completely dumbfounded, I have no idea how Kubo pulls it off, but that man is a genius, I remember a few videos ago you mentioned about Hitsugaya and Momo actually having a chance at Aizen in battle and all I could remember was this exact moment, there's a reason why people love Aizen as a villain, and I believe it's cemented on this part of the story, it's so twisted because he actually allows Momo to see that it was Hitsugaya and not an illusion, it's brutal and horribly demoralizing for the good guys, at the same time this is still just starting.
I was waiting for this from the first time you spoke about Aizen.
You should talk to Mespy about bleach he basically just speed ran all of it and his videos and yours have been amazing to watch and see y’all go through a series I love so much. Anyhoo love the videos keep up the awesome work.
These chapters are basically Aizen flexing like the absolute monster he is. It’s always hilarious to see people react to the Bamboozlement from Aizen as well because it feels like you’re always on the back foot.
Honestly it’s so fun you’ve gotten to this part! And yeah I’d love to see you do character analysis once you finish Bleach!
and the funny thing about Aizen is that he's so powerful he honestly doesn't even need to use the illusions half the time he just does it for funsies.
These were the moments, I remember watching that for the first time, mindblown.
I'm pretty sure that Kenny never got tricked by Aizen's shikai and even if he did, his instincts are so insane that it wouldn't bother him.
The colored manga looks so good, what a good work the "painter" did
I’m pretty sure the shikai release requirement to experience Aizen’s illusions was either always a red herring or completely irrelevant after Aizen achieved bankai. I do not recall seeing the fake “water” release as the reader/watcher, but the body illusion from the Soul Society Arc and all of Aizen’s other illusions are still directly visible to us as the audience. I think Kubo would have kept it consistent rather than having to retcon that, since us being under his complete hypnosis is canon like [REDACTED] redacting [REDACTED]’s name in the early chapters while Ichigo trains with Urahara in the first arc.
This is why Kubo’s the Goat🐐
Bruh you have no idea how many times we could have made jokes about momo give the stuff you say. It was hilarious
This right here is a moment I have been waiting for months. Your reaction to the Momo moment 😂
Now, there are a couple more moments after this I want to see your reaction of. "You are both a (redacted) and a..." iykyk 🤫😉
I do kinda love how the espada are dead, Tosen has just died, the biggest in threat has just popped in out of nowhere and Aizen is surrounded by high level captains and Gin's just sat there on the side like "lol"
absolute cinema
Knowing what we know about "the heart" in Bleach, I wonder if at 1:50 that panel "I can almost reach your heart" had a deeper significance than just a simple threat? Just conjecture but I've not had this stuff on my mind so heavily on a read through, and there it is right after his last big battle, where ulquiorra could almost reach their hearts.
There's usually some kind of understanding Ichigo gets about his opponents while fighting them, and here it could be Aizen saying you're almost there with me, but not quite?
Or is he just shit talking again?
Aizen is the greatest villain ever.
Oh boy I love these videos
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE NEXT VIDEO YES
Personal take, I believe that we were given a hint in the anime as to when Aizen started using his hypnosis, which was when there was a flash of white when Komamura tried to get Aizen, but that's just a personal take, and I'm not sure about when Momo suddenly got pulled into the mix.
If anything, now that I think about it, and this is assuming Momo actually hasn't achieved Bankai at this moment in time, during the fight with Halibel's fracciones, we saw (in the anime, not sure if this was the case in the manga) that Momo seemingly deactivated her Shikai for a moment, only for her to use Tobiume again without even calling out its name, which is something only Soul Reapers who have attained Bankai could do. So, if Momo had yet to achieve Bankai, that means that Momo's presence was already being manipulated starting from that point on. She might not have even been wounded by Ayon :v but idk, crackpot theory right here. All with the assumption that that one scene with Momo activating Shikai without calling its name might mean _something_.
The best Explanation I've seen of why Ichigo "didn't speak up" is more that it's not that he didn't speak up, but instead he was trying but they couldn't hear his cries. After all, it's not just "hypnosis". Aizen controls all 5 senses. He can just make sure they can't hear Ichigo tell them they're fighting the wrong guy. The only real Issue I have is that it's the same Aizen that Ichigo had been fighting. So unless he HAD hypnotised him for that moment, but released it for later.
Hey hey hey I saw that Smallville pic, you can’t hide Michael Rosenbaum’s bald head from me
The Silas reference caught me outta left field lol
I’ve seen much in this life. 😉
If Aizen genuinely scared you and gave you irl anxiety due to his actions on the page, I can't wait to see your reaction to the Lost Agent arc
Kubo actually confirmed that Ichigo was screaming and aizen made sure they couldn't hear him
Now that you mention how long in advance Aizen prepared the use of his shikai, his plan to some extent depends on the Gotei 13 being a rather unchanging, one might call it conservative (I mean this in a neutral sense, please understand this separate from real-life politics), organisation.
He put them under his spell a century ago but if the personnel was replaced on shorter timescales, he'd have to make a show for every one or at least every new member ever so often, which would have been much more suspicious.
In part this is justified by soul reapers being basically immortal (even though they do seem to age), so it makes sense that such changes happen over much longer timespans than in the case of human organisations, which makes this conservative nature part of the worldbuilding.
While Aizen is also absurdly strong, his plan could not have worked the way it did, had he not put the entire Gotei 13 under his spell.
Another consequence would have been that there'd be less of a justification for Ichigo's role to be exceptional.
I have been waiting for this video to happen
Hit them with the good ol‘ „since when where you under the impression that i wasn‘t using kyoka suigetsu“
(Not really a spoiler because the only answer is that WE NEVER GET AN ANSWER): My best guess for the switch after many, many years is that Aizen did something to Momo's Lieutenant badge, allowing him to switch places in a pinch. Some Kido enchantment. There was focus on how she'd donned the badge for her return...
The question is always when he activated it. There's no Homunka mark on Momo, so it wasn't between stabs from Soi Fon. It can't be before the stabs, because Momo wouldn't have survived two (durable as she is).
Something had to cast a shadow on the ice for Shunsui to use his power. So someone was THERE. But his outfit doesn't appear damaged later...though it's possible he swapped with Momo, healed himself, fixed his outfit with a spell, and then sat up.
That's the best I've got.
Fun Fact: this is the only thumbnail he’s made where all the characters (character) are in black and white
Ichigo going for the one shot only to fail.
Totally has this instinct again.
Totally.
Kyouka Suigetsu definitely tops as being among the most dangerous, and Momo is quite durable even with the trauma.
Aizen simply is THE GOAT
HEY BRO, would you do a mayuri fashion analysis?
Some day, for sure :)
Nah wait till we get to TYBW
@@Honest_Mids_Masher Exactly. It’s too soon.
It's crazy that in soul society, Aizen said that maybe Toshiro should be the one that should've stab momo, and now he just let him do exactly that
Side note
Unironicaly momo is considered one of the most durable ( both mentaly and phisicaly ) in the manga
People actualy believe that if she were to train into some hand to hand she could become a female version of yama 😂
There's a reason why Momo has long been known as "Lieutenant Pincushion"
Momo getting stayed again is the funniest thing ever kubo the goat
This video got recommended to me out of nowhere so i was just wondering if you were reading this in color or black and white since you used colored panels in the video, if you are reading in color then i would recommend the black and white version since kubos use of black and white is leagues above any other mangaka
Still wondering, after 15 years, wtf had the brilliamt idea of taking Momo along.
she's a lieutenant and she wanted to go 😭
@mult1versal so what? She was manipulated and played like a fiddle by the enemy, and attacked a superior officer and friend with intent to kill. A basic psychological assessment would declare her unfit for duty in 3 seconds, and if i were Yama i would have her detained on suspicion of high treason anyway.
If I recall, she went by herself. Rangiku was surprised to see her in the battlefield as well.
@ by this logic you should also detain kenpachi for attacking tosen, shunsui and ukitake for attacking Yamamoto, Renji for attacking Byakuya, or literally everyone else who fought somebody during the soul society arc
@@mult1versalHeck, one word from Kenpachi is all you'd need to know this guy is unfit to take into battle because of how unpredictable he is.
Yea he was trying his best to call out to them out but yea Aizen dulled everyones senses so they couldnt hear Ichigo at all
remember when you said your ideal matchups and what you said about hitsugayua... now you know what we all thought of!
I know Aizen was laughing to himself about how he tricked Hitsugaya into stabbing Momo
Aizen is Anime and Manga's very own Lucifer
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS