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What type of IchiHime moments do you want it to come out in Cour 4? Would you want them to kiss or show a scene of them marrying at the end of the cour? Since you're the biggest IchiHime fan after Kubo(no joke), I was expecting your opinion on the matter, no offense here, just curious.

I'm not sure if we'll see an actual onscreen kiss, but it would be cool to see a glimpse of their wedding to fill in the blanks of the timeskip. Even if it was just a photo from their wedding day on the table or something during the epilogue. I guess it just depends how subtle they want to keep the romance aspect? What I'd really like, and was hoping we would have gotten in the actual manga if Kubo hadn't been so pressed for time, is Ichigo asking to walk Orihime home after the war and her finally saying yes. I just feel like it would have been the perfect full-circle moment since he tried to walk her home twice before but wasn't successful 😭 But now that the war is over and everything has settled, he can walk her home at the end of the story before it's then revealed in the epilogue that they're married and share a home, and essentially became each other's home 🧡

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Hey there, just here to say that you're crazy af for writing that memorable-ass paragraph 8 years ago, aside from that, see you IchiHime shippers(they truly are made for each other) on Cour 4! Till then, have a nice year.😊

Thank you!! hahah wait, which paragraph?? you mean the masterpost I posted the day IchiHime became canon 😆 I'm always worried that it's going to break one of these days because tumblr keeps changing the posting format (i don't even know if you can have that many images in one post anymore?) but I just checked and it's still there thankfully, pinned to the top of my blog dfgjkdfjgk. Fingers crossed!

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Happy new year ✨

happy new year!!! :) wishing all my origos the best for 2025 💖💛🧡

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Just wanted to thank you for your hard work and dedication to the IH fandom all these posts dating back years all out of love for the ship !! Thank you and I hope you’re doing well 🥰

aw thank you so much!! I’m doing really well, just super busy at the moment, October through December always have so much going on with the holidays and whatnot. I haven’t even had a chance to catch up on the new anime episodes yet fjgjkfkfkf but I’ll get around to it soon hahah. I hope you all are doing well too 😁

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I know you said you haven't watched the new episodes but Kubo is adding new Ichihime moments and they're so freaking cute omg

omg really?? I’ll have to either see if I can find the clips on twitter or somewhere or look for an illegal download lmaooo

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Sometimes I visit your blog to see what you're up to cause it's been so long. You did god's work keeping us Ichihime shippers sane. Have you been watching the latest season? So much new content and we're only a couple episodes in. I love how we got Orihime healing Ichigo mid-fight in ep 1 and then an extended scene of her attempting to heal the soul king in ep 2.

Thank you!! I actually haven’t been watching because I don’t have Hulu lmaoo so I am super out of the loop on most things but I have seen some clips here and there posted around social media.

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ichinoue come baaaaaaaaaaaack!!!! :,(((

I’m still here ☺️

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Hi! ichinoue wanted to see if you are active

I’m still here! Just been super busy and taking a break from being online at the moment but I’ll be back eventually!!! Thanks for checking on me :) I hope all my origos are having a safe and fabulous summer 🩷🧡🩷🧡✨😎

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Hi! Same anon as before, I read the master post — it was so great, thank you! But is there a part missing? Rukia and Renji tell Orihime about their marriage, but I couldn’t find the part where they tell Ichigo? lol Am I blind? Can someone share the link

I don't think there was a scene where they told Ichigo? Unless there was one but it was released separately from WDKALY? But my memory for things that were released after the manga ended is honestly so bad lmao

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Speaking of the RenRuki wedding, did anyone ever figure out what age IchiHime got married and had Kazui? I’m shit at math so I didn’t bother at trying.

I wanna make an iChiHime comic series of it leading up to it all and then snippets of their family life :3

oh gosh, I feel like we did figure this out or get some kind of confirmation but I legit don't remember lmao It's been too long. I think she was 25 when Kazui was born?? but idk for sure.

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Do you by any chance have a link to the “We Do Knot always love you” novel? Well, the translated version anyways. I wanted to read some IchiHime goodness :3

There's a masterpost with translations here :) thanks to missstormcaller!!

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thoughts about ROCK MUSICAL BLEACH: Arrancar the Beginning.

tbh I've never really paid much attention to the musicals??? But I love the arrancar so maybe this time I will hahah :)

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Hey hope you’re doing well !!

I wanted to know if there’s any episodes from the original anime + Tybw where you feel like some episodes were amazingly adapted ? Like they just elevated the source material. Ik we all have our own opinions on the original adaptation so I wanted to know if you have any personal favourite episodes in the anime ?

Hi!! Thank you :) The first thing that comes to mind for me is the lust arc, I think they did such a good job at capturing the fear and hopelessness of those chapters, and the Ichigo vs. Ulquiorra battle was immaculate, it was just animated so well. And I also loved the episodes from the new anime with the Yamamoto battle followed by the wandenreich invasion, the animation and the music!!! So well done.

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Do you feel that the weird IR filler/IH erasure especially in the canon storyline of the anime was less of a problem after the Soul Society arc? I might be remembering wrong but I think it got better once Kubo started supervising the script, I don't know if IR was pushed after that? All I can come up with is that one ice skating scene and personally I don't view that as some kind of 'agenda' rather a tame interaction between two friends.

Yeah, I think things got better after the SS arc. I think once the arrancar arc started with all the Orihime/IH-centric scenes, the animators just couldn't ignore it anymore. It was becoming too obvious for anyone who didn't already have a strong IR bias that IH was where the romance was (the vow to protect followed by a love confession, etc). If you watch the AotS and SS arcs, it feels like the animators were intentionally cutting Orihime out and downplaying her importance, taking moments where she talks about Ichigo and having her talk about food instead, etc. while super embellishing canon IR scenes by adding in a bunch of flowery backgrounds and soaring music, on top of all the IR filler they added in (like the random filler shinigami guy who asks if Rukia and Ichigo are dating, and Rukia's just like "that's none of your concern" pffft.) I think the animators thought that Bleach was going to be a typical boy meets girl, main male/female duo that fall in love and that Orihime was just some bimbo who would never become important to Ichigo or the story as a whole (and interestingly, a lot of anime-only fans seemed to walk away with that impression as well). Things got better over time (albeit it still wasn't great), but I feel like the damage from the first two arcs was already done. People had already declared IR as their OTP in chapter one and were reluctant to jump ship (especially when it meant jumping to a ship they had already spent years hating on).

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Before the manga ended was there anything (or even now if he does ever continue the series) you wanted Kubo to expand on regarding Orihime ? Like do regarding her character ? & with Ichihime ?

With Orihime, I think she should have been given some kind of power or origin reveal or something, because the way it wasn't confirmed she was a fullbringer until one of the novels just felt like sloppy writing, like why not confirm that in the actual arc at the time?? Plus I think he could have done more with how so many characters talked about her mysterious and god-like powers across the series, it seems like there was foreshadowing there that he didn't do enough with. As far as IchiHime, I would have liked to see Ichigo finally walk Orihime home! A lot of things with the final arc felt so rushed, especially those last few chapters, so it would have been cute to see them return to Karakura and him walk her home since the first two times he asked didn't work out. Especially after they just tag-teamed the final boss together, seeing him walk her home after that would have been so cute dkjlfkjggj

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Thoughts? Fullbring is the ability of love and it only opened for Rukia when it could have been used for his future wife

https://twitter.com/IchiRukispace/status/1696175283471094148?t=0sn-UOrhFYVyFzRgvXHhyQ&s=19

I mean, I feel like they're leaping over the object affinity in regards to fullbrings (i.e. the love of the object), as well as taking Chad's speech about pride and replacing it with love.

Quoting from the bleach wiki on fullbrings:

Object Affinity: By developing an affinity for a particular object, a Fullbringer can alter its form, granting powers that vary greatly among individuals. This affinity can be defined by one’s love for the object in question, or simply by an overall fondness for it. As such, this power is usually awakened through a strong emotion associated with the object, such as pride. Using this affinity, Fullbringers pull out the object’s soul and boost it with their own, transforming it in the process. 

Riruka says that you're drawing out the maximum power of something a person loves, a physical object. Ginjo loved his pendant, Riruka loved so many things she collected them in a dollhouse.

So Ichigo tries to think of a physical object that he loves or is attached to, or that's with him all the time, and obviously it ends up being his shinigami badge. Because that's what he loves, what that badge represents--protecting.

Chad then tells Ichigo to use pride. Not love, but pride. Unlike with the object affinity, the word love is never used here. And even if it were, I feel that people tend to conflate Kubo's use of "love" and "the heart" with romantic love, when it's about the bonds between people (as seen in Kaien's speech, and six hearts beat as one, etc.) Chad tells him to think of moments that he took pride in his soul reaper powers (and not, as you see, to think of the person he's supposedly in love with lmao). To which Ichigo responds there's too many moments/he felt pride all along, remembering multiple instances of his nakama, and Rukia is the last thought, rightfully so, as she is the one who gave Ichigo those powers in the first place, and her disappearing before his eyes was a representation of those powers being lost.

So, I think they're conflating what Riruka said about love of the object (the badge) with romantic love being the emotion Ichigo used to draw out the power of that object. But instead of love, Ichigo drew on pride. Or you could even say that he drew on pride as well as love, his love of protecting, of being a shinigami because that meant he could protect. But romantic love? That's not what's being presented here.

Nor would it make sense for that to be presented, given that Kubo said that romance is only supplementary in Bleach. The platonic, nakama bonds and "the power of friendship!!" like what Ichigo has with Rukia, is obviously going to be the one at the forefront in a moment like this, not the romantic bond with a love interest/future wife (although it's worth noting Orihime was shown twice in his memories of pride). She's there, but she's not at the forefront, and that's okay, because she is where the romance was at, and Bleach is a shounen. Kubo wasn't going to put Ichigo and his future wife front and center all the time when romance wasn't the focus. That's basic shounen formula, and people need to understand this lol

But, as per usual, IR fans always try to rewrite Ichigo's most notable trait--his desire to protect--as a desire to be with Rukia. Even towards the end of this arc, when he thinks he's lost his powers once again and is crying in the rain about how helpless he feels that he can't protect anyone...they still think he's crying about Rukia lol.