so Rangiku's Bankai is named Haineko Asama, and since Haineko means "ash cat" and Mount Asama is a volcano in Japan, does that mean her Bankai can create a pyroclastic cloud? Or does "asama" mean something else in this context?
Got in in one!
Haineko: Asama is a Bankai that creates a Vesuvius-like eruption of 1,000 °C (1,800 °F) Hot Gases and Burning Tephra and a REALLY FUCKING LOUD KABOOM. The Pyroclastic cloud can travel up to 430mph and destroys everything in it's path- opponents closer to the epicenter are the luckier ones- the sheer kinetic energy for the explosion incinerates them immediately. Those farther away may find their bodies punctured with molten shrapnel, crushed by flying boulders, or suffocated and cooked alive as they are encased in ash like the victims of Vesuvius.
It's not an easy Bankai- the energy output is catastrophic, and the longer the 'Eruption' goes on, the greater Rangiku's risk of falling into a coma or straight-up dying from expending too much energy increases. It's also not an easy Bankai to train- For a while, Rangiku wasn't 'wielding' her Bankai so much as just 'releasing' it and learning about the damage when she woke up a week later.
In the end, the ONLY person who could help her with training Asama was Yamamoto himself, because of his Literally Divine resistance to fire, and a millennium's worth of practice at dodging to deal with the rocks and ash. He had to take her out to the ass-end of nowhere in South 80 to find somewhere deserted enough to practice without mass causalities, and the practice STILL effected the weather in the rest of Soul Society. He still spent almost a month in the 4th after they returned from The Year With No Summer, getting the burns, lung damage and broken bones treated, while he waited for his pupil to wake up again.
Yamamoto is now Very Fond of Rangiku because she's the first person in a LONG time that proved to be an actual challenge for him as an opponent, was an interesting student to teach and the first person to even begin to comprehend the problems he faces as an Avatar of Destruction.
Like most Volcanoes, Rangiku spends a lot of time sleeping. Nobody who knows what she's capable of when she 'awakens' complains about her nap schedule.
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I drew the big 3 yesterday^^
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Hitsugaya Tōshirō, Matsumoto Rangiku and Hyorinmaru drawn by animation director Komatsubara Sei.
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Approximately six years before Rangiku Matsumoto is sworn in to the Gotei-13, at 2AM, Gin's phone beeps:
🍈🍈> Heeeeeeeeey Sugar!💋🍡
🩶> …The combination of too many E's and total absence of Horny Y's concerns me.
🍈🍈> Can't bootycall you I'm hiding from the cops🤫🚓💔
🍈🍈>Anyway, is your Shiny-kami gig still hiring?🥺💸
🩶> 1. Shinigami, beloved
🩶> 2. The answer depends on how related those last two sentences are
🍈🍈> I burned the bar down!🔥🍻🔥
🩶> WTF?
🩶> On purpose?
🍈🍈> Sorta?🤷♀️
🍈🍈> I mean, I definitely intended to set One Particular Guy In The Bar on fire🤏🍑😡
🩶> WTF???
🍈🍈> But fire does this REALLY weird thing where if you panic and instead of the Mop Bucket you grab the Bucket of Jungle Juice for 10¢ Shot Night and dump it on the fire it FUCKING EXPLODES???💥💥🍶 🍇🍶🍬🍶💥💥
🩶> WTFWTFWTF???
🍈🍈> Who knew?🤷♀️🌠
🩶> MOST PEOPLE?????
🍈🍈> Anyway, at least the conflagration got rid of the evidence!👍
🩶> Beloved
🩶> My Morning Star
🩶> What the hell
🍈🍈> Ain't Morningstar that guy who founded Hell? That's probably what the hell🌟😈
🍈🍈> So Y'all hiring or what💹❓
🩶> I'm going to regret this
🩶> but there's an entrance exam next week to apply for the academy's 6 year program that MIGHT get you a job IF you graduate
🍈🍈> YIPEE!!🎊🏫🎊
🍈🍈> Are the uniforms cute?🩷
🩶> Rangiku, this is a test that most people fail the first six times they take it even after studying for years!
🩶> You NEED a backup plan!!
🍈🍈> Bestie, you WALKED IN OFF THE STREET, aced it, and graduated in a year-How hard could it be?😎🍹
🩶> Rude
🍈🍈> We both know you're the Most Cleverest Little Boy Ever, sweetie 🧠🐍
🍈🍈> AND we both know I'm God's Most Specialest Little Slut, so I've got this!💪😇💋
🩶> I hope so
🩶> I have missed you, it'll be nice to see you again
🍈🍈> WE CAN BE STUDY BUDDIES!!📚
🩶> Will you even get here in time to study?
🍈🍈> Look Outside👀
🍈🍈> Also come tell this guy to not arrest me? 🚨🆘
🩶> R A N G I K U ! ! !
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