What is IZURU'S BANKAI? The Executioner's Punishment Zanpakuto Discussion + Bankai Theories | Bleach
Added 2023-10-24 18:45:48 +0000 UTCHello everyone!
Today we've got a grim, gloomy, grisly topic to look at - Izuru's Bankai! Izuru has been one of the most requested characters for a Bankai theorycrafting video, so I've been looking forward to this - and it's a perfect fit for October!
Let me know your favourite idea from the video and what ideas you have for Izuru's Bankai too! Enjoy!
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I love that idea - one of the fun things about trying to theorise a Bankai for Izuru is that everyone gets to go a little dark...
MrTommo2304
2023-10-27 13:49:43 +0000 UTCI agree with Matthew, that was really fantastic.
MrTommo2304
2023-10-27 13:48:51 +0000 UTCI swear, between my surgery medication and the themes of this video I am going to have some weird a** dreams tonight....BringItOn
Matthew Lang
2023-10-25 14:42:16 +0000 UTCThis was fun to read. Thank you
Matthew Lang
2023-10-25 14:41:22 +0000 UTCi'm gonna copy a reddit post i made a few years ago: Kira encloses one opponent and himself in an inescapable circular arena with purple/black walls of reiatsu, Inside the area, he atmosphere is gloomy and depressing. A giant guilottine made of purple reiatsu with a bight blue blade looms above the center of the area. Kira is unarmed and begins to recite a long poem. After he recites each verse, the gravity rises and the atmosphere becomes harder to bear for both combatants. The opponent has to defeat and kill Kira before he finishes the poem, which gets harder and harder to do after each verse. If Kira manages to recite the whole poem, the gravity and atmosphere let up and both combatants are pulled to the middle of the area directly under the guilotinne, with The enemy in the same pose Abirama (The eagle arrancar) ended up in with Kira standing above him. A blade in the shape of Wabisuke Shikai made of the same blue energy as the guilottine appears in Kira's hand and the opponent gets to choose, whether he wants to get beheaded by Kira or by the guilotinne. If he chooses Kira, he dies and the bankai ends, however if he chooses the guilotinne, his soul is forever removed from the cycle of reincarnation. At this point the opponent's mind is completly clear and he knows exactly what each choice means and can make an informed choice. Reasons: I think it fits Kira to have a Bankai kind of similiar to Hisagi, with themes of death and entraping a single e nemy in an arena, but with a much darker end. Kira was portrayed as a merciless executioner so i wanted his Bankai to lean into that and make it a beheading ritual. Kubo said that Kira's Bankai would be something horrid to look at and while i don't know if my idea entirely delivers on that promise, the opponent having to chose their death feels decently gruesome to me
Mrjakokos
2023-10-24 23:30:42 +0000 UTCGood to see a video on Izuru! And the art featured in the video is awesome, really helps me imagine the scenario of him using these on an enemy. My favorite is probably the bankai that separates the enemy from the cycle of rebirth. It’s morbidly fitting! I’ve also had a personal interpretation of Izuru’s bankai myself. Taking into account the statement from Kubo and Wabisuke’s weight manipulation, something came to my mind. Weightlessness. Or zero gravity, to be more exact. I know it sounds like the total opposite of what Wabisuke does, but that brings me to the Bankai proposal I have in full. Izuru’s Bankai would send his opponent rising into the sky, the effects of gravity now zero, giving them complete weightlessness. However, as we know, zero gravity has a multitude of downsides. As the opponent gets higher, their condition rapidly deteriorates faster then normal. Muscles and bones experience atrophy and become weak, oxygen isn’t distributed to the brain properly, nausea and motion sickness set in. Internal fluid goes into places it isn’t supposed to go and blood flow in general is in complete disarray. The opponents sense of balance is ruined, no longer being able to tell what direction they’re in and feeling like they’re spinning in circles. Their body eventually falls in upon itself, unable to properly function. And when this happens, the weight increasing effect of Wabisuke returns. The opponent is unable to resist the return of the gravitational pressure and all of their weight with their destroyed body and are sent shooting back to the ground like a meteor, crashing into the ground, pulverized by the friction and force from the fall. I guess the total theme of the Bankai would be: “Running from the weight of your actions only hurts you, and makes facing them much, much worse.”
gray
2023-10-24 23:29:07 +0000 UTCIn terms of Nauseating, I think it’d be visually graphic and dark if the ritual for activating his Bankai is that he has to actually DECAPITATE himself. He then becomes something akin to the headless horseman. Carrying his decapitated head in one hand as the head speaks and explains the Bankai. I like your idea of the weight of their hearts being what becomes heavier. Maybe this is what happens until the enemy falls into complete despair and wants to kill themselves. It is here that Izuru offers his blade to the enemy, now in the form of a Tantō or Wakizashi. The enemy takes it and performs Seppuku on themselves, ending the Bankai.
Andrew Cannon
2023-10-24 21:58:16 +0000 UTCIn my custom Gotei 13 Project Discord we literally just had a whole conversation about this on the 22nd (two days ago) , and now we are trying to figure out who you are in our Discord to have the same idea.
Desroth
2023-10-24 18:55:36 +0000 UTC
