There's a lot of context you are ignoring here. Right before Ichibei almost killed him, Yhwach unlocked his Almighty and negated the ability. The debuff got powernulled as soon as he saw the future and Ichibei from we've seen can't affect people with SK fragments/powers and high reiatsu.
That high concentration means nothing. The reason is because they have to be buried in the SS, but if Yhwach is outside the the cycle of reincarnation then it wouldn't be affected regardless.
Killing powerful individual does have negative affects, but not as bad as you make them to be. Most of the Espada died and nothing happened and strong arrancars have tens of thousands to hundreds of millions souls inside them. Aaroniero had over 33k souls as a Gillian and nothing happened when he died. The realms rely on the SK's existence and reiryoku to hold them in place.
Him going off like that was him on a power high, he was extremely arrogant and thought he was above everyone without considering that he was below Ichigo. Even after realizing how strong Ichigo was he was still delusional and refused to believe it.
Hax abilities of the sternritter and some of the shinigami don't follow the reiatsu rule which is why Askin dropped Ichigo. I agree here that he's less experienced out of most of the top tiers.
Yamamoto's bankai while holding back most of it was destroying the SS via DoT, we've never seen him fully unleash his bankai and would probably be able to vape it if he did unleash it all at once (a reasonable assumption on my part)
Yhwach is universal, him doing all that shit is done through his power. His uses his reiryoku to hold the realms passively and later spread his power over them to try and destroy them and merge them together. He is undoing what the noble houses did via the help of the SK at the time, not some ritual. Context is key.
World of the living is either earth or our universe and hopefully the anime makes it more clear when they talk about it there. Karakura town is a place in Japan, on Earth, so it is the same size as our planet. Remember Ichigo is just a Japanese kid who got thrown into a whole new world that they didn't know existed. Also if the Hellverse movie ends up becoming canon when they re-release it (It's an hour longer now, so maybe they reworking the movie the way Kubo wanted it?) then each layer of hell is a universe, that's how it's described by Kubo but the movie isn't canon so we can't really use that.
Hell was never affected like the other worlds, the SK only put a "lid" on Hell, nothing else. Hell isn't really part of the cycle of reincarnation since everyone that goes to Hell, stays in Hell. They don't get reincarnated elsewhere, at least at the moment, that could change with the new Hell arc.
I agree, they don't have "pure" planet feats because they don't need to involve other planets, that has nothing to do with the story. To disregard context and say they cap at hill level or city level is disingenuous.
Anyways, I'm not arguing who wins anymore, I've made my stance clear already.
Anyways that's all I wanted to say, I'm not arguing about who wins or not anymore.
Ain’t missing any context here, it’s been since the good ol’ BA days that people overhype Ichibei.
- To put characters like Aizen, Yhwach, Ichigo and especially Ichibei above planet level off of powerscaling just because Yamamoto can destroy Soul Society is disingenuous, none of these guys are comparable, and the major coping excuse is that Yhwach didn’t use the Almighty against Yama, in that very same fight where Yama didn’t use his full power, according to a quote by that other scrub Nimaya, who thought Royd, the guy that copied memories, not powers was good info in fighting Yhwach, and later on Ichibei knew shit about blut vene, when Yamamoto knew it won’t help vs ZnT.
After Ichibei renames Yhwach, he hits him two more times, and you get a closeup with Yhwach covered in ink with his eyes normal (or “closed” technically), I was being generous regarding the reiatsu bit, because, otherwise, Ichibei wouldn’t have the AP to even kill an ant. Almighty also being “special” is a chicken vs egg argument in its entirety, if the Almighty is special, it doesn’t matter in the slightest, because Yhwach is the possessor of the Almighty, an ability (supposedly) connected to the SK, not an ant, so he shouldn’t have access to it in the first place. UNLESS, RG wankers wanked Ichibei to be some multidimensional reality warper, instead of him being a barely above Shunsui. All things considered: Nobody who shares the name “Hyosube” with said yokai, can have any gravitas.
-Quincy abilities bypassing reiatsu has never been confirmed, it’s headcanon, to excuse people like “transcendent” Aizen (acting all mighty vs nameless SK Unowns in his chair, due to his reiatsu, only to get trolled by a nobody like Nanana, who’s only “fights” on-screen was a single panel of him getting neggged by Yama, and later on backstabbed by Bazz-b) and Ichigo getting clowned by fodders in the grand scheme of things. I can even give you an example where Giselle needs to do more in order to infect shinigamies of a certain level due to their reiatsu. Granted, quincies have a different way to use reiatsu than shinigamies and hollows, hence SK Yhwach later on changing the RG to benefit the wuincies, but the basis are still the same.
-Yhwach was outside the cycle of reincarnation from the start, unless you want to argue he’s below captains and has been drawing his strength through the reishi atmosphere and medallion or some shit, the ritual is usually done to send the souls to hell because said concentration of reiatsu is too much, and, as we see Arrancars there (who technically need a bit of quincy to complete the hybridification process according to Urahara’s research) this isn’t limited to shinigamies. Technically quincies are humans, but the Vandenreich members escaped to Soul Society as we see them not ageing much after many years, their bodies are spiritual, just like shinigamies.
Yhwach and co, are for all intents and purposes captain+ level, it doesn’t matter if they’re ally or enemies, had Yhwach not bplaced in Limbo and died, they were pretty much required to do the ritual anyways.
- Yes, they killed lots of espadas, even more good reason not to add more to the pile with Aizen, and I’d like to believe Aizen at least had more reiatsu than even the strongest of them.
Maybe Aizen even knew that, and it would explain why he’s such a fraud in killimg.
SK mantains balance in the new world (SS, HM, HW), but the balance between the new world and what’s left of the previous is by reiatsu, now, we don’t know how hell works, perhaps rhe denizens of hell just kill each other so the new reatsu gap is quickly extinguished, but this could not happen to Yamamoto, Unohana and Jushiro, at least not quick enough, hence the crisis in the newest chapter, maybe you just return to life infinitely in hell, and power itself is treated as a sin, and the more you stay there (after you get your big power up with Szayel trolling Renji after his RG training) the more you get drained off of reiatsu, which would explain Szayel’s strange arm, regardless, it’s just theory, but we do know that killing individuals with powerful reiatsu is dangerous for the stability of the two worlds. Aizen has a very powerful reiatsu.
- You’re absolutely right, however, there have been several people, even at the time Bleach Asylum was alive, that took Aizen’s words as the pure truth, even though his “transcendent” stuff, were feats like dying and asking for help to the hougyoku vs a young captain, killing humans with reiatsu casually (a feat Stark, a pure arrancar, probably weaker than normal Aizen, surpassed by doing that to hollows, who are automatically superior to normal humans reiatsu wise) and that mountain “feat” I mentioned earlier, it’s no wonder that in the TYBW arc, he got (some of) his shit back, stopped doing hollow transformations, and had Urahara state he was stronger than before.
- Not Yama’s bankai, but one armed Yama’s bankai, him losing an arm is a pretty big deal, chapter 402, has Urahara state that the reiatsu vents ( rofl, classic Kubo) are located in the wristS of all shinigamies, Yamamoto’s reiatsu is unstable and subpar by design, Yhwach comments briefly on him being stupid for not restoring it out of honor and pride (classic lawful neutral shit, oh well), still, to powerscale this off of others top tiers isn’t applicable, the only one who has a claim, is SK Yhwach (not Almighty), and it all depends on whether the feat of restoring the world is power related, or just a function.
And I don’t see Yama beating Toriko, much less Ichigo doing the deed.
- Yeah, no, lol, a common hollow opening a garganta does not make him some galaxy level being, first off, the noble houses did the ritual to begin with, Yhwach is trying to restore the world by returning it to its primal state, even if this were a feat of his power, he’d be planet level, less if hell isn’t taken into account.
The SK reiatsu makeup is somehow magical, that does not mean that Ginjou was going to mop the floor of the captains present there in the FB arc, because according to the Kenpachi wanker novelist, he was a prospective SK candidate, and this even allowed Mimihagi to hold the balance of the world, not only Yhwach, does that make him, and by extension Ukitake who had him as his support universal? What about Yoruichi? She was able to stop Almighty Yhwach so much so that he required Pernida’s help to rescue him, speaking of Pernida, if the right arm can, why not the left? Ergo, Mayuri, Nemu and Kenpachi are also Universal, while at the same time, Mayuri needs hyrenkiaku to fly efficiently, because, strangely, he has the power to harm universal beings, but not enough speed and strength to jump off of a few building by himself.
Szayel, a midcard talent enhancer, comes back and harms universal Ichigo and Renji, so what, are hell top tiers outerversal monsters? Is the ruler of hell someone capable of burning the concept of fiction itself?
Absolutely not, SK Yhwach is moon level, and trust me, that’s pretty generous, he could very well fall lower.
The original world should be around large planet, the ritual divided said planet into 4 parts, in an incomplete manner too, since it can be easily re-atached itself. We’ve never gone beyond the Bleach’s version of planet Earth, the spiritual side, is merely a continuation.
- Kubo hated what they did to the movie, so I wouldn’t consider anything said there, latest chapter also depicted a completely different idea of hell than we saw, with that said, each realm of hell being an Universe wouldn’t mean it’s as big as our conception of Universe (which is, uh, infinite and ever-expanding), more like pocket dimensions, such as the one made by Yoruichi with the help of the FB, and destroying that would be easier than a city block. Their not a power related feat, but more a measure if people not able to communicate with the other inhabitants, not to mention, Yhwach hasn’t shown any knowledge of hell, so really, it wouldn’t make him any good regardless l.
Though, I can see the concept of hollow Ichigo’s reiatsu being used to free the villains as a basis, and later on, refined into the hell chapter we got.
Szayel’s new design is also similar to Hollow Ichigo, we never learn who’s shinigami soul Aizen used to create White, huh? Perhaps Kubo can use that as an excuse to make Ichigo part ghoul or whatever the race’s name is rofl. Dang, now I regret not making a YouTube channel to spam this theory.
- They’re definitely not city or hill level, even someone like Komamura (before TYBW arc, that’s a complete different beast) can easily surpass that, but Universal Yhwach? Come on dude. I mean, I get it, Toriko is flavourless trash, and it’s definitely painful on a mental level when a verse more profound like Bleach jobs out, but unfortunately the author made it into another dbz clone, what can you do.