User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/396: The Bite/@comment-1248963-20100319022928

Dear love of Ulqui! 22 comments in 5 hours! That must be a new record! And I should really be doing homework now... Anyway, if Orihime kills Aizen I will SERIOUSLY commit suicide. I have never liked her (I think I have let it through numerous times) for the various reasons Salubri kindly and very professionally stated on her latest comment. She whines, she cries, she only knows how to "KUROSAKI-KUN!!" like that'll solve the problems. I'm not going further into that subject, or I my lose the topic.

What I meant with Ichigo being unpredictable was that, as a human being, he is quite unpredictable. He is predictable to US because he is a Shonen manga hero, and Shonen manga hero's have a role to fulfill, a path to follow, and we, readers, all know what will happen in the end. But in real life, you don't expect a guy to do the things Ichigo does, and for the Bleach characters, their world is real life, so Ichigo's doings are totally out of the norm.

Actually the Hogyoku-makes-Aizen-stronger theory makes a lot of sense. The Hogyoku is supposed to be used to obliterate Karakura, so it DOES have destructive power. In merging with it, Aizen becomes more powerful, and gains that stupid healing ability, which I really believe to be utterly the most stupid move in existance. The man was undefeatable already, now we're beyond DOOMED if every wound is going to heal itself. Unless Ichi cuts his head? Pfft...

Now I was thinking further onto this whole "I manipulated your life since you were in diapers!!!" And it makes less sense the more I think into it. Had Ichigo not fought Ishida, for instance, would it have messed Aizen's plan? And Ishida fought Ichigo because he hated Shinigami, which happened because Mayuri bribed Shinigamis to not-aid Soken, so that he would be killed by Hollows. So Aizen manipulated Mayuri too? If Mayuri hadn't done this, and Ishida hadn't developped this hatred towards Shinigami, he and Ichigo probably wouldn't have fought, and there goes Aizen's plan. Or Byakuya's fight. What if, 50 years ago, Byakuya hadn't married Hisana, then he wouldn't have addopted Rukia, and Rukia's history would've been completely different! From graduating later from the academy, entering a different division, to never being sent to the real world. And never meeting Ichigo. And even if they met, since she was not adopted by Byakuya, Renji would try to protect her from the beginning, since she was never taken away, so he would aid Ichigo, so no Renji fight. And since she was not adopted by Byakuya, there's no "grudge" against Byakuya, so no Byakuya fight. There goes Aizen's plan THRICE! And Grimmjow's fight, how could he even manipulate that fight, when each and every encounter was based on Grimmjow basically going AGAINST Aizen? Ichigo had died by Ulquiorra's hand minutes before their fight! But Grimmy took Orihime to heal Ichigo so they could fight. Had he not done that, Ichi stays dead, and there goes Aizen's plan (I'm not seeing this plan, though, I'm supposing we'll get an explanation next week?)

BTW, did anyone notice that most of the fights (except for Ichi vs Ken-chan, Ichi vs Ishida, and Ichi meets Rukia) were the ones that won the Best Bout Poll? (Ichi vs Renji, Byakuya, Grimmjow, Ulquiorra) and, not to mention, but Aizen's explanation of Ichigo's "progress" sounded pretty... dumb... like a teacher explaining what you learned this year... like Kubo liked the "Best Bout" and wanted to force it into the manga in a really stupid way... or maybe it's just me...