Bleach Wiki talk:Unmasked Project

Page Moves
Someone let me know when I should get started on the page moves. I don't want to start them without full approval to go ahead with them.--


 * I think Yyp and I will handle some of this for now, since we'll not only have to find all pages with mentions of the characters being moved, but there will also be event pages that'll have to be moved too. Arrancar109 (Talk)  22:08, June 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * I think it would be easiest if I did it. I can set my bot to find all instances of the former name and replace it with the new one. I can run all characters at once and it would take me maybe only about 3 loops, an hour or so to do it all.--


 * Would you be doing all of them or some of them? I was thinking of starting some of them off right now, now that you brought it up, and if you need help, I would be more than happy to lend you some. Arrancar109 (Talk)  22:18, June 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * I can handle any and all of them or we can divvy it up if you would like. For me, the page can be moved first and then I can change all instances of the former to the new one and point all links to the moved pages. The only difficult part for me is on the second sweep of the pages, I have to manually save all of the edits so I make sure not to change file names. I'll just run one for now. I'll do something easy, such as changing Gingerback to Gingerbuck. --

That should be it for the most part. Only thing I have left to do is change the links to the renamed fights. As it is 3:30 in the morning here, I will set it up tomorrow. Also, when editing be on the lookout for the string Findorr r. Because Findorr's name contains his previous name, the bot got itself into a loop several times. I think I got all the times it did this but I am not sure.--


 * Yeah, I found a few cases of that. It also deleted the space between Findorr and the next word a few times and either added or removed spaces as well. Thanks for handling the page renames. Seems there were a few misspellings of Baraggan's first name lying around since MASKED, which were creating dead links when his second name was changed too, so keep an eye out for any more of those too. I'll make a start on the 100 or so double redirects that need to be fixed later. 12:56, June 6, 2011 (UTC)

Other Info
(Not sure where this would go, but Here are translations for missing/known hollow holes and the corresponding page from the new databook. If anyone has the actual scans for the below short story, feel free to verify but I'm pretty sure this is correct. I simply lack a scanner to upload my own pages, however I managed to find the below listing of hollow holes on the bleach asylum forums. Also, if this is the wrong place to list this, please dont just delete it, actually take the time to verify it and then move it to its proper location since it took quite some time to type out.) http://i54.tinypic.com/auxjkw.jpg

starrk: (胸部)chest baraggan: (胸中央) center chest harribel: (下腹部-子宫) lower abdomen-uterus ulqiuorra: (胸部) chest nnoitra: (眼窩) eye orbit grimmjow: (腹部) abdomen zommari: (右乳首) right nipple szayel apporo: (亀頭) glans penis aaroniero: (左大腿部) left thigh yammy: (胸部) chest

Also, here is the translated version of the Harribel novel, verification that she did indeed survive along with her fraccion as well as verification that Yammy and Barragan are dead.

Nestle to Night

By Matsubara Makoto and Kubo Tite

Yammy – Yammy – It is nighttime in our world again…

After Aizen had left and all the Gargantas had closed, Hueco Mundo regained a sense of peace. Brushing by the ruins of Las Noches, the breeze seemed to carry with it sounds of lamentation. Yet apart from the sound of sand caught in the wind, there was only silence.

A single animal lay on this silent desert. It had the shape of a small dog, with the mask of a hollow and soft white fur. Its name was Kukkapuuro.

Kukkapuuro had lost almost all of its memories. It only knew that it was a hollow, and that this was Hueco Mundo. Calling itself “Kukkapuuro,” rubbing its forehead with its paw, and scratching the itch behind its ear were the only important memories that it had, sketched deep into its consciousness.

In a world full of reishi like Hueco Mundo, a small hollow like itself only needed to breathe to survive, and eventually become the prey of other hollows. Kukkapuuro was at the very bottom of the food chain, yet it was able to survive entirely because it stayed by the side of someone very strong.

Kukkapuuro looked to him and thought, “I think this person must be very important.”

As his steps were very large, he was always a great distance ahead, alwaus forcing Kukkapuuro to chase after his enormous shadow. He always looked at Kukkapuuro with an impatient mutter, refusing to even give it a name. He never held, petted, or shared food with it.

Even so, he never killed Kukkapuuro.

Until the very end, he also never left Kukkapuuro.



“It’s pretty quiet here…” was the first thing Mila-Rose said upon exiting the Garganta.

Following her, Apacci, Sung-Sun, and finally Tier Harribel also landed on the desert. Behind them, the Garganta silently closed, and the rip in space suddenly vanished.

“What a complete mess…” said Apacci, looking at the destruction caused to Las Noches by heated battles.

“It seems like everyone used pretty barbaric methods to fight…” said Sung-Sun, hiding her mouth behind her sleeve and looking up at the sky. The ceiling had broken in many places, creating a mosaic out of the artificial blue sky of Las Noches and the dark sky of Hueco Mundo beyond.

Harribel stared silently for a moment at the battlefield. The three of them, despite squabbling all the time, also followed her example and stood there in silence.

Standing behind Harribel’s right hand side, Apacci looked down at her own completely unharmed body, and clenched her fist.

(…Bastard!)

She muttered in her heart.

Only a few hours before, every single one of them had been close to death. Harribel’s body had suffered two wounds from Aizen’s zanpakutou Kyoka Suigetsu, one across her abdomen, and another pierced from her back through to her left chest. Apacci, Mila-Rose, and Sung-Sun had each lost an arm to create Allon, and had also suffered severe burns over their entire body from Yamamoto’s fires.

Apacci touched her left arm with her right hand. It felt completely normal, just like her orignal arm. There was also no pain remaining anywhere on her body.

(In the end… we still had to rely on the strength of humans…!)

She clenched her teeth.

The one who healed them had been Inoue Orihime. When the Fake Karakura Town had been switched back with the real one, the unconscious Arrancars had also been sent with the fake town to Soul Society. Apacci had asked her to come into the town to treat them, when Orihime came back from Hueco Mundo with Kuchiki Rukia and the rest to see Ichigo after his battle had finished.

The three of them that had been spared by Yamamoto were relatively fine compared to Harribel, who had suffered two life-threatening injuries. Apart from Orihime, there was probably nobody who could help her. Still, trusting her deeply revered Harribel to a human, for even one moment, was something that she could never forgive.

Apacci hardened her face, tightly gripping her arm.

(Such a bastard…!)

Her own undying feelings of gratitude to Orihime were something that she could never forgive.



Not long after Kurosaki Ichigo met everyone again, he let out an anguished cry that seemed to split open his throat, collapsed, and lost consciousness.

"Kurosaki-kun!!"

"Ichigo!!"

"Kurosaki!!"

Despite rejoicing only a few seconds before, Rukia, Orihime, Renji, Uryuu, and Chad now ran to Ichigo, calling out his name.

"Everyone, please be calm," said Urahara, stopping Orihime, who had her hands stretched out, ready to use Souten Kisshun. He saw her extremely troubled gaze and nodded to her, turning to the rest. "Kurosaki is fine. What happened just now does not endanger his life."

Chad let out a breath of relief upon hearing those words and lifted Ichigo, so that he might sleep facing up. His body, though unconscious, continued to convulse, and he let out a painful groan.

"What exactly happened to Ichigo...?" asked Rukia, frowning at Ichigo's pained state.

"In order to defeat Aizen, he used the Final Getsuga Tenshou."

"...Final?" asked Uryuu.

Urahara calmly closed his eyes, and slowly sighed. "It is a technique called 'Mugetsu,' and using it will cause him to lose all his shinigami powers... it is such a technique."

At first, everyone seemed to not understand his words. Perhaps unconsciously, they did not want to understand.

A few seconds later, Orihime murmured, "How could this be...!" She immediately collapsed to the floor.

"Shinigami... powers..." Rukia looked as if she had forgotten everything and only stared, unblinking, at Ichigo.

"Are you saying that Kurosaki can no longer be a shinigami...!?" exclaimed Uryuu, as if venting his feelings.

Urahara nodded sadly. "Yes."

"...The bastard!" Renji felt in his heart a tumultuous brew of emotions, that they had no choice but to rely on Ichigo, who wasn't even from Soul Society, that he had use this kind of technique, and that he was himself so weak.

"Ichigo...!" Chad also lowered his head, shaking at his feelings of remorse towards his own weakness.

Urahara waited until everyone had calmed down, and continued, "Kurosaki collapsing means that the first stage of his losing all his powers has begun. With Isshin's help, he trained for three months in the Dangai Precipice World's timeflow, until he attained 'Mugetsu'."

"Three months?!" Renji couldn't help but ask.

"That's why his hair is longer..." Uryuu said to himself.

Rukia envisioned the Ichigo that she had parted from in Hueco Mundo, and the one currently sleeping before her, putting both together in her mind. His hair had grown long, and it seemed like he was a bit taller. Whether unconsciously or not, his expression also seemed more mature. It had only been a few short days between the time when they sneaked into Hueco Mundo to save Orihime and the conclusion of all the fighting.

(But for you, it seems like it has been a very long fight...)

Rukia gave him a comforting glance.

"Right now his body is undergoing the effects of reversed timeflow from the time when he was in the Dangai. It will cause extreme pain and loss of consciousness, but it will not endanger his life."

"Is there anything that I can do...!" asked Orihime, distraught.

"Unfortunately, no." Urahara shook his head. "There is nothing we can do right now. After the timeflow reversion is complete, Kurosaki's shinigami powers will disappear. This is the first stage."

"And then what?!" asked Rukia, surprised.

Urahara nodded to her and continued, "As for the second stage, when the rest of his reaitsu stabilizes, he will wake up... and then, his remaining spiritual power will completely vanish."

"If that's the case, Ichigo will..." Chad swallowed.

"Never mind shinigami and hollows, he won't even be able to see normal pluses."

Upon hearing Urahara's words, everyone fell together into silence. Being able to see spirits - this was the very essence of Ichigo's existence, something which every single person there understood.

Looking at everyone's pained and gloomy expressions, Urahara said brightly, "Anyway, let's first take him somewhere to get help! Until the first stage completes, we can't send him home. If his sisters saw him all grown up like this, they would be very surprised!"

"...That's right." Renji was the first to lift his head. “There’s no use in us just sitting around and talking. Oi, bring a stretcher here!” he called out to the Fourth Squad members who were about to take apart the town. Two of the closer ones came over with a stretcher. “Take him to get help. Be careful…this is the great hero who captured Aizen!”

“Of course!” The two of them replied excitedly and bowed deeply. As the hero who had finally concluded this battle, Ichigo’s name had spread in a flash throughout the members of the Gotei 13.

When they had carefully moved Ichigo’s body onto the stretcher, Urahara and Uryuu looked up at the same time.

“Something’s coming!”

“This reiatsu… an Arrancar!?”

The two talented at sensing reiatsu lifted their heads and gazed upwards. Everyone else followed their example, looking to the sky.

Suddenly in the clear blue sky, a figure appeared using sonido, something only Arrancar could use. It came quickly, almost falling out of the sky.

They looked at the Arrancar on the ground. It was one of Tier Harribel’s fraccion, Apacci. Her skin was burnt, her left arm ripped off with blood still dripping from the wound, and it was all that she could do just to stand.

“You must not want to live…!” Renji fixed his glare on Apacci, his hand gripping his zanpakutou Zabimaru.

Still, Apacci did not even spare him a glance, as she had eyes only for Orihime. “Hey, woman…come…with me…” Her shoulder shook violently as she breathed, her words coming out in short bursts.

Seeing her heading towards Orihime, Rukia quickly put herself between the two. But before she could do anything, Apacci took another step and lost her balance, falling heavily to the ground.

“Bas…tard…” Trying to lift herself up, she grabbed a fistful of dirt.

“Souten Kisshun!” Orihime stretched out her hands, using her Shun Shun Rikka technique. Shun’o and Ayame flew to Apacci, surrounding her with a glowing healing field.

“Wait a minute, Inoue! That’s an Arrancar! There’s no reason to heal her!” Renji shouted. Orihime had once been kidnapped by the Arrancar and Renji understandably hoped that she would have no further contact with them.

“But, I can’t just do nothing…” Orihime walked past Rukia, coming closer to Apacci’s body. Even though she was an Arrancar, Orihime could not just leave someone who was hurt.

As Orihime started to focus on healing, Apacci said weakly, “Don’t mind me… first…save Harribel-sama…!”

“But, your wounds are also very serious…”

“Please!” Apacci lifted her head and grabbed Orihime’s hand, her own hand shaking, either from the pain or something else. “Please quickly… save Harribel-sama…!” Her eyes held no antagonistic, killing, or deceitful intent, only concern for her nakama, like Orihime herself.

“…I understand! Please take me there!” Orihime released her Souten Kisshun, and offered Apacci her shoulder.

“I’ll go too. Take hold of me.” Rukia stood to her other side, taking note of the wound to her shoulder, and carefully holding her up. Rukia’s left arm was also wounded and in a sling, but her right arm was tightly gripped around Apacci. Surprised, Apacci widened her eyes but did not say anything, relying on the two of them.

“Well then, I guess I have no choice…come on!” Renji walked up to them and bent over. “You’re in a hurry, right? Then let me carry you. It seems like I’m the least wounded out of all of you…”

“Thank you, Abarai-kun!” Orihime and Rukia carefully placed Apacci on Renji’s back. Renji stood up and started walking towards the fake Karakura town, with Orihime and Uryuu following behind him.

“Urahara, Chad, I’ll just leave Ichigo with you then!” Rukia ran off to join them, leaving Urahara to explain Ichigo’s injuries and Chad to nurse the wound to his leg.



Seeing some movement amongst the rubble, Sung-Sun asked, “Who’s there!?”

“Woof!” Kukkapuuro walked out of the shadows, running towards the four of them.

“You’re Yammy’s…” Harribel remembered that this tiny little hollow always was by Yammy’s side.

“Near here…I can feel the remains of Yammy’s reiatsu,” said Mila-Rose. It was his reaitsu from where he had used all his strength for battle.

“That fellow Yammy, he’s always so absent-minded, and always thinking himself so great, as if!” said Apacci in her usual voice. The other two nodded their agreement.

“What then…that bastard!” she said, kicking up the sand. Apacci hoped that everything would become normal soon. That humans, shinigami, this battle, and contact with Soul Society would all soon be forgotten.

“Che! Have they already discovered…!” murmured Mila-Rose, focusing on the reiatsu signatures around them.

Sung-Sun nodded, frowning. “Hn…there’s a group of mid-level hollows congregating in that direction.”

The hollows who before had feared Aizen and the Espadas’ strength were now starting to surround Las Noches.

“There’s…going to be another war then…” Harribel’s expression was grim and her heart felt heavy. As she had followed Aizen hoping that his superior strength might stop unnecessary wars from ever happening, she was unwilling to let such a thing happen.

“Harribel-sama.”

Hearing that call, she turned and saw Sung-Sun kneeling on the floor. She lowered her head and said, “Barragan is dead. Aizen is gone. The only one fit to become ruler of Hueco Mundo is now Harribel-sama.”

“I agree!” Apacci also kneeled, bowing her head.

“No matter what, please become the new ruler of Hueco Mundo!” Mila-Rose also knelt.

Harribel lowered her head, calmly regarding the three who were now awaiting an answer. “Hueco Mundo does not need a ruler.”

“A fake sun can not illuminuate this darkness.” The blue sky created by Aizen stretched above them. “Hueco Mundo has darkness…and only needs a peaceful darkness.”

Harribel slowly blinked and started walking towards the center of Las Noches. The three of them stood up, exchanged glances, and silently nodded.

“We will always serve you, Harribel-sama!” said Sung-Sun, as they followed her.

After five or six steps, Apacci stood still and looked back at Kukkapuuro, which was still staring at the four of them. “Hey, little thing! You’ll be killed if you stay in a place like this!” She walked over and picked it up, but Kukkapuuro yelped and struggled from her grasp.

Seeing this, Sung-Sun said to her, “Let it go. Don’t you understand that it wholly wants to stay here?”

“You’re so noisy! I don’t need you to tell me. I was planning to let it go!” She put it down and Kukkapuuro happily yelped, wagging its tail.

“You too, also have something that you cannot leave?” Mila-Rose gently petted Kukkapuuro’s head, before walking back to Harribel’s side with the other two.

Their shadows slowly disappeared. Their footprints also vanished, smoothed out by the wind.

Kukkapuuro stayed there and saw it all.

To this day, it is still there, still missing its deceased master.

http://imageshack.us/f/405/unmaskedpg233.jpg/


 * Wow. I don't kno how accurately this was translated, but man. Very well written (If anyone hasn't read the above, read it.) Its obviously too early to label Harribel and the other 3 alive, but we'll see. Once more of this book has been translated by more people here. I can't believe how much time Kubo put into this dog Kukkapuuro. Yet Yammy got beaten off-screen. Atleast Grimmjow got that honor before being written off like a second rate filler character, who Kubo barely acknowledges. This was all made worse by Kenpachi's comment saying how weak Yammy was. Really Kubo? U wrote off the most powerful Espada like he was garbage, and gave the dog more dignity. Amazing. Kubo really is one of a kind. Minato  (Talk)  20:50, June 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * To early to label Harribel and her girls alive? Am I the only person who clearly saw those 4 walking throughout the desert in Hueco Mundo? Clearly they're alive. If you recall, he did the same thing for Aivirrne.
 * Thunderwitch (talk) 11:21, June 8, 2011 (UTC)

The picture itself is not enough to work off of, and the source of the apparent text translation needs to be verified by our translators before we assume anything. Arrancar109 (Talk)  16:57, June 8, 2011 (UTC)

If that's the case, shouldn't Loly status also be unconfirmed since a picture itself is not enough to work off? Actually, shouldn't all of the Espada be unconfirmed if pictures aren't enough to work off off? Many of them weren't pronounced dead. That sounds absoluetly ridiculous. He clearly drew them alive, the poem was translated by multiple people, yet it's not good enough. Okay.

Thunderwitch (talk) 07:02, June 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * The picture itself is not enough because it has not time correlation to it. It could depict a moment before Harribel died. When we can confirm for ourselves the meaning of said picture, we will make the appropriate changes whatever they may be.--


 * Godisme is correct, that would be like labelling anyone who died in a prequel story as unconfirmed!! We have yet to ascertain that these stories are from pre-FKT Arc or post-FKT Arc!! We are not dictators here that don't add info because we have something against the info, we just have set rules in order to ensure the best quality Wiki possible and to ensure that, the rules must always be followed regardless!! SunXia  (Chat)  11:01, June 10, 2011 (UTC)

Misc. Info
Kido update. According to Unmasked, Hado # 12 is Fushibi. --Urie12 (talk) 04:03, July 2, 2011 (UTC)


 * We are working on translating unmasked. Pleas eb patient.--

Poem
Woo, doggie! I'm back from the dead, and thought, since the Translation Corner would be way too cramped if I posted such there, that I would post my unfolding-and-being-updated work on UNMASKED directly in its talk here, trying to follow an order that mimicked the scanned pages in the Corner for easier reference/comparison (although I skipped some in between so far).

If a better configuration later seems apparent, our mighty admins et al. can rearrange the posts to their liking. :)

Abaitamono ha

yokubou to kyomu

Ushinaumono ha

nanimonai

The things exposed,

desire and nothingness

The thing lost,

nothing

Adam Restling (talk) 12:21, July 22, 2011 (UTC)