Forum:Orihime Inoue

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Orihime's healing ability
So, I know that Orihime can heal something by returning it to the state before it was damaged. Can she control what is affected? Say if someone's stomach is slashed and she heals them, would their ear piercings or tattoos automatically revert back to its original state?


 * yes it does restore tattoos and other things (as seen when she healed grimjaw, his tattoo was restored), this is because the time reversal is for everything within the field Fawcettp 00:31, 11 August 2009 (UTC)


 * She is not as skilled in the ability and still needs time to learn. As she couldn't fix Tsubaki but later on she could fully restore Grimmjaw's arm from nothing. It can be presumed as she becomes more aware of her ability and its limitations if any as well as its potential she can do more versatile things with it. Bigger fields, and all that changing one thing while not changing others reversing something by a matter of years.etc.Salubri 01:14, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Orihime on the Offensive
Is there any indication that she might one day use her powers offensively instead of defense? I think it would be kind of interesting if she could reverse someone back to a prior state, but do it to the extreme. Like if she could turn an arrancar back into a plus, or revert them back to their state prior to being arrancars. Or even if she could use that shield of hers to slice and dice. That would be cool. I am tired of her whinning all the time, and waiting for Ichi to save her. I would chaulk it up to the way Japanese men intereact with women in anime, but Matsumoto seems like a tough cookie, so when does Orihime stop being the bimbo?

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orihime inoue-insert personality here
orihime is so annoyinf in the arrancar arc all she does is stand there and look worried. what happened to the slightly ditzy fun person with a personality? also cant she do anything other than a shield. she can attack not well but i have somethings to say about her

DO SOMETHING FOR ONCE!

yunae13

Orihime's attack, that's a singular, isn't all that strong and she did plenty in the Arrancar arc. She healed Ichigo after Ulquiorra put a hole in his chest. At Ichigo's request she healed him and Grimmjow so that two of them could finish their fight. She then healed Nel and Ichigo. Then during Ichigo's fight Ulquiorra, she shielded him from a blind-side attack by Ulquiorra. Then after Ulquiorra put a hole in Ichigo's chest up on the dome, she first caught him as he fell with her shield, activated her healing shield on him and then activated her protective shield in an attempt to protect Ishida from Ulquiorra. The fact that Ulquiorra and everybody else was only momentarily stalled by her protective shield means that everybody was too strong for her. So her shooting Tsubaki was hardly going to help. In short, Orihime did all she could under the circumstances. I doubt very many 16 year girls would do better, especially when you look at the timeline and realise that everything that's been happening to her has happened over a period of less then 48 hours. That's a lot of stress to take for anyone. So it would be totally unrealistic for her to be happy and cheerful while in the enemy strong hold, in the middle of a war. Tinni  (Talk)  09:32, August 31, 2010 (UTC)

yes but she is incredibly annoying. she has almost no dialogue beyond 'oh ichigo'. tite kubo could have given her more to say

sigh Repeating a persons name like Orihime has done on a few occasion during the Heuco Mundo Arc is a dramatic device in Japanese anime/drama/culture in general. This arises from the limitations of the Japanese language. Orihime is not the only character to use this dramatic device. Ichigo himself repeated "Chad" a total of five times in episode 38 before picking-up his reiatsu. It just so happened that during the Heuco Mundo Arc, Orihime was in situations of dramatic tension (Nniotra and Tesla using Ichigo as a punching bag, Ulquiorra putting a hole in Ichigo's chest) that required her to use that dramatic device to build tension. Now you can hold the use of that particular dramatic device against Kubo or, more accurately, Japanese dramatic expression in-general but you can't hold it against Orihime the character because the use of that device is not a reflection of her character but merely the situation in which she found herself. Tinni  (Talk)  10:47, October 3, 2010 (UTC)

I think Orihime's powers are probably the most potent in the series, well have the potential to be!! Their downside is that they rely on Orihime's conviction in a fight and such!! She was able to resurrect Menoly and restore Grimmjow's arm with hardly much effort because she was calm at that point in time!! When present during the Ichigo and Ulquiorra fight she was very shaken given everything that had happened!! You have to remember that Ulquiorra had been gradually getting into her head and well she loves Ichigo so it would have been a difficult fight to watch after a while!! The notion of Resolve has always been a major theme in the Bleach series as a whole, be it with Ichigo, Rukia, Orihime and so forth, it's always been seen as very important or else that fighter will never be able to fight at their full potential, like Urahara said!! With the way Orihime's personality has progressed, she lacks the resolve to kill anybody, and that's fundamental in a fight and has been noted many times throughout the series!! The only person she killed was Numb and that's because the hollow was weak and had taken control of Tatsuki!! Orihime would have to train very hard offensively and find the resolve to kill if she were going to use her powers that way!! Honestly, I would like to see this happen since I would love to see Orihime's actual limitations within battle if she had this resolve!! SunXia (talk) 12:39, October 3, 2010 (UTC)

my explanation
i found it annoying only in the eng dub of bleach the sub and manga i found were okay. but in the dub the repitition becomes irritating quite quickly hearing the same line in the same almost monotone is horrible and the only reason she cant just say ichigo is because of lipsyncing with the footage

Timeskip
Question: Did orihime get any taller over the timeskip? Uryu grew by 3 inches and ichigo by 2.

No, the volume did not say she has grown any.--