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Chojiro Sasakibe was one of the last characters I expected to get a Bankai – but he did, and Koko Gonryo Rikyuu is awesome! We finally saw it in the Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War anime, so I decided to collate all of my thoughts regarding the Bankai into one place. Let’s take a look!
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What did you think of Chojiro's Bankai and the extended scenes we saw in the anime? Let me know!
I think the cage aspect is integral to the character. He cages himself to his honor and his word to Yama, only ever "opening" or "leaving" the cage when directed by Yama himself to do so. I think that is why in the anime when he activates it he pulls the sword across the bars and pulls them aside, only to charge forward wreathed in their power. He will always remain loyal and true to Yama, even when there is a potential that he could actually KILL him in that moment he shows off his Bankai.
Caveat: Chojiro's Shikai form is a Rapier, which is a "thrusting" weapon, so Chojiro's use of his Bankai could be said to compliment his fighting style entirely, using it for an unbelievably powerful and fast thrust.
And yet he got bitch slapped by ichigo base form
Perriot took a lot of liberties with colour design in TYBW. Like changing the iconic colours of the Black and regular Getsuga.
This bankai reveal was shocking.
I thought it was cool and fitting how Chojiro’s Zanpakuto was lightning theme, and it makes it fitting that his Bankai allows him to summon a thunderstorm on many levels. While ice/water is fire’s opposite, it always seems like lightning is the letter’s foil (which makes sense as they’re both forms of plasma), which suits Chojiro’s goal to be Yamamoto’s foil. It also seems like the kind of power that would suit a member of the First Division, the leading example for other squares, not to mention this essentially means both captain and vice-captain were the strongest duo of the Gotei 13.
Regarding its use, I think Chojiro’s Bankai might be at its strongest when its concentrated. He inflicted the scar on Yamamoto’s forehead by seemingly going for a single strike, all his power concentrated into the blade, which is fittingly a rapier. Blasting it all over the place is probably still powerful but less effective.
You should do a forgotten character video on chojiro.
On another subject, I think a great way to show ichigo's new bankai is to show it in a alternate future yhwach sees. I love how the anime showed sasakibe actually using the bankai. Would be really interesting to see what ichigo's bankai could do.
It would have been cool if he was shown to be as strong as a Captain and not taken out so easily 😢
Aren't Ukitake's double blades absorb attacks and transform them into lightening?
My question is if Chojiro was so strong enough to be a captain in his own right, how did he get one tapped by ichigo in the Soul Society arc, I feel like he could’ve just not been included and it wouldn’t have taken away from it. It just doesn’t make sense because Ichigo only punched him.
Question, where can I read your Cang Du vs Isshin fan made chapters?
The title is a lil' inappropriate. "Ancient", if that is ancient, then what do you call Nimaiya's or Ichibe's, heck even Yamamoto's? Surely they achieved bankai far earlier than Sasakibe. A more appropriate caption would be "the thousand year unused bankai" or "the sleeping bankai" or something along those lines.
Choziro and ukitake is probably the most underused character in bleach .
Man, why was his eyes always whited out. Was he blind or something
Chojiro could have been explored more by Kubo. He was always a background of a background character with like no interactions. Even though cool, the very short intro into his past/powers didn't add any "weight" for his death kickstarting the war. Just saying, Matsumoto/Hinamori deaths instead which were more fleshed out in the series, would gave the arc a really "shit about to go down" vibe
The scene where Yamamoto yelling that chojiros bankia was never so weak gave me goosebumps
Hope we will be seeing him again in the hell arc and hope kubo will give him time to shine.
I actually liked that filler Arc.
Have ever thinking about making idea for new discussion series about fixing or improwing aspect of the Bleach story that you think desered better? It could be anything like characters, story arcs, fights or abilities.
That filler u love so much is what got me to stop watching bleach at the time😂
Base attacks in Shikai state are the Shikai colors, purple was the color used in the Filler arc.
I agree with a lot of people that kubo introduces a lot of cool characters with awesome designs but he doesn’t give the time and depth to them. It’s the same with even the zero division. You would think we would get a backstory and even the full abilities of someone like Oetsu Nimaiya the creator of the zanpakuto but we never see it. The same with all the random lieutenants that became captain after the timeskip and even a good chunk of the sternritter. Even Ukitake 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️ how did you not give that man one full fight against a powerful adversary and win? Chojiro’s bankai is powerful and I would have liked to see what other abilities it had
I thought sasakibe used His bankai when he was Pierced by the Giant arrow
Plz rank the filler arcs💖
Kubo never really explained why sasakibe let Ichigo beat him and why he never used his bankai for 2000 years and why he never used it during the arrancar arc
Such things never made Sense
He was by far more powerful then he is given credit for for he had control over one of the four states of matter by haveing a mastering over the state of Plasma. (Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma) most people when they think of lightning think of the positive and negative ions for which lightning travels but this isnt what he is controlling. The cage of light acts much more like a plasma ball and he can charge himself up to become the lightning bolt
"Bolting forward"
Love the pun!
I love the way Chojiro collects the bolts of lightning, like pulling aside a curtain, hinting at where Chojiro existed and did most of his work.
Behind the scenes.
I can only imagine how powerful Chojiro’s bankai is. It was already strong back when he was young…and then he trained with it for over 2000 years. There’s no way that man wasn’t a powerhouse compared to the Driscoll’s attempt at using it. And Yamamoto said as much in episode 5. Plus it’s honestly one of the cooler looking bankai in the series.
i love Chojiro
He did three things he opened the gate for the fake town
I was hyped when the head captain fried chojiro’s killer
See chojiros bankai
https://youtube.com/shorts/J_6_bKfOq7U?feature=share
Young Chojiro Is So HOT
Not an advanced form at all just a technique he used while in it. Yet someone who just acquired used more skillfully by showering Yamamoto taking his arm in process. Sasikbe could only give him a scar.
Shouldn’t sasakibe gin and kaneme need to get that special ritual like Yamamoto Ukitake and Unohana if those three didn’t get it I’ll consider that a major plot hole.
I'm probably crazy but I swear he had lightning bolts somewhere near the beginning of anime or manga
I look forward to seeing Chojiro in the hell arc.
And that dipshit of a Quincy used it in front of Yamajii improperly made him furious he erased him from existence 🤣🤣🤣.
The manga states his scar becoming a X shape after Chojiro used his bankai on him too not just the anime
Why WOULDN'T the Second In Command of the Gotei 13 have Bankai?
I never understood how Chojiro was supposed to be so strong yet he got one shot by Ichigo.
How the hell did he lose to Ichigo? With how old he is he is easily captain level