Anonymous asked: Dude i love you. Can i please have your input on Orihime's goodbye and ichigo's reaction? Like Ichigo was totally done. And i never understood what happened when Orihime got hurt and Ichigo checked up on her. I love when he got protective of her. ๐
Before I get into Orihime’s goodbye and Ichigo’s reaction.
I’ll start with what happened when Orihime got hurt & Ichigo’s reaction to it. I want to let you know that at that point in the arc we had been seeing Orihime & Chad try to be of use and protect their friends.
They were struggling to not be a burden on Ichigo, even though they understood that they were not strong enough to fight along side Ichigo. Ichigo only made it worse by not relying on his own worried friends, and trying to solve everything by himself; while also fighting against other key factors affecting his powers.
Since you are asking on Orihime’s character, I will elaborate that she was shown through the beginning of this arc that although her powers are useful, she wasn’t strong enough to fight.
She desperately wanted to stop relying on Ichigo, but she wasn’t capable of fighting enemies much stronger than her.
And Ichigo ended up coming as always to save the day.
Then add to the fact that she noticed that Ichigo had gotten strong, he was becoming strong enough to protect them all and fight.
Something that she wanted to do, but now it seemed as he was getting farther away.
He didn’t see her (or Chad) as strong as him, to fight alongside him and help him.
But all in vein, when Ichigo couldn’t do what he wanted to do.
He couldn’t defeat the enemy, to avenge & protect his friends. And the results were innocent people’s deaths, Tatsuki, Chad, and Orihime’s near-death experience because he was not strong enough.
At school, Orihime was trying to not let it affect her. That’s her type of character, to be bubbly and positive.
But Ichigo couldn’t let the fact that his friends were injured. He was blaming himself for not making it there on time, and not winning against the enemies.
And no matter how much Orihime told him to not blame himself, that it wasn’t his fault and he didn’t need to let it bring him down.
He still dwelled on those feelings of guilt.
That is until Rukia and the other shinigami came out of nowhere, and Rukia seeing Ichigo so hung up on blaming himself sought out to get him out of his funk.
She knew that if he was blaming himself for not protecting their friends, then he should get it out of his chest.
And thus Ichigo promised Orihime that next time he would protect her.(tbh he should have done that to Chad too, but his thoughts were more on Orihime because he couldn’t protect her).
Since he was shown to have been lifted out of his spirits by Rukia’s help, you would think he was ready to get strong. But then when he got back his confidence it was only destroyed when he couldn’t also protect Rukia.
Even with confidence he could not also protect another person from getting hurt, thus he realizes the only way to get stronger is by–
To acknowledge the hollow inside him, to control him for the sake of beating the enemies that harmed his friends.
We even get more reinforcement of Ichigo getting stronger and reassuring Orihime that he would defeat Aizen.
While she was being told she could not fight alongside her friends, because she was weak & she wasn’t meant to battle.
After talking about it with Rukia, and training with her. It seemed as she was getting stronger. But then Aizen took notice of her powers that could be of use, and sent Ulquiorra to kidnap her.
Even though she was training to fight, her powers were still weak and she knew she couldn’t fight.
Thus her only choice was to go with the enemy, or her friends would die.
She had no choice.
So when it came to her to say good-bye to one person. Without thinking she ended up in Ichigo’s room.
Which in my opinion was sweet, because this showed me her feelings for Ichigo and if she could only see one person before leaving she wanted to see Ichigo, one last time.
My input toward her confession would just be that it made me realize her feelings grew deeper for him.
So much so that I was surprised at how she wanted to portray her emotions to Ichigo.
With a good-bye kiss, and a trembling heart.
But then she couldn’t do it, because her conscience wouldn’t allow her to be selfish enough to steal his kiss.
Instead she chooses to let out her feelings, and she does this because she believes she won’t see him again.
She pours out the depth of her emotions.
(╥︣﹏᷅╥᷅)
And honestly I couldn’t help but cry, because she had been thinking about a-lot of things from not being strong enough that everyone commented on her unable to do what she wants, to being jealous of Rukia being able to be open and close to Ichigo, and then when she was able to overcome or try to–
Bam! She has to say good-bye to the guy that she loves and vowed to protect.
ಥ_ಥ
And Ichigo’s reaction to her disappearance was unknown to him, he knew something was wrong but he didn’t know Orihime had been kidnapped.
Not until he was told of what happened, and the possibility she may be dead.
When he had already promised to protect her.
Which annoys me when antis, say that it was nothing and compared it to Rukia’s time when she was taken back to the Soul Society. When they were different settings and enemies going on.
Ichigo didn’t know, and when he did find out about Orihime’s disappearance. There was no time to think or hesitate about going to save her, especially when there was a chance she could die.
But instead he was told not to go and save her.
He was determined to go and save her, even if he had to do it by himself (when he was still in the mist of training), and he was ordered not to which didn’t sit well with him.
Even after he was told not to go, he was willing to disobey and go.
Even when Rukia, Renji, and the other shinigami couldn’t go with him.
It meant that he would face the enemy alone, and I would imagine that was a lot of pressure on him.
He was distraught.
And you could tell.
Then Tatsuki questioned if they weren’t friends/nakama?
Why he didn’t trust/rely on them.
Rather than suffer alone, but he chose not to let them get involved and get hurt. He chose to save Orihime by himself, ugh these emotions are overwhelming me.
Honestly I wanted Ichigo to also consider having his friends by his side, he needed to not keep it all bottled up inside and suffer alone.
But there wasn’t a friend that he could talk about it with (even though there was plenty of friends reaching out for him to speak), like he let himself with Orihime when Rukia was gone.
Damn was I happy when Ishida and Chad showed up, and they weren’t having any of his bullshit.
They were going with him to save Orihime, and it was damn time he realized that he does need support. And he needed to believe in them too.
Nakama power!
I probably got out of topic but that’s what I feel and my input on those scenes. Thank you for the ask, and I hope I was of help! ❤❤
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I had already thought years ago about the meaning of this scene of chapter 52 in Renji and Rukia’s relationship.
Rukia thinks of emotions like something troublesome for her, and she mentions various emotions: love, hate, friendship, affection, attachment. She was asked if she liked Ichigo in a romantic sense, and she denied it, but at the same time she thinks of how troublesome are those emotions. In the translation by the scanlation group (the image on the left) they translated it like: “whether I like him, whether I hate him”, but in my volume in Spanish they simply translated it like “Love, hate”, and, translating the Japanese words in the raw (the image on the right) seems it’s ok to translate it simply like “love, hate”. Anyhow, since Kubo said “it’s not a romantic feeling” about Ichigo and Rukia’s relationship, if Rukia was mentioning those feelings because she had felt them for someone in some moment in her life, she wasn’t refering to Ichigo. But she seems to be talking about emotions that she knew, that she had felt.
When I read this scene for the first time I found it strange that Rukia mentioned love and hate together. Besides, the scene seemed like she was remembering something that she had experimented time ago, the fact to have to leave a place, or someone, and then the emotions became something that can hurt you.
Since I knew Renji and Rukia’s story I thought if that scene was also related to them. And now that it has become clear that Rukia drifted apart from Renji, that she must have felt pretty upset with him, I think that Rukia must have hated him at some point, even though she still loved him too.
It’s curious too that just when Rukia is thinking in those “needless emotions” (that chapter title) that she didn’t want to think about, Renji is the one who appears in front of her, and interrupts her thoughts.
I have never enjoyed seeing Ichigo get his ass handed to him…but this one time is the exception.
Omg I have to hold the laughter in, lest I wake up everyone in the house.
I told you before “she who laughs LAST laughs LONGEST and LOUDEST”.
Yeah bitches I am having a fucking belly roll!
Seriously though…When OD-SENSEI TALKS, you REALLY should listen.
Honestly have no idea what you’re laughing about but do you
That’s understandable. Clever people always look strange among fools
Wow..so his point is? Ya know they’re ALL getting their asses kicked right now? Is that all you care about? Them losing this battle so fucking Rukia can save them? Wtf is she gonna do? Kick him in the face then everything will be all good? Yup true fucking love! Or im sure she’ll use her bankai…Oh WAIT SHE CANT. You’re so desperate for Kubo to throw it’s sickening 😠
I respectfully disagree. More like IH denial & delusions. From IR haters that hav severely damaged brains. Which is responsible for their distortion of reality.