Forget me nots

Seriously, think about it. SO. Many. Moments. Literally in EVERY arc. Don’t even get me started on the ichiruki content in every movie (including the Live Action movie)

ALL THE LONGING LOOKS

SO MANY SCENES WITH THEM HAVING THE SAME FACIAL EXPRESSIONS TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER.

What was the point of ALL OF THAT just for them NOT TO BE ENDGAME?

This scene in particular just

TEARS MY SOUL TO SHREDS

LOOK AT HOW SHE LOOKS UP AT HIM

Because she knows HE may never see her again and she knows that this may very well be the last time she sees him too.

Don’t tell me she didn’t cry the second she made it back into Soul Society, like COME ON

Don’t tell me Ichigo didn’t become deeply depressed the second she was gone. He probably took hour long walks in the pouring rain because he missed her so much, YOU KNOW HE WOULD DO IT.

YES it’s been YEARS since the manga and these scenes but they still make me feel things and

Bleach 686 (and onward) has a weird, almost purgatorial vibe to it. 

Chad, who swore to only use his strength and powers to protect people and not harm others, is now a champion boxer. (?)

Ishida, whose passion lied with sewing and fashion, whose biggest fear was to end up like his father, is now a doctor and alone. (??)

Orihime COULD have had the chance to mature and outgrow her high school crush, to develop as her own person and hone her own interests, aspirations, and passions, (in her five lifetimes speech she also mentioned wanting five different careers, live in five different places) but she’s a doting housewife k 

And Ichigo. The guy who always felt like a misfit in the human world, who yearned for something more than his life, who felt most alive and electric and fulfilled as a shinigami than anything else, Ichigo with overwhelming power and an insane desire to save and protect and kick ass, is now a married guy with kids. And he’s got a bad haircut? And the girl he’s married to (while sweet and kind and beautiful) does not challenge him in any way, shape or form. (??????)

Also this spread this fucking spread 

like good old buddies and bros ichigo and rukia get totally platonic spreads like this bad boy 

and canon ichihime get this weird pose where ichigo kinda has his elbow on her head and orihime’s crumpled and nervous and crouched? the fuck

Not Pokemon, but Bleach is coming back October of next year apparently and we're getting a trailer in a bit over a day? FINALLY, I remember seeing confirmation last year about us seeing this animated, and we were supposed to be getting news in 2021, and it's like cutting it a bit close there 😂