The Princess and the Shop Keeper

OKAY I NEED TO ADRESS THIS WORLD BUILDING AND QUESTIONS ON BLEACH

My autism is screaming at me for MONTHS about a certain detail I'm sure NOT EVEN KUBO HIMSELF CARES ENOUGH BUT OH WELL, and I need the other people in this fandom to help me get a simple explanation or I'll snap so @princessandshopkeeper @uraharashouten (my 2 fav blogs still active somehow that I know of bleach)

THE CULTURE IN SOUL SOCIETY

Okay basically my issue with this is really fucking simple, some characters like Yoruichi for example CLEARLY have an ethnicity and background from another country to them, BUT it's never really shown in depth or talked about it, all Soul society is like almost strictly japanese based and that bothers me SO MUCH

Cause Shinigami live a LONG TIME, hell almost ageless/immortal and not only can Shinigami be born in soul society but people BECOME Shinigami in the afterlife or even when alive, so HOW THE HELL isn't Soul society extremely culturally diverse and complex??? Like there's no way the first Shinigami were only japanese or something, and yeah you can say it's because the souls slowly forget their time when alive and it becomes more instinct/a blur, but there's no way they didn't bother to share their culture or anything before forgetting, plus Shinigami must travel the whole entire world due to hollows and so on, HOW NOT A SINGLE SHINIGAMI got influenced by the outside and brought that as a change to Soul society???

Hell I'm thinking about this more than kubo ever did but COME ON, wouldn't it be interesting to see a lively and full of other countries and IT'S OWN CULTURE SHAPING Soul society? PLUS perhaps Shinigami using all languages or CREATING A NEW LANGUAGE FROM SCRATCH that only them could use/learn? Which hey would be a lot more safer considering no mortal could communicate or get access to info only Shinigami should have, which would make a lot more sense in this type of society BUILD AS A WHOLE SINCE HUMANITY START

And hey it's fine if they choose a language already created, but WHY japanese? In my eyes latin should be used due to being what originated a lot of other languages and so on, picking what CREATED the languages not THE language itself

IT COULD GO AS FAR AS EXPANDING the SS to multiple Soul societies or seireitei of different countries and cultures they could all create some sort of fast travel to get there, like idk, japanese Soul society, Italian soul society, Brazilian soul society, and then the main one connecting everything like we see in the anime/manga as the actual soul society

Then there's my other fricking issue with Soul Society

THE LACK OF DATA/TECHNOLOGY

I LOVE that it's based in a traditional japanese setting and hell even some Buddhist kinda of look (I went recently to a Buddhist temple really famous here in Brazil and it looked so much like a building in the seireitei) BUT how isn't Soul society more technology advanced? Like damn, again, ageless, immortal (kinda), a lot of new souls getting there, new generations left and right, HOW IS THERE NO SCIENTIFIC REGISTER?? LIKE MAN, WHY IT HAD TO TAKE URAHARA TO BE BORN TO SCIENCE START BEING A FOCUS THERE??? In my view SS should have at least GOOD AMOUNT of new tech because of the conditions Shinigami are in, OR AT LEAST some type of register of scientific researchers and so on, HELL LET'S GO EVEN FURTHER, WHY THE SHINIGAMI ACADEMY DOESN'T HAVE A SCIENCE COURSE? OR an academy focused 100% only on technology, science, physiology and so on? It's so useful and would sure as hell help the Aizen incident not happen again due to having more brilliant minds to help in situations like this.

ALSO picture an AU of a Shinigami science academy and a teacher Kisuke teaching a class all about armament and Shinigami war gear technology and like their bimester project is an attempt of gigai or something and he's a teacher that everyone loves- ANYWAY

Just...more archives.

Idk I maybe thought too much on this but come on it would make the bleach world seen so much more complete, alive, diverse and complex...PLUS IN THE ANIME WOULD CREATE FUNNY FILLER I'M SURE

We know from BURN THE WITCH that there are other branches of Soul Society, although they seem to specialize in different things?? Like Soul Society West specializes in supernatural Dragons. Although I guess that really only proves 2 different branches lol. But maybe there's more!

Certainly the Soul Society seems to cover more than just Japan even if we never see them actually do anything outside Japan lol. So the ruling families like Yoruichi's could come from all around. But also Japan isn't as ethnically homogenous as they like to pretend (my husband's Japanese grandma was kind of racist and terrible about this).

As for the science and technology, some of it I think is just plot device lol. Like we can't give them too much to work with until we need them to get out of situations. Although we know there was some innovation. I mean most of Squad 0 were there because they had made major contributions of some sort including the cloth the uniforms are made from, and I consider this all a form of technology.

Also I felt like there was some implication that the 12th had been doing research-ish stuff before Kisuke got there (or maybe I made that up in my brain...I need to reread this series lol but the ending is such a bummer). Certainly he seemed to immediately trust Hiyori to be able to help in scientific pursuits, and while I know my little bundle of grump is an underappreciated smarty, I think it does seem to suggest she had some level of preexisting competency.

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Dear followers, I'm so sorry for my recent hiatus. My health fluctuates a lot and it's been a bad time for a while. Thank you for your continued patience and support 🙇🏻‍♀️