Analysing KENPACHI & UNOHANA'S New 'BEYOND BANKAI' Brave Souls Forms | Bleach Discussion 

Happy New Year everyone! We're kicking things off by taking a look at these brand new 'Beyond Bankai' forms from Brave Souls, featuring the bloodthirsty Kenpachi duo! Let me know which of these two is your favourite!

In theory Beyond Bankai could potentially be a version of the captains that is similar to Dangai Ichigo during the Aizen fight. They look more fused to their zanpaktous like how ichigo had zangetsu's chain wrapped around his arm.

Unohana's is apt in that priestly-devilish description. It really catches her being a serial killer and then leaving that to save others.

I think Zaraki skin should still be red with forehead horns in his Beyond BANKAI form. That would have been perfect.

I like the callback to Yachiru's shikai in Zaraki's design.

Zaraki’s bankai and beyond bankai designs feel like they should swap roles

A Blood Based Bankai is definitely really suitable for Unohana's character. Pretty cool.

Got all three volumes of Can't Fear Your Own World for Christmas! It was the only time I've ever been excited about getting books for Christmas.

Comparatively Tommo, consider how Kenpachi is personality wise and this makes sense for his B.B. form. 1. He is head strong to the point of self conflict, he's been fighting with his Zanpakuto from the very start of the series. So he's given a chimeric design to showcase he's not fully worked to hone his rapport with his sword. 2. Also he does have lumpy's fur on him as well as skully's, the base of his arm has the pale yellow fluff, and over it is the remains of skully, which makes it looks like he slaughtered and is wearing them both, much like with Unohana. 3. Notice the blending of how the B.B. is formed, both of them are lending him a hand, which was the first notion made from Yachiru to Kenpachi when meeting him. Something he never bothered to do outside of his own moral to not finish off someone who didn't have the reserves to continue a fight. That coupling with HIS OWN BODY not handling the power of his Bankai is more of a nod to Yachiru trying to assist him rather than outright give him more power than he already had on his own.

Does anyone else find it hilarious that ikkaku was third seat below yachiru?? Like imagine if byakuya was like nah sorry renji, senbon zakura is second seat. U gotta be third bro. LMFAO

This my first video ive watched and ive gotta say I love the way he just perfectly describes everything and finds the perfect way to string words together I love it

Kenpachi's feels/looks like what his shikai should've been in the manga

Your content is the only BLEACH gift I received this year, but it's made me pretty happy nevertheless.

cannot wait to see soi fon considering her feelings about her bankai but i also hope we can see gin and kaname!

Bleach is back.Thank you for all the support that you gave the series.Im looking forward into seeing more of your Great and awesome videos.Happy new year 😎👍

Happy New year. I just got back into bleach. I was disillusioned it was a shitty anime because of the power creep in TYBW but you changed my mind and i have been rewatching and rereading Bleach. You gave me back my love for the series. thank you for this gift.

My boi!!! I like your vids while im at work when i get notified and then watch em later after work while smokin like a chimney lol 👌 thanks for all the bleach content

I got two Kensei t-shirts from my best friend 😍💕 (He's my favorite visored/captain in the series) - I was so happy!!

So glad you did this video! Been hooked on BBS again recently and was literally wondering what you thought about these designs because I felt indifferent about Zaraki as well. Keep up the great work dude!

The line up on your beard is looking CLEAN, my guy!

I was looking forward to you doing this vid Tommo. 👍

Damn son I think you had like 8 thousand subs when I joined. Congrats on the 100 thousand subs, pretty much no one is doing it as well as you bud. Clean and simple

If they had made Kenpachi red with his bankai in his mouth and the fur still yellow but sort of as a skirt kind of thing, I think that would be perfect. Would still have the 3 blades for the attack and would showcase his bankai.

Always look forward to you analyzing the new BBS forms.

AHHHHH IM ALWAYS HYPING THE ICHIGP VS GRIMMJOW VIDEOOOOO great start to 2022 none the less Happy new years tom

I see Zarakis form as the more complete version of his bankai, kind of how Yamamotos bankai is said to to completely different than it was when he originally fought Yhwach, this is a form of Kenny that learned to fully weird his bankai power, changing its form and allowing him to stay conscious and not a feral beast, thats at least how I see it

My favorite is Zaraki Kenpachi. And not just because I got him on my free 10x summon. Also love the design choice of 2 weapons

I would like to ask you if you could make a video : "top 10" or ranking the original characters from Bleach Brave Souls, I think that would make interesting content. I like the way you make your videos, the way you analyze the characters and you have your opinion and present your arguments, and your narration too, you could analyze the characters by not what they do in the game itself but what they would be able to do if they were canonical characters from the manga/anime, for example Spirit Society Shinji would be a very powerful character with his climate control, or fifth anniv Ichigo or sixth anniv Aizen or SAFWY novel Shinji

I got the All Colour but the Black artbook for christmas. Also, these are my favorite beyond Bankai designs so far.

Im absolutely Loving the new Dangai designs we are getting from this so far, these are Dangai forms because its beyond Bankai, and we already know thanks to Ichigo V Aizen, that after Bankai is Dangai, the merging of Zanpakuto and Soul Reaper to an extreme degree.

Happy new year I hope you'll make episode reviews

I personally think it's a small tribute to Sanpo Kenju so i think its good that Kenpachi never forgot Yachiru

Love your videos, happy new year from the roaming hominid!

Happy ending to 2021 and hopefully a great start to 2022

I bought myself the first box set of Bleach! Super happy with it!

Happpy new year, bud. Best to you.

Do you think a video on the 5 war threats would be a good video(especially now the anime is coming this year)? Not only who they are but why they got the distinction from the other Shinigami and how far above the others they are in the eyes of Ywach. Maybe also add in who else you think could be a war potential? Like top 8 or top 10

I really do like the idea of incorporating Yachiru's Zanpakuto with Kenpachi but I do agree, I don't think the design flows very well especially the colours and would've preferred a more demonic form dialled up to 11 instead. Unohana's one is decent I like it

Those 2 design are my fav Beyond Bankai forms!!

Here's my theory: Retsu's zanpakuto works similarly Byakuya's zanpakuto, having 3 forms with 1 key difference. Both of their zanpakuto spirits takes the form of clothes instead of a fleshy being, senbonzakuro takes the form of japanese armor and minazuki takes the form of robes with a hood. Senbonzakura has 3 release states that becomes part of the user which each release state and the final form looks like a wearable armor shown in bbs 5th anniversary (most likely Shūkei: Hakuteiken complete form). Minazuki also has 3 release states but the difference is that instead of becoming extrenal armor, with each release state minazuki integrates itself into the user like a parasite and in exchange for integrating within the user it allows the user to make better use it's capabilities (similarly to venom from spiderman or migi from parasyte -the maxim-). When it fully integrates within the user it's consciousness is gone and all of it's base characteristics become the users

Happy new yearss!!!!!

Hey Tommo have u done a top 10 most tragic characters in bleach yet? If not can you please do one soon?🙂

Happy 2022 bro.

I’m kinda curious. What does Kenpachi’s Bankai spirit look. Kubo did say it takes the appearance of a older woman. I like to imagine that it looks like Yachiru older, but she also slightly has Unohana’s hairstyle. Like how Zangetsu looked different when Ichigo went into his inner world in Bankai.

I got the first manga box set and Burn the Witch. Pretty excited to reread Bleach now that I have the entire series in volume form. I haven’t read the series since it was released weekly. Pure hype

Wow Kisuke turning into a puppet himself is probably the coolest design for his bankai I’ve seen.

There’s a lot behind Unohana that we clearly don’t know. We know that she is ruthless, sadistic, and has an insatiable appetite for blood. The real Unohana is unlike anyones perception of her, and that’s what makes her character great. We don’t know when she will make her debut in the new manga, but we know for certain that she is in Hell and enjoying every minute of it. A true Soul Reaper, she’s the manifestation of death itself, and she’s still hungry.

Totally agree with all of this, especially to Unohanas, to Zaraki it would've been way better if they kept the design that we got BUT also gives him a some sort of growing red skin under those gauntlets of both of his arms of sort until it later covers his whole body, signifying he grows stronger the longer he's in battle!!

Personally with kenny I think a great way to do it could be to have him have the sanpo Kenjuu arms and one of the blades with the other being nozarashi as well as his skin being red to show all his powers coming together

Dude you are so persistant,good job...

It came a few days after Christmas, but I got a Harribel statue as a Chrimbo present to myself. She's taken centre stage in my model collection, lol.

Unohana is my favorite, so finding out there would be a new version of her was awesome. I always love those glares she gives to people to get her point across. I just hope I can scrape enough orbs together to have a few chances to try and summon her card.

2022 you can make more favorable videos about the fans favorite captain…. Me of course 😁

Maybe even a video on hypothetical kenpachi and yeshiru versus Stark and Lily net

I need a Yoruichi!!! Unohana's is currently my favorite for sure, with Kyoraku and Urahara coming in second and third

I really like how they subtly added Yachiru's smile in Retsu's special animation.

Happy New Year.

Finally got the CFYOW novels, already started reading them.

Mrtommo i think you should make a video about SEALING... Like how they hold the sealed immortal prisoners like azien in the muken (i wonder who else? there's the other kenpachi but is he sealed?) This is how Ikomikidomoe was beat as well. . I almost guarantee thats how gerrad would have been dealt with, But people don't even think of it when it comes to defeating him... You just kill him and as he regens at his weakest you seal him . ...thats how azien and ikomikidomoe were stopped, if aizen, him and the soul king/rei-o could be sealed, He could be to..... ..im sure there's other immortal sealed beings in the muken. Those parts of bleach are so mysterious

Happy New Years from Zaraki Kenpachi's #1 Fan!!!

The thing I love the most about these two was how when they released, my friend wanted the Unohana and I wanted the Kenpachi, but we ended up summoning the opposite ones and as a result, we were both salty and jealous of each other for a while.

Zaraki's B.B. makes me wonder if his Zanpakuto is capable of more as he gets more used to it, possibly gaining Sanpo Kenju as a technique in the future

My mom made a sweatshirt with Kenpachi on it and I love it

I agree with his takes about Zaraki. I wanted a legit demon but his beyond bankai form makes sense. But I would've preferred if his skin color was red and if he had horns too.

could not agree more on Kenny I think they were too smart for their own good. an evolved oni version of Kenny would have been otherworldy. especially with restu being a combo of both but still having reason it makes all the more sense to have Kenny go full demon and wreak shop.

These 2 are the first ones not annonced initially for the series which gives us that noe every Captain to get one. I'm really interested in Soi-Fon but Ikkaku or Sasakibe would be interesting

I know these are non-canonical, but if we were to pretend they were canonical for a moment, I can imagine that Kenpachi's bankai shown in the manga would be just Lumpy's sword since Yachiru said that he couldn't handle the full power. And once he's able to handle the full power, he can use Boney's sword too. And stay in control of it as well. Though I agree with some other comments that he would look cooler if he kept his red skin and horns. It would be reminiscent of Ichigo's bankai being split between his hollow and quincy powers.

My wife got me a t-shirt of adjuntas Grimmjow trying to eat the moon.

I’ve always thought that the hybrid of the murderous intent and healing that I think her zanpakto absorbs the blood of her victims which later can be used as either a weapon in her bankai or used for healing in her manta form

Don't forget that kenpachi loved yuchiru honestly I always considered his daughter then his vice or zanpaktou spirit so this makes me feel like parent and child working together

Hello man I'm new to your channel and I'm just starting to have interest in bleach. I want to read the manga but there's 2 version of it the colored and black and white. Which one should I read??

Merry Christmas, my girlfriend managed to get me the Brave Souls artbook and a thermo cup wit the Hell chapter cover printed on it

Happy 2022 fellow Bleach fans

Just delivering this lil' tidbit of trivia here. Blood Manipulation has a name, Hematokinesis.

We better get more details on her bankai during the anime.

I want a 1h video where mr tommo thinks up a smack talk between Yhwach and Aizen. After that i can die in peace

Bleach fans : OMG NEW UNOHANA BANKAI FINALLY WE GONNA KNOW WHAT SHE DOES!!! Kubo : AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA, you re funny.

I was hoping to get a copy of Can't Fear Your Own World this Christmas but it's out of stock everywhere, lol..

I pulled Retsu on step 6, SO SO HAPPY I GOT HER!!!!! Shes fricking amazing

I hope they use her design in the anime when her and kenpachi fights for additional scenes to show more details of the fight before its conclusion

I have a theory on Unohana’s bankai; that it is all the blood, pain and damage she has restored in minazuki’s stomach unleashed as an attack. I like to think it somewhat represents her outward healing nature being literally torn open to reveal a bloodthirsty, blooded interior.

I got the first box set for Bleach this Christmas.

Pretty happy I got CFYOW all 3 books. Already halfway through the second.

I think the core thing of Sanpo Kenju is that it isn't just three blades slashing at one time, they are the embodiment of cutting something that couldn't or shouldn't be able to be cut by a single blade, but the target will indeed be cut by one of the other blades that the enemy doesn't normally see. I think had Sanpo Kenju had been used a bit more than a single time we would have seen that Yachiru would have been able to cut everything before her just like Nozarashi apparently can. But since the Beyond Bankai all really do seem like they are "Final" (I.E. Final Getsuga Tensho full fusions) it does make sense that his final form would look more like what his Zanpakuto spirit actually looks like which to me would be those two oni like beings we see from Sanpo Kenju merged together on an adult Yachiru. Would be interesting for Kubo to actually draw what the spirit looks like so we finally have an idea of what it really looks like.

One very cool concept i like to think is that actually zaraki represents the the third demon/beast instead of yachiru, remember her power which is called something like the steps of the three beasts, well i think yachiru got a lot of influence of unohana to the poomt she even inherited some of her human traits, as their personaloties are very alike, almost like a spirit daughter of both zaraki and unohana, so if she is a more of a living human thing, who is the third demon of her power? Its zaraki himself, thats what a like to think, its almost like both zaraki and his zanpakutou use each other instead of the normal concept of the zanpakutou being the tool of the shinigami, zaraki is not the guy who would ever mind his zanpakutou using their power for whatever it wants, he is a simple guy, as longs as someone does not bother his fights, hes cool with whatever, so as much as zaraki did not gave two shits about his zanpakutou je also gave a kind of a permission for it to do whatever it wanted, and all of that mixed in nozarashi to make his power what it really is, so its fine to say that yachiru actually uses zaraki much like zaraki uses her, they ise each other, remember she was the on who invoked the bankai on him, not zaraki himself, he is her third beast, too his power is not one but three beasts, his power is also divided in 3 beings, and yachiru power is called three beasts steps, thats a lot of 3's to not have any connection, so zaraki bankai is just basically him assuming his own beast form, but in my vision thats only 1/3 of his full power, as theres others 2 beasts on that zanpakutou, so this beyond bankai is just zaraki mantling the other two beasts to fight instead of becoming the third himself, which would make him use 2/3 of his full power, i think this is not even his final form(DB reference lol) i think his ultimate design form would be both his bankai and beyong bankai form merged, just adding the demonic red zaraki on this new design instead of normal zaraki, in this form he would use the whole 3/3 power of his but it would be his most dangerous form, a treat for both him and his allies as he would be berserker plus his other 2/3 power added, well unless the other two beasts helps him from tearing and crushing his own body with too much power, and that woudl be very OP but amazing.

Hello at work here watching some bleach videos. Glad for the new videos

What they could’ve done but it might sound over designed was stil given hime the red skin and fangs and the Maui’s hair even longer to end in a blade reminiscent of his proper bankai and he can swing and attack with it as well giving him more symmetry with unohana as well as giving a more composite version of all his power sources and roots

I like that they did this to Kenpachi. Seems like an homage to duality and balance: The whole yin yang, black / white theme. Perhaps he will still be able to rage out later, by forfeiting such balance and going full on berserker. This form just seems like it is acting as a greater limiter: the new eye patch so to speak.

Kenpachi's beyond Bankai made me think of how Yachiro's ability to cut (what the sword didn't actually hit) connects with Kenpachi's ability to cut (pierce) even things the sword cant physically manage without his power to back it up.

The bleach Gift I got was the anime coming back

Rewatching bleach kibo left alot of hints. The hollows and souls started increasing when rukia appears in the real world. Ichigo father was a skilled fighter and trained ichigo. The entire family had spirit abilities. Ichigo could touch soul reapers which showed he was a quincy. All that was in the first episode. He planned far ahead.

i got a feeling that all of this beyond bankai gonna play a role as a major power up in the hell arc if its really happening

It would've been cool if kenpachi's beyond design had him in head to toe spikey bone armor (both to reference boney AND when kenpachi and Unohana fought as enormous skeletons) with a big yellow fur pelt draped around his neck (to reference lumpy or alternatively a burning mane of yellow reiatsu to reference the iconic manifestation of his power in his first fight with Ichigo in the anime) instead of just representing them on each arm, I feel like it would've come together better. (In a perfect world though, I would've liked to see KING OF HELL ZARAKI)

shinji also has a mix of his old and new hairstyle but i think they were going for something else on that one. Ichigo's was also halfway between his normal hair length and his final getsuga tenshou hair length. I guess they didn't wanna bother with shunsui and ukitake, utilising their hair from the academy days and none of the others have multiple hair styles in the series. For aizen they gave him super long hair so idk if theres anything symbolic with that other than that its a similar length the FGT ichigo.

i got the bankai variant of the ichigo funko pop!

I just got unohana and she is OP af

273 days left before Bleach TYWB arc anime comes in on October 2022

As others have mentioned I feel like beyond bankai is more of a mutual fusion between wielder and zanpakto. The manga shows that you are the zanpakto and the zanpakto is you, however I look at these as if it were two souls merging into one. Kenpachi is the easiest to see this with, as his bankai in manga is more of his own manifestation i.e an actual demon of combat vs beyond where in my mind yachiru more forwardly shows Ken she is his sword and thus he is more influenced and gets the form we see here. With how many different bankai Ichigo gets, it’s not hard to believe that depending on what’s going on at the time will change how your zanpakto manifests.

We all know , that if Kubo will indeed give us the Hell arc fully , you bet that something similar to those will be in the arc . The next logical big power up would be something similar to a dangai form .

Unohanas banksia is mizune’s blood and acidic bodily fluids that are able of kill and I think kenpschis is yachirus animals parts if I am not mistaken