GOTEI 13 Lieutenants: YACHIRU KUSAJISHI - Bleach Discussion | Tekking101 

She probably also represents what remains of Zaraki's humanity. Sure her at times dangerous behavior and whims are unsettling but as a whole she's his rock. Love how she supports Zaraki even when he goes rogue for a good fight or to do things his own way.

She was also the president of the Shinigami Women's Association

Yachiru was always Nozarashi... And Kenpachi always used the sword, forcing it to do his whim. The Truest irony is that when he goes bankai. The opposite happens. Nozarashi/Yachiru control and direct him

(From TV Tropes): The reveal from 668 that Yachiru is actually Kenpachi's sword spirit Nozarashi has been foreshadowed since we'd first met Knepachi. During his flashback of meeting Yachiru, he asks who she is, and she basically points to his sword. She's also the only individual who's not affected by his spiritual pressure either. Coyote Starrk himself was foreshadowing as well. Both of them were afraid of being alone so they'd either shackled their true power with limiters, and thus both had their Zanpakuto's materialize in the real world and could interact with their environments. There's another early example of foreshadowing immediately after losing his fight with Ichigo. When he asks his zanpakutou if it would share it's name with him, Yachiru's shown to become visibly saddened. Because she wants to tell him her name, but he still can't hear it. Furthermore, Kenpachi has no sense of direction and can't sense reiatsu. He relies completely on Yachiru to tell him where to go to find strong opponents. Well OF COURSE he does; she's his zanpakutou, and thus like all zanpakutou, she's a Trickster Mentor. Kenpachi loves to feel like he's relying on his own strength in a fight, so the only way to get him to cooperate with her was by being his Sensor Character. This is also why she thanks Ichigo for giving Kenpachi a good fight; his stubborn ass is still holding back to keep from killing strong opponents, so she leads him to progressively stronger and stronger people to break his own mental limits. So far, it has been shown that the "proper" way of achieving Bankai is for the user to fight and defeat their Zanpakuto Spirit in battle and basically beat the spirit into submission. In Kenpachi's case, Yachiru allowed him to go Bankai on his own. In other words, Zaraki, the epitome of brute force and the guy who scoffed the most at forming a bond with his Zanpakuto spirit, did the complete opposite. He is actually the one who has formed the closest bond with his spirit (and probably the only one who truly treats his Zanpakuto spirit as an equal), and the only one who has achieved Bankai through kindness and a rapport with his spirit. Yachiru saying "what everyone's been calling Bankai" implies that maybe that Zaraki is going to get a far superior version of Bankai to everyone else because of the incredibly unique way he unlocked his. One thing that is brilliant regardless is his Bankai. His own body can't handle its power after a while. Logically, training would extend this. His bankai could then go even further before his body breaks down. Kenpachi wants a fight that will last. His Bankai gives him exactly what he wants with an ability that can never truly be mastered.

I like to think that Kenpachi and yachiru’s connection is like Stark and Lilynette’s seeing as that relationship is the closest thing to them we got before the events of the last arc.

In the earliewr parts of bleach yoruichi explained bankai this way: Shikai is when a shinigami taps into the realm of the sword to draw power from it. Bankai is when the sword is drawn to our realm. Thats probably why the quincy could steal bankai and how mayuri is able to manipulate them, heck maybe this is why they stay broken at all, they become physical.

I wonder what Nimaiya Oetsu would've said had he met Ken and Yachiru. That meeting would've been hilarious.

When Nnoitorra threatened to attack Yachiru, and Yachiru was like THAT is a BAD idea lol

I love Yachiru. Every scene she’s in with Kenpachi is adorable. And I love that scene in the Soul Society arc like you were talking about when the messenger from the stealth Corp was talking to her and then her pink aura reiatsu just immediately erupted and said to “Shut up! Go away Kenny’s in the middle of battle right now leave!” My reaction to that scene really made my eyes widened and I’m like “Dude you better leave, because she’ll fuck you up without warning, even if she’s a kid.”

The fact that she referred to Orihime as "Jiggles" 😂😂

Tekking101= king of consistency

Man anime only Yachiru fans are gonna flip when TYBW arc gets animated

I allways thought Kenpachi and Yachiru were similar to Stark and Lilynette because it seamed to me that Yachiru popped into existance when Kenpachi took that zanpakuto from the dead shinigami.

I love the sentence "she a ghost " when dealing with soul reapers. A ghost has a ghost

I feel that yachiru is the personification of the barriers zaraki mentally put on himself. Once he used shika, her physicality disappears because the barriers aren't there anymore. But her conciousness now is all that's left. To add, she always seems concerned for Zaraki whenever he is battling or after a battle when he actually has the drive to get stronger.

Hone hone is kenpachi's reisatsu that resides in his sword, lumpy is the reisatsu from the original owner of his sword (the corpse kenpachi got the sword from), yachiru is the combination of both their reisatsu that makes up nozerashi. That's my theory anyway.

This literally just proves that Zaraki, by far, HAS to be the most powerful character in the story. No one else's power is so untouchable while having absolutely no explanation. It's too many directions to run in for his true full power to be beaten if it's ever revealed. A Shinigami (who was stronger than the ORIGINAL Kenpachi AS A CHILD) puts mental blocks on himself to lower his power and has a Zanapkuto spirit that manifests in reality and is a LIEUTENANT in the ELEVENTH DIVISION that even has A SHIKAI!!!

About Gremmy, it's heavily implied in Can't Fear Your Own World that he, like Gerard and Pernida, is a part of the Soul King, being obviously the Brain of the Soul King

I feel like Yachiru's Zanpaktou "Spirits" represent Kenpachi's Bankai. They are two entities working together. But since Kenpachi was unable to communicate with Yachiru through his Zanpaktou, this aspect stayed with her. They are part of her, and of Zaraki, and that's why she is able to use them like that.

When is Tekken going to talk about the goat waifu of bleach the original dark-skinned Queen,yoruichi

When she calls out the name 'Sanpo Kenjou' was only to make the 'kids', as she called them, visible to Gwanael and by proxy visible to Isane as well. But before that point she was using the triple slash ability without calling a name.

Valkyrie was the protagonist of his own story, too bad for him kenpachy can cut anything, including plot armor. Ichigo found that out the hard way

Who remembers tekking when the channel was “tekking101” with a small t

Dope been waiting for this one. The only kawai plot hole/retcon that people don’t care but but still love

We have seen another character with a similar scenario: Coyote Starrk and Lilynette Gingerbuck. I assumed it was similar for Kenpachi and Yachiru, but Kenpachi did it unintentionally when he started putting on his limiters. The power had to go somewhere. Edit: also, just realized their last names are Gingerbuck and Grass Deer, that can't be a coincidence.

I always thought it was a really interesting bit of foreshadowing that, WELL BEFORE the TYBW arc had gotten to that point, the Zanpakuto Manifestation filler arc had Yachiru missing.

Bites part if his arm, lol. Understatement for sure! He bit girards hand, a clenched fist to be exact. And ripped his arm off at the shoulder!

I’m scared of what Sanpo Kenju might represent. What if that was a glimpse of Zaraki’s full Zanpakuto potential? What if Kenpachi fully synchros with Yachiru and suddenly he has two bloodthirsty blade monsters running around that hit as hard as Nozarashi or harder

apparently, Yachiru was confirmed by Kubo to be an aspect of Kenpachi's zanpakuto spirit, not the whole thing but only part, which split off and became its own entity. She gained shinigami powers of its own after picking up an asauchi, since she is technically a soul.

Kenpachi stepping up his game by sword fighting with both hands is still one of my favorite hilariously awesome moments in bleach. I was sitting there reading the chapter thinking. “So his way of stepping up his fight against a strong enemy is simply fighting with two hands...What is this guy?!”

Here’s my take as I’ve interpreted it: Yachiru is a manifestation of Kenpachi’s spiritual power. Kenpachi is immensely naturally powerful. He’s also beast like and instinctual. We’ve seen how internal spirit (like hollow ichigo) understand more than the person they reside in. It’s who they are. So who’s to say that Kenpachi didn’t just manifest her as a self defense mechanism since his body couldn’t handle the power. Considering that he already took physical steps, psychological steps, to limit himself, we already have a history of him needing his power contained. Or you could say displaced. A power that’s been displayed as great as his might have enough intelligence on his own to be the controller of the output of his power. Which is wild enough to imagine that his power was taking the form of his own lieutenant. That he could essentially function as both. Unohanna Undoing the locks was really just her power returning to him. Which would explain why only he can see her now. But that intelligence is still there to help him on.

"With blood and rage of crimson red, Ripped from a corpse so freshly dead, Together with our hellish hate, We'll burn you all -- that is your fate!" - Red Lantern Oath Fits Kenpachi don't you think.

Tekking your Theory on what Yachiru is pretty interesting. My theory I've had for a while is that because Kenpachi had so many restraints on his power he couldn't listen to his Zanpactou properly, but since Kenpachi wanted to communicate with his own zanpactou for a long time Kenpachi unconsciously manifested his Zanpactou spirit which happen to be Yachiru. I say this because in order to learn Bankai you need to be able to manifest your Zanpactou into the physical world which was the case during the soul society arc. Although Kenpachi has never achieved Shikai from that point in time, Nozarashi has been trying to talk with Kenny for a long time and it might be possible that Kenny did learn the name of his Shikai/Zanpactou technically but since Kenny couldn't hear his own sword He never learned the name properly. Also, it seems like the method for the Zanpactou to teach Bankai to each Soul Reaper is different so possibly Kenny's test to learn Bankai is that he must be able to hear Yachiru's true voice and learn Shikai and when that's done He can activate Bankai

Tekking’s nozarashi isn’t breaking, he is just conflicting with the riatzu of nozarashi, causing it to decay slowly

Man kenpachi is just so badass he has a little kid that Makes it funny it's ironic almost

See when I originally read scanalations back in the day I recall Gremmy saying something as he died that was along the lines of he would imagine a world without hope or something and that is about the time that Yachiru disappeared... I kind of took it like Gremmy straight up blinked Yachiru out of existence, and her appearing in his mind was a coping mechanism...

Hot Take: Kenpachi’s zanpakutō is supposed to be Kido-based. Allow me to explain my headcanon theory... Kenpachi stole the sword from a previous Soul Reaper. The Soul Reaper previously didn’t have an Asauchi, but instead a zanpakutō with an established Shikai: Yachiru’s Shikai. Yachiru’s Shikai represents the Shikai of the previous Soul Reaper’s zanpakutō, which was a Kido-based zanpakutō that manifested separate beings to fight on the Soul Reaper’s behalf. Kenpachi, not one for Kido, began treating the stolen zanpakutō like little more than a blunt-force weapon. However, Yachiru, the spirit of the zanpakutō, began to recognize Kenpachi’s strength over her previous wielder. She took on a form that Kenpachi could respect: a small girl who didn’t fear Kenpachi’s presence. A worthy comrade. Kenpachi allowed for the spirit of the zanpakutō to manifest in this way, and Yachiru allowed for Kenpachi to manifest in the way that he chose to. The reason why the Bankai caused Yachiru’s physical form to completely disappear is because the Bankai is the full realization of Yachiru’s nature: the prior zanpakutō ability of manifesting separate forms. Yachiru controlled Kenpachi and morphed his body into that of an oni, and it is essentially both a blessing and a curse to Kenpachi: it is the gift of unbridled and god-like strength in exchange for a surrender of power. In a way, it’s a bit of revenge on Yachiru’s part. This isn’t to say that Yachiru hates Kenpachi, but it IS irony in the fact that Yachiru, in the fully realized state of Bankai, controls Kenpachi. It is the sword which controls the man, rather than the way it has been previously. Yachiru and Kenpachi’s relationship is that of mutual respect. Rather than that of Soul Reaper and zanpakutō, it is two entities who have learned to cooperate on the grounds of mutual respect. The 11th Division, however, looks down on Kido-based zanpakutō as a result of Kenpachi’s continued denial of such powers, viewing them as weak. Yachiru allows herself to be wielded by Kenpachi as he wishes because she respects his supreme power. If she didn’t respect him, she wouldn’t make such an exception. The most likely manifests as due to the nature of her power as a Kido-based zanpakutō that creates those entities in its Shikai, OR as a result of feeding off of the immense power that Kenpachi gives off. I’m not sure which.

Yachiru used her ability without calling out the name of her "zanpakuto", meaning maybe not a real zanpakuto power

I'd love to know what kind of human made Zaraki when they died, cause you can get humans with alot of spiritual pressure but he seems more like what happens if you took that raw energy and gave it sentience

Honestly, the more I think about it, the more I start to belive that she was meant to be Kenpachi's true Zampakuto... But he already had another one he was pouring his reiatsu into. At least correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they say Kenpachi just picked up a random sword and decided to keep it?? If so, the main reason his sword didn't speak to it might have been because it was being hold against its will by Ken... So maybe when the Zampakuto finally decided to give in and follow him as his true master, it allowed Yachiru to "enter" as well in order to become one... Or who knows. I don't remember the details and this was super vague :/

Tekking I have only seen the first 100 episodes of bleach. And I’m still gonna watch this whole video. Your content is just that good.

Gerar valkery defeat was nerfed. There was a panel when toshiro and byakuya clearly cut him into pieces. Then in the sky a Quincy cross shines and resurrects gerar. Stronger than ever. That cross at that precise moment is when someone must strike in order to kill him. Otherwise it’s an endless brawl where valkery man gets infinitely stronger. That is my theory. But no ywach had to take his power. That was that.

I'm genuinely surprised this isn't a hour long video

"But it did not matter, for he was a demon god who sliced apart a giant viking" sounds legit

It was a pleasure to watch all of these videos, thank you Tekking!

4:50 props to your editing skills 👏 You've came a long way

Literally just finished the Bleach manga an hour ago and Yachiru was my biggest mystery. Glad this video popped up for me at the perfect time 👍🏻

I personally think Yachiru is a manifestation of Kenpachi's "humanity", as she firstly appeared when he was on the battle ground surrounded by death everywhere and than she appeared and he melted

Yachiru to me seems a lot like Starrk's smol ally friend (who I can't recall the name of). Like a sentient manifestation of someone's spirit energy.

My theory is Yachiru was divided subconsciously for Kenpachi like another auto limitation for his own power, like Coyote stark separated his soul and created another being. If a soul has so much power they can create another being.

24:20 - Yachiru's spiritual pressure took on the form of a demon cat/tiger...... is that like a hint to what she originally looked like before Kenpachi got his hands on her zanpakuto?

She’s small, has pink hair and can be scary… sounds like a character that should be in a different series. Kenpachi vs akuma, who wins? If you have a strong enough spiritual energy can’t you manifest the zanpakuto into the physical world where others could see it? After all in the soul society arc when renji trained to get bankai with ichigo and his, didn’t ichigo zabimaru’s physical form? And can’t zanpakuto take humanoid forms even if they don’t have complete human characteristics? Hey tekking are you going to make any aot videos again after the final chapter reveal or one about the fan made alternative ending?

Finally we got through the Lieutenants discussion and analysis.

To be fair, the real nozarashi is broken to hell, so tekkings is just becoming more accurate

She is definetly his bankai, but based on a confusing interview with Kubo, I think she was a zanpakto spirit but when he named her it seemed like she manifested in the world

FINALLY...been waiting for this one.

Tekking101 your not the only one who came up with a version of that theory

17:49 Loved that Tekking

The king has returned

10:00 It's confirmed that Gremmy is the Soul King's brain. So yeah, he's like Pernida and Gerard.

The line read the English gives Kenpachi for "Don't touch that... it's a tool I use for KILLING PEOPLE" is probably my favorite from the entire anime, really that whole sequence where later they give eachother names "you will be Yachiru, after the only person I have ever respected, and I will be Kenpachi of Zaraki as I am the strongest" Just real good shit. These two have always been my favorite from the entire anime

It was pointed out with Ichigo that he had so much spiritual pressure (and lack of control) is what cause his sword to be on the large size. Zaraki on other hand has so much power it immediately brought the zanpaktou spirit into physical realm and had its own zanpaktou spirits lol.

Great series Tekking! Makes me SOOOO hype for the anime's return! Not to mention Burn the Witch season 2 😗

Yachiru makes one of the best nicknames in the series that summaries them

I think Restu Unohana and Yamamoto knew that Yachiru was Kenpachi's sword, but just never told him.

I recently re fell in love with bleach cuz of jump force and ive been binge watching your bleach videos. I've always wondered what's the deal with yachiru and had that very thought last week, as i searched for your video on Kenny and yachiru but didnt find it. Here we are a week later. Crazy how the law of attraction works

Kenpachi's bankai sounds a lot like One for All, if his body can't handle the immense power it breaks apart

"Boney is the rear beast" that sounds super bad out of context...

My favorite Yachiru moment is when she was trying to guide Kenpachi to Ichigo

I like the shirt choice!

Zaraki always has Yachiru direct him, and she's as bad as he is at getting from place to place, so that was always funny. In her true form though, "directing" Kenpachi in battle, something they both are _very_ good at, she does everything she needs to quite a bit better then when it was a more general "figure out where to go". They now work together as they were meant to...

Love the video keep up the great work tekking

I know everyone has made this joke before but it is amazing how Kenpachi’s sword was just made Lieutenant, by it’s self. Now that I think about her as a part of Kenpachi, I see why she always made sure no one interrupted their fight. From Stealth members to Ichigo when he faced Nnoitra.

She is Zanpakto from momennt kenpachiii Vs ichigo.where kenpachi ask something about fighting along side Zanpakto and working together something like that and it's also when ychiru say something like its not a fair fight it's 2 Vs 1.ichigo with zangetsu Vs kenpachi

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Remember that yachiru often showed up seemingly out of nowhere and people were surprised that they hadn't detected her.

Finally another Tekking bleach video

Love your bleach vids 👌

I feel like the twist of her being Kenpachi's sword spirit was called by like 70% of the reader base really early on. It just was hinted once and then never touched on until the reveal

Those last two sternritter, Gerard and that "unkillable" immunity guy were so OP Kubo had to kill them offscreen.

I love how kenpachi’s zanpaktou for such a big hulking savage brawler is a little girl

You forgot about the first ever requirement for Bankai we learn about. Manifest your Bankai Spirit into the outside world. Yachiru appears out of nowhere as an undeveloped child, just like how Zapakuto develop.

Hopefully when the anime comes back we can maybe see her use a bankai with the author’s allowance.

Gremmy was explained in CFYOW if I remember correctly. He's the brain of the soul king.

I started watching the Lieutenant Series this week, and I thought Tekking had finished it by now. So I was surprised about this one.

All that training with Barry tekkings spiritual pressure is going to break all the swords he owns

One of my favorite moments is during the nnoitora fight when he thinks he's beaten kenpachi, then starts walking over to yachiru, and she tells him to turn around. Then he sees kenpachi is back up behind him.

Itd be cool to see someone send matt a real, decent sword that isnt somewhat cheaply made. Thatd be nice.

A Zanpakuto will do anything to be acknowledged by its creator. Even manifesting itself into a living being. Yachiru is Desperation incarnate. *At least, that's what I think Kubo was trying to imply*

I think one way to explain things with Kenpachi and Yachiru is similar to how Stark was so stupid strong, yet depressing lonely and his will to have company forced his soul to split. Equally, I think Yachiru up until the war ark was manifested as a being in reality from the lack of ability to keep all Kenpachi's power compressed inside his body. This all stemming from his ignorance thinking swords are mere tools, his ego to want to be strong on his own, and hatred of boring battles.Thus, we get a being born alongside his blade that's always happy with him, and loves to see his battles especially the enjoyable ones. Which is shown that is he wanted to be weak enough to lose to a lieutenant level Ichigo. Which would kinda explains why as the story continues she's still around, and also why in the war ark she unleashed her own abilities proving the insane levels of compression on compression of power. Further I mean she can branch off parts of the shikai and bankai as the spirits with her the main spirit Kenpachi's close to. Then poof she's gone, all that power returns to Kenpachi (think of when Naruto re-activated sage mode during the Pain fight), and that is why his bankai turns him into a literal Oni god.

I like the dynamic between Yachiru and Byakuya. She steals his koi while in cat disguise, makes secret passage doors and tunnels all through his home, and only shows up to his calligraphy club for snacks. But he is so sweet to her. The death glare he gives Renji when Renji says that Byakuya has found a way to make her go away is Everything. 🥺

Giving it some thought, Kubo most definitely told them for the anime to keep Zaraki and Yachiru from the Soul Society during the filler with Masamune to keep their reveal in the final arc. Remembering all the sprinkled, throw away dialogue between them during Soul Society Invasion arc.

Always wondered what happened to her during the final arc. I thought she disappeared temporarily but then cam back and everyone could see her.

Please do an Ikakku video! Kinda interesting when you realize that both Zaraki and Unohana are the two characters in the series with zanpakuto that completely break the few established rules- with zero explanation as to what they are?

Yachiru being his Zanpakuto spirit makes the most sense with his immense power and being usual why she managed to split off from him at some point. My guess from her Shikai is that Kenpachi much like Ichigo is a weird mix of different things, with Yachiru's Shikai actually showing perhaps the three part to him. His Hollow side (which seems to be the most prevalent given his bankai), his Shinigami side, and then some third side. What that other part is I'm not quite sure granted it could probably be many different things.

There’s also the scene in the anime when Kenpachi is killing off a bunch of thugs in the forest and after he’s done killing all of them and sits down bored in the forest. That’s when he sees yachiru hiding underneath a tree with a nice good looking kimono as she starts to crawl towards him to touch he’s sword and she’s happy and excited touching all the blood and seeing all the dead bodies around her. And he leaves the forest with her in his arms taking her in like his own daughter.

Man I just started rewatching bleach and got to Kenny’s first fight, perfect timing

Just realised that the thing of soul reapers and their zanpakuto being the same but only a bit different from one another, is the same as that a shikai is the same as a bankai but also a bit different(how a bankai has to somewhat resemble a shikai), nice little detail kubo

Kubo explains this on a fan Q&A somewhat recently. Yachiru is indeed Kenpachi's Bankai spirit whereas Nozorashi is an older woman. It's the difference between Zangetsu and Tensa Zangetsu... 😅 Also she was given the name Yachiru and became an individual person cause of that, it's why she could have a Zanpaktuo of her own 😂

My head cannon is the it's like stark but stronger like maybe that could of been another mental block him splitting his power