Top 13 BIGGEST LOSERS of TYBW, Ranked - Who are the WORST Characters of the Final Arc? (2024) 

Isane didn’t make your list because losing still counts as something. She did literally nothing during this arc.

Seriously, if they actually off-screened Robert's death, I will actually scream because the Sternritter need more character, not less. Also, I do not like Soi Fon, so I really hope the anime doesn't include her in the final Askin battle instead of Yuushirou.

I'm surprised Iba didn't get at least an honorable mention. We go through the entire series without ever getting to see him do anything. I would say you could even use him for your forgotten characters series except he has to be actually remembered at some point in order to be forgotten.

Worst treated characters for me will have to go with Soi Fon, Chad, Meninas & Liltotto. Now the reason why I added both Meninas & Liltotto is because they had less screen time in the manga. I was one of the people that really wanted to see more of Meninas and more of her abilities and also see her go toe toe toe with an opponent. And the same goes for Liltotto since she’s the strongest out of the Bambi group. And as for Chad, I feel as though he’s been largely ignored in this arc in the manga version. But hopefully in the anime he’s given more screen time even if he’s given an episode dedicated to him which that would make the fandom happy. Also I disagree with you on Kubo giving up on Chad. It’s not that he legit gave up on him. I think it’s because he’s been dealing with so many characters that he didn’t have time to work on and utilize. And the last but not least Soi Fon, I hate the fact that she’s gone out of the story after being shot down by Lille Barro. I really want to see her team up with Yoruichi against Askin. That to me would be awesome if that happened. So that’s pretty much it.

Every generation has that one line.

Nah gojo just weak asf, yamamoto got his powers stolen. Go / Jo just a fraud

@@whatdoiknow8654 I thought Sukuna had to take someone else's power to beat him?

​@@HOLDENPOPEand Gojo got to go all out without worrying about a couple of Special Grades jumping him afterwards. The 258 leaks are out by now, so yeah, it was never close.

why am I seeing fucking JJK leaks talk under a Bleach video ​@@cattoduke6286

only reason he ain't here is due to him having a cold ass panel in the manga

My guy Bazz-B made light work of him and those seated officers😭

@@ThePaleMorning unironically looking to see it animated and maybe get an extended fight treatment in the anime against gaggle of Barro's

True, he deserved do much more

Izuru probably isn't in the list because, despite his one-shot during the first invasion, he managed to get a win against a (pretty strong) Sternritter, if we count the mini-novel dedicate to him. Hope the anime is going to include that part, as neither him nor Shaz Domino were marked as dead by Kubo with his usual "dead arts".

Robert was bestowed the Schrift "N", "The Nothing"

robert "the nah, i'd win"

The Schrift N! The "Nothing"

SternRitter N: nah, I forgot

The schrift "N" " The Non-existent"

Yhwach: no more plot armor unless I merked your mother

@@kakashihatake1029Which is ironic cuz his ability is literally plot armor

True surprisingly they didn’t

They did use their mask. Well, Hiyori did. It did fuck all.

Please don't bring this up. My heart can't take it

​@@clydu91yeah but just her.

Even if Kubo simply decided one line to saying that hollow masks were forbidden. Or something like that. I would have been satisfied

anime realy saved em ong.

Even Kubo was like bro I fucked up with them let's change that in the anime

The anime came in clutch defending them from the fraud allegations

@@0Rosanna yea. unfortunately it opened up a whole can of worms with yama and squad zero. i personally got him over them outside ichibe and maybe senjumaru

​​@@Pengu386 my assumption with all that, is that they knowingly allowed him to weild the same caliber of power as the other royal guard members, but also had him stay the leader of the court guard, *specifically meant to be a failsafe* against potential threats manifesting at that level of the sereitei, specifically ywach's inevitable return and the likes of aizen coming into play. Reminder that even though he still ages, he had no active hindrance to release his bankai, at the very least not to the degree of the other royal guard members (as in they are physically not allowed to be all alive and also unleash their full powers. Only one may exist unfettered, at most.) (note, i also consider ichibei to be a completely separate situation to the other royal guard members; iirc, he predates everyone else in the series, including the soul king if I got that info right. He may very well have been the one to make the situation where there's always a Yamamoto in the sereitei... I kinda assume ichigo is meant to replace yama, honestly) In that sense, I think the intended narrative for the royal guard was always meant to be at the same or similar level as Yamamoto, as they would all have a similar effect on the world around them without any restraints. That all said.... Fuck if I know how that way of viewing things will pan out if they move forward with hell arc. Lmao, puts a couple holes in that theory, if Yamamoto, unohana, and some other crazy overpowered previous captains/enemies end up attacking the damn soul society, ngl.

oh so he getting the chad and visord treatment too. They make them look strong only to be used as benchmarks of how strong the opponents are.

Yeah. Hisagi didn't deserve to catch so many Ls in one arc

@@briankao6833 disagree, he usually gives a reason for why shinji loses (cocky), chad was always sidelined and would take out fodder compared to what Ichigo would face (never understood it either). The visoreds aside from Shinji and Hachigen were hyped up to be powerful so that they could showcase the threat that was the Espada being so powerful that even they were struggling/failing to beat them. Hisagi came in out of nowhere, defeated a Hollow who claimed to be captain level (his statements were super accurate before, so I don't see why he would be wrong at the end), then traded blows with a perfected Hollowfied captain and was able to sneak past his defenses to kill said captain (granted his defenses weren't as great as before). After that, he was taken out by a spirit monster that forced Yamamoto to intervene in order to remove it from the battlefield. My honest guess is that Hisagi was at least closely inspired by someone Kubo either doesn't like or stopped liking at this point 😂

Yeah you feel wrong, Kubo give time to much more important characters in this arc, Hisagi got a whole protagonism in the novel.

Yh i disagree there. That's how he made most of the vizards act as a excuse to explain their abilities which most other characters dont do. Ain't no logical way Mask was gonna win against 2 100+ yr experienced captain level shinigami with hollow masks. Kubo broke so much power scaling just from that one fight and making renji who just got the true name of his bankai literally out of pity by ichibei. Bro didnt even earn it himself💀💀​@maxkogan3785

As a huge Vizard fan and Shinji being my favourite character, it pains me to attest I called the same 😂

Same bro😂. Shinji is so saucy but is a bum.​@@jf922

​@@ethanleongsem7582shoot I like Kensei the most out of them but bro is a bum too 😂

Though to be honest I see more in Shinji's case is him having less time of fighting screentime. Since yes Bambi dropped him but there are lot of scenes that followed where Shinji is implied and in dialogue is doing something. Other Vizards went out there just to lose.

​@@darknesswave100the truth hurts me

There is kinda no point in Ikkaku going Bankai though since it is already broken. So technically it's Yumichika not using full potential. Though despite that at least they can still keep Getting some parts in the war. You could say that them not treating a "specific fight" like that could be their "last fight thus they go all out with everything they got" is the very reason why they kept surving up until the very end

​@@Snzn18yumichika the goat. That's why he survived as long as he did

*Of Bleach, ftfy

Read cfyow niga​@@rdxvvvvv

honestly, its a good competition between him and Renji, on one side Renji had more screentime, thus more battles and by extension way more Ls than Hisagi, alternatively, Renji did got some Ws and has Bankai in canon, while Hisagi's win ratio, much like his Bankai, is non-existence outside of side-material basically, Renji lost-battle count is bigger than Hisagi, but Hisagi's Win-Defeat ration is worse then Renjis. Not counting filler its Renji's 2:8 while Hisagi is 1:5

Well he did.

To be fair, he was literally standing there doing nothing like an idiot while Yhwach killed him. I get it's because he knows he lost but he could've at least tried to dodge a few attacks and then he goes down standing. I mean if I were Old man Yama. I would've still tried to dodge.

I think what he means is that in the end his death felt a bit cheap. The yourself reveal is a largely polarised debate

Probably cause his death felt anticlimactic and cheap

He did lose. Lost his vice captain and died.

I’m glad she became a zombie, I hated that bitch

Cand du did not even had one fight utilizing how he can fight with his schrift and most of his face fights is more of him just using Hyourinmaru. At least BG9 was able to use his robot stuff, Cang du can't even flex his Kung fU skills

Bambi trash and only got popular for a dumb reason

@@allworksnewcuz booba

One day us Shinji fans will see our boy get a win

Sad part is he has a sick zanpakuto and became a captain but kubo was like nah you'll get bodied by bambietta. At least the anime gave him his bankai

Definitely feel this way. I kinda wish Mayuri beat Pernida still but died after. Too many captains survived overall

@@cian239 after everything he's done Mayuri should have died, to a quincy it would be even more fitting

I completely disagree, he highlighted the characters that had the most potential, all the others had a purpose, it would be impossible to give them all a lot of time, Sternriters were by far the strongest and most dangerous enemies, you saying that they seem weak It's a terrible take.

​@@felipez3115I agree with you on the point that the sterns weren't weak but the complete opposite and are stupidly op. But with important characters like kenpachi. I understand kubo wants to tackle the different relationships with zanpakuto but I wished he could've given the same treatment to characters like yumichika or rangiku aswell. I can understand mayuri, bro carried the gotei hard but with kenpachi it feels he has it easier compared to other captains ngl. Like the first three sterns he killed was one who just turned into a gorilla, one who's whole power is yapping and one who takes on the powers of opponents(only understandable one cuz he always evolves). When it came to gremmy he didn't even win gremmy just glazed him to the point he killed himself. And with Gerrard nobody could've killed him so kubo had ywach do it. Compare that to the typa ppl mayuri be soloing or the complete opposite way kubo writes the vizards, making them explain their abilities and not using their hollow masks which are poison to quincy to make it more realistic to Why they lose. Kubo is babying kenpachi.

What? The Sternritters felt so OP that no one even understands how the shinigami defeated them lmao

Probably including all the vizard as well as Robert and BG9 for not having revealed their Schrift. Maybe even 0 Division because of Manga but lets see If he will still include them. And what about Kon?

​@@joelschittenhelm5571bruh kon is a winner. Kon went to a place aizen never could

Offscreen storytelling, making it feel like the world is actually moving when we aren't looking at it

OP has 1k episodes.... Bleach has like 200 something excluding the fillers

It’s pretty simple, it comes down to the scale of the setting. In Bleach and Naruto, the world is small with well defined boundaries. There are a limited number of locations for events to play out. Major events have to involve everyone because there’s nowhere else for them to be and nothing else for them to be doing. In One Piece, the world is massive and to this day still not fully explored. The main cast are always on the move rather than being stationed in one central location. Settings are designed to be moved on from, which allows curation of which ideas and characters return in the future and which remain where they are.

Three reasons. 1. The main is not really doing much beyond Luffy. People will lie and pretend that guys like Robin, Chopper, Brook, and Franky are still doing things because "Being a doctor is their job" (that's like saying that Unohana's liutenant was great in the TYBW arc because she healed some people, even though she wasn't much of a character here). 2. One Piece has over 1000 manga chapters and over 1000 anime episodes. 3. The series hasn't ended. Once the series ends and the hype dies down, people are going to look back and realize how some characters were mishandled. For example, guys like Shanks, Akainu, and Dragon are VERY important because of different reasons and haven't done much throughout the series on screen. Therefore, when is their time to shine, they need to deliver or they are going to be disappointed.

Oda did fall into this with Wano and the Big Mom Pirates to an extent

Chad had huge potential.

Chad was already a known jobber for a while at this point. Him being sidelined to fight golem was indeed tragically terrible writing, but atleast we already knew that he wasn't doing anything. The vizards, on the other hand, were still "kind of hype" coming into the arc. They still had things to prove. But the only thing they proved was that they were all fodder to be one shot by sternritters. Massive L.

Yeah, but we as an audience had largely given up on Chad by the time of TYBW. We still had expectations and hope for these Captain+ level Vizords.

​@@SpookyGhostGoku Yep. Chad has been a loser since the arrancar arc, unfortunately. He took his L a long time ago.

Yeah there’s no way to swing it, Vizards took the biggest L this arc. At least Chad didn’t job on screen like he did during Arrancar and SS arcs

Want to sue YT?

Was an hour for me. Thats 60x your waiting time. Guess YT doesnt like me

Fr fr. Absolutely no manners. Platforms these days, amiright?

The 0.1% of the people who have notifs on are actually real???

@@joelschittenhelm5571 I feel your pain! Who's your biggest TYBW loser?

Shes one of the few who absolutely deserves the treatment she got from Kubo. She has not once put any significant effort since day 1 of bleach and as experienced as she is she wonders why shes still a lieutenant and the weakest one at that. Her own zanpakuto hates her and called her out for how trash she is as a lieutenant. She deserves all the punishment she got and deserves more

​@@Villainarc_Leodamn where did she hurt you 😂

@@darknesswave100 I mean, he isn’t entirely wrong. Rangiku shirks her duties 90% of the time and uses her good looks and flirtiness to dodge accountability when she drops the ball. Toshiro usually ends up doing all her paperwork and she’d rather get drunk and goof off than do her actual job. She’s a fan favorite because of her design and flirtatious nature, but she’s a pretty meh character otherwise.

​@@Villainarc_LeoWeirdo. Just because she has flaws doesn't mean she deserved bad treatment from Kubo and deserved what she got and deserves more punishment 🤦🏽

"fan favorite".......? Or do you mean fanservice favorite!

I absolutely agree with this message. It's insane how little Isane has been explored and employed. Tbh Kubo should just say fuck it and give her some new cool power so she has a chance to fight. Perhaps turn her into an arrancar or something. IDK man literally anything is fine with me. I only want to see her be put to good use for once.

Learn what the work masochistic means😂

@@Villainarc_Leo "A masochist is someone who derives pleasure from pain or humiliation, either self-imposed or imposed by others. The term comes from the name of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, an Austrian writer who wrote about the pleasure he gained from being beaten and subjugated." I was referring to the nature of Hisagi's bankai, Fushi no Kōjō, which requires the user to willingly suffer a great deal of pain and injury in order to even out a fight that Hisagi ultimately can't ever win and requires an ally to finish the job. In other words, even Hisagi's own Zanpakuto (a piece of his own soul) wants him to suffer.

​@@Villainarc_Leothey know what the definition is. Do you? Hisagis bankai is pretty masochistic honestly

@@jackwitt7430 A sadist is soneone who enjoys inflicting pain onto others. A masochist is someone who enjoys inflicting pain upon themselves. Theres a difference my friend

@@Villainarc_Leo Sadistic in that Kubo seems to enjoy hurting Hisagi to the point that his Bankai, the representation of the deepest aspects of himself, is all about a masochistic need for having pain inflicted on him in order to drain his opponent's strength and the big joke is that he can't even do the finishing blow himself and needs an ally. Also: "A masochist is someone who derives pleasure from pain or humiliation, either self-imposed or imposed by others. The term comes from the name of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, an Austrian writer who wrote about the pleasure he gained from being beaten and subjugated."

I mean she still alive tho after all that abuse so she might show up in a hell arc with rest of the bambies bc all of them still alive well in zombie form for Bambi sadly.

Kinda reminds me of vegeta in dbz. He was only meant to be a one off villian but then he got majorly popular and then Toriyama (rip to the goat) after that barely gave him any wins the entirety of the series. The only fights he actually won were against the ginyus which most of them were already beaten and pui pui in the buu arc. He got clapped otherwise besides embarrassing imperfect cell

Yes, absolutely. I felt like it was *particularly* frustrating with Hisagi, Matsumoto, Kira and Hinamori specifically - because these four Lieutenants were *the* side characters Lieutenants that showed the most promise early on in the manga, and they were definitely the ones I expected to shine a little more in the last arc.

You can't be at war "If you can count the fighters with all of your fingers lol". Like you can't expect any war story to give everybody a lime light.

I don't expect that, "lol." He should have had more characters that are just a name and that's it, like some of the squad 11 guys. He just has too many characters that require development. He's built up their backstories, invested quirks and unique powers into them. Fans expect development with these types of characters, but Kubo kept dumping wave after wave of new characters. I think he should have just featured the Shinigami, the Quincies, and a few Arrancar, and developed them really well. The Fullbringers are a totally unnecessary group, for example.

@@TheKnellBelle if you are talking about just within the "TYBW" with the total chapters it had, It's not likely that all the sternritters will have enough time to be fleshed out even if you remove all full bringer parts within that arc. Like look at the Gotei 13 like they have been there since soul society and we still haven't got what IBA and Isane's Zanpakuto do. Also with the scope of how the Bleach story is structured "a large cast is definitely a necessary thing for it" Because pretty early on the story did jump to a amin arc that involve like a big organization then the story went on to do a more larger scale than that. Also yes the fans do expect something probably more but again this is where most shonen fans forget that is a part of any media. There are the so called "unique writing style that each authors" and often shonen forget that Mangala will write things differently from other mangakas, yes there are Authors that will introduce character wand will try his best to include all the character backstory within the story but there are also author's who will cut those out if that will not be necessary in moving the story forward. It's not also guaranteed that it will be for the good of the story if Kubo actually flesh out character's since if you had read Bleach thus far he writes stories in a way that don't really necessitate characters telling their backstories or that he don't structure the story so each fight the enemies will have some heavy handed backstory in the middle of it. And also another thing is the weekly reviews back then we're like kinda brain dead sometimes and they will like spam "disappointment" or scream "bad" whenever a Bleach chapter that is mostly dialogue actually drop. Since the dumb fans won't get their weekly dopamine shot if their choice of big 3 isn't the hypest or as hype as the other big 3 chapter that week. And like the few shonen RU-vid back then are quite few back then and most of them reflects these hype mindedindset since all of them are also like just mere kids and teenagers back then.

Don't forget even in the CFYOW novels kubo is still humiliating hair and making her look like a joke yet all other bambis get a good ending even Giselle is made to look like a good and changed Guy but what I hate the most is the novels try to make Bambietta being under Giselle control look like a good thing it was sick and disgusting to read Bambietta deserved better

I think it's an example of going overboard. Why punishing Bambietta so much and other Quincy of Yhwach's army don't get the same treatment? It's bizarre.

@@kevintanza6968 it's because Kubo have a necrophilia fetish that's the only thing that can explain it other than that there is literally no reason other than making Bambietta fans suffer for no reason

@@kgkg7790 it's bc Kubo is a bad/weird writer. so many baffling fucking writing decisions. I never liked Bambi but everything that happened to her post losing to Komamura is just gross garbage. Kubo is overrated, there's better authors out there

@@protectedsouls415 kubo definitely not a good writer he always have favoritism for the soul reapers and always try to make them look good on the expense of other groups in bleach the Quincys are a good example of this he made them look like bunch of blood thirsty Monsters that love killing each other for no reason other than making the evil soul reapers look good

I think the fact that she’s a functional person at all after everything is a win for her. If not outright deceased, she should be in a catatonic state in an asylum.

Fax. Its horribly tragic.

I mean when you know why he's sick and all that and he's barely holding together as it is then it makes sense thematically but yeah it sucks his bankai wasnt ever shown

They already showed it not working against Aizen when he gave her that speech about battles being between spiritual pressure more than anything. If it didn't work on yet another opponent she'd look worse

These three went from 100 to 0 very fast in this arc.

he's a fraud

​@@protectedsouls415tbh K definitely feel that sentiment Literally everyone keeps blabbing on his lame ass being a prodigy but somehow every fight I see him in he gets his ass beat harder than a trailer park wife

99.99% The list of people, even on the list, is less than 20 people. If I included all of the humans and did a better estimate of Hollows and soul reapers, then there would be a lot more 9s at the end.

I bet you Yamamoto fangirls are always on drugs lol. 99% of bleach characters?? So you think asides from SK and yhwach Yamamoto is the strongest character lmao 🤣😂. Don't exclude those 2 just say Yamamoto is the strongest character in bleach maybe that would ease your depression lol

Kubo had no fuckin idea what he wanted to do with her I bet so he just didn’t care and made rushed everything with her. He wanted to focus on the fan favorites like Byakuya and Mayuri…. Gives her a cool shikai, makes her a master of flash step and other hoho techniques like cloning herself, and wind Shunko just to never have them be fuckin useful. Honestly lame considering she could be seriously dangerous if he actually lets her powers work for once.

Fire idea. I love it. Yhwach and Ukitake just so happen to be favorite 2 characters in the series as well lol. I'd like to think that in an alternate universe, this happened. He would Hage to made ridiculously strong which tbf I can imagine happening based on Nanao stating that Ukitake has ridiculously high reiatsu compared to other captains. And perhaps Mimihagi could give him some additional strength in a last ditch effort as the final barrier between Yhwach and his father

@kakashihatake1029 yeah I definitely think if Kubo wasn't dealing with his illness, we would have gotten a proper Ukitake fight. This idea feels almost as fanfictiony as Ywach vs Ichibei but imo Ukitake deserved that screen time because really he got no other development and it just feels like such a waste.

As a fan of chad since the beginning....bro couldn't beat up ghosts anymore so he unfairly switched to regular dudes

There's a problem with that though. His grandfather who he idolized told him to never use his fists for himself. That they were for protecting others. What does he do after the arc is over? Becomes a boxer with an unfair advantage who uses his fists to win fights. Sounds like he's fighting for himself to me

That's actually a good way to put it. His ability either works or it doesn't. It's not like say Senbonzakura that byakuya can use in a bunch of ways. It disorienting and that's it. He either uses it and embarrasses his opponent or they figure it out in 30 seconds like Aizen did. There's no in between

Well whoever wasn't nimaya or ichibe that is.