URAHARA KISUKE vs ASKIN NAKK LE VAAR - Bleach Battle ANALYSIS | A Question of Mortality 

It's been a long time since the last battle analysis, so I wanted to kick things off again with a battle I really enjoy! Let me know what you thought of the fight and keep an eye open for an upcoming poll to determine the next battle analysis video - thanks guys!

When urahara talks about always being prepared, it's honestly one of the most iconic motivations or fears in all of anime. It is really sinister because in that moment he comes across as a man both obsessed and terrified of death, or possibly something worse than death, failure. Such a chilling scene I can't wait to see it animated

I loved Urahara's comment about always being prepared for every possibility. It reminds of when Aizen got the drop on him in the Turn Back the Pendulum arc. It's like Urahara has become obsessed with never letting that happen again. As if that betrayal and subsequent "trial" has left a permanent scar on his psyche

Wow. It's crazy how in-tune with the characters Kubo is. The way Urahara won this battle is similar to how they won against Aizen with Urahara coming out of the blue to finish off Aizen.

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this fight was the only one that was confusing to read for me

Such a great breakdown, you get me so hyped for the anime!

if kisuke urahara was a DC character he would be batman but a batman that is also an invetor to a larger degree than a detective

Been waiting for this for a long time

Had to pause to write this because i love your videos so much 😅😁 i am SO glad its a bit more graphic, its one of the things that really killed ot for me during some of the better fights, it underwhelmed them, ichigo v ulquiorra especially. Although ofcourse kts now technically 'graphic content', it adds so much more depth the every scene. Kubo really pulled off the tybw arc woth this, even though its source was rushed, it would have been so much less impactful if he'd done the graohic scenes like the arrancar arc

i mean its clear that he can modify his body in ways that dont obey the laws of physics so why didnt he idk modify his body to say metabolize poison and convert it into reishi or something to that effect i mean he thinks of every contingency to prevent his death in battle and he possesses an unparalled intellect it just seems like the most logical thing to do or hell that's what i would do if i had his power

Askin got some jojo vibes to him

I think U bankai is kool but I was a bit disappointed cuz of the few hints we did get. Crimson princess, like blood. And chad asking to train against a bankai reply not mine it would kill u. So I was think 1 that was just plain deadly no matter what kinds like shunsui will kill boater what. Drown than head gone

I really appreciated the involvement of Yoruichi, the God of Thunder Thighs

Askin was always odd to me, all the rest of the sheutstafel are basically God's. Two pieces of the soul king and the lille who needs to be killed with a God killing weapon... Then there's Askin, just a regular quincy who's mad strong.

Love the fight but I will disagree with you on Kisuke's Bankai not having enough build up, because I think it perfectly fits his character. His Shikai is flashy like how Kisuke acts most of the time, but his Bankai is simple, understated, and lethal without warning, mercy, or concern for looks or honor.

Benihime is also the opposite of Ashisogi Jizo in a way. Mayuri restructures his bankai, while Urahara's bankai restructures him

The anime battle with Yoruichi is going to have to be TV-MA...

The thing I love about this arc is that you can really see what Byakuya meant when he said that Bankai are the pinnacle of Shinigami's power. Before this arc, the most destructive Bankai were Hitsugaya's and Byakuya's ones. They were cool but you could clearly see their weakness and how there still was space to improve. Byakuya, by shinigami standard, is in his 20s, while Toshiro is still a child. Then this arc came and we witnessed what a fully developed Bankai looks like: an unstoppable force that destroy anything it touch.

Impaling people with his arm is kinda Grimmjow's whole schtick...

Battle of the... Stylistically inclined? Look, they had an interesting and great fight, it's just hard to give it a title.

Prelude to this fight: Funniest moments in bleach: Yoruichi is on the floor paralyzed and Kisuke arrives and he's like " damn, this is a nice view"

The only reason why I can't rank this as the highest battle is because of how they rushed his Bankai and didn't get into his past. I also enjoy Urahara's contrast with his quotes about having thousands of scenarios and basically saying "war is about survival and I only need one strategy to work." Askin was NOT ready for this. There were chills when I read this.

I like that Kisuke disparaged Askin’s opinion so much that he praises Mayuri by comparison.

If they make this fight longer in the anime it will easily become my favorite bleach fight. Crazy how in 3 chapters and a rushed bankai Kisuke and Aizen still had one of the best fights in the war

Askin's motive being sheer morbid curiosity made him an even better character than he already was. Curiosity has been one of the most powerful motivations throughout human history, specifically in the scientific field, for bad and for good. Having a villain whose motivation is "I'm interested to see what happens" is actually quite rare, and a breath of fresh air.

This fight was so sick, Askin revealing his abilities were awesome. Not to mention Urahara getting a sick fight

Imagine the absolute hatred that Mayuri would feel when he learns what Kisuke's bankai can do. The man has to spend countless hours surgically modifying himself and his bankai in various painful ways, and then here's Kisuke who just has to think about it and he's bodying people who are beyand bankai level like it's nothing. The candy shop owner couldn't just NOT one up the mad scientist.

I like how this fight showed Kisuke's willingness to use others before stepping up to the plate himself via turning Yoruichi into a mindless beast, no doubt giving us a possible explanation for their apparent falling out after the war. Grimmjow finishing Askin was pretty out of left field given nothing was really heard of him since the fight with Opie.

I've rewatched the turn back the pendulum arc, and in the scene where kisuke charges at aizen and slashes off his lieutenant patch. Couldn't he have just picked that patch up and shown in to central 46 as proof that aizen was in fact in the woods that night?

Never read the manga, but could listen to Mr Tommo talk about it all day.

I know it doesn't show the stitching on Askin, but what if when Urahara split his arm, he was restructuring his Deathdealing ability. I mean, there has to be a reason why Urahara did it, his ability doesn't simply just attack someone, it's modifying them in some way.

Kisuke bankai looks like Retsu Unohana

Even though i agree there could`ve been more build up for Urahara`s bankai and that Kubo was pressed with time, I also think its because of the nature of the characters, Kyoraku is a scene maker, likes some acting, when he was introduced to fight chad Kubo even made fun of it by having Nanao throw petals, but Urahara is the complete opposite, he doesn`t do no ceremony, doesn`t talk to much about himself or his abilities, and doesn`t really like the spotlight, so his bankai being less ceremonial and more to the point makes sense character wise

That is the perfect bankai for him. I've only watched the anime but when you told me what his bankai is it totally made sense. He analyzes and adapts to everything in the anime. Like when he tells Yammy your attack will not hit me again. Then he goes on the whole spill about how he has analyzed and adjusted. I'm so hype for this arc

Definitely one of my favorite fights. Urahara’s Bankai is perfect and Askin was a freakin tank that went up against some monsters. I feel like the fight was short because Kisuke knew he had to put Askin down quickly, the odds were not in their favor. I hope the anime extends it a little though. I would say this is my second favorite fight in the series, behind Shunsui vs Lille. Shunsui vs Lille Kisuke and company vs Askin Shunsui and company vs Stark Renji vs Mask Nimaiya vs The Sternritter (yeah I know it ended up being pretty meaningless but he was just so cool 😓)

I would love to see a Shinji character analysis

Yooo this is one of my favorite fights in the entire manga this is hype!

I think Kubo got a lot of inspiration for this arc from Fullmetal Alchemist. Askin's motivations are basically the same as Solf J. Kimblee, and the concept of Yhwach doling out aspects/powers to his closest underlings is the same as Father with the Homunculi

*LORE:* According to Ichibē the Monk, no Zanpakuto has vastly different powers from Shikai to Bankai. This presents a problem with Benihime, Kisuke's Zanpakuto, since it is used multiple times in the series and seems to be Kido based. *Theory:* Kisuke's Zanpakuto allows him to create and modify structures. In his Shikai form, it is his Reitsu. In his Bankai, it is a territory. It is a bit of a stretch but it would be in keeping with the Lore.

There's one thing I found interesting about Urahara's bankai is actually looking back at Mayuri's fight with Pernida, Mayuri restructures his arm in that fight. I think thats his way of trying to upstage Urahara by doing to his arm, what it takes for Urahara to use his bankai.

Askin is the type of enemy to say: “That’s a nice argument but I will still kill you” when confronted about his beliefs.

These Quincy's are thousands year old human beings we should discuss this point, as how could this be ?

Ishinn, Urahara, and Aizen are all in a league of their own. Imagine if Ishinn didn't link his soul to Ichigo's mother, how unstoppable Ishinn would be.

I dug the whole thing a lot but I was disappointed in what was done with Yoruichi, that business with Urahara turning her feral (against her will?) was kinda weird and I wanted to see her bankai and I felt they could switch places with Grimmjow in the narrative It would've been cool to see Yoruichi and Grimmjow work together with the whole feline motif

Imagine if Kisuke was a villain....

So my one thing I would add to Kisuke’s Bankai would to extend some of its shikai’s powers to the Giant Doll. Like it would be awesome if it could erect a Giant Crimson Shield or shoot some Kind of Crimson Blast, and Kisuke can just manually improve those techniques as he needs to, if in fact they want to make this fight longer in the anime.

I love how Urahara fought someone who looks like a bootleg Aizen

Grimmjow is so Bad Azz! And his drip in this arc is top tier.

Would you like a few chapters from Kubo on Yoroichi and Urahara, similarly to the 10 chapters we got after the Naruto series ended? I was going to type that maybe the anime could do some sort of filler arc(we all know that plagues anime) on the backstory with input from Kubo, but I don't think that would do it justice

Me when Grimmjow kills Askin: Fatality (reference to mortal kombat)

I like when he ran from Grimmjow 😂😂😂😂

I always thought that both Kisuke and Grimmjow were saved and then healed by Nel. Child Nel can heal people with her spit so I imagine that adult Nel has even greater healing powers.

I had always thought Asken was Ywach's sense of wonder personified. Him wanting to see the change but with a literal cognitive dissonance from Ywach

cant wait for the episode where Urahara slap that AMAZING ass

I actually really liked the understated nature of the bankai reveal! I thought it fit his character just as perfectly as the ability itself

Well as short as this fight was it was great nonetheless. Askin was no doubt my favorite Sternritter as soon as he showed up. Just his presence and his attitude for me make him really likeable. For some reason he reminds me a bit of Stark being the laid back and sort of grounded one. Hopefully when the anime comes back they extend the fight a bit. I'm sure Kubo would want that since he didnt get to do all he wanted

ooh ive been eagerly waiting to see you talk about this fight this is one of my favorite fights in the final half of the tybw

In the end it shows how similar Urahara and Mayuri are when sh!t gets real. Modification of own body to being prepared and planning contingency to every events that may happen in a fight. No wonder Mayuri was Urahara's prodigy.

Dude I love your verbiage and comparative analysis I don’t know what kind of schooling you’ve had but just… just write a book or something

Kisuke > batman with prep time 😂

I hope the anime does not censor Youruichi. She looks so good in that cat form. Sexy and badass.

you forgot about yoruichis brother also fighting askin. Askin KOed yoruichi, grimmjow, yoruichis brother and had to have the help of neliel to defeat him in the end.. askin the real MVP

Askin is a JoJo character in bleach LMAO

You cannot convince me that this wasn't a JoJo battle transplanted to Bleach and that Askin wasn't a minor JoJo villain. It's pretty great. That being said, this battle was one of the worst victims of the rushed ending of the TYBW arc, and I hope beyond hope the anime actually shows everyone escaping the Gift Ball Deluxe at least.

Urahara vs Askin and Mayuri vs Perneidas are my favourite two battles from TYBW

I wish his ability is Q "The Question" so he can start "Askin" questions. Sorry, had to do it.

MR TOMMO YOU LEGEND I DIDNT KNOW YOU LIKED GEARS OF WAR!

Maybe I need to read it again, but I find it kind of infuriating that we don't know if Kisuke actually dies after his battle with Askin. There's a very similar outcome after Kyoraku's final battle. He just collapses after some closing words. However, in Kyoraku's case, we find that he survives in the final chapters. While there is a couple pages of Nel mounting a rescue for Urahara and Yoruichi, we don't know if anyone is actually still alive for her to rescue. Maybe I'll just choose to believe that Urahara and Yoruichi are still alive.

I think it's cool that, in a way, Urahara's Bankai removes the necessity of Prep time. Urahara can almost just make shit up on the fly without having to have pre-planned and actually worked on something for a significant amount of time. It's like giving Batman time manipulation. Also an awesome detail I just noticed. The fingers that Kisuke restructures with the stitches are the fingers that are the most responsible for grip strength and power in human anatomy. About Urahara mentioning Rukia, I think it's nice, I see Urahara mentioning Ichigo and Rukia is almost a honor or respect thing. Bleach is literally the story of Urahara and Aizen simultaneously manipulating Ichigo and Rukia's lives. Urahara leaving things to them is almost like a passing of the torch. He has spent all of Bleach pushing them in the direction they had to go for the world to have a chance of survival, but now he's not going to be there to give them the extra nudges and help, and he's kind of praying that he had prepared them enough for what the future would hold for them. even though it did feel weird since Rukia doesn't get to do anything after this, she's not even with Renji and Ichigo when they go after Juha at the end. Don't know why. Maybe Kubo just didn't have time for her to do anything there so he just let her stay out of it rather than make her be there and not do anything?

Askin has the Will of D

Regardless of how short it is, I still think this is one of the best fights in the entire series. I really do hope the anime would expand this fight. I really hope they'd ask Kubo how he wants this fight to play out originally and apply it to the anime.

Grimmjow stole askin heart

With this fight, I honestly expected, given the stitching being behind asken. That at some point kisuke would have allowed his hand to be cut off to rip askens heart out from behind himself. Like you were saying, asken was playing checkers while Kisuke was playing 4D chess. Lol

Yoruichi so fine 😩

Does anyone knows where to get the colored manga scans?

First !

So Kisuke's bankai is the fullmetal alchemist then?

9:10 That is a given, based on Urahara's combat training with Ichigo and Ichigo's first match with Kenpachi. Reiatsu quality and quantity are based on will, on self confidence and bravery, on sheer conviction. Askin is confident in his guile and intelligence, his arrogance and self assurance is not on full display via boasts, its more understated but it is there.

this was my favorite SS fight, with my fave SS...it wasnt as long as the other ones sadly. Id have loved to see Tessai and the shop kids get involved.

Makes you wonder why Kisuke didn't use his Bankai to separate the Hogyoku from Aizen during the better part of Bleach.

I do like that once he uses bankai, the fights over. Like urahara will fight long game with Shikai but cant let ppl know his bankai

I didn’t like that Urahara survived, the villains suffered massive casualties where as the heroes barely lost anyone in something that was supposed to be a huge reality changing war.

Part of me feels like there gonna be like there isn't going to be a TYBW Bleach anime adaption, we decided we can't do it sorry.

Im kinda disappointed we never got to see the aftermath of that fight. Itd be fun to see Yoruichi's response to urahara forcing the change. Shes always his ride or die but she'd still be annoyed and itd be funnt

I hope when the anime comes back they extend ALL of the battles and we get all the back stories and bankis that we should have got in the manga

One thing I will say is that this dude understands the RU-vid algorithm and the watch time abs pacing of his words dragging 2 chapters into a watchful 30 minutes we already knew lol good show

When you realize Askins Vollständig is just weaponized gonorrhea

Something people forget is that Kubo was sick writing a bit of the script while from his hosiptal bed and it was halfway through the arc they dropped hey you have to wrap this up. your're not getting the two three years you were promised. I hope when it comes to the Anime Kub gets to write the story he wanted too from the start.

I hope this and many other fights in the arc gets extended in the anime plz

I didnt get how grimmjow and nelliel know where to be and at the right time for grimmjow to enter the gift ball...

Jojo character kek

So here's my question and really a great hypithetical topic for a video, imo. Askin was CHOSEN to be in the Big 4 at the end because I'm guessing Gremmy was dead so he got chosen? Even he seemed surprised at the end he was summoned there. Unlike the other three who clearly had titles and parts of the Soul King (which is why I assume Gremmy was the 4th *book spoilers*) So couldn't ANY of the Sternritters have been chosen? Their powers are all essentially one gigantic pool of power. Juha seems to give them a fragment of his own power and then takes it back with all the growth it had achieved in whoever it was gifted to. So essentially the fewer quincy he spread his power amongst the stronger they get. Askin was the last non-Soul King Sternritter aside from Hasch whom Nazi Jesus hadn't repo'd their powers. Imagine an As Nodt in that position. Or a Mask. Or Giselle. I always wondered what the breadth of their power would have been in that same position. Askin's power as a tool for Ywach to use seemed far more beneficial to him so I imagine he was chosen for that.

Just curious is there a reason Kisukes Bankai also resembles Unohana? Can bankais physical form take the form of someone they think about or hold dear or respect/admiration for? Byakuyas bankai is cherry blossoms which his wife Hisana loved seeing bloom and fall. Renjis used to be a monkey with a snake on its tail then later became a woman and a young kid as the monkey. Same goes for the other LTs and captains with their zampakto when they were released in that filler arc, Captain Ukitake had 2 kids as it’s physical body release cause he’s a loving caring guy who also loves kids and byakuya has the samurai warrior who’s stoic and mysterious with that mask he wears and so on with others so… what do u think, does his manakin resemble Unohana or is it someone else I’m forgetting?

I must b the only disappointed in how asking lost

I'm not sure if it's your enthusiasm or what, but I remember being nowhere near as engaging. You made it sound really, really good. Sidenote: Am I the only one that thinks it's interesting that Kisuke's Bankai is a woman and Mayuri's Bankai is a baby? I'm not saying that they are directly connected. However, you got to admit that, these two scientist rivals having Bankai's that are in the same genre has got to mean something.

I loved Askin. Ever since he just left the twelfth division feeling like the fight would be too much, I've wanted to see more. That said I think structure wise the fight is fine, but needed more panels expanding on the actions of the characters. For example, more applications of Urahara's bankai.

Great job! You added a lot helpful insight into this moment.

I always called askin back then as "that Quincy who does the joestar secret technique "

Honestly it sucks Yoruichi loses so often