Let her become a servant of Sternritter L, fights a bit against former allies (maybe some who didnt get a lot of screentime or maybe the battle of the vize-captains alias her against hisagi), gets nocked out, is normal again without any explanation at the final chapter
The one thing this character always makes me question: How do souls and shinigami age? Rukia's sister died very young from illness, Hitsugaya clearly grew up a bit since the Everything but the Rain arc (slowly but he grew. Ichimaru Gin and Matsumoto Rangiku went from little kids to adulthood in less than a hundred years...and THEN there's Mashiro who's been a kid since Turn Back the Pendulum, and got to the rank of lieutenant (which takes some time to achieve) so she's what? 150-250years old child?
I'm still a firm believer that Mashiro used to use her zanpakto before being exiled and decided to emulate Kamen Riders after being in the World of the Living. Love, Rose, and Lisa all ended up kinda emulating some form of pop culture and Mashiro just took it to the extreme.
That's exactly what I interpreted too. Shinji aways had an interest for the human world technologies (like showed with the gramophone) and the other vizard all developed some hobbies from they 100 years living here in earth with us. Yes, that weird noise you heard the other day was a hollow!!
I think her whole thing was while she COULD maintain it for 15 hours without exhausting herself normally, while in the heat of battle she may not have the same stamina to maintain it how she normally can.
All I remember about her was that whilst she CLAIMED to be able to hold her mask for 15 hours, the first time we actually see her in a real fight it breaks after a couple of minutes. She is effectively the Vizard Chad. Plenty of build up as to how incredible he/she is only to fail miserably.
Nah, the manga made it clear that 15 hours was just the maximum, and it didn't account for her actually fighting or expending energy. Pretty sure the other Vizards called her a dumbass for not taking this into account.
Kensei says, "...wearing ourselves out fighting enemies of this level." It's pretty clear Mashiro is burning through her energy reserves at an incredible rate. So yeah, the 15 hours didn't apply to maximum output
I suspect that the issue with her hollowfication is this - As they said with Ichigo, the Hollow Within is primal, instinctual. Mashiro has basically no filter or restraint...she willingly runs on impulse and instinct most of the time already. So there's likely very little actual conflict between her and her inner hollow. But because she can be hollowfied for basically however long she wants due to that affinity, she doesn't actually train for it...so she has a shortage of stamina in general anymore. She has phenomonal power and attunment with her inner hollow, but her endurance under stress is like her self-control most of the time. Not that impressive.
Thats pretty close to how i interpreted it as well. All the other vizards are in a constant struggle to maintain control over their inner hollow, and only wear the mask when necessary, and thus are extremely aware of it. Whereas Mashiro lacks that inner struggle, so she doesnt recognize her own limitations.
I, for one, love the Vizards. They have such unused potential that no matter who I compare them to, I can always say "welp, at least they didn't end up like the Vizards". 💀
@@corruptangel6793 well the fact that he DIDN'T is what I mean. Movie, filler, OVAs. He does nothing and brings nothing new even when someone other than or in addition to Kubo has free reign. I don't know how much clearer this has to be for you.
I really hope they do show her protecting the students in the Anime, it would take only 2 to 3 minutes, and give extreme context to the themes of TYBW and Shunsui's reign.
@@Ninja-ixy More likely her Shikai/Bankai would be based around her Legs or some type of Armor/Power Suit covering her whole Body. Considering her Kamen Rider influence.With her Captain Kensei already having a Fist themed Shikai/Bankai. Pretty sure Kubo would differentiate her.
I have a feeling that she's actually able to hold her mask for a long period of time, however only when out of battle. During the fight, she may have overexerted herself and overestimated her ability to maintain control while in battle (a very childish mindset to have) and thus lost control of her mask mid-battle.
I was a junior in High School when I first read the Bleach manga. That scene in the past arc where Mashiro was dreaming about Kensei caught me SO off guard. My teenage mind was like “Oh……alrighty then.”
Mashiro might be in my top ten favorite characters in Bleach. Such a great character all around. As for how she and Kensai ended up Captain and Lieutenant, I think Kensai intentionally did it because he thought he could straighten her out or just to keep an eye on her.
I like the idea that she had her mask on for a while, went to sleep, the mask came off, then she accidentally summoned the mask before she woke up, and then she assumed that she had it on for the while time she was asleep or something.
Adding Mashiro defending the students in the anime would be a great way to show Atau and the other new soul reapers introduced in the Hell arc as students. The anime could add strong soldat commanders and generals that aren’t as strong as the sternritter but still strong enough to give other characters a chance to shine who didn’t get the opportunity in the manga. Letting Chad, Love, Ginjo, and others take out some high ranking Quincy soldat would be cool.
Chad is strong enough to take on Stërnritter, though, if we take at face value that the statues he ended up fighting were all at Captain-class reiatsu. Still, I do generally love the idea, especially with regards to the Fullbringers. Heck, maybe including Ginjo might be a way to obliquely include Tokinada as well.
@@lucasfranke5161 While more of them wouldn't be bad, I would prefer to see more Quincy soldiers show off basic Quincy techniques without access to Schrifts or Vollstandig. With regards to Arrancar soldiers, it's made very clear that the Wandenreich barely cares to recruit any and are more just using that as a pretext to commit a genocide on Hollows.
Whatever happened to the pixie creatures that give Orihime her shield powers? Kubo just left them on the wayside and just kind of explained them as her fullbring. She had a little ninja dude as her offense.
Kubo introduced billions of new & crazy concept then got tired and dropped them off😂😂😂😂, if he handled everything he Introduced bleach would probably hit 700-1000eps💔
I'd guess they still exist and are summoned whenever she uses her powers. Kubo just doesn't draw it. Just like we're probably supposed to assume the Sternritters are constantly using blut
I am pretty certain she was bluffing about the 15 hours since another vizard was telling her to release the mask. It could also be she can use it for 15 hours but only by using the minimum power increase and she has never actually pushed herself in training to realize the full power is limited.
read We Do Knott Always Love You & you'll find out where she was during TYBW's 2nd invasion. Kensei ordered her to protect the Academy & its students inside their dorms from the infiltrating Soldat coming in droves. she protested at first because she wanted to be on the front lines vs Sternritter, but he convinced her. Kensei also told her to mask up as well so she was.
I remember when the first invasion was coming out, I was so hyped for the visoreds to make an appearance. It seemed like such a perfect time to give them the spotlight since they'd have a way to bridge the power gap of not being able to use bankai against the Stern Ritter with their hollow masks. Mashiro especially since she didn't really use her zanpaktou anyways.
I think Mashiro was one of my favorite vizard, normally I’m used to like kensei who is stoic and serious who isn’t bad at all kensei is awesome, but mashiro was a nice break from that!
Mashiro: literally touching herself, while talking about how much of a "bad boy" her boss is, and making a kissy face MrTommo: *slightly dodgy dreams, barely even sus*
I always thought that Mashiro was able to keep her hollow mask for 15 hours, but under controlled circumstances. Being in an actual battle exchanging blows and firing ceros, that time gets substantially reduced.
16:48 I feel like she is simply dropping it. also yoruichi had to wear her zanpakuto in that flashback because at this point in time she was the leader of the stealth, and for them to stab their sword into the ground signal an execution
I love the Vizards, In School me and my friends made Bleach OC's and mine was a vizard. I hope the anime does more with them and I hope we get the Light novels animated also.
20:36 How ironic. Kensei’s hollow form has him impaled with several white rods, which seems to have been exactly what Mashiro was dreaming about just a handful of panels prior.
Considering he really did fuck all, it would have been WAY better to have Mashiro fight Llillinette in the battle against Stark rather than Ukitake. They’re very similar characters to begin with. Small, spunky, and with greenish hair
On the Kensei picking her as lieutenant I could imagine its a Toshiro style situation and she was already lieutenant when he became captain, although i would imagine he could of still demoted her so who knows.
I always thought there was a lot of potential for her. Mixing in ceroes with her kicks is honestly a really cool way of combing hollow powers and hakuda. Since Soi-fon and Yoruichi have Shunko, it made me think that she would be able to pull an ability more similar to Grimmjow's Desgarrón, making energy based attacks to fight.
Maybe Kubo tried to hint that Mashiro and Kensei had a relationship? There's a few panels that suggest that at least Mashiro likes him in some level, even back 100 years ago. Would also explain why she went back to Soul Society with him.
How long the vizards can simply hold a mask seems tied to their fear of their own power rather then how much power they possess. Since Mashiro never bothered to train with the mask, she never learned her limit of how much power she could use.
Fair point . For 1 thing because unlike Ichigo being a somewhat natural born wizard ye might say think if they made peace with hollow allay blade is me moment they stay or hold their mask without limitation.
I mean we something like that in ichigo fight with grimmjow the first rematch where he has plenty of power left but he can’t reform the mask and kensei does tell her to refresh the mask cause against opponents of this level they will wear out faster I don’t think the power so that different since white that is ichigo hollow powers is an artificial creation just like the vizards he just got merged with it much earlier in his life
@@AJ-kt5zo Well it is more complicated than that for him since both of them are his Zangetsu's to quote the anime and what s showed both of them were real and how one emitted blue, one red and combined into gold like they both told him, Ichigo we normally share a body(like how white goes after the whole zaraki fight can i go back now and breaks apart into the old man) though the whole your zanpacktou is your hollow powers comes up in two other areas, 1.Ginjo and fullbring and how naturally they merge together either Shinigami into fullbring for him or Fulbring into Zanpakuto for Ichigo(and fullbring is hollow powers) 2. Tosen is the other with how Suzumushi is his resurrection( in the whole using viz English trans, Bell bug Closing Ceremony: Field Cricket(bankai) Bell Bug Hundredth Ceremony: Crazed Cricket(resurrection) which might be similar to how horn of salvation and/or the full hollow mode which was called out a a different form is separate from Ichigo shikai and bankai
The way I interpret Mashiro 15 hours mask use is that she can wear it casually for 15 hours but didn’t have much experience using it in a fight while in the world of the living. This could explain why she was surprised that it broke
are you going to cover the interview that Viz Media released today that featured Kubo and Masakazu Morita, the ending section of the interview was especially intriguing
-shows up -only martial artist among the vizards -able to hold mask for close to 15 hours -doesn’t hold mask for close to 15 hours during fake karakura -doesn’t show up again for a while -shows up in TYBW for a few panels -trying to fight the quincies off-screen -basically gone.
One of my favourite designed characters especially with her mask. I think a brief battle with Mask could've been good, then Kensei tells her to go to protect the academy instead. Would be interesting for their 2 superhero personas to clash and for her to see the 'bigger picture' in leaving to help the less powerful. I would like more but this feels the most realistic whilst still adding good character moments. The whole group is underutilised in favour of the earlier introduced Captains, which is kinda sad and I do feel a few of their fights could've been given over to them, but it's more about time constraints overall. In the end they were there more to facilitate Ichigos power up. Still Mashiro is fun and any expansion on her screen time in the anime would be welcome.
I remember that when I was 10, I made a story with my brother where Chizuru meets the vizards ( dont ask me how, cant remember), and she finds Mashiro so hot that she kidnaps her and Toshiro has to go to her house to save her, the chapter ends with Chizuru getting her head crushed by a log that was part of a trap she made on her house to catch shinigamis. (she gets revived by Orihime later)
I personally found her fun. As for how she got her Vice Captain position I always assumed, either she was secretly in bed with Kensei given her dream in the TBTP arc or she's like Hisagi and Kensei became captain with a sitting vice captain. It's stated captains can choose their vice captain, it's never stated they can demote or fire them. And for the 15 hour thing? I assumed Wonderweiss was just beating her so bad she over exerted herself. Remember Wonderweiss was stated to be on Espada level of power and Mashiro was only a vice captain vizard. Also could maybe have something to do with Wonderweiss' power to seal other powers to some extent.
If she was having sex with Kensei it must have been some semblance of blackmail because their interactions aren't indicative of anything personal I think they had sex when Kensei was inebriated, before she was a lieutenant and there must have been a rule against superior-subordinate relations
@@dark-winged-angel136 I mean we never see them alone. Every time we see them interact people are around. The 9th division stake out in tbtp? They were in a small tent with lots of coworkers around. The vizard lair? All the other vizards were around. Fake karakura was a battle field. And we see them together one time in the war... it's a literal war and they're trying to train hisagi since he's considered one of the soldiers in their military with decent potential. Though I could also totally see Kensei getting drunk and losing his asshole attitude and banging her like that.
Can souls have sex? 🤔 I've always been confused with the family aspect of the soul society, and also how it balances with Hueco Mundo and the human world. Not to mention the quincy as well.
@@AJ-kt5zo I'm just wondering if quincy go to soul society when they die. Also, I heard that when souls die they get reborn as humans. So what about all the souls fused into one powerful hollow? I know evil hollows go to hell when they die, but what about the rest of them? And if souls can have children, doesn't that mean that the number of souls in the 3 realms will keep increasing? How do they balance it out?
okay i doubt anyone will see this, and its off subject. But Mayuri Kurotsuchi captain of squad 12 said to Uryu that he dissected a lot of quincy including Uryu's grandad.... and most of the Quincy died long ago And the original squad was made of criminals... and Mayuri was in a private cell locked up... I wonder if he was from the beginning.
I wish Mashiro had learned Shunko, it matched her fighting style so well. I wonder what element her Shunko would've been? We had lightning with Yoruichi, Wind with Suì-Fēng, and fire with Yūshirō. Maybe water? Shooting pressurised water spouts when punching, that'd be awesome.
I have a theory that she has fire based abilities or zanpakuto. Just because it always stood out to me that wondeweiss drained her holowfication away, and primary ability was to seal flames.
When Mashiro disappeared from the TYBW arc, I came up with my own theory based on the last time we saw her. I theorized that she just kept brutalizing Hisagi, and eventually his Bankai did manifest, and it was so deadly that it killed Mashiro in an instant, sort of like how Zaraki’s training ended with him killing Unohana, and that accident was why Shuhei didn’t use his Bankai during the second invasion, because he had allies around while fighting Mask De Masculine and Pepe, and also why Kensei is such a dick to him. Now obviously that theory didn’t pan out, but I thought it was a cool idea at the time.
So not directly related to this specific topic, but since she was the only one using her mask in TYBW, it just always made me wonder yet again. Why given everything happening in the story why couldn't a single Vizard use their masks later? I know many people have the theory that Yamamoto requested them not to because of its Hollow connection, but it didn't seem to stop Mashiro at all lol. And after Yamamoto died I'm pretty sure those rules wouldn't have been problematic given all that was happening with the war. Shinji could have done so much more using that power in the final push.
Which is why i think it was the central 46 rather than Yamamoto. Keep in mind shinjis bankai in also banned(granted only as long as hes in soul society, if hes outside hes allowed) plus they banned other bankais aswell such as that one kenpachi whos name escapes me
The answers I've heard relating to Mashiro being able to use her hollow mask basically boil down to: 1) their location(outside the seireitei) and 2) her rank (NOT a captain) So maybe if there was a rule by the central 46 for the visored not to hollowfy, it would only apply to the visored who became captains, or only within the seireitei, or both. Though this is all still just speculation.
Damn with all her comparisons to a Super Hero id have loved if she fought Mask instead of Renji. Edit: Especially since Kensei lost to him. Even if she loses too it would have been a great fight to show her with a bankai.
Good catch pointing out her relative in Squad 12, though I don't know if they were confirmed to be sisters. Also I completely forgot that Mashiro one-shotted Hooleer!
they were confirmed to be sisters in CFYOW. Mashirou even goes to the squad 12 barracks bc Nikou has snacks & Mashirou wanted some lol. calls her sis in it
24:31 I think this attack is what took the most of her 15 hour time limit for her mask! She probably put in like 95% of her power in that attack and thought she could still take out the little kid. 🤔🤓
I would say that we don't give her enough credit. She did several crazy techniques and stayed Mask for a pretty crazy amount of time compared to her allies
I think Mashiro went back to help Kensei after he activated his Bankai against Wonderweiss. She probably got defeated afterwards again later by Wonderweiss in his Resurrección.
Personally I always found Mashiro annoying and never liked her design much though her Pendulum Arc design is much better with her messy hair, uniform and pink scarf. And he fighting style using just kicks is also kind of cool. As for her partnership with Kensei; my theory is that she was a favorite of the previous captain and Kensei inherited her similarly how Urahara inherited Hiyori. And while Kensei finds her annoying, she's also powerful enough so Kensei kept her. As for the 15 hours, I always thought that she can hold it that long without actually doing anything. But once she fights and exerts energy, the limits goes really down. As for Karakura; I think that Wonderweiss screamed at Mashiro's Cero which negated it similarly how his scream broke Toshiro's ice prison. I also always thought that Aizen defeated Kensei because he couldn't afford Wonderweiss to be defeated. Anyway I hope that Mashiro defending the academy will be in the anime.
Yeah, she was my favorite Vizard. I'm not quite sure why or anything. Maybe it's just the lack of a sword or the scarf but then I was def WTF during the 1000 year blood war. Love or Hiyori comes in at #2 and they also seem weirdly treated in the arc so I guess I just know how to pick the less popular ones or the ones Kubo doesn't love? lol
I may be giving Kubo too much credit, but I genuinely believe that the Vizards, Fullbringers, and quite a few more were not forgotten, but cut out so he could just get to the ending, considering everything that happened at the time..
I wonder if Mashiros tuning into her inner Hollow is what really gives her this physical prowess. While she never used her sword, weve seen everyone who hollowfies getting boosts to physical capabilitites, maybe she poured it all into raw strength like aizen suggested about ichigo but not quite.
I like watching this analysis video about a supported character because it gives more depth into the series as a whole. I watch Bleach like it's the next Breaking Bad. In a sense that it has a lot of plot holes that could be explored as a series. Understandable about what it's actually all about, which kinda understates its value as a series.
Btw . Always use your vids for explaining shit.. you do go pretty deep in that rabbithole so we dont have it .. and its most thankful . Awesome work dude .
Show the scene where Mashiro is defending the school, have one of the Stern Ritter that Byakuya off screens go there and have Mashiro fight them. We really don't need Byakuya to defeat three Stern Ritter on his own, let someone else have a fight
@@huntertezz Only the Stern Ritter who stole a bankai were specifically instructed to go after a specific target, so a change could be made so that one of them goes somewhere else, plus these guys could totally fight someone before those scenes they just can't die before those scenes happen
Would be pretty cool if way down the line when the kids are grown up and now proper shinigami they kinda look up or idolize her for what she did during the war and maybe like take some of her personality. You know she hit the meanest victory pose at the end of that fight 😂
Ever since I read Bleach up to volume 50 a few months ago (my school didn't have any past that) I always thought Mashiro was a Power Ranger reference type character She's got that flashy pose striking superhero personality that you'd see in one of those shows
AH Mannnn😩 I was looking forward to Mashiro having more importance in the TYBW but no Noooo just like the other Vizards she has to be side lined from the story for majority of the time.Like am just thinking why does Kubo always have this habit of introducing a group of characters only for him to use them once for an arc and never consider giving them more in depth in the story.But anyway I actually love Mashiro as a person,shes so sweet and cute and despite being childish I kinda find that side of her attractive😍.She actually reminds me of Orihime maybe thats why shes one of my favorite characters in Bleach.But anyway she should of gotten more screen time in fact so as the other vizards too.Damn Kubo😔
Idk I think seeing her with Kensei in the MdM fight would’ve been great to see, a wrestler vs a Karen rider. And the potential for maybe seeing her shikai and bankai which could maybe go like kensei’s from knuckle dusters to gauntlets, going from basically steel toed shoes to greaves
Now when i think of her personality and comical nature , she and mask de masculine would have been a funny mashup and potentially interesting fight. It would almost be like kyoryaku vs stark.
What did you think of Mashiro's character? How would you have included her in TYBW? Let me know!
Let her become a servant of Sternritter L, fights a bit against former allies (maybe some who didnt get a lot of screentime or maybe the battle of the vize-captains alias her against hisagi), gets nocked out, is normal again without any explanation at the final chapter
The one thing this character always makes me question: How do souls and shinigami age? Rukia's sister died very young from illness, Hitsugaya clearly grew up a bit since the Everything but the Rain arc (slowly but he grew. Ichimaru Gin and Matsumoto Rangiku went from little kids to adulthood in less than a hundred years...and THEN there's Mashiro who's been a kid since Turn Back the Pendulum, and got to the rank of lieutenant (which takes some time to achieve) so she's what? 150-250years old child?
@@hoozoohleague8264 she's not a little kid konpaku lol she just acts childish/bratty bc it's in her personality
She was criminally underused in the Quincy arc, but that’s like 90% of the characters so whatevs.
I would've totally love to see her hold up against the Lucha guy in all out brawl and actually win or at least put up a good fight
I'm still a firm believer that Mashiro used to use her zanpakto before being exiled and decided to emulate Kamen Riders after being in the World of the Living. Love, Rose, and Lisa all ended up kinda emulating some form of pop culture and Mashiro just took it to the extreme.
That's exactly what I interpreted too. Shinji aways had an interest for the human world technologies (like showed with the gramophone) and the other vizard all developed some hobbies from they 100 years living here in earth with us.
Yes, that weird noise you heard the other day was a hollow!!
I always liked the vizards over the Execution group. The later Always annoyed me 😅
What did Love Rose and Lisa emulate
@@mimikyuliker946 baseball?, classical music and josei eromanga, respectively
Rider's use weapons tho
I always thought mashiro could use her mask so naturally because she was already an uninhibited person, follows instincts/emotions instead of reason.
I think her whole thing was while she COULD maintain it for 15 hours without exhausting herself normally, while in the heat of battle she may not have the same stamina to maintain it how she normally can.
All I remember about her was that whilst she CLAIMED to be able to hold her mask for 15 hours, the first time we actually see her in a real fight it breaks after a couple of minutes. She is effectively the Vizard Chad. Plenty of build up as to how incredible he/she is only to fail miserably.
Yeah she clearly overestimated her abilities.
That 15 hour limit could just be when she's not lazing around rather than actually fighting or overexerting herself in the Fake Karakura arc
@@animanco6833 That claim was first told by Shinji in a very matter of fact tone.
Nah, the manga made it clear that 15 hours was just the maximum, and it didn't account for her actually fighting or expending energy. Pretty sure the other Vizards called her a dumbass for not taking this into account.
Kensei says, "...wearing ourselves out fighting enemies of this level." It's pretty clear Mashiro is burning through her energy reserves at an incredible rate. So yeah, the 15 hours didn't apply to maximum output
I suspect that the issue with her hollowfication is this - As they said with Ichigo, the Hollow Within is primal, instinctual. Mashiro has basically no filter or restraint...she willingly runs on impulse and instinct most of the time already. So there's likely very little actual conflict between her and her inner hollow.
But because she can be hollowfied for basically however long she wants due to that affinity, she doesn't actually train for it...so she has a shortage of stamina in general anymore.
She has phenomonal power and attunment with her inner hollow, but her endurance under stress is like her self-control most of the time. Not that impressive.
Thats pretty close to how i interpreted it as well. All the other vizards are in a constant struggle to maintain control over their inner hollow, and only wear the mask when necessary, and thus are extremely aware of it. Whereas Mashiro lacks that inner struggle, so she doesnt recognize her own limitations.
“So she has a shortage of stamina in general anymore!” -Said Dumbledore calmly
I, for one, love the Vizards. They have such unused potential that no matter who I compare them to, I can always say "welp, at least they didn't end up like the Vizards". 💀
I don't know. Chad seems like the chad of missed potential 😆
@@corruptangel6793 yep
@@corruptangel6793 capped potential.
His potential was realized and capped early.
And rightfully so may I add.
@@willdiesel8431 still should have been a MUCH bigger presence in the Lost Agent arc
@@corruptangel6793 well the fact that he DIDN'T is what I mean. Movie, filler, OVAs. He does nothing and brings nothing new even when someone other than or in addition to Kubo has free reign.
I don't know how much clearer this has to be for you.
I really hope they do show her protecting the students in the Anime, it would take only 2 to 3 minutes, and give extreme context to the themes of TYBW and Shunsui's reign.
They included the Shunsui training even though it never really has a payoff in the manga, so I could see them giving her some new scenes later.
They didn't
Mashiro reminds me of Mako from Kill La Kill. She’s funny, bubbly, lusts over a stronger character, and has a badass side.
As a fan of kamen rider i was so happy to see Kubo reference the franchise even if it was not a big part of the story
Kamen rider is amazing
Y'all can't tell me a Mashiro Shikai wouldn't just be KR4's Cassette Arm.
I mean come on.
@@overlookers I was thinking more of sagozoh’s fist gauntlets
@@Ninja-ixy More likely her Shikai/Bankai would be based around her Legs or some type of Armor/Power Suit covering her whole Body. Considering her Kamen Rider influence.With her Captain Kensei already having a Fist themed Shikai/Bankai. Pretty sure Kubo would differentiate her.
I have a feeling that she's actually able to hold her mask for a long period of time, however only when out of battle. During the fight, she may have overexerted herself and overestimated her ability to maintain control while in battle (a very childish mindset to have) and thus lost control of her mask mid-battle.
I was a junior in High School when I first read the Bleach manga.
That scene in the past arc where Mashiro was dreaming about Kensei caught me SO off guard. My teenage mind was like “Oh……alrighty then.”
Mashiro might be in my top ten favorite characters in Bleach. Such a great character all around. As for how she and Kensai ended up Captain and Lieutenant, I think Kensai intentionally did it because he thought he could straighten her out or just to keep an eye on her.
I think he might actually be carrying a torch for her. It wouldn't be completely out of the question.
I like the idea that she had her mask on for a while, went to sleep, the mask came off, then she accidentally summoned the mask before she woke up, and then she assumed that she had it on for the while time she was asleep or something.
Adding Mashiro defending the students in the anime would be a great way to show Atau and the other new soul reapers introduced in the Hell arc as students. The anime could add strong soldat commanders and generals that aren’t as strong as the sternritter but still strong enough to give other characters a chance to shine who didn’t get the opportunity in the manga. Letting Chad, Love, Ginjo, and others take out some high ranking Quincy soldat would be cool.
Chad is strong enough to take on Stërnritter, though, if we take at face value that the statues he ended up fighting were all at Captain-class reiatsu.
Still, I do generally love the idea, especially with regards to the Fullbringers. Heck, maybe including Ginjo might be a way to obliquely include Tokinada as well.
Maybe some more arrancar soldiers? I was expecting to see more of them during the war
@@lucasfranke5161 While more of them wouldn't be bad, I would prefer to see more Quincy soldiers show off basic Quincy techniques without access to Schrifts or Vollstandig.
With regards to Arrancar soldiers, it's made very clear that the Wandenreich barely cares to recruit any and are more just using that as a pretext to commit a genocide on Hollows.
Too bad they never did
Whatever happened to the pixie creatures that give Orihime her shield powers? Kubo just left them on the wayside and just kind of explained them as her fullbring. She had a little ninja dude as her offense.
Kubo introduced billions of new & crazy concept then got tired and dropped them off😂😂😂😂, if he handled everything he Introduced bleach would probably hit 700-1000eps💔
@@FJUVHJDSR I figured that. Still wouldn’t mind seeing a video about it though.
I'd guess they still exist and are summoned whenever she uses her powers. Kubo just doesn't draw it. Just like we're probably supposed to assume the Sternritters are constantly using blut
Yeah he simplifies stuff so he doesn't have to draw as much
I am pretty certain she was bluffing about the 15 hours since another vizard was telling her to release the mask. It could also be she can use it for 15 hours but only by using the minimum power increase and she has never actually pushed herself in training to realize the full power is limited.
She was my favorite character for all of 5 minutes
read We Do Knott Always Love You & you'll find out where she was during TYBW's 2nd invasion.
Kensei ordered her to protect the Academy & its students inside their dorms from the infiltrating Soldat coming in droves.
she protested at first because she wanted to be on the front lines vs Sternritter, but he convinced her. Kensei also told her to mask up as well so she was.
I watched a youtube video mentioning that happening
My favorite vizard. Thanks for this video.
I remember when the first invasion was coming out, I was so hyped for the visoreds to make an appearance. It seemed like such a perfect time to give them the spotlight since they'd have a way to bridge the power gap of not being able to use bankai against the Stern Ritter with their hollow masks. Mashiro especially since she didn't really use her zanpaktou anyways.
Mashiro to me always came off as a cute and playful character of the vizards.
Definitely unique and unforgettable personality and design.
I think Mashiro was one of my favorite vizard, normally I’m used to like kensei who is stoic and serious who isn’t bad at all kensei is awesome, but mashiro was a nice break from that!
Mashiro: literally touching herself, while talking about how much of a "bad boy" her boss is, and making a kissy face
MrTommo: *slightly dodgy dreams, barely even sus*
I always thought that Mashiro was able to keep her hollow mask for 15 hours, but under controlled circumstances. Being in an actual battle exchanging blows and firing ceros, that time gets substantially reduced.
Keep these videos going. Kubo has a lot of characters and some of them are gonna be lost in the shuffle.
It's called the Kubo Shuffle.
No
Kubo really did spend more time than I remember drawing Mashiro's ass 😅😊😅
16:48 I feel like she is simply dropping it.
also yoruichi had to wear her zanpakuto in that flashback because at this point in time she was the leader of the stealth, and for them to stab their sword into the ground signal an execution
I love the Vizards, In School me and my friends made Bleach OC's and mine was a vizard. I hope the anime does more with them and I hope we get the Light novels animated also.
AWESOME, I was scrolling for 30 sec thanks Mr Tommo
20:36 How ironic. Kensei’s hollow form has him impaled with several white rods, which seems to have been exactly what Mashiro was dreaming about just a handful of panels prior.
Considering he really did fuck all, it would have been WAY better to have Mashiro fight Llillinette in the battle against Stark rather than Ukitake. They’re very similar characters to begin with. Small, spunky, and with greenish hair
It would’ve, then had Jushiro jump in and do Bankai potential against Starrk or still have Shunsui kill him with his shikai.
On the Kensei picking her as lieutenant I could imagine its a Toshiro style situation and she was already lieutenant when he became captain, although i would imagine he could of still demoted her so who knows.
Mashiro V Mask De Masculine could've been fire when you think about it
Good video ! Good luck on reaching 200k
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Huh, I always saw it as her dropping her zanpakuto after the flashy reveal of the Vizards was done
I always thought there was a lot of potential for her. Mixing in ceroes with her kicks is honestly a really cool way of combing hollow powers and hakuda.
Since Soi-fon and Yoruichi have Shunko, it made me think that she would be able to pull an ability more similar to Grimmjow's Desgarrón, making energy based attacks to fight.
the fact this video was posted a couple days after her birthday 😭
Maybe Kubo tried to hint that Mashiro and Kensei had a relationship? There's a few panels that suggest that at least Mashiro likes him in some level, even back 100 years ago. Would also explain why she went back to Soul Society with him.
How long the vizards can simply hold a mask seems tied to their fear of their own power rather then how much power they possess. Since Mashiro never bothered to train with the mask, she never learned her limit of how much power she could use.
Fair point . For 1 thing because unlike Ichigo being a somewhat natural born wizard ye might say think if they made peace with hollow allay blade is me moment they stay or hold their mask without limitation.
I mean we something like that in ichigo fight with grimmjow the first rematch where he has plenty of power left but he can’t reform the mask and kensei does tell her to refresh the mask cause against opponents of this level they will wear out faster
I don’t think the power so that different since white that is ichigo hollow powers is an artificial creation just like the vizards he just got merged with it much earlier in his life
Fair point
@@1234andrewjacksmith Fair point. Also taking or factoring in his sword (Asuchie) excuse my spelling is W. Hollow Ichigo.
@@AJ-kt5zo Well it is more complicated than that for him since both of them are his Zangetsu's to quote the anime and what s showed both of them were real and how one emitted blue, one red and combined into gold like they both told him,
Ichigo we normally share a body(like how white goes after the whole zaraki fight can i go back now and breaks apart into the old man)
though the whole your zanpacktou is your hollow powers comes up in two other areas,
1.Ginjo and fullbring and how naturally they merge together either Shinigami into fullbring for him or Fulbring into Zanpakuto for Ichigo(and fullbring is hollow powers)
2. Tosen is the other with how Suzumushi is his resurrection( in the whole using viz English trans, Bell bug Closing Ceremony: Field Cricket(bankai) Bell Bug Hundredth Ceremony: Crazed Cricket(resurrection)
which might be similar to how horn of salvation and/or the full hollow mode which was called out a a different form is separate from Ichigo shikai and bankai
Wow I forgot she disappeared like that
It's cool that she does something in the light novel
Novel stuff is something I keep hoping the anime does
She filled Kubo's Kamen Rider reference quota, that is all she needed to do 😌👌
The way I interpret Mashiro 15 hours mask use is that she can wear it casually for 15 hours but didn’t have much experience using it in a fight while in the world of the living. This could explain why she was surprised that it broke
Best quote is "having some slightly dodgy dreams about her commanding officer"
are you going to cover the interview that Viz Media released today that featured Kubo and Masakazu Morita, the ending section of the interview was especially intriguing
-shows up
-only martial artist among the vizards
-able to hold mask for close to 15 hours
-doesn’t hold mask for close to 15 hours during fake karakura
-doesn’t show up again for a while
-shows up in TYBW for a few panels
-trying to fight the quincies off-screen
-basically gone.
One of my favourite designed characters especially with her mask. I think a brief battle with Mask could've been good, then Kensei tells her to go to protect the academy instead. Would be interesting for their 2 superhero personas to clash and for her to see the 'bigger picture' in leaving to help the less powerful. I would like more but this feels the most realistic whilst still adding good character moments. The whole group is underutilised in favour of the earlier introduced Captains, which is kinda sad and I do feel a few of their fights could've been given over to them, but it's more about time constraints overall. In the end they were there more to facilitate Ichigos power up. Still Mashiro is fun and any expansion on her screen time in the anime would be welcome.
Tommo have you ever ranked your favourite character designs across all of bleach? Cause I'd love that
Ooooh I share a birthday with Mashiro! Love it.
I remember that when I was 10, I made a story with my brother where Chizuru meets the vizards ( dont ask me how, cant remember), and she finds Mashiro so hot that she kidnaps her and Toshiro has to go to her house to save her, the chapter ends with Chizuru getting her head crushed by a log that was part of a trap she made on her house to catch shinigamis. (she gets revived by Orihime later)
I personally found her fun. As for how she got her Vice Captain position I always assumed, either she was secretly in bed with Kensei given her dream in the TBTP arc or she's like Hisagi and Kensei became captain with a sitting vice captain. It's stated captains can choose their vice captain, it's never stated they can demote or fire them.
And for the 15 hour thing? I assumed Wonderweiss was just beating her so bad she over exerted herself. Remember Wonderweiss was stated to be on Espada level of power and Mashiro was only a vice captain vizard. Also could maybe have something to do with Wonderweiss' power to seal other powers to some extent.
If she was having sex with Kensei it must have been some semblance of blackmail because their interactions aren't indicative of anything personal
I think they had sex when Kensei was inebriated, before she was a lieutenant and there must have been a rule against superior-subordinate relations
@@dark-winged-angel136 I mean we never see them alone. Every time we see them interact people are around.
The 9th division stake out in tbtp? They were in a small tent with lots of coworkers around.
The vizard lair? All the other vizards were around.
Fake karakura was a battle field.
And we see them together one time in the war... it's a literal war and they're trying to train hisagi since he's considered one of the soldiers in their military with decent potential.
Though I could also totally see Kensei getting drunk and losing his asshole attitude and banging her like that.
Can souls have sex? 🤔 I've always been confused with the family aspect of the soul society, and also how it balances with Hueco Mundo and the human world. Not to mention the quincy as well.
@@WanderTheNomad Well Rukia And Renji have daughter and Quincy kept having children after the extermination and war.
@@AJ-kt5zo I'm just wondering if quincy go to soul society when they die. Also, I heard that when souls die they get reborn as humans. So what about all the souls fused into one powerful hollow? I know evil hollows go to hell when they die, but what about the rest of them?
And if souls can have children, doesn't that mean that the number of souls in the 3 realms will keep increasing? How do they balance it out?
what did happen to all of the vizards, my boys and girls got absolutely and astronomically shafted 💀
yes I will always be salty about this lol
It hurts more because of how cool all the vizards are. If they were more lame, it wouldn't be as big a deal.
I love her so much, she's my favorite vizard
Yoo im so hype to learn you have another Chanell
Banger video as usual man
okay i doubt anyone will see this, and its off subject.
But Mayuri Kurotsuchi captain of squad 12 said to Uryu that he dissected a lot of quincy including Uryu's grandad.... and most of the Quincy died long ago
And the original squad was made of criminals... and Mayuri was in a private cell locked up... I wonder if he was from the beginning.
I wish Mashiro had learned Shunko, it matched her fighting style so well. I wonder what element her Shunko would've been?
We had lightning with Yoruichi, Wind with Suì-Fēng, and fire with Yūshirō. Maybe water? Shooting pressurised water spouts when punching, that'd be awesome.
26:05 I wonder how, I wonderweiss, yesterady we talked about the blue blue skies and all that I can see, is just another yellow lemon tree...
Big thanks on this video!
You're videos inspired me so much that I wrote a Bleach fanfiction months ago on web novel. 1.45 M readers currently and still going strong!
Always felt she was a bit of a missed opportunity in the story.
Yeah like all the vizards except maybe shinji and kensei
Agreed. Also Tatsuki was a missed opportunity regarding human characters. Feel like she should have been a fullbringer or something.
@@jordantinucci3509 why are they exceptions? lol
@@Crunchysopa52 actually no you're right even with the more screen time they're wasted, man
I feel like the 15-hour limit was measured in a passive capacity. It's like a no stress scenario. When pushed, limits, close in real quick.
Love this one
I have a theory that she has fire based abilities or zanpakuto. Just because it always stood out to me that wondeweiss drained her holowfication away, and primary ability was to seal flames.
When Mashiro disappeared from the TYBW arc, I came up with my own theory based on the last time we saw her. I theorized that she just kept brutalizing Hisagi, and eventually his Bankai did manifest, and it was so deadly that it killed Mashiro in an instant, sort of like how Zaraki’s training ended with him killing Unohana, and that accident was why Shuhei didn’t use his Bankai during the second invasion, because he had allies around while fighting Mask De Masculine and Pepe, and also why Kensei is such a dick to him.
Now obviously that theory didn’t pan out, but I thought it was a cool idea at the time.
Just clicked on but excited to watch as this was a genuine question of mine
16:01 poor Lisa
Despite any lack of screentime or importance she's still easily my favorite Vizard just for design and fighting style alone. Dig her personality too
So not directly related to this specific topic, but since she was the only one using her mask in TYBW, it just always made me wonder yet again. Why given everything happening in the story why couldn't a single Vizard use their masks later? I know many people have the theory that Yamamoto requested them not to because of its Hollow connection, but it didn't seem to stop Mashiro at all lol. And after Yamamoto died I'm pretty sure those rules wouldn't have been problematic given all that was happening with the war. Shinji could have done so much more using that power in the final push.
Which is why i think it was the central 46 rather than Yamamoto. Keep in mind shinjis bankai in also banned(granted only as long as hes in soul society, if hes outside hes allowed) plus they banned other bankais aswell such as that one kenpachi whos name escapes me
@Dominque Banton Kurayashiki is the name you are looking for, because his Bankai would swallow the entire Seireitei
The answers I've heard relating to Mashiro being able to use her hollow mask basically boil down to: 1) their location(outside the seireitei) and 2) her rank (NOT a captain)
So maybe if there was a rule by the central 46 for the visored not to hollowfy, it would only apply to the visored who became captains, or only within the seireitei, or both.
Though this is all still just speculation.
@@WanderTheNomad Think since shunsi captain now that will rule be changed or thrown out .
Damn with all her comparisons to a Super Hero id have loved if she fought Mask instead of Renji.
Edit: Especially since Kensei lost to him. Even if she loses too it would have been a great fight to show her with a bankai.
Wrestler vs Tokusatsu Hero would have been a way more interesting clash than Renji as "The Villain"
For me I’ve always wondered to the black haired ichigo looking guy from when rukia started heading to hueco mundo
Good catch pointing out her relative in Squad 12, though I don't know if they were confirmed to be sisters. Also I completely forgot that Mashiro one-shotted Hooleer!
they were confirmed to be sisters in CFYOW. Mashirou even goes to the squad 12 barracks bc Nikou has snacks & Mashirou wanted some lol. calls her sis in it
@@Crunchysopa52 Thank you! I've always been interested in the interconnections between the supporting characters.
24:31 I think this attack is what took the most of her 15 hour time limit for her mask! She probably put in like 95% of her power in that attack and thought she could still take out the little kid. 🤔🤓
I laughed at you calling Hooleer a menos grande transfer bus cause all I could think of was it appearing and yelling:
“SO WHERE WE DROPPIN BOYS??!”
I would say that we don't give her enough credit. She did several crazy techniques and stayed Mask for a pretty crazy amount of time compared to her allies
I think Mashiro went back to help Kensei after he activated his Bankai against Wonderweiss. She probably got defeated afterwards again later by Wonderweiss in his Resurrección.
Makes me wonder if you could even make a character analysis video on Wonderweiss.
Personally I always found Mashiro annoying and never liked her design much though her Pendulum Arc design is much better with her messy hair, uniform and pink scarf. And he fighting style using just kicks is also kind of cool.
As for her partnership with Kensei; my theory is that she was a favorite of the previous captain and Kensei inherited her similarly how Urahara inherited Hiyori. And while Kensei finds her annoying, she's also powerful enough so Kensei kept her.
As for the 15 hours, I always thought that she can hold it that long without actually doing anything. But once she fights and exerts energy, the limits goes really down.
As for Karakura; I think that Wonderweiss screamed at Mashiro's Cero which negated it similarly how his scream broke Toshiro's ice prison. I also always thought that Aizen defeated Kensei because he couldn't afford Wonderweiss to be defeated.
Anyway I hope that Mashiro defending the academy will be in the anime.
I was okay with her, but I always felt if she was a villan I'd hate her character
Yeah, she was my favorite Vizard. I'm not quite sure why or anything. Maybe it's just the lack of a sword or the scarf but then I was def WTF during the 1000 year blood war.
Love or Hiyori comes in at #2 and they also seem weirdly treated in the arc so I guess I just know how to pick the less popular ones or the ones Kubo doesn't love? lol
Maybe her natural affinity for her hollow powers caused a change in her Zanpaktou compared to the others at the time
I may be giving Kubo too much credit, but I genuinely believe that the Vizards, Fullbringers, and quite a few more were not forgotten, but cut out so he could just get to the ending, considering everything that happened at the time..
They did my favourite Vizard dirty 😢
She's her Squads assistant Captain of
Squad 9, I'm not shocked she is Kuna from Squad sister
I wonder if Mashiros tuning into her inner Hollow is what really gives her this physical prowess. While she never used her sword, weve seen everyone who hollowfies getting boosts to physical capabilitites, maybe she poured it all into raw strength like aizen suggested about ichigo but not quite.
I like watching this analysis video about a supported character because it gives more depth into the series as a whole. I watch Bleach like it's the next Breaking Bad. In a sense that it has a lot of plot holes that could be explored as a series. Understandable about what it's actually all about, which kinda understates its value as a series.
I had to do a double take when my favorite character gets her own video.
It sucks the vizards never used their hollow powers but we got a hollowified Toshiro instead.
Btw . Always use your vids for explaining shit.. you do go pretty deep in that rabbithole so we dont have it .. and its most thankful . Awesome work dude .
Show the scene where Mashiro is defending the school, have one of the Stern Ritter that Byakuya off screens go there and have Mashiro fight them. We really don't need Byakuya to defeat three Stern Ritter on his own, let someone else have a fight
You're right
Won't make sense for them to head to the academy. Also two of the sternritters have scenes later so they can't be used either.
@@huntertezz Only the Stern Ritter who stole a bankai were specifically instructed to go after a specific target, so a change could be made so that one of them goes somewhere else, plus these guys could totally fight someone before those scenes they just can't die before those scenes happen
Ha she is my 2nd favorite, right behind kensei (ironically).
I love all the vizards and I wish they got to do more or have some badass moments in tybw
Would be pretty cool if way down the line when the kids are grown up and now proper shinigami they kinda look up or idolize her for what she did during the war and maybe like take some of her personality. You know she hit the meanest victory pose at the end of that fight 😂
Mashiro Kuna will forever be solidified in my heart and mind as the manga/anime character with the fattest cakes ever put on page
For reals, whenever she's on screen she's always really curvy despite being so petite. Kubo a dawg.
Ever since I read Bleach up to volume 50 a few months ago (my school didn't have any past that) I always thought Mashiro was a Power Ranger reference type character
She's got that flashy pose striking superhero personality that you'd see in one of those shows
Kamen Rider, Super Sentai and the Power Rangers all belong to the same genre.
@@MissAllWednesday I know, I love those shows, even if their the cheesiest shit you'll ever see, but I also barely remember most of it lol
I absolutely love Mashiro because I'm a huge Kamen Rider fan. I always love seeing Kamen Rider references in other stuff
AH Mannnn😩 I was looking forward to Mashiro having more importance in the TYBW but no Noooo just like the other Vizards she has to be side lined from the story for majority of the time.Like am just thinking why does Kubo always have this habit of introducing a group of characters only for him to use them once for an arc and never consider giving them more in depth in the story.But anyway I actually love Mashiro as a person,shes so sweet and cute and despite being childish I kinda find that side of her attractive😍.She actually reminds me of Orihime maybe thats why shes one of my favorite characters in Bleach.But anyway she should of gotten more screen time in fact so as the other vizards too.Damn Kubo😔
Idk I think seeing her with Kensei in the MdM fight would’ve been great to see, a wrestler vs a Karen rider. And the potential for maybe seeing her shikai and bankai which could maybe go like kensei’s from knuckle dusters to gauntlets, going from basically steel toed shoes to greaves
Now when i think of her personality and comical nature , she and mask de masculine would have been a funny mashup and potentially interesting fight. It would almost be like kyoryaku vs stark.
would have loved to see Mashiro fight the Superstar, a fight between a hero and villain...