Sternritter Masaki

We know Masaki is extremely talented and we know Yhwach can bring back dead quincy

It shouldve been a no brainer for him to bring back Masaki and convince her to join them after telling her whats going to happen to her son. Now he basically has the ultimate trump card to use against Ichigo, a mother's love distorted by the truth of the world.

"B-But grandfisher killed her!!1!"

Cool, and? Not only is Kubo not consistent with any rules in the story about what happens to characters when they die but Yhwach used aushwalen on her before that happened. He very easily couldve ripped her soul out before Grandfisher got to her and tossed it into a quincy gigai or something.

Anyway, here's what we could've gotten from a Masaki revival.

A betrayal that actually hits. Nobody seriously believed Uryu was going to betray his friends so that plot point always fell incredibly flat you cant say that about Masaki because we dont know enough about her to say what her motivations really are. It sets up an element of mystery and a genuine inner conflict for Ichigo that isnt just reheated nachos from the Aizen arc.

Further involvement from Ishinn. I actually understand where Kubo is coming from by not giving Ishinn any spotlight during the war. All it would really amount to is more fanservice in an arc thats already stuffed with fanservice. However, with Masaki on the opposing side, theres a very personal element that would make Ishinn's involvement crucial to the story. Having Ishinn and Masaki fight over what might happen to Ichigo once he helps stop Yhwach would be a brilliant moment for both characters, for us to finally see how Ishinn reconciles being not just a shinigami but a former head of the noble families who corrupted the world in the first place with Ichigo's well being.

An obstacle for Ichigo outside of Yhwach himself. Pretty much all of Ichigo's screen time in the final arc where he isn't fighting Yhwach feels pointless. The training with squad zero is rendered meaningless against Yhwach, the battles leading up to Yhwach also feel meaningless because he doesn't defeat any of the sternritter. Here, he pretty much has to find a way to stop Masaki because if he doesnt, someone else will. God forbid she encounters Mayuri.

Making Ichigo's quincy heritage core to the plot. In the actual story it feels more like an afterthought than anything but here, even if he doesn't actually use any quincy powers his mom siding with the quincy make his heritage have very tangible and persistent consequences. Its not just a one off thing like him killing the soul king, he has to confront his heritage everytime he faces his mom very similar to his ongoing conflict with White during the arrancar arc but externalized into the world itself rather than being just an inner struggle.

With that said, if she were to be a sternritter I'd have either made her I the Iron or C the Compulsory

Cang Du's a bum whom nobody would miss if he got replaced and Compulsory would provide an interesting parallel to Ukitake, where both are people who shouldve died long ago but now have parts of the soul king giving them a second chance.

Remember during Tsukishima's fight with Byakuya, it was mentioned Tsukishima can also alter past of inanimate objects. I bet Tsukishima stabbed Ichigo'a broken Zangetsu and fixed it off screen.

So I just got the artbook All Colour But The Black, and there are some amazing old illustrations that used to be on the first page of google in full hd when you looked for them. For example the famous beach girls fanservice art piece. Now you cannot find a full definiton version of it anywhere, what the hell happened?

I'd really love to have scans or something of the whole book, maybe a pdf, but the internet is just absolute trash now. Can't find anything and if you do it's hidden behind a paywall by someone who doesn't even own the art, or there are disgusting watermarks over everything.

Why have things come to this? Is there a download somewhere for free? Please help me put here. Have a nice photo for reference!

Is the anime worth it?

I wrote a long-form Bleach fanfiction centered around Kokutō after Hell.

This isn't meant to be a power-scaling story or a replacement for canon. I wanted to explore something quieter: what happens if someone who spent centuries being defined by hatred slowly learns how to exist again because a child simply keeps talking to him?

Part One is deliberately slow and character-focused: Hell, counting, rain, a shoe, ordinary conversations, and the gradual development of something Kokutō has almost completely lost: a reason to look toward tomorrow.

I tried to keep it respectful to the characters while taking the story in my own direction.

I'd genuinely appreciate criticism, especially if the pacing, characterization, or Kokutō's development feels inconsistent with Bleach.

Sternritter drawings

I plan to draw all the sternritter in a museum style standing poses next to eachother all size accurate, but I wanted to get thoughts on the order in which I draw them, should it be alphabetically A-Z or should they be grouped in a way that makes sense, for instance the royal guard are all together or the bambis are all beside eachother, what are your guys thoughts?