Summary
- All Deadliest Bankai shown in the Bleach Thousand Year Blood War
- Shunsui and Rukia’s bankai were the most expected ones to be animated
- Bleach Thousand Year Blood War shows the best ever animation for Bankai
The evolution of Bankai from Bleach to Bleach Thousand-Year Blood War is tremendous as the studios are giving importance is animating the Bankai in deadliest way possible. In Bleach Thousand-Year Blood War, the fight between Soul Reapers and Quincies have resulted in the unleashing of deadliest and most expected bankai forms by the viewers.
Rukia Kuchiki
Hakka no Togame
Rukia Kuchiki’s Bankai: Hakka no Togame is one of the most spectacular and strongest Bankai. Rukia’s Shikai, Sode no Shirayuki is said to be the most beautiful Zanpakuto in the Soul Society. When Hakka no Togame is released, Rukia transforms in a very special way. She finally turns stunning and looks more like a celestial being, a synonym for icy purity. Rukia first uses the Bankai when fighting with As Nodt in Bleach Thousand Year Blood War, one of the Sternritters in Yhwach’s Quincy forces. The most noticeable, and probably the most striking, aspect of Hakka no Togame is the ability to cool the surrounding environment, including herself, to absolute zero.
Title – Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 2 – The Separation, “The White Haze”
Episode No. – 19
Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto
Zanka no Tachi
Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto’s Bankai: Zanka no Tachi is undoubtedly the deadliest Bankai in Bleach. As the Captain-Commander of Gotei 13, and the single most powerful Shinigami of his generation Yamamoto’s bankai is a true representation of his prowess. Yamamoto’s Zanka no Tachi has a principle on heat and fire and presents a temperature that goes beyond imagination. Therefore, they are subdivided into four power forms symbolizing the “Four Directions”: East, West, South, and North. Yamamoto unleashes his bankai during his fight against his old rival Quincy king, Yhwach in Bleach Thousand Year Blood War.
Title – Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 1 – “Born in the dark”
Episode No. – 6
Retsu Unohana
Minazuki
Retsu Unohana’s Bankai: Minazuki is counted among the most mysterious and frightening Bankai in Bleach. Unohana or Yachiru Unohana is indeed the original, or rather the first Kenpachi – the fiercest and sadistic Soul Society captain. When activated her Bankai causes her Zanpakutō to be covered in a thick substance of blood that seems to drip from the blade. The thick red fluid that covers the blade of Unohana’s Zanpakuto can be considered to be be blot of her own blood, blood of the opponent or it can represent blood as an element. Unohana’s Bankai makes an appearance during her fight with Kenpachi Zaraki Bleach Thousand Year Blood War Part 1, a former monstrous child, whom she spared and thus she became his teacher.
Title – Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 1 – “Everything But The Rain”
Episode No. – 10
Hirako Shinji
Sakashima Yokoshima Happofusagiri
Hirako Shinji’s Bankai: Sakashima Yokoshima Happōfusagiri goes even further than that and expands on that concept both quantitatively and qualitatively. Shinji’s Bankai is one among the abandoned bankai in the soul society and was shown first ever in Bleach Thousand Year Blood War. Its use which can switch friend and foe on a large scale makes it suitable for army against army combats. After that, Shinji has minimal direct control over who the Bankai influences. He has to stay out of the way and must not be mistaken for an enemy by his side.
Title – Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 2 – “The Fundamental Virulence”
Episode No. – 16
Rojuro Otaribashi (Rose)
Kinshara Butodan
Rose’s Bankai is based on music and clairvoyance, as well as psychological influence. It derives from such elements as the theater and emotions, and one cannot mention Rose without speaking about his passion for music and art. It brings the theatre of war into a level of grand guignol, of music, paintings, and stage illusions all at once. His bankai was shown in the Bleach Thousand-Year Blood War Arc specifically when he battles it out against Mask de Masculine, one of Yhwach’s Sternritter.
Title – Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 2 – “Rages at Ringside”
Episode No. – 18
Kyoraku Shunsui
Katen Kyokotsu – Karamatsu Shinju
Katen Kyōkotsu – Karamatsu Shinjū is the most expected Bankai to be happen in Bleach Thousand-Year Blood War. Other than increasing Shunsui’s power and speed, it captures both Shunsui and the enemy in a contrived multiple-act drama where the opponent is forced to be part of a tragedy of suffering. Naturally, Shunsui gets as injured as the opponent, and vice versa. If Shunsui is stabbed in the chest, the enemy says the same thing that the latter feels in his chest.
Title – Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 3 – “Don’t Chase a Shadow”
Episode No. – 9
Mayuri Kurotsuchi
Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo: Makai Fukuin Shotai
Konjiki Ashisogi Jizō: 「Matai Fukuin Shōtai, Golden Leg-Cutter Jizō; Symptomatic Body Demonic Belly Covering Seal」is the altered Bankai form of the Zanpakuto Ashisogi Jizou. Mayuri had his modified Bankai create a Konjiki Ashisogi Jizō that had nerves on the surface of it’s body which made it painful just to be touching the ground or air. This modified Bankai form can produce modified versions of the Konjiki Ashisogi Jizō based on the information and data which Mayuri sends to it; this enables it to oppose certain abilities of Mayuri’s opponents. Mayuri awakened his bankai with his fight against Soul King’s left arm Pernida in Bleach Thousand-Year Blood War Cour 3.
Title – Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 3 – “Baby, Hold Your Hand”
Episode No. – 8
Renji Abarai
Sōō Zabimaru
