Will Aizen Become the Villain Again

Fictional graphic symbol from Bleach

Sōsuke Aizen
Bleach character
Aizen as depicted on the comprehend for Book 12
First advent	Bleach manga chapter 79 Bleach anime episode 23
Created by	Tite Kubo
Voiced by	Shō Hayami (Japanese) Kyle Hebert (English)
In-universe information
Species	Soul Reaper

Sōsuke Aizen ( 藍染 惣右介 , Aizen Sōsuke ) is a fictional graphic symbol from the manga series Bleach created by Tite Kubo and the primary antagonist of the get-go half of the series (and the most significant 1 for the entirety of the anime adaptation). He is the captain of the Fifth Sectionalisation of Soul Reapers when he is offset introduced. He later betrays the Soul Guild, before Ichigo Kurosaki and Kisuke Urahara defeat him. His former lieutenant is Momo Hinamori.

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Background [edit]

Aizen spent much of his career in the 5th Division,^[i] eventually becoming its lieutenant under the old captain, Shinji Hirako.^[2] Aizen as well gained followers in Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tōsen. A century earlier the series' setting, after Kisuke Urahara created the Hōgyoku, an detail that he believed creates Soul Reaper/Hollow hybrids, Aizen began to experiment using the Soul Reapers that became the Vizards. Among his exam subjects was Shinji, who knew Aizen was upwardly to no expert but learned besides tardily that Aizen used his mistrust against him. Having also framed Kisuke for the Vizards' creation and forced his exile, Aizen learned the Hōgyoku really grants its user's desires if they have the volition to carry it out. Just as Kisuke took the Hōgyoku with him, Aizen bides his time to take the detail when the time comes.

At some bespeak, Aizen saw the potential of Shuhei Hisagi, Momo Hinamori, Izuru Kira and Renji Abarai, and Aizen took the latter 3 into his division. Aizen likewise continued his experiments on Soul Reaper/Hollow hybrids with his creations Metastacia and White playing a respective role in the life of Rukia Kuchiki and those of Isshin Shiba and Masaki Kurosaki.

Sometime prior to his divergence from Soul Society, Aizen and his two followers travelled to Hueco Mundo by arranging an alliance with the self-proclaimed god king of Hueco Mundo, Barragan Luisenbarn.^[3] Every bit Barragan refused, Aizen revealed all of the Hollow'south minions were killed during the word and forces Barragan into servitude. From there, Aizen appropriates Barragan's palace Las Noches and reconstructs it in his own image, recruiting Tier Halibel and the other Arrancars that would become his Espadas.

Abilities [edit]

Aizen wielding Kyoka Suigetsu while evolving as a event of using the Hyogoku every bit seen on the comprehend for Volume 48

Aizen is an extremely powerful combatant, well above many captain-level Soul Reapers. When preparing to activate the Hōgyoku, he states that despite its one-half-awakened country, it tin can be fully activated temporarily when fusing with someone with at to the lowest degree twice as much spirit pressure every bit an average captain-level Soul Reaper, referring to himself.^[four] Afterwards Aizen embedded the Hōgyoku into his torso, he undergoes a series of transformations that give him extraordinary boosts in both speed and strength. There are very few who can go toe to toe with him and survive.

Originally, Aizen carried a zanpakutō called Kyōka Suigetsu ( 鏡花水月 , literally "flower in the mirror, moon on the water"). Kyōka Suigetsu'southward Shikai power Kanzen Saimin ( 完全催眠 , literally "Complete Hypnosis"), activated with the control "shatter" ( 砕けろ , kudakero ), is effective if the target watches the Shikai sequence once and thus can autumn under Aizen'due south deception whatever fourth dimension he wishes. In that location are merely a few means to escape the sword'due south influence such as touching the bract earlier it is activated as Gin overheard. Though unaware of that fact, in his gambit to take down Aizen, Yamamoto grabbed the blade when it pierced him and read the blade's force to distinguish Aizen. After his final evolution past the Hōgyoku, he was made immortal. It was but thanks to Ichigo's Mugetsu technique that Aizen was able to be sealed. Afterwards, Aizen finds that he no longer needs Kyōka Suigetsu itself as the weapon completely dissolves with its powers now a role of his being.

Appearances [edit]

In Bleach manga and anime serial [edit]

Setting up the events from the shadows, Aizen bundled for Rukia Kuchiki to encounter with Ichigo Kurosaki then he can go a Soul Reaper. From there, past sending Hollows in Karakura Town to alert the Soul Society for the location to get the Hōgyoku that is concealed within her body, Aizen created an elaborate conspiracy among the Thirteen Courtroom Squad captains past secretly killing the members of the Central 46 Chambers and using his Zanpakutō to create an illusion of them and sentence Rukia to expiry. Gin fakes Aizen'south death to have the captains and lieutenants fighting confronting themselves. However, Team 4 Captain Retsu Unohana uncovered the truth equally Aizen removed the Hōgyoku from Rukia, before he, Gin and Tōsen escape into Hueco Mundo. There, Aizen begins preparing for his truthful goal: Using the Hōgyoku to sacrifice the souls of Karakura Town in order to create an Ōken ( 王鍵 ) to impale the Soul Male monarch.

From there, Aizen begins to make several Arrancars in his service stronger using the Hōgyoku and sends some of his Espadas to the Land of the Living to gain information on Ichigo. Eventually, claiming to have an involvement in her power, Aizen has Orihime Inoue brought to Las Noches on the notion that he needs her to save the powers of the deteriorating Hōgyoku. Nevertheless, sacrificing the weakest members of the Espadas in the process, Aizen revealed the kidnapping to exist a ruse to trick Ichigo and his friends into attempting a rescue every bit function of a scheme to cut the Soul Lodge'due south forces in half by the fourth dimension he enacts his assault on Karakura Town. Though he came with three of his strongest Espadas, the defeat of Staark and Baraggan convinces Aizen that he has surpassed his own minions and strikes Halibel downward to bargain with the opposition personally. When confronted by Ichigo, who is the merely person not affected by his Zanpakutō, Aizen reveals his part in the youth'south life and struggles since coming together Rukia. Aizen then almost reveals Ichigo'south lineage when Isshin intervened to have over the fight. Aizen reveals that he captivated the Hōgyoku every bit it grants his desire for a Hollow-like form to hands defeat his enemies.

Aizen so makes his way to the Soul Guild and then that he can create the Ōken, finding Ichigo'south school friends and deciding to impale them kickoff before enacting his goal. Aizen is then fatally wounded by Gin, who reveals he tricked Aizen by pretending to exist his right-hand human being until the time was ideal to beguile him. Notwithstanding, his will to survive answered by the Hōgyoku, Aizen evolves into another class and mortally wounds Gin as Ichigo arrives. Though expecting him not to be a threat due to his sudden lack of spirit energy, Aizen finds himself overwhelmed by Ichigo'south newly enhanced concrete strength. Though his fearfulness caused the Hōgyoku to turn him into a Hollow-like monster, Aizen barely survived Ichigo's concluding attack every bit he evolved once again to the point that he became immortal. However, Ichigo'south set on weakened and defeated Aizen to the point that the Hōgyoku no longer acknowledges him equally he is reverted to his human form while engulfed in a specially made kidō "Seal" that Urahara planted on him. Ten days later, numerous seals placed on his body to render him immobile and to go on his now vast reiatsu around his torso, Aizen is sentenced by Central 46 to 18,800 years of imprisonment in the lowest underground prison, the 8th prison known equally "Muken". Aizen's arrogance towards the matter results with him being gagged as the final seals are added and the sentence escalated to 20,000 years.

After, when the Wandenreich invade the Soul Society, Yhwach asks Aizen to join upwardly with them, simply he refuses and delays the time sufficiently in chat and he is forced to retreat. During the second invasion by the Wandenreich, with the Soul King's Palace breached, Aizen is visited past the new Head-Captain Shunsui Kyōraku. Initially believing Aizen is being responsive, entrusted with the keys to unlock the seals, Shunsui claims to have three every bit he unseals the gag so Aizen can speak. However, this act of kindness allows Aizen to remove the other seals on his ain with the exception of the final two. In one case freed, Aizen accompanies Shunsui to the Seireitei where his ability is needed equally Yhwach reached the Soul King's chambers and killed the deity while taking his powers for his own. Despite the other Soul Reapers flustered past Shunsui freeing him later on what he put them through, Aizen uses his powers to destroy the shadowy creatures that Yhwach produced from his body, before creating a path to the Soul Male monarch'due south Palace. Aizen later battles Yhwach, playing a role in the final battle when he nearly gets himself killed using his Kyoka Suigetsu illusion to give Ichigo an opening to fatally wound Yhwach. In the end, hearing Yhwach's dying words following his defeat at Ichigo'due south hands, Aizen willingly returns to his cell.

Ten years later on, Aizen senses that the concluding remnants of Yhwach's Reiatsu have disappeared completely. He recalls Yhwach'southward final words about how his defeat meant the continuation of death and the fright accompanying it, remarking that the world Yhwach wanted would be a failed paradise. He states to create such a world would consequence in one which would be without promise. He remarks while people could become through life simply living, information technology does not compare to courageous individuals like Ichigo, who is willing to face death and cut through fate without fright.

In other media [edit]

Aizen appears in well-nigh of the list of Bleach video games the about recent ones with him in his mail service-Soul Society outfit. He also has his own Bleach Shell Collection, a brief CD of character paradigm songs. The tracks are Shinsen. In 2021, Kubo made an illustration of Aizen to promote the Loki television series, drawn in a like pose to the ephonymous grapheme in a show'due south poster to emphasize the similarities in their traitorous and conniving personalities.^[five]

Reception [edit]

"Aizen'southward villainous reveal drew a lot of new fans to the series because of how incredibly effective it was. Some fans heralded him as the greatest manga/anime villain in recent retentiveness. He was intelligent, manipulative, confident, common cold-hearted, aggressive, and he always had an ace up his sleeve whenever he seemed to be at fifty-fifty the slightest disadvantage. He struck an excellent rest between being cool as hell and incredibly detestable."

Nik Freeman from Anime News Network^[6]

Charles White of IGN commented that the plot twist in the story and the truth about Aizen was "fascinating and interesting", but as well criticized it, saying his Zanpakuto'southward ability was "far-fetched" and overpowered,^[vii] and Aizen did not take any flaws and that his betrayal was "too planned out to [be] believ[able]".^[8] Despite this, the change in mood accompanying Aizen's revelation as a villain was likewise praised; White praised the animators' job at "giving his face this evil thing about information technology" without changing anything about the animation itself, citing that "the Aizen that we first knew was the nicest guy e'er, he looked it, and now this Aizen really looks like the most evil jerk we've e'er seen".^[8] Carl Kimlinger from Anime News Network comments that Aizen's revelation as an adversary is "brutally unpredictable". He notes the violence from that part to exist frustrating but in the same time satisfying, praising the large number of revelations. Aizen was additionally noted to have a remarkable development in his introduction as a villain with Kimlinger wondering "If only all villain grandstandings were so thrilling".^[9] Theron Martin from the aforementioned site noted that this scene makes the anime deserve credits for "one of the biggest 'I am a total bastard' moments in anime history".^[10] Mania Entertainment'due south Bryce Coulter noted that such episode "makes you [viewers] want to hate Aizen" due to how he controlled the graphic symbol'southward actions in previous episodes and how he now easily defeats most of them.^[xi] Aizen's English voice player, Kyle Hebert, describes Aizen as a "mysterious, calm, cool character"" and that gives an air of "where does this guy come from?".^[12]

Nik Freeman of Anime News Network tried to summarize why Bleach 's popularity declined between 2005 and 2015 from 1 of the near popular shonen series to "a vanquish of its old self that subsists on the memory of its celebrity days". Freeman's chief thesis involving Aizen's declining popularity considering of how Kubo changed his characterization within the series. The reviewer affirmed Aizen was the most important grapheme on the series for virtually fans even surpassing Ichigo'due south influence.^[6] Initially a grapheme that had "an splendid residue between being cool as hell and incredibly detestable", Aizen eventually "stopped bothering to devise clever schemes and instead relied purely on his own immense force to get the job washed. In other words, Aizen lost all the qualities that captivated fans when he first revealed himself as the villain."^{[half dozen]} More positive was Carlo Santos from the aforementioned site who believed Aizen's character had grown "deliciously cruel" and that his ability to friction match the entirety of Soul Lodge via constantly-shifting technique made his battles "impossible to be bored with".^[13] Santos considered the battle betwixt Aizen and Ichigo which ended Aizen'southward tenure as serial villain a "predictable yet satisfying" scene which represented, for Tite Kubo, the culmination of many years of development as an artist. He felt, yet, that after the years of buildup of Aizen as the villain, his defeat may take been too swift.^[14] Freeman was even more than negative on the ending of Aizen'south position as the series' principal villain. He wrote that "when Aizen was defeated, the story felt finished" and that "a ton of people stopped reading at that indicate, even though it was widely known that the series would be continuing anyway".^[6] As part of 2018's April Fools, a joke was made by Shonen Jump stating Aizen took over the manga magazine.^[15]

References [edit]

1. ^ Bleach manga; chapter 176, folio 6.
2. ^ Bleach manga; chapter -108, page 7.
3. ^ Bleach manga; chapter 371.
4. ^ Bleach manga; chapter 229, page xv.
5. ^ Morrisey, Kim (July ane, 2021). "Tite Kubo Draws Bleach Crossover Visual with Loki Telly Series". Anime News Network . Retrieved July 1, 2021.
6. ^ ^{a b c d} Freeman, Nik (November 6, 2015). "Whatever Happened to Bleach?". Anime News Network . Retrieved November 8, 2015.
7. ^ "Bleach: "Reality of the Despair, the Assassin's Dagger is Swung" Review". IGN. Ziff Davis Media. Apr 23, 2008. Retrieved November viii, 2015.
8. ^ ^{a b} "Bleach: "Aizen Stands! Horrible Ambitions" Review". IGN. Ziff Davis Media. Apr thirty, 2008. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
9. ^ Kimlinger, Carl (March 17, 2009). "Bleach DVD xv - Review". Anime News Network. Retrieved March xviii, 2009.
10. ^ Martin, Theron (September 3, 2009). "Bleach DVD - Season 3 Uncut Box Ready". Anime News Network . Retrieved November 16, 2009.
11. ^ Coulter, Bryce (Apr 29, 2009). "Mania: Bleach DVD 15 - Review". Mania Entertainment. Archived from the original on March 11, 2009. Retrieved August eighteen, 2009.
12. ^ Bleach Uncut Season 3 Box Gear up; Behind the scenes of Bleach (DVD). Viz Media. July seven, 2009.
13. ^ Santos, Carlo (August 25, 2012). "Bleach GN 44-45". Anime News Network . Retrieved August fifteen, 2014.
14. ^ Santos, Carlo (November 2, 2012). "Bleach GN 48-49". Anime News Network. Retrieved Baronial xv, 2014.
15. ^ Santos, Carlo (April 2, 2018). "Anime/Manga/Game Industry Celebrates April Fool'due south Twenty-four hour period 2018 - Part III". Anime News Network. Retrieved April 2, 2018.

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