yaaay canon and fake essays
My review of canon really goes along the lines of 'let's pick up the latest volume WHO CARES if it's 175 chapters or so behind la la la.'
That said, volume 15 gives me some stuff on Yachiru and the rest of 11th (four pages, but highly informative ones) to chew on because I'd forgotten it ages ago. Has it really been over a year since I picked up Bleach?
Nearly a direct transcript, but I changed names back around because I hate it when translators flip them.
ARAMAKI: Boy, was I surprised! I didn't expect to get picked up by you, Assistant Captain Kusajishi! I, Aramaki Makizou, couldn't be happier!!!
YACHIRU: What else was I going to do? She's a ryoka, like Ichigo, so her spiritual pressure was like his. When I went to check it out, there you were...ara ara...er...
ARAMAKI: Oh, I'm sorry! I'm Maki-Maki! Maki-Maki! It's been ten years since you took me under your wing! How time flies!!!
YACHIRU: Maki-Maki...ha! What a weird name!
ARAMAKI: You gave me that nickname yourself!!!
IKKAKU: So, what do you think, Orihime? Is that Ichigo jerk still alive?
YUMICHIKA: She's so beautiful...
ORIHIME: It's hard to say. I don't know.
KENPACHI: Don't ask stupid questions, Ikkaku. He's alive. I know he is. He's alive...and trying to get even stronger. Sounds like fun to me.
So this tells me two things that have some bearing on my play: Yachiru can forget nicknames. Which works, because occasionally I forget and change what she calls people because I haven't recorded it in the Giant Nicklist of Doom.
The second is that she can apparently pinpoint and differentiate spiritual pressure better than I thought she did. Ackpbbt. So now I'm not sure what bearing this has on her terrible sense of direction anymore. Because if the difference in ryoka and shinigami spirit energy is dramatically different, then all the ryoka should have been unable to hide in Seireitei. It's canon that you can tell what direction someone is in from their spirit energy, so does this mean she could actually focus? On the other hand, she couldn't detect Aramaki, whose level of power was lower than Orihime's. Hmm.
Either Yachiru can a) find someone if they're fairly strong, distinct and she knows exactly what to look for, or b) she spent the whole afternoon wandering around, got close enough to Maki-Maki and Orihime (who would have been heading to 11th's quarters anyway, come to think of it), and went 'ping!' Or even c) she was sitting with Kenpachi the whole time and went to investigate when Maki and Hime entered the building.
In conclusion, CANON WHY ARE YOU SO VAGUE. More on this when I get serious about rereading Bleach.
That said, volume 15 gives me some stuff on Yachiru and the rest of 11th (four pages, but highly informative ones) to chew on because I'd forgotten it ages ago. Has it really been over a year since I picked up Bleach?
Nearly a direct transcript, but I changed names back around because I hate it when translators flip them.
ARAMAKI: Boy, was I surprised! I didn't expect to get picked up by you, Assistant Captain Kusajishi! I, Aramaki Makizou, couldn't be happier!!!
YACHIRU: What else was I going to do? She's a ryoka, like Ichigo, so her spiritual pressure was like his. When I went to check it out, there you were...ara ara...er...
ARAMAKI: Oh, I'm sorry! I'm Maki-Maki! Maki-Maki! It's been ten years since you took me under your wing! How time flies!!!
YACHIRU: Maki-Maki...ha! What a weird name!
ARAMAKI: You gave me that nickname yourself!!!
IKKAKU: So, what do you think, Orihime? Is that Ichigo jerk still alive?
YUMICHIKA: She's so beautiful...
ORIHIME: It's hard to say. I don't know.
KENPACHI: Don't ask stupid questions, Ikkaku. He's alive. I know he is. He's alive...and trying to get even stronger. Sounds like fun to me.
So this tells me two things that have some bearing on my play: Yachiru can forget nicknames. Which works, because occasionally I forget and change what she calls people because I haven't recorded it in the Giant Nicklist of Doom.
The second is that she can apparently pinpoint and differentiate spiritual pressure better than I thought she did. Ackpbbt. So now I'm not sure what bearing this has on her terrible sense of direction anymore. Because if the difference in ryoka and shinigami spirit energy is dramatically different, then all the ryoka should have been unable to hide in Seireitei. It's canon that you can tell what direction someone is in from their spirit energy, so does this mean she could actually focus? On the other hand, she couldn't detect Aramaki, whose level of power was lower than Orihime's. Hmm.
Either Yachiru can a) find someone if they're fairly strong, distinct and she knows exactly what to look for, or b) she spent the whole afternoon wandering around, got close enough to Maki-Maki and Orihime (who would have been heading to 11th's quarters anyway, come to think of it), and went 'ping!' Or even c) she was sitting with Kenpachi the whole time and went to investigate when Maki and Hime entered the building.
In conclusion, CANON WHY ARE YOU SO VAGUE. More on this when I get serious about rereading Bleach.