Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War: Visored Squad Finally Assembles — Japan Is Unimpressed

A Japanese reaction-compilation channel built a clip around the moment Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War finally puts its full Visored squad on screen together — and the video's own title calls it out as "the hot topic": the anime reportedly gives them noticeably more screen time here than they got in the source manga.

The 297-comment section doesn't share the excitement. The single most-liked comment (430 likes) sums up the group as "a squad that only looks cool when they're standing in formation," and most of the replies underneath spend their time explaining exactly why the Visoreds keep getting outshined by Byakuya, Hitsugaya, and Kenpachi instead.

A few commenters push back a little, arguing the matchup itself was just unwinnable, and one even calls back to how confidently the Visoreds talked themselves up at the end of the previous cour — only for this to be the payoff.

A Japanese reaction-compilation channel built a clip around the moment Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War finally puts its full Visored squad on screen together, fighting as a unit for the first time in a while, every masked member in frame at once. The video's own title calls it "the hot topic" — and per the comments underneath it, the group is getting noticeably more screen time here than they reportedly got in the source manga at this same point in the story.

The most-liked comment on the whole video doesn't waste any time being polite about it.

That sets the tone for basically everything underneath it. The second-most-liked reply agrees, but frames the extra screen time as almost a mercy.

From there the thread turns into a running comparison exercise, ranking exactly how badly the Visoreds are getting outshined this cour — and by whom.

Not everyone piles on, though. A few commenters point out that the fight was just a bad matchup from the start, and others find something to actually enjoy in the spectacle itself, even while agreeing the outcome was never really in doubt.

• “Well, to be fair, they just drew a bad matchup. A bad one.”👍134⇄まぁこれは相手が悪いよ、相手が— @不巳夜 · 👍134
• “I actually love how tacked-on that colorful beam attack looks.”👍186⇄取って付けたかのようなカラフルビームほんま好き— @オシベ-v5y · 👍186

One reply widens the complaint out from this one scene to the Visoreds' whole arc, arguing the group peaked a long time ago and the story simply hasn't found a use for them since.

Someone else offers an in-universe excuse for why the story keeps benching them, half-joking that it's practically deliberate.

There's a real callback buried in the thread too — someone remembers exactly how confident the Visoreds sounded setting up this fight.

Even the strategy gets picked apart. One reply just wants someone to send in the one Visored member the comments actually respect.

For a squad the story keeps insisting is powerful, the comment section keeps arriving at the same verdict from a dozen different angles, joke after joke: they look incredible standing still in formation, and this cour, that's about where it ends.