Bleach: Japanese Fans Debate Who Should Raise Ichigo's Son — "The Safest Pick Being Grimmjow Is Insane"
BLEACH「一護の息子を育てるなら誰？」日本のファンの反応
“The fact that the SAFEST one out of this whole lineup is Grimmjow is just wrong.”
こんなかで一番安全なのがグリムジョーなのおかしいだろ
On Bleach, Japanese fans got stuck on a hypothetical they couldn't drop: if you HAD to hand Ichigo Kurosaki's son Kazui over to a Soul Society or Hueco Mundo figure to raise, who's the safest choice — and who's the most dangerous? The top-liked answer set the tone: the single safest guardian in the entire roster is somehow Grimmjow, a verdict the whole thread agreed was unhinged. The recurring logic was that the scary geniuses are the problem — Aizen would "grow the kid the fastest" but would gleefully drag him along to conquer the Soul King's palace, and Urahara is just too unfathomable to trust — whereas Grimmjow is a rough-but-good-hearted delinquent big-brother who'd let Kazui cut loose in the Hueco Mundo desert. From there it branched into casting different mentors for each discipline (Kido to Aizen, Hakuda to Yoruichi, Flash Step to Byakuya), Ichigo himself crying "why am I not even a candidate?!" and getting roasted, and Don Kanonji floated as the one pick with actual ethics. The punchline everyone kept circling back to: every adult in this manga would be way too excited to teach this child.
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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 157)
- @さっくん-o6e👍 26
The least-bad option being Grimmjow is genuinely messed up lol
一番マシなのがグリムジョーなのヤベェだろw
- @熊笹-u5d👍 1
The #1 pick is already sketchy, and then everyone from #2 down is straight-up out of the question — make it make sense!!
No.1の時点で大概なのにNo.2から論外が出てくるのはおかしいだろ！！
- @ハシビロコウ-p5x👍 26
Well, unlike Aizen and Urahara, whose depths you can never see, Grimmjow is a du— I mean, he's simple.
まあ底がしれない藍染や浦原さんと違ってグリムジョーはバ…単純だからね
- @真白-e8m👍 1
Grimmjow isn't a master — he's more like the rough, sketchy uncle.
グリムジョーは師匠じゃなくてガラの悪い叔父的な感じ
- @猫野アシウラ-クロイトコスキー👍 17
Yeah, he's the uncle who teaches you slightly delinquent grown-up stuff before you're ready.
ちょっと悪い背伸びした遊び教えてくれる叔父さん枠だな
- @kate-m5r8j👍 15
Deep down he's a caretaking delinquent big-brother type, so the second he finds out it's Ichigo Kurosaki's kid, he'd look after him anyway. The kid probably can't cut loose with his powers in the living world — so why not let him go all out in that Hueco Mundo desert? And the delinquent big bro would be totally hyped to spar with him.
@ハシビロコウ-p5x根っこは面倒見のいいヤンキー兄ちゃんだから、黒崎一護の息子って知ったらなんだかんだお世話してくれるよ。 現世だと力を自由に使えないかもしれないし、あの砂漠で思う存分、使えばいいじゃない。ヤンキー兄ちゃんもノリノリで相手してくれるよ。
- @フリーサン-z3p👍 1
I'm now picturing a scene that doesn't exist: the kid gets sent off to Hueco Mundo with Grimmjow, Grimmjow snaps "don't follow me," the kid trots after him anyway, and Grimmjow ends up looking after him while clicking his tongue the whole time.
グリムジョーと一緒にウェコムンドに飛ばされて グリムジョーが「ついてくんな」 って言ったけどテクテクついて行くのに 舌打ちしながらもなんだかんだ世話を焼くという 存在しないシーンが頭に浮かんだ
- @-aruwoccha2036👍 126
Aizen would probably grow him the fastest — but he'd also cheerfully drag the kid along to go conquer the Soul King's palace, so, hard no.
藍染は多分一番成長させてくれるけどウキウキで霊王宮征服しにつれていきそうだからダメ
- @zakodesu444👍 13
Aizen would teach him a bunch of extra, completely unnecessary stuff too lol
藍染は余計なことまで教えてくるだろ笑
- @cholnovelie👍 6
I'll vote Aizen, just because the image of Ichigo standing there horrified while his son spouts smug edgy poetry is too funny.
一勇がすかしポエムを連発している様をみて愕然とする一護、という絵が面白そうなので愛染かな
- @あーる-b2r👍 89
The most dangerous one is probably Urahara.
たぶん一番危険なのは浦原
- @D.K.-wr4pz👍 8
The fact that he out-dangers even Aizen is killing me lol
藍染凌いでるの草w
- @ただのラーメン315👍 2
Did everyone forget how rough Ichigo had it when Urahara played "master"? That guy never teaches you any of the important parts.
浦原さんが師匠擬きになったせいで一護がどれだけ大変だったのか忘れたのか あいつ大切なこと何も教えてくれないぞ
- @鱈子丸-r7m👍 0
Grimmjow: the Piccolo-type mentor. Aizen: a master you can rely on but can't trust. Urahara: a master you can neither trust nor rely on.
グリムジョー ピッコロさんポジ 愛染 信頼はできるけど信用はできない師匠 浦原さん 信用も信頼もできない師匠
- @tstsuji👍 97
Honestly, Shinji Hirako seems like he'd quietly take really good care of him.
平子がなんだかんだで手厚く面倒見てくれそう
- @十六夜梗榎👍 8
Shinji: "Why am I the one stuck babysitting?!" Hiyori: "Ahahaha! Looks good on you, Shinji!"
平「なんでこの俺が世話せなあかんねん」 猿「あはははっ！さまになってるでしんじ！」
- @しめ鯖たべてぇ👍 40
The safe picks are around Shinji, Grimmjow, and Byakuya.
安全なのは 平子、グリムジョー、びゃっくんあたり
- @変人-y7p👍 1
If it's Byakuya, then Renji and Rukia would come tagging along too — like, "Brother is training Ichigo's son?!" "We can't just sit here — let's go, Rukia!!"
びゃっくんあたりだったら 恋次、ルキアあたりが付いてきそう 「兄様が一護の息子を修行！？」 「こうしちゃいられねぇー行くぞルキア！！」ってな感じで⋯
- @JP-sssy👍 8
Ichigo: "Why am I not even a candidate?!" Everyone: "Bro, you're bad at controlling your own spiritual pressure."
一護「なんで俺が候補にねぇんだよ！？」 周り「お前、霊圧の制御苦手じゃん」
- @rsc3438👍 3
Everyone being unanimous that Ichigo can't be the teacher is sending me lol
一護が教えられないの満場一致で笑う
- @ゆうゆう-j2h👍 3
Ichigo the dad is the most special-case guy of all, so he could only really be a sparring partner, not a teacher of anything.
父親の一護は自分が一番の特殊枠だから、何かを教えるというより訓練相手しか出来なそう。
- @Makoto0126Sindo👍 14
Zanpakuto handling — Ichigo himself would teach that better than Urahara. Kido is Aizen, that's the consensus read. Hakuda is Yoruichi, and she might even throw in Flash Cry. Flash Step is Byakuya. Fullbring is… I want to say Orihime, but hers is too special, so yeah, it's gotta be Tsukishima.
斬魄刀の扱いは浦原さんよりもチャンイチ自身が教えそう。 鬼道は藍染なのは解釈一致 白打は夜一さんなんなら瞬閧も教えてくれそう。 瞬歩は兄様。 完現術は…織姫って言いたいけど特殊だからなぁ…っぱ月島さんか
- @omaeguilty👍 11
Uryu Ishida: teaches him the Quincy arts. Tsukishima: teaches him Fullbring. Given this kid's bloodline, isn't it better to just have several mentors?
雨竜:滅却師の技を教えてくれる 月島さん:完現術を教えてくれる こいつの血筋的に複数いた方が良くね？
- @lakalakalove2👍 1
Tsukishima would cut the training time down by just slicing in a fake memory: "Remember? I taught you this ages ago."
月島さん、時間短縮する為に「昔教えてやっただろ」って挟み込んできそう。
- @umi293👍 10
I'd like to nominate Don Kanonji.
ドン・観音寺を推したい
- @notes_0223👍 6
Wasn't someone saying Don Kanonji too? lol (not for the power side — for the ETHICS).
ドン観音寺とかも言われてなかった?ww (力方面じゃなくて倫理的な意味で)
- @ガッデムさん-w8q👍 2
The thing Kazui most needs taught is a normal sense of ethics and a normal understanding of life and death. Whoever can teach THAT has to be the master, or we're in trouble. He's human, but he's seen ghosts since birth and already knows about Soul Reapers, the Soul Society, Hell, Hollows — all of it. So he can't really tell apart who's alive and who's dead. Case in point: he cheerfully sent a Plus spirit to Hell out of pure goodwill.
一勇に一番必要な教えは「一般的な倫理観と死生観」だよ。それを教えてくれるやつが師匠にならないとマズい。 人間でありながら生まれた時から幽霊が見えて、死神の存在、戸魂界、地獄、虚、など全部を知っている。 故に、一勇は生きてるとか死んでるとかの区別がついてない。 その証拠に、プラスを善意で地獄送りにしてたよね。
- @のりたま-w1b👍 0
Toshiro Hitsugaya — he'd teach the kid some common sense.
日番谷冬獅郎 常識を教えてくれる
- @user-mark_11👍 5
Grimmjow… would slowly go from calling him "the Kurosaki brat" to actually using his name. Aizen → would sense the "distortion" in the kid and whisper all kinds of things into his ear. Urahara → please, Yoruichi, Tessai, somebody stop him… Conclusion: help us, Visored.
グリムジョー…｢黒崎のガキ｣→｢一勇｣になりそう 藍染→一勇の｢歪み｣みたいなものを知りつつ色々吹き込む 浦原さん→頼む夜一さん、テッサイさん止めてくれ… 結論、助けて仮面の軍勢
- @Lv2浪人会計士👍 1
I want Aizen to casually slip out of Muken, watch Kazui walking home from school with his friends from behind a wall, and mutter "...so it has come even to this..." Then Kazui, who's somehow snuck right up next to him, asks "who are you, mister?" — and Aizen, breaking into a cold sweat that he didn't notice the kid approach, says "I'm a friend of your dad's" and hands him some pocket money. Then he casually returns to Muken to sit alone smirking to himself going "a being of that caliber... what will become of him..."
愛染はしれっと無間抜け出して、友達と下校してる勇一を物陰から見て「まさか…コレほどとは……」とかボソボソ言ってそう。そして、いつの間にか近くに来てた勇一に「おじさんだれ？」って聞かれて、気づけなかったことに冷や汗をかきつつ「お父さんのお友達だよ。」って言ってお小遣いあげてそう。その後またしれっと無間に戻って「あれほどの存在…どうなるのか…」とか一人ニチャニチャ妄想してて欲しい。
- @ニートになりたい-n4y👍 0
His blood is such a mix anyway — I want him to learn something from literally everyone, including the people down in Hell, and become the strongest.
色々混じってるし、地獄にいる人含め全員からそれぞれ教えをこいて最強にして欲しい
- @sonne0153👍 1
Like Goku, let's just swap masters as he levels up: Grimmjow → Urahara → Aizen.
悟空みたく、成長度に合わせて師匠を変えよう。 グリムジョー→喜助→藍染で
- @キューリの和物👍 1
The real problem is every single one of them would be way too excited to teach this kid.
みんなウキウキで教えてそうなんだよな
- @ujimusgjdtvjk👍 0
The plot twist where everyone thinks Ichigo or Urahara is his master and marvels at how fast he's growing — only for it to come out that Aizen was secretly tutoring him on the side, and the kid turns evil and waves goodbye from inside a Garganta.
一護や浦原が師匠だと思ってて、めちゃくちゃ成長早いなと思ったら裏で愛染にも教わってて闇堕ちしてガルガンダの中にサヨナラするパターン
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