- #26
Candor said:
1- Ichigo didn't have anything on his face, in chapter 500 he didn't also, there's also a weird light, that's white so it's not Getsuga Tenshou.
2- There's blood coming out from somewhere.
3- Ichigo has a weird mark on his face on the left side, in addition to blood.
Maddo_scientisto said:
flameclaw100 said:
...Did no one notice on page 10, when Ichigo yells: "I will protect you!" you can clearly see the outlined mark on the left side of his face that when first glance looks like blood, but actually it's like the markings on his hollow mask. Not only that, but on the square when he says: "I will..." you can see the mark starting to outline. Ichigo's gonna go hollow!
He can't.
Also there's no sign of hollow mask anywhere, Ichigo's face is covered in blood and he's hitting with all his strengh on a white barrier/barrier of light.
If you look on page 9 you obviously see that it's part of his dark getsuga tenshou's blast hitting on the barrier with bit of both flying away because of the pressure.I think what I mentioned above is what flameclaw100 meant, there's something going on with Ichigo right now, but I don't think he's turning into a hollow, he might get some kind of a power-up for his shinigami form though.
1-He's hitting pretty hard against the barrier, that white light is from the barrier. If you watch the last pannel on page 9 again you'll see that he's stabbing the barrier and that he somehow managed to pierce it a little. The light is pretty much part of the energy barrier that is surrounding him.
He has nothing on his face but on a pannel before this one, he obviously have a black stain that goes from under his left eye to near his neck, pretty much similar to the one he has on 3.
2-I didn't see it as blood but as part of his getsuga tenshou after it clashed on the barrier. If you review page 9 (the page before) you'll see that every moment Ichigo clash against the barrier, part of his GT fly off everywhere due to the barrier blocking it
Ichigo is putting all his power in a stab to pierce the barrier so obviously there's part of both the barrier and his reiatsu that'll fly off due to the clash.
3- Ichigo's face is covered by the same thing, it's either blood or a mark, not both. Also since it isn't symetrical and seem like it's something dripping from his face (Instead of just looking like it's splashed there like the other side of the face) it gives off the feeling of being blood more than anything else.1. That makes more sense, the barrier one.
2.That also makes sense, I thought it was blood.
I made the first 2 points rapidly I didn't think about them much, I was planning to talk about the 3rd point only but I thought I could mention the first 2, but I felt I was contradicting myself when I was writing the 3rd point, so I added the blood part.
Anyway about the 3rd point, if you looked at the previous panel (no.1) he had nothing in the same part of his face in no.3, here's a picture of what I mean:
The 2 parts I've marked in red are definitely not the same, something happened that made that line appear. What's the same are the marks on the side of them. When I read these 2 pages about Ichigo the first time they felt really out of place, when I took a closer look I noticed these 2 panels, so I think Kubo might be foreshadowing something about Ichigo, some kind of power-up I guess.
