Rizzle said: I really hate how we're just supposed to accept these kinds of explanations without any sort of foreshadowing or ackowledgement by other charcters.
If talking about souls well....
Both Uryu, Ishida and Chad have objects that are very precious to them and passed down from someone else. Chasd has his abuelo's medallion, Orihime has her brother's hairpins, Uryu has his grandpa's cross. All things with strong emotional value to the owner and a history. Two out of three are visibly involved in activating their powers.
Chad was able to beat a holow with a simple telephone pole(which would not be possible in real world, unless the pole, itself a physical object, could somehow attain a spiritual value).
Then yu have the whole Chad's lines of "spirit of my abuelo lives in this arm" and so on.
Then you have people talking with swords ever since the start of the manga.
Then you have a mod soul perfectly animating a thing created out of purely inanimate materials.
Oh and then you have Urahara talking about Soul King being the "lynch pin" of the universe, which also connects to this. In pantheism everything is part of god. and thus everything is god and thus everything is with soul. And thus there is a god for each thing in existence, according to shintoism.
Rizzle said:
How did Xcution fly under SS's radar? How did the Vizards do it too, for that matter? For all Kubo's talk of how special watch is kept over Karakura because of it's high spiritual activity, SS knows jack shit about what goes on down there! Were the science division just sitting around, scratching their asses?
And so help me God, if someone says they we'ren't noticed because they manipulate souls not spirit particlles, I will flip out.
Vaizards and Urahara both had most skilled kido experts by their sides. Not to mention we are talking about the universe where stuff like reiatsu-masking cloaks exist. Not to mention that SS did not particularly pursue them very actively,
Now for Xcution....they have no reiatsu. AS long as they do not use their powers they would not differ to shinigami from the usual humans. Not to mention that XCUTION is in entirely different town from karakura. Their headquarters are in Naruki City.
Rizzle said:
Also, I think Kubo needs to stop with the half hearted cliffhangers; everyone knew it was Chad, there was no need to wait until the very end to reveal him XD Kubo could have saved some space and pumped up the chapter content.
I doubt anyone had doubts that it was chad. Kubo made it obvious with the speech patterns Chad uses and so on. Now on what was a cliffhanger is:
- Chad's new look.
- Chad actually meeting Ichigo in Xcution HQ.
Monad said: Wait, wasn't that an orange juice. How did alcohol got in it?
Is it a plot-hole or are this guys really evil and are trying to get Ichigo drunk and do nasty staff to him?
Ginjou offered alchohol to Ichigo, LOL'd that Ichigo does not drink and gave orange juice instead(which in itself is a pun)
The "alchohol" he consumed is from his own drink.
Monad said:
Now excuse me but i have to go talk to my aftershave bottle, i felt it's soul it's kind of depressed.
now what I got from this thread is that everyone seems to think that souls are conscious.
Soul can't feel "depressed". Spirit can. Soul is just....energy. a foundation of the world and universe, person, thing. Even if inanimate things have consciousness, it works entirelly differently from living things. Quoting tsukihime game "to understand minerals your brain has to be wired in the same way minerals are".
In a sense yes, it does have soul, just the same as about every other damn thing in your room, country, continent, entire world, universe, existence. |