Theories, anyone?

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I was re-watching Bleach during the SS arc...well more specifically I was watching the scene where Aizen explains his plans, and I got to thinking: why did Urahara choose Rukia out of all people to hide the Hougyoku?

Besides the fact that she's a main character and it wouldn't make sense to put it in anyone else but her...blahblahblah... I'm really curious to know why. And HOW did he do it? If there are only those two ways of extracting the Hougyoku from a soul (destroying the soul with the Soukyoku or by using that green arm thing), then how did Urahara PUT that dang thing in Rukia's soul in the first place? Was it in the gigai that he gave her? Theories, anyone? I can't think of a decent explanation. I can't see Byakuya knowingly letting Urahara do something like that to his precious sister.

And after watching that scene again, I can't help but feel this kind of "jealousy" (for lack of a better word) from Aizen towards Urahara. I'm beginning to picture the two of them back during their academy days with Urahara being the oh-so-cool-but-incredibly-smart scientist with all these great inventions and Aizen with not-so-great inventions of his own. And what if Aizen had something to do with Urahara being exiled? Yeah, creating a gigai that drains a shinigami's powers is bad, but I'm sure Mayuri can create things that can do way more worse than that.

While I'm still on the topic of Aizen, has is ever been revealed as to why he's doing all this? I know he wants to create a key, so he can enter the realm that the King is in and destroy him, but WHY?

Anyway, I'm just being a Bleach fanatic right now instead of studying. Please share your thoughts; all these theories are running around my brain and there isn't anywhere else where I can set them free except here.

By the way debbiechan, please feel free to delete this post if it's not allowed.

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ZERG RUSH kekekekekeke ^_______^

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Hey! Guildenstern from BA here. I come here to read Debbie's LJ sometimes and since I hate LJ, I don't have an account. But since Debbie was nice enough to teach me how to respond anonymously I'm gonna do it!

I wanted to rebut the whole 'It was in the gigai' theory. I've made a post about this before on BA, so lemme just go ahead and link that if it's OK: http://www.bleachasylum.com/showpost.php?p=128492&postcount=1

Here's your sidebyside text comparisons and links to the original page and two different translation groups.

Another translation source: http://www.bleachasylum.com/showpost.php?p=129989&postcount=79

I also went ahead and had this page translated by a few independant translators-- so far, they all seem to agree with my analysis. Pocketmofo also looked over the page. PM's comment was that while the page had some difficult grammar and was hard to decide for either way, there was nothing to justify the 'gigai' theory entirely. When Rukia got the Hougyoku is hotly debated in Japan, but that she got it post entry to the living world is not an accepted theory. There's 0 evidence for it.

In short, it's far more likely given the text we have that she got it before Urahara was exiled. The gigai theory really has no weight given what we've been presented. If Aizen wanted the Hougyoku this whole time and knew Urahara had it and was just waiting for some random shinigami to shunt it in so he could hide it...Why on earth wouldn't Aizen have just went and got the damned thing from Urahara himself? Too much logic flaw-- that Rukia had it from the get-go makes much more sense and is better supported by the text.

I'm currently asking around for a translated blurb from the databooks about this issue, I will keep looking into it. Either way, the issue is by no means clear or decided yet.

I will make another post if I find out anything new! Sorry to intrude on your comm. (.____.);

Re: ZERG RUSH kekekekekeke ^_______^

[spanky-o.livejournal.com]

You know, it never really occurred to me until right now that translations make a big difference. I guess its because I've been reading only one translation of the manga since I got into Bleach or I've just been depending on the anime. Hmmm... I should look into that more.

I don't think Urahara hid it in the gigai either. That's way too recent. I'm just curious as to WHEN he hid it, and as you said, that is unknown as of recent.