Bleach/Tropes E-G

Tropes for Bleach, E to G:

• Easter Egg: In the Menos forest, Nel uses her status as an arrancar to try and escape. In the dub, one of the adjucas leaders tells her "All that gets you is a free cup of tea at Las Noches". This aired over a month before the infamous "Tea with Aizen" scene did.
  • Speaking of tea, the "On the Next..." segment at the very end of the Zanpakuto Tales filler arc involves Ulquiorra refusing to return to the battle with Ichigo before he's had his tea.
• Easy Road to Hell * Literally going to Hell seems to be pretty rare, but since your other options for afterlives are a desert where monsters hunt you until you become one of them and a depressing slum where you will live poverty while ruled over by unquestionable overlords (unless said overlords recruit you, in which case you will serve as a soldier until the aforementioned monsters manage to brutally kill you), going figuratively to Hell (that is, being sent to an awful and inescapable afterlife is, to the best of our knowledge, a complete certainty.
• Eccentric Mentor: Urahara the self-described "mere honest, handsome, perverted businessman". However, don't let his sanguine disposition, odd dress-sense or shameless self-promotion fool you; beneath it all lurks the soul of a true badass. A former Shinigami Captain and founder of the Soul Society Research Institute, Kisuke became a legend in the Seireitei after mastering Bankai — a powerful attack which usually takes decades of study to learn — in only three days (this record was later beaten by his protégé, Ichigo). The catalyst and driving force behind the plot, it is widely believed by fans that the entire series is merely one grand game of Gambit Roulette played between him and Aizen.
• The Electric Slide: All of the Soul Reapers pull this off at one time or another.
• Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: What Hitsugaya's fight with Harribel eventually devolves into.
• Eldritch Abomination:
  • Aaroniero Arruruerie's normal and Resurrección forms.
  • Aizen's transformations have become more and more surreal; by Chapter 419, he's fully become one of these.
  • Both of Seigen's Hollow forms.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Several characters have been the victim of this thanks to Yachiru's habit of nicknaming everyone. That said, 'Shirou-chan' and 'Bedwetter Momo' have nothing at all to do with Yachiru and are nicknames Hitsugaya and Hinamori came up with each other while children living with their grandmother. Hitsugaya has mercifully left Hinamori's nickname in the past. Unfortunately for him, Hinamori can't break the habit of using his.
• Empathic Weapon: The zanpakuto with which Soul Reapers fight.
• Empty Piles of Clothing: During the Turn Back the Pendulum arc.
• Enemy Without
• Energy Absorption: Nel's cero ability. Yumichika and Ukitake both have shikai that do this in different ways and with different consequences.
• Energy Bow: Quincies use these.
• Enforced Method Acting: In filler episode 298, Ichigo is filming a movie directed by Abarai Renji, with special effects provided by Kuchiki Byakuya. Said special effects include Byakuya attacking Ichigo with his Bankai. Ouch.
• Epigraph: Each tankubon opens with a small panel depicting a single character and a short poem seemingly in that character's voice. Kubo Tite's emokid poetry is surprisingly good.
• Episode Title Card: In a variation, the cards feature only episode numbers.
• Equivalent Exchange: Aizen wanted to give Wonderweiss the ability to nullify the powers of Yamamoto's zanpakuto. He succeeded, but in return, Wonderweiss had to lose his ability to speak, his intelligence, and his sanity. Aizen being Aizen, the 'exchange' apparently did not include Wonderweiss's ability to feel fear.
• Establishing Character Moment: Kyoraku and Nanao's deserve special mention. She finds him sleeping and tells him that intruders have broken into the Seireitei, to which he lazily responds "What do you want me to do about it?". The reason it stands out is because Starrk and Lilinette have the exact same exchange during the Hueco Mundo arc.
• Eternal Prohibition: When Chad tells a shinigami captain that has little reason to regularly visit the human world that he's refusing the offer of a drink on the grounds that he's a minor, he's understood immediately.
• Evasive Fight Thread Episode: The fights between Yamamoto, Ukitake and Kyoraku and the one between Kenpachi and Komamura either never get past opening remarks or simply aren't shown. Komamura ends his fight early specifically in response to sensing the other one happening.
  • Kenpachi and Byakuya has been danced around in both the anime and manga briefly.
    • The Yamamoto/Ukitake/Kyoraku fight is rectified in the anime, where Yamamoto ends up fighting Reigei of the other two during the Gotei 13 Invading Army arc. It ends up being a pretty good fight.
• Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs: Shino wears... a lilypad on her head
• Even Evil Has Standards: Mayuri Kurotsuchi. Technically on the good guys side by virtue of being a Gotei 13, but his pursuit of knowledge in the name of science doesn't simply cross the Moral Event Horizon, it's set up shop well out of sight of it. And yet, when he fights Szayel Aporro Granz, we learn that even he believes there's a right way and a wrong way to go about being a scientist (not that that has anything to do with morality, of course- he just doesn't think scientists should strive for perfection).
  • While Grimmjow is willing to kill his own allies in order to recover his rank, if he feels he is in debt, he will go out of his way to repay it - displayed when he rescues Orihime, who had healed his arm, from two Arrancar girls who had been torturing her.
  • Not to mention Ulquiorra. He may be a member of the Espada, but calls Nnoitra "disgusting" when the latter toys with the idea of raping Orihime.
• Everything Fades: As a spirit, when you die, your body and clothing convert into reishi and you disappear. People vanishing while leaving their clothing is considered suspicious.
• Every Japanese Sword Is a Katana: Somewhat averted. There are plenty of katana running around, but there's also other kinds. Ichigo's shikai is... something... and his bankai is a Daito.
  • Gin, for example, has a dagger that isn't a dagger if you consider the physics of it. It's expands and contracts at will.
  • Very intelligently averted with Kyoraku in the Zanpaktou Tales filler arc. Kyoraku refers to the two swords of his daisho as a tachi and a wakazashi. Tachi were what the Japanese used as longswords before katanas were invented, and Kyoraku has probably had his Zanpaktou since long before then.
  • Ginjou's necklace can turn into a Big Ass Broadsword
  • While Tsukishima's sword is a Katana, It's also a bookmark.
• Evil All Along Aizen
  • Ginjo, too.
• Evilly Affable: Gin; Tsukishima's so affable he'll make you believe you're best friends or beloved relatives, in the case of Ichigo's friends and sisters.
• Evil Old Folks: Sawatari from the Bount Filler arc.
• Excalibur in the Rust: Kenpachi's zanpakuto.
• Excited Episode Title: Most of them.
• Executive Meddling: The entire Arrancar Arc.
  • To an extent, also the very first arc.
  • We can safely say the Soul Society Arc was the only one the author could do exactly how he imagined it.
• Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: Happens very often.
• Exposition Diagram: Many, such as Rukia's drawings of rabbits and how Nel explains ranks among the Espada.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Aizen, of course. Also many different characters have different hairstyles in the present than they do in flashbacks.
• Expy: Tite Kubo seems to have recycled a number of character designs from Zombie Powder, most notably Aizen and Grimmjow.
• Eyepatch of Power: Kenpachi, whose eyepatch is a self-handicap that absorbs his power. Nnoitra has one, too...But that may be a public service, given what his covers.
• Eye Scream: Ulquiorra has the ability to rip out his own eyes. They grow back, though.
  • In chapter 450, Ichigo got both of his eyes slashed by Ginjo
• Eyes Always Shut: Gin is the freakin' poster-boy for this trope.
  • You get so used to his eyes being shut that just him opening them (like when he gets surprised attack by Ichigo and when he released his Bankai) qualifies as an Oh Crap moment
• Eyes of Gold: Yoruichi's eyes reflect she can turn into a cat. Komamura's eyes also reflect he has a unique nature as well.
• Face of a Thug: Ichigo's hair in naturally blondish-red. This is very rare in Japan; most people have to bleach their hair to do so and are considered Delinquents. People always picked fights with him over this.
• The Faceless / The Blank: Tosen's hollow mask, since he doesn't need eyeholes.
  • But apparently a Nightmare Fuel mouth hole was absolutely essential, as he rips one into existence a few pages later.
• Faceless Goons: The Exequias
• Facial Markings: Several Soul Reapers, nearly all of the Arrancar, and the Vizard's hollow masks.
• Failed a Spot Check: During the Bount Arc, Vice-captains Hisagi, Kira, Rangiku and Fifth-Seat Yumichika are sent after the Bount. Outside the hide-away caves, the vice-captains catch Yumichika admiring himself in his mirror and chastise him for dropping his guard. However, the anime shows the audience that Yumichika had both noticed the vice-captains approaching him via his mirror and that he's the only one who realised the Bount had already detected the group's arrival. Once inside the caves, the group examine many strangely designed pillars but Yumichika keeps looking off in a completely different direction to the others. Whey they're suddenly attacked from behind, Yumichika saves them all by blocking the strike. He then chastises them for having been so unobservant they'd never noticed the danger he'd been aware of all along.
  • In the manga, when Hitsugaya's Advance Guard split up to find different locations to sleep in, the only one who notices the unusual hollow reiatsu that heralds the arrival of Grimmjow's group is Yumichika. He tries to warn Ikkaku who tells him to ignore it, but he still thinks the situation is far too strange. When Grimmjow's assault begins, a panel is shown of all the shinigami reactions, and the only one not surprised is Yumichika.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: Don Kanonji. He's nowhere near as effective as he'd like to be - even after he stops creating the problems he thought he was fighting.
• Faking the Dead: Aizen Sousuke, obviously.
• Family Theme Naming: Kubo's very fond of this.
  • Ichigo and his siblings all named after fruit. (Ichigo=strawberry; Karin=quince; Yuzu=citron).
  • The Shiba siblings are all named after birds: Kaien=sea swallow; Kuukaku= sky crane; Ganju=rock eagle.
  • The Kuchiki clan have colour associations connected to their names. Ginrei (silver), Soujun (green/blue), Byakuya (white).
  • The Ishida clan have themes relating to their quincy heritage: Souken (bow clan), Ryuuken (Dragon bow). Uryuu (dragon rain) may not look like his name follows the family theme, but it actually describes his signature bow attack, a rain of 1200 arrows.
  • The named Inoue members have celestial themes. Orihime (a celestial weaver maiden) and Sora (the sky itself).
  • The Kotetsu sisters (Isane and Kiyone) have sound-themed names.
• Fan Disservice: There are semi-naked muscular hunks flexing their muscles... and then there's Charlotte Cuulhorne. Note the very twisted use of Female Gaze.
• Fanfic: Many and varied, though of special mention is Uninvited Guests, which is probably one of the funniest you could find for this series.
• Fan Service: This manga is full of it - affecting both female characters and male characters alike. Kubo does seem to be working his way through TV Tropes to see how many different kinds of fanservice he can insert.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: A lot of shinigami accessorise their uniforms according to this trope. The king of this trope is Yumichika (both before and after the time-skip), but also included are (before the time-skip) Byakuya, Chojiro, Isane, Renji (in bankai), Nanao. After the time skip: Rukia, Ikkaku, Shinji, Uryuu.
  • Uryuu's Quincy Final Form. Justified in that the Quincy are depicted as monk-archers based largely upon eastern martial-artists who specialize in the bow and who often leave one side of their bodies completely bare to avoid getting clothing tangled in their bowstrings.
• Fastball Special: Chad and Rukia do this against Shrieker, the first Hollow Chad ever fights. Later during the Soul Society arc Ichigo does it to throw Rukia to safety.
• Fate Worse Than Death: Ichigo experiences this when he sacrifices his powers to defeat Aizen. The fullbring arc reveals that living without his powers is effectively a fate worse than death for Ichigo.
  • Two words "Superhuman Drug". To defeat Sayzel, Mayuri uses a drug that heightens the senses to god like levels, however, the body is unable to catch up to the new senses, and what only takes a second, it feels like "a hundred years".

Mayuri: Take the pain, savor it, Farewell, Enjoy the next 100 years.

• Female Gaze: Kubo seems as willing to play with male characters in a manner female readers/characters will find sexy as he is to play with female characters in a manner male readers/characters will find sexy. For example. (See trope page for more examples.)
• The Fighting Narcissist: Yumichika Ayasegawa, one of the very rare heroic examples because he may be a subversion. He certainly insists on presenting himself as such a person, but the reality is more complicated: his fight with Charlotte Cuuhlhourne reveals he's actually sacrificing his real self for the sake of his division's philosophy due to his belief that Undying Loyalty is much more important than his own desires. Charlotte is used to lampshade this by genuinely being what Yumichika is pretending to be... but looks-wise, he's a mix of The Brute and Magical Girl. When they fight, Hilarity Ensues followed by Mood Whiplash to reveal the truth about Yumichika.
  • In the anime-only Invasion arc, the anime decides to play this trope straight for Yumichika by changing his Hidden Depths to something that's even more narcissistic than his public image. The first time Yumichika meets his clone, he's struck by the terrible dilemma of not being able to fight - because he can't bring himself to attack 'such a beautiful me'. On the other hand, his clone has no such qualms about the fight because he thinks the real Yumichika would look even more beautiful covered in blood... which is taking narcissism to the point of both sadism and masochism.
• Fighting Series
• Filler Villain: The Bount, Captain Amagai, and Muramasa.
• Final Boss Preview: Basically, any time Ichigo jobs against someone he later beats, it's this. Byakuya was the first one, then Grimmjow, then Ulquiorra, then finally Aizen.
• First-Name Basis: Uryu gets quite upset when Ganju, whom he doesn't know well or like, calls him by his first name. A young Soifon is initially hesitant to call Yoruichi by name, but later settles for "Yoruichi-sama" ("Lady Yoruichi" in the dub and "Ms. Yoruichi" in the English manga). Ukitake calls everybody by this, including people he's only known briefly, like Ichigo. Hitsugaya hates when people call him by his first name. At the end of the Soul Society arc, a wounded Byakuya asks Renji pathetically "Is Ichigo going to keep calling me by my first name?".
  • Uryuu addresses his own father only by his given name, which is a strong indication of how poor their relationship is, even to a western audience.
• First Time Feeling: Gets Tousen killed. He's blind, so his new Hollow Resurrecion form grants him sight, he's so overwhelmed by it that he doesn't notice his opponent attacking from behind until it's too late.
• Five-Bad Band: Aizen and his Karakura invasion force forms this:
  • Aizen: Big Bad
  • The Dragon: Gin ( he even fits the part of the trope as the one most likely to betray the Big Bad)
  • Evil Genius: Primera Espada Starrk is a Brilliant but Lazy example.
  • The Brute: Segunda Espada Barragan who fits the description on the trope page very well.
  • Dark Chick: Tres Espada Harribel.
  • Sixth Ranger: Tousen ( even pulls a Heel Face Turn, though Aizen was too Genre Savvy for him)
• Five-Man Band:
  • The Hero: Ichigo Kurosaki, junior-turned-senior high school student and Shinigami/Hollow hybrid (Visored).
  • The Lancer: Rukia Kuchiki, unseated member of the 13th Division.
  • The Smart Guy: Uryu Ishida, junior-turned-senior high school student and second-to-last surviving Quincy.
  • The Big Guy: Yasutora "Chad" Sado, junior-turned-senior high school student and partly Hollow/Human hybrid.
  • The Chick: Orihime Inoue, junior-turned-senior high school student.
    • Sixth Ranger: Renji Abarai, fourth known lieutenant of the 6th Division. True to sixth rangers, he's not often with the five and is much cooler.
  • There was also a band during the Soul Society arc, while Rukia was imprisoned and Renji was still an enemy:
    • The Hero: Ichigo
    • The Lancer: Chad
    • The Smart Guy: Ishida
    • The Big Guy: Ganju
    • The Chick: Orihime
    • The Sixth Ranger: Hanataro
• Flaming Sword: Ryuujin Jakka.
• Flaw Exploitation: Savvy villains abound.
• Flipping the Bird: in 398, after Aizen blocks Isshin's sword swing, Isshin flicks him off then uses the sheer force behind that bird to knock Aizen through several buildings.
• Flipping the Table
  • Lampshaded in the first chapter, where the table has a note posted on it saying 'Use for sight gags only'.
• Floating Advice Reminder: Kenpachi, consulting imaginary squad members while fighting Tousen (and as it happens, it's Yumichika's advice he actually takes).

Yachiru: Try swinging wildly! Kenpachi: I've been doing that. Ikkaku: Maybe it's like this? Try using your inner eye. Kenpachi: If I could do that, he'd be dog meat by now. Yumichika: If it were me, I'd give up. Elegantly. Kenpachi: Die.

• Flower Motifs: Each of the 13 divisions gets a flower insignia which corresponds to the division's values or attitude. It is displayed with a division number on the lieutenant badge. Several zanpakutou also have flower themes running through them. See trope page for more detail.
• Foe-Tossing Charge: In anime episode 14, Ichigo does this to a group of hollows while going to Uryu's aid.
• Foot Focus: The series offers barefoot closeups of Rukia (when she's about to be executed in #54), Orihime (#116), and Ikkaku (in #119). There are some characters who are always barefoot, such as Kukaku Shiba, Ashido Kano, Nel and the Great Desert Brothers, and Dark Rukia in the third movie, Fade to Black. It comes to a head in the eighth opening sequence, which starts with the Nakama throwing off their shoes and running barefoot on the beach.
• For Science!: Mayuri and Szayel's excuse for almost everything they do. That said, the pair do have a major disagreement on where the limit of this excuse should end. Szayel uses this excuse to explain why scientists should pursue perfection and Mayuri uses this excuse to explain why scientists should not pursue perfection.
• The Force Is Strong with This One
• Foreshadowing: When Shinji's first introduced to the manga, he's seen in the background hanging upside down in the air while drinking a bottle of water as if he was the right side up. When he introduces himself to Ichigo's class, he writes his name backwards and admits he's very good at doing that. More than 200 chapters later, we learn this his zanpakutou's power is the ability to flip the perception of its targets so all directions are reversed.
  • Ishida's internal monologue in chapter 347.
  • Captain Kyouraku said just before his curb stomp battle with Chad something along the lines of "It's all just fun and games," and well over two hundred chapters later his special technique turned out to be essentially WEAPONIZING CHILDREN'S GAMES.
  • At the beginning of the manga, one of Ichigo's earliest cases is protecting Orihime from her hollowfied big brother. He reveals his belief that the reason a big brother is born first is to protect the younger siblings that follow. This foreshadows his climactic battle with Byakuya and the debate they have during that fight over why Byakuya isn't protecting his sister.
  • Remember when Ginjo during his training with Ichigo in the current arc he said he makes "One hell of a villain"? Well......
  • In Episode 5 of the anime back in 2004, a Hollow is shown being taken to Hell instead of Soul Society. Now, in 2011, what is the latest movie about? Hell.
  • After being subdued, Ichigo's Inner Hollow warns Ichigo that if he slips up he'll take over again. One Cero Oscuras to the chest courtesy of Ulquiorra later, guess who shows up to the party?
• Four Is Death: Espada #4, Ulquiorra has come the closest of anyone to killing Ichigo( technically he DID kill the guy, but Plotkai saved him). Additionally, his general appearance is pretty morbid, especially after using Resurrección. He is also the only Arrancar to have mastered his 2nd-level Resurrección.
  • The Fourth squad are the healers. As a military unit, they're also expected to fight when necessary, so they're trained to both heal and kill thus giving them - on a symbolic level - the most control over life and death of any squad in the Gotei 13. They're also treated poorly by the entire Gotei 13 and reduced to doing menial and public hygiene work as a result. The 11th division in particular treat them badly.
  • In the 11th division, there is a captain, a vice-captain, a third seat and a fifth seat. Yumichika wanted the third seat, but upon realizing Ikkaku wanted it he was content to let Ikkaku take it instead. He settled for fifth seat because the kanji is almost as pretty as the kanji for three, but he utterly refuses to take the fourth seat because he hates the number and thinks the kanji is ugly. As a result, the fourth seat stays empty.
  • In Chapter 444, it initially looks like Ichigo's finally mastering his new power but it's actually where everything begins to go horribly wrong (and he doesn't even realize the full extent of it until several chapters later). He finally comes face-to-face with the arc's apparent Big Bad in a confrontation that has set off a terrible chain of events that has culminated in him feeling like he's the Only Sane Man left in a World Gone Mad.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Up until now, the audience/readers have never been able to see through Aizen's illusions (which, as of chapter 391-392, seems to include his mental monologue as well), even when they are supposedly viewing the unfolding scenes/events from an "omniscient narrator" perspective; yes, that's right, his Complete Hypnosis apparently transcends the fourth wall.
• Freudian Excuse: Of the three traitor captains, only Kaname Tosen has anything approaching an excuse for what he's done: his best friend/crush married a shinigami, who killed her in a fit of rage. To honor her memory, Tosen took up her sword and has been secretly hating shinigami ever since. Of course, it's a bit hard to remember this literally hundreds of chapters later.
  • Turns out Gin has one, too. EVERYTHING he has done has been in order to get revenge for what happened to Rangiku.
  • It's debatable whether the fact Ichigo hasn't ever really permanently died is because she didn't WANT him to.
• Fun with Foreign Languages: In the anime's Japanese dub at least, the Shinigami tend to have Japanese names and use Japanese for the names of their techniques and Soul Society's architecture and clothing is very like that from Feudal Japan. The Hollow's techniques use Gratuitous Spanish and the Arrancar tend to have names that are inspired by Spanish artists. The Quincy use Gratuitous German for most of their techniques, though the Quincys we've seen that have been named were all Japanese and thus have Japanese names.
• Funbag Airbag: Hitsugaya and Rangiku's first meeting involves this happening.
• Functional Magic: Rule Magic variety, called kidou (lit. "the demon way"), Quincies have their own variation of this that uses German spell-calls.
• Fundoshi: Pesche wears one of these.
  • In the Beach Episode, Ikkaku is seen wearing one of these. In an anime omake much later on in the series, Rangiku and Isane joke about the entire 11th division wearing "filthy loincloths" much to Yumichika's dismay.
• Furo Scene: Rangiku at Orihime's house, complete with Censor Steam.
• Fusion Dance: Tensa Zangetsu and Ichigo's inner Hollow in the latest chapter.
• Gag Boobs: Happens a lot in this manga. See trope page for some examples.
• Gag Dub: "Peachy Bleachy") Or the long-running fan-favorite "Hueco Mundo Cup"
• Gainaxing: See trope page for examples.
• Gambit Roulette: Any of Aizen Sousuke's masterful schemes. The Soul Society arc was one elaborate plan to extract the Hougyoku from Rukia's soul, involving killing and impersonating Central 46, using Ichigo and friends as a distraction, faking his death, and throwing the Seireitei into civil war. If things don't go quite as planned, the plans change; Brute-forcing a quick fix is an option, too.
  • It's now been revealed that he knew that Ichigo was the son of a captain level shinigami from the start, and that basically the entire series was Aizen carefully modulating the Sorting Algorithm of Evil to ensure Ichigo is ready for whatever Aizen needs him for. You didn't read wrong; every fight Ichigo's been in from the start, including the one where he became a Soul Reaper in the first place, was all according to Aizen's master plan.
    • Worth noting that this is one of the most perfect examples of this trope in recent literature, as there's no realistic way Aizen could have predicted everything that happened. Pointing Ichigo in the directions he wanted him to go just happened to work out as he expected, and he's perfectly willing to take full credit for it. However, the way he takes credit for it is such an awesome Hannibal Lecture that it almost makes you want to pick the Willing Suspension of Disbelief right back up because he's just that cool.
  • Urahara also deserves mention. It has been revealed that his plans are almost as complicated as Aizen's. They are not quite as unbelievable since you see him making sure it all works properly. But still, the fact that his plan was what ultimately defeated Aizen makes him quite a master of these.

Aizen: "URAHARA KISUKE!!!"

• Gender Misdirection: the heroes talk about the rumored Kuukaku Shiba as a guy until they discover, err, proof of the contrary.
• Gentle Giant: Chad. Right up until he needs to protect someone.
• Genius Ditz: Mashiro.
• Geo Effects: Hollows and Arrancar are much more powerful when fighting in Hueco Mundo because there is a much higher concentration of spirit energy in the air than in the real world.
• Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Shino pulls a comical one on Ryūnosuke Kyuki due to his lack of faith in his abilities to take on the job as Karakura Town's Shinigami protector. Pity he was right.
• Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter: Captain Kurotsuchi to Uryu and Renji in anime episode #200.
• Getting Crap Past the Radar: Actually parodied to a degree on a few occasions, as in whenever a character (which is pretty much always Uryu) says something is "something we can't even show on TV!" Specific examples are Mayuri's method of "healing" Nemu insisting that Uryu and Renji were stupid for not understanding and merely thinking naughty thoughts, and Pesche's method of drawing his Zanpakuto. With the latter, his buddy Dondochakka actually pops up on the front of the screen and warns children "not to imitate him." Furthermore in the Captain Amagai arc, when thinking of a "princess who makes Ichigo silly," Orihime describes a dominatrix.
  • In a particular scanlation of chapter 309, Kenpachi says this after seeing Nnoitra release:

It's been quite a while... Your reiatsu is making me hard...

• • When Uryu Ishida adjusts his glasses, his middle finger is positioned as if he's flipping off the audience.
• Giant Enemy Crab: The hollow summoned by the kemari game in anime episode #205.
• Giant Mook: The Gillians. Fura is a Giant Mook turned Up to Eleven.
• Giant Poofy Sleeves: Orihime's Hueco Mundo costume and Cirucci Sanderwicci's.
• Giving Them the Strip: Happens in the fight between Captain Kuchiki and Espada #7 Zommari Rureaux in episode 196. Rureaux grabs Captain Kuchiki, who Flash Steps away leaving Rureaux holding his captain's cloak.
• Giving Up the Ghost: Kon gives his up quite frequently, usually after receiving abuse from Rukia or Ichigo. He usually deserves it though.
• Girlish Pigtails: Hiyori and Ururu, who both happen to be able to kick your ass. Also the current arc's token tsundere, Riruka.
• Glass Cannon: Soifon's bankai, Ikkaku's zanpakutou, Komamura's bankai. These aren't inherently frail shinigami, but they sacrifice defense for offensive power and rely heavily on tanking anything that might happen to them during such times. If they can't tank it, they're in trouble.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: There are plenty of examples throughout the manga of this (See Page for detailed examples).
• A God Am I: Aizen's motivation. Additionally, Baraggan refers to himself as the "god of Hueco Mundo".
• Godzilla Threshold: A usage of this is clearly pointed out in the first movie. A group of exiles are preparing to crash a smaller dimension into the Soul Society, destroying both it and Earth. To prevent this, Yamamoto orders the whole thing blown up. However, Ichigo has gone into the dimension to save his new friend and hopefully stop the villain's plan in the process. Rukia barges into a captain's meeting and begs Yamamoto to send in back up. Yamamoto points out that while Ichigo is powerful, they only have an hour to fix things, and they have no guarantee that a squad of Soul Reapers can get in and get out before the dimension hits. Though when most of the captains and lieutenants go anyway, he waits until the last minute before giving the order to fire.
• Going Commando: Harribel
• Gondor Calls for Aid: Aizen of all people relies on this trope. At the end of the Soul Society arc, he's set up a situation whereby he can call on the Negaccion power of Menos Grande to escape from Soul Society. Later on, he calls in this same being (Fuura) to destroy Yamamoto's fiery cage which is cutting him off from the fake Karakura Town battle.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: The Bount came into existence from an accident during an experiment into eternal life.
• Gonk: Tite Kubo has a particular talent for creating some truly ridiculous looking characters.
• Good Colors, Evil Colors: Goes with the typical Japanese color scheme for good and evil, with the shinigami good guys wearing black uniforms with white trimmings and the Arrancar army (including the treacherous shinigami) wearing white uniforms with black trimmings. This shinigami-versus-hollow color scheme extends to Ichigo's inner world where he retains his black shinigami uniform and his inner hollow is an inverted (white) version of himself, akin to the Arrancar color scheme.
• Good Hair, Evil Hair: Aizen slicks his hair back when he discards his Clark Kent disguise.
  • Mullets are a sign of great evil in Bleach. Just look at Grimmjow's released form and Ichigo's über-hollow form.
  • And now, Aizen's new form... Thing. Really the only apparent differences are his eyes and white trash hair-style.
• Good Is Not Nice: Mayuri is a Mad Scientist who captures people for experimentation and turns his own men into living bombs. Kenpachi is a battle nut who got his captain seat by killing his predecessor.
  • Mayuri only for a very liberal definition of good (i.e. "He kills bad guys.")
  • Basically the whole Soul Reaper organization; while about half are actually pretty decent individuals, most have very little qualms about performing very questionably ethical or even downright ruthless acts if it benefits their self-imposed goals. And afterwards they're surprised their "end justifies the means" mentality spawned someone like Aizen.
  • Arguably the only truly good Shinigami Captains are Shunsui Kyoraku, Jushiro Ukitake, Sajin Komamura, and Retsu Unohana.
• Good Looking Privates: Many of the featured Shinigami.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: The more powerful a character is, the better their ability to heal is. As a result, captains, vice-captains, Vizards and other powerful characters can survive wounds that would kill weaker characters. Even when they need extra help in healing, they heal fast.
  • A mock-arrancar displays an instant regeneration ability. Uryuu can't fight it but his father defeats it in two shots.
  • Ichigo's ability develops throughout the story as he becomes more and more powerful. It's related to the increasing strength of his hollow powers.
  • Ulquiorra tells Ichigo that he sacrificed power for extra regenerative abilities and as a result has the best regeneration capability of any Espada. It does not make him unkillable, however.
• Graceful Loser: There have been a couple of examples in this manga.
  • Kenpachi to Ichigo: in his own rough way, his "What are you apologizing for? You won, idiot." is really very gentle... and fuzzy by Kenpachi's standards.
  • Byakuya to Ichigo: Ichigo told Byakuya he was going to defeat him and then drag him to Rukia to apologise and insisted Byakuya tell him why he was refusing to protect his own sister. At the end of the fight, Ichigo had no idea he had won. Byakuya simply started talking - he gave Ichigo an insight into his heart, offered him victory and, a few chapters later, he does indeed apologise to Rukia and then fully explains the reason why he didn't protect her, ending his speech with a direct thank you to Ichigo.
  • Edorad to Ikkaku, who had absolutely no interest in playing by Ikkaku's etiquette rules and learning the identity of his opponent. At the end of the fight, he nevertheless expresses his gratitude to Ikkaku for his insistence in revealing his identity so that he can indeed die knowing who had killed him.
  • Charlotte to Yumichika. The pair spent the entire fight insulting each other as if this world wasn't big enough to survive the existence of two of them... but at the end of the fight, Charlotte's dying act is offer a genuine and deep respect for Yumichika's strength and (in particular) resolve.
• Gratuitous English: Don Kanonji and his catch phrase "Spirits are always with you!" and "Smells like Bad Spirits!" Also, Renji's "Red Pineapple" shirt.
  • Szayel Aporro Granz's character songs, Pink and Science Show, both feature several lines of English dialog. The song Pink even features more English lyrics then Japanese.
  • The writing on the American DVDs.
  • Dordonii says "IT'S SHOWTIME!" when he powers up in the games.
  • All Fullbring's with exception of Chad's have gratuitous English names, all of which are song references.
  • Charlotte Cuuhlhorne's attack names (although they may just count as gratuitous full stop).

Charlotte: "Beautiful Charlotte Cuuhlhourne's Final Holy Wonderful Pretty Super Magnum Sexy Sexy Glamorous Cero."

• Gratuitous German: The Bount arc and Ishida's attacks and weapons later on. The Quincies in general.
• Gratuitous Spanish: Spanish names for Hollow-related things. They're not incredibly bad, but they leave much to be desired. Special prize goes to Dordonii who uses actual Spanish words when he talks(calling Ichigo Niño(boy) and Nel bebé(baby)).
• Green Lantern Ring: The Hogyouku's power isn't to create Arrancars and Vizards, it's to fulfill the deepest desire of the hearts around it. It created the Vizards because that's what Urahara wanted. It created Arrancar because the Hollows wanted to be Arrancar. It also gave Orihime and Chad their powers because they cursed their powerlessness from the bottom of their hearts.
  • Though with a limit — the wish has to be within the target's potential.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: Chapter 351 — Uber-Hollow Ichigo rips Ulquiorra's arm off and throws it at him.
  • In a manga-only sequence, Grimmjow rips Loly's leg off and beats her over the head with it.
• The Grim Reaper: Theme of the whole series.
• Groin Attack: Multiple examples
• "Growing Muscles" Sequence: Ggio Vega and Poww both do this when they unleash their full power. Later on, fullbring forces a yakuza trapped inside a weaponised plushie to go through one of these.