THE ORIGINAL GOTEI 13 RETURN!? EVIL UKITAKE INCOMING? Who Will Be The HELL ARC Villains? | Bleach

If it ever happens, who would you like to see as the villains of the Hell Arc of Bleach? Could we see the original Captains of the Gotei 13 return? Will more revived Espada appear? Let me know your thoughts!

I hope Isane gets to reunite with Unahona at some point in this arc. Maybe she can show Unahona how far she’s come. Imagine if Unahona asked to see Isane’s bankai.

I'd like to see Nnoitra and Gin the most. Their hell designs will look insane.

Wonder if the deceased Captains will have appearances that showcase their sins. Would give Kubo the chance to flex his creativity.

I could see the villains being a mix of the different races who are all terrible people rather than a single species. It'd be a good excuse to bring back a good mix of everyone from each arc.

I still want to see how the Shinigami Women's Association may have fared after the TYBW Arc. Hardly anyone mentions how badly decimated this organization's leadership became after the main story.

I just want Kubo to finally give some spotlight to Soi Fon and the Vizards. I want major fights for them that actually showcase their abilities instead of getting one shot.

It is completely believable that Hell isn’t always acknowledged in Soul Society. It is a completely separate dimension that is cut off from shinigami

That would be totally unfair to make such a good and kind person as Juishiro Ukitake a villain. He never got enough screen time, we haven't seen his bankai, he made tragic sacrifice. And after all that a villain? I don't believe in evil Ukitake. I don't want to believe that the most kindhearted captain ended up like a bad guy. Sorry for my english. I'm not native speaker.

This is the perfect chance to include Yachiru and Ukitake as major characters at least. From what I read, the one we do see return seemed a lot more obsessively violent. Maybe Kenpachi could face the previous holder of his title a second time. Ukitake never showed his Bankai either, so we’ll almost certainly see it from him in hell Plus, based on the clear difference between souls being reborn in a cycle and the complete separation of this cycle by being sent to hell, Maybe Ywach would have been sent to hell if he lost to Ichibe. His wording during their fight was also “Remove from the cycle of rebirth” not 100% sure of the exact wording though

Ukitake's sword looked a lot longer than usual in the panel he stabbed Szayel. So I'd assume he has already changed too somehow despite just having just arrived there

Honestly It would be awesome if the Big Bads from the hell ark were the Five Original members of the noble families. The 5 Original Siners.

Honestly, I would also find it pretty believable for the Noble Families' first ancestors (I didn't read all of CFYOW but I believe they were the five powerful beings that sealed away the Soul King) to be the rulers of Hell and the main enemies. And if all five of them were sent to Hell via the same ritual or something similar, it would totally make sense as well that, due to the utterly INSANE amount of time they spent there, their physical and spiritual forms would have been altered and warped so much that they would've basically created a whole new race within the realm.

most bleach fans are unaware of the big influence Saint Seiya has on bleach (kubo watched/read it as a kid) and so if i had to wildly speculate i could see this arc taking inspiration from the Hades arc. i could see ,initially, some deceased captains (maybe the original gotei) being framed by kubo as the bad guys/betrayers of soul society, much how it happened in the saint seiya arc with their gotei/captain analogs. if it were 1:1, i guess, then later on we would get the twist that secretly the hell captains were being double agents trying to stop whoever the big bad guy that runs hell is and their plans. 🤔

I hope we get a new faction tbh. Don't get me wrong, seeing the OG Captains would be dope, but I hope we also get introduced to a new form of entities alongside the returning characters. New lore, new power scales and factors to contend with

Would like seeing a rematch of Zaraki and Unohana with her getting a power up and him learning more of his real power. Maybe even fights with other kimpachi.

For potential villains, I think the Hell arc being a culmination of all that came before would be super cool. Shinigami, Hollow, and Quincy all fighting together under some demonic entity that wants to take over all of creation after being freed from hell. Maybe it's ruler is even the counterpart to Reio or Reio himself, enacting vengeance for his betrayal.

While their reiatsu level is made out to be a clear factor, it doesn't have to be the only reason. Yamamoto and Unohana used to be bloodlusted criminals while being part of the original Gotei 13. After the first blood warfare they decided to lay low but that doesn't cleanse their many sins of the past. Szayelaporro was terrible as a human. Mayuri in his being as a soul reaper only cleansed his hollow sins. The mulitated soul king is the soul Society's original sin. Ukitake survived his illness off a piece of the god that the ancestors had killed and mulitated. That makes him a sinner. This fits well into the narrative because the concept of hell is corruption.

The reason why they do ‘Konso Reisai’ after 12 years of deceased captains is because of Chinese Zodiac years. There are 12 animals in total. And I wouldn’t be surprised if rulers of hell are 5 noble ancestors that created ‘original sin’. I believe they’re dead millions of years ago but stuck in hell since primordial era. They’re antithesis of ‘God’ (Soul King) that made Soul King sacrifice inside of ‘crystal seal’ in eons. They’re literally ‘King of Hell’ or ‘Satan’.

To me the espadas, the deceased Gotei 13 captains, etc could be potential villains, but, for the main villain, it should be a Emma Sama like character given we are talking about Hell and Bleach is inspired in japanese lore with themes and characters like the shinigamis or possible Kubo would create an underworld/hell lord based in other foreign or another cultures like greek (with Hades) or judeocristian (like Satan) depending how he chose.