Did the TURN BACK THE PENDULUM ARC Have the STRONGEST Gotei 13 in Bleach? | Discussion

So, how does the Gotei 13 line-up of the Past Arc compare to the others we see in Bleach? We've already looked at the End of Series Gotei and the Soul Society Arc iteration previously, so now it's the time of Kisuke and Aizen! Does it stack up, or are there simply too many unknowns? Let me know your thoughts!

I just realized that by the end of the arc the soul society is at its weakest. They lost 6 captains in one day, 7 if you include the captain of the kido corps

I love MrTommo's descent into outright calling the Vizards disappointments in his first impression. My man speaks TRUTH.

This arc showed how extremely easy it is to frame, manipulate and control members of the gotei 13. It really isn’t that surprising when you look at the events of the soul society arc; it doesn’t take much to make soul reapers turn on eachother.

I think without all of the scheming and betrayal, nearly every version of the Gotei would be a powerhouse if they could just work together for once 😂

It'd be interesting to see your perfect line up, choosing from all available characters from any time period shown

Honestly, imagine if the Wandenreich attacked during Turn Back the Pendulum. A less restrained Yamamoto, Urahara and Aizen on a united front. Heck, Kurotsuchi is there too.

The closer to his prime Yamamoto the better it is for soul society. With him a century closer to his prime it helps a whole lot

6th division be running on that nepotism

Kiganjo seems like the type to employ a literal servant as a 2nd seat rather than someone with actual power.

The greatest problem with evaluation of most versions of Gotei 13 is how you evaluate AIzen and co. E.g. in this version Aizen was a lieutenant seemingly with lieutenant's powers but in reality he was one of the top powers but also someone who was sabotaging the Gotei 13. Tosen and Ichimaru are similar cases.

The vizard captains keep ending up as fodder for Kubo to showcase the current arc antagonist is a threat to the Gotei 13. Aizen, the Espada, and the Sternritter. If there is a Hell Arc, I fully expect the vizard captains will fill this role for a 4th time.

It's worth wondering how good they were at their divisions specific seireitei tasks. Like Kensei and Mashiro were NOT doin all that journalism business

Chojiro got done so criminally dirty.

Mr Tommo is the strongest.

I had completely forgotten the 10th Division captain died. All these years, I always assumed his absence was Isshin being spoiler-tagged.

Turn back the Pendulum is such an awesome arc. Loved it

It still baffles me that Kubo did not make Love regain his position as Captain of Squad 7 after the events of TYBW. Don't get me wrong, I like Iba, he was pretty cool, for what little we saw of him, but the other three former Vizard Captains got their positions back and the only reason Love did not was that it was still occupied by Komamura. Even Lisa was made a Captain after TYBW, but not Love. Poor guy. Also, isn't it possible that Isshin was the Captain of Squad 10 back 100 years ago, even if we weren't told? Remember he is the uncle of Kaien, Kukaku and Ganju, so he's technically older then them, and would have been a captain for a while back when we first saw him as such.

Captain tommo back at it with goated post's

Don't forget that the kido corps of this time has Tessai and Hachi and loses BOTH after this. Obviously we don't know anything about the officers of the kido corps in any of the other time periods, but I do think they are worth some consideration.