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Ok, they aren't just my points tho. IMO Warren's most recent post, perfectly places the cherry on top for Byakurai being lightning based.@Arc7Kuroi; as I said, I'll respond to your points in the morning.
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Ok, they aren't just my points tho. IMO Warren's most recent post, perfectly places the cherry on top for Byakurai being lightning based.@Arc7Kuroi; as I said, I'll respond to your points in the morning.
If a Lightning Kido looks like Lightning
acts like Lightning
is literally called lightning
Can you address what are your current thoughts on our previous conversation about Tokinada back scaling to all captains at least.Databook Statement
This is the statement from the databook:
雷光の如き神速で白哉を追い詰め、その至近にまで攻め掛かる一護
The official translation puts it as:
“Like lightning, Ichigo pressures Byakuya with god-like speed and attacks him at close range!”
Another translation from IMade puts it as:
“Chasing down Byakuya with great speed like lightning, Ichigo attacks up close!”
Regarding these kinds of statements, I’ll bring up this post from LordGriffin1000 which general sums up our position on them as far as I can tell: https://vsbattles.com/threads/lightning-fast-is-equal-to-lightning-speed.75613/#post-2494922
“Saying someone is "Lightning Fast" is usually treated as hyperbole. It's just a fancy way of saying the character is fast.
You get stuff like this a lot in fiction. Unless their is other things supporting it then no, you can't say the character is actual as fast as lightning with just that statement alone. Now it you has a credible source that stated "He moved as fast as a bolt of lightning" and he easily blized High Hypersonic characters then you might have something.”
The statement doesn’t say that Ichigo is as fast as a lightning bolt. It’s a simile, drawing comparison to lightning to emphasize Ichigo’s huge increase in speed. It’s one of the most common types of statements out there in fiction.
So, the next feat which is being used support for this is the Kido used by Byakuya:
Byakurai
Regarding Byakurai, I’ll address each of the points that are put forward for it to be lightning speed:
The Kido, in each of its manga depictions, does not look like a lightning bolt.
In the anime, sometimes it does resemble lightning and sometimes it does not:
- When Rukia uses it.
- When Byakuya uses it against Ichigo.
- When Byakuya uses it against Zommari.
- When Urahara uses it against Aizen.
- When Rukia uses it, it doesn't resemble lightning.
- For the first depiction of it by Byakuya, it does resemble lightning:
- When Byakuya uses it against Zommari, it doesn’t resemble lightning.
- When Urahara uses it against Aizen, it doesn’t resemble lightning.
So out of these examples here, there's one version in the anime where it appears to resemble lightning and rest for the manga and their anime depictions do not.
There’s probably more in anime-only scenes where it does resemble lightning, but these are the examples that use the manga itself, it is a great divergence in appearance for the Kido.
The only claim for it so far to act like lightning is that Ichigo is paralyzed shortly after he’s shot through in the shoulder by it.
I don't think this is actually the case. Immediately after Ichigo is shot he can still move and take a step, and he can speak to Byakuya. The paralysis isn't something that happens as soon as he's hit by Byakurai. Also shortly after this Ichigo's Hollow speaks to him and says that every bone in Ichigo's body is creaking from the weight of his Spiritual Pressure, and Byakuya did say that Ichigo has been slowing down over the course of the fight.
It seems more likely to me that Ichigo hitting his limit is what caused him to be unable to move than some kind of delayed effect from the Kido.
And even if we did accept this, this is just 1 of the requirements for resembling real-life lightning. Is that enough?
I’ll concede on this point at least. It is called Byakurai, translated as Pale Lightning / White Lightning, but I don’t think we accept a name of a technique as being proof of it possessing lightning speed.
Gin's Statement
One counter argument to all of this is Gin’s statement. It is one of the few times that Kubo gives us a speed figure within the manga itself.
Gin states that his 13 kilometer Bankai can extend and retract at Mach 500 / 500 times the speed of sound by giving a demonstration to Ichigo of the sound from his clapping reaching him and stating that it is 500 times faster than that.
He then follows it up by saying that his Mach 500 Bankai is the fastest Zanpakuto.
Ichigo struggles to keep up with his Bankai multiple times. such as failing to percieve it here, and here, and only narrowly being able to dodge it.
If Bankai Ichigo, as early as the Soul Society arc, is assumed to be over Mach 1200 - then this would go against him struggling with something a lot slower than that later on.
The only reason why this statement is thrown into question is that in a later scene we have Gin tell Aizen that he lied about the figures he gave for his Bankai.
From this there's two possibilities:
People who think the former must be the case may say:
- Gin lied to both Aizen and Ichigo.
- Gin lied to only Aizen and not Ichigo.
The response: This would be because of the fact that Gin wanted to kill Aizen and not Ichigo. Gin had been trying to trick and kill Aizen for over a century and he explicitly said he was trying to test Ichigo's resolve to see if Ichigo actually had it in him to kill Aizen should Gin fail.
- "Why lie to Aizen and not Ichigo?"
The response: Aizen was busy fighting Isshin in a different part of the city. There's no strong reason to think his senses would pick up on Gin's conversation with Ichigo while he's in the middle of a fight with Isshin.
- Or "If he lied to Aizen, why would he tell the truth to Ichigo there where Aizen could hear him?"
Since we don't know what values he told Aizen, and because Gin didn't say he was lying when he gave the figures to Ichigo, I don't think we have a good reason to dismiss the Mach 500 figure as being completely made-up and irrevant to scaling.
Novel Fodder
These are the quotes for the fodder in the novel:
"Tokinada laughed loudly as he, of course, bounced back a lightning strike dealt by an enemy with a swing of his sword."
"He was either moving fast enough to react to lightning or he was predicting his enemy's behavior--either way, it was evidence Tokinada possessed abilities in battle that were not to be disregarded."
From this can infer that one of the assassins attacking him using a lightning strike which Tokinada deflected. Only Tokinada directly scales to to this, and even that it is suggested that it is possible his reactions aren't on that level.
You cannot state with certainty to that this scales to the assassin's movement, combat or reaction speed.
You cannot state with certainty that any of the other assassins or fodder-level Shinigami scale to this.
You cannot state with certainty that this assassin, whoever he was, was this fast back in the Soul Society arc, if he even existed back then.
You cannot state with certainty that Soul Society arc characters must be faster or comparable to this future character just because this character possess a lightning-based attack.
When trying to do scaling, you shouldn't be asking "Why can't we scale X to Y?" you should be asking "Why should we?" There are a huge number of assumptions to make in order for this novel statement to be relevant at all to the early arcs of the manga, and virtually no evidence-based arguments for it other than a disbelief that early Bleach characters could be slower in some aspect than later Bleach characters.
Thoughts on Hadō #11. Tsuzuri Raiden that conducted through Hisagi’s blade and made Ayon muscles contract?@AppleLord; I plan on making a thread to address the novel feats specifically and the scaling of the characters involved in the near-future. I'm happy to pick it up at that time.
Conductivity isn't exclusive to lightning, it's connected to electricals attacks in general. conductivity is a good supporting feat but it cant be really the only property.Thoughts on Hadō #11. Tsuzuri Raiden that conducted through Hisagi’s blade and made Ayon muscles contract?
we previously focused on the shading and ignored what the point of rukias actions were this has yet to be debunked@Zoro21043; please drop that topic, we've already been through it on this thread and we moved on.
no it doesnt make sense because rukia has no way of knowing if light needs to be in contact for long enough or not@Zoro21043; Rukia's actions aren't inconsistent with the interpretation I put forward before. She observed that Aaroniero ran away. She used Kido to make sure he didn't run away. Rukia testing her theory out regarding the light still makes sense either way you look at the feat.
prove how rukia knew aaronierro needed to be exposed to light for long enough to affect him@Zoro21043; okay, well, sorry if it doesn't make sense to you but it does make sense to me.
Yes she wanted to make sure if it would affect him@Zoro21043; her thought process involves the light and thinking about Aaronerio's wording on the light.
it doesnt work for both ways as there is nothing implying rukia knew aaronierro needed to be exposed to light for long enough all that we know and rukia knows is that light might have an effectWhether he was in it or not, it makes sense either way for Rukia to want to immobilize him so that he cannot escape.
yes otherwise he would dodge like before@Zoro21043; she restrained him to ensure that he would remain within the sunlight.
indeed she doesnt need to take time taken into consideration as you say the end result was her wanting him to be exposed to sunlight meaning he previously wasnt and dodged(which is why she later says i suspected sunlight would have an effect meaning it previously didnt hit him) and rukia believes he was fast enough to dodge from that distanceNothing about the time taken needs to be important from her perspective. So long as the end result is that he's in the sunlight.
if you are referring to them making light hit aaronierro@Zoro21043; did you watch the anime's depiction of the events?
@DemonGodMitchAubin they used the shading argument i am using another argument for it@Zoro21043 Definitely don't agree with considering that feat as Aaronerio dodging light, I think Seth and Chuck has led people astray with that feat
as i said the anime isnt perfect@Zoro21043; that isn't a contradiction. Aaroniero started running almost as soon as the light hit him in the anime.
there isnt a contradiction to light having effect but there is a contradiction to what rukia thought as she confirms to us that she suspected light would have an effect (so based on this it means it previously didnt hit him which is why rukia is making sure if it would have an effect) there is nothing suggesting she thought he needed to be exposed for long enough to be affectedWhen Rukia immobilized him, he was held in the light for much longer and then his transformation began to disappear after a certain amount of seconds.
So therefore the light did neutralize his translation, just as she theorized.
There is no contradiction.
no the anime showed us light for around 1.3 seconds not entering@Zoro21043; that isn't what I got. Aaroniero was in the light for longer than that before his transformation was undone.
well i was just proving that the anime is inaccurate as he was hit for longer before and didnt scream@Zoro21043; well, I've said my part on it. I'm counting the full amount of time for the transformation to start being undone, not just when he's screaming.
To get nitpicky here, the databook isn’t using wording like “lightning fast” it quite literally just says “like lightning.” Both translations draw comparisons to his speed to lightning, the only time the wording becomes hyperbolic is when they say stuffDatabook Statement
This is the statement from the databook:
雷光の如き神速で白哉を追い詰め、その至近にまで攻め掛かる一護
The official translation puts it as:
“Like lightning, Ichigo pressures Byakuya with god-like speed and attacks him at close range!”
Another translation from IMade puts it as:
“Chasing down Byakuya with great speed like lightning, Ichigo attacks up close!”
Regarding these kinds of statements, I’ll bring up this post from LordGriffin1000 which general sums up our position on them as far as I can tell: https://vsbattles.com/threads/lightning-fast-is-equal-to-lightning-speed.75613/#post-2494922
“Saying someone is "Lightning Fast" is usually treated as hyperbole. It's just a fancy way of saying the character is fast.
You get stuff like this a lot in fiction. Unless their is other things supporting it then no, you can't say the character is actual as fast as lightning with just that statement alone. Now it you has a credible source that stated "He moved as fast as a bolt of lightning" and he easily blized High Hypersonic characters then you might have something.”
The statement doesn’t say that Ichigo is as fast as a lightning bolt. It’s a simile, drawing comparison to lightning to emphasize Ichigo’s huge increase in speed. It’s one of the most common types of statements out there in fiction.
With Rukia she’s in a Gigai that’s heavily nerfing her powers, and there’s a direct statement that her attacks aren’t what they could be. Rukia can’t summon the full capabilities of Byakurai.So, the next feat which is being used support for this is the Kido used by Byakuya:
Byakurai
Regarding Byakurai, I’ll address each of the points that are put forward for it to be lightning speed:
The Kido, in each of its manga depictions, does not look like a lightning bolt.
In the anime, sometimes it does resemble lightning and sometimes it does not:
- When Rukia uses it.
- When Byakuya uses it against Ichigo.
- When Byakuya uses it against Zommari.
- When Urahara uses it against Aizen.
- When Rukia uses it, it doesn't resemble lightning.
- For the first depiction of it by Byakuya, it does resemble lightning:
- When Byakuya uses it against Zommari, it doesn’t resemble lightning.
- When Urahara uses it against Aizen, it doesn’t resemble lightning.
So out of these examples here, there's one version in the anime where it appears to resemble lightning and rest for the manga and their anime depictions do not.
There’s probably more in anime-only scenes where it does resemble lightning, but these are the examples that use the manga itself, it is a great divergence in appearance for the Kido.
Ichigo can move just fine after he breaks free of white’s control. His spiritual pressure is still creaking his bones. The only difference being that significant time has passed since being hit by Byakurai. If Ichigo’s spiritual pressure was what slowed him to immobile then he wouldn’t have been able to move later. What happens is this, Ichigo is hit by Byakurai, Ichigo cantThe only claim for it so far to act like lightning is that Ichigo is paralyzed shortly after he’s shot through in the shoulder by it.
I don't think this is actually the case. Immediately after Ichigo is shot he can still move and take a step, and he can speak to Byakuya. The paralysis isn't something that happens as soon as he's hit by Byakurai. Also shortly after this Ichigo's Hollow speaks to him and says that every bone in Ichigo's body is creaking from the weight of his Spiritual Pressure, and Byakuya did say that Ichigo has been slowing down over the course of the fight.
It seems more likely to me that Ichigo hitting his limit is what caused him to be unable to move than some kind of delayed effect from the Kido.
And even if we did accept this, this is just 1 of the requirements for resembling real-life lightning. Is that enough?
I’ll concede on this point at least. It is called Byakurai, translated as Pale Lightning / White Lightning, but I don’t think we accept a name of a technique as being proof of it possessing lightning speed.
As readers we are told once that Gin’s Zanpakuto can move at Mach 500 and that it’s the fastest. We are then told that Gin lied about how fast it moves.Gin's Statement
One counter argument to all of this is Gin’s statement. It is one of the few times that Kubo gives us a speed figure within the manga itself.
Gin states that his 13 kilometer Bankai can extend and retract at Mach 500 / 500 times the speed of sound by giving a demonstration to Ichigo of the sound from his clapping reaching him and stating that it is 500 times faster than that.
He then follows it up by saying that his Mach 500 Bankai is the fastest Zanpakuto.
Ichigo struggles to keep up with his Bankai multiple times. such as failing to percieve it here, and here, and only narrowly being able to dodge it.
If Bankai Ichigo, as early as the Soul Society arc, is assumed to be over Mach 1200 - then this would go against him struggling with something a lot slower than that later on.
The only reason why this statement is thrown into question is that in a later scene we have Gin tell Aizen that he lied about the figures he gave for his Bankai.
From this there's two possibilities:
People who think the former must be the case may say:
- Gin lied to both Aizen and Ichigo.
- Gin lied to only Aizen and not Ichigo.
The response: This would be because of the fact that Gin wanted to kill Aizen and not Ichigo. Gin had been trying to trick and kill Aizen for over a century and he explicitly said he was trying to test Ichigo's resolve to see if Ichigo actually had it in him to kill Aizen should Gin fail.
- "Why lie to Aizen and not Ichigo?"
The response: Aizen was busy fighting Isshin in a different part of the city. There's no strong reason to think his senses would pick up on Gin's conversation with Ichigo while he's in the middle of a fight with Isshin.
- Or "If he lied to Aizen, why would he tell the truth to Ichigo there where Aizen could hear him?"
Since we don't know what values he told Aizen, and because Gin didn't say he was lying when he gave the figures to Ichigo, I don't think we have a good reason to dismiss the Mach 500 figure as being completely made-up and irrevant to scaling.
Tokinada scales to FTL, this is no anti feat for Tokinada.Novel Fodder
These are the quotes for the fodder in the novel:
"Tokinada laughed loudly as he, of course, bounced back a lightning strike dealt by an enemy with a swing of his sword."
"He was either moving fast enough to react to lightning or he was predicting his enemy's behavior--either way, it was evidence Tokinada possessed abilities in battle that were not to be disregarded."
From this can infer that one of the assassins attacking him using a lightning strike which Tokinada deflected. Only Tokinada directly scales to to this, and even that it is suggested that it is possible his reactions aren't on that level.
We have a nobody character with a Zanpakuto that can attack with lightning speeds. He’s a nobody which means this is a common occurrence. Stop making him out to be someone unique and special. He is a face in the crowd, indistinguishable from the rest. The fact that a no name can have a lightning speed Zanpakuto and no one makes a big deal about it, implies it has never been a big deal. There’s tens of thousands of fodder Shinigami easily, and for your argument to pass you’d have to assume that he’s the only one to have ever had a lightning speed unreleased Zanpakuto. It just doesn’t work, he’s generalized with the rest of the fodder like we do with the rest of the fodder in the verse. This nobody’s Zanpakuto can reach lightning speeds in the hands of a stranger who picked it up off the battlefield, yet Captains can’t do that in a century of training?You cannot state with certainty to that this scales to the assassin's movement, combat or reaction speed.
You cannot state with certainty that any of the other assassins or fodder-level Shinigami scale to this.
You cannot state with certainty that this assassin, whoever he was, was this fast back in the Soul Society arc, if he even existed back then.
You cannot state with certainty that Soul Society arc characters must be faster or comparable to this future character just because this character possess a lightning-based attack.
When trying to do scaling, you shouldn't be asking "Why can't we scale X to Y?" you should be asking "Why should we?" There are a huge number of assumptions to make in order for this novel statement to be relevant at all to the early arcs of the manga, and virtually no evidence-based arguments for it other than a disbelief that early Bleach characters could be slower in some aspect than later Bleach characters.