Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Marks Ichigo With New Title

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War has thrown fans right into the thick of things as it adapts the final arc from Tite Kubo’s original manga series, and the newest episode has teased how big of a threat the Quincies see Ichigo Kurosaki as! The first couple of episodes of the new series have been spent reintroducing Ichigo and his group of friends to anime, but have also revealed that there’s a brand new threat making their moves on both Hueco Mundo and the Soul Society. As fans soon discovered, however, this new enemy is actually quite familiar to Ichigo and the others.

The previous episodes of the series revealed that this new enemy group were actually Quincies taking on the Soul Reapers, and the newest episode saw Ichigo taking on a particularly tough one as he saw just how powerful and scary they could be with their full power. But as this new Quincy had explained to Ichigo, they are approaching him with just as much caution as this group actually views him as a “Special Threat” that they need to keep aware of as they fight the Soul Society. 

Why is Ichigo a Special Threat? 

Episode 3 of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War sees Quilge Opie unleash all of his power against Ichigo, and through this fans get to see that the Quincies have unlocked a powerful final form that could absorb all of the Reishi (including Orihime and Chad’s) in the area. But Ichigo not only was able to keep his Bankai from being stolen in the first attack from a mysterious Arrancar, but he quickly figured out the main weakness of this new Voll Stern Dich form. It’s here that Opie reveals that he’s a “Special Threat” to the Quincies. 

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Opie doesn’t further explain what he means by dubbing Ichigo as “special threat,” but it’s clear that they are keeping such an eye on him that they don’t start their assault on the Soul Society until they find out that Ichigo is being occupied in Hueco Mundo. Thus, it seems like he’s such a target to them that their grand plan couldn’t move forward until Ichigo was at least out of the picture in this form. 

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