Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Reveals the Real Reason Ichigo's Mom Died

By Nick Valdez

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War ended the first cour of its new anime run with some big reveals about the past to help fill in some unknown gaps, and the final episodes revealed the real reason Ichigo Kurosaki's mother Masaki died! One of the biggest reveals of the final arc of Tite Kubo's manga series was the fact that Ichigo had Quincy powers in his blood, and when returning to Karakura Town to learn more about his past, it was revealed that his mother was actually a pretty strong Quincy herself. This led to more questions about why she was ultimately killed by a Hollow.

The reveals didn't end there as while Ichigo's mother Masaki was shown to be a capable Quincy capable of quickly taking down a Hollow when the time came for it, but when she needed it the most, she could not draw upon those Quincy abilities. As Ichigo's father Isshin explains to his son, Masaki shouldn't have died from the Grand Fisher hollow as seen from the early events of the anime, but her powers were stolen from her and left her defenseless. 

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How Did Ichigo's Mom Die? 

Episode 12 of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War saw Isshin open up about how he first met Ichigo's mother, and the two of them ended up together through some dire circumstances after she first defeating a Hollow and got infected by it. But it turned out that despite all of this trouble that she still had her Quincy abilities, including the highly defensive Blut Vene that should have protected her against the Hollow that had attacked her when Ichigo was a child. 

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But Isshin explains that when Yhwach was waking up, he had taken all of the Quincy powers from those he deemed inferior. He stripped them away from Masaki (and Uryu's mother Katagiri), and thus she was left vulnerable to the Grand Fisher's attack and lost her life protecting her son. So it turns out that Ichigo's got much deeper ties to Yhwach than first expected, and that's made the upcoming rematch all the more exciting. 

How did you feel about this look into Ichigo's parents in the final episodes of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War's first cour? Let us know all of your thoughts about it in the comments! You can even reach out to me directly about all things animated and other cool stuff @Valdezology on Twitter!

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