Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War Episode 36 Discussion Thread

[u/Synikull]

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Episode Info

Episode 36: Baby, Hold Your Hand 2 [Never Ending My Dream]

Nemu ignores Mayuri's orders by intervening in his battle against Pernida.

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Links to other discussions
Episode 1: The Blood Warfare
Episode 2: Foundation Stones
Episode 3: March of the Starcross
Episode 4: Kill the Shadow
Episode 5: Wrath as a Lightning
Episode 6: The Fire
Episode 7: Born in the Dark
Episode 8: The Shooting Star Project (Zero Mix)
Episode 9: The Drop
Episode 10: The Battle
Episode 11: Everything But The Rain
Episode 12-13: Everything But The Rain June Truth
Episode 14: The Last 9 Days
Episode 15: Peace From The Shadows
Episode 16: The Fundamental Virulence
Episode 17: Heart of Wolf
Episode 18: Rages at Ringside
Episode 19: The White Haze
Episode 20: I Am The Edge
Episode 21: The Headless Star
Episode 22: Marching Out the Zombies
Episode 23: Marching Out the Zombies 2
Episode 24: Too Early to Win Too Late to Know
Episodes 25: The Master and 26: Black
Episode 27: A
Episode 28: Kill The King
Episode 29: The Dark Arm
Episode 30: The Betrayer
Episode 31: Against the Judgement
Episode 32: The Holy Newborn
Episode 33: Gate of The Sun
[Episode 34: Baby Hold Your Hand](https://www.reddit.com/r/bleach/comments/1gy0r81/bleach_thousand_year_blood_war_episode_34/
Episode 35: Don't Chase a Shadow

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[u/Timjer92]

According to Kubo, Aushwahlen focuses itself on older and weaker Quincy first. Since the Bambies were still young and strong, they didn't get hit with the brunt of the Aushwahlen like Robert (old) or the Soldat (weak) did. So that's probably why their bodies were still intact.

[u/Timjer92 → u/[deleted]]

Pretty sure Robert was still killed in the anime by the Aushwahlen. The story just didn't focus on it as much as the manga did.

[u/Toph84 → u/Timjer92]

We never got the scene of Robert being skeletonized, hit by the beam, or dying in general. I was talking with a friend about Robert, and we specifically went back to the episode with Auswhalen to doublecheck and Robert got basically no screentime. He literally doesn't show up at all.

Nanana got a scene of being blasted while he was unconscious in the anime. Menimas, Candice, and BazzB get hit.

He's right, Robert never died in the anime onscreen and is never even mentioned to be dead offscreen. Giselle and Lilitto don't even get approached by Robert in their scene but are instead with some Soldat (and plenty of them get blasted by Auswhalen, with a couple of Soldat at least being skeletonized but not Robert). We see skeleton soldats, but we don't have a scene of Robert's skeleton post-Auswhalen in the manga in that pose with him on his knees either.

Technically there is still room for Robert to still appear alive (or even possibly with the now newly revealed zombi Bambis as a zombie to fight against Yhwach maybe).

There are some people who argued that Kubo's art post episode always meant the person is dead (and we got Robert's post episode art from Kubo), but we got Nanana's art for the Auswhalen episode the previous season and people reasoned it got retcon'ed that Nanana died there, but we still got Nanana for the Aizen scene before he got killed for good by Bazz-B this season so the post-ep art doesn't mean they're dead.