BYAKUYA, HITSUGAYA & KENPACHI vs GERARD VALKYRIE - Bleach Battle ANALYSIS | Gods and Monsters

Beware manga spoilers in this video!

It's been a while, but the Bleach Battle Analysis series has finally returned! I put it on hiatus for a bit while the anime was coming out, and figured I'd bring it back in a big way with one of the most heavily requested fights - The Gotei 13 vs Gerard Valkyrie! How good exactly is this fight, especially in comparison to other battles of the Wahrwelt sub-arc? Let's take a deep-dive look at this epic clash of titans!

Chapters:
Intro - 00:00
Fight Overview - 01:07
Who's Involved? - 06:59
Pre-Fight Context - 08:08
Structural Issues - 16:54
The Vizard Disappointment - 19:09
Fight Analysis - 23:00
Kenpachi vs Gerard - 28:47
Kenpachi's Bankai, Unleashed - 36:45
Gerard's True Nature Discussion - 41:41
Gerard's Vollständig - 43:25
Adult Hitsugaya, Revealed - 46:48
The Captains Team-up - 50:31
Gerard's Death - 57:28
My Fight Rewrite - 59:12

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[MrTommo]

Battle Analysis videos are back! This was a lot of fun to discuss - what did you think of this battle? Would you change anything about how it played out? Let me know!

[justinallen]

Gerard's boots vs sandals is not a drawing error, it is a Miricale. 🙌

[kamikazelemming]

I know some people might not agree with this, but I really love how powerful Gerard, and by extension the rest of the Schutzstaffel, ended up being. It really helped sell the fact that they weren't just another batch of enemies. They were effectively gods, and their powers, abilities, and near-immortality represented that fact really well.

[CaptainKotetsu]

As bonkers as this fight was, it feels like the final boss that Yammy was supposed to be.

I mean, Yammy reveals himself to be the “actual” strongest Espada when his number becomes zero, only to be memed off-screen by two already fatigued captains.

Then there’s Gerard, who literally can’t die unless his own boss pulls his plug(good thing he did just that lol).

[Prushinthespirit]

I am honestly amazed how characters like Komamura, Soifon or Shinji didn't get a second chance and just got thrown out of the plot with pretty nuch nothing to do while Byakuya, Hitsugaya and Zaraki just keep getting all the buffs and all the attention.

[TyarntSieghart]

"It involves the big three of captains: Byakuya, Hitsugaya, and Toshiro" 🤣🤣
Man Hitsugaya and his big brother were both in the running for big three of captains but zaraki couldn't make the cut lol
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[thebigjj]

Gerard was such a god damn beast that it literally took, ironically, a miracle to "defeat"

[MrSupedoSpade]

This is my most anticipated fight in the anime because of how long it goes on and how it just keeps getting crazier and crazier. Manga just can't perfectly capture the monstrous blows an absolute Behemoth like Gerard is dishing out and taking. I think seeing this fight in motion will significantly elevate it

[eyes]

The star that is inside of Gerard is his how he activates his Vollstandig, like how Lille has the star, As Nodt rolls his eye, Quilge’s glove, it’s just how he activates Vollstandig.

[jrgenvellesen]

I think this fight is probably the one that suffered the most from the last stretch of the series being rushed, aside from the final battle. You could tell that Kubo really took his time with and wanted the Pernida and Lille fights to feel really grand and epic. Askin vs. Kisuke being comparatively much shorter I think works, because it does show that compared to the other Elites, Askin was essentially a Man placed among Gods. But the faster pace does hurt the Gerad fight, since it is meant to be one last big showcase for the Soul Reapers.

As for how I would have ended the fight? Well, I think what was being made clear during the fight was that Gerad was never going to be defeated by a traditional "using brute force" method.
Kenpachi's Bankai not being able to kill him was proof enough of that. So, now knowing what we know, I would have let the fight get to the point of where pretty much all of the Soul Reapers are barely able to fight.

And that, is where we get Shinji showing up, while declaring that he is going to turn this whole situation around. After all, wouldn't that be something worthy of being called a miracle?
He then activates his Bankai, causing Gerad to turn around and start marching towards the main castle, while proclaiming that he is going to cut down Yhwach for the sake of his allies.
This, is what makes Yhwach use the Auswählen, which also ends up killing Jugram. Which is the final showcase of how Yhwach is willing to disregard all of the Quincy, as long as it helps him achieve his goal of avoiding his own death. Which has been a consistent theme throughout the entire arc and really illustrates how Yhwach sees all of the Quincy as nothing more then tools for him to use.

That way, we get a epic battle that ultimately ends with the Soul Reapers winning not by using brute force, but instead by turning Gerad's greatest strength against him. As well as giving Shinji a nice chance to get a win that shows off how his power can be used in a clever way.

[jacobsunday]

Imma need the 3 vizards to get an expanded scene in this fight. Too many people got one shotted during this fight, Momo lasted longer than most people in that fight.

[lollypop]

I absolutly love gerard, his personalilty, power, and this fight was one of my favorite ones, it was so nice to see toshiro, byakuya, and kenpachi team up, seeing their new powers, attacks, and bankai

[havik]

This is the fight I want to see animated the most I can’t believe people don’t like it

[UnnaturalPower]

My problem with this fight is that I already know how powerful Byakuya, Hitsugaya, and Zaraki are I would've loved to see more from the other characters hopefully a lot is changed for this section in the anime perhaps Hiyori doesn't have to be apart of this fight but instead can join Kisuke against Askin and Lisa can join Nanao and Kyoraku against Lille so that this fight doesn't have to be crowded with so many characters

[corruptangel]

The funny part is that Zaraki was too strong for his own good. If he were still in 1st Miracle when Toshiro used his Mature Bankai, they might have won. But Kenpachi made Gerard too damn strong

[MrGksarathy]

Something I've been thinking about for a bit, but if Gerard really is a Quincy golem and takes his cues from the original golem of Prague, then the masses that form the basis of his Miracle might be generations of Quincies in hiding praying for protection against the predations of the Shinigami and longing to return to the light, which makes his potential origin all the sadder and humanizes the Wandenreich to a small extent.

[ryeastra]

I think Gerard was leading them on that he was going to do something before Byakuya killed him at the beginning. He’s a trap with arms and legs because his power doesn’t enlarge him until he is killed.

[snowboundwhale]

My understanding of Kenpachi's bankai was that he was self destructing due to the intensity of his own spiritual pressure combined with his inexperience in using bankai, similar to how Ichigo was being "crushed by [his] own spiritual pressure" back when he first used it in SS arc as said by his hollow, causing him to move slower and slower until he'd lost his speed advantage.
I consider this relevant because as you mentioned this fight would've been a good opportunity for Yumichika to have his moment of using shikai in front of others from Squad 11; That shikai just happens to be capable of siphoning off a target's spirit energy, and not only was he present on site, there were other allied combatants that were experienced bankai users present. Among those bankai-capable shinigami was Byakuya, who told Renji himself about how an inexperienced use of bankai can be more a detriment than an asset in battle, and who witnessed Ichigo's inexperienced use of bankai first hand & the effect it had on him (including Ichigo's hollow's claim about his condition).
There was very real potential for a scenario here where Kenpachi's being torn apart by his own bankai, Yumichika finally shows his true shikai to others, Byakuya puts two and two together, and at his suggestion Yumichika to use his shikai's vines to bind Kenpachi's wounds together while siphoning off excess spiritual pressure in an effort to keep his output at a sustainable level (similar to how Kenpachi uses the eyepatch in base). I think that could've made for a good moment.

[randallsavage]

I feel like The Miracle shouldn’t activate if he gets killed the same way twice. He would still get stronger but it would force him to be more careful in the fight. Like Byakuya once said “Miracles only happen once”

[nkhuwachiti]

Momo has durability on par with Hogyoku Aizen 😂