

He comes off early on as frowning, rather grumpy and very short tempered, easily irritated by other people, especially if they have any kind of abrasive personality (all the punching of Keigo for example, no wonder he’s such good friends with Chad). Also he has a pretty good reason for the fight as well, which is also common (although he always doesn’t). Anyway, the first thing he does in the manga is to get into a fight, which we’ll learn is pretty typical for him. There’s that hint of smile which isn’t part of his usual demeanor, but I wanted to use this one since there’s a similar one later (way later) so we can compare then. This is the first image of him in the manga: So here’s Ichigo, it’s the title page of ch 1. Getting to Ichihime, lets look at the characters first, as they are presented in the beginning of the manga. Way more slapstick humor as well, and Ichigo is such a punk.

I must mention, reading the early chapters again after a lot of time is a lot of fun the art has evolved, and the characters have too, which of course is natural and should happen, considering many of them are teenagers that grow along the series. I’ll try to make it through the whole manga, I don’t know how many parts there will be yet, probably more than is sane.Īnyway behind the cut are caps and a copious amount of rambling about these two ginger dorks. I’m not even sure what this eventually will be, I’m just mapping their relationship, and, knowing myself, will probably discuss many tangential thing as well. I especially love how they are not meant to be perfect from the get go, there are hurdles and they make mistakes on the way, but they keep going and it gets better and they get better, becoming good friends on the way (and obviously I’m rooting for it to become a romance, it seems to me that’s what Kubo’s been building towards since the beginning, but obviously I’m biased).īasically I got swamped with a lot of feels, and this post became this thing instead.
The monster within us ichihime series#
I intended to choose just the very favorite ones (because let’s face it, I like pretty much everything with these two a lot), add caps from manga and some flailing about why I liked them.Īnyway, it started to get longer as I started reflecting on their relationship more and more, because it’s just a very interesting dynamic and they and their bond evolve through out the series very nicely.

I was rereading Bleach and thought about making a post about my favorite IchiHime moments, mostly because they are infuriatingly adorable. IchiHime reflections (+ some tangential things) part 1/20
