Warning: Spoilers for Bleach: The Thousand Year Blood WarBleach: Thousand Year Blood WarThe second part wasted no time in getting into the plot, with its opening scenes promoting Uryu to a prominent position in the Quincy organization, as well as granting him new power. It’s the nature of this new power, however, that could make Uryu too powerful for the plot.
In Thousand Year Blood WarThe Quincy leader, Yhwach, gives his subordinates a special power, known as a “schrift”, which corresponds to a letter of the alphabet. These powers can be quite strong, as can be seen with Bleach Stern Ritter Y, who disguised himself as Yhwach and was able to fight at an incredible level in that state. These Schrift powers are enough to make their wielders a serious threat, and that goes for Uryu as well. However, there is one aspect worth noting about Uryu receiving his attention: it is the fact that Yhwach says he is just like him.
Uryu’s “A” Schrift is one of BleachThe strongest powers
Uryu received the “A” Schrift, which in the manga means “Antithesis”. The Antithesis ability allows its wielder to take what happened and reverse the result. If Uryu was losing and taking a lot of damage, for example, he could use the Antithesis skill to transfer all the damage he had taken to his opponent, while whatever had been done to his opponent would be transferred to him. Uryu is not limited to using this only on himself, or even on injuries; any two objects that have interacted are eligible for this rollback.
It’s not hard to see how this ability could soon become a new thing. In some ways, it is similar to Orihime’s ability to “reject” the occurrence of events, but the ability to not only undo but also reflect them back to the opponent makes it much more powerful. Although Uryu only used this ability briefly on-screen in the Thousand Year Blood War anime, during elite guard Quincy’s battle with Squad Zero, which he used to help Yhwach escape from the prison that Squad Zero created.
How Uryu’s Schrift Power Compares to Ichigo’s
Of course, fans are looking forward to the inevitable moment when Uryu clashes with Ichigo. Antithesis is very powerful and especially useful in the hands of someone as intelligent as Uryu. Ichigo, however, has obtained some major power-ups since they last spoke, reforging his Zanpakuto and undergoing brutal training in the Soul King’s Palace. Ichigo’s upgraded Bankai has yet to be used on screen, so it’s impossible to say how powerful it has become and whether it will be enough to defeat Uryu. It cannot be forgotten, however, that Uryu has access to Vollstandig and other Quincy powers in addition to his ability, and this combination of powers makes him extremely formidable.
Uryu’s Quincy powers keep getting stronger Thousand Year Blood War
In part 3 of Thousand Year Blood WarUryu uses Antithesis in his original anime battle against Senjumaru Shutara, a member of Squad Zero. While Senjumaru keeps Uryu trapped and seemingly at his mercy, Uryu is able to use the Antithesis (further empowered by Yhwach’s Almighty) to switch places with her, placing her at his mercy – from which she receives nothing. It’s clear that despite being relatively new to this power, Uryu has already found a very effective way to utilize it, and this power can only get stronger in the coming episodes.
But Uryu’s schrift power isn’t his only new ability. Another fight scene added to the anime, this time between Uryu and Ichigo, shows Uryu deploying his Vollstandig (translated as Voll Stern Dich in the anime), an ability he was never able to use in the manga. Uryu’s Vollstandig grants him many powerful new techniques, such as manifesting feather-like projectiles that he can use to attack opponents en masse, preventing them from blocking his attacks. Uryu’s ultimate Vollstandig technique is the Sternenstaub, which gathers these feathers into a single massive arrow that rivals Ichigo’s Getsuga Tensho in power.
Uryu is already much, much more powerful in the anime than in the manga as a result of these changes, making him a truly formidable foe for Ichigo. The changes were met with overwhelming support from fans, who had long felt that Uryu was not an active enough participant in the Thousand Year Blood Wardespite the arc ostensibly focusing on him and his dilemma.
Uryu obtains one of the many broken powers that appear in Thousand Year Blood War
As manga readers know, many of the skills demonstrated by the Sternitters in Thousand Year Blood War The arc is absolutely broken, or sometimes not explained enough – as is the case with Yhwach the Almighty’s power that allows him to see all possible futures. Uryu has always struggled to keep up with his increasing power Bleachbut with this ability at your disposal, this will certainly no longer be a problem. As Yhwach’s successor and holder of the Antithesis ability, Uryu went from an ordinary Quincy to one of Soul Society’s greatest threats in all of the United States. Bleach.