So, one of the benefits of being bored and surfing through facebook is you sometimes hit gold. This is one of those moments. I was looking through my News Feed at one of the pages I've Liked, and found some really interesting predictions for upcoming BLEACH chapters, and I will share them you now.
I think... with all this 'choosing a successor' I have a feeling Kubo is foreshadowing Juha's early death. This is what I think;
- Juha and the Stern Ritter invade the human world or Sereitei again.
- The captains go out to battle against them.
- Ichigo turns up to the battle with his new abilities.
- Juha fights him and uses Vollstandig and Zanka no Tachi.
- Ichigo activates a new Bankai. Possibly Hollowfication (I hope not, but it's possible as he has now got the true Zangetsu)
- They fight to a stalemate. Ichigo and Juha are both injured.
- Juha goes to strike Ichigo with 'Tenchi Kaijin'.
- Uryu appears and mortally wounds Juha and injures Ichigo.
- Uryu orders a retreat but promises to return to purge the Gotei 13. He orders Ichigo to leave and not return. He tells him he won't kill him now due to their former friendship.
- Uryu leaves. Ichigo's psyche is fractured with the defection of a friend.
This allows so much more character development for both Uryu and Ichigo. Both have to deal with the fact that they may have to kill one another.
Oh and later on after Juha's death. Jugram Haschwalth challenges Uryu to a fight and gets massacred.
So what do you all think?