Onigashima
I'm trying to think if there's ever been an anime powerup with related hair color change where dark hair is stronger than light hair
Onigashima
goku goes black to blonde, sonic goes blue to yellow, luffy goes black to white
Princess Emily
Ichigo's hair turns black upon activating the Final Getsuga Tenshou
EsperBot
I have one but you’re not going to like it https://images.plurk.com/5xu7ZkxSiih3eVZ63EaL5.png
EsperBot
Ah, Emily beat me to it
Onigashima
aha
Onigashima
oh Ichigo, your powerups were dumb
EsperBot
This one is by FAR the worst one
EsperBot
I think it might be the lamest power up in any SJ manga I can think of
Onigashima
I don't remember what it even did other than no-sell aizen effortlessly
EsperBot
Nothing! That’s all it did!
Princess Emily
In other news, I just went through the entire Power Dyes Your Hair trope on tvtropes and this might legitimately be the only anime/manga example of a power-up darkening a person's hair
Onigashima
incredible
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
what
was its power just "fuck this one guy in particular"?
Princess Emily
a LOT of hairs turning white, less but numerable hairs turning blond, several hairs turning pink, then some hair turning to a brighter shade of whatever it already was. One or two where it was something weird like red turning blue or blond turning bright green that didn't specify if it was a darker shade or not.
Onigashima
it just set all his stats to 9999
EsperBot
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ : No it was just So Powerful that it effortlessly defeated Aizen and then was never used again
Onigashima
and he beat each of aizen's remaining forms in one hit
HotXC
I wonder if it's purely because most ppl in Japan have dark hair lol
Rama
Spell of I'm Tired of Writing This Fight
Onigashima
it is certainly probably that
chrome
kubo casts that spell so many times
Rama
Relatable but there's a reason I don't write anime fights for a living
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
jesus
Onigashima
honestly for how bleach is like 80% fight scenes by volume
Onigashima
the fights are usually quite bad
Onigashima
and I say this as a huge ironic bleach stan
Onigashima
the characters are good and the designs are great
Onigashima
but most of the fights are just two characters saying 'actually... I'M stronger than YOU' back and forth until one of them gives up
Onigashima
literally every one of Ishida's fights ends with him revealing some new gadget he'd never been established to have and it wins the fight instantly
oh i'm scary
Except Kenpachi
oh i'm scary
anyway uhhh
oh i'm scary
Super Saiyan 4
oh i'm scary
it loops back around
Onigashima
so our examples are
Onigashima
Ichigo's lamest powerup
Onigashima
and Dragon Ball GT
Onigashima
I have a new theory for why we don't do this more often
Onigashima
because every time someone does it sucks ass
chrome
in bleach isn't there a fight against a guy who's power is "becomes god" and the solution is to pull out the unrevealed shikai that has the power to kill god?
Onigashima
probably
Onigashima
the TYBW arc really was that stupid
EsperBot
TYBW is EXTREMELY stupid
Onigashima
the only good thing in it was kenpachi's first fight in it
Onigashima
where the bad guy's power is "can create anything he can imagine"
Onigashima
and he loses because kenpachi keeps being kenpachi so hard that he can't imagine anything that can beat kenpachi
chrome
that one ruled
chrome
the rest of the arc was stupid even by bleach standards
chrome
i still had a good time tho
Cyouni
oh I think I know which fight you're talking about
Cyouni
laserman
Cyouni
whose power was laser even harder
dragon time
damn you're not kidding like every single precure the hair gets lighter
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
saber alter's hair is like, a tiny bit lighter than saber's
just a lil desaturated
fastest mario
i suppose eevee evolving into umbreon doesn't count
bluecanary
the other question is, is there anyone that does "hair color change when power up" that isnt just imitating dbz?
bluecanary
because - that could also be a reason
bluecanary
dude established it as going blond and everyone else is like
bluecanary
"thats how it works now"
Princess Emily
TYBW did introduce Bleach's only trans character, unfortunately she's a psychotic freak,
Onigashima
did it
Princess Emily
https://images.plurk.com/2SGXkPLorpat3Q21Au3GQ3.png zombie girl is trans
Dirk Warhard
Sonic going yellow for Super Sonic is definitely a DBZ reference
fastest mario
go nagai had a shutendoji manga that did it before dbz, gold hair and devil horns was part of oni mode
fastest mario
past that i can think of a few instances where hair color changes were indirectly related to the power instead of directly (hair going white from necromancy/eldritch knowledge/etc), or where it's indicative of plural alters taking front and not technically powerup
dragon time
The weird letter people had like four survivors and she was one of them
dragon time
Everyone going ehhh, we keep Mayuri around, we're not following up on her
HotXC
rofl
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