Bleach: 10 Things That Make No Sense About Orihime

The hit series shonen Bleach stars a huge cast of characters, and in the show’s first season, Orihime Inoue established herself as a goofy, lovable, and rather brave supporting character during Ichigo’s quest to save the day. Orihime is Ichigo’s classmate and friend, and she has risked her own life to stay by Ichigo’s side during his adventures.

There are many things to love about Orihime, from her innocent charm and unique healing powers to her comic relief scenes or her generous heart. However, at times Orihime is a downright strange character, or her role in the story doesn’t always make sense or turns out as readers / viewers might expect.

10 Orihime manages to live alone

The story of Bleach She rarely addresses the logistics of how Orihime lives alone, though the story does explain how she got there. Years ago, her older brother, Sora Inoue, died and Orihime had the house to herself (her parents had left by then as well).

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Is that house paid for, or does Orihime face a lot of rent or mortgage payments? And there is no indication that she has a job or a family member to support her. A tenth grade girl, living alone … that’s not typical.

9 Orihime’s weird cooking style includes totally vile food combinations

Orihime is a decent cook, but her selection of ingredients is far from ordinary. Her food never burns or spoils, but on the other hand, the meals she prepares are suitable only for her. It is one of those that combines pepper flakes, mustard, olive oil and animal biscuits in the same dish.

Where did Orihime get these ideas from? Nobody knows, and Orihime’s weird way of cooking was a recurring gag in the first season ofBleach. No one else dares to taste Orihime’s food, not even when she offers a bite to her friends.

8 He loves his weird recipes and doesn’t see them as strange

Orihime not only prepares all that strange food, but also eats it with a face of circumstance. Unless she’s a very good actress, Orihime means it when she eats those strange lunches and proclaims “Yum!” Your taste buds are unique.

Orihime’s friend Tatsuki is puzzled but amused every day when she sees Orihime sinking her teeth into those incomprehensible dishes that she really likes, and Orihime doesn’t know why others are shocked. Isn’t it a normal meal? Orihime thinks so.

7 Orihime wants to be a giant robot when she grows up

What does Orihime aspire to when she grows up? According to one of his art projects at school, when he grows up he will be a giant robot. Orihime surprises Tatsuki with her animated cartoon of herself, placing her head on the checkered, cartoonish body of a depressed robot.

Orihime is vaporizing a burning city in that art, and given Orihime’s kind nature and healing powers, a destructive power fantasy like this is even more peculiar. However, Orihime didn’t mention it much after that.

6 Orihime gets confused with animals; even confuse cats and dogs

Orihime doesn’t have pets, but if she did, she would mix them up and get confused. When he met Yoruichi, the talking cat, he wrongly assumed that Yoruichi’s friend Kukaku would be another cat, but he had no reason to believe it, as Yasutora “Chad” Sado pointed out.

What’s more, Orihime began to wonder what kind of cat Kukaku would be, and even theorized that Kukaku is a Dalmatian. Except Dalmatians are dogs, not cats, and Chad had to point that out as well.

5 Orihime’s random plan to destroy the Hogyoku

The Hogyoku, or sphere of rupture, is a unique artifact created by Kisuke Urahara, and later stolen by Sosuke Aizen to transform the mighty Hollows into Arrancars. Once Orihime was captured and brought to Las Noches, Aizen showed her the Hogyoku.

Orihime correctly realized that the Hogyoku is central to Aizen’s plan, and so she decided to destroy it. But he had no means of doing it, and he didn’t even try. He thought of this plan and never carried it out.

4 Orihime has an assault-oriented fairy

Orihime’s power, the Shun-Shun Rikka, takes the form of two hair clips that can manifest into six different fairies. With these winged allies, Orihime can heal a person or create a triangular barrier to defend herself. His sixth fairy, Tsubaki, is attack-oriented.

It’s not unthinkable for a supporting character to have a token attack, but Tsubaki is so weak that it doesn’t make sense to have one, and having such a fairy doesn’t fit Orihime’s personality. Tsubaki should be exchanged for something else.

3 Orihime doesn’t recognize Uryu’s crush on her

Uryu Ishida takes himself quite seriously as Quincy’s keeper, but he has a soft spot for Orihime, and has acted on those feelings more than once. Orihime’s beauty and kind personality attract him a lot, and he’s more likely to team up with her than Ichigo.

Orihime and Uryu fought together for a time in the Soul Society arc, and Uryu lovingly made a new shirt for Orihime and did his best to make her happy. Interestingly, Orihime never seemed to realize Uryu’s true feelings.

2 How Orihime’s encouraging word empowered Ichigo

This may be an example of “anime physics” at work: Orihime yelled a few words of encouragement to Ichigo during a losing fight against Grimmjow Jeagerjaques, and then Ichigo immediately turned the battle around. That’s a bit of a stretch.

Yes, it makes sense that Orihime’s encouraging words could give Ichigo a second wind, but the change was quite abrupt and extreme, given how simple Orihime’s mini-speech was. The funny thing is that she said to Ichigo “Please don’t hurt yourself anymore!” and Ichigo agreed with that sentiment, but he actually took one or two more hits before finally defeating Grimmjow.

1 Orihime didn’t really act on her feelings for Ichigo and yet they ended up together

The “IchiHime” pairing ended up being canonical in the end, beating out the ever popular IchiRuki (not all fans were happy about this). It’s true that Orihime clearly loved Ichigo at the time Ulquiorra Schiffer kidnapped her, but she did little to express those feelings.

No one can blame Orihime for being shy, and shonen manga like Bleach It doesn’t put much emphasis on romance anyway. Even so, the final chapter clearly showed Orihime and Ichigo married, and the series could have given viewers a few more solid IchiHime scenes as the entrance ramp to that final chapter and made the development of the relationship at least a little softer. The series went from “I’m too shy to talk about my feelings!” to marriage, a few years later. There should be some intermediate steps clearly shown on the page.

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