Nostalgia has blinded you all…
It's just supporting the objectively better aura farmer…
Sure, Aizen in his time could aura farm, dropping cold lines that shook the viewer.
But now… that presence is no longer uniquely his… it has become a trope.
Yes, ofc many characters are made to aura farm these days. Such as Pochita. Yet, the fact Aizen is still at the very top of aura farming decades later says a lot about him. There were countless aura farmers back then too, btw.
And most importantly, he's the best aura farmer in a verse famous for its characters' drip, where basically any important character aura farms.
We have villains who replicate it effortlessly, All For One, Lucius, Sukuna, Sung Jin-Woo.
They all fit within the same mold.
Not going to say that
You literally named some brutes without any class or stylish trait, a guy who makes faces like he needs to take more dementia pills and Jinwoo who ISN'T a villain
., but none of those you mentioned except Jinwoo even comes close to Aizen in terms of aura. Heck, Aizen victim no363647, aka Shunsui, fries the other 3
Also, please tell me how Pochita has even slightly more aura than those you mentioned.
Part of Aizen's aura is his calm demeanour, which denotes power far beyond what the characters you've just mentioned do with all their battle-crazed aspect, but I'll talk more about this a bit later.
So what substance is there?
What is the distinguishing factor?
Clearly not something Pochita has more than Aizen. Also, crazy how you never explain this substance. Lowkey your text seems AI generated. Anyway, I'll help you get an idea about this
"substance" you're talking about later.
Aizen is only seen as the "original aura farmer" because he was among the first to do it.
Now there are many like him…
Many villains placed in the same pen.
Absolutely
wrong. Even back then, there were
lots of aura farmers around and these are just some of the most popular:
He is seen as
"The Aura Farmer" because of his unique way of doing it, which, decades later, still hasn't been properly reproduced.
But a character with true substance emits more aura…
Because they are not easily replicated.
You still didn't
define this "substance". Several characters, such as Kumagawa or Battler
aren't easily replicated, but
this is merely a part of aura farming.
Pochita meets that benchmark.
?
A newer generation character with substance… not just presence…
Ok, guess now I'll help you get an idea about peak aura farming.
So, aura farmers generally:
○
Inspire respect
○Are able to change the situation of a fight
○Casually prove their superiority
○Receive glaze from other characters
○Inspire millions of fans
○Attract attention without even trying
There are other traits as well, which give them bonus points if they:
○Inspire terror and despair upon their opponents with their mere presence and have multiple frightening traits
○Are able to casually overturn the tides of a battle and make the most terrifying comebacks
○Are cold
○Possess a calm demeanour, yet that's all they need to win
○Don't have many aura loss moments and they get it back
○Casually aura farm on the MC
○Are superior since the beggining
○Inspired aura farming memes
○Repeatedly surprise the audience
○Their aura farming doesn't feel exaggerated, it rather became part of the character
○Are seductive
○Have a great impact on the story. The more impact you have, the more meaningful the things you do are.
○Manipulate the others' emotions in more ways than just striking terror
○Have quite a lot of charisma
○Have insane banger theme songs
○Achieve what they want
○Have insane quotes
○Lead a group
○Possess insane looks
○Are absurdly intelligent
○And most importantly, they do all these consistently
Now, what's special about Aizen is that he casually takes all the aspects mentioned above to extreme without even trying:
●Has
a far more intimidating presence than the likes of Madara, let alone Pochita. His very presence attracts attention while
passively making people kneel before him.
●
Has repeatedly overturned the fate of his fights. 1 VS 12 in a situation equivalent to Madara vs 12 Kage and Hashirama? No problem. Overpowered by Mugetsu? No problem. Fighting an omnipotent immortal god? No problem, let's make this guy's death possible.
●Has
the most insane comebacks. When the opponent(s) finally win, it's revealed it was all an illusion. Did that against the captains and did it even against Yhwach
●Has
better looks than Dio and lowkey 99% of the characters known for Aura farming. The best part? It matches his
nonchalant, yet highly classed and educated personality perfectly, as well as his
absurd charisma which he does use in his schemes.
●Is
way smarter than Dio, Light and other aura farmers known for their intelligence. Dio was on the bottom of the ocean for 100 years, Aizen planned things 100 years ahead, while also deceiving and manipulating everyone. In fact,
his intelligence feats are surreal - to the point where
this statement becomes literal. He also takes
manipulation to another level, to the point where he far surprasses even characters whose entire story is based on this, such as Ayanokoji Kyotaka
●Lowkey almost every character in the cast
glazed him at least once: The Espadas, Renji, several captains, Gin, Tosen, even Yhwach and Ichigo himself. Even unrelated characters, such as Tokinada.
My personal fav
●
Has only ever lost once and it only happened because of the combined efforts of the MC who sacrifices everything for a final attack Aizen survived, the only smarter person than him in the entire series and he himself starting to wish to lose.
●
Aizen was born exceptional and he only grew far beyond the weaklings that he despises, to the point of literally transcending them. Everything he does and says when fighting those he considers beneath him denotes
superiority, not only in power, but also in intelligence.
●If there is one thing people can be sure of when Aizen appears is that
he will aura farm. Even after he was beaten by Ichigo and suffered the only aura loss in his life,
he gained it back moments later, when Ichigo was on his knees. He
constantly surprises the audience. In literally one chapter, not only does he return although everyone thought was dead,
he also emotionlessly kills the subordinate that literally faced prison and risked certain death just to try to avenge him.
●
He takes the word "impact" to the next level. Not only does he have probably the greatest impact on the story among all of Kubo's characters, by
orchestring Ichigo's life since he was born and even being responsible for the events that lead to his birth, he also had
an insane impact on the audience. There are thousands of different
Aizen memes world wide and he likely holds the record for this. I bet even you've seen dozens of "It's all part of the plan" meme variations across the years. In fact,
this is the effect of his aura on the fandom. In fact, most of the people that know Aizen didn't even watch Bleach.
●Speaking of everything being part of his plan and
achieving what he wanted, Aizen is one the very few great aura farmer shonen antagonists that lowkey always did that. All of his desires have been fulfilled. He got the Hōgyoku, he conquered Hueco Mundo and created the espadas, he helped Ichigo evolve wonderfully and only lost when he desired to do it. Even his intentions of killing the Soul King and Yamamoto(which is unclear whether he still wanted to do) were fulfilled by Yhwach.
●Treachery is such a banger that millions of people know of it and the anime still uses it decades after its production.
●Leading a group is what Obito does,
Aizen lead an army and conquered a universe.
●When it comes to aura farming on the MC, looks and charisma,
Aizen is also probably the only one who holds the record of
rizzing both the MC and his girl
(Yes, that's another meme of Aizen you can find online btw)
What makes Aizen's character legendary is the fact he embodies all these traits, takes them to the maximum and they are still somehow perfectly combined. The fact that over decades, the countless aura farmers that were made still don't succeed in perfectly reproducing all those characteristics at the same level as Aizen is just one more proof of the absolute aura he has. His aura is what made a character with basically 0 backstory and emotional depth one of the greatest and most loved anime figures of all time. Ig you could call this "substance"
.
Pochita, on the other hand, doesn't even have half of those traits that grant your average aura farmer extra points
Ig you've never heard or read some of Aizen's lines before. Well, to give you some spoilers, the manga is full of
lines like this, most of them from him.
Lastly, to share a fun fact about the absolute aura of Aizen,
it made even his animator faint.
Pochita has nothing remotely close to this. They simply aren't in the same league
