Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez Quotes

The usual take is that Grimmjow is the pure fighter, Kenpachi with a hole in him, and that this is his creed. Listen to who he is shouting at and it is the opposite of a creed. Ichigo has just put on a mask, and the three categories Grimmjow lists are the three things Ichigo now is at once, so the line is not indifference to species; it is a man refusing to let the species question matter because it is about to matter very much to him. His whole grievance with Ulquiorra, and with Aizen, is being ranked, being told he is a number six, and here is an enemy who declines to be a number at all. The crushing is aimed at the look, not the strength. That is a smaller, more wounded motive than the one people give him, and it is the one on the page.

There is not much in this one. It is the sentence the story needed to move Grimmjow from a cell to a corridor, and it does that and nothing else. He has just watched Ulquiorra put Ichigo down in seconds and his complaint is property: the enemy is his. Read as character, it repeats what the Karakura fights had already established twice, that he ranks rivals above orders, and read as prose it is the stock line of every second-tier antagonist in the genre, interchangeable with a dozen others down to the word prey. What redeems the scene is the action that follows it, springing Orihime and dragging her to heal the man he wants to beat, which is a genuinely odd and specific thing to do. The line just announces that something odd is coming. Quote the deed, not the caption.