Uryū Ishida Quotes

Mayuri has just described dissecting Quincy alive, Uryū's grandfather among them, with the relish of a man reading a menu. What Uryū does next is pull off the glove his master forbade him to remove, which gives him a captain's power for one fight and takes every Quincy ability he has as the price. So the sentence is a warning about himself, not about the enemy. He is about to spend his whole inheritance in one afternoon on a man who is not worth it, and the part he would not want Orihime to watch is the spending. The bill arrives on schedule: he leaves Soul Society with a bow he cannot draw, and it takes his father, the one Quincy who wanted nothing to do with any of this, to buy the power back for him.

He has been wearing white with a cape since his first appearance, sewing his own outfits, and been mocked for it by Ichigo more or less continuously. So when Ichigo walks up in a long black bankai coat, the joke is a debt collected. What the moment is really doing is announcing that Uryū is back with his powers, a fact the story had quietly arranged offstage, and choosing to announce it with a costume note rather than a speech. That choice is the characterisation. Uryū's pride is in craft, in the thing done properly, and the properly done thing here is a coat. He is the one member of the cast who would notice, and the one who would say so before saying hello. Kubo, who draws clothes more carefully than most of his peers draw faces, is on his side.