Let me preface by saying: I tried posting this on /r/bleach, but it got removed. Apparently, critical takes aren’t welcome over there.

Anyway...

The second image with the scene with Ichigo looking all flirty at Uryu just made me see the dialog all in a totally different light. And the last image with the scene on the bottom (with Orihime looking all hopeful after being dressed up) made me write what I was thinking. This is me reading in between the lines.

Other than that, the dialog from the anime is all the same.

Ichigo's saying, "I-I mean... Uryu's secondary," and then blushing while talking about Uryu? Like what the hell is that? Lot of gay vibes from that one. Also, Uryu blushing over Ichigo and even says he doesn't care about Ichigo, meanwhile he tells Ichigo, "Be careful, you idiot," before Ichigo goes to Hueco Mundo?

The filler the animators added, showing Orihime 'rushing to Ichigo's arms,' somehow just made it seem worse. Ichigo looks like he's being given a grenade. Not a sweetheart. I don't know why the animators even added this. Hasn't there been enough filler? Seriously.

And yeah. people say that because Ichigo protected Orihime and that somehow shows love. He's protected many people in the series; may as well get a marriage ring for them too. I mean, you never see Ichigo interact with Orihime outside of chaotic situations. Also, the girl never challenged Ichigo on anything. She's just there to orbit him.

As my brother said, Orihime was a fart in the wind; she literally had no agency aside from being reduced to some girl with huge tits, following Ichigo around, hoping he would notice her. But the guy never noticed her. That, or it gave the message that he never was into chicks. It was so one sided.

When it comes to Rangiku and Yoruichi showing off the goods, Ichigo looked more horrified than turned on. Not exactly what you'd expect from a straight teenaged guy. Even Goku, dumb as a bag of bricks, never reacted like that. He didn’t freak out or get all weirded out. It’s like Ichigo didn’t know what to do with women at all, like the idea just didn’t click with him. The dude gave off zero interest.

The epilogue showing Ichigo and Orihime as married? Sad. They were literally shoved together. Orihime is looking like everything is fine, while pretending to play house. Ichigo looked like he left his soul in Hueco Mundo, that's not how a hero is supposed to go out. He didn't even look happy being married. No smile of endearment directed at his 'supposed wife', nothing. No convincing warmth (even Goku and Chichi had this covered). Seems like it was a marriage to uphold appearances really.

Kubo would have been better off just have Ichigo make a dramatic swing at a hollow with his huge kitchen knife for a Zanpaktou as the epilogue. Would have been so much cleaner of an ending. Instead of that marriage and child crap; where Ichigo looks like a man who had given up on living.

And outside of being a soul reaper, the dude has no identity. Take that away, and who is he? I mean, he was a soul reaper, but he wasn't the one making the decisions as the main protagonist. He was aimless and just gaining more power for the sake of it. He never questioned anything. Just tunnel vision. Other characters were pulling him and there and he just followed like a machine for the sake of the plot; like he was a mere plot device. And all he could really say was, I'll stop this person or that person, and "I will protect insert subject here."

Goku, dumb as he is, had more direction and demonstrated better capability in decision making. Meanwhile, it's like Ichigo had no will of his own to make his own decisions. Like he was held hostage by the script; which he was in the end.

Ichigo was a soul reaper. The only soul he ended up reaping in the end, was his own.

So, this is my criticism of Kubo's script. And the anime hasn't made it any better.