Warning: Contains spoilers for Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War.One of the major twists of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War was Uryu betraying Ichigos group to join the Wandenreich, and from there, the series went to great lengths to tease a fight between Ichigo and Uryu. Uryu has always been the closest thing Ichigo has had to a rival, and with Uryu now working for the villains, their inevitable fight would be the perfect payoff to that dynamic of theirs.
