Originally posted by Nephthys
I dont think he does.
You and I talked about this, before.
If he changes the past and manipulates it any way he wants...just for the individual, he is doing two direct things:
1. He is manipulating the memories of the individual. Even if he is changing the literal past of the individual, that also changes the memories of the person to align with that past change.
2. He is directly altering time by changing things that have happened in the past. This is Marty McFly level shit.
So those are two direct contradictions to the notion that "he is not changing the past nor is he changing memories." As fact, that's exactly what he's doing.
Originally posted by TheAuraAngel
But he isn't changing memories. He is literally putting himself in their past. It's just some weird thing that apparently only affects the target, not anyone else.
Incorrect. In order to hold the position that he changes the past for just that invidual, you must also concede the notion that the information held on the neurons for that person are also changing to align with that "past" change: he is literally altering their memories by changing their past.
The fact that Kubo felt the need to contradict himself on the same exact page is telling of what a shitty author he can be at times.
Originally posted by TheAuraAngel
Like how Trunks went back in time to tell everyone to destroy the Androids. It didn't change his future, it just created the opportunity for a different future.
Again, incorrect. Toriyama accommodated this by creating alternate universes. That is, shockingly, well in tune with some theoretical quantum physicists theories: we can create entire universes by taking certain actions. In Bleach, that is not occurring. It is the same universe and everything is preserved. Only the individual is affected. If he literally changed the past, all those surrounding the person would also be affected. Since they are not, his power is not as he claims it: it is more likely a memory alteration than actually changing the past.
It would be different if the world went fuzzy and then they ended up elsewhere. Then I would say, "oh shit, nigga....he changed the past and, therefore, transplanted them into an entirely new universe! That's in line with some modern theories of quantum mechanics, yo!" Since that does not occur, what Tsukishima is saying his power is, is incorrect (we know that because he contradicts himself on the same page...I don't think Kubo knows that he is doing that).
Originally posted by TheAuraAngel
Except what Tsukishima is doing here is somehow just affecting one target at a time. Which doesn't make any sense but that's what is stated so that is what I'm gonna go with.
If you "just go with it", you'll be wrong. You can be wrong, as an author, in your own fictional universe. It happens. There's no need to go along with Kubo's stupidity: you do not have to accept it.
Here's another example: Stephanie Meyer wrote in her 4th and final book from her Twilight series that the La Push Native Americans were not werewolves but shapeshifters. 1. That's wrong because a werewolf IS a shapeshifter. 2. The original werewolves, in European lore, changed from man into literal wolves...the wolf-human hybrid appearance thingie is only a recent development (recent as in the last few hundred years or so). So, she can claim that they are not werewolves but by the definition, they are werewolves. Some have apologized for her mistake by stating that there are literal werewolves in that universe (fact) and they are not the same as the La Push kind meaning, in her universe, there is a different but real version of what they all call "werewolves". That's fine...but let's not mince words to be right: both "brands" would be werewolves.
Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
This is the only correct answer.
I somewhat agree with your point. I don't wholly agree because of the "memory" points I have brought up. No matter what anyone says...Tsukishima is still altering the memories of the person.