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Yoruichi Pose refers to a prominent piece of fan art showing the character soul reaper Yoruichi Shihōin from the anime and manga series Bleach doing a pose similar to "downward dog" in yoga, with her hands on the floor, her backside in the air, and her back bent in an exaggerated manner (similar to a lordosis pose). While the pose does not actually appear in the anime or manga, internet users have been reposting and recreating the image of Yoruichi stretching since 2020, including redraw memes. After 2024, several TikTokers began posting videos attempting to do the Yoruichi pose.

Origin

While the exact origin of the "Yoruichi Pose" image is unknown, the earliest known post featuring manga-style artwork of Yoruichi Shihōin from Bleach doing a "downward dog" style pose is a March 26th, 2017, post on Amino Apps^[1] by Russian user @jekky.

The earliest accessible high-definition version of the Yoruichi Pose is a June 8th, 2017, post on the Korean language site RuliWeb,^[2] where the image was posted alongside a number of pieces of Yoruichi Shihōin fan art.

The image was also posted to Tumblr in 2017 by now-deleted user @gaironsblog, who gathered over 2,700 notes in eight years. The post has since been archived on Tumbex.^[3]

Spread

The fan art of Yoruichi doing a downward stretch was often been mistaken for a real manga panel in subsequent years, with Facebook^[4] user President reposting the fan art of the Yoruichi Pose on December 20th, 2021, writing, "The only scene Bleach fans are waiting for to get animated. #AnimesPresident" and gathering over 300 reactions in four years.

On December 3rd, 2022, X^[5] user @RoyReadsManga reposted the fan art of Yoruichi doing her downward pose, writing, "This manga panel goes hard asf," gathering over 70,000 likes in three years.

Twitter / X^[6][7] user @bradywontmiss reposted the panel several times, first in a December 6th, 2022, thread titled, "Manga panels that get me HARD ASF," which gathered over 99,000 likes in three years, and then in a March 8th, 2023, post titled, "Never seen a woman pull off this cosplay," which gathered over 13,000 likes in two years.

On January 3rd, 2023, YouTuber^[8] Lord Aizen posted a video using a coloured-in version of the fan art as a thumbnail, alongside a caption that read, "Yoruichi Transforms Into Goddess of Thunder." The post gathered over 145,000 views in two years.

By 2024, internet users began posting fan art inspired by the "Yoruichi Pose" fan art, as seen in a March 26th, 2024, post by X^[10] user @KaiYen_, who posted fan art featuring VTuber Moona Hoshinova doing the downward dog-style Yoruichi Pose, gathering over 15,000 likes in a year.

On August 5th, 2024, the Instagram^[9] page @achworkshop posted fan art of their OC doing the pose, gathering over 2,000 likes in 10 months.

In 2025, several TikTokers began posting videos attempting to do the Yoruichi Pose, as seen in a January 23rd, 2025, post by TikToker^[10] @xqueenkalin, who gathered over 2 million plays and 300,000 likes on a video in six months.

On January 21st, 2025, Redditor^[12] posted an image of Yoruichi to the subreddit /r/Bleach_alongside a caption that read, "The actual yoruichi pose." The post received over 4,9000 upvotes and 140 comments in six months.

On April 8th, 2025, X^[11] user @Promithean11 posted images of Yoruichi doing a pose when she is shown crouched down low to the ground with one elbow near her knee and one leg sticking out. The post is captioned, "Bro hit the Yoruichi pose." The tweet received over 5,600 likes and 380 retweets in three months.

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