Reptars Revenge
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Noooooo haha. It's going to be tough to top A>B>A fight in utterasspullery.
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Tite Kubo's Bleach Manga Nears Ending
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Noooooo haha. It's going to be tough to top A>B>A fight in utterasspullery.
Stone Ocean
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Goodness no, Kubo is making Naruto's last arc look good. Fairy Tail though? I actually couldn't stomach that garbage anymore after that fucking stupid promotion arc years ago.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
The facebook friends actually came back as characters. They were gonna train with Ganju, the brother of that one-armed big boobie chick from Soul Society arc.
They haven't been seen in like a year now lol
lazybones18
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remember when Bleach was actually good? feels like an eternity
Dude, that's when I gave up.
Ok, so you took multiple chapters to FINALLY explain the most powerful Bankai there is (seriously, that shit was just nuts but... freaking cool I'll admit) and then boom, he dies due to ''sorry, plot twist, I have a Double'' so now i'll just kill you''.
fudgey_lumpkins
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Does this mean that the anime can finally come back soon?
inuyasha's anime stopped and didn't go into filler hell or make up it's own ending. it was a good candidate to continue. if i remember correctly the bleach anime went into filler hell and had bad ratings.
Danis Saur
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From you guy's responses, I guess its not that good...
At this point I think to myself: Was Bleach ever good? I want to say yes but... there's alot there I remember that wasn't complete.
At this point I think to myself: Was Bleach ever good? I want to say yes but... there's alot there I remember that wasn't complete.
I apologise in advance for being a bit vague here but was the Soul Society arc the first big arc where Ichigo meets a lot of the Shinigami for the first time ? I remember loving that and then there was something about Ichigo meeting vampires and he just seemed to get his ass kicked constantly by everyone. Never watched it after that, does he spend a lot of time just getting ass whooped after that ? That annoyed me so much I ended up ditching the anime series and never going back. The NDS Treasure fighting game was awesome though.
I think it was good at some point, but Kubo just has the problem of taking for-freaking-ever to get anywhere (and apparently his editors didn't help but getting him to put the spotlight on each and every new character since they were popular, or so I've read).
Its a pity because I do think he's a good artist, he is absolutely great with fashion, and contrary to what some think, the guy does plan things out quite a bit when it comes to stories. If he was reined in a bit, he'd be better.
This last arc could've been better but when you introduce something like 28 new enemies all at once (probably more, since the "principal" mooks each held one of the alphabet, and there were some unlisted ones too) and each of them, as well as each of the good guys, gets their time in the spotlight...it takes forever.
Reptars Revenge
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I love how the man bad guy is like I'm leaving through this portal. Since there is no more Save points after this checkpoint make sure you finish all active quests and obtain all necessary items before continuing to the end of the manga.
The Soul Society arc introduced roughly one million new Shinigami/Soul Reapers, yes. The "Vampire" arc you're thinking of is the Bount arc. It's the first filler arc (so it's exclusive to the anime) and it's very bad.
Nocturnowl
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Ohhhh, now I remember where I stopped, the sniper dude was fighting head captain drunkard, man I missed out on Owl powers by Kubo Tite? instant regret.
The luchadore stuff was so hilarious, I unashamedly enjoyed that whole bit.
Ah thanks yeah Bount sounds familiar. It was fuckin dreadful, guess I shouldn't be surprised it was a filler arc. Saying that I don't think I could go back to Bleach anyway, avoided that rabbit hole thankfully.
The owl stuff got...really weird.
Like, imagine an Angel from Evangelion as an owl, and you're probably on the right track.
Stone Ocean
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Bleach was amazing when Kubo just stuck to his guns and made a good mix of action and comedy. Up to the first half of the Hueco Mundo arc, it was a legitimately good manga, villains had simple and cool powers. Then it went downhill and nothing makes sense anymore.
Most current villains make King Crimson sound fucking reasonable.
Yes. Kubo slow pacing forced Studio Pierrot to do filler in the middle of the arcs. Amagai Captain, Zanpakutou Rebellion for example. On top of that, they also had to add mini fillers arcs or random episodes. And then, after the end of Fake Karakura Town, they added another filler arc.
Personally, I believe the anime shouldn't return. That ending is miles better than whatever Kubo plans to do.
Nothing could make Sakura look good. Ever.
I'm sad that 666 Satan(kishimoto's own brothers manga) and other great series like Psyren got canceled yet Naruto was able to live on for so long
Ichigo and Rukia was largely the reason i started the series to begin with, and a lot of other people with shipper glasses on. They have a great relationship whether we see it as romantic or otherwise and for a lot of us, we want to see a good payoff at the ending. So i am obligated to stay with the series until the ending, no matter how shitty and cringe worthy it gets.
Nocturnowl
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The only thing I remember about the bount arc was some old man summoning this scenery devouring whale, that's the kind of thing that sticks with you.
Also pretty sure Mayuri bested him, he stays winning.
Now I really need the Bleach anime to take one last arc.
It's like Kubo just went into self parody with the abilities that start popping up, you never knew just what broken nonsense would come next and there is a certain appeal in that.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
I agree on him being a good artist. And he definitely has an eye for fashion too. But I'm calling bullshit on him planning far ahead. The storytelling just doesn't match up with that. Otherwise he would be able to foreshadow more and not have so many ass pulls. He doesn't even introduce elements for future arcs in current arcs to get the ball rolling. There is a dead stop, everything is reset to how it was before, and then a bunch of new characters get introduced. And with those new characters we get a bunch of new terms and new abilities that contradict things we've seen before. Instead of playing by the rules that he has created, he just makes up new ones.
At the very most, he has left a character's history vague so he could fill in the gaps later. But that isn't planning ahead. Otherwise there would be hints. Stuff like the revelation about Ichigo's mother is a prime example. An event is presented one way and then they say "Oh no no, this is what really happened" and then there is a convoluted explanation for why it makes sense.
Stone Ocean
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I imagine it's due to some contract shit from long ago, otherwise Bleach probably would have been cancelled many times by now.
I'll never forgive WSJ and japanese readers for cancelling Double Arts. Everrrr
if they hype it up correctly, they could pull it off.
for one, if the manga is over by then, they don't have to worry about filler, which was one of the things people hated the most about the original anime. they could probably fit a dozen chapters per anime episode considering kubo's pace and make it look like things go pretty fast and intense.
of course, i think the actual ending will be a wild card here. if it's decent, it could help the hype but if it's a crap ending then they're screwed since a bad ending would kill people's desires to see the whole thing animated.
Bleach was weird in that the fillers were often infinitely better than the canon stuff in terms of characters, fight choreography (aren't restricted to follow kubo's garbage framing).
Anime went to shit when it stopped playing NUMBER ONE though.
Anime went to shit when it stopped playing NUMBER ONE though.
You're telling me Aizen wasn't the secret protagonist already?
What are you talking about? Shuu-chan is the protagonist of Bleach. Rukia gave him her shinigami powers.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure has been running since 1986 and is still great.
One Piece since 1997 and still in top form.
Here's a list of the longest manga, though a lot of them are sports or slice of life.
What are you on about? It all has been a dream created by Aizen. We are still in the Soul Society arc! We have been there all along!
Byakuya769
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Hahaha. Gotta train up.
I've heard of Jojo but didn't know it was long running or how good it was. Might check it out eventually. Also been thinking about getting into One Piece. Forgot how well revered it is. Catching up to such a long series seems daunting though. I'll give it a shot anyways
Hyperbolic Time Chamber, here we go again. But now Ishida will join Ichigo.
Ishida will continue being a jobber though.
Wow. This is good.
When it started it was pretty good. Then it went up its own ass.
Monochromaticx
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I bet Ishida is gonna give his quincy powers to ichigo. Then ichigo will use his new technique: gestga tencho, and win
The end.
The end.
No, Bleach sells while enough and been around long enough for Jump to just let Kubo do his thing and let it run. Ratings don't really matter as long as sales haven't continued to fall off.
Man, what happened to Kon? I miss the simpler days of Bleach when Asterisk was an OP that hinted at a slice of life series masquerading as an action show.
super-famicom
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Man, didn't Ichigo's high school friends get some kind of power up? Not to Shinigami levels, but still something. Ichigo's sisters too. And Kubo never did anything with that.
This manga sucks.
This manga sucks.
KenzinFive
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Asterisk was peak Bleach for me. Such a stylish opening, and I'm one of those weirdos that liked Bleach more before they went to Soul Society and it turned into DBZ with swords. If only the rest of the show/manga had stayed as stylish and cool-looking as Asterisk.
They even hinted that Ichigo's sister Karin might become a Shinigami or something more important, since she was meeting with Urahara regularly right after the time jump and her powers had become stronger.
And it was never mentioned again.
KenzinFive
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EDIT: Sorry, double post.
Kon showed up....for some reason in a big muscle form. He apparently was hiding in Ichigo soul reaper uniform (how he not know he was there...?).He may still be there.
You aren't the only one. It was more simple yet entertaining and the characters could have been developed more.
Same. Although I did like the SS arc because of what it did to that world. The beginnings of Bleach were what I enjoyed the most. When it was about Ichigo discovering his potential with Rukia alongside him and the mysteries of his past being uncovered little by little. By the time Hueco Mundo came around, I felt it was a little too much and the characters I liked quickly became an afterthought like Rukia and Sado.
Oh well, it is what it is.
Stone Ocean
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That makes no sense why do these people rate it down then buy the tanks anyways? lol
It's not, OP is a pretty smooth read, give it a shot.
Rating matter more so for newer series than old. Kochikame been running for like 40 years and gets bad ratings but still around. Time being around there does mater, that and loyal enough fans are still willing to buy it.
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