Your opinion is extremely biased and means absolutely nothing.
I'll start with that, a severe case of projection if I ever saw one.
According to you there's never ever been a bad part in Bleach.
Heck I only read it (because who have time for the anime really) and even enjoyed the FB arc and really Bleach is like one of the only big manga I'm actually paying good money for (as my SO does OP and we haven't started Naruto, I still do Fairy Tail occasionally).
Bleach is significantly better in volume form than week/week, still nothing in volume form is going to save this chapter.
DBZ power ups are ass pull as any other manga.
The problem are not the asspulls but that there's no way to expect them, Dragon actually took its time to forshadow most of them so that the reader isn't incredulously looking at the pages thinking that author have lost his mind.
But please let's entertain ourselves, find something as egregious in Dragon Ball as what was in the current Bleach chapter.
Every single time in DB, there's a purpose behind it that's not just "OMG look at how badass this look" with total disregard for the internal logic of the manga before.
YYH had its share of ass pulls.
There's something like 1 or 2 instances but nothing like what you usually get in Bleach "Sharingarm" moments.
Gon killing the Pitou was so extremely dumb. Yeah jump in ability by making himself older or something.
Did you fell asleep reading the manga or something?
it's actually foreshadowed and explained, you can actually see it coming if not to that extent. There's tension and payoff and finally consequences to everything that happens in HxH. Consequences, something that Kubo totally forgot.
If the consequences for Gon's asspull is that he's back to squareone (or even farther than that) that's a reasonable consequence for this.
As for Alluka, if Togashi hadn't been stopped we would have gotten an explanation on what makes Alluka so special (although anyone with a brain can connect the dots).
My point is HxH is internally consistent or at least doesn't have plotholes the size of the Original Star wars trilogy.
One piece has never had anything on Bleach. From the Crocodile fight to the ass pull gears power up to Zorro's and Sanji's ass pull power ups throughout the manga.
Luffy's powerup makes sense throughout the manga and are actually foreshadowed.
OP is not just random powerup, it's creative use of the power that makes people dangerous (and then you have logia users).
Fairy Tail friendship power up has been a joke since the beginning of the manga.
Exactly and that's still miles better than current Bleach.
Talk about tension huh, you seem new to shonen manga. No tension in Bleach except when soul society was destroyed, or when Aizen was revealed. And lol on holding Bleach to a different standard as if not every shonen manga ever had its main characters win over villains in most arcs.
I'm reading and following manga since the 80's, I actually have the last volume of Dragon Ball from when it was released (and I'm talking of the JPN release),
if someone is new to this it's probably you who've discovered Bleach and seem to think nothing is wrong with it.
No one gives a shit about Soul Society because that's where people tangential to the hero happen to be. He's their friend yadayada, but seriously it's dead people in the 1rst place and there's nothing about Soul Society that makes it so special it needs to be saved compared to say Karakura town.
In the current arc, we're supposed to care that they're invading a place we've seen nothing about and trying to topple a dysfunctional government we couldn't give less of a shit about.
At least the Karakura town crisis had gravitas toward it since it was a place we had a reason to care whether it was destroyed or not.
Not everything is to be thrown out in Bleach but by god is it bad sometimes.
I liked Starrk, he even had a interesting backstory. But as usual Kubo sensed that he could be interesting, so he imminently killed him afterwards.
Seriously, what a waste of everyone's time that was.
