Dunno about that. Don’t get me wrong, this is easily the best Bleach has ever looked, but that last Chainsaw Man trailer was next level, like almost on the level of the works of UFOTable. Based on the director’s comments, the anime probably could have started 3-4 seasons ago, but they’ve made it clear at MAPPA that pretty much everyone has mad respect for the mangaka as they specifically sought the rights to adapt it as opposed to it usually being the other way around and they intend to give it the highest effort they’ve ever done (and also are hoping to adapt every single thing he’s written), so yeah, they all but said they’ve given their animators like roughly an extra year to make it look THAT good. I think the only studio who could compete with Chainsaw Man‘s animation this season would be something from either UFOTable or Kyoto Animation and it doesn’t look like either have a show this fall season.
I admit, while I don’t know if I will get around to watching this new season of Bleach as I slowly didn’t care for the original post-episode 63 (yes, I skipped the filler episodes). But I am very happy Tite Kubo is getting this. As I found out later, he was subjugated to death threats and other online harassment while writing the latter parts of the manga and beyond (because every fucking fandom has to have these shitheads among them. We get it, the fictional story didn’t go the way you wanted, so move on to something else as opposed to attacking these writers and such over the most pathetic of reasons) so I went out of my way to purchase his Burn the Witch one-shot manga (which I found decent) and will check out whatever his future works are. It saddens me that a guy who just wanted to tell a fun story his way got treated like that, but it‘s become such a sad norm, so I just want to offer a bit of support.
The dude clearly bought joy to plenty of people who enjoyed Bleach all the way through, so I’d hate to think he’d feel discouraged due to the behavior of some assholes.
