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Tite Kubo's Bleach Manga Nears Ending

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MechaX

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I have not really paid attention to this arc (I completely lost all interest with the Fullbringer shit), but let me get this straight.

Quincies are actually not fucking dead and despite this being Ishida's true chance to shine, he still doesn't do shit?

Fuck man, I actually liked Ishida too when the series first started and they do him dirty like this...
 
Man he really did Unohana dirty, what did Kenpachi even do, beat some random side character and fail to beat the Thor guy? She died for that?
 
I have not really paid attention to this arc (I completely lost all interest with the Fullbringer shit), but let me get this straight.

Quincies are actually not fucking dead and despite this being Ishida's true chance to shine, he still doesn't do shit?

Fuck man, I actually liked Ishida too when the series first started and they do him dirty like this...

Don't worry it's not that bad. Half of the minimal story line this arc does revolve around him. He's holding his own against the Big Bad's Second in Command and even invoking the Nakama power so he probably will win this.
 
Leaked image of the final volume preview:

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Don't worry it's not that bad. Half of the minimal story line this arc does revolve around him. He's holding his own against the Big Bad's Second in Command and even invoking the Nakama power so he probably will win this.

Eh, not really. He could have had a lot more to do, but he hasn't had much to do until recently. Until that point, he just stood around with Ywach and Haschwalth and watched stuff go down, listen to exposition, or play footsie with Ichigo. He didn't even win his fight against Haschwalth. It was interrupted before Haschwalth dealt the finishing blow. It's one of the disappointing aspects of the arc.

The subplot amounted to nothing the moment Uryu went ahead and revealed the obvious to the gang without much fanfare. It might have been cliche, but him and Ichigo should have had an extended confrontation of some sort rather than Ichigo yelling at him and Uryu repeatedly telling everyone to leave or die.
 

KimiNewt

Scored 3/100 on an Exam
Should have stayed a ghost story. Look at how cool that first anime intro is, though honestly I might have overdosed on bloom if they continued that.
 

ZoddGutts

Member
Always found Ichigo to be a poor man's/wooden version of Yusuke from Yu Yu Hakusho. Imagine if Ichigo was replaced by Yusuke as the lead, the series gets better by default.
 
5-6 chapters is crazy short

what is sadly funny is that he could've maybe had some time for a decent ending if he didn't put so much fluff in this arc...

let's hope Kubo makes these chapters the most content heavy chapters he ever made
 
Always found Ichigo to be a poor man's/wooden version of Yusuke from Yu Yu Hakusho. Imagine if Ichigo was replaced by Yusuke as the lead, the series gets better by default.
That's true, but even Yusuke couldn't save bad writing. Almost everything after SS is flat out awful.
 

Aad

Member
Last I read bleach was when the Quincys were fighting the ink guy or something. Bleach is a haze, the plot never moves so hard to remember.
 

Grizzlyjin

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Always found Ichigo to be a poor man's/wooden version of Yusuke from Yu Yu Hakusho. Imagine if Ichigo was replaced by Yusuke as the lead, the series gets better by default.

I actually liked Ichigo during his big fight with Aizen. When he came back with the longer hair and just didn't give a fuck. He seemed bored more than anything. I wish he would have stayed that way.
 
Always found Ichigo to be a poor man's/wooden version of Yusuke from Yu Yu Hakusho. Imagine if Ichigo was replaced by Yusuke as the lead, the series gets better by default.
Kubo should pulled a JoJo and switched to a different main character. Ichigo became more generic and one note than your standard Shonen character.
But then again who even reads Bleach for Ichigo
 

Kusagari

Member
I hope Mayuri shows up and just beats Yhwach with some of his patented bullshit.

Him pulling shit out of his ass has been the only entertaining thing about the manga anyway.
 

Lulubop

Member
Ah, excellent, I only have another 30 or so volumes to complete my Bleach manga collection then. :)

Yeah I know the series has gotten bad, but it's an entertaining level of bad at least. Still my overall favourite Manga but I feel Death Note and FullMetal Alchemist will beat it out eventually.

yikes
 
I hope Mayuri shows up and just beats Yhwach with some of his patented bullshit.

Him pulling shit out of his ass has been the only entertaining thing about the manga anyway.

Asspull in bleach is like One Piece haki. At some point everyone got access to it, some more than others, and have varying degrees of mastery over it.
 

Maximo

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Yeah and it just keeps getting more interesting.

One Piece has been dragging its feet and lost some of its quality after the time lapse, Fishmen Arc was the definition of average, Dressrosa was good but it wen't on for too long. The Animal Kingdom arc was shit and its just now maybe getting interesting again since Big Mom, the series has been constantly good and I expected it to get even better after the time lapse but its only gotten worse.
 

Numb

Member
I haven't read Bleach since the Fullbring arc and I took a look at the powers & transformations part of Ichigo's wiki page and good god

Consider before the fullbring arc with Aizen as your ending and save yourself alot of headache
 

aeolustl

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God, the only reason I'm still reading Bleach is that he said it was entering the last chapter... A few years ago.

I feels like HxH progress much further in 10 chapter than Bleach can in a year.

Please end it ASAP.
 

Khezu

Member
Consider before the fullbring arc with Aizen as your ending and save yourself alot of headache

Ya I really don't get why Kubo decided to continue the story.

That was probably a perfect end point for the series.

Maybe an epilogue of Ichigo living his life as a regular human until he got old and died, and then maybe a tease of him waking up in Soul Society with Rukia greeting him.
 

BatDan

Bane? Get them on board, I'll call it in.
Here's some videos that summarize the final arc of Bleach (they were made as the arc dragged along hence why there's four).

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

It makes one realize that nothing has fucking happened in all this time!
 
And here One Piece is just hitting the middle game.

You think so? I mean, yeah, we still have so much to do but ever since the timeskip it has felt endgame. I feel like we've got a few locations that we know about to travel too and then one or two final endgame islands than a wrap up. I hope I'm wrong and I want mystery again but it's really felt like it's all coming together now.
 

Numb

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God, the only reason I'm still reading Bleach is that he said it was entering the last chapter... A few years ago.
Same
This is the year it ends i tell myself everytime
But now i kept up too long to drop it. Not a healthy mindset but hey
Ya I really don't get why Kubo decided to continue the story.

That was probably a perfect end point for the series.

Maybe an epilogue of Ichigo living his life as a regular human until he got old and died, and then maybe a tease of him waking up in Soul Society with Rukia greeting him.

Fullbring arc was even worse than filler lvl stuff. Made no sense and everything got thrown out the window like it was there to pass time as he came up with a random ending
Still consider Aizen part the true ending tbh even if it ain't
 
Yeah and it just keeps getting more interesting.

But the formula is getting boring, , Luffy fights X amount bad guys on his way to captain of the opposing crew, gets there already beaten up, captain of the crew doesn't have a scratch on him, yet Luffy wins, Oda needs to change some stuff up....would love to see Luffy take a serious L, one that could make him think twice of about being the pirate king..
 

Kard8p3

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No, it's an edit of a page from a previous chapter. And even in "I don't give a fuck" mode, I don't think Kubo would randomly bring in a One Piece character.

oh ok, I don't read one piece so I had no idea what the fuck was going on.


Also re-reading Gin vs Ichigo's fight, dude is even more fucking OP than I thought. No wonder he died :(
 
But the formula is getting boring, , Luffy fights X amount bad guys on his way to captain of the opposing crew, gets there already beaten up, captain of the crew doesn't have a scratch on him, yet Luffy wins, Oda needs to change some stuff up....would love to see Luffy take a serious L, one that could make him think twice of about being the pirate king..
That's not true at all Doflimingo fight had a heavy assist for Luffy.
 
But the formula is getting boring, , Luffy fights X amount bad guys on his way to captain of the opposing crew, gets there already beaten up, captain of the crew doesn't have a scratch on him, yet Luffy wins, Oda needs to change some stuff up....would love to see Luffy take a serious L, one that could make him think twice of about being the pirate king..

He had that

 
You know, he could just end it after the 6 issues like there's supposed to be more. Then after weeks or months of drama, announce a crowd funded final volume.
 

vareon

Member
I remember the good old times when all cosplay events must have at least one of the Gotei 13 captain cosplayer. Fun times. I still follow Bleach but yeah, it's not good.
 

Mortemis

Banned
The last thing I remember before dropping this was that scientist dude fighting a big ass hand.

Does it get worse from there? Maybe I'll quickly read through the rest just to get closure
 

Kyou

Member
Here's some videos that summarize the final arc of Bleach (they were made as the arc dragged along hence why there's four).

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

It makes one realize that nothing has fucking happened in all this time!

Watched a bit of the first one and got reminded of all the stuff that was dropped

like Ichigo's kid sidekick. Quincy fusing with hollows(but wait, then hollows are poisonous to them, now hollows are not poisonous to them again). Rescuing Halibel that the quincies kidnapped because ????? and also I think they ended up rescuing her off camera and mentioning it once before never talking about it again.
 

sphagnum

Banned
I stopped reading/watching Bleach years ago but kept up with it by reading summaries. So disappointed how this series turned out since it started with such promise.
 
Weird, i'm feeling it's actually gonna speed up since the issue about Ippo's goal is finally taken on, we might see the end in a couple of years top. Might be wrong.
He still has to beat the Mexican champ and have a rematch with miyata, correct?

Throw in all the side character arcs and that's at least another 200-250 chapters. Since this is weekly that's at least another 4-5 years.
 

Azzanadra

Member
Man, I loved Bleach back in the day. Listening to that opening theme for the first season is quite the nostalgia bomb.

Of course back then I was young and impressionable, before I realized Bleach sucked.

But still, I stopped watching a little after Aizen's defeat, and I am kind of tempted to see this one through, once the Anime is complete that is.
 
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