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[Kusagari]

Captain Commander should be on this list, as well. Blew his whole load (Bankai) on a doppelganger that only copied Juha Bach's likeness, and not his reiatsu. And this is coming off Yamamoto figuring out the secret to Complete Hypnosis by actually laying his hand on Aizen's sword. Dude has millennia of battle experience, but gets fooled by a damn copycat that couldn't even mimic the power level of a man who he fought with in the past. Then he gets completely overpowered and peaced out in a way ill-fitting of someone of his stature. I'm GLAD WSJ put the screws to this hack. Next Thursday can't come soon enough. Good riddance.

To be fair, Yamamoto being a dumbass is one of the only things Kubo was consistent with.

 

[Kieli]

he should have ended it when ichigo beat Aizen and the espada, i think that was the high point for me personally (not the Aizen butterfly form tho, that was sptuid)

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Captain Commander should be on this list, as well. Blew his whole load (Bankai) on a doppelganger that only copied Juha Bach's likeness, and not his reiatsu. And this is coming off Yamamoto figuring out the secret to Complete Hypnosis by actually laying his hand on Aizen's sword. Dude has millennia of battle experience, but gets fooled by a damn copycat that couldn't even mimic the power level of a man who he fought with in the past. Then he gets completely overpowered and peaced out in a way ill-fitting of someone of his stature. I'm GLAD WSJ put the screws to this hack. Next Thursday can't come soon enough. Good riddance.

Fffuck I forgot about Lloyd Royd.

 

[Laz-E-Boy]

The way Doflamingo fought, and his ridiculous durability, makes me worried none of the fights with the big bads will be interesting. Doffy is suppose to be a trickster, especially compared to all the other main villains.

True. What Doflamingo wound up doing in his fight wasn't really what I envisioned. I was also disappointed that COC was more or less meaningless. I'm still waiting to see if COC actually has any real purpose in fights other than making fodder fall unconscious. If that's all it winds up doing that really sucks.

 

[Akuun]

Captain Commander should be on this list, as well. Blew his whole load (Bankai) on a doppelganger that only copied Juha Bach's likeness, and not his reiatsu. And this is coming off Yamamoto figuring out the secret to Complete Hypnosis by actually laying his hand on Aizen's sword. Dude has millennia of battle experience, but gets fooled by a damn copycat that couldn't even mimic the power level of a man who he fought with in the past. Then he gets completely overpowered and peaced out in a way ill-fitting of someone of his stature. I'm GLAD WSJ put the screws to this hack. Next Thursday can't come soon enough. Good riddance.

That's still the biggest bullshit asspull in the entire series. The author actually unironically did the whole "ha ha! You didn't kill me! I just happened to have a perfect twin that that was never mentioned at all up until now, but was raised to be exactly like me in every way! HE was the one that you killed, not me!! Gotcha!" thing.

 

[The Maverick]

This manga is so bad. I'm actually laughing at how long I've wasted reading this trash.

 

[MCD]

I'm just glad that I saw Urahara's Bankai before this ended. He was the reason I loved Bleach. Aizen too.

 

[Kusagari]

Why did none of the Quincies ever use their reiatsu absorbing hax like Kirge did in the fight with Ichigo at the beginning of this arc?

That shit was overpowered as hell and then never comes up again.

 

[FStubbs]

How come Aizen failed? He trolled not only the shinigamis but the readers too.

Despite all the flaws he has, Kubo excels at writing troll characters. Aizen and Shuu-chan trolling were superb.

Yhwach had been trolling Ichigo (and the readers) since before Ichigo went to Soul Society.

"Zangetsu".

 

[Ushay]

This manga is so bad. I'm actually laughing at how long I've wasted reading this trash.

My feelings exaclty, the more I read the more I thought 'this is the biggest pile of garbage I've ever read'

I stopped over a year ago, still have a peek every now and then with a slightest ray hope it may become coherent again.

 

[Strimei]

I forgot she even existed lol. I actually meant this kid.

Ryunosuke. And it wasn't his sister. Apparently she was just his partner. I'm not surprised nobody remembers them.

They showed up at the start of the final arc, right? In Ichigo's room, I think?

What the hell happened to them?

Also speaking of wasted characters, Tatsuki and the other humans who didn't develop anything. What a pity.

Anyway, I'm thinking of putting holds out on all of Bleach through my library (they have it all, up to the latest anyway) and just binging on it for...some reason.

 

[Yeezus H. Christ]

I'm just glad that I saw Urahara's Bankai before this ended. He was the reason I loved Bleach. Aizen too.

His Bankai was so lame, though.

 

[Jonnax]

I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing photos/videos of people setting fire to their collection of Bleach manga after next week's chapter.

 

[blankempathy]

Bleach fights remind of being a kid and arguing about how you didn't get hit because i used a force field and some other nonsense.

 

[fertygo]

How you made 685 chapter and resolve nothing lol

 

[MCD]

His Bankai was so lame, though.

A bit, yeah. But at least he finished the fight.

 

[Unspeakable Evil]

A bit, yeah. But at least he finished the fight.

He actually didn't

 

[What did he mean by this?]

Bleach fights remind of being a kid and arguing about how you didn't get hit because i used a force field and some other nonsense.

*teleports behind you*

 

[sunshine and gasoline]

I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing photos/videos of people setting fire to their collection of Bleach manga after next week's chapter.

Very likely after these rushed/terrible last few chapters. At the very least, Kubo could have given us a fight scene as good as Ichigo vs Byakuya. :/

 

[MrSaturn99]

To be fair, Yamamoto being a dumbass is one of the only things Kubo was consistent with.

lmaoooooooo

yeah, dude was a tool from the beginning

The only character Kubo did right by in the entire series is Mayuri, which is hilarious.

I'm torn between how amusing he is as a character and how he, uh, always gets away with doing horrific shit.

Mayuri: Yeah, I killed those peasants.
Yamamoto: Well, okay, but you should've asked me first.

The end of Pain invading Konoha was FAAAR worse than anything Bleach ever did, but I still think Naruto was for the most part better than Bleach even though I felt Naruto's last arc was a boring turd of an arc.

LOL, yeah, forgot about that. That all kinds of awful.

I gotta be honest...I don't have the confidence that the alluded to World War arc in One Piece will be that good. Marineford was good but it had a lot of issues battle scene wise, and if Dressrosa acts as a prelude to what we can expect for the world war I'm pretty worried. I'm trying to convince myself that I wasn't that enthused with Dressrosa because, outside of Doflamingo and Fujitora, I didn't really give a shit about the antagonists due to their lack of importance to the plot but I dunno.

Plus that war is gonna be MASSIVE, probably will have a larger cast of characters than Naruto/Bleach combined. I'm not sure Oda will be able to handle such a large number of characters in a satisfying way. I hope he can.

I feel like Marineford's flaws are more apparent in hindsight with all the new additions to battle lore via Haki. For instance, the utter lack of Armament Haki when you have a whole horde of New World pirates duking it out is rather jarring.

I think he can pull it off; really looking forward to what the context will be.

 

[Frozenprince]

Espada had good build up , they had some development as individual characters, Grimmjow and Ulq were solid rivals for Ichigo for a time and they felt like actual threats up until they jobbed.

and I already said the only thing saving Xcution for me was Shima's trolling which I found hilarious.

I disagree on Grimmjow, he never jobbed, dude was a monster and that fight, despite my dislike of the Arrancar, was easily easily easily the best in the series. The fight was hyped up and delivered in spades.

Having the Ulqi fight RIGHT afterwords was a mistake, IMO. It removed all tension and it really wasn't a good fight.

Plus Segunda Etapa was a concept that Arrancar needed to have universally and from the beginning, not just with one guy.

 

[Deleted member 13876]

That's where I started feeling down about Bleach. The beginning felt fresh with side characters getting powers, Rukia having a neat dynamic with Ichigo, the town revealing more mysteries, and a cool looking style all around. I loved Chad and appreciated having a character with Hispanic heritage in a big shonen manga.

Then Soul Society happened and it became more of a generic shonen to me.

Also Chad never did anything of real importance. The same could be said of probably 80% of the characters, but he was one of the first supporting characters introduced!

Chad could have been really cool. I loved how it seemed he'd keep getting cool upgrades and his powers had a mysterious origin, but then none of that went anywhere.

 

[Frozenprince]

Chad's powers were really cool too, his arms being effectively a sword and shield.

Shame he had exactly... one solo fight.

 

[The Silver]

I disagree on Grimmjow, he never jobbed, dude was a monster and that fight, despite my dislike of the Arrancar, was easily easily easily the best in the series. The fight was hyped up and delivered in spades.

Having the Ulqi fight RIGHT afterwords was a mistake, IMO. It removed all tension and it really wasn't a good fight.

Plus Segunda Etapa was a concept that Arrancar needed to have universally and from the beginning, not just with one guy.

that was worded weirdly, I wasn't only talking about Grim and Ulq, I was referring to all of them jobbing to the captains.

And I found the 2nd Grimmjow fight to be pretty crap, though I only really remember the anime version.

 

[BatDan]

I feel like Marineford's flaws are more apparent in hindsight with all the new additions to battle lore via Haki. For instance, the utter lack of Armament Haki when you have a whole horde of New World pirates duking it out is rather jarring.

I think he can pull it off; really looking forward to what the context will be.

Actually, Armament Haki was used. At one point, Marco and Vista slash at Sakazuki, and he comments on their Haki.

Plus, Oda has this weird thing where he doesn't make things apparent until he fully introduces them. Like when Sentomaru was pushing Luffy all over the place and actually hurt him, it's clear that was meant to be Haki but his fists didn't darken. When Haki got formally introduced, everyone started sporting black fists or swords or whatever. So it's likely everyone was using Haki, it's just that Oda didn't draw it.

It's the same with Doflamingo's strings.

 

[What did he mean by this?]

I'm praying for epilogue GrimxIchi but RenjixIchi seems likely judging by that riveting love confession before the final battle.

 

[IchigoSharingan]

The recent arc, and even the Fullbringer arc, was better than 90% of the Hueco Mundo and all of the Aizen war mess (except for the flashbacks I guess). It's poorly put together and had its ending taken away from it (which isn't anything unique to this arc), but it managed to a whole lot more interesting simply from a battle shonen perspective (and a Kubo trolling perspective - which is what makes Bleach stand out) and Quincy were just better enemies. I'd argue Naruto's final arc was worse too.

 

[MrSaturn99]

Actually, Armament Haki was used. At one point, Marco and Vista slash at Sakazuki, and he comments on their Haki.

Plus, Oda has this weird thing where he doesn't make things apparent until he fully introduces them. Like when Sentomaru was pushing Luffy all over the place and actually hurt him, it's clear that was meant to be Haki but his fists didn't darken. When Haki got formally introduced, everyone started sporting black fists or swords or whatever. So it's likely everyone was using Haki, it's just that Oda didn't draw it.

It's the same with Doflamingo's strings.

Yeah, it's more like a weird visual inconsistency. Oh well.

 

[Frozenprince]

I'm praying for epilogue GrimxIchi but RenjixIchi seems likely judging by that riveting love confession before the final battle.

If Kubo just came out at like the last 5 pages and just made Ichigo gay.

I'd love that ending unironically forever.

 

[Kuro]

I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing photos/videos of people setting fire to their collection of Bleach manga after next week's chapter.

I'm not that dumb, i'll just sell my bleach collection

If Kubo just came out at like the last 5 pages and just made Ichigo gay.

I'd love that ending unironically forever.

It would explain so much

 

[Kuro]

.

 

[blankempathy]

*teleports behind you*

My force field interrupts teleportation.

If Kubo just came out at like the last 5 pages and just made Ichigo gay.

I'd love that ending unironically forever.

Ichigo and company walk off towards the sunset on their way home and Chad and Ichigo hold hands in the last panel.

 

[smurfx]

so what other manga is next on the chopping block? is fairy tail doing good? i stopped reading that shit manga last year.

 

[Strimei]

so what other manga is next on the chopping block? is fairy tail doing good? i stopped reading that shit manga last year.

I recall hearing rumbles of some big announcement, but not sure if it ended up being just a minor thing or something.

 

[qcf x2]

Nah Uryu just did what Uryu did which was be a boss about it. He never forgave Mayuri but he knew could not get away with killing him after SS. Instead Uryu is a reminder that Mayuri lost to him a Quincy boy who he looked down on.

Seriously Uryu is the best character in Bleach he true main character.

Uryu will end up with Orihime who is tired of Ichigo ignoring her, CONFIRMED.

Captain Commander should be on this list, as well. Blew his whole load (Bankai) on a doppelganger that only copied Juha Bach's likeness, and not his reiatsu. And this is coming off Yamamoto figuring out the secret to Complete Hypnosis by actually laying his hand on Aizen's sword. Dude has millennia of battle experience, but gets fooled by a damn copycat that couldn't even mimic the power level of a man who he fought with in the past. Then he gets completely overpowered and peaced out in a way ill-fitting of someone of his stature. I'm GLAD WSJ put the screws to this hack. Next Thursday can't come soon enough. Good riddance.

To be fair, Yamamoto being a dumbass is one of the only things Kubo was consistent with.

Lol, this is a good point. If we go back further, Aizen basically set him up to fight a literally retarded arrancar to the death, and then Aizen basically fucked with him and got him to cut off his own arm. Old man probably didn't regrow it because life just wasn't worth living after such disgrace. He also made decisions indicative of creeping senility throughout the series. Aizen was trying to do him a favor and push him into retirement.

The best thing about the qunicies is the insane corner Kubo Tite painted himself in.

The power creep just got so absurd that the final villains could only be killed by a deus ex machina.

At the beginning the no name quincies were wrecking SS, including vice captains who had bankai. Remember Kirge? Dude seemed like he was unfairly strong but I don't even think he was lettered.

 

[The Silver]

You know with Kubo knowing the axe is coming down on him you'd think he'd at least try to pack the last few chapters in with as much content as possible, make it as dense as a Hunter x Hunter chapter, instead he's going along at his regular normal pace.

 

[Lulubop]

Design wise, Yamamoto is one of my favorite strong old guys. But man, he's def no Netero.

 

[Austriacus]

so what other manga is next on the chopping block? is fairy tail doing good? i stopped reading that shit manga last year.

Fairy tail is like the 2nd best selling series of weekly shoune magazine and constantly gets color covers and places in the top spots in popularity rankings.

Its not going anywhere, also series in Weekly shounen magazine dont get cancelled the same way jump does, they tend to stick for a long time even when doing badly and that attitude is present in most of kodansha magazines.

 

[Serrato]

Design wise, Yamamoto is one of my favorite strong old guys. But man, he's def no Netero.

He had just the best Bankai in my opinion.

That's why I was so mad that not only he did nothing with it, but he was killed right after.


Glad I can finally let go... One more week. Then no more bleach ever again.

 

[Yeezus H. Christ]

At the beginning the no name quincies were wrecking SS, including vice captains who had bankai. Remember Kirge? Dude seemed like he was unfairly strong but I don't even think he was lettered.

Kirge was lettered.

 

[Strimei]

Kirge was lettered.

Yup, He was J, the Jail.

We never did find out what K (BG9) and N (Robert Accutrone, the older dude with glasses that got turned into a skeleton by Yhwach) stood for.

 

[JeremyEtcetera]

If Kubo just came out at like the last 5 pages and just made Ichigo gay.

I'd love that ending unironically forever.

Although funny, that sounds badly abrupt with no build up to it at all...

...just like The Legend of Korra's ending.

 

[Yeezus H. Christ]

Yup, He was J, the Jail.

We never did find out what K (BG9) and N (Robert Accutrone, the older dude with glasses that got turned into a skeleton by Yhwach) stood for.

We didn't find out what that Wolverine Asian dude did, either.

 

[The Silver]

Old Man Genocide has some of my favorite fire techniques in fiction.

It's such simple stuff too, freaking invisible sun armor, sword is so hot it doesn't even burn but completely obliterates. Then he starts raising the ashes of the dead into his hellspawn army, should've busted out a dragon of the darkness flame while he was at it. Kubo was at his peak when he drew that fight.

He was only missing a technique based on a phoenix, when Yhwach killed him so easily his last technique could've activated, a phoenix comes down and turns his body into a living flame god. It would only last for a short while but he could've had a real fight with real Yhwach before he burns out.

 

[Yeezus H. Christ]

Yama's Bankai was wasted on one fight. Whereas we get to see Hitsugaya's shitty fucking Bankai over and over, Jesus.

 

[Slayer-33]

Yama's Bankai was wasted on one fight. Whereas we get to see Hitsugaya's shitty fucking Bankai over and over, Jesus.

LOL

 

[Strimei]

We didn't find out what that Wolverine Asian dude did, either.

Oh yes, forgot him (not too hard to do so, what with how bloody many of the quincies there are)

Old Man Genocide has some of my favorite fire techniques in fiction.

It's such simple stuff too, freaking invisible sun armor, sword is so hot it doesn't even burn but completely obliterates. Then he starts raising the ashes of the dead into his hellspawn army, should've busted out a dragon of the darkness flame while he was at it. Kubo was at his peak when he drew that fight.

He was only missing a technique based on a phoenix, when Yhwach killed him so easily his last technique could've activated, a phoenix comes down and turns his body into a living flame god. It would only last for a short while but he could've had a real fight with real Yhwach before he burns out.

Ugh, all this talk about his fight reminds me of that absolutely dumb Loyd Lloyd and Royd Lloyd stuff.

 

[Serrato]

What's that Loyd Lloyd and Royd Lloyd stuff?

 

[Lulubop]

Old Man Genocide has some of my favorite fire techniques in fiction.

It's such simple stuff too, freaking invisible sun armor, sword is so hot it doesn't even burn but completely obliterates. Then he starts raising the ashes of the dead into his hellspawn army, should've busted out a dragon of the darkness flame while he was at it. Kubo was at his peak when he drew that fight.

He was only missing a technique based on a phoenix, when Yhwach killed him so easily his last technique could've activated, a phoenix comes down and turns his body into a living flame god. It would only last for a short while but he could've had a real fight with real Yhwach before he burns out.

Exactly, always loved his posture and demeanor as well.

Another one of my favorite character was Komamura, because he wasted no time and was always ready to go HAM. Too bad he was another jobber. I was so hype for him vs Tousen, I thought it'd be an epic and personal fight.... lol. At least he had his moment, sorta.

 

[Strimei]

What's that Loyd Lloyd and Royd Lloyd stuff?

A set of twin quincies in the Sternritter. They look kinda nondescript and can, as memory serves, basically take on the form of someone else.

One of them (Royd, I think) took on the form of Yhwach and was the one that Yamamoto fought and pretty much killed, only for the real Yhwach to come out and go "lol jokes on you."