Yeezus H. Christ
Banned
Literally the entire anime news network has confirmed it's ending in one chapter
This denial, Lord
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Tite Kubo's Bleach Manga Nears Ending
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Literally the entire anime news network has confirmed it's ending in one chapter
This denial, Lord
The Silver
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Yeah I know, I'm wondering why that is when it was such a big deal back then. Aizen described that shit as being on another dimension, like the difference between 2D and 3D, that's some serious stuff Kubo just decided to ignore.
Uh, next week is the last chapter.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
I'm guessing Shinji's bankai would have had some reverse power to deal with The Miracle. Beyond that .... yeah.
They are published by a different publisher, and also run in a much different magazine. But most of all, Ippo and CC ingrained themselves culturally in Japan so well how their manga do isn't reflective on the franchise as a whole. CC anime and film series alone is popular enough to go on for another decade, and the manga is famous enough people would know of it by growing up.
Bleach never managed to get itself on the same level, mainly because it created a jumping off point for casual fans to quit the series (the conclusion to Ichigo vs. Aizen) and the massive drop in quality in the last 2 arcs. People stopped reading the series because they seen a good place to stop, people who kept on reading seen that the series got worse and worse the longer it went, and eventually the reading demographics of the magazine just moved on.
In hindsight, one of two things should have happened to avoide Bleach's decline
1- Bleach ending on the Arrancar arc, Kubo moving on to create other manga, and come back to the series years later
Or
2- Bleach moving to a less magazine, preferably a monthly, so that Kubo could just continue forever on the series if he wanted to
Had either of those things happned, the series might have not floundered as much as it did.
You guys do realize they're coming back, right? Stop underestimating them plz.
Hard to come back if only one is alive.
You guys do realize they're coming back, right? Stop underestimating them plz.
Are you Kubo? I hope you know the next chapter is the last
I like how confident you are in this post, like you really know.
SigmasonicX
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People have brought up that it seemed set up for the Royal Guard to be guarding Yhwach after he became Soul King, forcing Ichigo and co. to fight them. I just realized, Orihime's power could have actually been useful against Ichibe's ability to rewrite things. I mean, Kubo probably wouldn't have done that if he couldn't get her to be useful during the Arrancar arc after building her up so much, but it could have been an interesting way to handle things.
Neoriceisgood
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You guys do realize they're coming back, right? Stop underestimating them plz.
You've been cancelled Kubo, just accept it already.
Yeezus H. Christ
Banned
The Royal Guard should have defeated the Elites after a long fight, but Yhwach absorbing the Soul King meant they had to fight for him instead.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
So how much are we betting that this ends with a flashforward scene?
Monochromaticx
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100%
that actually would have been cool.
In, like, broad strokes. I'm sure the actual chapters would have been too drawn out and just a series of killing blows exchanged back and forth for 14 chapters
ShockingAlberto
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They gave him four years and he made no progress. Maybe what they replace Bleach with will be an equally high failure, but it's better than letting the manga's corpse decompose in public display.
The Silver
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if they gave Kubo 4 more years he would've found a way to drag this shit out and not have answers for anything when time was up.
I honestly hope there isn't, this shit is so rushed something like that is SO out of place at this point.
Save it for some extra chapter you make for a Databook, Kubo.
Though he's such a hack I wouldn't be surprised if he did...
I'm giddy waiting for spoilers, I need to see this trainwreck.
Aaronrules380
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Pretty sure they're dead and souls which is why they ended up in soul society. Though I can sympathize since it's pretty hard to remember that soul society is actually supposed to be an afterlife
Permanently A
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They won't even show the fight. The whole chapter will be a flash forwards. Both Rukia and Orihime will be there and their relationship with Ichigo will be ambiguous.
Believe it.
I would have just assumed they'd go to hell or be reborn in soul society(which I thought is what everyone did??), though the rules of soul society have always been SUPER fast and loose
Sibersk Esto
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I'm pretty sure Ippo and Detective Conan have ingratiated themselves into pop culture far more than Bleach ever did.
Well it's not done by Kubo, so of course it's better.
Hero Prinny
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Ive noticed a lot of ppl online and my friends are pretty upset at JUMP for "rushing" bleach but honestly theres no one else to blame but the mangaka, he's the one that chose to kept dragging things out, i doubt they just called him last month and was like "yo bro you got 4 more weeks to wrap this up". He knew it was coming and instead of wrapping it up he looked for ways to make the final boss more op.
Bankai for the first time is still hype as fuck. I still turn on Bleach on Netflix to watch that scene.
Despite saying "Ichibei is still alive" I imagine the others could have been patched up. This IS Bleach, and you had Ichibei literally blow up and get put back together anyway.
We'll probably find out quickly next chapter or in a data book how they got restored.
lool
blankempathy
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The endings going to be Ichigo wakes up in a hospital thanks to a nasty case of bleach poisoning from coloring his hair and he dreamed up the whole thing.
The Silver
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The ending is gonna be every single Bleach character surrounding Ichigo and saying congratulations over and over with a giant Aizen head in the background.
Crimson_Echidna
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When it comes to these particular shonen series, their ability to continue to remain in circulation is dependent on both the actual marketability of the series and the author's continued interest in keeping it going. It's the same way a lot of American Cartoons that got cut short were depended on Toy Sales to stay on the air.
Not only do both of those series sell well, but they also continue to get anime adaptations and merchandising.
Bleach meanwhile has had it's anime cancelled and continues to decline in sales, so that's why Shonen Jump is pulling the plug of the series. Had Bleach continued to be more successful, then yeah, Kubo probably would have been given free reign to end the series completely on his terms (like Kishimoto and Toriyama got to do) but its just not the case.
They're don't run in wsj either
Crimson_Echidna
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I also have to ask too, not to kick the dog while it's down, but just how popular is Bleach in the west still? I've been seeing it brought up how they could make a "Bleach Final Act" for the American fans, but from what I've seen Bleach has been downtrending here just as much.
Even pulling into account the overall decline of manga sales, Bleach still has tanked there big time as well.
Like, it's still notable, but notable in the sense that it's fans read the illegal scanlations online to keep up with it.
Even pulling into account the overall decline of manga sales, Bleach still has tanked there big time as well.
Like, it's still notable, but notable in the sense that it's fans read the illegal scanlations online to keep up with it.
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
I also have to ask too, not to kick the dog while it's down, but just how popular is Bleach in the west still? I've been seeing it brought up how they could make a "Bleach Final Act" for the American fans, but from what I've seen Bleach has been downtrending here just as much.
Even pulling into account the overall decline of manga sales, Bleach still has tanked there big time as well.
Like, it's still notable, but notable in the sense that it's fans read the illegal scanlations online to keep up with it.
Buying physical managa is rather annoyign since it takes up so much room. I wonder if digital sales are cutting into those numbers?
Monochromaticx
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This final arc in Bleach has been more than two years longer than the absolute longest arc in all of One Piece.
Think about that shit.
This reminds me, earlier today I was at my library and started my plan of binge-reading-all-of-Bleach by putting out holds on every volume (I like to binge read and I need something new right now. Well, "new").
As I reached the mid 20s, I paused and boggled when I realized that it was the Hueco Mundo arc already. I could've sworn that was later than the damn 20s. Good lord I didn't realize how much the later arcs went on for.
onepiecefan
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Surely the last chapter will be extended or something lol, even that's not enough to make it a satisfactory ending but still.
SneakersSO
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If Kubo ends it with Ichigo & company LOSING, omg, that would be the GREATEST. Its honestly the only way I can think of where Bleach goes out on a note of significance of some form.
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