BassForever
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Chad and Orihime? They developed shonen powers the former getting fights he mostly lost and the latter being reduced to healer.
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Tite Kubo's Bleach Manga Nears Ending
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Chad and Orihime? They developed shonen powers the former getting fights he mostly lost and the latter being reduced to healer.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
I hope he never makes another manga.
Bleach didn't deserve an ending saga, it should have just been cancelled. Beyond gutter trash.
Bleach didn't deserve an ending saga, it should have just been cancelled. Beyond gutter trash.
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
Why would you want that? Bleach filler is usually more entertaining than the actual manga content.
If the demand is there, though, there will probably be an adaptation a la Inuyasha: The Final Act.
Vigilant Walrus
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Both Kubo and Kishimoto made great characters that were cool. But they didn't know how to wrestle with so many of them at once, nor did they know where to take them.
Bleach had so many cool characters. I loved so many of the captains and vice captains. And the whole set up was awesome. Some of them you didn't even realize what their bankai was. That was really, really cool.
Bleach Anime was so fucking amazing up until he saves Rukia. It should have ended there, and Bleach would have been on all the anime recommendation lists. Everything wad derivitive and repeats after that.
Bleach had so many cool characters. I loved so many of the captains and vice captains. And the whole set up was awesome. Some of them you didn't even realize what their bankai was. That was really, really cool.
Bleach Anime was so fucking amazing up until he saves Rukia. It should have ended there, and Bleach would have been on all the anime recommendation lists. Everything wad derivitive and repeats after that.
Nemesis121
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It was supposed to end there, Kubo had only written to that point, but the manga popularity was through the roof and he had the change things to continue the series, it's why the next arc is pure dog shit..
Ryouji Gunblade
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Next arc Ichigo is going to be part-mermaid or something.
Chuck Norris
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Can't even remember what happened when I stopped reading so ¯\_(ツ
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_/¯Chie Satonaka
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I tried to start reading the manga since the animu ended.
It's just not the same. At least I could overlook how stupid it was with the cool fights when I was watching it.
It's just not the same. At least I could overlook how stupid it was with the cool fights when I was watching it.
ArgyleReptile
Banned
So it's finally nearing it's end. I give it 100 more chapters. Seems like a place Kubo would start his countdown. Plus, it gives him enough leeway to close off any loose ends, Bankai Reveals, Flashbacks, etc.
I'm very curious as to how he's going to give the rest of the cast something to do with the end of this arc. Is it just going to be everyone getting a chapter to themself trying to fight Ywach while Ichigo and Uryu get their shit together? Or is he going to create faceless monsters that'll function as punching bags for the rest of the characters to show off against?
I'm very curious as to how he's going to give the rest of the cast something to do with the end of this arc. Is it just going to be everyone getting a chapter to themself trying to fight Ywach while Ichigo and Uryu get their shit together? Or is he going to create faceless monsters that'll function as punching bags for the rest of the characters to show off against?
BudokaiMR2
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I gave up on Bleach early after the Soul Society arc ended without ever actually dealing with any of the elements brought up over the entire arc.
What a complete waste of a great concept.
What a complete waste of a great concept.
How About No
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Lol I gave up when I realized it was just gonna be a string of DBZ power-level battles. Pretty damn early on.
I really liked the pre-Soul Society parts but after that MEEHHHHHHH
So nothing changed since I dropped it. Dammnnnnnn
Hmm...what are the big three in WSJ currently? It used to be One Piece-Bleach-Naruto.
He should reboot or revive Zombie Powder.
He should reboot or revive Zombie Powder.
I can't believe you just summarized more than 200 Chapters worth of Bleach in so few words.
One Piece, Boku no Hero Academia, Haikyuu and Black Clover are the Series you constantly see at the top in WSJ currently.
Darryl M R
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I stopped reading Bleach around 2011. It just got too complicated and drawn out for me.
I see. Not interested in sports series and reading Black Clover synopsis make it sounds like Boku no Hero Academia in fantasy setting.
Oh it gets so much better than that.
His mother is a quincy who was bitten by a hollow
It's way past the halfway point now, but i'd say it's still it's got another 10 years before it ends.
Gentleman Jack
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Now you done it, Ichigo gonna have a son, name him something stupid, then we gonna get a movie and a spinoff manga about his goddamn son and all his friends' kids like it's Hogwarts and time is a flat circle.
Hopefully Kubo doesn't step on that mine.
You know, thinking it carefully, I will really miss Kubo plotkais after Bleach ends. Despite everything, it was kinda amusing seeing what kind of BS Kubo would bring to the table.
Professor Renegade
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Good. I stopped reading and watching bleach during the Fake Karakura Town arc, glad to see this beast finally being put to rest.
Gentleman Jack
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He might have lost his touch there. The bad guys now literally have powers like "I'm huge and shiny!" and "I'm Rubber You're Glue" and "I'M A GIANT HAND" and jesus christ end it...
Yeah, these quincies are boring or straight disgusting like Pepe. Kubo did it best with Aizen and Shuu-chan.
ElBoxyBrown
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Maybe Kubo's next manga should be a slice of life. I think he makes cool youthful characters that can act down to earth without having it be cheesy. He just can't grasp the rules on how to make a successful Shonen.
The big three are no more. It's just the big One (Piece) now. "The big three" was mostly a Western thing anyway, since Bleach was never comparable in Japan.
KenzinFive
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Precisely. If you look at the sale of manga volumes, One Piece is so far ahead of every other manga ever that it's not even fair.
I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to that Naruto sequel series since it's a new writer with Kishimoto supervising. Bleach is god-awful though. It's incredibly clear that Kubo ran out of ideas years ago and can't develop his characters any further, so he forgets about them or adds some crazy BS to their story.
I swear that Kubo introduced like 20 new characters that I could not give a single solitary shit about in the final arc. The pacing per chapter is atrocious, and the final side-fight against this giant Quincy or whatever felt like it lasted a year. A character would beat him and he'd just go "Actually, I'm not dead because of XY&Z" literally every other chapter. I think it just ended so Kubo could focus on Ichigo's final fight.
Lie - at its short-lived height, Bleach was right there with Naruto & One Piece in terms of weekly rankings. They were always occupying the top 3 spots and the only time one didn't was when one of them didn't have a chapter or something. This was more than 10 years ago, though.
In terms of volume sales, Bleach was also right there with Naruto & OP in the very beginning of the millennium. It was such that the three of those were far and away more popular than everything else.
Naruto has ended but kept its legs (sales/popularity wise, not quality) all the way to the end.
One Piece simply skyrocketed beyond what either Naruto or Bleach could have ever hoped.
Bleach fell off. But let's not act like it was never hugely popular in Japan just because it became really big in the West along with Naruto and fell off in Japan recently.
I mean technically Bleach never surpassed HxH in Japan even at its peak.
I dunno about never peroid, but I hope he isn't given free reign to jump back in with something new and not have to go through the hoops other people have to go through.
At the least, the really shitty thing about him getting this much slack from Shonen Jump (which is at least understandable in and of itself) in being able to flounder around in the bottom ranks for so long is that you can't help but wonder how many promising series were passed up because Bleach has been kept around and taking up space in the magazine.
If Togashi had the stamina of Oda, HxH may have rivaled OP.
But alas. Fuck Hiatus X Hiatus.
WrenchNinja
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i'd be pretty bummed out if they ended it. i mean i don't read it anymore, but i always look forward to you guys ragging on it on the jumpcast
Pretty much
Remember back in the day when people hated on the Bounto arc in the anime?
Clearly kubo didn't!
Jesus is the current arc dumb. You can't really feel any tension or anything if everyone's powers is 150% bullshit.
it's like medaka box but missing the execution, and isn't really self aware about anything.
Clearly kubo didn't!
Jesus is the current arc dumb. You can't really feel any tension or anything if everyone's powers is 150% bullshit.
it's like medaka box but missing the execution, and isn't really self aware about anything.
Just_myles
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Yes ... put me out of my misery.
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Just give me IchiRuki before over, thx
Unspeakable Evil
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It's on a horrible track so far, there is literally no way for the ending to be satisfying. At this point I have to rest my hopes on
Unlike the snark posted on the first page, you can actually tell that Kubo is done with Bleach. There's no logical way for a resolution to happen within 50 Kubo chapters, and there won't be 50 chapters titled "The End." So we're going to get a would-be-funny-if-it-wasn't-such-a-shame copout of an ending.
Actually, going back to my first spoilered statement,
. And I'd be okay with that, considering the alternatives.
Aizen being the last man smirking.
Unlike the snark posted on the first page, you can actually tell that Kubo is done with Bleach. There's no logical way for a resolution to happen within 50 Kubo chapters, and there won't be 50 chapters titled "The End." So we're going to get a would-be-funny-if-it-wasn't-such-a-shame copout of an ending.
Actually, going back to my first spoilered statement,
easy way out is Yhwach has been under Aizen's illusion all along and he killed all his subordinates for nothing, and he's trapping himself in an eternal void hahaha smirk the end.
MHWilliams
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The worse part is most recent fights go like this:
Bad Guy: Hi
Good Guy powers up. Does nothing.
Bad Guy powers up, whups good guy.
Option A: Good guy is sad. Reveals all-new power-up!
Option B: Other random character appears! Reveals all-new power-up!
Bad Guy: WHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA? *dead*
Like 10 chapters at a time, over and over again.
He seems to be telegraphing Orihime rather hard.
Spiritwalker
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Bleach was a huge part of my mid/late teens and it'll always have a special place in my heart. <3 It's a strange feeling, knowing that my weekly fix will soon be gone.
Post SS arc Bleach may not have been great, but there were still plenty of memorable moments and fights to be had. I also think the Pendulum arc is one of the best. Hopefully Kubo makes something new before too long.
Post SS arc Bleach may not have been great, but there were still plenty of memorable moments and fights to be had. I also think the Pendulum arc is one of the best. Hopefully Kubo makes something new before too long.
LordGorchnik
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I remember when this manga first started. I thought it was fantastic.
Then I couldn't even finish the SS arc and the amount of bullshit that was Aizen and his godly hypno-powers. I think the last chapter I read was where he whooped squad 10's captain.
Just looking at a few choice posts in this thread it looks like I dodged a serious shounen bullet.
Then I couldn't even finish the SS arc and the amount of bullshit that was Aizen and his godly hypno-powers. I think the last chapter I read was where he whooped squad 10's captain.
Just looking at a few choice posts in this thread it looks like I dodged a serious shounen bullet.
Bleach was a huge part of my mid/late teens and it'll always have a special place in my heart. <3 It's a strange feeling, knowing that my weekly fix will soon be gone.
Post SS arc Bleach may not have been great, but there were still plenty of memorable moments and fights to be had. I also think the Pendulum arc is one of the best. Hopefully Kubo makes something new before too long.
The art, too, is fantastic. I think Kubo just fell out of love with his work. I too think his next work will be better.
That's like every Bleach fight since the Arrancar arc.
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IchiRuki confirmed then, sweet
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