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Tite Kubo's Bleach Manga Nears Ending

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Ray Down

Banned
The Captain Positions:
1 Kyoraku
2 Soi fon
3 Rose
4 Isane
5 Shniji
6 Byakuya
7 Iba
8 Lisa/Nanao
9 Kensei
10 Hitsugaya
11 Kenpachi
12 Mayuri
13 Rukia
 
I knew it. Even with the drop in sales Bleach still sold way too much volumes for them to shelve the series. They should try DBZ Kaing it in manga form.
 
I knew it. Even with the drop in sales Bleach still sold way too much volumes for them to shelve the series. They should try DBZ Kaing it in manga form.

your jumping the gun here

I doubt anything major will be the announcement

it could be a Kubo interview, a databook, a play, mangaka just drawing Ichigo in different ways
 

Kusagari

Member
Wasn't that part of his whole power-up where he turned human? Sacrifice his heart, get humanized for a short time, then burn out and die?

I never thought dying factored into it. I just figured he lost all human qualities and turned into a normal wolf after it.
 

cdyhybrid

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The Captain Positions:
1 Kyoraku
2 Soi fon
3 Rose
4 Isane
5 Shniji
6 Byakuya
7 Iba
8 Lisa/Nanao
9 Kensei
10 Hitsugaya
11 Kenpachi
12 Mayuri
13 Rukia
I approve.

Whatever happened to
Love
?

Hope we get to see them all assembled in a spread.
 
I've been so out of Bleach ever since Unohana was such a let down. I found it became too rushed and silly for my liking but.... wow it is ending... finally. I know Rukia has
bankai
but wow... it was never really shown much.
 
This thread made me really interested in Bleach so after reading some lore on the wiki I decided to buy and read the first volume. I'm not really seeing what made people like this so much in the first place. The dialogue is really bad and too dependent on unfunny, screaming anime heads. And the fights are just Ichigo swinging his sword around randomly and destroying everything (when did he learn how to fight anyway?). The ghost stuff is boring. Naruto, Toriko, and Dragonball had much better starts that hooked me immediately.
 

Freshmaker

I am Korean.
This thread made me really interested in Bleach so after reading some lore on the wiki I decided to buy and read the first volume. I'm not really seeing what made people like this so much in the first place. The dialogue is really bad and too dependent on unfunny, screaming anime heads. And the fights are just Ichigo swinging his sword around randomly and destroying everything (when did he learn how to fight anyway?). The ghost stuff is boring. Naruto, Toriko, and Dragonball had much better starts that hooked me immediately.

I got interested in the mystery behind why he was supposed to be so broken.

Then Kubo forgot he was supposed to be broken. Which made the mystery less compelling.
 
Wait so Kensei and Rose were okay just like Hitsugaya.

And they couldn't, you know go and help out because?

Oh whatever this shit's almost over anyway.

Still LOL at Renji being like, objectively stronger than Rukia and still getting passed over, Komamura dying for nothing off-screen is such a Kubo thing "Oh hey he learned this awesome power and was the first to challenge Ywhach and died instantly".

Talk about a fizzle.
 

cdyhybrid

Member
Wait so Kensei and Rose were okay just like Hitsugia.

And they couldn't, you know go and help out because?

Oh whatever this shit's almost over anyway.

Still LOL at Renji being like, objectively stronger than Rukia and still getting passed over, Komamura dying for nothing off-screen is such a Kubo thing "Oh hey he learned this awesome power and was the first to challenge Ywhach and died instantly".

Talk about a fizzle.

SS recognized that Renji is lame as hell (just like us) and decided to promote Rukia instead.
 
I got interested in the mystery behind why he was supposed to be so broken.

Then Kubo forgot he was supposed to be broken. Which made the mystery less compelling.

It's one of those things where you just kinda had to be there when it was new and mysterious. Ichigo was cool back then because he was fucked up and violent and strangely proficient at the whole "shinigami" thing. There was mystery and plot potential and the scooby doo/ghostbusters with Kubo's stylistic overtones too it was all super cool back when it was new and weird.

Then it basically just turned into some weird amalgam of Naruto (because everybody who means anything comes from the best bloodlines) and DBZ (because power creep from jump). It's less interesting going back or looking at it now that it's a completed package.

But it was awesome when it was simple.
 

Linkark07

Banned
Good job Kubo, adding new bankais not revealed to the list: Lissa and Isane.

Edit: Iba too. Why I always forget him, even having more panels this chapter.
 
Good job Kubo, adding new bankais not revealed to the list: Lissa and Isane.

Edit: Iba too. Why I always forget him, even having more panels this chapter.

Isane being a Captain is the lamest of lame. Same with Iba. There had to be more deserving candidates.

Ukitake dying sucks as well. They just said he was knocked out last time we saw.
 

Stat Flow

He gonna cry in the car
Okay, based on the random ending to 685...

I'm going with:

45% Bleach Related Post-Ending Project (big artbook, movie, character book, poems, etc.)
30% Bleach Part 2/Sequel
15% new Kubo Project
10% new anime
 

Maddocks

Member
Took Aizen 10 years, but the future soul king is finally back and he will then be the one to finally get what he always wanted. He will be the man at the very top, keeping everything together and he will be the one who will have complete control, something he has always wanted.

Last chapter, bachmanity showed him in goo and eyes, itchigo tore it apart and they rebuilt on top of him and back, Aizen has finally pieced himself back together. Only way the series can end. Aizen on top, itchigo happy and married and his kid can see spirits.
 

Eusis

Member
Isane's fine as captain because she's captain of the pacifist healing branch. Short of Kenpachi following Unohana's example and going to healing until it was time for a worth opponent to show up I don't think you had many more candidates.
 

Hystzen

Member
This chapter would be better if it felt earned but it doesn't it's come from a rushed ending and a anti climatic fight against Ywach.

Lol at these captain choices the SS is doomed although did like the Hisagi troll he had bankai but didn't show it.
 
Isane's fine as captain because she's captain of the pacifist healing branch. Short of Kenpachi following Unohana's example and going to healing until it was time for a worth opponent to show up I don't think you had many more candidates.

It was Hanataro's time to shine.
 

Deadly

Member
Felt like I skipped a chapter or two since the last... New announcement is likely the anime getting the last arc. Thank god this is almost over.
 
She was Kenpachi Zanpakutou.

But she was a real person who interacted with squad members on many occasions some times without Kenpachi being present before she was Kubo'ed into Kenpachi's Zanpakutou.

She had her own Shikai and used it. She also disappeared around the same time that Kenpachi's sword first talks to him. Maximum Kubo

Okay, had to make sure I didn't miss her like being killed or something lol. I just remember her being there one day then being gone and thinking I missed a chapter (or forgot)
 
Just do a 10 year time skip. That will make people forget some of the loose ends I didn't tie up, not to mention question some new questionable Gotei 13 choices.
 

Krammy

Member
What an insane disconnect from the last page of 684 and the first page of 685. If I didn't know they were one after another, I thought I'd have missed at a bunch of chapters in between.

Absolutely ridiculous, but coming from Kubo, I'm not surprised either.

EDIT: I expected less than nothing and I'm still disappointed somehow.
 
After the way the last chapter ended I can't fucking believe that we just jump in a 10 year time skip immediately after, it honestly feels like I just missed a few chapters or something, and ya I don't understand some of these new captain choices as all, but at this point I could care less. Also lol at no Ichigo in the second to last chapter of the fucking series, he'll definitely be in the last one but I mean come on. It's funny to think that for the most part Ichigo wasn't really present in the final arc. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't there like a whole year that went by with Ichigo not appearing in a single chapter?
 

Raynes

Member
This is twice now I've got a complete garbage ending from a series I've been following for a huge portion of my life. First with Metal Gear, now this. Fuck this shit, I'm not committing to lengthy series anymore, it's obvious authors get too tired of their own shit and give up. Hell George RR Martin will probably get so sick of ASOIAF he'll just pass out and never wake up before he can finish.
 
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