He used one in the Ulquiorra fight.
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Tite Kubo's Bleach Manga Nears Ending
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Yeezus H. Christ
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Ceros were about as useful as explosive tags.
Actually scratch that, explosive tags fucked up Nagato's legs, so Ceros are below even that
Actually scratch that, explosive tags fucked up Nagato's legs, so Ceros are below even that
Ya but he was either berserk or hollow Ichigo.
I wanted him to pull it out well sane.
But since his getsuga was basically the same thing it was kinda pointless.
AntraxSuicide
Banned
I always wanted him to expand his powers. Put that string on the back of his new bankai to work and use it like a bow sometimes. Ceros and Getsuga Tenshous. Remember when he made that new Getsuga attack once and never again?
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
No. Yamcha was still around. Chad's more like Yajirobe.
AlphaDragoon
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Ichigo's "true" Bankai was the lamest shit. It did nothing special of note, dropped the dual wield he got from his Shikai, got broken like five times, turned back into his old supposedly Yhwach-powered Shikai because reasons, and on top of it all looked ten times worse than his other Bankai.
SoulUnison
Banned
Ichigo's powers have been "building up to an awesome reveal, oh, wait, sorry, ran out of time" since the Fullbring arc.
CadetMahoney
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I'm really looking forward to see the breakdown of how it all ties together after all is said and done. . . like exactly which characters did nothing at all or where totally forgotten, loose-ends, dumb shit etc.
I only watched the anime and some arcs and powers, unexplained etc. where all over the place and just plain "this wasn't good".
I only watched the anime and some arcs and powers, unexplained etc. where all over the place and just plain "this wasn't good".
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
Given that the last bit featured Kubo giving backstories to Qunicies that had already been jobbed then Bach just killed them to get himself more power (which we knew he would do since he did it before.) Mostly just to have an excuse to show off a bankai or two...
There were plenty of loose threads.
It really should've just been Bach's the only one left, leave it to Ichigo to shut him down since he got super powered up.
Instead it was show Ichigo getting ready to do something... Then Chad shows up and then they switch to some captain fight. WHatever Chad did was resolved off panel and Ichigo mainly just did a lot of cardio.
psynergylover
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Kubo should make Ichigo a pimp in the last chapter:
screws Orehime in the real world
Rukia in the Soul Society
and Nel in Hueco mundo
then raises the kid with the most potential
screws Orehime in the real world
Rukia in the Soul Society
and Nel in Hueco mundo
then raises the kid with the most potential
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
That child? Aizen.
Frozenprince
Banned
She shows up to get her ass beat in one last fight and drool on Ichigo one last time.
Also to showcase her boobs.
In a manga with great boobs, she definitely has a great pair of New York boobs.
Just_myles
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AlphaDragoon said:
lolol qft. I came to post that.
Ichigo seriously did not need a power up. He could have done it pre Final getsuga and the results of the fight would have been the same.
He got totally shut out with his powered up "true" bankai form.
Now he is back to being his base form hahaha....
Kubo stay sucking.
Elinchy said:
Dude, she basically barged in a middle of a fight (between Urahara/grimmjow/yoruichi vs. unamable quincy who can't die) that never got resolved. We have no idea what the hell happened.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I lost it at this. Hahahaha
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
With Bleach, nothing is impossible.
The Silver
Member
hey guys remember that MILF Ichigo was working for, pepperidge farm remembers
psynergylover
Member
LOL!!
Ichigo: Aizen!! go to bed!!!
Lil' Aizen: Since when were you under the impression it was my bedtime?
Ichigo
on't let me bring out the FGT!!!!Lil Aizen: *reluctantly goes upstairs*
Oh right, the fuck was that about?
I kept feeling it was going to go somewhere and she was going to be revealed as someone important, but nope.
Same with that young kid Kubo randomly introduced at the beginning of this arc who never showed up again or Ganju training looking completely different from usual along with the rest of the FB. That's how you can tell WSJ canceled his series
Frozenprince
Banned
I have a feeling that Kubo has an idea for a plot he's always wanted to do for Bleach, like, an actual central narrative, but constantly gets distracted with boobs and new mooks to murder so it never gets back around too it.
Only way to explain the random disjointed crap that keeps popping up.
Only way to explain the random disjointed crap that keeps popping up.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
What about that doctor hollow who ripped odf that hollows mask
Whatever happened to him
It was in like one of the first 10 mangas
Whatever happened to him
It was in like one of the first 10 mangas
You're giving Kubo too much credit. Chances are he forgot about those plot points.
Frozenprince
Banned
Pretty sure we could fill an entirely new manga serial at that point.
TheChuggernaut
Banned
Yeah, those two kids made it about 25 chapters into the arc before vanishing. It almost seemed like Kubo was planning a passing of the torch type thing to the one kid.
I legit have no fucking clue who you are talking about lmao.
I think he'd atleast mention them at some point, but then again he completely forgot about Inoue's plan to erase the hongokyou as well like 2 seconds after bringing it up so who knows
ATXAlchemy
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He figured the manga was going to be a mess so he resigned many years ago to save himself from the humiliation.
looking back through all the arcs, it's very apparent Kubo can't finish an arc well.
he either ended with a cliffhanger leading to the next arc or with a crappy ending.
-monster of the week era: ends with Rukia being taken prisoner and is a setup to start SS.
-SS arc: ends with the bad guys running away and taking an important item. last set of fights is Aizen wrecking some fools
-Arrancar arc: last fight was too rushed and left more questions than answers and was anticlimatic.
-fullbring arc: same deal as above but the final fight was lamer.
-Quincy arc: same deal as above but the final fight was lamer.
so, in hindsight, the series was always destined to end bad.
his last meaningful appearance was as a TV monitor.
he either ended with a cliffhanger leading to the next arc or with a crappy ending.
-monster of the week era: ends with Rukia being taken prisoner and is a setup to start SS.
-SS arc: ends with the bad guys running away and taking an important item. last set of fights is Aizen wrecking some fools
-Arrancar arc: last fight was too rushed and left more questions than answers and was anticlimatic.
-fullbring arc: same deal as above but the final fight was lamer.
-Quincy arc: same deal as above but the final fight was lamer.
so, in hindsight, the series was always destined to end bad.
his last meaningful appearance was as a TV monitor.
The guy who treats the hollow that killed Ichogo's mum? That's the only one I can remember that remotely fits your description.
No idea what happened to that guy. Probably nothing because Kubo forgot he ever existed.
Zoe
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When Grand Fisher removed his mask. Shows they were doing it before Aizen appeared.
Yep. Final arc was announced early 2012.
Yeezus H. Christ
Banned
four yeaes ago I was still in high school
four years ago we still didnt know who tobi was
Where were you when Kubo announced the final arc
four years ago we still didnt know who tobi was
Where were you when Kubo announced the final arc
Because they're planned out and have a definite end in mind.
sunshine and gasoline
Banned
A big part of it comes down to thee talent/creativity/panning of the mangaka. Kishi and Kubo just aren't anywhere near as good as Araki and Arakawa.
Oda is a machine and probably planned One Piece pretty well even though it's been going on for like a decade.
Full Metal Alchemist definitely had a plan for where it wanted to go all along.
Araki has the benefit of starting new seasons to not only give him a straight start-to-finish plot, but also it gives him a blank slate so he doesn't have 100+ characters competing for screen time like in Bleach.
Oda's writing technique is very clever, if you think about it: because of the island to island structure, you only need to plan out events for the long term plot, and then worry about the details of the island's arc when it's coming up.
Jojo is mostly "stand of the week", and stands can be literally anything. Araki plans out more nowadays, but he can do almost anything he likes.
Full Metal Alchemist probably had its entire plot planned from the start.
Jojo is mostly "stand of the week", and stands can be literally anything. Araki plans out more nowadays, but he can do almost anything he likes.
Full Metal Alchemist probably had its entire plot planned from the start.
The Silver
Member
Not everyone can be as good a bullshitter as Akira Toriyama. Cell saga is amazing when you realize how well he disguised the fact he kept changing who the real villains were on the fly, week to week.
grandjedi6
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Kishimoto and Kubo both didn't have a firm plan for where their stories were going and what plans they did make kept not working, forcing them to change to new plans (and therefore create plot holes and thematic inconstancies). Kubo also had the problem of being terrible at any long term pacing, hence why his arcs bloat out so much. In the end, Kishimoto largely decided on how he wanted to end Naruto and commited to his long mediocre war arc. But Kubo never settled on what he wanted to do so he just meandered around for 4 years until Jump and his audience lost interest.
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