SO DOES ANYONE ELSE READ BLEACH FOLLOWUP QUESTION: DID ANYONE ELSE READ THE ENDING Spoiler i mean idk what i expected, the ending was doomed from the start with tite "i just like drawing cool fight scenes" kubo at the wheel but man man orihime deserved so much better fuck ur shoehorned-in het romances goodbye i feel like i just read the HP epilogue but in manga form idk i really shouldn't be this angry bc bleach is a fucking train wreck but god dammit, its my train wreck, ive spent like half of my life with this goddamn train wreck, and im just [incoherent screaming]
oh jfc, i never made it past the bount filler arc in the anime but bleach was my first anime dangit i am Fear what did he do
Yeah, I stayed until the very end, mostly out of morbid curiosity. I still maintain exploring other cultures reapers would've been an interesting concept ::< Oh well, that's what fanfic is for...
I dropped during the arrancar arc but always kept one open for "what has bleach pulled this time" and... yeah I've heard Things about the ending.
Bleach never really held my interest, I'd just kind of poke my nose in every few months out of curiosity, wince, and then leave. That said, this guy did a really good video talking about the reasons/theories for why Bleach had such a meteoric decline from such a strong start.
kubo needs a writer who can take what kubo comes up with and grows some character development and overarching plot, but that's not news, heh.
I got out during the Arrancar arc, but tbh my interest waned almost immediately once it stopped being "Lets fight ghosts in normal human town" and turned into the most generic shonen "My team of guys fight your team of guys one by one until Ichigo gets a new power to defeat the big bad" story ever.
THIS. me and my brother struggled through the soul society arc in the hope that it would get better again, but the pacing alone was UNBEARABLE. i started on the bount arc because 'hey they're actually back in town, maybe it won't be so bad!' and then couldn't watch anymore when chad's voice actor changed. chad was like one of my favorite characters and oh my god the replacement was so bad ever since then Why the Soup Society Arc Failed Utterly has been one of my longest infodumps. i think this video will be Cathartic eta: i meant soul society but honestly that typo's too good to fix
For me, Bleach is also kind of like a graveyard of cool worldbuilding wasted on an incredibly boring plot of "Oh hey villain x is here with his team and he's stronger than villain y so lets go kick his ass"
this also! i remember watching the soul society arc like '?????? i want to like all these characters you're shoving at me but there are So Many and you're shoving their entire life stories down my throat in rapid succession when there's no real plot going on to tie them together or give them relevance, other than the main party running around and beating them up' the actual plot of the soul society arc as it is would barely last one season, let alone two; everything else was just back-to-back exposition dumps (if of interesting, fun concepts!) and endless distorted time and Angry Shonen Yelling, and this kills the april('s interest).
SAME HAT????? im so mad didnt kubo literally say in an interview, like, "idgaf about plot i just wanna draw cool fight scenes" [screaming]
Something I found with Bleach was that it was always easier to read if I caught up once a year or so rather than trying to follow the weekly chapters. Something about Kubo's pacing makes it actually pretty okay to binge the manga, but terrible as a slow-drip serial. That said, have read the whole thing through, most of it more than once. It's in the annoying category of things that make more sense than they look like at first blush but also aren't saved just because they're more internally consistent than they appear to be.
i did the same thing, every ~6 months or so i would catch up and continue to be disappointed :pp also idk what you mean by that last bit, could you rephrase?
Bleach is more internally consistent than it looks like it is. A lot of the stuff that happens has some degree of foreshadowing or legitimate in-universe explanation. Unfortunately, the fact that it doesn't break its own rules too often neither A) stops it from looking like it does, or B) makes the story presented actually clear, sensible, and easy to enjoy.
