This whole arc was awful, I think we can all agree on that, but

>Top 3
Yourself
Zombie
Jail

>Bottom 3
Visionary
X-Axis
Almighty (vs Ichigo)

>>148848288
I'd probably swap "Yourself" with Mayuri's fight with the hand, but other than that I agree with everything.

>>148848344
Eh I didn't dig any of the E4's fights except Miracle's and even that ended shittily.

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I liked the gerard fight, if it didn't end he would have transformed 2 more time atleast.

>>148848159
>whole arc was awful....
Let me stop you right there. The beginning of that arch was fantastic. We literally made a chart for how much /a/ was eating that shit up.
It wasn't perfect, but it was a great ride.

The middle part of the arch started to drag and suck with stupid fights and off-screening of characters.

Then the ending was just a rushed clusterfuck of awful.

>>148849344

Like every arc in bleach after SS arc. Maybe Kubo gets bored.

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>>148849840
The absolute worst part of Kubo falling flat on his face after Soul Society is that he takes ideas that have the potential to be great and fumbles his way into mediocrity. It pains me to think about what we could have had instead of what we got.

>>148849344

>beginning of arc fantastic

Stop.

Quincy shadow bullshit was an asspull and Ichigo being a half quincy half shinigami with hollow powers is fucking fanfic tier.

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The Bazz B and Jugo flashback and fight scenes were the high point of the entire home stretch of Bleach.

I could have read a whole series about those two.

>>148850553
Bazz B was a bitch, that's why he got the letter

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>>148850553
see OP's image - Bazz-B's cloack button is engraved on Jugo's sword handle.

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>>148852283
Fucking niggerstream. Here's a better image.

>>148848159
>best
Yama's death
Askin
Mayuri vs Hand

>worst
Final vs Yhwach
Divine Chicken
Gremmy

>>148848159
>Top 3
Yamamoto vs Ywach
Reanimated Arrancar vs Zombie Shinigami
Mayuri vs Hand

>Bottom 3
Birdman fight (drawn out, same old same old)
Ichigo vs Ywach final fight (silly power led to silly tension)
Ishida vs Hascwald (shitty Ishida power, generic fight overall)

First half was easily better than the second half; Kubo fell into the same traps from the Fake Karakura/Hueco Mundo arcs.

>>148850465
If he makes a new manga I would definitely read it. Even after how.disappointed I became with Bleach after Soul Society. I just want a manga that gives the early Bleach feel and I want him to keep it like that the entire manga. His mistake was going full DBZ and destroying what made Bleach and even Zombie Powder cool and epic. His humor also went flat half way through the manga.

>>148848159
>This whole arc was awful
It was on par with what came after the SS arc.

>what do you think were the top 3 Sternritter battles?
Pernida/Mayuri, Askin/the rest of the world, Glemmy/Kenpachi.

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I liked this arc. I wonder when Kubo's video will be released.

>>148854165

>on par

Shinigami-quincy hybrid with hollow powers.

No fanfic jad explored that for ichigo because that shit was reserved for their self insert mary sue character with purple hair and fucking ulquiorra and grimmjow.

>>148855107
>self insert mary sue character with purple hair
literally what

>>148855277

Kubo turned ichigo into a self insert fanfic characature.

Unironically.

He. Was. Out. Of. Good. Ideas.

>>148855329
You aren't making sense.

As Nodt should have won.

>>148857230
Askin too.

>>148857330
He did win. He succeeded more than any other Sternritter.

At least we'll get the Volume scanned in a few days.

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>make this
>tag it イチルキ
How svelte

>>148858800
I laughed harder than I should.

>>148848159
It bothered me that we didn't really get much of a backstory or history for most of them.
What the fuck had they all been doing for the 1000 years Yhwach was asleep? What is the culture and society in the Wandenreich like? Did all of them agree with Yhwach's plan if they even knew it? What was Souken's relation with them?
But what bothered me the most was that at no point did we see ANY of th Stern Ritter show any indication of being pissed at the Shinigami for committing genocide against their people. It would have been nice if the war had been more morally gray, with the Quincy fighting for their own survival and to avenge their fallen comrades. Instead, most of them were just evil or "nothing personnel kid".

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>>148859621
Soul Society as morally gray is something Kubo tossed out of the window and even made a joke out of.

Mayuri even got a happy end.

I thought it was pretty damn good until the forced ending.

>top 3
Mayuri v Fist
As Nodt v Rukia
Nimaiya v elite quincys

>bottom 3
Uryuu v Haschwald
Baz B v X
Chad v Statues

I just like to pretend Bleach ended after HM arc. Probably my biggest regret in life was reading this clustefuck of shit until the end.

>>148849344
The only reason people thought it was fantastic was because it looked like people were actually going to die and there would be lasting consequences

Since the arc is over and we know that, except for the old man nobody cares about, no one else actually died and everything essentially went back to normal, all that early hype was pointless.

It's just more memes

>>148854165
>It was on par with what came after the SS arc.
So, awful then?

>>148848159
Top
shunsui v snipe - because dat bankai
yama v fakewach - see above
askinn v everyone - because he rekt half the good army alone


worst:
anything with hitsugay and soifon (we missed out on ukitake bankai for THIS shit?)
ichigo v yhwach final battle stop-start-stop shit.
hisaGay refusing to show bankai
so many cockblocks

Askin is one of the best characters Kubo created.
I wish the fight with Kisuke didn't end with a draw.

>>148863424
give askin a break. he beat the shit out of most of the good guy brigade

>>148863446
True, he was one of the most successful Sternritter
It's just a shame that he died

>>148863489

>implying you can kill him

>>148863489
surely he was the most successful SR ?

vump

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>>148860892
Another shitty side effect of the Gotei 13 being too popular for their own good is that you knew certain characters were going to last all the way to the end, just based off their popularity.

>>148848617

>YFW Oetsu raped him in one sword stroke

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>>148849344
agreed

I just want to know what will kubo do next

>>148867471
retcon the whole of bleach prersumably

https://a.pomf.cat/gkuhaw.jpg

The arc was a lot of fun as illustrated by /a/'s threads. Had WSJ given Kubo until chapter 700 like Naruto, by now we would've had an ending to the series that wouldn't make everyone mad.

Alas, the manga was rock-bottom on popularity for a long time.

>>148868662
>Had WSJ given Kubo until chapter 700
Bleach was way past 700.

>>148868807
No, it ended on 686

>>148852495
Agreed completely.

>Top 3
- Yamamoto vs Yhwach
- Komamura vs Bambietta
- Mayuri vs Pernida
- Honorable mention: Yhwach vs Crazy Monk, Rukia vs Ad Nodt

Bottom 3
- Shunsui vs Chicken Nigger
- Squad 0 against whatever
- The finale

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>The only good parts of the Finale:
- Karin's Karins
- Milfhime
- Cutiepie offspring
- Seeing IRfags getting BTFO

>>148868807
Not really. If you only count chapters published in WSJ you get:
* 686 positive numbered chapters
* 12 chapters of TBTP
* -17 and -16 (later changed to -15)
So exactly 700. There are also ~9 mini-chapters varying in length between (if I recal correctlyl) 4 to 10 pages published in either databooks or in volumes and Hell movie promo chapter, but I wouldn't really count them.

>>148869876
>shipping
>good
I wish he'd spend those pages to make the story better instead.

>>148870094
>>148869930
>>148869876


Who has the best Win/Loss record in Bleach ?

>>148869930
Which chapters were given negative numbers?

>>148870292
Aizen without a doubt.

>>148848159
Who was the best dressed Sternritter?

>>148870476
Askin.


>>148848159
All the cockblocking in this arc man...its just terrible. We wanted to see askin vs mayuri, shunsui v jugo etc. they met up, said hi and then fucked off.the hell kind of writing is that?

>>148870550
Good writing. Askin knew that Mayuri was a bad match for his abilities. Jugram didn't need to fight Shunsui, his prescence alone forced a stalemate. Not to mention Balance pretty much fucks up all of Shunsuis abilities.

>>148870722
bullshit. Shunsui wouldve taken him.

>>148848159
It could have been handled better, that is for sure.

>>148870957
Confirmed for speedreading. Jugrams ability is pretty much unbeatable as long as the opponent has any sort of advantage over Jugram. Even if Shunsui could break even with a double KO he wouldn't be doing his comrades any favors.

>>148870292
>>148870338

Win/Loss Records:

Aizen:
- W: Hitsugaya x2, Momo x2, Komamura x2, Renji, Ichigo (Soul Society), Shinji, Kyoraku, Rose, Love, Lisa, Harribel, Urahara, Yoruichi, Isshin, Gin, the Cleaner, Black Goo Monsters (20)
- L: Ichigo (Mugetsu)/Urahara, Yhwach (2)

Other notables:

Askin:
- W: Nimaiya (would've died without blood spring water), Grimmjow, Orihime, Chad, Ichigo, Yoruichi and her brother, Urahara (8)
- L: Nimaiya, Urahara/Grimmjow (2)

Yhwach:
- W: Yamamoto, Ichibei, Soul King, Mimihagi, Ichigo, Orihime, Renji, Aizen (8), if you count him killing his own people: Luders, Ebern, Royd, Candice, Giselle, Lilotto, Robert, Lille?, Haschwalth, Gerard (17-18)
- L: Ichigo/Uryu/Aizen (1)

If it had one or two more volumes to properly finish off the last two fights, this arc would have been objectively better than mexico/aizen.

I need spoilers or info. Anything about the final volume? Interviews with Kubo?

>>148871173
Don't forget Mayuri, he beat Syazel, Giselle, Hitsugaya, Pepe and Pernida, and tied with Uryu.

>>148870302
TBTP (-110 to -99)
Renji, Hinamori, Kira past (-17)
Hitsugaya past (-15)
Hitsugaya's birthday (-12.5 - special short chapter)

I just wanna see the final volume cover ffs

>>148871173
As >>148871996
said, Mayuri is notable as literally the only captain-level without a clean lose.

Also, you should add Kira, Iba and Grimmy (he brought him to his knees with reiatsu alone) to Aizen's count.
Yama is also notable, as he gets:
- W: Nanao (reiatsu alone), Ayon, Apache, Sun-sun, Milarose, Wonderweiss, Overkill, Bazz, As, Nanana, Royd (10)
- L: Aizen, Yhwach (2)

Besides that, while counting guys like Ebern or Luders for Yhwach makes some sense, counting Royd who neither could nor wanted to defend makes none.

>>148872916
-(10)
11, sorry.

>>148872916
Mayuri got btfo in his first fight, what are you talking about? His bitch had to beg for his life.