What the fuck happened to Bleach?

I actually liked it until the bount filler started. That was fucking painful.

same thing that happens to every battle shonen ever. If they need to keep getting stronger and facing stronger villains, eventually it becomes full of asspulls and killing gods

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>>156843008
Kubo

>>156843008
The tragedy which happened to Bleach was nothing we could stop.
The 90s are gone.

Kubo's method of dealing with artistic block is creating new character which he has no idea what to do with later. You can trace most of Bleach's problems back to this.

Kubo ran out of content so he just redid the Soul Society arc but this time with Mexicans. Everything after the SS arc abandoned what made the earlier arcs good. Characters got too powerful, lieutenants became practically useless and everyone else was literally fodder.

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>>156843217
>bleach
>90's

>>156843008
Studio Pierrot is garbage.

Publisher interference and stress ruined Kubo.

That's the tl;dr anyway. I talked about this so often I can't even be fucked to get into it properly, but do some research into behind-the-scenes stuff if you're really interested.

I don't know but Bambietta is my wife

>>156843008
Good way or bad way, everything ends anon.
unless it's Dragonball

>>156843008
Kubo trolled the fandom

>>156843008

It was pretty good until it got spanish, then it was complete dogshit

>>156843008
Kubo stopped giving a fuck.

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>>156843450
>90s were 40 years ago

>>156843008
Kubo ruined it

>>156843075
Not all of them go completely off the rails. Gash was pretty decent even at the end, for example. Bleach could have been a lot better with the elements that were left at the end.

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>>156850331

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>>156850424

>>156843008
Kubo should have hired people who could actually write and develop storylines and characters, then give them the general ideas of Bleach's characters, plot and arcs, and make the designs himself because he was really good at designing characters.

>>156850331
>>156850424
>>156850520
See: >>156843461

>>156850331

>ichiruki didn't come true

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>>156843096
>>156843390

Man I wish she ended up being more relevant

Needed more flashbacks

Those were the best arcs

>>156843008
You grew up.

/thread

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>>156851978
Probably would've been had the story gone on longer.

>>156843008
Kubo ran out of ideas right after the first major story arc.

>>156851978
I liked the theory that she was former Zero Squad who got kicked out, and had her arm cut off to remove the key.

The fake spoilers, towards the end, were always better than the actual series.

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>>156852874
It's either that or she made a mistake involving gunpowder

I stopped reading when Aizen came back during the war arc, does anything interesting happen after that?

>>156852942
Or she just takes the no fapping challenge really seriously.

>>156852981
girls can't fap

>>156853035
Oh, NOW you tell her. Bit late don't you think?

>>156843008
MIAGETA YOZORA NO
HOSHITACHI NO HIKARI

>>156843008
>What the fuck happened to Bleach?
it ended

>>156843096
Look at those chicken calves and chicken arms.

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>>156853152
I know, it amazes me he gave her a big ass though

>>156843008
The villians was far more superior and likeable, so while he used his time to develop Aizen and his hollow army he forgot to develop the fucking MC.

No backgrounds

>>156850744
This. Kubo is one of those guys that can really benefit from a co-writer, he makes great designs and decent general ideas, he just doesn't know how to implement them and we get these pointless fights after pointless fights after pointless character introductions that shit chapters up. Too bad Kubo is also one of those guys with too much pride for that.

>>156843058
Didn't mind the Bount filler as much, didn't even know it was a filler season until I began reading the manga. The fillers after that though are terrible constantly breaking up the Hueco Mundo arc and introducing that annoying brat of a princess character. You guys remember that soccer episode.

>>156843058
Filler from nurutu and bleach killed both series.

>>156843008
Along with becoming part human/shinigami/hollow/quincy/saiyan/rainbow unicorn, Ichigo also became an odd hybrid of Gary Stu and jobber.

Bleach eould had been better if it was a monthly series

It took fucking 30 some chapters for fights

Aizen did nothing wrong..

I want more Kubo fashion color spreads

I took a break after Aizen was defeated. But prior to that I was growing bored with the Fake Karakura arc with all the VC getting their own fights + no shinigami deaths. What really hit the nail was the Aizens constant evolution and planning everything since Ichigo's birth. Wandenreich started good, then became the same formula

>>156843008
See >>156850520
If Bleach focused on these 3 it would've been GOAT.

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>>156850520
>rukia
>expressing her feelings before the SS arc

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>>156851556
>Ulquiorra///Nemu became the series end tier ship
Seems like a eldritch monument to a lost justice

>>156851556
Thank god for that.

>>156851556
That was the only saving grace of an otherwise absolutely shitty finale.

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>>156851556
That saddened me a little because I liked Rukia so much and her interactions with Ichigo, when they were actually together were great especially in the beginning, it was obvious Orihime would be the endgame though. I've never really been in Bleach threads so I avoided all the shipping and shitstorms.

>>156843008
Kubo wanted to do a regular action shounen but was stuck doing Bleach, so he threw away the established context and shoved everything he wanted into the series regardless of internal consistency or pacing.

>>156843008
There's a video about it.
https://youtu.be/ACq7tgjHdGA

>>156856146
>That video again

You realise this video isn't really accurate and it's a fucking meme now?

>>156852942
A popular theory right now is that she used a forbidden jutsu and helped Ginjou escape, which let to the fall of the family.

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>This panel
>Reiatsu getting released everywhere
>Both of them surprised
>Looks like they got interrupted
>Yoruichi barely covering herself up to check things out
You thinking what I'm thinking?

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>>156859630
Don't act like they didn't fuck all the time, Urahara was a pervert but him and Yorouchi were super close with each other. She fucking lived with him as well, and I'm sure they did stuff together.

I've always thought they were fucking, it was pretty obvious from the get-go. Urahara cares for her a lot, and she for him.

>>156859843
The threads for the final chapter were so funny especially when it came to the spoilers.

>>156859630
I don't trust Kubo to do the obvious thing.

>be a stupid teenager
>watch bleach and see asterisk for the first time
>binge watch the anime as far as it went back then
>read manga from start
>dat art

I don't think you guys understand.

>>156843008
It went from stylish street ghost hunting to DBZ Android Arc in ONE ARC

>>156843008
IchiRuki didn't happen.

>>156845517
or One Piece :^)

Fuck JUMP for turning it into such generic battle shit.

Bleach had infinite potential but the editors prefered to suck all life out of Kubo.

>>156860521
If Kubo was a good writer he would have worked around it.

>>156859843
She didn't live with him. She was living as a cat during the majority of the hundred years and visited Kukkaku many times. When Yoruichi appeared in the first arc, was the first time in ages that she saw Urahara.

Even after the war, Yoruichi is mostly staying in Soul Society. If there is something she wants from the world of the living, she usually sends Sui-feng.

>>156860595
I think it's more that he stopped giving a fuck at some point. If he can't draw what he initially wanted then why even try.

>>156843008
nothing

It was part of my childhood, I liked early Bleach so much. So many memories. It's kinda depressing to see how it turned out.

>>156843008
Too many characters, not enough time to put much thought into character development/ plot

Great female design though.

>>156843008
Ichigo stopped being a fan of Shakespeare and lost any and all rough-around-the-edges personality along with it.

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>>156851556
The girl who lived in his closet and became his best friend didn't go all the way.

And it's bullshit.

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>>156860929
>Great female design though.
You're not wrong.

>>156862068
Why would he want to fuck an old dead girl with the body of a 10 year old boy. You should know by now the Shiba men prefer titty monsters anon.

The Soul Society arc. Too many new characters, boring setting, and did absolutely nothing with the older characters.

>>156862075
>giselle included

>>156843008
test

>>156862075
meh

What is Kubo going to do next?

>>156850331
Huh. They're saying "kimochi warui", aren't they? That's translated into both "feels bad" and "creepy" separately in English, right? No wonder they can't understand each other. They literally do not have the right words to convey what they're thinking.

What's your favorite character? To me it's tousen, even though he got a dog's death.

>blind swordsman and a captain at that
>gave zaraki a cool fight
>fuck you grinjow you piece of shit
>aizen suckered everyone but he followed it by his own will
>fabulous dreads
>dope backstory and philosophy

Now that I think about it, kubo explained the basis of how he was able to fight even though he was blind in the fight between captain pirate x birdman.

>>156843217
>The 90s are gone.
But Bleach started in 2001.

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>>156843008

they went to Mexico

>>156865240
I really liked Tousen. I'm glad his character is a main focus of the new novel.

>>156843058
>filler
Buzzwordfags GTFO.

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>>156843008
they didnt use Aizen to his full potential

>>156865524
It an anime original arc designed to fill time so that they didn't catch up to the manga too quickly. It's literally filler.

Kubo forgot about Rukia

>>156865740
>gets bankai and becomes captain
yeah, m8. totally forgotten.

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>>156865740
>gets one of the few good fights in the last arc
>gets bankai
>strength finally acknowledged by byakuya
>becomes captain
>on the final volume cover
forgotten my ass.

>>156865355
don't you know that the 90s started in 1992 and ended in 2001

it's like how the 20th century is 1914-1991

>>156860337
But I do anon. I do.

The pain runs deep, doesn't it?

>>156844981
Yes

>>156844981
Come on anon, at least throw us a bone here.