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This is a thread to discuss Bleach in it’s entirety.

During the making of kubo’s final arc, he did it terribly: battles with side characters that lasted way too long, little to no plot progression, too many unanswered questions, you get the point.

However, even with all of this fuckery, I found an interesting plot within the plot, he tried to give little hints of the war 1,000 years ago and how the world became to be, so I decided to assume what he tried to relay to us:

1. The world that was split now (human, hollow, shinigami worlds) was actually once, just one whole world.
2. The Quincy race were at the top of the food chain, at the beginning, like how the shinigami are now. I assume the Soul King must have been God originally. (I suggested this, because the Quincy still looked down on shinigami, even after being massacred by them) This is the Soul Society’s sin that Aizen spoke of during the novel.
3. The shinigami or the 4 noble houses found a way to split the world to their advantage by using God as a medium. (I assumed this because nano’s sword was able to reflect god’s power against the x-axis)
4. Shinigami saw quincies as a nuisance, because their weapons didn’t work with their new system, which started the war, and the genocide of the Quincy’s entire race. Instead of having souls recycled, they vanished by the quincy’s weapon. (I suggested this because the world at the beginning of quincy war arc was starting to warp when the Quincies re-emerged, also urahara briefly explained how quincies aggravate the system.)
5. When the shinigami mutilatied the soul king, Yhwach was born as the Soul King’s soul. (Suggested when Yhwach called him his father.) (Yhwach is pretty much jesus or an anti christ)
6. Yamamoto failed to kill Yhwach during the war because he reverted to an infant. (I suggested this because Yamamoto said this when he fought wonderweis (he has a soft spot for children) and Aizen must of known this, in order to make wonderweis his kryptonite, Yhwach also took 1000 years to rejuvenate to his prime again, so probably from infancy again)
7. I’m almost certain that Aizen found out the original sin of the soul society, he mentioned in the novel, and thought it was messed up how the world worked in the shinigami’s favor. So his ultimate objective was to shake up the world by killing the soul king and to destroy the soul society entirely. (This theme is suggested from the novels published after the final manga chapters, evidence he he only killed central 46 during his betrayal and only wounded others but not kill (except gin and tousen but they are lost causes), and his encounter with Yamamoto, he wanted to kill him, because he is an artifact of the original sin)
8. Yhwach’s objective was to kill the soul king, so it would disrupt all of the dimensions, to revert the world to what it was originally. (Yhwach said in his last speech to Ichigo, before he vanished that he wanted to make a world without death. The ‘death’ he speaks of, is the fear of dying in the living world, separated, and having the chance of becoming an insane hollow. Instead of this cycle of fear for humans, they would instead just die and become nothingness)
9. Somewhere during the writing of all this, Ichigo was suppose to find out about the soul society’s sin, but kubo was forced to end the series early. It was foreshadowed in the fullbringer’s arc, exactly what ichigo would have said or done in this situation, he would accept all the wrong doings of the ancient history, then continue to how things are now, in order to keep peace. (Shit idea, but it’s ichigo, his only goal in the whole series was to live a normal life, where his friends lives weren’t in grave danger.)
My opinions on the manga and anime about Kubo’s writing that it can be utter shit at times that sometimes make my head spin, why?!:
1. Aizen already made a hogyoku before taking urahara’s, which doesn’t make sense because when he betrayed the soul society and took the one out of Rukia, he suggested he never seen it before.
2. What was the point of taking the Bankai of the captains to give it back to them so soon, most Of them learned, they couldn’t fight without it.
3. I was severely disappointed when I saw what he did with Uryu, everything that happened with his character was so cliche.

The things I loved about Bleach:
1. Multiple characters that had their own development, however this got in the way of his writing because he made to damn many.
2. the world building is super impressive to me.
3. The artwork is pretty dope.


If there are any Bleach fans left, let me know what you think about this messed up series that Kubo vaguely thawed out.
If there are any Bleach fans left, let me know what you think about this messed up series that Kubo vaguely thawed out.
 
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I remember when Bleach used to be good. Everything after the Soul Society arc was a slow decline until the hilarious crash and burn that was The 1,000 Year Blood War arc. Still laugh at the ending of the manga to this day; hard to believe that shit is actually getting animated. The anime already had a satisfying ending, it's a shame.
 
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I remember when Bleach used to be good. Everything after the Soul Society arc was a slow decline until the hilarious crash and burn that was The 1,000 Year Blood War arc. Still laugh at the ending of the manga to this day; hard to believe that shit is actually getting animated. The anime already had a satisfying ending, it's a shame.

Eh, no. Bleach never "got progressively worse", that's just nostalgia and the moments when the cast was smaller clouding your memories. The ending was cut short due to Kubo's health bottoming out (though Kubo's approach to the pacing didn't help things).

The anime cuts off early while aping the ending to the Deicide arc, which while satisfying was hardly complete, leaving Ichigo where he started as a character.
 
Eh, no. Bleach never "got progressively worse", that's just nostalgia and the moments when the cast was smaller clouding your memories. The ending was cut short due to Kubo's health bottoming out (though Kubo's approach to the pacing didn't help things).

The anime cuts off early while aping the ending to the Deicide arc, which while satisfying was hardly complete, leaving Ichigo where he started as a character.
Nah man, Bleach had its glory days, as brief as they were. It started off with potential but by the time the Fullbringer arc came around I hardly cared about the story anymore. Aizen was the peak. And I'm aware of Kubo's health issues, they don't excuse how shit and nonsensical the ending was.
 
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one of the first anime series i was really into back in the day. i still think early bleach was when the serise was at its best and soul society arc was great.
the power scaling got real fucky during the aracne arc and it was clear Kubo was just making shit up as he went along. drop it after the fullbringer arc and i cant remember why.
heard the quincy arc was awful and rushed so i did not bother with it but now that they are gonna animate it, i maybe watch it.

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funny how the best girl of the series is not even canon.
 
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Nah man, Bleach had its glory days, as brief as they were. It started off with potential but by the time the Fullbringer arc came around I hardly cared about the story anymore. Aizen was the peak. And I'm aware of Kubo's health issues, they don't excuse how shit and nonsensical the ending was.

Ending was fine, just rushed. We get a ten-year time skip and the final battle got rushed. The last two chapters, far as I can gather, is how the series was supposed to end. Far more complete than the fan-favorite Arrancar arc ending, though perhaps not as emotionally filling.
 
Ending was fine, just rushed. We get a ten-year time skip and the final battle got rushed. The last two chapters, far as I can gather, is how the series was supposed to end. Far more complete than the fan-favorite Arrancar arc ending, though perhaps not as emotionally filling.
The two problems I had with that ending:
1. when ichigo killed the final boss with one slash, no special moves, just a fucking slash.. Kubo also infamously vaguely explained why his sword didn’t break like what he did with like 60% of the series.

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2. Aizen is still in his fucking chair, when he could of easily escaped the soul society‘s hold on him. Also Kubo didn’t even give us a hint to why Aizen did what he did. He had the perfect chance to explain it, when Aizen reminisce on why Yhwach lost to humans.

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Shits dumb asf, he could at least put more effort into the novels for a better explanation but I doubt we’d get that.
 
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My feelings on the series are hugely nostalgic, particularly up to the end of the soul society arc. Interesting lore and concepts, colorful characters, stylish urban fantasy. Was interesting seeing Kubo’s art style improve (and simultaneously decline). Plot just went too out there and lost it’s focus and lore became too complicated for its own good.

I made @FierceBrosnan read it a bit ago lol.
 
My feelings on the series are hugely nostalgic, particularly up to the end of the soul society arc. Interesting lore and concepts, colorful characters, stylish urban fantasy. Was interesting seeing Kubo’s art style improve (and simultaneously decline). Plot just went too out there and lost it’s focus and lore became too complicated for its own good.

I made @FierceBrosnan read it a bit ago lol.
It was right around the fullbringer arc where it was obvious Kubo had no idea where he wanted the story to go anymore. That was the "and where the hell have these assholes been hiding the whole time?" moment for me. Every shonen has that moment at least once, but it just kept happening after that. And as much as I like Ichigo as a character Kubo went full Poochie with him and suddenly every chapter after Hueco Mundo was "where is Ichigo?" and "we have to wait for Ichigo". Like only 3 other Shinigami got to really tear shit up in the final arc and eveyone else just became jobbing fodder.

Plus so many unanswered questions. Like where in the blue fuck did this sudden shitton of Quincies come from? Why did Aizen do anything he did? Why did hollows go from mindless killing machines to sympathetic characters and then to no longer appearing except as an excuse for Uryuu to go take a shit? Plus so many "how is this nigga still alive?!" moments in the last arc I thought I was reading Jojo for a minute.

All that being said it was a fun ride and Kenpachi Zaraki is the best Shinigami.
 
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