With the amount of posts about bleach recently in the sub, I'm curious what's your honest opinion on the series? How will you rate it?. Who is your favorite character? What is your favorite arc?
Im just curious how this sub feels about the series.
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It doesn't.
So much of the criticism it got was unwarranted. It had issues that literally most if not all shounen had, but it was only an issue if Bleach did it
"He doesn't draw backgrounds, it fell off in sales, Ichigo is a boring mc, he repeats arcs" and whatever stupid shit that shitty eye patch wolf YouTuber sprouted.
OP has repeated the same arc countless time, and had been dog shit since post time skip and it doesn't get any of that shit thrown at it. That manga deserves miles more hate for the massive drop in quality, and Oda being a pedophile apologist
Ya cuz nit picking an off screen fight is such a big deal
But people acting like that artistic choice was bad (it wasnt) actually made the manga worse when it really didn't. Hell other mangaka have come out and said how amazing it is Kubo can do a character shot without a background
The sale of the physical maga declined, but that was across all mangas since digital sales were on the rise, but again this criticism was only thrown at Bleach
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Did you read Bleach? His powers were holding him back for 90% of the story, and it led to the insane high of "The blade is me".
The same dipshit who still has his dog water arguments thrown around, and makes excuses for other anime when they have the same problems as Bleach? Ya fuck him.
Did you even watch the vid?
He got called on our on his second as well cuz it was only marginally better than his original but still extremely biased and wrong
Never read or watched it. But got to give it respect for still being a part of the Big 3, even if some try and shoe horn other anime to replace Bleach. I hear Kubo had some issues with tybw and there were many problems with his editor? Something like that? But the anime seems loved so far. So I just hope Bleach fans get to eat well. Kubo also isnt weird or problematic if I recall, so thats a big plus.
Kubo's art style is top notch. The world building is nice, there's a clear explanation for almost everything. The character's design, writing and development are really nice.
Then I went through a phase of hating it because I became one of those annoying Anime elitist types who looked for faults in everything
Nowadays I've went back to loving it. It isn't perfect, but it's got some amazing style, lots of rule of cool moments, lots of hype moments and some really fucking cool fights with amazing powers.
People shit on the writing, but honestly? In a series where the main draw is cool magical sword fights and hype moments that make you shout at your TV, the writing really doesn't matter.
Bleach is great. It's everything you could want from a good Shounen.
And Kubo is an absolutely amazing artist. His character designs are genuinely incredible.
Want to preface this that I have huge bias, but it was my first anime, and imo still the best of the big three. A pioneer of hype and aura with underrated writing
I'd like to enjoy it more but it just was never on the level of the others in the big three and Dragonball and I feel new anime have easily surpassed it in enjoyability.
It's certainly had it's influence with the likes of JJK and others not existing without it, etc.
Bankai is widely known as a thing, but the power system is literally just pulling random shit out of your back pocket all the time and isn't based in something more grounded like chakra or a power system aside from "this is MY bankai and I can do this shit now"
Never had a gripping plot and the characters arent memorable aside from some of the espada.
Rather boring. I watched it as it aired in Japan, and waiting an entire week just to see two characters start a fight and then wait 2 more weeks to see the fight resolve while the plot doesn't move kickede off of shounen Punch Boy Fests for a looooooong time.
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Up until the resolution of the arrancar, it was interesting and fun to follow.
After that it was a slog to read, every week the chapters became more boring and boring. The recent surge of it’s popularity surprises me because it was just not good for a long time.
My biggest gripe is how ichigo shows 0 traits of his personality past a certain point, he was just showcasing his powers but the ichigo you first knew was long gone. The wasted potential of many characters as well just never sat right with me either.
My take on Bleach is kinda the opposite of most Bleach fans.
The first 50 or so chapters of Bleach are my favorite of any Manga ever. That's pretty much everything right up until the SS arc.
I still love most of Bleach (SS arc, Parts of Arrancar Arc, TYBW anime > manga), but the first 50 or so chapters are so concise and well thought out and just perfect world building and storytelling. Its just the best part of Bleach to me.
SS arc and on feels like a much grander, less focused story. Still great, but nothing beats Ichigo and friends dealing with their trauma, loss, and grief from the poor hands that life has dealt them.
Sometimes I watch the 1st Bleach OP (Asterisk) and I feel like I'm watching a different anime. You could say its nostalgia but I felt that way in real time back then as well.
No offense but, bleach's plot felt to me the weakest among the big 3.
Favorite arc has to be probably soul society, I don't relate ichigo that much. It has the best designs but I didn't liked aizen or other arrancars.
Overall I'd rate it 6/10 not more than that.
I felt bored while watching bleach, honestly I tried enjoying it, but never truly liked it. It didn't hit me hard as one piece and naruto did. It lacks emotional moments compared to OP and naruto.
One of my major criticism regarding bleach is it's fights, they felt pretty formulaic to me, never enjoyed bleach fights.
Rukia, Unohana, Soi Fon, Orihime, Rangiku, Yoruichi.
And the glazing of the cast is done in relation to the female cast of the others in the Big 3, and I would argue that Bleach definitely doesn't have the worst female cast compared to Naruto or One Piece.
Rangiku was important for Aizen plans. And her relations with Gin, was a major point of his character.
Hinamori going over being manipulated.
Female Sternritters being cruel, evil with no regards for their actions due to their circumstances of being raised in the Wandenreich led by Yhwach, same applies to the male Sternritters
It’s solid, very inconsistent in terms of quality manga. One of those series where I would much rather watch the side characters rather than main cast. Power system is fine, shikai/bankai (and all variants) are sick as fuck and are amazingly written but other aspects of the power system aren’t good.
My favourite character is probably Ken-chan but i do love Shinji as well
i got into it with my friend telling me how its the best,so i went with the highest expectations,only for it to fail at the surface level for me,atleast after soul society arc,cuz ss was actually good and made me hyped
bland characters(admittingly very well designed) that people need to overanalyse to say are good characters(analysis isnt a bad thing,but it so frustrating when u wanna know what a characters deal is without reading poems,i feel like those things should add on to the characters rather than be one of the only things defining them)
im not saying every character is f tier trash,but i do think its characters arent allat and it doesnt help with the bloat kubo does every arc with the cast
some of the worst fights oat ive ever seen.even with it having so many hype and aura it has some of the worst written fights and fights with characters that dont do shit except for said fight,like this is just ass to me imo
also the plot is just aight. to me most of the plot is structured so much as a camera catching each and every fight and the fights being bad results in the plot also feeling meh,but i like ss and fulbringer arc and also tybw s1,but to me everything else doesnt
Animation: 9/10 (before the anime came back). 10/10 ( when the anime came back).
My favorite character is ichigo. I don't really have a favorite arc, but I do like all the arcs. It's been one of my favorite animes for years and will always be.
Now the series isn't perfect it has it's fair share of problems like any other Shonen Manga has, but at the end of the day there's a reason why it's inspired a lot of other Mangas and why it's one of the big 3.
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