, but was kind of surprised that they kept it going

I kind of have mixed feelings about it, but I guess I'm mostly glad its going haha

And ugh, yeah kind of agree with "I don't really know what's going on anymore"

chaoser

United States5541 Posts

April 20 2011 20:42 GMT

#2182

lol...fullbring is now a verb...

"I'mma fullbring all over your face!"

viii

United States266 Posts

April 20 2011 21:40 GMT

#2183

I wish Ichigo still has his hollow powers and i wish the Visors or w/e is still in the storyline. Because his hollow powers and the Visors or w/e are so badass.

anch

United States5457 Posts

April 21 2011 00:55 GMT

#2184

Wow they got rid of continuously shouting in caps, the 3 or 4 insignificant panels per page, swords crossing without having back and forth conversation.
Awesome.

Z3kk

4099 Posts

April 21 2011 23:16 GMT

#2185

Whooo boy.

Don't tell me ginjo's fullbring is something like the "unbreakable barrier". -_-" It was already established that the evil dude's fullbring was the sword that cuts through anything I think, so.....clash of the unstoppable sword vs the unbreakable sword or some crap like that...?

I have to admit it was indeed better than the constant screaming, though LOL

proxY_

United States1561 Posts

April 21 2011 23:27 GMT

#2186

Honestly, Kubo may as well have ended Bleach and started an entirely new series with this concept because that's what we have an entirely new series with the same characters thrown into completely new situations with completely different stakes involved.

New Zealander

New Zealand70 Posts

April 21 2011 23:48 GMT

#2187

flamewheel

FREEAGLELAND26782 Posts

April 21 2011 23:54 GMT

#2188

^Hahaha so good.

Mordiford

4448 Posts

April 22 2011 00:06 GMT

#2189

If the series had ended at the Soul Society arc, it would be a solid series.

Instead, it ran around using the same arc structure and completely shat itself. No one ever dies, so you have a ridiculous amount of useless characters that stick around either doing nothing or disappearing completely and I don't mean characters that have run their course for an arc like in some other series, I mean characters that are introduced in an arc, and then turn out to have no real purpose within that arc.

Here's a great example, remember that character Kensei? The Vizard, pretty cool guy right?

+ Show Spoiler +

What the flying fuck happened to him? So, he shows up, is apparently supposed to fight someone, intervenes in epic fashion and then literally evaporates, like a fight starts and we have NEVER seen that character again.

I think Kubo actually fucking forgot about this character because he has so many worthless characters in the series and never wants to kill anyone off. There is absolutely no threat for any character and if he kills anyone at this point, it won't really matter because it's too late in the series to maintain the threat of someone dying.

Even Naruto kills characters off here and there to maintain some level of threat so that the fake-outs aren't so obviously fake. One Piece had a lot of hardcore fake-outs but then killed off some major characters to bring back that sense of threat.

If you're not afraid for any character even in an all out war, then it's kind of pointless because there's no tension.

Mikey

United States277 Posts

April 22 2011 00:17 GMT

#2190

after reading page 1 i can honestly say u guys r just wanabe standouts who 'dont follow the crowd' rofl

ignorant arguments and such, makes me sick.

Mordiford

4448 Posts

April 22 2011 00:22 GMT

#2191

On April 22 2011 09:17 Mikey wrote:
after reading page 1 i can honestly say u guys r just wanabe standouts who 'dont follow the crowd' rofl

ignorant arguments and such, makes me sick.

I'm sorry, care to elaborate as to why?

We don't like the series much right now, must be because we don't want to "follow the crowd". However, despite that, most people have mentioned other popular series that they do like...

Nice ignorant statements of your own, doesn't make me sick... just makes me laugh.

gamecrazy

United States421 Posts

April 22 2011 00:31 GMT

#2192

Initially, when Kubo was writing Bleach, he was not sure whether or not he would be canceled, so he wrote up the whole SS arc in advance but didn't plan anything else beyond that.

The Arrancar arc was executed very hapharzardly, and the story just collapsed on itself when the author never killed anybody who just wasn't very important. I'm not saying Bleach isn't salvageable or not enjoyable, because I would argue the latter. Still the SS arc was just the bomb. I think the Fullbring arc manga reset of bleach is fine, it's still too early to judge whether or not it will lead to some awesome overarching storyline.

OutlaW-

Czech Republic5053 Posts

April 22 2011 00:32 GMT

#2193

A little off topic, but to the people complaining about why don't the authors/editors end the manga, that's 1: because people (especially kids) keep on reading it, whether it be here, or Japan
2: it's pretty hard to start a new hit series, especially since Bleach is all the author/s do/es.(See Bakuman for reference)
3: It's making them fucking rich.

BlackMagister

United States5834 Posts

April 23 2011 18:28 GMT

#2194

On April 22 2011 09:06 Mordiford wrote:Here's a great example, remember that character Kensei? The Vizard, pretty cool guy right?

I think Kubo actually fucking forgot about this character because he has so many worthless characters in the series and never wants to kill anyone off. There is absolutely no threat for any character and if he kills anyone at this point, it won't really matter because it's too late in the series to maintain the threat of someone dying.

I looked it up on Bleach wikia and you know the story is pretty bad when not even the fans understand what is going on lol. Vizards no longer exist now that Ichigo is no longer part hollow I guess. The last description of Kensei is:

Wonderweiss later intervenes in Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto's fight with Sōsuke Aizen, having finished his battle with Kensei, leaving his fate unknown.

Sarasin

Canada109 Posts

April 30 2011 04:20 GMT

#2195

Personally I find the ridiculous thing about the entire bleach manga was that Ichigo was by far more powerful then everyone else the entire time except he was to retarded to figure out how to use it. He never got any better he already was the best he was just to useless to figure out how to use it. And those moments when he does figure it out he suddenly forgets how he did that and returns to being useless.

EtherealDeath

United States8366 Posts

April 30 2011 04:24 GMT

#2196

oh damn you i was like OOO late release oh wait golden week

Flanlord

265 Posts

May 01 2011 00:16 GMT

#2197

New chapter is out. ( http://mangastream.com/read/bleach/62806731/1 )

and... what the FUCK!?

Its been kinda hit and miss, but thanks to having heard this song a lot recently, and watching Tron Evolution last night, I literally just laughed on the last pages. I don't care that it is bleach anymore, but it can still be amusing... perhaps because it IS or at least WAS Bleach.

Chillax

England585 Posts

May 01 2011 00:30 GMT

#2198

What was.........I dont even.......

Seriously what did I just read?

More to the point when is someone going to photoshop that last panel with a monty python giant foot.

Monokeros

United States2493 Posts

May 01 2011 00:59 GMT

#2199

They wasted two perfectly good pages with a terrible gag, Kubo makes me so sad.

Uhnno

Netherlands288 Posts

May 01 2011 01:03 GMT

#2200

Read One Piece, then read Bleach.

Sigh.................

How does one mess up the characters so badly? WHAT AM I READING?! Why are there single panel pages with no texts. Why is the plot slowing down? Why are we having action/battle scenes without actually anything happening?

Sigh.......