They've shown those same 3-7 panels like what? 3 times now in 3 chapters? And it hasn't progressed at all? Basically we know something is going to happen eventually and it has to do with Urahara, Ishin, and one or more shinigami. /shrug.

I guess we can also assume that anyone who has been troll-stabbed (+ Show Spoiler +

) will end up participating in whatever final battle or pre-final (before it is just ichigo vs. him) battle.

Starting to feel a lot like filler, other than the characters there isn't really anything suggesting this is still Bleach at all.

poorbeggarman

139 Posts

May 25 2011 21:40 GMT

#2242

On May 26 2011 06:20 Latham wrote:
Bleach is so watered down it's unbelievable... there's barely anything happening... ever. But I kinda knew that even before reading... at this point I feel like a masochist for reading this shit every week.
I could make a joke about it being as watered down as beer in shitty pubs, but then I'd be wasting even more of my life on bleach...

Aye, even humpty dumpty has a better storyline than the current arc(and the last one for that matter, which was botched so bad)

Last bit of awesome in bleach was + Show Spoiler +

Ichigo's hollow 2

100 chapters ago

eshlow

United States5210 Posts

May 25 2011 21:48 GMT

#2243

take your pick.....

blankspace

United States292 Posts

May 25 2011 22:36 GMT

#2244

bleach is dead

bobobobojos

United States59 Posts

May 26 2011 00:17 GMT

#2245

You bunch of cynics. Lol. I thought the newest chapter was awesome with old characters getting upgrades.

blahman3344

United States2015 Posts

May 26 2011 00:56 GMT

#2246

On May 26 2011 06:48 eshlow wrote:
take your pick.....

I choose all of the above. really hope that Kubo doesn't extend this for a painfully long time. That'd just make me very sad =(

Aurious

Canada1772 Posts

May 26 2011 01:14 GMT

#2247

Only thing i liked was inoue's shield bomb reminds me of magicka

USK

173 Posts

May 26 2011 02:27 GMT

#2248

With all the loose ends and bad plots, if he only did some massive amount of trimming we could actually have a good storyline with character development. The reset was a great chance to answer questions and develop all the interesting characters he already had. But he decided to go the easy route and made another 5 or so shallow characters that he will drop as soon as this story arc is over. I think keep it simple stupid would of helped him so much, instead of new characters, develop old ones, instead of a new ability (which is not too different than shinigami powers anyways) kept the old ones and developed them farther. Take a break Kubo and come back with the plot planned out till completion so it won't sound as if you are making it up as you go.

He had an interesting world with Hollows on one side and Shinigami on the other with humans in between. While Hollows were bad, Shinigami were not good as a group either and that somewhat morally shades of grey was awesome. In my personal opinion he should of kept hollows as an actual threat instead of cannon fodder. They were all somewhat unique and not just another chump with a sword. And he ran it into the ground. I have so much more that I want to say.

caster0123

324 Posts

May 26 2011 02:44 GMT

#2249

any idea who is the guy that was shown only legs?

Flanlord

265 Posts

May 26 2011 02:48 GMT

#2250

On May 26 2011 11:44 caster0123 wrote:
any idea who is the guy that was shown only legs?

We got a voice and some toes, then a foot, then 2 feet, now the legs. We'll find out in another 7 or 8 chapters who it is.

BlackMagister

United States5834 Posts

May 26 2011 02:49 GMT

#2251

But what if it's actually a clone? Then we'll find out in 100 chapters.

KiF1rE

United States964 Posts

May 29 2011 17:25 GMT

#2252

On May 26 2011 11:49 BlackMagister wrote:
But what if it's actually a clone? Then we'll find out in 100 chapters.

It has to be aizen... yea.. no... but it has to be somebody we know, or there would be no point in going through all the trouble of hiding it. or the author hasnt decided on a new secret villain, and is just trying to involve them while giving us the least amount of detail on the character as possible while he pulls numbers out of a hat to decide or something.

So far this entire arc has very little to do with anything, besides getting ichigo his power back and everything else that is going on is a mystery.

phANT1m

South Africa535 Posts

May 30 2011 15:20 GMT

#2253

i actually just want to see how far ichigos new powers can go compared to his old shinigami powers and more so his final getsuga tenshou. Bleach is only anime i watch (used to watch a ton of other stuff but then started losing the time and then left with Bleach only

Flanlord

265 Posts

June 02 2011 01:02 GMT

#2254

New chapter is out, it could have been worse. ( http://mangastream.com/read/bleach/95863947/1 )

15 panels about doughnuts... I wonder if this is like the old 'don't go shopping for groceries when you're hungry.' sort of deals. Perhaps it applied to drawing manga.

But - unlike previous chapters I don't have a whole lot of complaints otherwise. We're seeing progression in a direction. No progress on the people taking away Ichigo's future front, but that's fine.

I'd prefer character development for Riruka rather than the suggested character development we got after/towards the end of her talk with Inoue, but I imagine we'll get that eventually anyways.

politik

409 Posts

June 02 2011 01:27 GMT

#2255

Awesome new chapter. Only took like 30 seconds to read, but those 30 seconds were nonstop laughs as I imagined raging bleach fanboys.

BlackMagister

United States5834 Posts

June 02 2011 01:59 GMT

#2256

Haha exactly. It's getting the point where I expected the chapter to end on Orohime eating donuts, but then was surprised that "something" actually happened. Looks like that guy is going to threaten Orohime to get Ichigo to get strong fast, which is a pretty lame plot device...

TealLurker

United States791 Posts

June 02 2011 02:55 GMT

#2257

It was a decent chapter. I was laughing at Inoue's drooling over the donuts. It's such a goofy look. I didn't expect the blinding. And as it should, it all comes back to "resolve." Who would've thought?

how2TL

1197 Posts

June 02 2011 03:50 GMT

#2258

Bleach died after the rescue Rukia arc, which honestly was really good for me. I cared about the characters back then.

n3mo

United States298 Posts

June 08 2011 19:57 GMT

#2259

wait what happened im so confused hahahah
i mean, im happy the recent chapters are action packed (instead of all that frickin posturing), but a bit of explanation would be nice o_O

Artic

United States91 Posts

June 08 2011 20:03 GMT

#2260

On June 09 2011 04:57 n3mo wrote:
wait what happened im so confused hahahah
i mean, im happy the recent chapters are action packed (instead of all that frickin posturing), but a bit of explanation would be nice o_O

Ginjo played devil's advocate and pushed Ichigo to his limits to find that inner strength, then an Xplosion.