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cz
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3249 Posts
August 26 2010 02:30 GMT
#1081
Prediction: Gin will kill Aizen at the very end with his bankai ("God killing spear") attack. No idea how the fight between Ichigo / Aizen will go, but the killing shot will come from Gin.
zoLo
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States5896 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-26 02:32:41
August 26 2010 02:31 GMT
#1082
On August 26 2010 11:20 sk` wrote:
proto:
I think his hair is long due to being in the void for a year (i.e. also why he's taller).


looool it was a joke.

On August 26 2010 11:30 cz wrote:
Prediction: Gin will kill Aizen at the very end with his bankai ("God killing spear") attack. No idea how the fight between Ichigo / Aizen will go, but the killing shot will come from Gin.


I was thinking the same too since he's not dead yet and he mentioned Ichigo's eyes. He'll probably put the blow when Ichigo is about to lose.
sk`
Profile Joined November 2008
Japan442 Posts
August 26 2010 02:32 GMT
#1083
Err... I got from his comment that hair = power... which I don't think is relevant this time.
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sYz-Adrenaline
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States1850 Posts
August 26 2010 02:47 GMT
#1084
freaking epic facepalm
Can you feel the rush?
KazeHydra
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Japan2788 Posts
August 26 2010 02:55 GMT
#1085
you know what, sk, you bring up a really good point that I completely agree with. I guess we as readers sometimes forget that manga is far more business orientated than we would think. If Kubo was in fact forced to continue the story beyond what he planned, I can see why it has become such a poor quality manga, especially compared to One Piece, where Oda has already planned out the entire story to its end.
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gyth
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
657 Posts
August 26 2010 02:57 GMT
#1086
but the killing shot will come from Gin.

I think we're gonna get some wondertwin powers from gin+matsumoto.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
YejinYejin
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States1053 Posts
August 26 2010 03:10 GMT
#1087
On August 26 2010 11:57 gyth wrote:
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but the killing shot will come from Gin.

I think we're gonna get some wondertwin powers from gin+matsumoto.


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Shape of: a weak storyline!
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eH
Profile Joined May 2010
88 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-26 03:19:56
August 26 2010 03:19 GMT
#1088
I just want a fight. One solid fight. No flashbacks, no stupid crap about evolving, just let aizen start talking and ichigo totally cut it off and start beating on him.
Smokin_Squirrel
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Korea (South)674 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-26 03:28:17
August 26 2010 03:27 GMT
#1089
Lalala standard Bleach. Go on.
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EZjijy
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States1039 Posts
August 26 2010 03:36 GMT
#1090
Didn't even show Ichigo getting strong. I know he fought his hollow self and blah blah blah, but he just appears out of no where and OMGWTFPWNS Aizen just like that. -_-
anch
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States5457 Posts
August 26 2010 03:36 GMT
#1091
Finish in a single instant = more illusion tricks from Aizen.
eshlow
Profile Joined June 2008
United States5210 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-26 03:39:40
August 26 2010 03:39 GMT
#1092
That was dumb.

If he was going to end it in an instant, he should've just ended it instead of jumping him all the way to somewhere else..... THEN TELLING HIM HE"S GOING TO END IT WTF?!!!!!!!!!!!1

SON. Get the drop on him before he knows you can move that fast
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igotmyown
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States4291 Posts
August 26 2010 03:48 GMT
#1093
On August 26 2010 10:35 sk` wrote:
Kaze:
Well... that's understandable... I believe the issue likely more relates to Jump than Kubo himself. Often... most of the time if the manga is popular, Jump won't let the author finish it. Best example, Dragonball was supposed to end with Freeza. Goku was to die on Namek and that was going to be that. Jump forced him to keep going and it slowly spiraled into junk from there.

If you look at Bleach, it was likely going to end at the end of Rukia arch. But, its popularity soared an Jump kept Kubo on it. Aizen's leap into the spotlight was unusually sudden wasn't it?

Naruto suffers the same, but the writer is just better than Kubo, plain and simple... even so, much of it is getting way off in tangents.

My favorite manga "Mugen no Junin" suffered pretty badly... more because the Afternoon didn't have anything else remotely popular. It finally ended at the 25th volume, but could have easily ended 10+ volumes sooner.

While it's clear Kubo's purposefully dragging it out, it's definitely not forced.

First of all, he's foreshadowed most of the developments with the mask, and writers tend to establish most of the story beforehand if they're all linked together.

Second, he's churning out completely tangential, pointless movies (which, along with fillers are examples of story planned separately) at a rate of one every 1-2 years. They're not forcing him to make those movies, he's just milking the cash cow. It's been almost 10 years of this, surely this is an unusually long contract.
darkmetal505
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States639 Posts
August 26 2010 04:26 GMT
#1094
[image loading]

I'm having too much fun with this.
Latham
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
9568 Posts
August 26 2010 05:33 GMT
#1095
Every time I read this manga, I'm astonished at how little content he can actually fit it a chapter. This feat cannot be accomplished by sheer years of experience. He has a gift for it.
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DrivE
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States2554 Posts
August 26 2010 05:42 GMT
#1096
Exactly how many times have we heard "Let's end this"?
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TyrantPotato
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Australia1541 Posts
August 26 2010 05:47 GMT
#1097
On August 26 2010 14:42 DrivE wrote:
Exactly how many times have we heard "Let's end this"?


almost as many times as we have heard. "ahah i planned for this and now i activate my secret ability i developed off screen while you were going on a 4 chapter monologue AHAHAHAAHA!
Forever ZeNEX.
BobbYt3hBobbY
Profile Joined December 2008
256 Posts
August 26 2010 06:02 GMT
#1098
On August 26 2010 14:42 DrivE wrote:
Exactly how many times have we heard "Let's end this"?


I'm happy about every little shard of dialouge we get in Bleach nowadays.
Out of 20 Sites in the latest chapter there are like 10 without any real dialouge.
sk`
Profile Joined November 2008
Japan442 Posts
August 26 2010 06:19 GMT
#1099
Hydra:
Well, OnePiece is subject to the same... all manga is; the skill of the author determines how well they pull it off. In all likelyhood, Bleach is his first manga and thus he hasn't solved how to fufill his contract with Jump (schedule) as well as their demands for extensions in a way that keeps it intact.

igotmyown:
I'm thinking you don't know the business side... I'm not going to pretend I work in manga publishing, but I do work in a field that licenses... so yeah, anyway, the movies are NEVER controlled by the manga author. For the most part, depending on their contract, they lose that right. Jump or the publisher licenses the manga to be turned into anime and movies and the result thereof does provide profit to the author and publisher. For example, none of the DBZ movies were ever part of the official story. EVER. Same with Naruto, etc. Also, anime versions cannot be controlled by the original author... there man be some authors who seek exception clauses, but most never imagine their manga will one day be an anime or a movie and the thought of such likely stuns them in such a state of happiness they just smile in glee.

For manga contracts they will usually do a minimum term in which the author must develop a reader base... Bleach did this well, and then follow it from there. Then, year-by-year it will be renewed. For Japanese, if your contractor asks you to extend it (the story) when you planned to end it, you will often cave to their request, ESPECIALLY someone as big and powerful as Jump. Jump = The New Yorker of manga.

Foreshadowing of the mask doesn't really connect with Aizen being a butterfly... just saying... Kubo lost steam a while ago, but its too popular to just easily end so he's forced to drag what gas he has out of it. For the most part, with the whole "Royal Key" arc he has going, he may be able to squeeze another year or two from it before the popularity finally tanks to bottom and he's allowed to end it. Same thing happened with DBZ for the most part... Buu saga was Toriyama's way of saying "fuck you" to Jump. And, as I explained, he had nothing to do with GT, but didn't control the license, thus it was made.
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Shinshin
Profile Joined November 2009
United States106 Posts
August 26 2010 06:38 GMT
#1100
On August 26 2010 15:19 sk` wrote:
Hydra:
Well, OnePiece is subject to the same... all manga is; the skill of the author determines how well they pull it off. In all likelyhood, Bleach is his first manga and thus he hasn't solved how to fufill his contract with Jump (schedule) as well as their demands for extensions in a way that keeps it intact.


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