On August 23 2016 22:46 Hyperbola wrote: Here's a fun game you could play: 1. Find a bleach character 2. Try to describe them without mentioning what they look like, what costume they wear, their job or their role in the manga.
I remember this game being used to criticize the Star Wars prequels, was pretty funny. I don't think it works as well for Bleach though because so many characters are basically a single trait exaggerated to the limit.
Also, in the original game you were allowed to use more than one word =p.
That video pretty much hit everything on the nail but what blew me away the most was that graph and the decline of bleach rating. My god did that crap plummeted hard.
It also never really hit me until the video but I never realized that Ichigo never had a goal. He was always sort of just there to rescue his friends. The Ichigo is a teenager really does hold true.
I think most of us thought (and wanted) Bleach to end after the conclusion of the SS arc, with Aizen butterfly (which was a shit ending, though). And that it didn't end there became the downfall of Bleach. Instead of the shit reputation it's got now, it would've ended on a kind of high.
The Aizen arc didn't end that well, but it did reveal some cool stuff about Ichigo and the world around him. Of course it's partially ruined by the fact that he's not just a Shinigami, but A CAPTAIN, and somehow no one knew where he was was.
The main hope at the conclusion of the Aizen arc was with Ichigo losing his powers (even if it's obvious that it's a temporary loss), it reset all the ridiculous power levels and oddly specific hard-counter abilities that were starting to crop up. Instead they had the really stupid Xcution arc with even more Deus Ex Machina powers and Ichigo just kept gaining new abilities.
On August 23 2016 22:46 Hyperbola wrote: Here's a fun game you could play: 1. Find a bleach character 2. Try to describe them without mentioning what they look like, what costume they wear, their job or their role in the manga.
On August 23 2016 22:46 Hyperbola wrote: Here's a fun game you could play: 1. Find a bleach character 2. Try to describe them without mentioning what they look like, what costume they wear, their job or their role in the manga.
butterfly. Or does that qualify for their job/role/what they look like? scaffold
pig
stiff
crazy
sassy
holes
It's hard to describe ppl without relating to their visuals with just one word :/
On August 23 2016 22:46 Hyperbola wrote: Here's a fun game you could play: 1. Find a bleach character 2. Try to describe them without mentioning what they look like, what costume they wear, their job or their role in the manga.
On August 26 2016 03:03 hellokitty[hk] wrote: So did Urahara die or did anyone see him show up in the background?
If the captains, WHO ACTUALLY DIED AND GOT ZOMBIFIED AND WERE LITERALLY CALLED OUT AS BEING DEAD, didn't die then how could Urahara die?
Urahara is back at the Urahara shop... what would have been cool is if Kubo showed him joining squad zero for his invention of the hogyoku and study on hollows but you know, Kubo doesn't like sensible endings!
Nor does he explain how the f*ck come the world now functions without the soul king and who the new soul king is... or what happened to squad zero or a million other questions left unanswered! Instead we got to see nonsensical bullsh*t about Rukkia's promotion and people preparing to watch Chad fight in the real world... Even though Kyoraku SPECIFICALLY gave tickets to Ichigo's friends to "go and see him one last time" telling them that "he might become too powerful to come back to the real world"....
Also, lets not forget that, somehow, Gigais shoot jizz into humans...
Maybe we can start a petition to have Kubo add 5 more chapters that resolves all the problems and brings closure to the series? I mean, if people are willing to sign a RT petition because of the negative reviews of Suicide Squad, I'm sure we can get more than enough to get Kubo to rewrite Bleach and end it better than this shitfest
I feel a reasonable level of sympathy for Kubo after watching this. If you don't pay attention to anything about Shonen Jump but the chapters themselves, it's so hard to see anyone but the author at fault. Having given it some more thought, it probably wasn't him alone that made the series peter out. Whatever the reason, it seemed like he got into a very poor relationship with his editors, and felt a crippling blow to his passion for the series. I don't know what he could've done differently to make things turn out better, if anything, but I do know that when you find yourself hating what you love, you just don't want to do anything like you used to.
I'm at least glad that I followed through to the end of the series now, if nothing else in deference to someone who's undoubtedly a very talented artist, and to the glory his series used to encapsulate. It really is a shame that things panned out the way they did, I went through my teenage years following Bleach, and I loved it so much. It deserved better.
I feel a reasonable level of sympathy for Kubo after watching this. If you don't pay attention to anything about Shonen Jump but the chapters themselves, it's so hard to see anyone but the author at fault. Having given it some more thought, it probably wasn't him alone that made the series peter out. Whatever the reason, it seemed like he got into a very poor relationship with his editors, and felt a crippling blow to his passion for the series. I don't know what he could've done differently to make things turn out better, if anything, but I do know that when you find yourself hating what you love, you just don't want to do anything like you used to.
I'm at least glad that I followed through to the end of the series now, if nothing else in deference to someone who's undoubtedly a very talented artist, and to the glory his series used to encapsulate. It really is a shame that things panned out the way they did, I went through my teenage years following Bleach, and I loved it so much. It deserved better.
Being a manga artist is a brutal and thankless profession. The best illustration is in the manga series Showa by Shigeru Mizuki, detailing his time serving in the Japanese Army during World War II and his manga career in Japan's postwar miracle. When Mizuki did poorly, he had so little money that he couldn't afford food. But he came to fear success almost as much as failure because editors were merciless in their demands. He has an out of body experience where an evil spirit steals his body, but after six separate editors hound him in a single day demanding more material, the spirit voluntarily returns his body because the stress is too much. It's never gotten much better except for the names people would recognize like Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli) or Akira Torayama (Dragonball).
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