Bleach is a classic example of an author with one idea (not necessarily a good idea but a marketable one). He made it work for as long as he possibly could, with basically two different rehashes of the same arc that both dragged on far too long, and now he clearly has no direction and no idea what to do with his story. It seems like hes just stalling out as long as he can and collecting as much money from the series as he can before his editors pull the plug.

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

January 27 2011 00:02 GMT

#1862

WTF IS GOING ON

MeyerA

Sweden126 Posts

January 27 2011 00:05 GMT

#1863

Ichigo fighting a teddybear in a doll house.. I'm not surprised.

Kyhol

Canada2575 Posts

January 27 2011 00:09 GMT

#1864

O_O

Hahah, I'm a fool to keep reading this! Infact, that's a lie. I'm not reading it anymore, I skim through the pages to check for potential. I'm wondering why I do this. :p

Fenrax

United States5018 Posts

January 27 2011 00:17 GMT

#1865

On January 27 2011 09:05 MeyerA wrote:
Ichigo fighting a teddybear in a doll house.. I'm not surprised.

What is so hard to understand about that? He has to fight Teddybears in the dollhouse so that then, after the matchbox car race against Spongebob Squarepants, he can regain his Shinigami powers.

Flanlord

265 Posts

January 27 2011 00:39 GMT

#1866

While funny on a 'wow, this has really gone downhill' sort of way...

It has gotten very hard to be optimistic about Bleach's future. There are very few directions this can go, and its looking like it is going to get a lot worse before it MIGHT get better.

Now Ichigo has to use Fullbring? So he's really just making shit up now. Well, more obviously.

USK

173 Posts

January 27 2011 00:40 GMT

#1867

I dunno I kind of liked bleach with the reset back to no powers. I think that more could of been done with it, like bring tatsuki into the story more, developed characters, filled plot holes... basically it was just 3 chapters, introduces ichigos old boss then throws him back into the same old training routine. With the promise of fixing his hollow powers or something like that. Vizards much?

Xyik

Canada728 Posts

January 27 2011 00:48 GMT

#1868

Has anyone wondered what happened to Kon? I only recently remembered him after seeing stupid dolls again in this chapter.

SnK-Arcbound

United States4423 Posts

January 27 2011 01:47 GMT

#1869

The real sad thing about Bleach is that One Piece is actually my favorite manga now. Bleach and Naruto are now so bad I look forward to One Piece coming out. Bleach should end with Ichigo committing seppuku. Naruto should end with an eye power that creates nuclear-destruction-no-jutsu and blows up the entire world. GG now work on mangas that have stories that make sense guys.

Purind

Canada3562 Posts

January 27 2011 03:52 GMT

#1870

Karin's breasts were bigger than I thought, though I guess by Kubo standards they're miniscule. Even though she's like.... 13 or so

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

January 27 2011 05:31 GMT

#1871

On January 27 2011 09:48 Xyik wrote:
Has anyone wondered what happened to Kon? I only recently remembered him after seeing stupid dolls again in this chapter.

aizen killed him

Gummy

United States2180 Posts

January 27 2011 05:38 GMT

#1872

On January 27 2011 14:31 travis wrote:

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aizen killed him

How did Aizen manage to kill a mod soul?

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

January 27 2011 05:59 GMT

#1873

On January 27 2011 14:38 Gummy wrote:

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How did Aizen manage to kill a mod soul?

he used bakudo 99

StorkHwaiting

United States3465 Posts

January 27 2011 06:36 GMT

#1874

On January 27 2011 14:59 travis wrote:

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he used bakudo 99

Sers?? When did this happen!?!

.Aar

2177 Posts

January 27 2011 06:45 GMT

#1875

Finally got around to catching up.

Only thing of import I noticed was the Karin has boobs now. Cool.

edit: oh and dolls okay

dudeman001

United States2412 Posts

January 27 2011 06:55 GMT

#1876

On January 27 2011 15:36 StorkHwaiting wrote:

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Sers?? When did this happen!?!

I feel like Travis is getting into the spirit of Bleach and trolling us hard. That or I completely missed the chapter with Kon getting obliterated

But... teddy bear combat hooray? Such a dark and depressing atmosphere... then teddy bear battle. Words can't describe my confusion.

Latham

9593 Posts

January 27 2011 09:51 GMT

#1877

The pace is slowly starting to get on my nerves. Seriously, the story moves INCHES in every chapter, as opposed to big leaps in Naruto and One Piece.
This week in the big 3:
Naruto: Kages ressurected and explained. 1st division in peril, ambush on the medieval lords. Blood expansion talent revealed.
One Piece: Learning about FI, getting to see King's Palace, Meeting Princess. Prophecy forwarded to Princes. Mud-dude getting freed and kidnapping mermaids.
Bleach: Getting into a doll house, period. ... ... ... Motherf***er

Flanlord

265 Posts

January 27 2011 10:08 GMT

#1878

I can honestly say I would be upset if Kon returned. The mod soul was one of the first half-baked ideas that slowly eroded away at the Bleach universe in the name of artificial depth. He quickly went from a moral quandary about the way Soul Society goes about doing things, undermining their foresight despite their insane snobbery about everything they did. Unfortunately, the character quickly became useless, and was immediately reduced to comic relief. Unoriginal, uninteresting, and not really all that funny comic relief. Good riddance.

Although I'm not excited about the current pace, I have to disagree with people complaining that it is too slow and needs to be picked up immediately. If next week we found out that Urahara was actually an evil mastermind of some sort, or that Aizen broke out and Ichigo had to die again to become a super-hollow to fight him for 4-5 more chapters it wouldn't make sense. (Although overall storytelling quality would remain oddly unchanged.)

Bleach has, and always will have huge gaping unexplained holes. Ichigo's father was a Shinigami with powers etc. 20 years ago but not a single person from soul society knows who the hell he is? Fine. I've given up on that sort of thing being explained a long time ago. What Bleach really needs is direction. Since the very start until the start of this arc, Bleach was basically on the same arc, or allowing some side-show stuff to account for the passage of time. Bleach no longer has that. I don't have any real expectations of Bleach at this point in terms of quality or logic, but at least in the past I always felt like it was going somewhere, and the last several chapters have me questioning that. Is Bleach going anywhere anymore?

I'm starting to think it would have been best off if Ichigo had died when he defeated Aizen, and we call it the end of the manga. Closure with a logical and good ending point decided at the very start of the manga.

marcoso

Brazil818 Posts

January 27 2011 13:13 GMT

#1879

On January 27 2011 18:51 Latham wrote:
The pace is slowly starting to get on my nerves. Seriously, the story moves INCHES in every chapter, as opposed to big leaps in Naruto and One Piece.
This week in the big 3:
+ Show Spoiler +

Naruto: Kages ressurected and explained. 1st division in peril, ambush on the medieval lords. Blood expansion talent revealed.
One Piece: Learning about FI, getting to see King's Palace, Meeting Princess. Prophecy forwarded to Princes. Mud-dude getting freed and kidnapping mermaids.

Bleach: Getting into a doll house, period. ... ... ... Motherf***er

spoiler tags, please