Bleach discussion

[shenlong]

Hello good people, this is the place wherethe sad state of affairs concerning the manga named Bleach will be discussed. Latest lame chapter of an overdrawn boring fight, newest stupid developpement of Ichigo's ancestry, most recent instance of a character being completely irrelevant like Chad to name a perfectly random name.

All those rants should take place here. I will hereby give you the link to this week's translated chapter to give you a taste of fear and disappointment (for those who still have any expectation in Bleach at all).

Chapter 673 : readms.com/r/bleach/673/3401/1

[shenlong]

Latest chapter : readms.com/r/bleach/676/3440/1

And Ichigo has combined all of his powers, now. Hollow, shinigami and quincy. And boy does he look dumb. He's got so much powers from different sources he's really become so kind of abomination by now, it's kind of hilarious.

[jbondsr21]

I thought so too.

[5pac3trav3ll3r]

About 5 chapters remaining until the end of Bleach? Youtube vid: westbound3.proboards.com/thread/5/bleach-discussion

[shenlong]

Oh my oh my oh my ! Bleach is ending next chapter. And guess what ? It sucks !

I can't believe how terrible Kubo is a telling a story ! So Ywach got punked last chapter and without any sort of transition, we jump to ten years later, what the fuck.

So I had completely forgotten that the viking guy died. For me, he was still wrecking the captains, but going back it's true that he got siphoned by Ywach and died in like five panels. Way to make an absurdly long fight end abruptly as fuck, damn. I mean, the motherfucker was killed like twice by captains in dramatic power reveals (that, thus, ended up being completely inconsequential since the guy survived anyway.) but no, the right way to have him die is almost offscreen like that.

Speaking of cheap death, Ywach might be the worst villain death (?) of the series. A wild Ishida appears and uses plot arrow, it's super effective. Then, Ichigo hits for critical damage and cue 10 years timeskip. Fucking hell. We might get more details next chapter, but damn that was weak. Feels like Kubo suddendly remembered he had to wrap that shit up really fast.

I also had forgotten that Yachiru was gone. Because, you know, it was such a huge deal and raised no questions at all.

Also when did Sickly Captain die ? Did it happen in the 10 years or did he die during the last arc ? I so can't remember what happened to him. Let me check the wiki. Oh right, that was when he threw up the soul king's black right hand or something, yeah. I completely forgot this whole plot point. Maybe because it was like completely dispensable ? Fuck me, how can something that should be so major slip my mind like that ? It's not like I stopped reading Bleach at some point. I kept reading it every damn week and somehow all those events left no impression on me whatsoever. Maybe I'm not making an effort, I mean, I gave up in Bleach being any good like ten years ago, but Kubo is failing somewhere if all that shit can elude me so easily.

I mean, damn I can't recognize like two or three captains in that latest chapter. Who's sunglasses dude ? And glasses girl ? Who are these two characters ?

This epilogue confuses me so much. Points for Rukia becoming a captain, though. That's nice.

[kenaih]

Is next chapter really the last? Wow, what the heck did Ichigo's father go to then? I can understand about Ishida's, but what did Ichigo's father do at all? And what happened with Aizen? Did he just get back to prison like a good boy?

[shenlong]

Yeah, I guess Ichigo's dad just went with Ishida's so he wouldn't feel lonely. No clue about Aizen either. You might be led to think he got killed by Ywach's black mud powers when his illusion powers ran out and that might be the case, just another cheap death to add to the pile, or maybe he survived and stopped being evil for reasons. I mean logically, I guess he could also have been wounded enough that he could be put back in jail without too much resistance.

Maybe this will be adressed in the next chapter. But then again, maybe not.

[shenlong]

Aye, on I have read the final chapter of Bleach ! That manga is now officially over. It has been a long an arduous journey full of pain and suckiness. Thank you Tite Kubo for all those years of rage and nonsense. We couldn't have done it without you.

[ungora]

What a horrible disapointment, so many characters with 0 closures and even more stupid resolution to the remnant of the antagonist threat.

Despite i should have known better from past arcs, i still had the slight hope that the last couple of chapters was the actual perfect setup to this :
i.imgur.com/mntVA50.jpg

from several chapters earlier, so the ridiculous "arrow you didn't saw coming", "illusion you didn't saw coming" that made no sense considering the big bad has the power to see all the possible futures, would just be a smoke&mirror the big bad had thrown at Ichigo to toy around with his hope and show him how hopeless the situation was.

But no, it was simply bad.

[oxking033]

Bleach was pretty good for the 1st 2 arcs until the stupid Fullbring arc, but atleast it was getting good again for 60 chapters into the 1000 year blood war arc UNTIL the March of the Zombies bullshit and then after it went downhill until Urahara, Hitsugaya and Kenpachi's bankais which were good but the final battle was rushed to shit, Kubo's fault for taking too long BUT also shonen jump's fault for forcing him to end it so sudden.

[shenlong]

Well, I'm perfectly willing to play good cop for many things, but I don't think Bleach would have turned out any better had it been allowed the time to finish properly.