Farewell to Bleach

[R.n.P]

Most people on this website that read shonen jump manga or watch anime would know that today one of the big three of the shonen jump industry which is bleach comes to an end today, just last year Naruto came to an end and to say the truth it didn't touch me that much, I felt rather relieved at the thought that I can finally only focus on my favorite manga Bleach and today the main story finally comes to an end, I remember always thinking bout how I started watching Bleach when I was in my 4th year of highschool, at that time the only thing that mattered to me was being a bully and getting into trouble with my boys, those days were really rough and I enjoyed it but at a time I started getting bored seeing as the only shows I was interested in at that point was Naruto, shows on national geographic wild and action movies and there wasn't much to do at school since I had good grades and didn't have to try too hard to get a B or an A in my major subjects like Biology, Maths n English so at that time I smuggled my phone to school since I was a boarder and as I was browsing through Naruto amvs I saw an anime there with art that just immediately dragged me into it with its beauty and as I checked its name I saw that it was called bleach, I remember laughing really hard and thinking it was some kinda joke till I finally saw their logo and thought to myself that the author really does what he wants in the show and watching it would feel more interesting since Naruto seems to never do things that I would never expect(they usually do the anime clichés like good guys should never lose) and I wasn't disappointed as I watch bleach since the first fight I watched was the main character Ichigo fighting Grimmjow an espada but at that time I used to call them demons since I wasn't totally into the series by then and in that fight I had never seen a main character get his butt whooped so hard, I mean the bad guy gave him a good 5minutes of relentless soccer punches to the teeth before ichigo could even touch the ground and finally I felt like I had found my number one show.
Before I knew it I got back to my childhood hobby which was drawing( i stopped drawing around my 3rd year of highschool cuz people said it was childish n all) and I also started to have better relationships with other people, the rate I was bullied by my seniors reduced and the rate at which I bullied others also reduced and it came at a good time because that's when my friends tried to introduce me to drugs and since that time I wasn't bored anymore and had something to do, I ended up staying clean from drugs throughout my highschool and till today. And bleach seems to have a way to get you to interact healthily with people(bad people especially) because till today even though I didn't follow through with all the peer pressure during highschool, I can still interact easily with my friends and total strangers I don't even know where they came from.
So since today such a life changing series is about to end, I just wanna say thank you to Kubo Tite for the several years of entertainment and morals I gained during my time watching the show, also people shouldn't get me wrong, I'm not one of those anime freaks or nerds as they call them, I have a life that I live and anime, manga and comics are the part that I use to show off my creativity whenever academics and logic seems to be getting dull.

[TomSawyer]

It would be pretty cool
If you put better spacing between your words

[J.Z.Castillo]

Good God, Morty, it's a wall of text!!

What I think of all those mangas ending

Now Fairy Tail and One Piece

[Greg_Dickson]

YAY! Bleach is gone!

SPOILERS

Sorry, but I liked Bleach up until the point where Ichigo lost his powers. It really should have ended there, and that's where I basically dropped it. From that point on, the plot kept getting dumber and dumber, and I can't believe the things that my good friend kept telling me that kept happening as the series went on. I did check back on it once to see how dumb it got, and my god...I just had to stop reading. My brain cells couldn't take the assault. It really felt like the creator was just extending the story just for the sake of it to make more money. With Naruto, as long as it got, I could at least tell that it was leading up to a definitive ending, but with Bleach, I never felt like there was a concrete end goal in sight to strive for.

The end of the arc I mentioned would have been perfect. Ichigo saves his friends, but loses his shinigami powers, says goodbye to Rukia who started this whole chain of events, and goes to live on his life as a normal human, and all is well. It would have been such a nice, simple ending. There's no way I'm slogging through the rest of it though to see what kind of ending is in store. Didn't I hear that the ending was even cut short from what he originally wanted to do too?

@mrjonzap I actually heard that One Piece is only 65% through it's story. And I couldn't stand Fairy Tail. Naruto, One Piece, and to that arc of Bleach that I mentioned, I could tolerate...but Fairy Tail...UGH...

[60Six]

Geeze, talk about raining on a parade guys. :'D
On a friendlier note, I totally get ya. I lost interest in Bleach years ago but back in middle school it was one of the big ones for me. Naruto was sorta what got me into finally watching subs online (because I couldn't wait for the new episodes on Toonami anymore), but Bleach is what got me hooked on anime.
It was past due to end in my opinion, but it's still sort of bitter sweet to see another one of the big ones to come to an end. It's kind of closing a chapter on a lot of people's childhoods.

[El_Psy_Congroo]

I always liked his art style but I'm not gonna lie, his characters personalities and motivations are vague at best and super bland at worst. It did go on for a stretch too long. The earliest arcs were definitely the best. I feel like a lot of early characters from then were totally forgotten then suddenly brought back to the forefront in that last chapter.

Whatever happened to Kon? Kubo was like:

I think Kubo should stick to either character design work or try to improve his writing.

[J.Z.Castillo]

@Greg_Dickson yeah Shonen Jump made him end the series early for some reason. I wanted to like Bleach because I think the characters designs are REALLY cool!! BUT the story, holy fuck the story! I got so bored with it, it's the perfect Mary Sue story, no one can be stronger than MC because MC is MC and MC is important. There were strong characters but Strawberry was always 1% stronger, which made him the strongest, so BORING! I honestly could not stand it.

Fairy Tail is just too... idiotic?? Fucking annoying characters and the power of friendship, fuck outta here with that shit! I get it that it's geared for younger audiences, but come on!

[Greg_Dickson]

@Riko oh don't get me wrong, I was very much into Bleach when it started. It didn't get me hooked on anime, but I was hooked on it. But it depends on the quality of the overall product that makes me feel bittersweet. I felt bittersweet about Naruto because I thought it was consistently better until the end, aside from a few minor quibbles I had with it. But I'm totally aware that some people thought it dropped in quality until it's end and ended up hating it, and I'm fine with that. But Bleach's quality made me drop the series twice. I respect early Bleach, kind of like how people respect the early seasons of The Simpsons. But for a lot of people, if they were told The Simpsons was ending, they would cheer to the heavens. While that show does hold a special place in many people's hearts, many people will say it dipped in quality severely and just kept going and going (and you can tell the creators are just in it for the money by that point). That's just how I feel about Bleach.

@mrjonzap
The fact that no one could be stronger than Ichigo, always makes me think about that episode of South Park (Good Times With Weapons), where Cartman says that his superpower is having all of the superpowers he wants. It's extremely lame to have a character like that. And Fairy Tail's characters always won their battles because of friendship! It drove me nuts and I just had to stahp!

[J.Z.Castillo]

@Greg_Dickson haha that was a good episode because that is such a Cartman thing to do! But yeah, OP MCs are just cancer to a story, they don't let anyone else grow up and develop. Should've been called "Strawberry Does the Thing" instead of Bleach

[bakasama25]

So does this mean the those Kubo memes are going to end? Anyway, I've always found it interesting that Bleach is considered the top three shounen manga, outside of Japan. In Japan, it's been a mediocre manga much of the time.

I've always felt Bleach wasted it's side characters only because Kubo kept adding new characters whenever he written himself in a corner. I guess Kubo is going to take a break for a while, I think he really needs it.

[SpavVy]

It's about time that manga ended!

I'm sorry but in my opinion, the series was complete trash that should have ended loooong ago.

[TomSawyer]

I never got into Bleach
Maybe I'll start that soon

Haven't heard anything particularly good about the series

But if it's anything like Naruto
Then it'll lose it's charm over time

[R.n.P]

If you read the last arc of bleach the big bad was a villain that I thought would end up actually winning, his power is to transform the future and can even rewrite his future death as long as he considers the future he sees as a possibility and Ichigo couldn't take him on at all, not even Aizen could take him.

[Kura]

Another long running shonen comes to an end. It's always weird to see some series that have lasted such a long time and been around since you were a kid go (even if I didn't read them) At the same time I really glad that shonen series GET an ending, and don't turn into what North American comics turn their super hero franchises into ><

I unfortunately wasn't a big fan of Bleach (Hunter x Hunter and One Piece are more my thing), I just couldn't get into it and there were just a lot of things that annoyed me about it that made it just not fun for me to read. I'm very story orientated, so the poor story directions, predictability, lack of interested in characters and characters roles being short lived and forgotten was very noticeable for me. As a result I have not bothered to read the series for years.

BUT it was actually still kind of fun to see how everything rounded out in the end (a friend of mine was showing me clips from the manga and such of how it ended) Though the 'Time skip lets see everyone's kids" endings are getting really old for me.

[TheDragonSlayer]

All because of shounen jump rushed bleach to an imperfect end. While they are doing that they are going to drag out one piece since its their big hitter.

[J.Z.Castillo]

I am guessing that somehow Strawberry and friends found an impossible way to fool him and kill him even though he was the most powerful being in existence (practically), and then Strawberry did some bullshit again, even though he's "not the most powerful" (yeah right), and killed him when the most powerful of the soul reapers couldn't defeat him. MMMh, yeah, OKAY!

And the prize for poor writing goes to!... Kubo Tite!

Seriously, you can't write a character like that and then just kill him ?????? Doesn't he KNOW how he's going to die and then change the result? Like, how stupid? I ain't even sorry, I just can't stand the story, it's so stupid. Awesome character design, horrible plot.

[TheVoidchildProject]

Bleach was part of my weekly manga routine. Kubo is an amazing artist, but as many have pointed out, dude didn't really know how to write stories. Not consistently any way. The Soul Society arc was masterful, the Pendulum Swings back stories for the Vaizard was also pretty cool. Aside from that it Bleach was a pretty dull series with some serious pacing issues.

I stuck with it sort of by habit and I can't say I'm especially blown away by the ending. It seemed like a DBZ/Naruto cut and paste. Everyone had the sex and the babies and the circle of life and so forth.

Still, even with all its flaws. Bleach has a special place in my heart. I'd say that the first part of that series still made it all worth it. ^_^

[TheVoidchildProject]

@mrjonzap I actually heard that One Piece is only 65% through it's story. And I couldn't stand Fairy Tail. Naruto, One Piece, and to that arc of Bleach that I mentioned, I could tolerate...but Fairy Tail...UGH...

One Piece is still one of my fav comics/manga ever. Oda is a bloody legend! I can't believe the series is able to maintain such a level of quality and charm for such a long period of time. And the imagination on that guy! And his art continues to improve over the years. I'd urge anyone to just stop and look at the detail of his characters and environments. Not to mention his action panels!

Erm, I kinda geeked out there. I really meant to join the bandwagon of "I can't stand Fairy Tail". The art in it is good, but derivative. Script and character motivations (as far as I've read) are basically non-existent. I stuck with it far longer than I should've...

[Greg_Dickson]

I actually really like One Piece too. I'm just too behind on the manga to catch up for now, and I haven't found a convenient way to keep watching the anime, since I don't do torrents.

[TheDragonSlayer]

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