Farewell to Bleach

[R.n.P]

Woah, I can see that you really have a deep hate for Bleach.
Your being too analytical about the show, just read the arc.
Ichigo didn't fool him, the villain just fooled himself since he saw a vision of the future of how ichigo would defeat him while sleeping, so he took it as a dream and ichigo didn't fight him alone, he partnered up with Aizen and Uryuu(in his case its mostly because his father found a way to shut down the villains power for an instant that provided ichigo an opportunity to escape a deadly attack from the villain and also bought him some time for him to be able to get back him weapon that the villain broke out of his arm)

[J.Z.Castillo]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN TOO ANALYTICAL??? I'm just pointing out the HUGE flaws the franchise has! And I'm not the only one, apparently. And that's a stupid way to kill the last bad guy, that is the quintessential cop out. If he saw a vision of his death why didn't he change it because, you know, THAT'S HIS POWER I.E. WHAT MAKES HIM SO INVINCIBLE?? It was all just packaged with a pretty bow on top so our best buddy Strawberry could once again save the day when no one else could.

I guess to each their own. Bleach is definitely an example of how not to tell stories, unless you want a dick-ton of plot holes, poor character development, predictable story lines, and an unoriginal story everyone has already seen done better.

[insomniascrawl]

I totally agree, I read it up to a point and when I was satisfied with the story ending at the point I read up to, I stopped reading it and pretended it ended there... Despite the fact that it kept going

[69Michi]

dunno it seems like some of these are heading in that franchise direction... ever heard of Boruto?

We don't talk about Boruto. It never existed. Let it go. Let it dies.

But back on the topic. I have never been able to get into Bleach. With the hype around the series and how much more popular Bleach is in the states compare to like One Piece (my favorite series from the 3 bigs), I tried to give Bleach a try. But alas I watched till episode 10 and I just had to drop it because I couldn't click with it. Not saying I hate the series, it has its charm, but not the sort of charm for me.

Bleach to me is just meh and alright in general. But I have to give the series credit, there is a reason it becomes one of the big 3 and was popular from all the way back then. @mrjonzap I can see you really don't like the show LMFAO Just remember, you're bashing Bleach to a Bleach fan and a fan just does what a fan does, they will defend their favorite series; so don't get too worked up about it

[SpavVy]

I finished at volume one

[tsukiko]

Yup I can feel you man! I was also one of those shonenjump fanboys when I was a shonen (lol) Those giants introduced me on anime and manga, every episode of the series always gave me bursts of imagination, but as I got older and learned more on creating Manga somewhat I saw One Piece, naruto, Bleach and well Fairy tail (gooood Fairy tail ugh!) they were all stale! And that's being extra kind with words.

And Look at the ending of Bleach, I just got this feeling it was streamlined, or worse it got axed by the voting system in shonenjump. I mean, Tite Kubo said bleach was still half of its story back in the aizen arc (if anyone believed that though) and here we are abruptly ending it. I didn't mean to rant though xD I'm a fan of bleach too but Bleach wasn't suppose to go this long in my opinion and Kubo might have just over extended it.

[J.Z.Castillo]

I can see you really don't like the show LMFAO Just remember, you're bashing Bleach to a Bleach fan and a fan just does what a fan does, they will defend their favorite series; so don't get too worked up about it

hahaha, yeah, well, that's why I am excluding myself from this narrative now. It is what it is, and what it is is a shitty story. But I mean, don't even get me started on the fanbase lmao! I am a huge Harry Potter fan but that doesn't stop me from looking at the series objectively (like the whole Snape is good/bad debacle), unlike the Narutards and the Bleach fans I used to fight every day of high school because the anime sucked balls hahaha. Oh well!

[SpavVy]

@mrjonzap Oh man, the fan base is HORRIBLE! I've had a butthurt Bleach fan tell me to "slit my wrist and die" once! xD
This kind of Bleach doesn't kill bacteria, it creates it!

[J.Z.Castillo]

@Savannah HAHAHA I've had Narutards "curse" me with those hand jives they do hahahaha like okay? Then they would run away with their arms stretched out behind their backs like "true ninjas" OH GOD memories!

[SpavVy]

Wow, that's....incredibly stupid actually xD even when I was a tween I didn't do dumb stuff like that!

[R.n.P]

I wish I knew they called Naruto fans narutards cuz I really hated the show once I got into Bleach n would have loved to call them that during highschool
But anyway you can bash Bleach, I have no qualms after all it is just a manga and its not like they paid me for reading the manga n stuff. I just feel that I should at least defend the mangaka's hardwork because no matter how much it seemed bad to some guys, it's still time, energy and power he put into drawing the series and it just seems wrong for someone to just talk bad about someone else's hard work. Just imagine that a herd of trolls just come over to this site so that they can insult and bash every single creator's work here.

[El_Psy_Congroo]

Just imagine that a herd of trolls just come over to this site so that they can insult and bash every single creator's work here.

A herd of trolls you say?

[J.Z.Castillo]

@phenomenom9 I am absolutely not bashing Bleach, I am merely criticizing it, because that's what art is for, no? I gave him lots of praise for his character design (so have many people here) but I do hold him in contempt for his story writing techniques, which are very poor. I couldn't care less how much time and effort goes into a project, if it fails, it fails, if it's bad, it's bad. I'm sure Kubo doesn't give a fuck about the trolls, he made his millions off of a mediocre story that got blown up because weeaboos and fan boys all over the world didn't want to realize that the story lacks essence, so why should he care?

This is why I can't talk to Narutards or Bleach fans about their shows because they have their heads so far up the creator's ass that any little critique comes off as "bashing the anime/manga" or trolling. But anyway, to each their own, shitty stories will never stop making money (look at Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey).

[michaelson]

Did they ever get around to explaining why the title of the manga is called BLEACH??

[Shanny8]

@mrjonzap at this point in my life I cant say there is ANY solid story that we should hold our standards to. Everything has holes & flaws- some more than others. This especially goes back to a post I wrote sometime ago about me yawning at anime sometimes; most of the shows have some of the same elements bouncing around. It's one of those things where I like watching anime, because currently a lot of the action stuff they do far surpasses a lot in terms of animation, but if I watch too much of it I start to see the same elements floating around in every show and I cringe at it.

A lot of stuff I watch is primary for entertainment value on one level or another. I just finished watching Naruto on Netflix, and I'm like after the Naruto/Sosuke fight, they couldve kept the rest of that show. I onno, maybe they were contracted to do more episodes, but the rest of that felt like filler until they released Shippuden. I can see when I first started watching Bleach, I was there purely for the action, but a certain point- after the Ichigo/Aizen finale, I was like, "whatever". That ending was somewhat a big letdown to me, through the rest of the show, I didnt feel Kubo could ever recapture or top what he had done.

[JessJackdaw]

I believe it was just a word Kubo liked... He liked the harsh inflection the English word had and made it the name of the series because the name fit the tone. Other than that... not really sure there is a reason. XD

[bakasama25]

I do remember a few memes like:

Aizen being a troll.
Chad's OTP being himself and a pool of blood.
Bleach has no backgrounds
THE HEART.

I'll give Bleach points for having appealing characters but a lot of them were poorly handled.

[Amymone]

I always thought it was because, when Rukia turned Ichigo into a Shinigami, she was suddenly wearing white. They're probably just her undergarments, but it appeared to be symbolic to the title.

I know I'm not the only one who thought this because a bunch of girls I met at a con explained it to one of the admins the same way.

[Starfestival]

Kubo likes playing around with symbolism.
Either that or the fact he's a big music/Nirvna fan and named it after the album BLEACH(fan theory)

[R.n.P]

According to what I heard they have three reasons or so but I don't care, I still take it that Bleach if kubo's favorite cleaning product