Bleach: Chapter 401

^ *Bump* for truth.

The fact that Kube blatantly tried to use his same formula from his first arc (a watered down version at that) kinda soured it for me... among other redundant aspects of his story telling -_-

I question Isshin's rational for not releasing his Zanpak against a formadable opponent?? Is his Zanpak's Shikai extremely big and bulky?? (Like he was alluding to Grandfisher?)

Right after the whole SS arc, the story should have gotten rid of all comedy moments and become serious. it's okay to joke before you know anything, but once a war has been declared, a threat has been placed, and your inner evil is threatening to eat you alive, it is better to become focused and serious.

Start killing off characters and adding desperation. That's what war is all about.

Add to the fact that the mysteriousness of every captain's shikai and especially bankai made the viewers continue to read it despite the worsening storyline.

Now everything is exposed, there's only a little bit left in the story to open up, unless someone from Hell arrives .

We still haven't seen all of the bankais we want. Most of vaizards and...talking about them, what happened to Kensei?

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Originally Posted by Tamiel

We still haven't seen all of the bankais we want. Most of vaizards and...talking about them, what happened to Kensei?

Tamiel -

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On that note I am still waiting for a convincing explanation of why Issin can beat Aizen down? Also I question Urahara's ability to fight on par with Aizen. I mean he was just a rookie Captain and all of a sudden he can fight on par with Aizen when the whole fukn Gotei 13 ate steel. Sounds suspicious and is yet another plot hole.

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Originally Posted by xxDoLLarBiLLxx

it wasn't always like this. Which is why the universal thought is that Bleach Soul Society ARC was its peak(probably one of the best arcs in shounen manga history). It had everything in it: Deaths, great fights, surprises(nothing cooler than when Zangetsu first made his appearance), the aura of the captains....and so on..It was just a great arc. When you hit your peeak like that, there's no way to go but down. Thats why you see the writing become worse and worse as the series progress.

Kubo tried to recreate the magic with the Hueco Mundo arc but it only made it worse, for 1 Inoue is not Rukia. She was always a pitiable character so to make the audience(reader) have pity for her was unrealistic. Rukia on the other hand was always an arrogant character who never showed weaknesses, for her to look so weak during that SS arc was great theater. Not only that, you also had the older brother who was willing to sacrifice his own sister. You had the best friend(who likes her) who was jealous of Ichigo's straightforwardness in saving Rukia. Everything about that arc was gr8.

I think Filler also swayed people mind off bleach too because coming from the gr8 high of that SS arc in the anime. the older fans were faced with Fillers which kinda turned them off bleach. So they went back to the manga only to try to stay interested in the series. But that didn't turned too well since the series'writing went to sht after also.

My guess is Kubo waited too long to add some meaningful stories in the manga. And that Hueco Mundo arc....and the whole kidnapping Inoue smelled Rukia part 2 in diff world. Not only that, it doesnt seem the kidnapping amounted to anything. I think this whole arc is what really killed the manga in a lot of people's mind.

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Originally Posted by Ziazca

So first off, how the hell did Urahara go about making such a magic orb which makes a person's desire into reality? Did it take a giant transmutation circle and thousands of lives?

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I was wondering that too. . .and really couldn't aizen just tell them orb to make the kings key, or better yet just have the orb take his place and end this stupid arc thats been going on for 500000 years???




if you think about it, that whole heco mundo arc really didnt do anything except show us some ichigo eye candy for a chapter against the emo dude with tears down his face as his character design...(I cant stand looking at that faggot)

Looks like Bleach has finally picked up, I'm glad I stopped my break from it at this point, Urahara & Isshin combo sounds kewl to me.

I wonder whats happening in Naruto now? :p

I'm betting that the action will switch back to the Yammi fight In hueco mundo, and we will have to wait for urahara and isshin fighting aizen.