Bleach Club

[Andromeda]

Well I picked up Volume 25 of the Bleach Manga so I got to the Visoreds and Ichigo dual his inner hollow for control as well as fully hollowified Ichigo. It was all pretty cool stuff, but it seemed that the whole thing happened and went so quickly. But I guess that is just because it was done in like 2 or 3 chapters though it felt like only one chapter. But still it is nice to see them doing things and then Hitsugaya at the end got some page time with the true goal of Aizen being told at that point. It is going to be fun seeing this animated when it comes out on AS.

The last episode was Episode 90, so we only have about 20 more episodes to go before we get back to the manga episodes and the start of the ever so long Arrancar Arc that never ends. ^^; Yeah, I know that they are still doing the Arrancar Arc even now even if it is broken up in to Heuco Mondo and whatever the new stuff that is taking place above Karakura Town is being called. Wikipedia and curiosity are a bad thing for me. ^^; But it all still about the Arrancar, but I guess they could be calling it something different for a sub-arc or whatever. Either way it is still the same thing of stop Aizen and his army.

Welcome to the club Blacksmith. It should be refreshing to have a vocal member. I can't speak to the new stuff coming out since I haven't seen or read it just seen summaries from different sources. But you should at least be glad that Tite doesn't drag out fights and the anime doesn't seem to do that either from what I have seen. They are a little longer, but not to the stupid proportions that we have seen in other shows. Most fights are resolved in a handful of chapters in the manga. But I will admit it does have a very large cast of characters. Which are no doubt hard to keep going all the time. He seems to play favorites I think a lot of times, probably the ones that are fan favs so that people stay around. I doubt many people are interested in seeing Squad 1's Vice-Captain fighting. They'd rather see Hitsugaya or Renji or someone like that. Even if Ichigo did one hit knock out the guy.

The Bount arc itself has been interesting to watch and while not as fun as a manga episode, simply because in the manga episodes you see something new from the character each fight generally while here they are very limited in what they can do. So most fights get a little old since the characters are not really allowed to advance like they do in the manga. But I'm looking forward to seeing the Arrancar arc that I've been reading the last few months. Just wish that they would catch up on the manga like they are doing with Naruto.

One point that you make in there about it not being about Ichigo anymore but the others. I like that, since I get tired of it always being on the main character and I am afraid of it being Ichigo in the end saving everyone. I don't want it to be like that. Because I've seen in DBZ and Yu yu Hakusho and Inuyasha. In the end only the main character is allowed to win because they are the strongest. I like that in Bleach Ichigo is certainly not the strongest of the good characters, he is certain high on the list, but if he went up against some of the other captains he probably would lose even if it would be a hard fought fight. Pretty sure Yamamato would clean his clock faster than he could blink if Yamamato really wanted to try. Means that Tite doesn't have to rely on Ichigo to save the day he can have others do it sometimes, so its not always the same formula.

[Zardoch]

Welcome to the club Blacksmith. It should be refreshing to have a vocal member. I can't speak to the new stuff coming out since I haven't seen or read it just seen summaries from different sources. But you should at least be glad that Tite doesn't drag out fights and the anime doesn't seem to do that either from what I have seen.

If you only just got to episode 90, you're about to be berated with drawn out fights. Not only that, but even AFTER that arc, it practically becomes a soap opera with the typical anime comedy with most of the members taking SO MANY EPISODES to enhance themselves and what not. AND THEN they decided to create a filler arc RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MUNDO ARC, which was an utter waste of money. And NOW they're finally getting back to that arc, except for the past 8 episodes, it's been nothing but 'let's kick the shit out of the main characters'. Not only that, but it took them FOREVER to put one simple fight in one episode. Just a bunch of bad guys with egos and "i gotz godmodding powers, lol" while the main characters struggle to do ANYTHING at all.

That's not bad enough, besides the 2 minute intro, they also add a 3 minute flash-back of the episode that ultimate makes each episode only about 15-17 minutes long, WHICH IS BULLSHIT! If they didn't waste so much time with the flashbacks, they could actually add more to each episode and ultimately make them more satisfying despite the dragging torture of characters and fights..

One point that you make in there about it not being about Ichigo anymore but the others. I like that, since I get tired of it always being on the main character and I am afraid of it being Ichigo in the end saving everyone. I don't want it to be like that. Because I've seen in DBZ and Yu yu Hakusho and Inuyasha. In the end only the main character is allowed to win because they are the strongest. I like that in Bleach Ichigo is certainly not the strongest of the good characters, he is certain high on the list, but if he went up against some of the other captains he probably would lose even if it would be a hard fought fight. Pretty sure Yamamato would clean his clock faster than he could blink if Yamamato really wanted to try. Means that Tite doesn't have to rely on Ichigo to save the day he can have others do it sometimes, so its not always the same formula.

I actually agree here. It would get stupid with Ichigo basically going all SS at the end of every arc and saving everybody, and I honestly don't like Ichigo all that much. In fact, I hate most retarded-yet extremely lucky-powerful main characters that seem to pull as much shit out of their ass like an RPB noob who's afraid of losing. But the problem is that there is simply too many characters that need to be developed and trying to interact them with each other like they are is extremely difficult and one of the reason why episodes drag on for so long. I just wish they would throw some episodes on the back-seat so that they can flesh out other characters WITHOUT resorting to stupid flashbacks that are pretty much boring episodes. In the end, with what they have, most of these flashbacks are predictable too.

Now, there is one other concept that could save them, and it's the concept based on George R.R. Martin's series, A Song of Fire and Ice. The book has so many characters that it can sometimes be difficult to keep up with them all, but George found a different way to solve that problem. Instead of writing in second person or third person, each chapter is based on the view of one character. Then one character interacts with most of the characters he's grouped around with. So each chapter there's always something going on with each of these characters, but they're all able to stay interlinked storywise. If Bleach could do that, I would shut up right now.