Wow, you completely missed my point. I do think that bleach sucks hard and that Kubo is some kind of swindler.
When i meant samurai spirit, I mean it for real. Like samurai ghost. Not the "samurai spirit" like you can see it in Vagabond for example. I was talking about the whole ghost stuff in bleach. Samurai are almost all spirit in bleach. I was saying that I think that samurai and spirit ( ghost ) mix well mainstream wise. Bleach fail to do so, we all agree.
About the katana fight, yes, i mean it. They're horrible in bleach, we all agree. But like I said, it "look like" it. Most of the people do not know that bleach fight sucks. Just look at all the amv on youtube about those ridiculous fight…
I was not saying that bleach is good. Nop, I do think it sucks.
But do not forget that not every people can see why a manga is bad. Hence why Bleach and Naruto are public success despite being so bad.
"Samurai" like characters + spirit ghost + Katana + violent slash and "boom beam" powers + Kubo's art style + Thugchigo = Public success. Despite it being an awefull manga critical-wise.
Most of the people think that every character that carry a katana and wear a Hakama are Samurai you know...
About the art, you know, I know, we all know bleach case are empty or some case are HUGE joke. I know that kubo is a hard swindler in that departement.
But that do not prevent his art STYLE to be good. I'm not speaking about how he handles action scenes or about the way he fill his cases.
I was just speaking about his graphic style. Look at his double cover page for example. I think his art style is great. Samurai deeper Kyo sucks in almost all ( if not all ) departement, but that does not prevent the guy who made it to have great skills in drawing.
I do think kubo has great graphic style. At least mainstream-wise.
Maybe you could tell us more about what he is and not so much what he isn't.
He may be not that intersting but at least, I do not want to slap his mouth like most of manga's main characters. Sure he's not that a great character, he is not deep at all. But from all the main shonen nekketsu's character I saw, he's the less annoying.
At least he used to be at the "save rukia" arc time.
I stopped reading it after the Grimjow vs Shinji fight so that may explain some disaccord. I've saw some awefull DBZ like fight on youtube, read some spoiler ( i Laughed hard at the mugetsu thing ), but that's it.
AND YES, characters SUCKS balls in bleach. The only one I like is Zaraki. Earlier, I was just speaking about Ichigo as a main shonen's character.
Last note : Do not compare bleach to Hellsing. Hellsing is not on the same level at all. We're speaking about mainstream awefull manga who are public success, not about gem like manga whom nobody care about.