Please summarize this chapter in 7 words or less.
From MH ^^
@exacta:
Kubo untrolled the Elite Guard by trolling the Stern Ritter that were left.
More than 7 words, but still.
Please summarize this chapter in 7 words or less.
From MH ^^
@exacta:
Kubo untrolled the Elite Guard by trolling the Stern Ritter that were left.
More than 7 words, but still.
Ywhach walks into a bar….....:ninja:
Hope the War last until next year, unless Ywach plans to unleash new Sternritters/soldiers.
RG will get fodderized then Ichigos group come out, cant wait to see Chad taking out an Elite SR.
Chad taking out an Elite SR , lawl.
This arc has zero structure, planning or even plot progression. It's not that this arc is slow, it's that there is nowhere to go. Kubo doesn't have even a vague idea of what's going to happen next.
This is Kubo right now.
Quite the opposite, he knows exactly what's gonna happen it's just that it's the most trite and boring shit imaginable.
This arc has a structure of every filler arc in anime, except even fillers do a better job. Like all these quincy, they are nothing, nobody, zero relevance or interest. I don't remember their names, faces, designs, nothing. Just lines appearing on paper. Of course nobody cares for this manga anymore, what to care about. A character defeating a line?
Instead of wasting his and everyone's time with that fillerbring garbage he should have foreshadowed the quincies or someone, introduced new relevant characters, expanded the universe.
Like what about the rest of the world, are there any other soul society places or the entire human race goes to this huge medieval Japanese village? If there are such places, are there any other shinigami types? Like of western and other cultures? Are there more hells than one? Why not explore that?
So much potential. Instead it's just another shitty attack on soul society.
^What were you expecting? Soul Eater? Naaaaaah…..
I wasn't expecting anything. But there was much potential. For something. Anything. Completely wasted.
Wait, the Fullbringers showed up in this Arc? When was that?
When we first saw Ganju on this arc, the dead Fullbringers were with him. We haven't seen them again since then.
Wait, the Fullbringers showed up in this Arc? When was that?
You don't understand. Nobody understands Kubo's genius. Showing Fullbringers had purpose to add depth to Bleach world and to make us speculate to ourselves about how stuff works in BLeach universe.If you had any brains then you'd know that they have nothing to be able to do anything against Quincies whose exceeds shinigamis whose easily made fodders out of them. Oh wait, this crap I'm writing actually makes sense. Trolololol.
What is there to praise…?
What?
Welll, apparently it is like this:
Oh god the feels…!
By the way, this week´s chapter title was a perfect description of what went trough my mind when I read this...
I can feel my heart hurt from just watching Gordon...pardon, Robert´s… agony in those panels...
This definitly makes up for the weirdness and the Bull**** from last week.So many feels, this massive "Oh crap" feeling and the huge "NOOOOOO!" Seeing the sternritter being picked of like carrots.
Judging from the way Robert died, it´s safe to assume that all the sternritter that got struck down faced the same fate, so no Bazz-B, no Nanana, No "N"... I hope Meninas wasn´t one of them...(was happy to see Giselle alive though...)
And from the looks of it, only Giselle got away from it with her ability intact, Liltotto got screwed over but am alive and since she´s the "Tactician" of the ritters then I hope she and Giselle join forces with the Shinigami to properly "thank" Bach for stabbing them in the back like that…
...oh... funny thought...
Since Giselle was the only one untouched by this beam of war, then doesn´t it mean that she would be able to bring back everyone that fallen in the war and have a intact body? Since Bambietta made it out from Cuulhorn´s zero just fine...(and she´s definitely dead now...) so why not use Giselle, get her to Unohana´s corpse and we will have her back as her usual self to bring the awesomeness to this war once more?Bring all the forces against Bach!
The Arrancars! The Fullbringers! The Shinigami! The Quincy! The Dead! Ichigo and his elite team! All in a joint-fraction operation!
Bring up "Guren no Yumiya"
Attack on Bach!
In short, this was a great emotional chapter full of dread and character and depth... 10/10.
Also...
Askin is back! Kubo didn´t plowed him or the others over last time... he just gave them a neat upgrade.I love this chapter, I have to read it again...
We must be missing something to see this chapter the same way like this reader had.
…........What.
must be a troll
Well, I think we all know what Sternritter N stands for.
Nothing
Because that's what he did
Bleach is like the unholy scripture that contains list of things that mangakas should never do in their own manga.
Well, I think we all know what Sternritter N stands for.
Nothing
Because that's what he did
It could also stand for Nobodyman :ninja:
Well, I think we all know what Sternritter N stands for.
Nothing
Because that's what he did
He took Shunsui's eye
"Oh God the feels!".
After reading THIS CHAPTER, someone's honest reaction was to feel. . .something? And not just something, but feelings of the "OH GOD!" caliber? Of the highest magnitude?
Someone singled out this chapter as something heartfelt, emotional, "oh-god-the-feels" worthy?
To each his own, I guess?
@James:
We must be missing something to see this chapter the same way like this reader had.
What I find more amazing about this is that someone actually relates to the SR.
I mean, I sympathise with some (NaNaNa, Liltotto…) but that's as much as I can go with this group. I still love the Arrancar up to this day, but the SR have as much charisma as the panels have background. They can die, cry, be betrayed, win, lose, and that won't make me react in any way.
I can sympathize with just about every character in Bleach if only because they have to live their life in such an awful manga.
Ok, I know i´m just grasping at straws at this moment, but there was something that felt wrong in this chapter (Yeah, besides the entire fucking chapter).
Can anyone explain to me why Colonel Sanders, oh I´m sorry, Robert, pointed a gun at Lili´s head?
What was the point of that?
Was she a threat? No.
Did he want to kill her? No.
She was a victim too.
Yeah, I know that from all the weird shit that happened in this chapter this should be the very last of my concerns, but I was actually expecting something entirely different to happen.
So he pointed a gun at her head and moaned…
That´s like me pointing a knife at someone every time i want to have some random conversation...
Chad taking out an Elite SR , lawl.
Kubo redeemed someone with a worse win/lose record than Chad(Renji), he and Hime got their RG-like powerups as well thanks to Urahara "training".
Do you all genuinely want to know the end to Bleach or do you read it for a laugh ?
I've read the last chapter but I've skipped almost the entire Fullbring arc and a good part of the current one. I read a few Kenpachi chapters when I heard he had unlocked Shikai but I was disappointed afterwards.
I've only read like the 3 first pages of last week's chapter.
I would use the usual train wreck metaphor, but no, it's more than that. The real reason why I read Bleach is a number of factors.
1. The main one being I can't stop reading something I've already gone this far with
2. I like reading other people make fun of it while completely understanding the context
3. Train wreck metaphor (kinda morbid)
4. Sometimes it's so bad it's so good
0. What the hell?
Do you all genuinely want to know the end to Bleach or do you read it for a laugh ?
I've read the last chapter but I've skipped almost the entire Fullbring arc and a good part of the current one. I read a few Kenpachi chapters when I heard he had unlocked Shikai but I was disappointed afterwards.
I've only read like the 3 first pages of last week's chapter.
I do wanna see it end, and i want to see the royal guard in action and know Bach's motivations for why he's doing what he is.
Dear Kubo:
Dear Readers:
Best wishes,
Kubo
Quite the opposite, he knows exactly what's gonna happen it's just that it's the most trite and boring shit imaginable.
I was about to say that just about the only thing Kubo would know is that Ichigo will beat the bad guy, but actually Kubo is so messy, unstructured and scatterbrained that I wouldn't even count on that. Kubos lack of planning is legendary and he's been basically freewheling since Bleachs second year in print; this is the guy who didn't know how to conclude the Deicides as he was writing it, ultimately settles on Ichigo "completely losing his powers", and then immediately follows it up with a story about how Ichigo regains his powers (which weren't really gone)
Kubo has the memory of a goldfish, and it is by far one of the biggest problems crippling his work, this arc in particular. Kubo just writes setups and scenes, and then when he doesn't know where to take it, moves on to something else. Introduces more characters. Buys himself time. Something will come to him. You can tell it directly from the flow of this war; Kubo rounds up the final Sternritters and shinigami in SS, throws them at each other, and then after 7 chapters of meandering zombie/love shenanigans, moves the camera to the royal realm, and other fights. These last few weeks, I kept asking myself where Kubo could take it from here; he left so much dangling down in SS, yet how could he go back to the comparatively unimportant lower tier fights once focus had been shifted to the much higher-staked conflict in the royal realm?
So he just shrugs, and presses abort. So what Bazz B is the remaining Sternritter with the most focus, and a newly setup confrontation with Renji, poof, No resolution! Or NaNa^n Hey Jude, who initially confronted Rose (which went nowhere), got randomly offed by Yamamoto (I thought he was fighting Rose?), then revived only to be utilized for nothing but stare at Renji in his sleep, then get randomly offscreeened in the end.
You can even see it in this chapter! Colonel Sanders, a guy who got the drop on the acting captain commander and then got bizarrely offscreened, pops up and has a scene which, as mentioned above, really doesn't make sense but looked kinda cool at first I guess!?, has his name announced, then dies. Its like Kubo remembered that he hadn't named the dude or shown his letter, and just felt he ought to for completions sake.
This week actually had a pretty effective scene with Giselle and Bambi, in terms of showing off a creepy villain, and had a pretty cool shot of her skeletal wings from behind- and then she is stripped of her powers! Possibly the character is dead! It was completely fucking pointless!
And pointless is also what this chapter has made the last several months of story. Forget the "elite 4" sternritters being revived, the real clincher, as the good Colonel reveals is, that the lower ranked quincies were doomed the moment the weren't invited onto the express elevator to heaven.
In other words: BachBeard might as well have slurped up everyone when he left 17 goddamn chapters ago, where-surprise surprise! Colonel Quincy wasn't bawling his eyes out at his missing invitation! Its almost like Kubo clunkily pulled this out his ass!
Which goes hand in hand with the Sternritters sudden feelings of betrayal. Ahahaha, no, this shit doesn't work Kubo, you can't engage the readers with this, you can't show off Ywhackys evilness with this because
A) The most showcasing you've done of him interacting with his sujbects is making speeches at them, or excecuting them. He gives so few shits about them that even his body double couldn't crack a frown at having his brothers mangled corpse thrown at his feet
B) Even from the perspective of the soldiers, their adoration of Yooho is inexplicable, unfounded and one sided.
When no shadow of a tanglible bond exists between the king and his soldiers, why the fuck should we care that quincy girlies feelings are hurt, when the nonexistent bond is betrayed?
This arc has a structure of every filler arc in anime, except even fillers do a better job. Like all these quincy, they are nothing, nobody, zero relevance or
interest. I don't remember their names, faces, designs, nothing. Just lines appearing on paper. Of course nobody cares for this manga anymore, what to care about. A character
defeating a line?
From what I can gather fillerarcs are usually superior to the canon, in that they're not as directionless, and the stories don't randomly drop chunks of themselves like a zombie with leprosy. But indeed, throughout this arc I've gotten the same vibes, as if this was some non-canon brainless movie. Theres some henchmen who will fight the shinigami whose names got picked from the Lucky Hat, the involved characters get 5 or so lines each, and theres no real emotional Investment in anything.
Seriously, that last bit astounds me. This is the final fucking arc of the series, the time to give people memorable sendoffs, and Bleachs' greatest selling point of all was its sprawling cast, each with more or less crap backstories for readers to latch onto- but its not utilized at all! Protagonist faces off with villain, wins, no lessons learned, repeat.
And when Kubo actually does attempt character growth/development we get Komamura, Rukia, and Kenpachis fights, which are the shittiest moments the war has offered.
And now, I just wonder what the hell Kubo will do with 99% of his cast. Maybe Ukitake and Shunsui will wake up from whatever standby stasis they were put in, and take a place in line for Uruharas cannon, just behind Yourichi, Isshin, Ryuuken, Hisagi with his unrevealed Bankai, Grimmjow, the fullbringers, and a fuckton of forgotten others- because it sure does seem like everyone sans the royal guard and Ichigos posse has JACK SHIT TO DO NOW.
Kubo literally has nothing to offer except throwing new randomly concocted fights at the paper, and see what sticks.
Great write-up Daz.^^ I wouldn't put it past kubo to just randomly pull out another group to fight after he got some new powers from the soul king maybe, just so that all the countless characters could get fights. Which would only mean meaningless fights with no development for the characters and unneccessary stretching in the end.
Great writeup, but you get an A- because penmanship counts
Oh hey, I just realized that the random Why me bane licking sad line I posted before is the thread title now, lol.
The evolution of bland
They were so full of life ;_;
Well, except Byakuya.
You actually have to try to make Bleach this bad, I give Kubo credit for that.
How he was able to turn something from good to horrible trashy bad is a significant accomplishment in human history.
This guy had his principles for writing a good manga from the start and then Bleach got popular
and he was like fuck good writing, I'll just milk my cashcow.
It's a really good chart to show the exact point where things pretty much keep heading downhill (hint: it's the year where Ichigo stops smiling)
@Purple:
It's a really good chart to show the exact point where things pretty much keep heading downhill (hint: it's the year where Ichigo stops smiling)
It's weird 2014 brought Ichigo's smile back considering how shitty this year's been all around.
@Purple:
It's a really good chart to show the exact point where things pretty much keep heading downhill (hint: it's the year where Ichigo stops smiling)
I think Ichigo realized that point, too.
Yamamoto looked so non-murderous back then, yet somehow creepier.
It's weird 2014 brought Ichigo's smile back considering how shitty this year's been all around.
That's not a smile. That's the open gaping mouth of someone who has no idea how to react to anything anymore
tbh I think the artstyle lost a lot of its charm as early as the first year. 2001 Orihime for example had a genuinely endearing look, not so much by 2002.
But yeah 2007/8 is where it started getting really ugly. The 'serious' expression on the face he uses for Rukia and Hitsugaya is almost frustrating just to look at
Like I mean I get that as you progress in the biz, art kinda has to evolve, and I'd say that after the first year, the years after are a good compromise between endearing and more streamlined
It's only when we really start smacking Hueco Mundo again that things really just suck the life out of things
The only way Noriaki-kun's character art has changed since 2009 is that chins have grown enormous.
@Monkey:
Rukia, what the hell has Kubo done to you? I know you're related to Byakuya, but geez. You don't need to copy the half lidded eyes and whatnot.
early Yama, early Hitsugaya, early Orihime, and early Ichigo look the best in my book. early Kenpachi and Ulquiorra are lolworthy.
Rukia, what the hell has Kubo done to you? I know you're related to Byakuya, but geez. You don't need to copy the half lidded eyes and whatnot.
early Yama, early Hitsugaya, early Orihime, and early Ichigo look the best in my book. early Kenpachi and Ulquiorra are lolworthy.
Technically not blood related, she's the sister of his wife
Technically not blood related, she's the sister of his wife
I know :P
Also I've been saying this a lot, but the picture confirms it: Renji also wants to imitate Byakuya's shtick.
@Monkey:
http://dailyanimeart.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/bleach-character-evolution-in-drawn-style.jpg
Wow the earlier designs were so damn unique by Bleach standards . Now it's all bi-shi or trying too hard to look "cool".
Aside from douchey looking Ichigo.
Its such a shame. The art from early Bleach was one of the things that got me into the series. I still adore it, actually.
Early artstyle had personality, energy, much more interesting fights. Now all is bland and has to be cool.
Hey at least we won't go through the end milking process of bleach like we have to deal with naruto now. The sales of bleach are dropping, no anime series, no movies, nobody really cares for it that much anymore. Oh and it is constantly low in the rankings, so when the finale comes it will just end and be forgotten in a week.^^