@MetaMario said in Bleach Discussion █: Soul Society, but not!:
@JulieYBM SIX chapters? man reading this week by week back then was a slog
Yup, six chapters. I've only read this arc back during the initial serialization so I don't remember it much but the plot has been moving pretty smoothly so far. Five episodes is literally the length of as movie, after all, so it makes sense to just keep trying to fill the episodes up with chapters to try and actually make the plot feel like its moving. The pace will probably calm down for #8 or #9, I would imagine.
My dream for the past ten years was getting Kameda Yoshimichi to work on the chapters likely being covered in Episode #6 but clearly he would have been too busy working on Mob Psycho 100 III, so I doubt he will (unless he worked on it immediately after, I guess).
Fun fact: Taguchi Toshihisa is the series director of BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War but also directed Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna and is also currently directing the sequel to that film, Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning. Yeah, for some reason Taguchi is double-booked and not even like the old Toei Animation Film Festivals where Nishio Daisuke would direct the Dragon Ball Z series, storyboard and direct episodes of the Dragon Ball Z TV series AND then storyboard and direct films at the same time. Those projects were relatively simplistic compared to the amount of work now expected of animation in Japan.