@The:
Though I missed the most of yet another rundown of "shittiest afterlife Evar!", it did yield some fruitful research.
according to chapter 76
A) If you as much as approach Seiretei without being accompanied by a shinigami, the insta-wall and Fuzz are summoned, and you are branded a "Troublemaker"
B) Chad actually asks if you can ask the shinigami for help in relocating your loved ones, and the answer is a big fat NOPE. Because you see, the Shinigami appearantly have an iron clad system of handing out tickets assigning arbitrary new homes to all the arriving souls. So is it like, a matter of everyone dying in XX year getting sent to YY district? Ahahahaha, you wish! Appearantly, your ticket is decided by time of death, and the measurement is so fine, that according to a rukongai dude: "Even if you died at the same time, if you don't all get tickets at the same time, you won't know where each other is!"
Note that it wasn't "you won't get placed together" but rather "you won't know where each other is".
Meaning that its highly possible that you and your entire family die in a car crash together
get sent to heaven together
And then get forcibly separated for centuries because whelp, the Arbitrary Ticket System has spoken
"Time of deaths 02:55 and… 02:56. Okay Ma'm, thats sector 567A for you, and sector 7655598Q for your kid. NEXT!"
I mean holy crap, that is just so needlessly awful
You never dissapoint Daz.
SS literally gets worse and worse the closer one looks. I'm honestly surprised it doesn't even strike Kubo as a little odd, but then again, he has the memory of a goldfish when it comes to critical plot points and setups for major characters, so I doubt he'll remember this at all.
I have a theory actually: could it be that Kubo does a Milli Vanilli and has nothing to do with the series except putting his name on it, and it's written and drawn by his assistants, which get constantly replaced and thus all inconsistencies ?
Would help explain the whole thing with Chad and how the series can't seem to decide what random supernatural event caused him to develop his powers, or that Ichigo's backstory gets overhauled with alarming regularity.
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@Darth:
The "Soul Balance" thing was stupid, but Kurotsuchi was never shown to be experimenting on ordinary citizens.
Well he balanced it out by commiting sadistic and useless human experimentation on the quincies (because lord knows there is invaluable scientific data to be found from having a Quincie burry another Quincie alive) and used his own men as bombs.
And the people running SS know this and yet he's allowed free range, and use of the seemingly most highly funded organisation in all of SS.
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@Gliblord:
So souls that die in SS just get reincarnated back on Earth, right? So why doesn't everybody in the Rukongai just down a gallon of motor oil
That'd be my very first act.
Like I wouldn't even bother to get a ticket to get reassigned to Random Dissease Infested Slum # 786. I'd just smash my head on the nearest wall.
Cause fuck this shit.
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@Darth:
I saw a little bit of it in Soul Society arc, but… well, it didn't last.
Honestly I found the SS arc kinda boring
Person A who I know or care little about fights Person B who I know or care little about
Rinse and repeat.
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So I've been tracking the ratings.
The chapter where we find out about Renji not really having been told his sword's name and where he kills of Mask.
Bottom 2
Week before where Mask counters and Renji revelas his new blade
Bottom 4
The week prior where Renji starts to fight Mask
Bottom 3
And 561 where Renji shows up
Bottom 2
(Counted 8 chapters before 572 with the most recent TOC and went from there)