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Not much to say this week. Ichigo getting his powers back so easily, especially since its crammed in to Lol fit chapter 444 or whatever is extremely shitty writing. Makes me glad Oda doesn't feel obligated to do something extreme every hundredth chapter, man knows how to pace a series. Kubo, when you wrap up a 6 YEAR ARC by robbing the hero of his powers at the climax, you don't give them back to him a mere 20 weeks later. Really, Kubo is just falling back on the easy solution every time writing a new arc becomes too taxing.
Kubo: Okay, New arc! Let's see, I'll introduce some new characters, a mysterious group, and Ichigo is helpless…
8 chapters later
Kubo: Uhhh...umm...Fuck, what do I do now?
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Ginjou: Our only goal is to give you back your powers Ichigo!Kubo: There! Now I can do some training fights with Ichigo, make up a load of bullshit about these new powers, and set up an evil group of power users...
13 chapters later
Kubo: Well, fuck this. Ichigo got his powers back. There. Because, Uh. He fired a getsuga swastika. Oh, he already did that in the dollhouse? Well, now he fires it a bunch of times and somehow thats good enough. Yeah.
And Ichigo charging at and crushing Jackie with his horribly mutated arm while shouting "everything is A-OK! Totally used to this, This is totally the only reasonable way to do this, yup!" was kind of freaky. Ichigo, just because your normal method of training is "almost die then bailed out by inner stuff" doesnt mean its the most sensible method.
I'm not reading Bleach anymore but are you telling me Ichigo just got his Soul Reaper powers back thereby making all of that Fullbring stuff meaningless? I think Ichigo getting powers again is a good idea because that might mean the manga will become slightly enjoyable again but in the same front as bad as the Espada stuff was there still need to be long lasting consequences so having Ichigo learn new powers is the best way to go about things. But apparently Kubo just decided to go "fuck it" and give him his regular powers back anyway. Weak.
But in happier news I watched Bleach Opening 14 and I thought it looked pretty awesome even though I had no idea what was going on. I might even watch an anime something I don't do that often. Some people at my school call me the "anime guy" even though most of the Japanese media I enjoy and talk about is manga. And never mind that I like all sorts of things besides manga and anime it's what I talk about in gym with my one friend (who's also on this forum) because it's our main common interest (he doesn't care for comics and movies and I don't care for video games, I do like Kingdom Hearts though). I just get annoyed because at various different points in my life I've been called "the anime/manga guy" "the comic book guy" "the Harry Potter guy" "the Oz guy" and "the movie guy" by people who don't seem capable of realizing that I like a lot of different things, yes I'm more interested in certain things at different times but I like to expand my interests.
Anyway sorry that was a tangent, does anyone else have that problem where people accuse them of only caring about one form of entertainment when they really have a wide variety of interests. I love manga (and even anime) but it is by no means the only thing I like. On the same front when One Manga was shut down I was so sad because the site had brought me joy for so long and some people said "you don't care about manga you just like Western comic books." That was when I realized I really hate being cast as one note.
Sorry most of this post didn't have anything to do with Bleach. But then again does anyone still care about Bleach here?