Bleach

this is all I want from bleach

Well said!

Reminder her birthday is tomorrow.

wrong

reminder that people who say endlessly spout shit along the lines of "TYBW is the worst arc" are just announcing that they've never actually read the manga.

OP probably should had waited THAT before making a Bleach thread off-season.

Off-season or on season, Bleach threads are a mainstain on Anon Babble

I don't care if anyone else cares about Bleach. I care about Bleach. That's enough for me.

This was Blut, btw

I rate them about the same. The original is like realizing the person you’ve just is going to be your best friend, the new one is when that best friend shows up after traveling the world for ten years and gives you a a million dollars.

Why would that be Blut? Aizen can’t use Quincy abilities. It’s just the Hogyoku repairing his body.

No, it was the Hogyokou

There are like 5 pairings involving Orihime that are better than IchiHime kek

All I want is a doujin in kubo’s style where askin strips yoruichi and death deals inside her vagina.

name them

Why does that 1 line above the lip make girls like 10x sluttier?

Is CFYOW canon or no?

Can anyone explain what's the afterlife in Bleach? I don't really understand.

If you die in the real world, you go to the Bleach world, if you die in the Bleach world, you go to Hell, if you die in Hell, you go to the real world?

So, Bleach is purgatory?

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Gotta agree. Old anime really elevated the first two arcs in a way TYBW arc failed to. No manga arc is particularly good but first 63 eps of thd OG anime are great.

I don’t think you quoted the right post.

right

? That guy said people overestimate previous arcs because the anime was good.

No, he said that people who kept repeating x opinions about Bleach have never read the manga, he never mentioned the anime in his post.

I understand the confusion but no that wasn't quite what I meant, while the anime is overall good and at times really great, as an entire package I believe the manga is strictly superior. The anime elevates a lot of the fights but at times butchers Kubo's storytelling, which is in my opinion the greatest strength of the series.

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Nice analogy, but the new one missed the point of what made the OG so good

If you die in hell, your existence ceases full stop stop

No reincarnation in Bleach? I thought it's supposed to be a cycle.

if you die in the real world, you either go to soul society, or you die wrong and become a hollow who remains in the real world but can freely traverse the real world and hueco mundo which is the designated hollow realm.

if you go to soul society and you die there, you reincarnate in the real world again where you die and go to soul society rinse and repeat. that's the cycle.

hollows break the cycle but they can be purified and sent into soul society by shinigamis.

hell is entirely separate from this cosmology because it's a primordial dimension that trascends the universe's timeline but it's basically where you go if you're super evil and better off just being erased, or if youre just too fucking strong for the universe to sustain your constant reincarnation (like captains). you dont go there by natural means, you need to be sent through ritual or selection.

Kubo never really explained what happens if you die in hell as far as I know

Friendly reminder, Uyru could have solo’d Ichigo.

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What line/

no vocals

Misses the point of the whole song

I miss when Chad used to show up in the group shots.

So was the high school thing really just a classic Kubo joke? Like the hell arc tease was too?

Kubo really dropped the ball on Sado

He really did. The guy had such a strong connection to Ichigo and the cast initially and with how his powers were growing and adapting only to then just do nothing with him in the end. At that point I have to wonder if it was actually just that Kubo didn't know what to do with him or that his editor was telling him to phase him out in favor of the characters that ranked higher in popularity polls.

It plays in some of the most memorable bits of the Soul Society arc, shit is maximum nostalgia for me

Bleach is 100% a story written by the popularity polls. When Kubo tried to change it up with the Fullering art, the readers rejected it so hard Kubo had to abort the arc by having the characters who placed highest in the last popularity poll come and kill the new characters.

Likely a mixture of all everything. Orihime's powers as originally described in the Numb Chandelier fight legit made her the most powerful member of the cast by far, she could pretty much do anything she fucking wanted as long as she was mad/resolute enough, by mid hueco mundo she was down to just being a healer

That's funny too since wasn't it also Hueco Mundo where they made a big deal about her powers being the powers of a god literally being able to reject reality and substitute her own? It was like at some point Kubo and the rest realized no one really cared about what her powers did and what she was supposed to bring to the series.

Bleach is 100% a story written by the popularity polls.

Yeah, it really becomes more and move obvious how much sway those had as you read the series. It was sad seeing the initially fun little high school crew being thrown out after so much build up they got. I can't imagine the way the internal meetings regarding the story must have gone and how much Kubo was probably told to do for whatever poll came in.

More or less, the original idea was that Sōten Kisshun didn't "just" heal so much as it was supposed to literally reject the current state of something and revert it to a previous state, she could undo permanent and/or fatal damage to people and things, which is why Aizen wanted her. Still didn't get done as dirty as Tsubaki/Koten Zanshun did though, I suppose

Tsubaki/Koten Zanshun

Man, Kubo really had ideas for Orihime but never followed up on them. I nearly forgot she had a whole little crew of dudes in her power list and they each represented different powers and that she could do more than just undo and block. I can only imagine they must have really not tested well with audiences and that's why they got phased out. Or there may have just not had been enough time for them what with the series being a twenty page chapter manga and Orihime only being a side character most of the time.

He was supposed to be able to cut just about anything if she wanted to badly enough. After the NC fight, she tried using him a few times only to fuck him up, then like 15 years of nothing until she mentioned using him to keep an eye on Kazui in the opening of the Hell arc chapters

Bleach is 100% a story written by the popularity polls.

Which is the only reason Byakuya was so strong in the last arc btw

Fair take. I won’t argue with that anon my

the Bambies reign supreme because Kubo and the fans love them

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This was a hot line up of girls (and one boy). I'm surprised Kubo had it in him to can them as fast as he did. Would have thought he'd have them stick around for a bit more.

they are around a lot tho, and still in every promotional art

Were they? I guess they lasted a lot longer than any of the other Quincy now that I think about it. Don't really remember the arc too well I guess.

I'd still be willing to argue it started as early as mid-late SS arc, I refuse to believe Hitsugya and Hinamori were originally meant to survive Aizen

Was Momo even that popular though? I think Kubo himself just liked her