I just started watching season 2 of the thousand year blood war and it is everything that modern media lacks. The concepts of sacrifice, devotion, self limitation, all of these are lost on the “modern audiences”. The fight sequences are brutal, and for a reason. The entire series really makes me wonder if japan really forced the continuation of the anime with the US caving for profits because it goes against every woke sentiment they have.
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Its funny. Bleach was considered the "meh" option of shounen series for its entire run. Passable, but the most mindless turn your brain off action of the Big Three.
Now this new series comes out and everyone loves it and can't stop raving about it. Which makes me wonder if standards have fallen that hard, or if its genuinely that much of a step up over the original. Which I'm happy for you guys who enjoy it if that is the case.
Don't worry, the ending still has to happen.
Heh, I love how ironic this could be considered.
I think One Piece was less redhead and closer to "well it exists." It didn't have incredible hype or constant discussion, but it also wasn't under constant mockery and scrutiny like the other two of the Big 3. Its fans were incredibly devoted, and most of them wouldn't react with "yeah I know its bad but its my thing" like was common with Bleach and Naruto for a lot of people.
Naruto was there for shipping wars once people realized the story was only gonna get stupider (aka from Shippuden on), Bleach for mindless action that you didn't think about (that s-CRY-ed did better), and One Piece for the hopes that one day all this setup would pay off (apparently it did, as all its fans I know have watched all 1000 episodes plural times and read the manga a few times too).
I can't speak to mainstream weebery, but that's how it was in the more extreme weeb depths I hung out in at the time.
It's lowered standards.
Tite Kubo has a single story he can tell and that's it. Not to mention the amount of ass pulls where characters suddenly have a secret weapon that was never mentioned beforehand that wins the battle for them.
Was Urahara his self insert? 🤔
On the topic of the original series run:
You'll need a filler episode guide as you go forward. The filler gets really bad. I mean. You have no idea.
https://bleach.fandom.com/wiki/Episodes
Watch:
Watchable:
Hundreds of bad non-cannon filler episodes:
History side story? Interesting at least:
the filler episodes 147-149 are actually good. But introduce a character never to be seen again.
310 342 expansions cap off and end a filler arch, but are generally good viewing, as it starts and ends with him loosing consciousness, and everything in between is just simply bad writing.
No surprise, the actual writer was being pushed hard for content and just couldn't keep up so all the filler happened on top of so many characters just being fucking wasted while others lingered like a bad smell.
#StarkDeservedBetter
Actually fuck that, most of the Espada deserved better! Yammy was beaten off fucking screen!
Oh no, I remember. I watched all of it and I remember just how utterly bad it got. It was right up there with Naruto filler arcs.
Have you seen the Naruto Ocean cut?
Never heard of it.
The video describing it has been made private. So here is a 'reaction' to that description:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Xeq_4vR-o
...and I'm out.
A good localized dub can actually be better then the sub. Both the original Akira Streamline audio from 1989, and the great localization of FLCL are proof of this.
You really need to expand your thinking beyond group mentalities and rules of thumb.
No, I've simply consumed enough content over the years to develop accurate heuristics. The exceptions prove the rule in this case. I love the dub for the old Digimon series, but that doesn't mean I'm going to default to bothering with dubs when the demonstrated quality of said dubs(both the performance and the localization/script butchery) is commonly of low quality.
I need to get the Bleach Omnibus then
you must not have watched a lot of anime
Or read how Bleach actually ends.
That's kind of how I remember it.
The story brings in a new super powerful group of bad guys who immediately kill off both the Captain Commander and his lieutenant to let the readers know just how powerful said new group is.
They then utterly wreck multiple other characters and it's revealed they can steal Bankai, hence the earlier mentioned lieutenant dying to his own.
But then all the surviving characters, and even some who were thought to be dead, get a quick power up and starting winning again.
I know, I know, this is how Shonen always works and Naruto, Dbz, and countless others all follow the same power creep 🙄
More named characters die, brand new super powerful allies in the form of the elite guard are brought in and most of them end up being fucking useless in actual combat and are simply the Deus Ex Machina to buff the main characters, several of them get the shit beaten out of them, a few more characters die, some things happen that could almost be considers fan service, then the final fight happens and Bleach just ends.
It's fucking abrupt how quickly everything resolves which is something Bleach has done before when Ichigo finally fought Aizen and beat him with one move.
I don't expect the anime to have anywhere near as bad an ending or reception as Attack on Titan did, that suffered from actual story issues, but I'm not expecting the ending to be as well received after all these years of hype building up to levels the writers can't deliver on.
Edit: and we never see what Shuhei Hisagi's Bankai actually is!
I'm really, really looking forward to your thoughts once the ending comes out.
Meh, I'm ok with week to week on Bleach, but then I grew up with catching it week to week and sometimes even having to change fansubber mid-season because some group just stopped existing.
My "save to binge" series this season are Goblin Slayer and Shield Hero.
It’s just refreshing to see that bleach is still sticking to the manga over the overt western pressure to make everything gay
And then comes the anime localization...