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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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!