BigLundi wrote...
KLoWn wrote...
BigLundi wrote...
Define that, do you mean people hwo have never reead another manga? I'm gonna go on a limb here and say Bleach isn't the only manga Bleach readers have read. It's not true for me, and I'm not near the anime nerd most others who bother reading manga are.
Meaning the people who've only read shounen manga, although that apparently the shounen competition has become a bit too rough for it these past few years looking at sales, and sales reviews.
Maybe Teclo should pull out his old Bleach pocket-review thingy from japan.
BWAH! Anyone who reads Shounen doesn't know what quality is!
I hate people like you, "Well I read the good stuff, you're just an idiot that follows what's popular." It's popular for a reason, it's good, get over it.
it's popular cause its a stupidly simple story that you don't need to think about, clear cut bad guys, and a lot of generic, endless, back and forth power level struggles/shifts.
you said there's a plot b4, ya to stop/kill aizen, that's it, everything else is just filler to drag the series on (i would have liked it more if it stopped b4 they got to the death god world around ep 25)
as for filler i mean story that doesn't effect the main plot or the characters disposition.
all the "bad guys" are typical cliche "i want to rule the world", i want to destroy the world", "i want to kill all the humans". there no depth.
(i've watched it in dragon ball and liked it, i watched in in dragon ball z and got sick of it, i watched it in the sequel of z and wished i could get my time i spent watching everything pass dragon ball back, i really don't think bleach is worth wasting time watching, unless you like seeing the most minor of minor characters dragged on fights)
there's always some one a little stronger and some one who's a little weaker who acts as a spring board to level up the characters slightly more so they get beat the slightly stronger one.
for actual fights, they're always dragged on cause both characters always feel like showing off for each other (the viewers really) by using the weakest skills first till they get to there strongest instead of just ending shit while the other character is showing off by using there most powerful attack or skill.
and in the end the whole plot could be ended in a seconds, "aizen comes to earth and knocks off ichigo"... this is typical, predictable behavior, since the only role the bad guy's boss is suppose to have (in stuff like this) is to give an idea of "impending doom"(he's gonna kill everyone), a source of chaos(the espada, and whatever else the creator comes up with), and a goal point for the main character(how strong ichigo needs to become, that is to say if ichigo is the main character, the focus point switches all over the place, which drags on the story).
the boss doesn't have an exact power level since, the author hasn't come up with how much stronger he wants to make ichigo, so until then aizen is going to just sit back (doing god knows what a guy does when he has a lot of time and nothing to do, wonder what that'd be...) he's no different then the old rpg generic mid-boss('s) waiting at the bottom of the dungeon('s). (at least final bosses have a history with the main character in rpg's)
bleach is nothing more then a bandwagon(wiki it if you don't know what one is). bandwagon effect, for the reasons above(simple, blunt, exaggerated, the majority of people don't like to think or don't like complicated things), and because its long (due to it being long, the joy(not mine) of watching it is extended) is the reason bleach is liked, popularity doesn't equal quality -_-
hanna montana is my example (i don't have a lot i can think of since i don't watch tv)
when i think about it bandwagon effect alone is enough...
oh oh and its clearly made up as it goes, i doubt anyone would plan/write out so much filler b4 hand, or should i say, that's just stupid. lets flip the chess board (lol), for it to be planned it means the author planed out all this filler b4 he even started this series with no guarantee for success, to have 300+ chapaters worth of story and fight sequences b4 hand.. well i shouldn't have to complete this, i wouldn't even know how too