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I still enjoy Issho as a antagonist, but god damn the old bastard is becoming on of the most pettiest antagonist I've seen in awhile.
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Quick tldr for people who aren't reading Akane Banashi, Issho literally sabotaged his own pupil in the main promotion test from journeyman to full fledge master all because his pupil preformed one of the 3 stories related to the main mystery story surrounding the former head of the school he was never allowed to learn.
And at this point I'm pretty sure him expelling Akane's father in chapter 1 was half because he also preformed one of the 3 stories, half he particularly despises that branch of the school and its master.
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
I didn't like it, started getting hit hard by too many characters and plot elements, and the cast being sort of capable and appreciated. It was good while they were bottom tier living in stables.
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I suppose that's why It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia made all the characters worthless shitbags, so they always stay scrounging around in the mud to make it funny, but are always awful enough to justify the audience enjoying their misery. By making the characters have redeeming qualities, a lot of people would start rooting for them and want them to succeed since they saw the good side of everyone in the story. I can definitely see why that would make people lose interest since they were there to laugh at losers rolling around in the mud, but I started to find the cast endearing before the first season was over, so I will probably like that development. I suppose I will have to see if the scattered cast and plot ruins it for me.
 
Fount of BadSpeak said:
I suppose that's why It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia made all the characters worthless shitbags, so they always stay scrounging around in the mud to make it funny, but are always awful enough to justify the audience enjoying their misery. By making the characters have redeeming qualities, a lot of people would start rooting for them and want them to succeed since they saw the good side of everyone in the story. I can definitely see why that would make people lose interest since they were there to laugh at losers rolling around in the mud, but I started to find the cast endearing before the first season was over, so I will probably like that development. I suppose I will have to see if the scattered cast and plot ruins it for me.
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It's more that a lot of the character shticks get old, plot starts happening, and Kazuma actually gets enough levels to not be useless. A better comparison is Gintama, no matter what happens in the show the cast is flat out broke and lives in a rented office, so you always have the same setup for character interactions.
 
I heard a relative lot about Dad is a Hero, Mom is a Spirit, I'm a Reincarnator as a series people gave a shit about but at least the anime adaptation is pretty rough. Isekai protag that had such an improbably deep expertise in chemistry that she can just shit out functioning medicines for both black lung and some flu-like disease through her chemical manipulation/matter creation no jutsu even though I think her origin pinned her as an inorganic chemist. Probably worse though we just had an arc where MC and her father couldn't just scry and TP to her kidnapped cousin because they NEVER MET HER EVEN THOUGH THEY HANG AROUND IN THE SAME HOUSE FOR LIKE 8 EPISODES. I don't even think they hand waved it with a justification, they just kept the cousin in perpetual isolation to study and her parents and grandmother ignored her to dote on MC (or to drunkenly lust over MC's Father in the case of her mother).
 
Random Internet Person said:
If you need a TL:DW, it’s that by any metric, there’s an argument that Bleach shouldn’t be seen as “legendary” or as good as the other members of the old big 3.
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Bleach is not a well-rounded story, in terms of story-telling it gets smoked by Naruto and One Piece but the reason Bleach is legendary is because it is pure, unfiltered shonen goodness which is why like every new shonen that comes out names it as a huge influence. Every time I watch an episode of the new season, the only thought I'm left with is, "I wish Shonen battles were still this cool", the closest we've come to old-school Shonen brawls is Black Clover.
 
Namekian George Floyd said:
Bleach is not a well-rounded story, in terms of story-telling it gets smoked by Naruto and One Piece but the reason Bleach is legendary is because it is pure, unfiltered shonen goodness which is why like every new shonen that comes out names it as a huge influence. Every time I watch an episode of the new season, the only thought I'm left with is, "I wish Shonen battles were still this cool", the closest we've come to old-school Shonen brawls is Black Clover.
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Yeah the main reason people like Bleach is specifically because the fights and power system are neat, not because of the storytelling. Hell, the main reason Kubo cancelled the Manga back in the day was that editors were getting on him to progress the story and meet deadlines when all he wanted to do was draw cool shit.
 
Professor Donger said:
Yeah the main reason people like Bleach is specifically because the fights and power system are neat, not because of the storytelling. Hell, the main reason Kubo cancelled the Manga back in the day was that editors were getting on him to progress the story and meet deadlines when all he wanted to do was draw cool shit.
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Bleach is the Persona 5 of shonen, absolutely kino design, mediocre trash in any other way.
 
Namekian George Floyd said:
Bleach is not a well-rounded story, in terms of story-telling it gets smoked by Naruto and One Piece but the reason Bleach is legendary is because it is pure,
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I'm not sure it's fair to say this. Naruto's writing is worse than Bleach for sure, considering it has plot-holes the size of trucks, and the bad guy was so OP, that Naruto and Saske were given multiple retcon power-ups in a row, and it still wasn't enough. Not that Bleach was much better and it also suffered from a too powerful bad guy faction, but at least it didn't have a bunch of snowflakes (other than Ichigo) that made everyone dumber with their presence so that the plot revolves around them.
Oh, and the drawing style and anime of Naruto gets atrocious at times, with newbie mistakes such as the author forgetting to draw certain characters in a group (like how Sachi, the drawing guy IIRC, was not shown in a group shot even though he was supposed to be here). Bleach does have style for sure. One Piece is not ending anytime soon, so I can't say.
 
Looks like Centuria might be going Steel Ball Run with the corpse of Hecate. The translation fucked the name of the King’s country. It’s Trivia, the thing Hecate is goddess of.


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There are soyface edits.

I don’t know how to spoiler images.
 
ZippyZoopa said:
I'm not a black or latinx zoomer so I cannot comprehend any of this.
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If you did comprehend it I'd think less of you as a person.
Professor Donger said:
Yeah the main reason people like Bleach is specifically because the fights and power system are neat.
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And Ichigo has a swastika sword. Remember plebs, the Swastika (a symbol for wellness and strength for thousands of years and found in numerous racial cultures) is not okay because Kikes say so - but their symbol, the Demonic Remphan Star, which is only used by their ilk and retards who think it's the Star of David, is 100% A-okay Kosher.
Red Dragon said:
Bleach is still the best shonen for character designs. The guys are badasses and the girls are hot, as it should be.
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Objectively true.
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Young Oddjob was Team Naruto but I think at the end of the day Kubo did what he really wanted to and what he was good at (design 40 new characters and give all existing characters new outfits every fucking arc)

Meanwhile Kishimoto during Naruto was a hack fraud that wouldn't let anyone die so nothing mattered and then gave us the Baruto-verse where it turns out that the entire cast of Naruto peaked in Freshmen year of high school so that Baruto and only Baruto can look cool without needing to do anything.
 
You know for some god damn reason I actually started rereading early One Piece and Naruto thanks to a odd library app, maybe I should add Bleach to the list since I did end up dropping each of the big 3 at some point but it was so long ago I can't remember why.
Don't think I can add too much worth discussion, but for One Piece (up to volume 12) its interesting to see what got added on 100s of chapters later and what kind of got left behind. A lot of people might disagree with this but I kinda think Baratie is the weakest arc in east blue rereading it despite having at least 2 iconic moments from early One Piece, and that's mainly because I couldn't take Don Krieg seriously as a villain anymore given how bad the power scaling got with devil fruits and haki.
Naruto (up to volume 3) I'm actually surprised to how early they started the Land of Waves, although this might be because I was mainly an anime watcher and I wouldn't put it past them to trying to stretch out how many chapters they covered each episode. Another thing that actually surprised me was during Kakashi's test is the whole scene where its mentioned that he's failed everyone he's every trained because I remember in the anime it was revealed around the start/end of the episode only to have the twist of him passing them at the end because it was one thing people got annoyed with MHA over with eraser doing the exact same shit. Only in the manga the reveal of Kakashi failing every prior group and him passing the current three happened within 2 pages (maybe it just proves Hirokoshi was an anime secondary). Although one thing that I kind of think rereading it, is I think Iruka should of been more involved beyond the inital chapter since his connection to Naruto in chapter 1 is probably what saved the series from being a poto u-19 member and I'm pretty sure the tree climbing thing is the only real time Kakashi every felt like a mentor to Naruto the same way other student teacher pairs are in the series. It wasn't till Jiraya showed up that it felt like Naruto actually had someone that was teaching him something.
 
vern said:
Don't think I can add too much worth discussion, but for One Piece (up to volume 12) its interesting to see what got added on 100s of chapters later and what kind of got left behind. A lot of people might disagree with this but I kinda think Baratie is the weakest arc in east blue rereading it despite having at least 2 iconic moments from early One Piece, and that's mainly because I couldn't take Don Krieg seriously as a villain anymore given how bad the power scaling got with devil fruits and haki.
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Interesting for someone to take the Baratie as one of the lowest. I'll remark that your feelings for Krieg do make sense because that is part of the point of him. He is basically a tease/statement about the upcoming journey that the Straw Hats must go on. We forget because the travel time is rarely shown or seen how dangerous it is to sail the Grand Line during the later 4/5'ths of the story, but Krieg is a lesson to new readers about the horrors that the crew is about to embark on where a 'single man' could wipe out the most powerful fleet in the East Blue. We are even told, that this ocean is the weakest of the waters in comparison to degrade Krieg further... Who I must remind is a person who can canonically lift this ship with one arm.

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He is there to show Luffy is stronger, create the tension on the cooks and have us care about Zeff and Sanji because of the ships importance to their dreams and relationship, put Luffy in a toughspot where he must fight with Water being a hazard (Something long since lost in the series) and further the threat of what the Grandline is. He is a good 'threat' for when we know nothing. He is an upstart like Luffy who got his ass handed to him despite everything to create the threat and disappeared because he got his shit wrecked even further, fated to be a loser who kneels to Blackbeard.
 
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