Bleach Thread Revived

Elemmire said:
So bumping cause oh snap Aizen cameo and then gone :P hah. Wonder if he'll get out and actually help Soul Society after this for redemption or some bs.
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Doubtful.

Even if he does appear again and even if he does help Soul Society, it won't be for something like redemption. The dude has been a pretentious ass to the bitter end, even at his sentencing. I highly doubt redemption is even in his vocabulary.
 
Maybe, but Kubo isn't the greatest of writers :P
 
Ichigo is mad :O wonder how he got out.
 
Chapter 514


Ichigo is part Quincy, apparently from his mother's side. Ichigo officially has all powers across the spectrum; Hollow, Shinigami and Quincy, while still remaining a human.
 
Yeah, that was top of my list on how he was going to tie all the earlier plot threads back in to a semi-cohesive whole. It remains to be seen if he's going to do a decent job of it though, lol.
 
lol really? Wow... that's crazy.
 
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Kenpachi gonna be taught to grow more powerful :O and Unohana is the first Kenpachi o.o
 
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Elemmire said:
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Kenpachi gonna be taught to grow more powerful :O and Unohana is the first Kenpachi o.o
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I'm looking forward to a blood-frenzied Unahona more than I am Ichigo's inevitable powerup.
 
Yes! It will be quite a bloodbath scene!
 
Guess I'll be the first to comment on Unahona Kenpachi......

Holy ass-crackers!

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Hehe, I found that amusing :P and kinda neat. It would explain people's fear of her and then it makes her a little more interesting. If she's such but she's been trying to hold it back.

Also, I thought Zaraki killed the previous Captain of squad 11.
 
Sooooooo.....

Anyone care to explain exactly what Unahona's Bankai actually does? I got nothin', even with the face melty stuff.
 
I have no idea either tbh.
 
I still love Bleach, even though it feels as if it's been dragged on for quite some time. I wish they just made it a monthly release instead of weekly. Weekly just doesn't fit Bleach at the moment to me. You're constantly being left on a cliff hanger for such short chapters that it's a constant feeling of angst. At least with monthly releases like Full Metal Alchemist it would come around once a month, you'd get a whole bunch of it, and than it would go away and you won't be thinking about it every week.
 
That's the unfortunate nature of the beast; the beast being popularity in this case. Tite has been denied the ability to run with anything else because Jump "needs" Bleach. So his options are to keep making a series he wanted to end ages ago and Jump needs sales, so despite the downturn in quality and progress, they print Bleach each week. Full Metal never got this big, really, there is a huge difference between things like Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece and other, even well renowned works like FMA. Shonen Jump has a face and if they removed Bleach from it, well, it's no longer that of a super model's. Why they're taking this long to deal with an inevitable circumstance I cant imagine though; seems to me like they should have gotten on the ball with replacing Bleach a long time ago.

I'm not sure if you have read or watched Bakuman, but that's why one of the supporting characters has a clause in his contract that if he becomes the "face" of Shonen Jump,
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Full Metal never got this big? I dunno the stats, but how big is Bleach? O.o I never really hear it being that big.

And I thought Naruto and One Piece were bigger than Bleach and also a part of Shonen Jump.
 
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You're probably thinking of how it appears from a western standpoint. All three of those here in the US are basically the triumvirate of currently ongoing, and extraordinarily long running popular anime and manga. (Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece)

I think in Japan, while they are still huge titles there is a far wider amount of popular manga, availability and general acceptance of the material as a normal thing. Other titles over there hold huge sway with the general populace. While here in the states, people who read manga and watch anime are.. well, generally not going around telling everyone about what hobbies they enjoy. I pretty much don't even tell people that I watch anime or read manga unless I know they are the kind of people likely to also enjoy the stuff. I think most folks are like that, but I could be wrong.
 
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I actually made sure to realize I wasn't speaking from a western perspective, since our perspective is unimportant (mostly) for this matter. In Japan, Shonen Jump have what they call "The Big Three" - this of course referring to One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach. They have been the current "The Big Three" since 2004. One Piece has always reigned king, slaughtering Naruto, while the difference between Naruto and Bleach wasn't near as large, but still large. In 2010 Bleach started crumbling down, and now Ichigo's face is starting to appear further back, say, along with those of the Sket Dance crew, on covers. That said, it's still part of "The Big Three", the face of Shonen Jump.

Really though, I think the idea of "picking up Jump without Bleach" is a shock for people. I remember when the anime ended. I had watched Bleach like clockwork for years, no matter how bad it got. When it suddenly ended, despite being somewhat stupid, my weeks just didn't feel right anymore. That's what I'm getting at that they are trying to avoid. Bleach has well fallen from grace anymore, but again, it has that history.

But anyway, to add numbers to this, let's put it like this: Lifetime sales of the FMA manga is around 57 million. In 2010 One Piece sold 32,343,809 volumes which was more than Naruto, Kimi ni Todoke, Fairy Tail, Bleach and Fullmetal Alchemist combined (all in their respective top ten ranks for all manga sold, not just Shonen Jump's). That's how big One Piece is, it does this every damn year. Lifetime manga sales for Naruto is 126.5 million (current volume) and Bleach is at around 82 million copies.
 
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32 million in just one year? Hmm

I never got why people liked One Piece. I never found it that special, but I haven't kept up with it.
 
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