Bleach Discussion 0: Quinzis and the Hollowcaust

[No Maam]

Going by the competency record of Soul Society, the Quinzis were more than likely hiding behind Yamamoto's mansion.

......Where does Yamamoto live anyway ?

[Cyan D. Funk]

......Where does Yamamoto live anyway ?

[Cyclone_Baroness]

......Where does Yamamoto live anyway ?

In that vast empty room of course.

[Gliblord]

Their latest treatise, The Trouble with Anything Existing

[Nobodyman]

So do you think it's possible that two female characters in Bleach can have a conversation without at least one being a total bitch to the other?

Aside from that, I guess it wasn't a terrible chapter. It was decently paced, and as others have said, that Quinzi is kinda cool.

[Gliblord]

So do you think it's possible that two female characters in Bleach can have a conversation without at least one being a total bitch to the other?

Well, there are some pretty good female relationships (Orihime and Rangiku bonding over their terribly mismatched cuisine, Orihime and Rukia's friendship of mutual respect). But those are the only two I can think of.

[Nobodyman]

Well, there are some pretty good female relationships (Orihime and Rangiku bonding over their terribly mismatched cuisine, Orihime and Rukia's friendship of mutual respect). But those are the only two I can think of.

Have either of those occurred within the last 200-300 chapters?

[Gliblord]

They must have, considering Bleach isn't even past the 500 mark yet.

Oh, half of another one might Unohana and Isane.

[Nobodyman]

They must have, considering Bleach isn't even past the 500 mark yet.

Oh yeah. I keep forgetting, this manga seems much longer than it actually.

[Juvar]

They must have, considering Bleach isn't even past the 500 mark yet.

Oh, half of another one might Unohana and Isane.

What about the beautifully tragic past and relationship between Yoruichi and Soifon, source of so much fangasms

[The Daz]

I think that's an improvement. At least he's a tinsy tiny bit more relatable when he doesn't go nuts every two seconds.

True, though that was hilarious in a way. But now he just seems so plain and mellow compared to what used to constitute his personality. I guess you could call it character growth, but it's just happened at the cost of what made him interesting.

And Daz, you at least got to give credit where is due, they did something.

True, they did mess up those footsoldiers quite handily, and I was rather taken a back when one of them was impaled through the head. Someone should be doing something while Ichigo takes his extremely sweet time to walk around the corner. It's just that I would care a lot more if I actually liked these characters, and their near instant fodderization sullies their brief badassaery somewhat. I just can't get as excited over them as Kubo tries to make me with his full-page drawings of their appearance and defeat; it'd be like if Oda reintroduced Nero with great fanfare, only to have Random New character throw him over the horizon next week.

Bleach right now is pretty stupid. It has Sasakibe funeral and the revelations that once one-punched-ko by a non-trying Ichigo was in fact a Bankai user, veteran captain level VC. It has the Harribel fracción being introduced with a full page, like "wow, so badass!" only to be off-screened next chapter. It has a lot of stupid, a lot. . .

. . .and still, it's managing to be somewhat entertaining, at least during this new arc. It's far from good, and it's even far from other parts of this manga, but it's not bad so far. In fact, right now, Beach shits all over Naruto, IMHO.

Of course, my opinion is not very reliable: I skipped like 60% of the Fullbringer arc out of pure shittiness, and I've mostly skipped through this so-called Naruto war; but all in all, I think Kishi is sinking so low, while Kubo just put his head a little above the water surface to grasp for some breath. If he'll sink again in the near future, who knows? But maybe, he will end Bleach on a decent note?

I would tend to agree. A large part of it is propably because we're in the early phase of the arc, before Kubo can get his awful plot twist ball rolling. Even the fullbring arc wasn't tht bad in the beginning- it was just slow and boring as hell.

And while this arc is much better out of the starting gate, and while the chapter wasn't that bad, Bleach is still stuck with the cardinal sin of poor pacing. The only things that happened was:
- Fodder characters fight other fodder characters
- mayuri spends several pages stating the obvious. No new information obtained.
- Fodder characters have been fodderized offscreen. Ichigo swoops in from the great distance of 100 meters away.

Though the more I see of him, the more I like Kirge Opie, unfortunate name aside.
Yeah, Fritz is better.

[Shezar]

I quite like Chad face in the chapter:

[GypsyCarts]

Well, that was a quick second end for the Three Breasts.

[KaizokuJinbei]

Thank goodness someone shut harribel's lesbians up

[GypsyCarts]

Judging by the way his female characters act and speak, I think Kubo's only female interactions comes from cheap hookers.

[Gliblord]

Lol, do cheap hookers act that way?

[GypsyCarts]

Lol, do cheap hookers act that way?

I'm assuming so. That's what Bleach is about right? Cheap hookers? Isn't that the message?

[Gliblord]

I defer to cheap hookerologists

[Cyclone_Baroness]

I don't know about cheap hookers. But I feel like Kubo is exclusively watching the Bad Girl's Club and Real House Wives. The women in Bleach don't really seem to have a good middle ground.

They seem to range from GirlishlyTimid-----------Stoney Silent----------Bitch Fight Loudmouths.

[Pix]

Well, Kubo basically admitted he outright reuses characters so 3 female character templates is to be expected.

Doesn't make him any less lazy.