Mar 3, 2015
Bleach as an anime is mediocre at best. The concept is great but the execution is extremely lacking. The early episodes have fairly poor animation, and I didn't feel that the anime was even remotely good until around episode 270, but at that point it was still only a /decent/ anime.
There's a huge power-scaling problem with the characters, and the fillers are horrible. Bleach has a higher filler:canon ratio than Naruto does (at the time of writing this review). While one may dislike Naruto fillers (I personally like them due to the following reason), at least Naruto fillers almost always add to character development and
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the story. You can even look at them as canon if you so wish. Bleach filler is fairly low quality with plot holes. Bleach fillers also add zero character development, and to top it off, most of Bleach's full filler arcs do not actually have a place in the Bleach universe (they physically cannot have happened in the past or happen in the future). The arcs also come around at the most inopportune times (i.e. a full 30 episode filler arc unrelated to the story between two consecutive fights in a canon arc).
The anime's story is very linear. I felt as though it was being written day-to-day rather than planned out. "Okay, this person's going to win this fight; let's make it happen."
I honestly didn't get the feeling that any sort of deep thought had gone into the anime until after 310 wherein it's mostly filler from then until 366.
Many anime can provide certain levels of "hype" during a big fight. Whenever Bleach presents such a moment, it's extremely short lived. The "final" fight gave me the most "hype," which only lasted MAYBE two minutes.
I don't find any of the soundtracks to be worth returning to. I occasionally listen to some of the openings and endings, but the overall soundtrack is relatively unimpressive.
I enjoy Bleach's character design and wide range of characters, and it was "entertaining," to say the literal most. I gained very little from this anime besides adding 366 episodes to MyAnimeList. I feel generous to have given it a 6.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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