OG Bleach (366) was somewhat decent as a TV series. It had so many cool characters and events that was meaningful, funny and entertaining to watch. However, this new seasons “Thousand Year Blood War” is completely the opposite.
Old Bleach was slow given all the events to build up for the viewer, but now things happen in an instant that just ruined the whole build up and connection for all the fights to unfold and for characters and the story to grace in any way.
Fans after the last episode of the previous season of TYBW hyped up Senjumaru like she is the 🐐 and unbeatable. I knew right the way what is going to happen. It is task book Bleach outcome; She gets this super power up to impress everyone, then she gets destroyed by plot as always.
This was indeed the main issue with Tite Kubos writing. He can’t possibly write meaningful and comprehensive stories that has fundamentally driven by the act of the characters. Rather he writes nonsensical and soulless outcomes of the events since these characters like Senjumaru or Ichibei are so powerful that they could have ended the series. So does Aizen in the OG series should have defeated Ichigo with a single move, but Tite tried his best to gave Ichigo 2 years to train in the middle of the story which was hours in the actual timeline so he can somehow makes this train wreck story move forward into.. an absolute madness like it did.
The whole conflict is ridiculous anyway, Quincy’s are just made for being the bad guys that couldn’t get along with the Shinigamis. Obviously someone pulled the strings to make them hate each other, but they are so stupid to just talk through things. It is also way more interesting to put on flashy, but zero effort fights.
The real reason for my dissatisfaction with Bleach is its chaotic emptiness and the lack of any revelatory narrative to tell. Battle on top of battle just consumed this series alive since it has nothing behind its flashy overpowered characters acting battles between each others for years.
Every single Bleach episode now is random fighting against random pop out plot device characters that you will only know for no longer for one episode as the “strongest opponent”. Those who got beaten up and should have died like four times so far are getting stronger and still alive… Those who should have stayed alive are getting killed by plot. Ridiculous..
Lets talk about the battles and powers, because this show possesses the most unbalanced power system and unga-bunga action tactics ever.
All the powers are random and hardly had any foundation whatsoever.
Senjumaru should have killed everyone, but again the plot saved all the Quincy’s… so the story can continue. Not to mention she killed everyone in her Bankai, except Uruyu so HE can be the one who ends her.
Even Bleach fans knows that she is way above the league of Uruyu, but still can’t accept that this series and Tite Kubo is just playing with the viewers with his extremely poor writing. Since no one saying this out loud, he is free to write this mediocre nonsense all day.
Also, since when does Uruyu can use Sasukes Rinnegan abilities? Didn’t know it was their voice actor’s ability all along.
“This is my highest level” until you kill me and I come back stronger Ahh power system.
They are supposedly multiverse level, but in battle they do normal human damage to each other. The biggest attack power is probably small town level, but usually their attacks are building or wall level. However their aura and “spiritual pressure is shaking worlds”. We all know aura is a big deal.
The sad fact is that the whole power scaling is so unbalanced that no strong opponent can last longer than one second against another stronger opponent. They one tapping each other because they are so lacking correspondence to their titles. No worries though, the gap might be large in powers, but they are equally boring in battle tactics.
The villains in bleach follows the trope of evil for the sake of evil without any reasonable or rational justification of their actions or goals. They just want the opposite of what the other group wants. Kindergartners level scrimmage.
Deaths also has no emotional connection since characters dies from one frame to another without any logical connection to the battle or story.
Tite creates these crazy cool characters to appear epic, just for them to die a few frames later. One tap 90%. Also gives random explanations to some new stuff that he pulled out from no where.
The animators had to drag the scenes like “his aura is shaking worlds now” it might look cool and powerful.. but definitely not well written or enjoyable.
When it comes to actual battle, one side acts like they are the strongest ever, then when they don’t have anything else to say gets one tapped immediately. Don’t worry though, they are fine.
Yamamoto: “There is no better protection here than myself.”
Five minutes later: 🥝
Poor Toushirou was humiliated five times and he still alive.
Team Zero were named zero, because you need zero effort to defeat them. (Strongest group in Bleach btw).
Ichigo dies for the fifth time, I guess the training at the dinner table and in the jacuzzi wasn’t enough for him.
“Absolute Cinema” more like absolute Circus.
Considering that all Quince’s are turning into a Pokemon, it is pretty accurate.
Whenever you hear an anime is called “peak cinema” - run.
Conclusion,
This series in its essence is all smoke, and people acting like there is fire.
Bleach was actually somewhat interesting as a shounen back then on its TV scheduled pacing. Now unfortunately it rock button with its extremely low effort of writing standards and nonsensical unbalanced content that made it look like a random piece of show off that has nothing to offer, but lazy action on top of action without no genuine or valuable content to disclose.
This type of battle Shounen what Bleach TYBW provided has been the most abundant of all action stories I have seen. What starts with a Ban-kai will end with a Ban-kai, eventually.
Everything in the middle is milky-parody.
As a result, Bleach has fallen from its knees to its face with this one. “Bah-ouch”.
Final Score: 1/10 ⭐️
I have a big appetite, but after all these exquisitely plated titles, I am still hungry for quality.
Thank you for taking the time to read.
