Story:7
Really I give anything a 7 if I find it moderately entertaining, and the Bleach story was just that. If you sum it up in a couple sentences it really doesn't sound half bad. Regular human boy given the chance to be all that he could be, a story about the strength of heart etc etc. Even goes to 'Heaven' to fight 'Angels' and wins, then sides with them and kicks total arse. The ending was a let down though, once Ichigo had transcended every single character in the anime they mentioned something about the soul king, but never got to it. (Maybe that is why there are movies of Bleach, I don't know I have only finished the television series) But the story gets repetitive if I multiply it by say.... 366. Just between you and me, I skipped much of the filler within the series to get to the parts focusing solely on Ichigo.
Ichigo had the most interesting conflict within him the entire series, although it wasn't much it was still a psychological battle and might have been better if it had not been deluded over 366 episodes.
At the end when the big titted shinigami is like head over heals for Gin, that was also a tiny tear jerker out of nowhere.
Art: 5
I give the art a 5 due to the fact.... the animation was mediocre. Not bad, not good. And during his fights with Grimmjow then continuing throughout the series was the weird live action animation, like the kind you see for terrible hentai games where everything looks like it was made in Microsoft paint. I mean that the colors were very bold and poorly faded. (probably not the actual problem, heck that might have been the animation getting better)
Sound: 5
Why a 5 you ask? It's like watching any kind of slasher movie ever made, they use, reuse, then use again the same sound affects. Whenever something would dawn on Ichigo in ANY way ANY time, they would play the same little jingle for about 10 seconds.
Character: 6
Overly powerful main character that learns about true friendship *cough* check. I hated how stupid he was. And the only 'smart' main main character was the Quincy. And at times it seemed that he would just pull conclusions out of his arse. Ichigo did get all of his power from himself though... GO TEAM!
I give the anime a 7, because it was not quite deserving of an 8.
My only draw to this anime was to see how far Ichigo could go, seeing as that Ichigo never died I finished the series. Cool repetitive battles await, and lots and LOTS of filler. Some of the 'arcs' or storylines were completely unneeded, and trivial.
More mature than One Piece and Naruto? Possibly, but a once you go Shonen you stay Shonen for 366 episodes.
