Bleach

[Neversoft]

It's annoying because it is filler, but I thought it wasn't that bad. I mean like, at least they placed it in a good point so it flowed with the story. Without the Bounto arc, it would've went straight from Aizen going to Hueco Mundo to suddenly Aizen having all these arrancar and espada that are invading the real world. The bounto arc filled the space of time between the Soul Society arc and Arrancar arc pretty well I say, despite the pretty boring story of the Bounto.

Thats exactly what I hated about the Bounto arc. It slowed things down and made it seem that Aizen takes ages to get anything done. It's the same in Soul Eater. The ultimate bad guy finally gets released from his prison but what does he do? He goes and sits in a cave and then a new bad guy shows up who just sucks and steals the story. Aizen the awesome has revealed his true self, oh my god theres no time to waste we have to act now! No wait, hang on Aizen please put your plans on hold while we fight this new villain. The filler mucked things up in my opinion. It would have been great if it went straight to the Arrancar arc and then Hueco Mundo. It's what happened in the manga, and it worked perfectly. The pacing is great. If Bleach had no fillers and if they didn't purposely try to fit in only one chapter per episode it would actually be one hell of an awesome show. Bleach would be so much better if they released a new episode every two weeks instead of one or something like that. They should take their time and if they catch up, the series should go on hiatus until the manga creates a decent lead.

[Axel]

I don't see it that Aizens just hiding away, I'm sure there was some mention of the hogyoku (sp?) needing time to warm up to reach a better potential, so he was preparing while they were off fighting some crappy enemy.

But maybe an episode every 2 weeks would be better... I swear almost half of Bleach episodes are filler. The Bounto arc must've taken up like 50 episodes, Amagai about 25, all the other random other filler episodes about 10 maybe. That's like 85, and Bleach is on 225 or so, quite a chunk of the series. The thing is though, most fans are pissed off with fillers, and most fans would be a bit pissed off with an episode every 2 weeks, so they decide to just do fillers instead for more money perhaps...

[Neversoft]

He's preparing for a rather long time, don't you think? Besides, the Arrancar arc doesn't get into the main part straight away. There is some more Shinigami substituting, Shinji's introduction and transfer to Ichigo's school, Aizen's test arrancar that are just stronger hollows, Ichigo's dad true identity, and then Yammy and Ulliquarualiroiaoio arrive. That's more than enough time for Aizen to do his stuff.

I'm pretty sure that, taking Bleach's current state into consideration, the majority would rather get a new bleach episode every two weeks instead of constant fillers and lame episodes that drag on forever. Although you could argue that it is a business and the production staff must continue to make money somehow if they catch up to the manga, and you could also argue that fillers are there, but you don't have to watch them if you don't want to. It was really annoying how they snuck in some manga material at the end of those fillers when Kon became a superhero though. They should keep fillers and non-fillers seperate. If they have to do 100 fillers, then so be it I won't watch them, and I won't complain as long as the actual quality of the normal episodes isn't ruined. The latest episodes I've seen have just been soooo poor though. If you're gonna do fillers at least to do enough so you won't have to drag out the non-filler episodes... y'know what I mean?

[Axel]

I think the Bounto arc provides just enough time to start churning out the espada, maybe a bit too long.

[Neversoft]

Also, isn't it a bit convenient for the Bounto to show up straight after Aizen disappears... that's bad storytelling right there.

[Axel]

Isn't it a bit convenient that the Vaizards show up as soon as Aizens side gets the upper hand hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm? Bleach can't be famous for it's good storytelling at times.

[Neversoft]

Isn't it a bit convenient that the Vaizards show up as soon as Aizens side gets the upper hand hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm? Bleach can't be famous for it's good storytelling at times.

They show up BECAUSE OF AIZEN. Didn't you see Turn Back the Pendulum? He turned them into what they are, they want revenge, they know Ichigo can help them out. Not convenient at all. Also, what are you on about they show up as soon as Aizen's side gets the upper hand? They showed up before the Arrancar were even introduced. People don't give Bleach's story the praise it deserve in my opinion. Lately, yep, it's been crap. The first couple of arc's were gold and it is set in a very well visualized and detailed world. Bleach did start out quite original.

[Axel]

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As in like, they only decide to show up to the battle to help the Shinigami out when they're about to get their asses handed to them, rather than before or later.

[Neversoft]

Well I haven't bother watching any of the recent episodes so I didn't know that, but it is a shounen afterall.

[Axel]

It's in the manga.