QUOTE(carloz28 @ Dec 6 2010, 07:02 PM)
Bankai in my opinion is a two-staged WOW factor of less than 10 seconds. First is the moment they transformed and then secondly they moment they unleashed the power within their Bankai. Yes, some of their appearance do look very captivating and fasnicating to a degree. So does Arrancar transformation.
Then, after all that souped up hype is gone, reality starts to sink in and that's when you realize there's nothing really anything to look forward to from those guys. Yup, just like the infamous GETSUGA TENSHOU. It seems to me the dude uses Getsuga Tenshou for everything. Getsuga Tenshou is overly abused in this manga that it makes you wonder if Ichigo trim the Bonsai tree with Getsuga Tenshou or chop tofu with the same move or not.
That final move from Ichigo, i dunno what the hell they call it...final GT or whateva...it seems like Kubo accidently tilted his bottle of black ink across two pages of blank paper and then calls it day. And that is how Aizen goes down?? All i'm saying is, Kubo should add more substance in the fights, engineer a system or probably add more depth n dimension to it...not just keeping using the same script all the time.
The tools are always there, (Bankai, Hollow transformation, Kidou arts, the use of elements) but too bad Kubo doesnt know how to utilize them fully.
the thing that made me dislike bleach is Ichigo's spamming of Getsuga Tenshou. Bleach had all the elements of an awesome fight like you said, especially kidou arts, but now, Kubo dont really care about using it at all.
The thing i LOVED about bleach back in the start is actually Orihime, Sado, Kon, Uryuu, Rukia and Ichigo. Not the captains and such. Why? Coz all of them make up a team of variety of powers. But now, Orihime, Sado and Uryuu has 0 development on their characters. Kon? Seriously, I don't know what is he doing other than looking at boobies. I mean, we all men love boobies. who doesn't? but i dont revolve my life around it.
Bleach has a very nice "young and hip" art sometimes. The casual clothes the characters wear are fun to see. In the 4th opening in the bount arc, they had the captains dressed in cool clothing. Since the bount arc was a filler, i was hoping for the anime makers to go lesser on the safe side and have the captains in the real world and handle things in a more modern approach. but it didnt happen. not to mention the unrelated filler arcs too.
when bleach started, it had alot of mystery and promise for development. Just look at the earlier episodes and chapter before rukia was brought back to soul society. it handled things like afterlife and letting go subtly, and i was hoping for them to go deeper later. but noo. kubo let us see soul society and from there onwards, forgot about everything other than the fights.
not gonna spoil it for u, but even in the manga, where i started reading again because it had the mystery it had earlier on, disappointed me when a certain agenda of certain mysterious ppl was revealed.