kon had such a gud story in the start...now he's a forgoteen joke ...sad...

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.

filler? why sound like the 3rd capt arc.

but the main manga story seems more "original" than anime abit to me. lol.