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I have watched Bleach till episode 141. And many things are annoying me. Bleach is disappointing me so much. Firstly, The MC gets cooked at the beginning of every single battle he gets into. Secondly, this anime has romance. Thirdly, they shipped Ichigo with Orihime. Fourthly, I understand that Orihime tries to help her friends & Ichigo but she ends up being a burden or creating more trouble. The only thing she is good at is healing. She's absolutely useless in battle.

About the third one, if the author was gonna ship Ichigo with Orihime, then why would you even do all this drama between Rukia & Ichigo??? I think the author planned from the very start of the series that he was gonna ship Ichigo with Rukia but then later changed his plan and shipped him with Orihime. I mean why did he change his plan, man? ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ Just stick with the first one!

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[โ€“] hypertown@ani.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly my main issue with Bleach is the same as any other long running series. Everything is super stretched out. It feels like the show tries to waste as much of your time as possible.
That being said I still find the whole series way better than Naruto or even newer series like Boku no Hero Academia.
Romance in shounen anime is often bad. (The only battle anime that has perfect romance is inmho Kaguya-sama)
As a romance expert I can tell that romance in Bleach is clearly only done for the purpose of a happy family ending.
Personally I find it boring although I don't mind it. Just like in real life, romance is illogical and it's everywhere, you can't avoid it.

[โ€“] nyan@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly my main issue with Bleach is the same as any other long running series. Everything is super stretched out. It feels like the show tries to waste as much of your time as possible.

If I recall correctly, Bleach was even more stretched out than the average. The anime was being produced so fast that the (unfinished, at the time) manga couldn't keep pace, and they ended up shoehorning in a lot of anime-original material, which, however, couldn't be allowed to advance the main plot or contribute any real character development, lest it contradict the later manga.

[โ€“] hypertown@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Back in the day every long running series had a filler (Gintoki explains it the best) episodes. These episodes can be a funny break from the main plot at best and unwatchable garbage at worst. In Bleach they were just boring imo excluding a few comedy ones where they focused more on background characters. But even if you skip filler, every arc, every fight feels so stretched out.

[โ€“] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Filler episodes, yes. Bleach had filler seasons running to 20+ consecutive episodes, which, while not quite unheard-of, has never been common, either.