LarsInCharge said:
The Wykydtron said:
Yeah the end of the Aizen arc and the first few issues of the next arc made me jump ship from Bleach ages ago. It was clear after the way Ichigo pulled random OP powers out of nowhere to beat the most overpowered villain ever created in one hit was a sign that the writing quality had divebombed. Seriously, he built Aizen to be so unkillable that no matter how he was defeated it would look like a total copout because there was no reasonable way to beat him.
He could have ended it with the Aizen arc, he really could. Massive villain defeated and everyone gets on with their lives with no loose plot threads hanging.
At the same time, he did it fairly well. Not only did Ichigo not win with the 11th hour superpower, the only person who honestly COULD win the fight (Urahara) did. It took some bizarre leaps of faith and logic for it to work, but it worked.
Now if he had ended it there, I could have called Bleach a decent series. But the dragging out has been tiresome.
Same with Kishimoto. If the Naruto series had ended with the Pain arc, I could have remembered it fondly. But no. "MIND CONTROL LASER IN THE MOON" and everything that followed...
Mind control lazer in the Moon... What happened to Naruto after I jumped ship around issue 500 dare I ask? I'm guess I must just be good at naturally realising that a plot is going amazingly downhill so I jump ship earlier than most other people. I saw the "second ninja war" arc starting and just left it. I saw 500 issues and not only no end in sight, but a perfectly good ending was missed intentionally for a totally new arc. Naruto is nearing 700 issues now, dear god.
I wish more manga writers started out with a set number of issues in mind instead of going "ah fuck it, i'll see where it goes" like the two guys who wrote Death Note explicitly said they wanted no more than a little over 100 issues (think it ended up on 108?) and how my all time favourite The World God Only Knows ended exactly when it needed to with perfect closure and actually makes sense.
Gotta give it to the guy, Wakaki Tamiki knew that the main character Keima carried the entire weight of the series on his own and making sure he didn't compromise on his character was the most important thing to do and he managed it even over 250+ issues. Must be hard to keep an eye on what exactly makes your series good over such time I suppose
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