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REVIEW: Bleach DVD 16

Bleach the "Manga" was canceled after the the 1st arc(The Subsitute*this arc did not include the rescue of Rukia) and was not picked up/restarted until the Bount arc was almost complete. The televison series brought a re-newed interest in the manga.

Arrowfoot wrote:

Bleach the "Manga" was canceled after the the 1st arc(The Subsitute*this arc did not include the rescue of Rukia) and was not picked up/restarted until the Bount arc was almost complete. The televison series brought a re-newed interest in the manga.

Um, no. Bleach was originally scheduled to be a "short-run" series to last about 5 years (well past the first arc), and the manga was so popular that it continued much longer. The manga was going strong when the Bount arc began; ask anyone (myself included) who was reading it at the time.

You may have hated the Soul Society arc, but that doesn't give you carte blanche to just make facts up.

LMAO, Do a little research before you post. Bleach the "Manga" was canceled after the the 1st arc(The Subsitute*this arc did not include the rescue of Rukia) and was not picked up/restarted until the Bount arc was almost complete. The televison series brought a re-newed interest in the manga.

While yoiu are researching the history of Bleach(you can find a lot of articles here on ANN) look up the definition of "filler".

Basicly "filler" is to take up space. If you take it out it will not effect the final product w/the exeption of volume. You can't jump from Aizen betrayal to the intro to the Viscors w/out losing valuable charater development.

Not makeing up you can look up the article up here on ANN there are other articles & interviews w/the Bleach creator where he tells how the TV series revived the manga, heck a few of them use to be posted on the offical Bleach website(the one set up by the studio not the fans)

Stephanie Sheh's Orihime is a treat no matter how lame her dialogue

Yes, there are those three Mod Souls that are still around, and there's one or two mentions of what happened in the Bount Arc later on, but they're mostly throw away.

Tuor_of_Gondolin wrote:

Yes, there are those three Mod Souls that are still around, and there's one or two mentions of what happened in the Bount Arc later on, but they're mostly throw away.

That is one thing I liked about it, though - that they didn't just act as though it never happened (see: Naruto's long run of filler). True, it didn't really develop the characters or the plot, but the writers still refer back to it when the story calls for it, so that the continuity stays firm; in other words, if a situation echoes something they covered in the Bount Arc, they mention it instead of pretending the characters wouldn't be thinking about it.

And as someone who rather liked the mod soul characters, I did get a kick out of them hanging around.

The mod souls had their moments of being amusing, but they were annoying more often than not and I found their inclusion in the canon material to be a negative. Sadly, there are canon characters introduced later on that are far more obnoxious than the mod souls.

Overall, the Bount Arc isn't bad, but it was dragged out far longer than it should have and the arc ended just when it started to be good again. It would have benefited from taking out 10 episodes or so from the middle.

Which accounts for the one-quarter of indifference. The one-quarter of badness comes from director Noriyuki Abe's, shall we say, borrowing. These four episodes are obviously meant to provide a somewhat more cerebral alternative to the series' usual slash 'n bash action, which is worthy ambition. Unfortunately in order to do so Abe steals so brazenly from his own animated adaptation of Yu Yu Hakusho (with a dash of Die Hard With a Vengeance thrown in) that this volume sets off plagiarism alarms from start to finish. Bleach was never a work of scalding originality, and likely never will be, but prior to entering Filler Land, it at least had the sense not to lift its plots wholesale from other sources.

I'll jump in on the side of Bount Arc not being that bad, and not being much of filler. Some characters do continue on into the arcs after the Bount Arc, which at least means the Bount Arc is part of anime canon. Maybe it's best just to divide Bleach into manga canon and anime canon. The anime canon has much of the manga canon, but does have canon of its own(maybe a bit like the first FMA series, but to a much lesser degree).

I thought the Soul Society arc dragged on for way too long too, so the Bount Arc was a slightly faster paced relief for me.