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INTEREST: Shōnen Jump Authors Comment on Bleach Ending

Bleach's last arc filled in some plot holes

killing some characters at the beginning

and I'm making a comparison because it's the internet and like game consoles everyone argues about about which series is better.

I can't exactly argue with that, even the ending was lack luster the problem is really more of stuff that we didn't get to see then what actually happened (though granted not getting to see much of Ichigo's last bankai was kind of like a middle finger)

Hey now Ichigo can join all the other characters who had Bankai but never got to show it for reasons.

What I don't understand is if Kubo really was aware of his upcoming deadline, then why did he waste so much time on the fight with Gerard Valkyrie? To spend so much time on a senseless battle that was going to go nowhere only to pull the plug on it by having the main bad guy drain him of his power when the dude could basically regenerate endlessly makes absolutely no sense. He should have had him regenerate as a giant poop mound, just to give a perfect representation of what the series had become. Anyways... I wouldn't be surprised if by the end Kubo deep down was tired of working on Bleach and just wanted to get it over with and stopped caring about consistency or tying up loose ends.

I totally agree about the wasted panel space. I would link photos, but linking to scans is against the rules here so you're just gonna have to deal with word of mouth.