I Watched Bleach for the First Time, All of it.
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- I started watching Bleach a little over 2 years ago before it was even announced that the series would be returning. Hearing that it was coming back, I figured I had to finish the show so I could experience this beloved series coming back. This is my entire journey with Bleach. If you enjoyed, be sure to leave a like, comment and subscribe!
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0:00 Intro
2:16 Agent of the Shinigami Arc
4:48 Soul Society: Sneak Entry Arc
11:42 Soul Society: Rescue Arc
20:27 The Bount Arc
21:59 Arrancar: The Arrival Arc
27:39 Arrancar: Hueco Mundo Sneak Entry Arc
31:31 Arrancar: The Fierce Fight Arc
38:32 The New Captain Shusuke Amagai Arc
41:29 Arrancar vs. Shinigami Arc
47:09 The Past Arc
50:40 Arrancar: Decisive Battle of Karakura Arc
56:47 Zanpakuto Unknown Tales Arc
1:01:17 Arrancar: Downfall Arc
1:14:59 Gotei 13 Invading Army Arc
1:16:18 The Lost Substitute Shinigami Arc
1:19:52 Overall Thoughts
1:21:04 Thousand Year Blood War/Outro
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Seems like you've been watching the series, solely from story and battle perspective. There is so much more in it that just that, because Bleach is exploration of themes and characters. The very abilities that characters possess are basically psysical manifestations of who they are inside. The battles are not just swinging swords, but clashes of the different characters. And there is reason for why Ichigo have only single sword technique. It's because he doesn't know anything about himself, which reflects in his poor ability arsenal.
Yes 🗿
Agreed
Literally the truth
One piece is just better
@@saav392 ehm,who cares? It's not even the main topic
If Shinji would quit explaining his powers immediately after he uses them, he’d probably lose a lot less
explaining how his powers work is a part of his power
its the only way his power works.@@whatdavodid
his shikai being better than his bankai is yet just another case of him as a character inverting things. To be honest his bankai is absolutely useless in most cases, only op in very niche situations.
not using his hollow form anymore when he’s a visored probably doesn’t help him either
given he can himself do things backwards it would make everything even more confusing when it looks like its normal for him but for you everything isnt working
Well one thing that I want to point out is about the lack of variety of powers you mentioned. It is because Bleach is different than other shonen anime. Here to get more power you have to get to know your sword and create a bond. Ichigo got his bankai in 3 days when others get it in 10 years. He forcefully got stronger. Normally, to get real strength you have to get to know your zanpakto well, talk with it, meditate. The longer you are like that, the more powers you get. Shinigamies spend hundreds of years to get there - thats how they have variety of moves and powers. That's why capitans have more options in attacks and powers. And because Ichigo doesn't know Zangetsu that well, doesn't talk with it often and doesn't know about himself, he is stuck only with Getsuga Tensho. That makes bleach different from other shows. You can't 'simply' get stronger just from training, you have to also dedicate yourself to understand yourself and your sword.
Well, there's also many other more experienced characters that don't have a wide variety of Zanpaktou abilities(not counting other abilities like kido). Ikkaku has one trick, Renji has like 2 or 3 tricks, Byakuya too but his a lot more impactful, Kenpachi has nothing but hack and Slash even after learning of his sword's name, Soi Fon is just 2 stabs=death than a rocket launcher, Komamura is big swings, and a few others.
@@MrMagnetron2 Experience has nothing to do with it, hence why Instar never once brought it up. It's about the BOND with the Zanpakuto, how well you know/understand/accept it. Renji has only a couple techniques because Zabimaru is witholding itself from him and has only had Zabimaru's shikai for under 50 years not the hundred+ of characters who DO have a large number of techniques. Soi Fon barely has anything because to her, Suzumebashi is little more than a tool for execution. Kenpachi has zero techniques because he literally only JUST started hearing Nozarashi's voice at all, there was no time for him to learn anything about it beyond its primary ability, which he's probably not even intersted in going past anyways. Ikkaku is constantly hiding his bankai, so his relationship with Hozukimaru is likely not the best. Heck, even BYAKUYA who actually does have a fair number of techniques doesn't know everything about Senbonzakura and spends time meditating on it and gets a MASSIVE powerup over it. And in Komamura's case, to no small degree, he rejects his own nature, which is tantamount to rejecting Tekken. Your arguments to counter Instar's point really only further serve to prove it.
It's because Ichigo has 16-17 unexperienced as shinigami and shinigami who spends houndred years for training, that's why Ichigo doesn't know kido or other abilities to beat the enemies
Also because Ichigo ignores every technique White "teaches" him because he strongly dislikes everything about his hollow.
These people clearly haven't read the manga.
They don't know that Ichigo's Bankai in the anime is not his full or even real Bankai let alone his Shikai.
And I actually gatta give them that it's hard to pick up on it just by watching the anime alone, cuz a lot of subtle foreshadows and hints of Ichigo's growth are lost in the anime.
A lot of stuff gets cut/changed in the anime adaptation. Which is REALLY bad for a series like Bleach that relies on Kubo's subtlety to set up important payoffs later.
The reason Ichigo is able to beat Grimmjow so easily when Orihime tells him not to get hurt anymore is because he was significantly stronger than Grimmjow. When he started using his hollowfication, he dominated Grimmjow up until he bodyblocked the projectiles from hitting Orihime, where he sees that she's scared of his hollow powers, so he starts paying less attention to the fight itself, and loses some of his resolve, but when Orihime reassures him that she isn't scared of him, his mind is calmed, and his resolve is strengthened, placing him back to 100%, so he's able to beat Grimmjow.
The 69 on Kensei's chest is because his name in Japan is "六車 拳西" which has the kanji "六" in it, which is 6. He is captain of squad 9. He is 6 of 9, thus 69.
Is the manga different than the anime? I only read the Ginjo and Thousand year blood war arcs
@someguy3508 a lot of stuff. Orihime recieved basically a character assassination.
@@thatonguy2407 cool, time to read then!
i watched the anime and years latter (last year) i read the manga (haven't read the blood war arc yet because i got bored tbh) and it really wasn't that different... the experience is the same
@thatonguy2407 I was surprised on just how different the Rukia/Ichigo relationship was between the manga vs anime.
Btw Ichigo didn’t just get an increase of power from orihime. At that point he was already stronger than grimmjow but he was holding back not to scare orihime since she was scared of his hollow powers because of her brother. So Ichigo then went all out and overpowered grimmjow
You need to really look into the forshadowing of this anime. You seem to think orihime is what gives Ichigo power but it’s not. When he turns into a hollow that’s his hollow taking over. Not Ichigo getting power from orihime. Even his hollow said if he wants to control him he mustn’t die before they meet next.
@@antonioauditore1877 well no, orihime was a reassuring person for him, her belief and trust in him is what helped him overcome his fear of the hollow within
@@abbacuspotter9232 that wasn’t what happened. He didn’t feel fear of his hollow at that point. He had beaten his hollow. His fear was from what he thought orihime was feeling when she saw him with the mask
@@antonioauditore1877 no, his fear was literally part of what he was going through, you dont just forget that, yes, part of his concern was that he didnt want orihime to suffer, but again, that ties back to him being taken over by the hollow. like her brother was.
and what happens against ulquiorra? exactly the thing they both feared. theres a reason kubo ties these moments so close together.
@@antonioauditore1877 ichigo needed to know that she trusted an believed in him, because he wasnt sure of himself. that trust and faith she showed in him helped him.
I think bleach doesnt get much love because people look at at for the wrong thing. I love bleach because everything is connected when you start to think about it and its mind blowing
I like bleach but I just feel it didn’t quite draw me in to the world and characters like Naruto or Dragonball.
Honestly by the way ppl talk about the manga I think it’s because of the anime adaptation is pretty bad. I’ve only see up to around ep 170 of the anime and it’s one of the most boring and overhyped animes to me (Soul Society was great tho)
@@Chris-rj4bt im not sure i watched the anime and read the manga for tybw but the manga was really good. The anime has a shit ton of filler so if you arent skipping it then ur ruining the show for urself
It’s connected because it’s extremely contrived lol
@@oscar3153 It being contrived is one of his strengths, uncontrived shows are boring.
They did set up the Gentei Kaijo in the previous arc, Renji says Lieutenant Class and higher get sealed to 20% of their power so as to not adversely affect the World of the Living, Ikkaku being a 3rd Seat didn't have this so he was at full power from the start.
Also Ashido is actually a filler character, along with the Menos forest. It's probably the best Filler in my opinion as it doesn't intrude too much, doesn't overstay it's welcome and Ashido is a really cool character
Wasn't he made canon due to his popularity? I think it was mentioned he was in the same squad as rukia back during Kaien's time.
Ashido is canon. Kubo apparently wanted to include him in the manga (there's an omake of him), but couldn't due to time constraints. So he let the anime team include him.
He got referenced in one of the novels.
thats also why they would send ikkaku and yumichia alone bc they knew the captains knew they were stronger then there seat which u find out later on and they nvr are restricted they just restrict themselves w pride when they do
@@michikatsutsugikuni8047 Bro saw 2 sentences and gave up
@@huxleybennett4732 preschool behavior
Aizen's impact on Ichigo, him being the orchestrator of all the events of bleach and his philosophical depth is what makes him one of the greatest villains in anime. Hard disagree.
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agreed, aizens whole " i knew you were going to do that" at that time wasnt a cliche,now it is but back then aizen was basically the defenition of being 100 steps ahead of you before newer anime had it overdone.
aizen was not just another mr know it all, He was THE know it all before the rest and thats why i like his character.
@@Eiferin yeah homie really went "eh I've seen the things that came after this and copied it, this isn't kinda cliche" like what the fuck
TOKINANDA TSUNAYASHIRO: "excuse me..."
When I heard that horrible take I had to pause the video and read the comments lmao
Honestly, the manga conveys everything so much better. Kubos use of negative space is very absent from the anime and I feel like that alongside the censorship takes away from the experience.
yes but also the manga was RUSHED HEAVILY torwards the end the anime will get more animation then the manga has
What does that even mean. "use of negative space"? Are you drunk? Just like Kubo was when he decided to kill off unohana for no good reason and without any solid explanation? Must be.
@@RobertFierce negative space is when there's a lack of background, which keys in on the subject. Also, Unohana had to die because she had to fight Zaraki until he was strong enough to kill her. And no, they couldnt both walk out of there alive. There can only be one true "Kenpachi". Are you just upset they killed your favorite character?
@RobertFierce bro you were reading detergent not bleach 😔
@@RobertFierceso drawing is at its core negative space. You take out what you want and form the basis of it. Then you add to it. Manga is a black and White medium, I hate comics never liked it EVER. And manga GRIPPED me....why...IDFK.
Anyway kubo from day one pre bleach was zombie powder another death base concept.
So kubo was gonna name it "White" but thought it to be blah and didn't want black for the exact same reason. So he knew he wanted to MAXIMIZE the concept of " light" and "dark" for it was the duality he wanted to convey and so "Bleach" turns black white I.E. the blending of good and evil. Again a show about death, journey we take from birth to death. This is why for us KUBO is incredibly important. To come at the story from the way ymany other's to call it simply " bland" or " surface level" and how no backgrounds are due kubo being bad or lazy or untalented is aggravating.
I am a musician, I ve played drums and I love using any and all styles in songs. But the key to a great part is context. I WANT to play fills every moment, be complex and show off. But that doesn't make the Song better inherently. Less is more and more is less. Kubo gives you detail when he needs to, he knows WHEN and at WHAT to look at. Check the fight with tensa zangetsu and ichigo in the dangai. You will understand
46:29 Anime did her dirty with this scene. I re-read this part of the manga last week she did NOT say Ichigo's name nearly this much 💀
I just rewatched bleach without filler ~200 eps, props for getting through all the filler
If I ever did again I'm 100% skipping it lmao
@@toekneetalks7153 Even the Zanpankuto Rebellion Arc?
Honestly bleach filler is still some amazing shit IMO
@@futureelement924 lets not talk about bounto arc
@@toekneetalks7153 rip to mfs who waited 45 weeks to get through this dogshit
The thousand year blood war animation is outstanding, and the music is straight burgers.
i love it when the music is a burger bro; tastes so yummy 🤤
I watched the anime up until The Aizen reveal and then switched to the manga and I could not be happier. I hate saying this but the manga really is way better in just about every way. The art is better, the pacing is better, the character interactions are more fleshed out, and to me it has a lot more impact because of Kubo's signature negative space
The Kenpachi dilemma is why i kinda lost interest tbh
I just realized I absolutely love Bleach’s power creep because it’s not just bankai v2 and v3 etc, you have different factions, different types of power, different forms of releases with the espada and shinigamified hollows, the shit always made sense in terms of the world, everything was a branch off another. Even fullbring made a lot of sense like yeah maybe not everyone can be a shinigami but there’s a whole spiritual realm so who’s to say humans can’t draw a little from it? I absolutely love bleach
I would disagree about Ichigos lack of powers since it is due to being part of his character. And the thoughts on Aizen. I believe Aizen setting everything up is great, it puts hopelessness into the reader like Ichigo, and makes him that much more terrifying.
Ichigo and Isshin do not have the same powers... its more like that ichigo never used his own powers until tybw ep 13, he couldnt develop own shinigami powers, because he didnt trained with a original zanpakuto instead he got a kind of copy of his fathers, because his fathers powers fused with the hollow inside ichigo.
And with the way Getsuga works, it's more or less function the same way like Quincies
Eat and gather and compress reiatsu and release
Only diff between Isshin and Ichigo
Isshin basically has a polished version of basically sharpening his reiatsu and shooting it out with his slash
While Ichigo I would assume is more similar to Quincy, gather compress and shoot out
You know what’s confusing. In the flashback of how his parents meet didn’t isshin use a fire technique
@@eveningswan4491 actually isshins getsuga is supposed to be fire element as well being he has a fire type zampakto. just like ichigos getsuga is supposed to be yellow-gold not blue
@@Vonmoonlight true words
This info is so weirdly conveyed tbh
Love bleach but I definitely understand the misunderstanding and confusion behind the connections between ichigo and issin's powers
arrancar when use reseruction:
kenpachi when hold blade with both hands and takes off eyepatch: this is pure hype
Pesche being voiced by Dio and having the same blonde hair just makes him better
literally the only reason why pesche wasnt downright deplorable imo
I thought I was just hearing things XD
when orihime says dont get hurt ... its her showing she is not afraid of ichigo and is accepting him ... thus ichogo doesnt hold back his power due to his fear of also rejecting his hollow powers
thats what i understood from that fight
I mean, I think that most people understand that, but she’s being a complete b***h I mean it’s his opinion, but I just don’t know how someone can just be like oh, it’s all origami’s fault
Orihime's character arc is way better in the manga. The anime butchered her character, they made her say kurosaki kun way too many times.
I feel that happened a lot with these 2000s shonen unfortunately
@@toekneetalks7153
I’m still pissed off at how they ruined Orihime’s character arc in the anime, honestly…
Like Sakura
@@toekneetalks7153sakura 2.0
I agree, for me, she singlehandedly reduced my out of 10 score
2 YEARS???? I got to episode 153 in 3 days
Sorry you may be busy, but I'm happy to say I started an anime channeI if you could take a look. Appreciate all the support.
what have you been doing these 3 days?????
bro is unemployed
You literally learned Bankai: Shitsuyō ni musha-buri mi suru shitsugyō-sha
Bro it's took me 1 week to get in ep 279 🗿
The man told me to comment monkey or something so here I am. But honestly this video was a treat to watch and listen to start to finish. I love video essays but combined with your humor and personality it just makes the whole experience so much better. Bleach looks fantastic and I very much would like to get back into watching anime after the hiatus I took after my ex and I split, we bonded over a lot of anime and it’s been hard to watch it but kind of tired depriving myself of this pleasure. Anyway keep up the excellent work Toeknee, always a treat to watch any of your vids.
I feel that man, can be hard to get back in with those feelings. Kinda somewhat related, the reason I actually started watching anime was when I split with my ex. Was a great way for me to take my mind off of things.
"The don't get hurt" power boost is explained in the end chapter drawings kubo does. Ichigo is restricting himself cuz he's afraid of his power and he knows orihime is too so when she reassures him he just walks grimmjow
this man dislikes aizen controlling alot of moments? its like the whole point of his character
What i really like about ichigo as a main character is his origin, like him gaining power ups and then later you get to know how good of an origin story he has so all of that makes him my favorite.
I liked what you said About most of bleach but the two that stood out was the orhime and aizen comments, I feel like you didn’t really look at orhime a character or powers and just focused on how annoying kuroskai kun was (which is the anime fault) and for aizen, I feel like you missed his whole charcter apart from the I plan everything aspect, there’s much more to his charcter that again I believe you missed because you didn’t like the I plan everything thing, I also feel like you missed out on a lot of things like why vasto lorde happened, ichigo powers (it’ll get explained in tybw), abilities, also some concepts in bleach, and so on but overall I really liked your video tho
Even so with Ichigo mental state towards Hollow and how it seemed to seemingly tied to his power level
And this mental state and attitude to his powers conversion, esp his Hollow power is always been referenced throughout even since SS rescue arc
And ltr in TYBW, we understand why his power level is so far apart from peak to low esp when Ulquiorra says how when his power is high, its stupidly high then when low its super low, the difference went so high, he would either body or get bodied by sealed Yami
His entire Shinigami strength was mainly his Hollow, so when Ichigo just went fck u on Hollow, Hollow wasn't happy and toys on him to make him learn how he is his Zankupakuto when Ichigo still didn't believe when Zangetsu told him literally
I’m glad you aren’t turning away from your other types of content, I was scared you were going to only do For Honor content 😊
As much as I commend you for taking the time to go through the series I feel like you should definitely make a follow up/acknowledge the people making some really good points:
1. Ichigo's abilities aren't complete
2. The storytelling and themes are often represented by abilities, character traits, clothing, dialogue, backstory, nuance (such as inspiration and external references)
By the way it's sounding you haven't considered any of this. At the very least from now on, you should make your intentions clear from the start. (It's evident from your explanation on anime you've *started* watching but becomes muddled when you begin showing us your ever expanding repotoir of anime experience).
I feel that will help alleviate some of this confusion, especially if you don't intend on interacting with this type of discussion.
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This is such a good video. Really enjoyed it. Glad to see you enjoyed Bleach as much. I may have some disagreements but overall Bleach love is always a W. This last arc is my fav so I hope you will enjoy it too. And if you ever wanna experience Bleach again, I would recommend manga (unless you don't read manga generally). Waiting for next one
I appreciate it! I'm loving the TYBW so far. I haven't got into reading manga yet, but if I end up in the future, it's definitely on my list.
Bleach's anime suffered from horrendous pacing, each episode covered roughly 4-6 chapters on average. Since back then weekly anime was the norm the amount of chapters to episode ratio was the cause of all the added filler, strange spacing and exaggeration of some scenes. Which ruined the pace of the series even misinterpreting characters. Still glad you enjoyed the series, bleach will always be one of my favorite series faults and all.
Great reciew, one problem, ichigo didn't learn bankai because he is the mc but because youruichi was with him, she is a captain and she saw kisule learn bankai in a compareable amount of time so she has experiamce in that field, and ichigo is special, no spoilees for those who havent watched tybw
And well,Kisuke tricks helped him
Urahara invented the technique and that's how he obtained bankai himself, if I recall correctly. He knew the constraints of the method due to first hand experience, just like how he knew the timeline about the Hōgyoku.
Didn't say he learned it because he's the MC. He's saying he learned it as FAST as he did cause he's the MC. Yoruichi herself said even Captains take 10 plus years to learn to use bankai. You're saying that she and urahara are experienced and therefore that's the reason he learns so fast. You really think all the other people that learned bankai didn't have anyone helping them? Including yoruichi and urahara? But it still takes 10+ years for other captains? Goes along with the whole Ichigo spent x amount of time (I think the equivalent of 3 months) in dangai and learns this ultimate technique and even without mugetsu he becomes insanely strong. So you're telling me that some of these captains that have been around for literally a thousand or more years who have been training for probably the vast majority of that weren't able to do the same thing over those thousands of years while this guy is able to do it and essentially three months? LMAO no no it makes sense.
Also yoruichi never confirmed to have bankai. She says she doesn't get along with her zanpakuto spirit herself. And bankai is not a requirement for being a captain.
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Didn't Yoruichi say that Urahara used the technique he created to develop his own bankai? Then, Ichigo used the same proven method.
So Ichigo learned it fast because of a method developed by Urahara, not because Ichigo was deus ex machina'd because he's the MC.
Urahara also said his method had a maximum useful time limit, and if you went beyond it, it was dangerous or pointless at the minimum.
It essentially brute forced the Bankai awakening, which meant that Ichigo still lacked the bonding and other things the traditional method provided. It had tradeoffs.
Regardless, Old Man Zangetsu was limiting Ichigo's power and growth until a certain point, which also wasn't helpful.
@@toshiro-kano Reread chapter 120. Yoruichi told Ichigo that normal bankai training takes 10-20 years on average but thru Urahara's invention to manifest the Zanpukato spirit immediately instead of the lengthy process of drawing it out and that no one else has had Urahara's device except Ichigo, Urahara and Renji which makes the whole point moot.
Ichigo is the main character because he has incredible powers, even as a human his speed, strength and awareness were much higher than they should be and it was shown in the first chapter of the series. The whole story wouldn't function if the main character wasn't special in some way because that is what drives the plot.
i respect you for surviving through the bount arc and many other filler arcs. you are a true hero
43:48 I know its a bit late but the reason the chose the number 69 for Kensei is that his name has the Japanese character for 6 in it and he leads squad 9. I know this because he is one of my favorite characters despite Kubo wanting to kill him off every five minutes.. Hope this helps
Mayuri vs the arrancar is so much disrespectful, mah dud made the guy suffer for thousands of years in a moment.
Bleach's OST during both the Soul Society and Arrancar arcs are so fucking iconic and great
Great video it was nostalgic seeing bleach again
You've done it! I'm watching Bleach now 😂 I loved the video dude, it was great to veg out and watch
If you’re interested I definitely recommend you read the manga. The issues you have while I don’t think all would be alleviated by reading the manga most would. For example Ichigo doesn’t get a boost from Orihime telling him to not get hurt anymore he was holding back that entire fight with Grimmjow because of her trauma with her brother.
I need to just get into manga in general, but I've never really been a fan of reading. Maybe one day lol
just checked the chapter youre talking about, 283, it seems to play out exactly like in the anime
@@skippi99r32 after sketches are important in bleach , you can see 1 image at the end of each chap , will recommend checking them out after you read the whole chap
hollowfied ichigo is bounded by chains in one chap ( before orihime accepting)
he breaks free from them in the next ( after orihime tells him to not lose/accepts him)
@@toekneetalks7153 you dont really need to read the manga to grasp that, you just need to stop looking for blatant exposition. ive read the manga and watched the series multiple times, they arent that different. the subtext is still there.
stop focusing on face value of things and start asking "why would someone feel or think like this" then relate it to past arcs and experiences of the character.
hell, the story even blatantly shows ichigos struggle with his hollow power long before this, he sees it as an enemy, (if youve seen tybw, then you should grasp the concept of "the blade is me") he refuses to see it as a part of himself (also why his hollow freezes him against yami)
you take to much at the in moment face value to comprehend the whole. as much as i hate the saying... you cant see the forest for the trees.
Ive only watched the anime and i thought it was pretty clear Ichigo started holding back because his Hollow powers were scaring Orihime. From what I remember, Ichigo was destroying Grimmjow until he noticed Orihime was scared, they showed flashbacks of the thing with her brother and I swear Orihime said something along the lines of "im not scared" before Ichigo started winning again. I might be misremembering but either ways, I don't remember it being very subtle at all. Everyone talking about "pay attention to the subtext", I thought it was quite in your face about it
Amazing video and commentary, I was shocked when I saw you didn't have over 100k subs.
just wanted to say, I heard "The days when my mother was there" in the background. My personal favorite song from P5, and honestly way underrated. Great taste, and good job on the video.
Amazing track!l that one!
Bleach just gives me a different feeling man. Can’t wait to see some of the scenes in TYBW animated
That first episode alone got me hyped af
@@toekneetalks7153 for sure. Ichigo’s bankai at the beginning was pure fanservice
That's a lot of dedication, well played.
I completely forgot about the Bount arc, my memory skips straight from SS to the Arrancars, desperate to forget that fucking horror of a filler arc.
When I saw the first bleach filler I was like what the hell there was just a amazing fight
I got into Bleach years after it finished airing. It took me just under a month to watch all the episodes. Hearing you say it took you 2 yrs to finish it was surprising to me.
I was hooked from the the first episode of Bleach. Once i finished the anime, i read the manga. So i was waiting fking yrs for bleach to come back
It took me 5 months to finish with some filler being skipped especially bount arc.
06:53 - he looks like a cardboard girl from MiB entrance exam. The most non-suspicious guy and probably the 1st to hit the bucket, seeing as the mangaka didn’t even give him any memorable features, only glasses and friendly demeanour.
Yeah, they got me with this one too, ngl =)
Zanpakuto rebellion arc was absolutely amazing, yes it is a little bit longer but its so worth watching its unreal
I’m a die hard bleach fan and even I didn’t watch all filler bro props to you also orihime stayed one of my favorite characters the whole series don’t know why I just fw her
Same
in the manga for sure. in the anime i get the "kurosaki-kun" gets annoying but in the manga she doesn't say that nearly as much. the panels the anime is trying to convey she says nothing but her expression is one of distress. i thing the anime wasn't sure they'd get that idea across and just has her say "kurosaki-kun"
@@junkofunko6443 they just didn't think about anything else. Like,giving inner mologuese about how worried she is and what she can do
But it seems like that Pierrot animators were huge Ichiruki shippers
I watched the entirety of it.
Bread girl is Best girl
I love how they totally immersed the viewer during the Bount arc….. could really feel the life being drained from you.
There is a lot of stuff cut and changed in the anime but I believe that Aizen's plans and motives will make sense to you in the new arc, glad you enjoyed it!
One of my favorite parts of the Fullbring Arc was in the fight between Ginjo and Ichigo where Ichigo uses the "thousand image" thing, but then ACTUALLY SWINGS HIS SWORD during it.
The grimmjow fight made sense it not like ichigo got a power boost from inoue, he was just stronger than grimmjow to begin with. When he saw inoue scared of his mask it broke him mentally
It really is no power boost he just he just defeats the person without actually being a complete jackass
It's amazing how you did this video while COMPLETELY ignoring Kuchiki Byakuya!
Dude! He's the characters whose arc was the best! Dude becomes a better brother, better captain, has awesome dialogues with Ichigo... The main character in the Zanpakuto Rebellion Arc... You didn't mention his "betrayal" nor his badass fight with Kōga. Everything he comes in to save/help Ichigo and the rest of the Karakura team. The whole Lost Agent Arc fight with Tsukishima?!? He was the only one who got cut and YET still stuck by Ichigo's side!
Do you have something against Byakuya?
6:50 well, apparently you saw Kyouka Suigetsu and didn't even know 💀
I love how in soul society arc we see Aiken and like no one remembers him the entire series but once he switches up everyone starts remembering him just lurking in the captain meeting at soul society arc and him being the main antagonist is kinda crazy
1:12:43 I mean to be fair, Toshiro and Rukia both have ice powers despite not being related. And both Shinji and Aizen have abilities to mess with people's senses.
THANKYOU
FINALLY someone talks about that one minute long scene of Yoruichi just emptying bowls. I recently rewatched bleach and that scene was just pain.
I fucking always mention that to everyone who I introduce Bleach to. It's the worst single example of a filler scene I've ever seen in my entire life. The fact that they did it in an otherwise canon episode...
In Naruto Shippuden, Tsunade has a scene after the 5 kage summit where she's emptying bowls for a minute as well. Don't they have the same English voice actor?
if you enjoyed the show this much than I recommend you reading the series. It's a much more solid and way more enjoyable experience than watching the show and I honestly think that you'll value some characters more after you've read Bleach
Great refresher for those that watched years ago and are just starting TYBW.
I appreciate the edit for video this long. I laughed many times man
Aww sad you skipped the part right after Aizen used his shikai and fooled Shinji and the rest.
Lol your comments about Aizen monitoring and controlling everything Ichigo did really grinded my gears.
On the contrary with the blood war arc everything tied up quite nicely and Bleach finally makes sense. And it only feels natural that Aizen was pulling the strings.
It doesn’t invalidate things Ichigo had done at all. You just fail to see the real point of Ichigo’s journey
It kinda does because it removes the tension and stakes from every previous scene, now we can go back and determine that every challenge he faced he was literally being molded into overcoming thus does it really make it HIS accomplishment? Not really even if he didn't know he was going to win from the start, WE do know. It makes it hard to rewatch the series knowing literally nothing ichigo does is his own choice.
@@SeviathTheHumanDrago I mean,he did things on his own choices,but the plot behind it is controlled by someone else
@@marcomilillo2001 In a way yes, he could've just let the Hollow kill them all at the start of the series but retroactively it makes the series have less tension and stakes upon rewatching.
@@SeviathTheHumanDrago lol wut. nothing about aizen being invested in ichigo invalidates any accomplishment. ichigo was a surprise to aizen, even his mom being the one white chose. of course he is going to monitor and experiment with it.
aizen cant have ties to ichigos past without having known of him from the start. did he manipulate situations to test ichigo? yes. did he always expect ichigo to win? doubt it. hes a scientist. ichigo was a variable in his hollification experiments. it would make less sense for him not to involve himself with ichigo.
add to that, the fact that it was foreshadowed since his "kill the hollows" game with uryu, its absolutely good story design
@@abbacuspotter9232 Aizen is more than "Invested" in Ichigo's development. It's heavily implied the level of planning and control he had extended into levels of: "Yes, I knew you would take a sh*t at 3:41 P.M. on Tuesday afternoon thereby leading to you wanting to take a walk by the river that day Ichigo Kurosaki."
Yeah Ichigo was a surprise, Aizen apparently knew about since BEFORE Ichigo was born.
Watched this to recap the show
Ended up really enjoying the video toeknee
The Aizen twist was one of the most iconic moments in all of anime, from the "soft spoken gentleman revealed to be master manipulator" to "everything you did from birth was part of my plan" to "running your hand through your hair for instant bad boy hairstyle" have all become well established tropes in the industry!
The new arc is gonna be good
You was right!
I actually liked the bounto arc compared to the zanpakutou rebellion arc...
I work nights so during the day I watch anime. I wasn't sure if I wanted to start watching an anime that was that long so I kept putting it off and I finally decided to give it a go, it took me about 5 months to watch all the non filler arcs then I went back and watched the Zampocto rebellion, Captain Amagi and the Rayguy arc (I believe that's anime only) then rewatched a bunch of my favorite episodes over again except really any from the Bount arc (I didn't really like that) and finally TYBW came out!! I never read the Manga and had no idea Bleach was considered on of "the big 3", I believe it's the best of the big 3!
Can't wait till you review the TYBW Arc because it wraps everything perfectly with a bow... my favorite anime
I don’t get how you don’t like Vasto Lorde transformation setup. It’s so emotional. To each their own
Yeah, that’s so f***ing truth it’s just that they’re evil but they’re not actually evil these types of hollows I don’t think he gets
Inoue is actually a much better character in the manga, for some reason the anime studio decided to make her more stupid and even straight up deleted lines of dialog she had in the manga to flesh out her charterer, witch is why most anime only fans think Inoue is a "flat" character for 80% of her time in the series. She was never represented properly.
The anime studio also decided to add in Ichigo x Rukia moments that never existed in the manga, witch pissed off the author of the series Kubo. Kubo said multiple times he never intended Bleach to be a romance series, and alot of fans believe him setting Ichigo up with Inoue was Kubo's way of giving a big fat middle finger to the animation studio for altering his story in the beginning.
That's why Inoues "capture" in the Hueco Mundo arc, along with her kissing Ichigo in his sleep kinda seems like it was shoved into the story last second. Because it kinda was just to spite the animation studio for them trying to make Ichigo x Rukia a thing for nearly the entirety of the Soul Society arc when Kubo only wanted them to be friends.
Kubo really told the animation studio: "nah fck you, he's with the red head now... and just so you cant edit it out, BOOM! its now a major f-ing plot point for the ENTIRE next arc... Bite me."
gin really did get done dirty, he was my favorite bleach character by far
monkey
It was great to recap the show, I watched it when it originally came out and had to wait 10 years for TYBW! Very much enjoying it though and I hope you are too!
Saw u upload this vid 2 weeks ago and decided fuck it I'm just gonna read bleach so I can watch the video. And here I am 2 weeks later all caught up now reading TYBW. Hopefully you'll upload your thoughts on that when it's all finished, loved the vid
Really love the video! Although Aizen is an interesting character to discuss because I completely disagree with your take on his twist and him knowing everything. To me the twist where everything was planned by him is what makes him one of the best Shonen villains of all time. First, you think it takes away from all of Ichigo's achievements and I simply can't disagree more. The reasoning is the same as to why I don't hate the twist where Naruto and Sasuke are reincarnations of the sons of the Sage of Six Paths like so many do. Neither twist ruins or recontextualize previously amazing scenes. Just like how you can ask "Where was the Sage of Six Paths every time Naruto and Sasuke nearly died before", you can easily ask "Why didn't Aizen step in all the times Ichigo nearly died". Now besides the obvious answer of the mangaka not thinking of it at the time, both twists have built in explanations. In the case of Aizen it's simply, he didn't care. Ichigo was an experiment, to see if Aizen could create an enemy to match his power. If Ichigo died, he'd likely either continue his plans or try again with another person. Even with the information presented in TYBW (won't say what to avoid spoilers for whoever reads it), this still holds up. Aizen did it once, he could do it again. Second is the toll this takes on Ichigo. Between what happened to Uryu in Hueco Mundo while he was in his Vasto Lorde form, Ichigo is having it rough. He has a lot of despair to get over and not a lot of time to do it before Aizen wins. This adds to the tension. Finally, it makes Aizen's defeat at least more satisfying for me. You mentioned how you liked how OP Ichigo was in that moment and I agree, but what makes it better for me is that this is what Aizen wanted and it came back to bite him. While he didn't kill him, Ichigo was his experiment and he still lost because he genuinely thought nobody could beat him. As for him knowing everything, that's what I like. Until he goes god with the hogyoku, Aizen has nothing physically imposing about him. It's his intelligence and the fact that he knew these people for so long that makes him scary. Yeah, him saying 'I know' every other sentence can be annoying but that's up to the person in question. It personally didn't bother me
i was just gonna comment more or less this exact sentiment when he said aizens character was ruined for him. decided to check comments section to see if anyone else disagreed with the video. glad i did
the thing is, ichigo wasnt his "experiment". ichigo (and his mother) was an anomaly beyond his predictions. thats one of the main reasons aizen was so invested in manipulating ichigo's encounters. it was something aizen didnt predict, or plan. he may have planned out a lot of what happened to ichigo, but only because he was interested in something he didnt plan for.
hell, even a lot of what aizen did, its not like he planned it step by step ahead of time, he adapted to the situations and data from each instance. part of aizens genius is his adaptability and willingness to accept the unpredictable.
which is why he lectured tosen on why white wasnt a failure.
if aizen ignored, forgot, or didnt care about ichigo, that would be a mischaracterization of aizen as a person. people dont ever seem to grasp that.
@@abbacuspotter9232 All true. But I was leaving that part out because I wanted to judge the reveal as it was presented before TYBW. Not only did I not know he had seen it before typing it but I also think the reveal is just amazing even without that
I just finished Bleach, I read the manga and then speed watched the anime (sped up and skipping all filler) and Aizen just felt underdeveloped to me. I saw in another comment someone saying that "the twist isn't a problem because it doesn't recontextualize or change anything" when literally the whole point of a twist IS to do those 2 things. What was the point of it being there if it never ended up changing anything? It was cool, but it just felt kind of pointless. Aizen never felt like a real character to me, we never are given any insight into why he does anything other than "He wants to become god" "He dislikes the way of the world" and "He is bored of being too strong" pretty much, which isn't enough to be a real character, and certainly not the primary antagonist. The scene after he is defeated where Ichigo comments on how Aizen probably let himself be sealed also ended up feeling pointless because we don't know why. We're just being told that was what happened, if Ichigo never said that, we would never know that that was supposed to be implied. I feel many Bleach characters suffer from this problem of not being real characters, they're around for the whole story and have cool fights but they don't develop enough to care about them from a narrative perspective. Basically every character is just a list of traits they must follow at all times and maybe 1 thing that changes during 1 arc, which then just gets added to their list of traits for the rest of the story.
@@dracoblizzard7944 Well it doesn't negatively recontextualize anything was what I was trying to get anything. That's why I used the Naruto example. A lot of people point to that as ruining Naruto's character when it really doesn't and the same apply to Ichigo. It certainly does change things as it only makes Ichigo's identity crisis even worse which makes sense given his arc across the series. Also really? I always thought Aizen was a really well fleshed out character. His main goal is to overthrow the Soul King who he feels doesn't deserve to rule. He can't accept things as they are and even calls Urahara a loser for doing so despite being the smartest person in the Soul Society. I can sorta agree most of the side cast doesn't develop much but I'd also argue that they don't need to. Most of these characters have been alive for hundreds if not thousands of years. At some point there's just no more room to grow. They're sorta like the Hashira or Magic Knight Captains in that regard. Still I found myself enjoying these guys and caring about them more than some of the main characters. I loved seeing the Vizards finally get their chance at payback and actually felt sad when Kumomura had to fight against Tosen. This last part is sorta just sharing my opinion but even characters who don't develop can still be good characters
also i always say it but the violent in the vasto fight is the best thing to grace my ears since I was born on this earth
The persona music, bleach, great vid
damn you had the patience to watch the filler arcs too? you know you didnt have to suffer through them lmao. regai and zanpakuto are the only ones i watched after i finished the series and they are pretty good for filler, but I rest my case. After seeing both mediums I have to say I much prefer the bleach manga but im glad you enjoyed one of my fav shonen aot. The anime adaptation of the war arc looks STELLAR and I hope you have a blast with it.
Whatever the reason for it Ichigo only having one proper move was a completely deliberate choice. In the same author's previous series zombiepowder the main character uses 5 different named techniques in 27 chapters. So it wasn't because he was too lazy to come up with moves. He wanted ichigo to only use one. More evidence for that is whenever ichigo uses a different move he only uses it for one fight and then never again.
The random powerups during fights in bleach i feel are a bit unfairly judged too. In the soul society arc they're the most prevalent and least excusable which is ironic considering to anyone who doesn't like the show that's the best arc yet its riddled with issues worse than the others. Anyway take his battle with grimmjow for example. That wasn't a random power up. If you look at the fight before ichigo gets hit by those elbow spikey things grimmjow has he fights completely evenly with grimmjow and even has the upper hand in some moments. At the end of the fight he catches grimmjow's hand and thats supposed to be really shit because he got a BS powerup but near the beginning of the fight he already catches grimmjow's hand another time.
So why was he getting his ass beat towards the end of the fight then? First minor reason. He took the elbow spikes to protect orihime. Which injured him. Maybe hearing orihime's voice got the adrenaline pumping and he overcame it for a bit. But the main reason which is impossible to tell in the anime is that ichigo got the first ever DE-power of friendship. When orihime looked afraid of his hollow mask ichigo became weaker. At the end of every chapter in the manga there's one page with a little sketch. For this chapter it was some entity with a hollow mask (representing ichigo) being chained up. Then in the next chapter when orihime gives her motivational speech the end chapter sketch is the entity breaking through the chains.
I would address some other points but I know this is already too long for people to bother reading. To sum things up though as others have said the old anime did some honestly dumb as shit decisions. In many aspects it was such a horrible adaptation. And some issues will be resolved in the final arc which is being animated currently. If you have watched the new anime you already know that ichigo's original bankai wasn't a real bankai. So its not so bad he achieved it so quickly.
Bleach is, like most others a series riddled with issues. But many of the complaints are either unfair, or are just as prevalent in other series, even the ones people call masterpieces. I'm not sure why it gets given a harder time than the others it's often compared to.
I watched it recently over 3 months. The first saga was absolutely brilliant
1:01:08 it has been awhile since I watched the Soul Society arc, but if I remember correctly the Bankai training Ichigo did was specifically designed to allow one to accomplish bankai in a short amount of time but making it to where your life is on the line. Traditional bankai training does not involve doing combat with your Zanpakuto spirit materialized.
2 years? Damn, it took my a month to watch it all 💀
I would love to watch all of this but im also interested in watching the anime on my own so.... shit
definitely give it a watch. This new arc is looking fire.
I liked the Bount arc alot! thank you for making this video :))
1:14:59 song is ceremony commences, you're wellcome
Loving the video but i had to say, who the fuck thinks anything much less his Vasto Lorde form reveal was bad? I have never seen anyone say anything negative about this fight, by the contrary most praise it as one of the best fight and moments in the entire series and in shonen stories in general, sounds more like you personally dislike Inoue so much that anything that is at all related to her you associate as something bad even though it clearly isn’t. Idk just seems really weird considering the scene makes all the sense int he world, why else would ichigo wake up from death or near death for then? Just because? Because he has a really strong dream or interest in continuing the battle? Of course it would be one of his friends crying in despair for him that would be the catalyst for such a transformation and moment. Otherwise great video, didn’t expect you would enjoy parts of the fillers, even I don’t remember much of them fondly despite being interested in the franchise and world/world-building.
"Monkey or something"
This video was great. I watched Bleach only once and from then on, I'd just revisit the manga or just watch old clips.
The anime was quite the journey, especially seeing how the art steadily changed over time as Kubo refined his art style in the manga too.
Other moments not mentioned I liked:
-Byakuya's change after the Soul Society in how he embraces Rukia as his pride in his Zommari and Tsukishima fight
-The lengths Uryu goes to for his friends given how badly the Soul Reapers did not just his race, but his family, which he also had a lot of pride in.
-Rukia and Renji being able to piece their relationship back together (as Renji knew her longer than her bro BYAKUYA) and their gratitude to Ichigo given how much regret there'd be if things went as planned.
-The Squads having different battle philosophies that aren't objectively right, but aren't objectively wrong either.
-Ulquiorra finally understanding "heart" before dying (shame that the anime didn't adapt his backstory)
-Ichigo's heart to heart with his dad early on, when he couldn't fathom why he wasn't blamed for his mom's death
-Ichigo's sense of responsibility coming full circle with the Fullbringers after they got his power and go off, knowing the degree of accountability to take cuz Rukia did it for him with her powers
Other FILTHY moments:
-Komamura shoving a Cero down an Arrancar's mouth
-Momo getting ran through by the hypnotized Captains worse than pornstar's day at work
-Said captains being cut down by Aizen EZ
-Shuhei cleaving Findor's head after splitting the Cero with Kazeshini
-Kenpachi oneshotting Pocket Watch Dude
-Tatsuki punching Ichigo's face through a window for not explaining why her best friend wasn't around
-Byakuya killing Tsukishima (not just the finesse but the fact that Byakuya would kill him even if he was his close friend)
-Yamamoto punking Nanao with his Spiritual Pressure saying he doesn't have time to teach her to breathe
-EVERYTHING Grimmjow did to Ichigo in their first fight (my fave was spin kicking Ichigo out the sky for the finesse... but the "Standing Here I Realize" barrage was tragic)
-Orihime getting backhanded by Yammy in the park
-Byakuya cutting his own limbs so they wouldn't be manipulated by Zommari
-Rukia and Renji tag teaming to beat the crap outta Ichigo when he gets down or leaves them out the loop (comedic filth)
-The "Good Morning Ichigo!" hits
-Ulquiorra destroying Uryu's arm so he couldn't shoot arrows
-Gin showing Ichigo that despite being one of the earliest Zanpakuto debuted (back when they were more so modified weapons) he will still blitz him
-Gin's Zanpakuto details with his Bankai name (Kamishini no Yari = God Killing Spear) showing his drive to kill Aizen, and the nuance of its dust nature showing how close he was to Rangiku (whose Zanpakuto was ash)
-Stark snatching Orihime from Ichigo and Kenpachi like a walk in the park
-Yumichika offscreening Shuhei in Soul Society (in retrospect, explaining why he looked even better after fighting him after we see his full Shikai)
-Aizen stopping Ichigo with one hand
-Ichigo stopping Aizen with one hand in their final fight
hope you know about the movies too. there are 4 of them and two are somewhat cannon. i actually didn't mind the filler arcs myself but i can understand the critizems of it.
Shiro Sagisu dropping pure bangers only, Clavar La Espada, ¡Hola Arrancar! and honestly the whole Los Noches OST is just some of the hardest OST I’ve ever heard
Orihime is actually way less annoying in the English dub so I never had a problem with her
Man puts Inoue at the bottom of the list.
Me: immediate dislike.
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It's the Anime's fault for doing that 'kurosaki kun'. It's the same for me, with hinata in Naruto.
6:50 "Except Aizen, He seems nice." I agree. He just had the kind dad sort of look back in SS.
One of the best 👍. Thanks for this wonderful review
Wow. Surprised to see Orihime so low. She isn't my favorite either, but as a Bleach fanfiction writer, most complaints are about her not getting enough screen time. You're a brave human specimen.
Monkey or something
Slightly disappointed that you didn't mention how Aizen literally stopped Ichigo's theme with one finger at the end of the rescue arc. Other than that and some minor disagreements I have with your opinions on the characters, great video 👍
In episode 7 of tybw Ichigo uses a sonido (the hollow version of a flash step) that someone else on TH-cam used to support the idea that ichigo's zanpakto ability is the unification of everything he is. Also, something else that was brought up in that video was that getsuga is a soul reaper technique and not an ability.
th-cam.com/video/-n18vNA9DzQ/w-d-xo.html this is the video I was talking about.
Look I'm pretty sure you're a nice enough guy in a lot of aspects, but it's hard to see that when you treat Orihime like she's garbage, even though she doesn't deserve it. The worst the people treat her this way is that they actively ignore her best qualities as a character, not ever realising that her inability to fight on the level of her friends is not what gives her value.
anime did orihime dirty in the arrancar arc lol
I’ve dubbed the whole thing that orihime does as the “Finn” trope where all he does is scream “REY!”
Omg, I can't wait to hear what you think abour the thousand year blood war arch. Definitely new abilities, definitely deaths lol.