Just Manga

@zaldar said:

@AgentJ: heh....action in a manga doesn't work for me. The anime is about the only way I can enjoy the action. For a manga I actually want story, which as we have both pointed out is not the strong point for bleach.

I am not much of a shonen fan though

Fair enough. I'd hope you give Air Gear (and maybe Eyeshield 21) a chance though. They are the exceptions to the Shonen story rule.

@sickVisionz said:

@AgentJ said:

By the way, why are you bothering with the anime? The art is haphazard, and the pacing is sluggish. Switch to the manga.

Bleach manga is balls compared to the anime imo. You get the same cheesy story but none of the benefits like voice acting that makes almost everything better for almost every character (ESPECIALLY Aizen... his VA is godly) and animation that makes the fights better. Often waaaaaaaaaaaaay better.

Completely disagree. Every fight gets dragged out over multiple episodes (even if it lasted a chapter in the manga) the animation is frequently awful (though it often spikes to greatness; see Hisagi's fight vs every other fight around then) and the same punchlines get hit again and again. The voice acting is indeed a plus, but I'd just as soon listen to it while reading the manga over watch it. Kubo is a great artist, but his character designs are wasted by this:

@sickVisionz: Like I said, the anime certainly has its moments, but for every beautiful fight like those, you get five that are a couple of four-frame sword clashes followed by five minutes of South Park-esque mouth flapping. The manga may take a little bit more imagination, I admit, but I vastly prefer that over an episode that has a seven minute recap of the previous episode (THIS HAS HAPPENED) followed by ten minutes of something akin to Susan Sarandon's "HELP THESE POOR CREATURES" commercials in how pathetic the animation is, rounded up by a two-minute ending and a minute preview of the next episode. You and I both know the majority of episodes are closer to that than to Ichigo vs Byakuya.

(BTW I mentioned the Hisagi fight you video'ed earlier. As far as canonical Bleach goes, that was the only fight in that time period animated with any sort of ability)

@sickVisionz:

Agree, also the music and it fillers help to (heck, I like the anime fillers better then the source stuff)

@AgentJ: I watch and read both the manga and anime and prefer the anime by far, since it is a lot more fleshed out than the manga has it, and the art is quite fine.

@Halberdierv2 said:

@AgentJ: I watch and read both the manga and anime and prefer the anime by far, since it is a lot more fleshed out than the manga has it, and the art is quite fine.

Fair enough. I just stopped watching after the Muramasa arc because I was just so tired of the pacing and mouth-flapping. I tried to start watching again at the beginning of December but just couldn't stick with it.

@zaldar: In reality anime shounen and shojo all do have good story I recognized this since I was like 5 and was in love by this, but sometimes it is also about the characters in Bleach. I mean chartacters like

Ginjou was realistic: After all no stranger says "I am going to help you out" and doesn't have some alternate motive.

Tsuki and Riruka were too

Fullbringer gave me a bit more story back to the series Bleach which had been a bit lost for while through arrnacar arc. Even so anime like DBZ and YYH both have good story and that is what is all about the thing is if you look at YYH not only does it have a good story it have great action scenes. So sometimes it is about balancing that. Bleach doesn't do this well.

Bleach is like

Action- Main proirity get some action in for the shingami

Story- A good story but don't always let it over take action for the shingami

Chartcers- make them good, but we can drop them sometimes from the story. Look at Kensei,and Kon

I love reading and watching Bleach it is entertaining, but yea it is the shingami who dull up the story at times I mean really there cool in battle, but there interaction and stuff is being put over the story which is making them boring.

@secretzfan: I have to disagree but that is ok. Eva, lain, ghost in the shell all had better story and more interesting characters. Last exile would still be a series that I think is better but to each their own.