[Mangs]

All this time my major complaint about Bleach has been that the good guys never die. We get all these different characters thrown at us from all angles and we see them getting the crap beaten out of them in fights, but somehow the villains of Bleach seems incapable of delivering a killing blow.

I mean just think about it, if you go back to the war with Aizen, how many casualties were inflicted on the good guys (not counting Gin of course, who turned out to be kinda good in the end)… uhm zero? Yeah I believe so (correct me if I'm wrong). Aizen and his crew all went down, but the war claimed ZERO lives for the other side; I mean what a fucking one-sided massacre that was.

I’ve always felt that dying can give a character so much more than keeping it alive. If some of the good guys in bleach were killed off at their peak of greatness, we would remember them as such, but when they go from being cool characters to becoming silly sidekicks it just feels like they’re in the way.

Renji is a prime example of this. He was a character I really loved when he first appeared, and his fight with Byakuya made him top the list of my favorite characters at the time. Even though I knew he was never going to win, it was one of the most exciting battles I’ve ever seen.

Now what is Renji really doing? Sure he had his moment of glory by crushing a weak fullbringer, but has his character really given anything to the storyline, pushed the plot forward, or had any impact or meaning to the series whatsoever since the “rescue Rukia arc”?.

And then when someone finally dies, it’s probably one of the least developed characters in bleach, and that fucking says a lot in a manga clustered with undeveloped characters.

Hell, you wanna make a villain hated? Have them kill of one of the captains. Hell, kill Ishida, Chad or Orihime, do they honestly serve any purpose in Bleach anymore besides being targets for Ichigo to protect?

But it's fine, cause we're going back to Hueco Mundo to rescue Dondochakka, HURRAY!