- All the characters are shallow, especially Ichigo, which is quite astounding considering hes the main character and all.
- Fights get boring after a while. Theres no 'thinking' or strategy behind them; nothing makes the audience go 'ah' or 'woah' after the good guys win, everytime its a powerup or a fucking technique.
- The good guys ALWAYS win. This makes the manga terribly predictable. Compare this with other shonen or seinen manga, for example, in One Piece, we have Luffy losing against Aokiji, Smoker, Magellan and Croc (twice). Granted he always survives and makes it through, but he does suffer setbacks and he has to find a way to get stronger.
- No plot at all. HM arc is just a repetition of the SS arc.
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As for story itself there was SS arc and there is SS arc2 called HM arc. It's basicly repeating everything again plus showing off some more characters that were introduced in SS.
Cool Ganjiu, Kukkaku and Hanatarou are replaced by evil hollows that for some reason are insane enough to not be evil. Instead of one gatekeeper that showed us how Ichigo grew stronger we have two of them for Ishiada and Chad. Chad dosn't go long on his awesome expansion of killing cannon fodders (I used to be much more Chad's fan with his "Mu" because fillers and eventually making him what he is). It's more 1-1 now as if there weren't enough cannon fodders in the land of hollows.
Hotheaded halfboss:Renji is now Grimjaw, and cold boss:Byakuya is now Uluqoria(always sp?). Cat turining woman Yoruichi is now Nel that we suppose to give a shit because she has very annoying way of speaking and somehow is strong and is healing and is the one thing that bring us few jokes in Bleach. Grimjaw flashbacks at the end and strickes with nothing he can do and the whole fight could be presented in the same side of powerups like that one but they have bankais now.
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- One thing I hate about Bleach is the character designs. I mean ALL the characters are good or cool looking. It feels kinda cheap, as though the entire series is just a scheme for Kubo to make money through drawing good looking characters and cool fights and not through actually thinking up a decent plot.