Bleach 32
Posted: December 27, 2010 Filed under: Bleach Leave a comment »Tite Kubo – Viz – 2010 – 48+ volumes
There are very few manga that can divide my opinion as much as Bleach. I like this current storyline a lot. I like the basic plot. I even like some of the new enemy characters, the ally characters, the setting, and maybe some of the fights. But man, Bleach is really bad at these long fights. They just drag on forever. And there are so many characters to engage in them. The plot has really slowed to a crawl, and fear of these long and irrelevant fights makes it hard for me to pick up new volumes of Bleach, even while I like everything else that’s going on.
But whenever those fights happen, there’s always something to like. And no matter how long and boring, I can always think “Well, at least these aren’t the main characters. The Ichigo fights will always be cool, at least.”
This entire volume was an Ichigo fight. With Grimmjow. They both changed forms. And fought.
I think it was supposed to be elegant, symbolic of a change that Ichigo was going through. Or maybe that he wasn’t changing. Orihime watched from the sidelines, scared, and more characters were introduced mid-fight that commented on the power being used. And there was a distinction between human and soul reaper.
Grimmjow turned into some sort of animal thing, and we got his backstory.
It was still… just… so long. And not cool. Even though it involved Orihime and Ichigo.
I don’t even know what I want from Bleach anymore, if not this.
I do like Nel. I’m hoping she’ll turn out to be someone interesting sometime soon.
