Lots of action, good animation and... plot? What's plot?

Written by Gan_HOPE326 on October 29, 2010 at 9:10 AM

I started watching Bleach some years ago, and I liked it as one can like a shonen series; for its nice action, exciting moments of awesome, badass heroes, moves, weapons, and so on. And trust me, if you enjoy this kind of stuff, you want to watch it - the first 63 episodes, that is.
Because after that, something of a long filler arc starts. When it's actually filler, it's filler; when it follows the manga, it's almost impossible to tell, as it looks like filler anyway. Don't mistake me: manga episodes are better than filler ones - but that's because filler episodes are truly TERRIBLE. The animation is discontinuous, can vary from "horrible" to "awesome" in the space of a few episode; but what truly lacks is plot. It simply isn't there. You got a villain whose actions make less and less sense as time goes by. Plot holes everywhere. A writer who obviously FORGETS his characters and his own actions now and then, as people disappears without a reason, or things which seemed really important at first suddenly are not mentioned anymore; sometimes you hear a line which feels like it's a hint to something really important, then it's like no-one ever said that, while truly important twists come without any warning, giving the very bad feeling of a mangaka who's writing his story as it goes, without planning ahead at all. Lately it's been bad. Having read the manga, I can tell it's going to be WORSE. Just forget about hopes of all of this actually MAKING SENSE. So yeah. I keep on watching it because I enjoy the music and the battles; just don't expect too much of it, you'll be disappointed.