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REVIEW: Bleach DVD 16

Bleach was never a work of scalding originality, and likely never will be, but prior to entering Filler Land, it at least had the sense not to lift its plots wholesale from other sources.

did they really think they could get away with cannibalizing Yu Yu Hakusho?

That said, Abe and his crew are all hoary veterans of shonen entertainment, and the experience shows. Even when pulling a story-arc from their rears (or their back-catalogs), they have the skills and the smarts to make it feel as if it belongs. The action is stylish, and stylistically uniform, and the angst is unsubtle and the jokes funny (Kon-cruelty never gets old). The new characters (three bizarrely-clad yet bizarrely cool villains) really look like a part of the cast, and the extended structure of the fights—or in this case head-games—is perfectly in keeping with the series' usual narrative stride. In other words, the Bount story-arc is, at least for now, a very reasonable facsimile of a typical Bleach arc.

Compared to the Soul Society arc,which dragged on and on without getting anywhere for roughly 60 episodes,this arc was hardly long.

R.G. wrote:

Compared to the Soul Society arc,which dragged on and on without getting anywhere for roughly 60 episodes,this arc was hardly long.

Um, A) the SS arc was only 43 episodes long, and B) it had far more of an impact on the story, by advancing the characters and introducing new ones.

I will agree on the introduction of new characters,but as for the rest,it didn't seem that way to me.It took Ichigo and co. over 40 episodes to accomplish what could have been done in 10,namely,rescue Rukia.

I could go on,but you get my point.

R.G. wrote:

I will agree on the introduction of new characters,but as for the rest,it didn't seem that way to me.It took Ichigo and co. over 40 episodes to accomplish what could have been done in 10,namely,rescue Rukia. I could go on,but you get my point.

In 43 episodes, they:

spoiler[-rescued Rukia
-brought Ichigo to captain level
-resolved the "Aizen" plot
-introduced most of the captains/lieutenants
-addressed the backstories of Rukia, Renji, Momo, Tousen, etc.
-made advancements on Ishida's story
-went further into Yourichi and Urahara's story
-had some excellent fights (it is shonen, after all)]

Like I said,they could have done all that in less than 10 episodes,but for some reason,the producers decided to drag the whole thing out.

My issue in this is calling the Bount arc a filler. Just because they are not telling the story you wish they would ie the pursuit of Aizen does not make it a filler arc/season. The person who wrote the review should know what consist of filler and what doesn't. Thru out the Bount arc you see the characters grow, and the writers are laying the ground work of what will be key story points later on in the series. If you want to see filler look to the later episodes they are so FULL of filler it is not even funny(come on is it really necessary to have a recap before the title song then another right after?) over 1/3 of the 25 minute episode is recap, music, and previews. I can't remember the episode number(mid 100's if I remember right) but I clocked it there was exactly 13 minutes of NEW content! now that is filler.

Sub note I hope ViZ will put together the Bleach shorts on the DVD's one day.

The person who wrote the review should know what consist of filler and what doesn't.