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- The Engineer
The thing for me is that Bleach never really had a "win state" until Azien came up, at which point the "win state" became beating Azien which was never was really followed though with. This gives the series no clear end goal to feel "finished" when that goal is reached.
Naruto's "win state" is blatantly stated in the first oh, twenty pages of the manga; Naruto wants to be Hokage. The only questions is why he wants that and how he's going to accomplish it as at the beginning of the series nobody thinks he can do it. These questions form the driving force of the manga and bring a satisfying end to it when it turns out that Naruto really does become Hokage and for all the right reasons. The thing is that's what the main character has been wanting since Ch. 1.
With Bleach, I never got the idea that taking over his dad's clinic was something even on Ichigo's mind throughout the entire series (if anything, he attitude is the opposite). It literally feels like it came up out of nowhere.
In fact, that's how a lot of stuff is the last arc feels like, deaths come out of nowhere, characters dissapear to nowhere (when was the last we saw Isshin?), relationships come out of nowhere... etc. It's like Kubo is using the "10 years later" thing to gloss over all that.
I don't know, I just feel like Kubo has just done what he's wanted to with the series over the years without regard for the characterizations he's given his characters and nothing makes or breaks a story like good/bad characterization does. So when an author is sloppy with it, it feels like the whole series is sloppy which is kinda how I feel about Bleach as a whole.
Naruto's "win state" is blatantly stated in the first oh, twenty pages of the manga; Naruto wants to be Hokage. The only questions is why he wants that and how he's going to accomplish it as at the beginning of the series nobody thinks he can do it. These questions form the driving force of the manga and bring a satisfying end to it when it turns out that Naruto really does become Hokage and for all the right reasons. The thing is that's what the main character has been wanting since Ch. 1.
With Bleach, I never got the idea that taking over his dad's clinic was something even on Ichigo's mind throughout the entire series (if anything, he attitude is the opposite). It literally feels like it came up out of nowhere.
In fact, that's how a lot of stuff is the last arc feels like, deaths come out of nowhere, characters dissapear to nowhere (when was the last we saw Isshin?), relationships come out of nowhere... etc. It's like Kubo is using the "10 years later" thing to gloss over all that.
I don't know, I just feel like Kubo has just done what he's wanted to with the series over the years without regard for the characterizations he's given his characters and nothing makes or breaks a story like good/bad characterization does. So when an author is sloppy with it, it feels like the whole series is sloppy which is kinda how I feel about Bleach as a whole.