User blog comment:Avolling/Fullbring - The Detested Arc?/@comment-1268838-20111216180314/@comment-44061-20111216233939

While I see your points, im not so easily swayed. When you take a story and turn it into something its not then you have a problem. All your points are valid except for the blatant inconsistency in the story. Bleach has been going on for some years now. All the sudden Ichigo has this unknown power, more so your point actually is attributed more of lose of the new power then of the power he originally had or was supposed to be getting from dealing with Xcution in general. Was Ichigo broken?, sure; was he betrayed?, yes, did he lose power?, yes. But his despair was about being powerless and thus having no importance. So we learn alot about Ichigo's way of thinking, but most of it superficial and not particularly deep, most of that comes from Orihime, Chad, Uryu and Rukia. Even wth the realizations it exposes the lack of depth from his reasons for wanting power. He hasnt grown in this respect at all, if anything with or without the power he is the same guy. As for motives, as ive stated previously, what more is there to know, childish temper tantrum over something really not the serious and quite logical. We know what he did and why he did and there is more to it, im sure there is. But I recall back to Aizen, Gin and Tosen and realize we knew what they were thinking for a while (well not really Gin until the end) and that still didnt make them redeemable as characters, in some cases the more in depth it got the worse their reasons seemed. I also dont think anyone judges the whole arc based on the motives. The whole arc is judged on everything that happens. The motives just give the arc a point. The attempt at trying to understand Tsukishima and Kugo as the backstory will do wont probably do much to redeem these characters. Over all storywise they kubo did have them achieve something as characters. Does it reflect on ichigo's character development? not really, he is still the same, no real growth except in the power dept as usual. Are the motives good so far now and likely not to get any better. Saying this arc is better then the SS arc is really far fetched, we must be reading two different arcs, cause i cant wait for this one to end, much like the bount arc, and most anime arcs.