User blog comment:Godisme/End of the Bond 2/@comment-1489595-20110714173756

[rant on]I'm sure Bleach Chat is very useful to Bleachwiki staff for planning stuff and chatting with each other. But I find that Chat features for most forums tend to remain a unused sideshow for most casual Bleachwiki goers. Its pretty much luck and chance if you find people you are interested in talking too about subjects you want to talk about. Most of the time it ends up being ignored. I've visited the Bleach Chat a couple of times and I see the same patterns.

Which brings me to the OTHER Bleach community, the Forums. A forum is where the action is at for most Bleach fans. Interesting discussions that didn't require you all be online at the exact same time with a broad menu of interesting topics to choose from. Unfortunately the Bleach Forums I'm talking about died about a year and a half ago. A strict system of categorization that fails to help you find the INTERESTING topics that are current at that moment and a too heavy investment is suppressing speculation has helped turn a once dynamic and friendly forum into a stagnant pool where nothing ever disturbs the surface. In short forums are naturally dynamic places but the current rules work against it, making it harder to use in a fun way.

So....ummm....thats why I'm not on Chat OR the Forums. [rant off]

So far I'm in agreement about the zombified way Ichigo friends are acting. Kugo is trying very hard to present Tsukishima's Fullbring as not just another vanilla variant of mind control. The idea presented is pretty good (inserting yourself into their past so that they remember you as a long term acquaintance) but it LOOKS too much like standard mind control. Tsukishima should at the very least have to explain himself to Ichigo's friends as much as ichigo does if the Fullbring works the way Tsukishima says it does.

Oh well...its not like this is the first time things didn't totally add up in Bleach. Its an action adventure story and you shouldn't look too closely at the man behind the curtain.