User blog comment:Mrlmm0605/Let's Talk Bleach! Part 16 - The Anime-Only Bits/@comment-3219912-20160614034824

The Bount Arc was the best filler arc in my opinion. It actually felt like effort was put into it, story-wise I mean. It was a nice bridge between the Soul Society and Arrancar Arcs.

The New Captain Shūsuke Amagai Arc wasn't bad, but it wasn't great. I really liked the whole conspiracy theme though. The fights were good. It's just that, like you said, the narrative dragged on too much. Some stuff could have gotten cut and it would have been a lot better.

The Zanpakutō Unknown Tales Arc was one the best filler arcs, well at least the first half. The whole Muramasa becoming a hollow was dumb in my opinion. Honestly, I didn't even like Muramasa as a character all that much anyway. The Beast Sword Arc was a waste, so forgettable.

The Gotei 13 Invading Army Arc was straight up awful, haha. The only good thing about it IMO was the visuals/fight scenes. Top notch animation. The story was dumb, the villains were super boring, and it didn't even make sense story-wise.

The Memories of a Nobody was a really good movie. I loved it, visually and story-wise. That ending really got me in my feels. Senna was a really great character.

The DiamondDust Rebellion is my favorite Bleach movie!! In my honest opinion, this was the best one. One of the main things I liked about this movie was the connection between Ichigo and Hitsugaya.

Fade to Black was a waste of my time. It made me so mad! The whole movie made it seem like Ichigo and Kon was the only one who cared about Rukia. No Orihime (wasn't she her first real friend after Ichigo and Renji), Chad, or Uryu, but somehow Kon was deemed more important enough to be in the movie. The bond between Renji and Rukia was also downplayed IMO. They only spoke like 2 words to each other. OH and don't get me started on Byakuya. This movie could have been good, but it just failed in so many ways. Kisuke was great in this movie though.

Hell Verse was mixed for me. I mean the animation was perfect but the story flopped when it got the Shuren fight. Shuren was suppose to be the big boss but was pushed to the side as soon as it was his time to shine then it all went to Kokutō, whose betrayal was obvious. And then Ichigo's hollow insanely reacting to Hell....I don't know, just didn't make much sense to me. I understood using his power to break Hell's Gate, but it just seemed like a cop-out to conveniently have Ichigo lose control of his hollow in Hell for some reason. The movie as a whole was okay, just wasn't my favorite.