Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5551986-20181227102057/@comment-38861855-20190319172136

So I just read the translations of the first and second volume, and I'm having some mixed feelings...

I'm glad that the author is trying to give more depth to Aizen's motives in order to make them more relatable/understandable. But, at the same time, I feel like it cheapens them.

IMO it always felt like Aizen despised Soul Society's system and everything the Soul King stand for, but now it feels more like 'Soul Society is basically sinful', and Aizen literally said that he wanted to become 'a symbol of all the sins committed by the Shinigami' in the novel... and that kinda feels a little cheap IMO.

But I really like the fact that the Soul King is just basically a disgusting thing that the Shinigami (or Ichibei and the others) created in order to control the flow of souls. They basically did a 'the ends justify the means' kinda thing, which is pretty ironic considering Aizen was doing that and they called him a traitor and all kinds of vile stuff...

Other things that I'm fond of are the creation of the Kurotsuchi Corpse Unit, Hisagi becoming a total journalist and trying to find 'the truth', and finding out about the fate of Urahara and the others after the Quincy War (seriously wtf kubo I thought urahara and yoruichi died or something, that shit needs to be in the manga!!).

What I'm not fond of tho... in the fact that the novel is trying to elevate the Fullbringers. I get it, the novel wants to give more depth cuz peeps don't like them in the series... actually good concept.

Buuut, you can't just elevate them into something of a goverment conspiracy or worse... like becoming a large threat to Urahara... Seriously the XCUTION ambush Urahara Shoten??? This is Urahara we're talking about!! URAHARA!! URAHARA FUCKING KISUKE!! I'm pretty sure the dude got like bajillion landmines below the ground of the shop or something, and the dude can stomp an espada EZ with just his shikai and let's not forget his bankai that is basically... OVER FUCKING 9000 and the Fullbringers ambushed him??????

Giving Kujo Ginjo (or is it kugo? I dont really care) a really big role in this is not really the greatest thing either. It's really hard to give a shit to someone you really don't give a shit even if he's a candidate to become Soul King or even making him Grimmjow level (seriously tho.. Kujo is grimmjow level? I aint believing that)

And last but not least (maybe?) Hikone and Tsunayashiro... I honestly don't know how to feel about them...

On one hand, I really like the conspiracy thing that the villains tryna do. But, on the other hand... I always feel like the captains can go ez mode on them. I mean, the feats that someone like Kenpachi did in the war was just... damn over 9000. And why would someone like Aizen give even a passing glimpse to Tsunayashiro back in the past?? I'm pretty sure Aizen could've curbstomp him ggez if he had thought of him to be a nuisance.

I genuinely don't feel them to be too much of a threat, I really thought all the nobles were conspiring to overthrow the Gotei 13, but it's only two of them and a bunch of Fullbringers.

I'm still gonna continue to read it. There are some good moments, but there are some meh moments as well... which is similar to the manga I guess.