User blog:Salubri/Whats the worst Bleach Filler arcs and why they are horrible.

Normally like most fans of any series the filler arcs are just by nature not liked in any particular way and then there are some that do like them at least to a point. Well with some recent events taking place. I would just like to throw out my thoughts on the filler arcs in general.

There are varying reasons why filler arcs are just bad news in general. The only general purpose is to basically take up time while the manga advances its storyline further. Here are the significant draw backs of this process.


 * Random writers come up with these story scenarios that destroy the established canon of the series. As though they dont know what is already written.
 * Story lines cater to anime oriented crowd who may not be reading the manga and thus arent gonna be surprised by the missing or changed details.
 * There is no continuity or rarely any with the manga storyline.

Here in descending order from worst to ok are the filler arcs (thankfully there have been only 4.


 * 1) Gotei 13 Invading Army - The biggest issues with what makes this the worst of all the arcs is:
 * Inaba: a pointless bad guy apparently 7th seat of the 12th Division and head researcher on the dangai. On top of that we are supposed to believe now that he is no longer a shinigami or rather he never was but just another overpowered modified soul. Who apparently is the one who created mod souls. His zanpakuto apparently manipulates some level of time and space. Interestingly enough it changes its capabilities like every few episodes. Not to mention he apparently is good enough to outsmart Mayuri (how who knows) then takes attacks head on and then fights the captain-commander and beats him as if he was a 20th seat division member. Im not sure whats the idea behind this character, but it was a bad one. He is neither interesting, or believable in his role. He is overpowered and the creation of the character seems to be a slap in the face of intelligent character creation in the series. Even his design is horrible.


 * Nozomi: the concept of the poor defenseless girl is wearing thin, especially considering that she has no real connection to any of the characters besides the combat useless comic relief, Kon. Then as a mod soul part of the first, she apparently can just generate a zanpakuto (no explanation is apparently needed for that cause this is a filler arc it doesnt have to make sense.) Then her zanpakuto ability is basically absorbing another's reiatsu or techniques reiatsu and and then firing it back at the opponent. How incredibly unoriginal.


 * Story: The biggest complaint is that if you have been watching the arc it apparently leads nowhere the characters are not interesting and at this point we dont know whats going on Ichigo is apparently powerless, Yamamoto and all the captains (sans unohana) are defeated apparently as all the lieutenants. So now what? Better question is who cares. No balance at all.
 * 1)  Zanpakuto Unknown Tales -


 * Story: Zanpakuto's spirits get free and turn on their owners. This would probably be believable if zanpakuto's werent apart of the wielders soul but the writers managed to disrupt that concept as well. Besides the inaccuracies and disregard for established content there was a semblance of balance and story here but it tends to fluctuate.


 * Muramasa: not bad but would made no sense is his independent transformation of hollows. Not quite sure how this made sense.


 * Kugo: he brought a refreshing and interesting side to the kuchiki family history though it maintains no connection with the established canon info. Thus they made a character they could do nothing with by placing him solely in the anime only filler arc.


 * 1) The New Captain Shūsuke Amagai -


 * Story: a new captain is made captain of 3rd division. Turns out he is a traitor that set it all up to bring down a noble house and kill yamamoto. The most i can say about this is Amagai knew who was the guy behind the death of his father via the bakuto yet he allied himself with him. He also didnt seem to do his homework at least not in the area where it would have done the most good. Supposedly avenging his father and being the one behind the event showed he didnt really know anything. Beyond that it was still more balanced though the interactions with the "princess" were somewhat forced and unnecessary, just another reason to rope Ichigo into Soul Society business.


 * 1) The Bount -


 * Story: This was a far more balanced story arc.