Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1351982-20130522221451/@comment-4829046-20130523080106

I stopped believing that the soul society was the afterlife a long time ago. And I'm sure many people have forgotten about now. Let's take a recap through the plot points of the original Bleach shall we?


 * The establishment of souls(hollows especially) giving us a strong foundation for the story


 * The introduction of Quincies that can delete souls


 * Regular humans gain spiritual powers when in contact with beings like Ichigo

Now is when the story starts to make less and less sense


 * Rukia is arrested and sentenced for execution, the characters invade the soul society. We get some more info about soul society. Epic grandscale war between the cast and the entire gotei 13.


 * Ichigo pawns everyone. Aizen makes his debut as mastermind supervillain.

After that when does the story ever go back to the basics? The rest is all "Shinigami/arrancar battle here", "Shikai over here", Shinigami battle over there", "bankai yet again" and la di da.

Kubo broke all the rules he originally set in the beginning of the manga and made it more action, action and action. F*** logic. I mean lets think logically, how can DEAD people GROW or AGE!!! Souls should be stationary after death or something.

Angel Beats! adds a very nice soul theory. SPOILER! In that the reason why all the characters are in highschool form is cause they had a regretful school life and they pass on when they have overcome their regrets. Of course, for plot reasons it isn't as supernatural(nonsensical) as Bleach is(thank god) and they add a nice touch with the ending taking place in the reincarnated life.

In the end I think we can all agree that the Bleach soul concept got messed up the moment the plot shifted to conspiracies and grandscale fights.