User blog comment:Lemursrule/BLEACH 366 Review: Goodbye for Now/@comment-1393830-20120328034949

I think I have been pretty vocal about how I have not really cared for the anime for a long time. In part, I am glad it ended. What I look for in the anime is a faithful adaptation of the manga that gives life to the scenes in the manga. The Bleach Anime decided it wanted to be a separate entity and try and write its own stories and add on to the manga. I think we have all witnessed the great "skill" of Pierrot's writers. Lets face it, without manga to turn into anime, Pierrot sucked. I know many members of this site champion the Bount Arc as the best of the filler arcs as it made sense. To me, yes, it made sense. It was still boring as hell though. I thought the Amagai arc was probably the best of the anime only arcs and even that was pretty bad. And let's face it, The Lost Substitute arc was basically a filler arc. If the anime comes back, they need to go for straight adaptation of the manga as that seems to be the only thing they are good at. In terms of this episode, I felt many good moments were ruined. The Riruka scene lost a lot of its emotion and Ichigo's arrival in Soul Society was a lot less funny than it was in the manga. Have to say though, the anime ending benefits me on Bleach answers. Less questions that have to be answered with "read the manga".