User blog comment:Godisme/belIEve/@comment-955994-20111123083037/@comment-44061-20111123164954

I don't find that to be accurate though, the concept is how this kid with some connection to the spirit world becomes a shinigami and enters into adventures based around them. Yes ichigo is mainly human but it's only in his point of view and personality with dealing with other shinigami or others is this really evident. This entire arc essentially became about getting his shinigami powers back. As for character development, bleach is a lot of fighting, what worth are characters who can't fight, at best sideline characters but they can't be main focus if human, that's another series with no fights, no powers. Now chad and orihime and ishida have powers and capability to fight. What more is there to know about orihime (she is in love with ichigo, she has conviction, a powerful defensive/healing power, and extremely over empathic, she lives alone, her parents were horrible, her brother died became a hollow and was cleansed later, she is the typical pacifist, happy damsel in distress, who is beautiful) chad (he is loyal, Ichigos best friend, superhuman strength, determined, a fullbringer, has pride in his heritage, loved his grandfather). I'm not saying asano and the others have no worth but its like when Aizen and gin showed up, what were they gonna do, they can't even defend themselves, if anything they being associated to ichigo puts them in danger. They serve their purpose as connections of human normality, but there can't be much growth beyond that. We saw their role in the first part of this arc, how much more can you talk about normal life. As we saw ichigo had it and became increasingly tired with it.