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The last 150 chapters are mostly plotless fights between captains and Quincy. They seem a lot, but it’s just Kubo filling every page with a couple of images. Half the time nothing was happening. Just dead space. You can read most chapters under 2 min ...more
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After this cool segment we go back to the captains fighting the Quincy who stole their previous bankais. They go as far as literally telling you they are fighting their evil counterparts for yet another time. So much for that war epic and logical exp ...more
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Around this time we also find out Ichigo is a half-human, half-Soul Reaper, half-Hollow, half-fullbringer, and half-Quincy. If you somehow haven’t figured it out by now, Kubo is just adding another half in every arc because he can’t think of a better ...more
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What follows that battle is a really long downtime where everyone is training to get new bankais, which by the logic of the show’s fanbase means more character development. This is actually a fine way to flesh out many of the characters who up until ...more
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Someone who got more than a few seconds of a fight was Yamamoto. Kubo was really stretching the shit he could do with his bankai. But even he lost to the new bad guy because he attacked a lookalike and not the real thing. How are we let to know he is ...more
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Then there is Kenpachi who doesn’t have a bankai yet, so he just wins with brute force. And he does such a good job Kubo describes 3 of his victories in a single page, since who is reading Bleach for the action? We are reading it for the bankais, and ...more
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The fights with the Fullbringers continue and they are all super lame. One gets stronger by making her boots dirty, one traps his enemies in a videogame, one fights with teddy bears. They all suck and they all get easily defeated, so let’s skip the c ...more
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Then Rukia appears out of nowhere, although she was never supposed to return, and gives Ichigo’s bankai back, which was supposed to have been lost forever, as soon as his other bankai got stolen by the Fullbringers, who were lying the whole time, and ...more
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The Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock

The Eternal Champion (Eternal Champion, #1)
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The Eternal Champion is Moorcock’s first jab at traditional heroic fantasy, using this eponymous character. It is a very dry and joyless read by today’s standards; even dark fantasy is supposed to be fun to read and here there is close to nothing wor The Eternal Champion is Moorcock’s first jab at traditional heroic fantasy, using this eponymous character. It is a very dry and joyless read by today’s standards; even dark fantasy is supposed to be fun to read and here there is close to nothing worth remembering. All characters and locations are just a name and, if you are lucky, a single defining characteristic. Moorcock never cared much about elaborate descriptions and world building, so he keeps things as basic as possible. So basic, most of the world building is infodumped in a hurry and then plays no part in the plot. Most battles and massacres are just the protagonist going ‘and then that happened, moving on’ so we can avoid reading a few hundred words more about how an event played out.

The main hook is just getting to dig how unheroic Erekose is compared to those darn characters than darn Tolkien wrote, a fellow author Moorcock hated so much he wrote a whole thesis against him and then dedicated his whole life in writing in the exact opposite style he did. As a result, you get a main character is who is passive for most of the story, who nags, drinks and falls asleep every ten pages, instead of your typical valiant knight who gladly goes to war for the crown and a fair princess’ love. The latter happens here as well, but it’s only so he can have an excuse to do something and not because it’s his choice. He doesn’t have a choice because he doesn’t have any goals. He was plucked out of the multiverse one day, not having a clue as to who he were the previous time he was here or who all those other personalities he dreams about are supposed to be. As such, he is not psychologically complex and always self examines everything he does, as Moorcock would have you think he is. He’s an unsympathetic idiot who gets motivated only when a woman shakes her hips at him. Most of his actions come down to drinking, nagging, and falling asleep.

The main conflict is about humans being at war with an alien (to them) species, and both sides refusing to coexist. One of the two has to be wiped out down to the last one, so the human king summons the Eternal Champion from across time and space to finish the job he had started centuries ago. Why did he not finish it back then and had to do it now? No idea. Why did he end up doing the exact opposite of what he was summoned to do? Because tragedy. That is the only thing Moorcock was going for. Erekose was just following orders for half the book, not liking the massacres of innocents, but also doing nothing to stop them. Despite being, you know, the Eternal Champion everyone praises. He could have ousted the king and forced a truce if he fancied, but then we wouldn’t have a plot. He changes his mind about a dozen times in the second book, each time by having a casual talk with a member of a certain race. Because we need an excuse for him to kill more than one kind of creatures. By the end of it, he backstabbed and killed both species about 5 times each, resulting to 99% of all life on Earth getting wiped out. This does make him interesting. Only indecisive to everyone’s detriment.

That aside, everything that happens outside of him feels like a complete waste of time. There are war meetings, and naval battles, and city sieges that on one hand play out in an extremely rushed manner, therefore they end up being treated too superficially to make you care, and on the other hand the alien dudes clearly have the upper hand since page one. They only lose because they are holding back. Basically, there is no real gravity behind the conflict. The whole theme of the two species hating each other and never backing down is just nonsense of the human side. The aliens don’t feel hate, and would have easily won with their teleportation powers and weapons of mass destruction. Erekose is just there to fill the pages with endless moaning, nagging, drinking wine, falling asleep, and of course changing his mind so more living beings can stop being alive. Everything feels meaningless once you realize he is an extra in this conflict since the very beginning.

One last thing I want to mention is that this book shits on Attack on Titan’s last arc, since Erekose said he won’t stop until all his enemies are dead, and he did. He didn’t chicken out when he got close to it. He also didn’t excuse his confusion throughout the book by doing some time travel bs where he kills his own mom and then forgets the whole thing. He did simp though. For not one but two women with which he spoke to for a few times. It’s part of why he kept flip flopping his alliances and within a few pages he went from murdering aliens to murdering people. ...more

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Bleach―ブリーチ― 74 [Burīchi 74] by Tite Kubo

Bleach―ブリーチ― 74 [Burīchi 74] (Bleach, #74)
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The last 150 chapters are mostly plotless fights between captains and Quincy. They seem a lot, but it’s just Kubo filling every page with a couple of images. Half the time nothing was happening. Just dead space. You can read most chapters under 2 min The last 150 chapters are mostly plotless fights between captains and Quincy. They seem a lot, but it’s just Kubo filling every page with a couple of images. Half the time nothing was happening. Just dead space. You can read most chapters under 2 minutes. The fanboys will claim it’s building atmosphere, but what is there to build when nothing has any build up and is discarded as soon as it’s introduced? It’s just whatever crazy idea Kubo had at the moment, introduced and forgotten in minutes. There are zombies, a guy who thinks something and it happens, a chicken angel, and a giant hand that is supposed to belong to a god. Many scenes are gross, deviant, and outright not allowed to be shown on broad daylight television. They will censor and trigger warn the heck out of them in the adaptation.

Anyways, the final battle is basically the bad guy changing the future however he feels like it, which means time reset for yet another time, it’s the go to cheap solution for any problem. Until Aizen mind controls him to think he won, yes mind control, the other go to cheap solution for any problem. Then Kubo pulls a new power out of his ass and all of a sudden there is an ability that cancels the bad guy’s power and he is defeated. In a very rushed and unsatisfying manner because Kubo gave up.

Whether he was sick or the company canceled his manga for being completely crap, doesn’t matter. The plot had become a complete clusterfuck of random asspulls so putting it out of its misery was the right thing to do. The fanboys were nagging for months about it, insisting it still had content to keep going for many years more. They were lying, there wasn’t any content left, since there was no build up to have content. Evident to that was the outrage at the finale where Ichigo marries Orihime instead of Rukia. In their minds this was wrong, although it wasn’t since Kubo the troll master had given up on building romantic relationships a long time ago.

He was just making up new conflicts and was then undoing them with new powers that had a convenient fix. He was calling them resolve since day one. He did that even in the last chapter when the bad guy is about to be resurrected and Ichigo’s son happens to have a power that instantly stops him. And just like that it ended, everybody hated it because they didn’t get to see everyone’s bankai, and burned their manga for showing how mature they are. Thus we got a crappy ending to a crappy manga, aimed at a crappy fandom who only wanna see some damn bankais goddammit. ...more

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Bleach―ブリーチ― 62 [Burīchi 62] by Tite Kubo

Bleach―ブリーチ― 62 [Burīchi 62] (Bleach, #62)
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After this cool segment we go back to the captains fighting the Quincy who stole their previous bankais. They go as far as literally telling you they are fighting their evil counterparts for yet another time. So much for that war epic and logical exp ...more

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Bleach―ブリーチ― 61 [Burīchi 61] by Tite Kubo

Bleach―ブリーチ― 61 [Burīchi 61] (Bleach, #61)
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Around this time we also find out Ichigo is a half-human, half-Soul Reaper, half-Hollow, half-fullbringer, and half-Quincy. If you somehow haven’t figured it out by now, Kubo is just adding another half in every arc because he can’t think of a better ...more

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Bleach―ブリーチ― 59 [Burīchi 59] (Bleach, #59)
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What follows that battle is a really long downtime where everyone is training to get new bankais, which by the logic of the show’s fanbase means more character development. This is actually a fine way to flesh out many of the characters who up until ...more

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Bleach―ブリーチ― 58 [Burīchi 58] (Bleach, #58)
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Someone who got more than a few seconds of a fight was Yamamoto. Kubo was really stretching the shit he could do with his bankai. But even he lost to the new bad guy because he attacked a lookalike and not the real thing. How are we let to know he is ...more

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Bleach―ブリーチ― 57 [Burīchi 57] by Tite Kubo

Bleach―ブリーチ― 57 [Burīchi 57] (Bleach, #57)
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Then there is Kenpachi who doesn’t have a bankai yet, so he just wins with brute force. And he does such a good job Kubo describes 3 of his victories in a single page, since who is reading Bleach for the action? We are reading it for the bankais, and ...more

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Bleach―ブリーチ― 55 [Burīchi 55] by Tite Kubo

Bleach―ブリーチ― 55 [Burīchi 55] (Bleach, #55)
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The fights with the Fullbringers continue and they are all super lame. One gets stronger by making her boots dirty, one traps his enemies in a videogame, one fights with teddy bears. They all suck and they all get easily defeated, so let’s skip the c The fights with the Fullbringers continue and they are all super lame. One gets stronger by making her boots dirty, one traps his enemies in a videogame, one fights with teddy bears. They all suck and they all get easily defeated, so let’s skip the crap and move to the next and final arc of the manga, which is about the Quincy. You know who I am talking about, those people who were completely wiped out by the superior in power Soul Reapers. It makes complete sense why they have a huge army when they were completely wiped out, why they can steal the bankai of the captains when we never saw such a thing, and why they can use other weapons besides bows with no build up to such a thing, or with no explanation as to how they were hiding all this time when there are thousands of them and they have strong auras. What do you expect Kubo to do at this point? Waste his time in trying to make sense of the bullshit he has created? Can’t you see he is busy thinking of bankais?

Anyways, what stands out in this arc is how easily someone can die. So far they would only be getting slashes in the shoulder and nobody among the good guys would die, but now they drop like flies in a couple of seconds. Does this make the arc better than the previous ones? No it doesn’t. It raises the stakes but that aside none of these people matter or have any presence. There’s a point where they say the Soul Reapers murdered tens of thousands of innocent people in Soul Society just so the balance between the worlds won’t collapse because of all the Hollows the Quincy are killing. You never see the slaughter, it’s mentioned in a hurry and is then forgotten, just like the hundreds of people who died in Karakura Town or the hundreds of thousands of souls that suddenly entered Soul Society by killing so many Arrankar at once. You are never made to care if someone lives or dies, or where he ends up when he dies. Not even Kubo does. Plus, the fact that they die so easily now and never in the previous arcs feels more like a sudden lifting of plot armor and only because it’s the last arc. It feels artificial in both cases. Plus as I said they don’t matter so it sucks either way.

Anyways, the Quincy win mostly by stealing the bankai of others. Which is counterintuitive since at this point people care more about the bankais than the characters using them. Kubo took away the only thing that his dwindling fanbase still liked. But it’s okay, they can’t steal Ichigo’s bankai because he’s the protagonist and thus an exception to every rule there is. One said exception is the number of different bankais he has gained throughout the story. Like, holy shit, he can fill a storehouse with their number. And since bankais matter more than the characters using them, with this amount he’s easily the deepest character of them all. ...more

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Bleach―ブリーチ― 54 [Burīchi 54] (Bleach, #54)
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Then Rukia appears out of nowhere, although she was never supposed to return, and gives Ichigo’s bankai back, which was supposed to have been lost forever, as soon as his other bankai got stolen by the Fullbringers, who were lying the whole time, and Then Rukia appears out of nowhere, although she was never supposed to return, and gives Ichigo’s bankai back, which was supposed to have been lost forever, as soon as his other bankai got stolen by the Fullbringers, who were lying the whole time, and which he wanted for protecting his friends, even when they never needed protection because they can literally reshape reality however they want. And all that shit happens in 50 chapters of complete boredom, but the fanboys insist this arc is amazing because it gives a lot of character development to Ichigo. Said character development is based on him thinking the Soul Reapers would never return as well as the Soul Reapers never saying they would return his powers (which were supposed to be gone forever). So basically this entire arc happened because of a silly misunderstanding. It could have been easily avoided and nothing would have changed, since Ichigo would have gotten his powers back even if the Fullbringers had never talked to him. Kubo at his finest.

Then a battle breaks out between the Fullbringers and the Soul Reapers and you expect at least the finale of this bullshit arc will be good because it will have a lot of bankais, the only reason people were reading the manga for. The first fight is between Kenpachi and a guy who has an eye patch. Why does that matter? Because Kenpachi also has an eye patch therefore he has to fight someone with an eye patch, exactly as he did in the previous arc when he fought the Arrankar with an eye patch. Kubo is once again showing us how every fight is deep and symbolic by constantly making the enemies to be evil counterparts who exist just to be defeated because there is no thought put into them besides being evil counterparts.

So Kenpachi fights the eye patch guy and the fight lasts one panel. He instantly defeated him and said what the entire fandom thinks about this arc. It’s boring. There is no Aizen, or tension, or charismatic villains, or fights to give two shits about. The entire arc wouldn’t exist if a single Sour Reaper had bothered to say “We will give you back your bankai, don’t trust the Fullbringers”. And despite Kubo not giving a shit the fanboys kept defending him no matter what. ...more

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Bleach―ブリーチ― 53 [Burīchi 53] (Bleach, #53)
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50 chapters pass and the only thing that happens is Ichigo trying to get his bankai back by playing games with some nobodies. Something which shouldn’t be possible when he said he lost it forever. I mean, what else can Ichigo do after he lost his pow ...more

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