Aah yes, HyperboleGen strikes again!
Bleach has it's strong points:
-cool looking characters
-interesting power system
-epicness of Ban Kai!
-one really great arc (Soul Society) with an equally great villain
But let's not ignore the assines, becazse there's lots of it:
-soul society 2.0 but not that good this time, i.e. Arrancar Arc
-Chad and Orihime take the bakseatest backseat ever
-Ichigo's cocktail-esque DNA (might be too subjective ig)
-The Uno Reverse Card of "My ability conveniently is a perfect counter to your ability that I saw for the first time rn" - TYBW
-The end of TYBW
-Fullbringer arc
It's still good and there are hyoe scenes, but let's take a breather with the deepthroating
It is incredibly strange to see users on this forum that rail against the story/abilities of One Piece suddenly turn around and start praising the story/abilities of Naruto and of feckin Bleach.
I haven't seen Naruto, so I ain't gonna comment on that one. I will however say that nearly every Naruto fan I have ever come across hated the direction Naruto took and how Naruto ended. Lol.
Bleach meanwhile isn't even a story. It is a series of events that happen to a certain set of characters in a particular world.
Compare these three:
1) One Piece is the story of Luffy, a man who seeks to become the freest man in the world by claiming the title of Pirate King through claiming the One Piece.
One Piece's name comes from the One Piece, the titular plot point.
2) Naruto is the story of Naruto, a boy who seeks to become the Hokage in order to be accepted, respected and loved by his arsehole village neighbours.
Naruto is named after the titular character.
3) Bleach is about.... Well there is this bloke called Ichigo who..... Well he doesn't actually have any life goals but er.... He has to fight some arseholes cause they keep coincidentally popping into his life and inconveniently fucking shit up.... Yeah, that's kinda it.
Bleach is called Bleach because..... Kubo thought it would sound cool....
See how the first two have an actual story being driven by actual proactive protagonists that have actual life goals and motivations while Bleach is just a series of events that coincidentally happen to this one guy that is left to react to whatever petty bullshit the current arc villain is cooking up? Not even the fucking name holds any meaning.
Seriously, if Aizen and Yhwach weren't around, literally nothing would happen in the world of Bleach because everything that happens is a reaction to those two making a mess. Ichigo would be content to forever spend the rest of his days dunking on low level
Hollow scrubs that occasionally plague his hometown.
Even worse is when the story attempts to treat Ichigo like some force of change and hands him things that he never earned and never even sought out.
Ichigo becomes the strongest not because he sought strength but because the story needs him to beat the current major arc villain. He doesn't train his strength all the time like Goku does, he doesn't seek strength to protect loved ones, no. He gets attacked by a random arsehole that the story needs him to beat because he just so happens to be the main character somehow.
Then there is that time during the Fullbringer Arc when Ichigo is stated to have changed the Soul Society. How? The Soul Society isn't shown to have changed in any way, it is still a bureaucratic shit hole that tears families apart. Hell, Ichigo doesn't even live in the Soul Society. How can he make changes he never sought to a world he doesn't even live in?
Folk are free to enjoy whatever they want for whatever reason (or even no particular reason at all). Bleach has cool character designs, a solid side cast, some cool abilities and a few decent fights. That is enough reasons to like it or find enjoyment out of it. Enjoyable doesn't have to be good, it only needs to be enjoyable.
People are completely deluded however if they go from ranting about how the writing flaws of One Piece make Oda's work intolerable to then claiming that Bleach is a better written manga. They should just admit that they are there for the aesthetics and move on cause they aren't going to find an actual story in Bleach.
