invested far too much of myself into OP in the past and now I'm regretting it, I really should have learned my lesson permanently after Naruto and Bleach but then Kubo also suckered me back in HARD after that amazing bonus hell chapter and all the new stuff hes been revealing here and there and the AMAZING TYBW anime adaptation too, so FML LMAO.
But Kubo also had SEVERE prbolems out of his own control with Bleach and odds were extremely unfairly stacked against him too, so hes getting his dues, his repentance, redemption or w/e this decade later now too.
Bleach was my favorite when the BIG3 were still active and till this day my favorite shonen with zanpakutous being the favorite power system and ichigo my favorite MC.
With that said, kubo is a very flawed and limited writer, soul Society was the best he could write and everything went downhill from them.
He had the habit of taking asspulls from anywhere, using the same fighting choreography on every confront and creating dozens of characters only to never develop them and cast them aside.
Kubo broke my heart during my teens, but i learned to love bleach for what it is: extremely interesting universe that never got properly explored due to it's limited writer skills filled with hype moments and plot points that never go anywhere.
I remember bursting out laughing when i read that chapter where nanao takes that Deus ex machina sword from NO WHERE to defeat lily.
Not to mention the arrow that conviniently canceled all yhwach's powers.
At least, oda's power ups solve the fights. Final war bankais didnt do shit to the final villains lol, that blonde dude with the miracle took 3 of the strongest bankais in the show to the face and still had several rounds to go.
Auswahlen is the most disgusting plot device i have seen in any shonen show, kubo created it to get rid of the lesser quincies post zero squad fights and to finish the elite quincies fights since he made them too strong and didn't know how to get rid of them.
I followed all famous shonens from the 2000s/2010s and my last one will be one piece.
JJK is such a plagiarized piece of shit that the author went to the extent of copying all of kubo's mistakes lol.
Best one from current gen is chainsaw man.
Only ones i still follow are OP, jojo part 9 and CSM.
After they are done, it's a wrap for me.