Comments | oyceter: Kubo Tite - Bleach, vol. 01-07 (Eng. trans.)

oyceter

Kubo Tite - Bleach, vol. 01-07 (Eng. trans.)

Jun 24, 2006 22:08

I started reading Bleach because rilina kept blogging about it. Then I watched eps. 1-9 of the anime. Then I stalled out for a while. Then I saw it at the library. Ahhhh, library, how I love you! How you are such a portal to new and addictive series ( Read more... )

manga, sequential art, manga: bleach, manga: shounen, a: kubo tite

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rachelmanija June 25 2006, 06:02:18 UTC

You will be happy to hear that I have Bleach through volume 13.

I love Urahara and everyone else you mention. Unfortunately, that's why... ack... I can't explain at all what frustrates me about the upcoming arc without getting horribly spoilery, except to say that while Bleach starts out much stronger than Naruto, the things that bugged me in the latter improve as it goes along (the non-spoiery one is how easy it is to follow the fights), while in the former, some of the things I loved most from the get-go end up fallin by the wayside.

oyceter June 25 2006, 08:14:05 UTC

Whee!!! I think I will actually go through all of the upcoming arc, despite many warnings about it, just because... it totally cracks me up!

I actually keep getting confused in Naruto's fight scenes, largely because I can't keep any of the ninja apart yet, with a few exceptions. I think part of this is just me and my bad facial recognition skills (I have re-introduced myself to several people I have worked with, which was immensely embarrassing). Frex, I kept not being able to tell Sakura and Ino apart!

rachelmanija June 25 2006, 18:04:45 UTC

I couldn't keep track of all the ninja until after they emerged from the Forest of DOOM DEATH, but after that I never mixed them up again. (Luckily, Sakura gets a haircut soon.)

You may like the Soul Society arc more than I did. There actually is a lot of really good stuff in it.

rilina June 25 2006, 21:55:13 UTC

I also couldn't keep track of the ninja who weren't on Kakashi's team until after the Forest of Death bit. I definitely didn't have a good sense of which genin was on what team until my second time through though. (Watching the anime helped there.)

I've noticed that I tend to read fight scenes too fast, especially in scanlation, which means I'm often like, "What just happened? How did he do that? Eh? Help?"

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rilina June 25 2006, 14:20:53 UTC

Obviously, I like the SS arc of Bleach much more than a lot of people on our f-lists, though I certainly acknowledge that it has pacing and gender issues. I suspect your reaction to it might depend on how much you like the many new characters who are introduced in the arc. I liked some of the new characters enough that I didn't mind taking some time away from the characters who had already been introduced.

The chibis are indeed adorable.

rachelmanija June 25 2006, 18:01:13 UTC

I am liking SS better as I'm re-reading it in hard copy than in scans, because the characters are easier to track on the second go-round, and the things I don't like are at least no longer surprises. I also think I wasn't paying as much attention to a lot of what was going on as I should have because half my mind was always on, "What is so-and-so doing? Why are we on these guys when we don't know what's going on with so-and-so? Get back to so-and-so!" ("So-and-so" not necessarily just one person.)

oyceter June 25 2006, 18:50:42 UTC

I'm actually looking forward to it, just because... more Soul Reapers!

Also, I just love Kubo's art. Love. Love love love.