Things wrong with the bleach ending overall:
Too much build up for a final boss battle that ended in one panel.
All secondary characters and their unresolved backstories were rendered useless. (Did Bazz-B die? What the fuck happened with Kira Izuru - why was that added in? What about Grimmjow and Tia and Nel? What about Yumichika’s shikai? Not going to resolve any of that?)
Everything is completely and perfectly peaceful after that miraculous end to all evil everywhere courtesy of Ichigo. Very coincidentally simple after all that insane buildup. Like blowing up a balloon and letting the air back out to make a fart noise instead of just popping it.
Mysterious unexplained Ywach power readings pulled out of the series’ ass at the very end just so there’s an enemy for the kids to fight and defeat in one page.
The fact that the final chapter was called ‘a perfect end.’
Things right with the bleach ending overall:
Ichigo survived the series and went on to live his life.
Renji survived his battle with Bach and seemed to get his left arm back.
Hisagi’s (fake??) bankai, meaning he’s made peace with Kazeshini.
Squad 11 mains are all still alive. (Ikkaku made lieutenant and Yumichika gets his third seat.)
Hisagi doesn’t seem to be shy around Rangiku anymore.
Shunsui still drinks with and talks to Juushiro’s gravestone.
Toshiro reverted to his small cute self. (Does this mean his bankai regressed, or???)
Things wrong with the bleach epilogue spoilers:
‘Welp, might as well shove together the male and female protagonists who are in the same age group and who had no prior romantic interest in each other right at the end of the story to have a super nonlame and noncliche ending:’ said every writer ever.
Renji and Rukia got together. Not hating on renruki shippers (if you’re into that theory that male-female best friends secretly want to fuck, then okay) just saying, kinda’ weird that it took them centuries to get together and then they went straight to having kids…. while they’re still soldiers. Is there shinigami daycare or something? I mean, Rukia’s a captain now and Renji’s a lieutenant. Who’s taking care of their kid? Why did they have a kid so soon? Don’t they want at least 40+ years to just be married in their weird best-friendy marriage without worrying about kids? What the fuck.
Renruki kid looks like a stupid fanfiction mishmash of ‘daddy’ and ‘mommy’s’ traits. That hairstyle in the spoiler pic is absolutely horrible. Rukia and Renji’s hairstyles did not need to be mixed, and by the way, kid’s don’t change their hairstyle so that it will be a perfect blend of their parents’.
Why are the kids shinigami during peacetime? They ain’t even academy students, they’re full on uniformed shinigami?? The fuck.
Are Ichigo and Orihime married? Why are they married? DId Ichigo get his brain electroshocked and suddenly decide that oh wait, ‘Oh, Inoue, I actually notice you now despite not noticing you consistently for the past several years.’ And Orihime, really? You still like the guy you fell for in high school? Who routinely made it obvious that he had no interest? Girl, you deserve someone who at least likes you. BESIDES, WHO STICKS WITH THE PERSON THEY MET IN HIGH SCHOOL? There’s so many more people out there! Did you just decide when you met Ichigo that you were going to be bf and gf 5ever and close up shop? Why are they married?
Don’t think I don’t realize that Orihime looks like Masaki either and that it’s why Orihime didn’t end up with Uryu, who actually liked her. Oh, really clever making a parallel of the Masaki-Ryuuken-Isshin situation. Lame, Kubo. Lame. Orihime deserved someone who loved her and paid attention to her. You’ve sold her short so many times and this is too far.
When did Ichigo have a kid? He’s only 27 now right? For the kid to be reasonably old enough to have even a training sword, they should be like 10, meaning Ichigo would’ve had the kid at 17, which he didn’t. Maybe they’re 5 years old with a sword, meaning he had a kid at 22? Meaning he probably got married at like 19??? Ichigo, you had your whole life ahead of you, and you got married and made babies so young? What about your career? What about your life? Were you that eager to end your adventures to settle down with a kid? You certainly weren’t happy last time you lost your powers and had to live normally. God damnit, this makes no sense.
WAIT, THEIR SOn IS SUPPOSEDLY NINE. THEY GOT MARRIED AT 17 AND HAD A KID AT 18. IN JAPAN, THAT’S STILL FUCKING UNDERAGE. ICHIGO, WOW. WHY. goddamnit this means Rukia and Renji had their kid immediately too, wtf, wayta get to business.
Why did Ichigo have a child? Never mind that he never loved Orihime - because okay, maybe over ten years he had a change of heart, who’s to say, oh wait no, he married her at seventeen and didn’t have time to have a change of heart- but why did he have a kid when he’s a four-way hybrid? What kind of crazy life does he want to inflict on a child, especially now that they’re like a five-way hybrid, considering Orihime’s powers. Ugh, OC mary-sue baby.
OC Mary sue baby resolves the crisis, confines Aizen, and dispells Ywach’s powers in one fell swoop. Well done kid. G UHH.
Why are kids responsible for saving the world? A fucking five-year-old?
Did Ichigo lose his powers defeating Bach? Questions I want answered.
Has Aizen been roaming free for ten fucking years? And there’s been peacetime during this? Was there a manhunt? Did they let him free? I have many questions.
Rukia is mother of the year, reasoning that her child, who is fucking lost after presumably losing her parents in the FUCKING DANGAI -nevermind that she could be fucking dead because of the Koryu and the Kototsu???- can’t get hurt by a human because oh, she’s a shinigami. Her child is a shinigami soldier. With a sword. GOd damnit.
why did Renji and Rukia not adopt after their bad past being orphans in the rukongai? Why did they not adopt?? Why, why, why? That’s the kind of big-hearted people that they are???
please don’t add the OC babies to the ao3 character tags. just please don’t.
Why is Yuzu still living at home at twenty three?
Uryu vowed not to become a doctor? Why is he a doctor? Did he take over his father’s hospital? Double the fuck? he hates his father?
Chad promised never to use his strength for his own gain. Did he say fuck it and decide to do WBO? THE FUCK.
WHAT THE FUCK HAS HAPPENED TO ALL THE PROTAGONISTS AND THEIR ORIGINAL LIFE GOALS? IT’S LIKE THEY ENDED UP DOING THE EXACT OPPOSITE. except Orihime. She’s Ichigo’s housemaid just like she convinced herself she wanted to be. BABY, YOU COULD’VE HAD BETTER.
Ichigo didn’t know who Renji and Rukia’s kid was when she first visited, meaning that Ichigo hasn’t seen them for like ten years. Those fuckers didn’t even goddamn visit or tell them about their OC baby.
Oh, and well done naming the girl Ichika. Ichi-ka, very clever, they named their baby after Ichigo, who they didn’t even take the time of day to go and fucking see or mail a letter to telling him they were expecting, but hey we named our daughter after you because yeah. Fuckin hell.
AND GREAT, both the 5-7 year old kids have swords and are shinigami. Great. Great.
I bet their kids are a boy and a girl so that they can fall in love and have happy hetero relationships despite their lack of chemistry, just like both sets of their parents, huh, because we don’t believe in platonic male-female friendships. Nope.
by the way, what was the special ‘announcement?’ that this ending was completely and totally rushed and fucked up after all the hard work Kubo put into creating this world and these characters?
Things right with the bleach epilogue spoilers:
we can choose to ignore it.
life goes on despite this devastating disappointment.
if you didn’t ship any of the main hetero ships, this doesn’t have to affect you.
if you followed Naruto, you were ready for this shit anyways.
reread the series up until Aizen is first defeated, and then pretend it ended there.
Kubo, who made you do this?
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