#pro-ichiruki

[jozephina]

Год кота и(или) зайца, так что сам бог велел =) Ну да, у китайцев - только кроля, но куда ж мы-то без котиков ;) Я решила, что хватит маркерам валяться без дела - пора их нещадно эксплуатировать, пока не засохли.

[againstboredom]

For now being canon means almost nothing

I try to explain to myself why, while I don’t like the canon couples. I don’t hate them either and actually think that they can be made to work. I actually appreciate some canon couples art works, and I am sure that from the tons of fanfics dedicated to them, many are lovely and well written, even if I don’t read them, because I don’t read shipping fic for pairs I don’t find compelling, on account of not having an infinite amount of time on my hands.

But today it struck me. It’s the lack of canon material with those pairings, as pairings. Until the last chapter those interaction are not between people in a relationship, and in the last chapter and Hell chapter they barely interact.

Ichihime and renruki were made canon, true, but they have the same amount of shipping stuff that ichiruki or even byaren has. Wich are all, except a couple of panels, FANFICTION.

They end up together in the manga, but they are not together in the manga. We don’t see a single date, or kiss , or marriage in canon. The vast majority of canon takes place when they are all still  adolescents and friends.

We don’t see a single romantic interaction when they appear unequivocally as a couple. Before they get together we can discuss until the cows come home, what is just friendship and what is love, and we do in this fandom. Actually Orihime confessing her love to the comatose Ichigo is the only explicit and undeniably romantic gesture in the manga.

IF we go by the number of interactions between the possible couples in the manga, actually people with incredible amounts of both free time and  will power, counted those in the manga,it turns out that ichiruki has the most on panel time together. So ichirukis might charitably leave a chapter to the competition. They have the rest of the manga.

I’m a new fan. I’m a bit over a year in this fandom. I STARTED BLEACH KNOWING HOW IT WILL END AND WHAT THE CANON PAIRING WERE.

So as I entered Kubo’s magical world I was promised adventure, wonderful fights, a kick-ass female co-protagonist, a male-female friendship for the ages, and two nice love stories where the underdogs get their boy/girl.

[hibacchisblog]

Don't you just love it when you're being called a pathetic toxic shipper by even more pathetic toxic shippers ?

[godzuki-san]

Me (to my fiance): you want to know how bleCh ends?

Fiance: they get married right???

Me:

[jewelofthesevenseas]

😂😂😂 shit, I don't know what to say cause I agree.

[ladyemberswrites]

Why I found the bleach ending disappointing, 

why? because Kubo build all these plot points, that I was actually interested to see unfold. unfortunately it never happened. Let me explain- 

  He built up Grimmjow’s return, teasing us throughout the whole arc that Not only Grimmjow and Nel were going to play big parts, only for them to just suddenly disappear without a trace and never be mentioned again. 

Shunsui and Nanao, after all that happened between them in the thousand year blood arc, when never get any confirmation about their relationship, it was just built up, and went wherever. 

Ichigo and Rukia’s role in the arc was built up so much, yet, we’re given nothing, they don’t even interact that much and Urahara’s cryptic message was just thrown out the window.  Which is another disappointment, because throughout bleach, Ichigo and Rukia’s relationship is what started the series, their relationship always had much emphasis on it, and for Kubo just to kick what made bleach out the window it just-ugh. To be honest, for long time before the end of Bleach, I lost interest.

    I hated the Quincy characters, except Uyruu Ryuken, Masaki and Karagiri, mainly because, they were horrify boring, I don’t even remember any of their names to do right, stupid, for example that Black cupid guy that kept preaching about love, what the actually hell was that! to that chicken guy, thing with the long next. Anyways, the problem I had with these characters is that weren’t memorable, nor interesting, I didn’t give a single crap about any of them and just wanted to them die quickly, so that we could get back to the characters that mattered. Speaking of dying, THESE CHARACTERS NEVER FREAKING DIE! Like seriously, no matter what any of characters did they just coming back again and again, by pulling some sort of deux ex machine out their butts, the this even my final form, can be applied to here. Wonderweiss is a wonderful example of this, Kubo kept dragging this fight on and on and on, to the point where I freaking hated this character. In short, say what what you will about the Espada, but at least, I freaking remembered them, heck I loved them, I loved their designs, their stories, everything about them. 

   Now to the Elephant in the room, Bach, whats his face, was a terrible villain in fact, the worst, written villain I’ve seen in some time. Everything about him just screamed BORING, there was nothing remotely interesting about him, the backstory about him and qunicies, never made any sense to me, I mean I honestly, had no idea what on earth was going and what everything meant. To me Bach whatever his name will never live up to Aizen, in my opinion. 

  I’m also sadden by the fact, Karin and Yuzu will never learn about their quincy/shingami herritage. 

  Also Sadden by the fact Rykuen and Isshin’s appearance was hyped up for absolutely nothing. Will never see nor do we know if Uyruu and his father finally resolve their differences with each other, I was really hoping to see father/son tag team. 

  Sadden, by the fact that Isshin doesn’t met Toshiro and Matsumoto again. 

   Ichigo not being able to live in the world of the living anymore was also hyped up and then tossed out the window. I wanted badly, to see one day Captain Ichigo or at least, lieutenant Ichigo, living and working in the soul society. Nope, we get Ichigo living a boring, normal life. I really hate those kind of endings, A hero who has a chance to live a extra ordinary life, gives it all up to live a painfully, normal boring life, that’s what really killed it for me for the movie the Boy and the beast, despite loving the movie to death.   

  Uyruu getting the short end of the stick, seriously he was part of original group, yet, gets kicked to the curve. Chad’s character also went down the drain, long before, after losing fight, after, fight and so did hime’s character. 

Especially Kon’s, it’s like he dropped right out of the manga itself. 

 And lastly, Kubo, making his characters totally incompetent, like building up Shinji and his group, only for them to get roasted 5 mins into the fight, having Rose build up his creepy Bankai only to be annihilated anti-climatically, like he keeps building up all these characters power, like squad zero only to squashed easily by one-dimensional self-insert marry sues, just what the heck, it just makes everyone completely incompetent.  

Sighs heavily, you know in the beginning I really, really did love bleach, I loved the story the characters, the premise, the world, the writing, the art, and it really inspired my own stories, however, up until the Aizen arc, everything just went downhill. I use to keep defending and to be totally to be honest, I no longer cared about the story, or the other newer characters, but for the originals and mainly for IchiRuki, in truth the only reason I kept reading Bleach for Ichiruki now, that it is the way it is, there’s nothing left in bleach for me to like really. Sometimes I feel as if I wasted all my time on a story that didn’t leave me satisfied as a reader, but just disappointed, there’s nothing worse than getting wrapped up in a series that started good only for it to end in flames. 

- Mrs.KohakuSato

[againstboredom]

What I was promised, relationships wise, when I started Bleach.

When I started Bleach, over a year ago now, I was promised an epic male-female friendship, two nice love stories where the ‘‘unlucky childhood friend’‘ trope gets subverted and a strong nakama.

SO, I entered the magic kingdom. And....

The male-female friendship was so badly written, that the co-protagonists appeared not in friendship but in love.

The two epic love stories are unrequited, unilateral, unreciprocated.

The nakama is mostly left behind, or fractured between sub-grups od one-off characters, so what did I get myself into?

So I got vertigo, from a genre-shift: low urban fantasy to high fantasy.

Two protagonists to one protagonist.

One relationship, fractured into two,  less epic and compeling  love stories.

The pacing and plot-holes are another matter, for a future post.

The idea is that when you start knowing the ending, you are psychologically predisposed to see foreshadowing where is none. Even so, I couldn’t believe that ichiruki was platonic. I believed that the author changed his mind, or that he’s incompetent and writes close friendships as romances, I mean Rukia and Ichigo having to share a room? Good thing that there was technically more than one bed. In the  late 2000′ that’s how bad Anakin/Obi-Wan fanfictions began. If I think back, I think that for a time, a non-canonical apartment was invented to host the head-boy and -girl at Hogwarts, when lazy fanfic authors wanted to get two het characters togeter.

[againstboredom]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

A little ichiruki fix-it. At the real breaking point.