That's cold blooded man.. all the money he got them for around a decade...What happened was Jump had told Kubo that they wanted Bleach wrapped-up, and gave him something like a year to do so.
He continued to drag his feet and pad the battles with dumb counter-attacks.
Jump got fed up and sent him a fax saying "You've got two weeks. Finish it."
From the final chapter:
Because the theme of overcoming hatred has been consistently there since the first chapter and is repeated over and over in basically every arc. The whole hard work vs natural talent is like a thing in a couple fights. Naruto always had a demon fox inside of him so it's not even like Naruto betrayed the theme of hard work at some late point in the manga. People who make that argument, generally just remember the Neji fight and misattribute a lot of the manga to that. In fact, I notice often the opinion comes straight from a specific YouTube video that does the same.
Ichigo never saw the release of Kyoka Suigetsu so he was never effected by Aizen's hypnosis. At the point of their final battle, Aizen is so arrogant that he doesn't try to use it against Ichigo either.
kinda funny because Aizen could have used it on him at any time but he didnt think he needed to lol
Aizen didn't seem to be able to use his hypnosis powers while becoming a butterfly because he "evolved beyond it". And even when he regained his powers after the orb of bullshit betrayed him, Aizen no longer had full control of the hypnosis & wasn't even aware of what people were seeing under it's effects. Very much a power that had a "mind of it's own".
Bleach was slipping in the rankings, for good reason, and they gave him plenty of opportunity to properly wrap it up. He could have reined-in the excess and delivered, but he didn't.
If I remember, in one of the novels they reveal that in order to use his bankai his opponent first has to be hypnotized with his shikai.
I waver back and forth in believing whether he has one, but I'm leaving toward that he does. The reason he gives for wanting to take over is that he believes he reached the zenith of a shinigami's power, and he wants to get even stronger. If he didn't already have bankai, that shouldn't be the case.
It's a joke. It's not real. Kubo chose to finish the series on his own.
Yeah I can't really be mad at Kubo for things going down the way they did. I know manga readers love to trash him but I always enjoyed his art even if his stories weren't always great.
Soul Society arc is by far the best arc in the series and an overall amazing arc.
We should of never expected anything less from Bleach.Aizen giving the final "humans are awesome" speech or whatever it was in the ending is just really hilarious to me
"Courage."
Like imagine the villain from another series giving a speech like this in the final chapter
I can't find any announcement of additional novel localizations & release.
Okay, now you're just posting baseless conspiracy theories
Nah it's well known Toriko got boosted and even when Toriko ranked highly it was selling less than bleach in volume sales and Toriko was selling better than some series which were also ahead of bleach in rankings so that means either people were buying bleach volumes blind (unlikely) or both rankings were being manipulated.
That's the 2016 novel by the Baccano writer that my post was talking about. You're literally sourcing my own post back at me lmao
That novel is the ending novel. Also can't fear your own world came out in 2017 - 2018. You're not thinking of the wedding novel are you which takes place chronologically before CFYOW?
I mean...Aizen giving the final "humans are awesome" speech or whatever it was in the ending is just really hilarious to me
"Courage."
Like imagine the villain from another series giving a speech like this in the final chapter
That just shows older fans were still buying Bleach volumes but the series was failing to bring in any new & younger fans. Plus, Bleach volumes used to sell in 800k/900k range. But even before 2014, the started declining and failed to stay on the charts for very long. Unlike Naruto & One Piece, Bleach's popularity was slowly declining, hence why the anime & then manga came to an end. There's no grand conspiracy about it: it's just about money.
There's just no proof that Toriko survived because of a "favor to Oda" or that Shonen Jump was against Bleach. The real answer is probably the obvious answer: money. If you want a real answer for why Toriko was pushed so heavily, it's probably just because of Toei licensing the series and trying to push it heavily. That would be more than enough of a financial reason for Jump to give Toriko more chances than it deserved.
I was reading Bleach at the time and I never saw any mention in the news of health issues. Usually Jump will give their artists breaks to recuperate, like with Hunter✕Hunter. If there was any announcement about health issues afterwards, it was probably to save face, but I never saw them. All I know is that Jump made a big announcement saying that Bleach would be ending after the current arc (it's dragging and we want it finished), it was expected to be eight months (iirc), Kubo kept up his extremely tiring counterattack-counterattack-counterattack-counterattack-counterattack-counterattack-counterattack... schtick the entire time, and then out of the blue in an issue of Jump there was a small announcement that Bleach would be ending in two weeks. Just like Samurai 8's two week ending announcement.
He had been having health issues since at least early 2015.
dailyanimeart.com
If that was a concern for Jump they would have given him a proper break, and he wouldn't have kept going at 100, but Bleach's numbers were dropping because nearly every chapter at that point was "what the goddamn bullshit is this?"He had been having health issues since at least early 2015.
Bleach Manga on Break due to Illness
Tite Kubo recently confirmed on Twitter that Bleach manga will not run in the next issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump due to Kubo being ill. Kubo spent 8 days in hospital after only finis…
It wasn't a concern for Jump. It was a concern for Kubo the frequency and time he had to be hospitalized for torn tendons.
Idk I'm not gonna judge Kubo too harshly considering what they expect out of mangaka in that industry.
It's because the health issue was not-so-secretly depression and Japan is terrible with mental health. That's also what ended his first series. While it wasn't the cause of Bleach's cancellation, it was likely a major contributor to how rushed and shitty the final arc & ending were.
