Han-yuu said:
Fai said:
generally good flow in volume format (there are no sudden cut offs in terms of volume flow and it feels more like a volume separated into chapters than chapters bundled into volume, which is VERY good thing).
So one need to read bleach in volumes instead chapters to get better feeling and flow. i can understand it's fun to read lots of bundled chapters and that's how i catch up with bleach in the beginning but calling "volume separated into chapters" good is beyond my thinking.
I wanted bundled chapters in a volume and not one volume material in 2 chapters (you get normally in other manga) with lots of wasted panels and pages.
That was my ONLY complain in the very beginning. why 60 episodes took 182 chapters in anime adaptation where one piece only need 80/90 chapters.. That is one of the reason bleach able to finished only 3 big arcs until now.
It is good because:
Majority of those who actually read WSJ won't really care enough on the slow pace of the manga. Back in the days millions of 11-15 year old kids would go to watch dragonball. how many of them EVER complained about the fact that it took around 7 episodes to power up a simple signature move?
Majority of those buying the volume will get a consistent pacing.
And yes its a common knowledge that Bleach should be read in volumes. Thats generally why, while in 2009 you had only "ss arc was better!" people, then you had people who liked arrancar arc and now you have fanbase segments that think that "everything before fullbring arc" was great. Its a trend. It exists in all more slowpaced manga.
You like it or not, the WSJ releases are NOT targeted at your or well, anyones in MAL age groups or nationalities. Its targeted at your generic japanese kid, who buys a wsj on the way from/to school and then drools to the flashy attacks for next few hours, talking about the stuff and forgetting it soon afterward.
and 3 big arcs per 400 chapters is quite standard for the long-runners. One might divide it into shorter segments for the sake of illusion of having more content (naruto) or illlusion that something happens while the entire arc means noting in the end(naruto) . The truth is that majority of the shonen genre manga that goes well into several hundreds in its chapter count, has the very VERY same problem.
ITs just a part of cliches surrounding the genre.
