Fai said:
manga does not need "redeeming". So far Kubo has yet to break any sort of basic rules of narrative writing and the story flow is decent to great. Just because you do not like something in it, does not make it bad. The steady drop in sales and overall popularity says otherwise. And you'd be a fool to say the fullbringer arc was good story telling. The characters were poorly handled and we don't even know WHY it occurred in the first place! Not once did they state why Xcution needed or wanted to get stronger by stealing ichigo's fullbring which is a major plot hole. How do you go an entire arc without giving any of the characters motive? And let's not forget all the other mistreated characters like Chad and Orihime who were main characters in the beginning but are now pretty much irrelevant. OR certain WTF moments like how they gave byakuya multiple over dramatic "I'm about to die, this is my final request" scenes and then a chapter later he's alive and making a full recovery. OOOOR how Aizen, the genius tactician who pretty much been in control of this story from day1, lost to ichigo because he was suddenly overcome with the worst case of hubris I've ever seen and refused to use his zanpakuto which would have assured his victory. It makes even less sense when you think about the fact that he was already better than everyone else to begin with so why become all careless and arrogant now? Anyway, there's plenty of bad writing in bleach but you just refuse to acknowledge it. Just because you like something in it doesn't mean it's good writing.