Now That Bleach Is Ending

Will Kubo continue trotting out garbage like Bleach or make something that's actually worth reading, like Zombie Powder?

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He will die

Why did it take so long for Bleach to end?

That sweet sweet cash

He is kubo nothing new to be expected

Is zombie powder actually good or is it just another meme to post about it

Since when were you under the impression...that he isn't going to bullshit a sequel or some similar crap?

I enjoyed it more than the entirety od Bleach

It had 3 or 4 volumes,right?

His artwork is wasted on his horrible writing. Whatever project he does next, I hope he's only an artist.

Since when where you under the impression bleach was ending?

Your guess is as good as mine.

Zombie Powder wasn't that good user. Kubo was still an amateur when he wrote that. Don't let your nostalgia blind you.

If anything, Kubo's gonna switch to seinen manga.

Well the last chapter was obviously somekind of illusion bull shit and next issue we're going to get a "shocking conclusion" so something big is going to happen in the last chapter. I wouldn't be surprised if kubo had plans to finish off Bleach in some other way, whether it's a different magazine or light novels.

Yup. the viz releases had his other one-shots as bonus material as well.

It's cute you think it's ending.
Remember Naruto ending? Now you have Boruto.
Dragonball still limping along.

This shit will never die.

He can volunteer himself to help Togashi with the art in HxH, given that he has better than him.

I want Kubo to make a fashion-themed SoL. No more black kimono.

Kubo just send me this on facebook

Just as planned.

>goes to seinen
We can only wish

He's gonna go full Negima but instead will finish bleach in another magazine

It was a fashion-themed SoL until he dropped bleach all over the manuscript.

Jump will somehow retain control of the IP and just hand it to another author they pay peanuts just like Boruto. Kubo sits on his ass and collects royalties.

>Final week
>last chapter expected to drop
>WSJ makes an annoucement that Kubo has been missing
>the internet goes apeshit
>weeks pass, nobody thought of checking his apartment
>door is unlocked
>place is a mess, his wife is MIA
>the WSJ representative goes into his room to see this

It's very clear he was told to wrap up it already. That's why the fight had virtually no climax. Bleach was on the verge on cancellation prior to the final arc, I'm surprised they allowed him to drag it for almost 5 years.

He'll become a fashion designer

>Ichigo was missing ever since the final battle
>mysterious energy pulse happens, just like 10 years ago
>Ichigo is magically back
>everyone is happy
>credits page rolls
The actual ending will probably be even more lame than that.

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>Zombie Powder wasn't that good user.
Yet it was his best work by far
Most mangaka are at their best in their early days this is pretty much a fact

I want him to make doujin

This is how he should have ended it,
Or retconn everything into one of Aizen's illusions and show Ichigo having missed migetsu.

He will help with the new bleach anime.

I hope for an Aizen gaiden.

It's a meme

Cool characters, generic scene, bad villains and even worse fights. Didn't help that the story was clearly going nowhere

Bullshit. Your want me to believe that Hirohiko Araki was better when he wrote Baoh than JoJo's Bizarre Adventure? You think Takehiko Inoue was at his best with Slam Dunk instead of Vagabond?

You're wrong. Zombie Powder was interesting yet clear that Kubo still wasn't used to writing a weekly serialized manga. When Bleach began, he was finally able to get his bearings and craft his own style and make Bleach a hit series.

Hypothetically, Kubo could find a way to reboot Zombie Powder as a seinen manga with all the lessons he's learned and experiences he's gained throughout his career, but it's more likely that he'd rather create a whole new series altogether.

>the story was clearly going nowhere
I don't know what you're talking about. It dropped huge plot hooks for an actual ongoing story right as it got canceled:
>The Red Cloth 100
>The witch and Gamma's alter ego
>Gemini and Gamma's medicine getting weaker
>Gemini possibly fixing Emilio and letting him keep partial Dead Ring powers
>Angelle and the whole Psychicer class
>Elwood's training

>When Bleach began, he was finally able to get his bearings and craft his own style and make Bleach a hit series.
He really wasn't. He started floundering on his weekly deadline barely a year into publication and that problem only snowballed as time went on.

He fell back on familiar cliches with the generic tokyo ward and high school shtick, the perfectly generic samurai motif that he actually ended up having to restructure only after he first introduced other Shinigami. Note that from Byakuya and Renji's first appearance, to the romping around Rukongai, to the actual bulk of the adventure through seireitei that SoulSociety got less and less generically period Japanese. Cliche was Kubo's default with Bleach and he struggled to fit more unique features into the world as he went, whereas Zombie Powder was almost exclusively unique content, save a little genre savvy with things like Wild Arms or Trigun popping in, but that's also a narrow enough genre that there's not a lot to fall back on.

And his art style developed into something unique well before Bleach started. It changed for sure, and not necessarily for the better or for the worse, but his oneshots were almost painfully generic looking in the 90s. It was Zombie Powder that drew out almost all of the features we can still see in his art style even now. Some shapes changed and linework got smoother over the course of Bleach but his emphasis on expression and his sense of action are all rooted in ZP.

>the weak character undergoes training to get strong!
>the edgy antihero has a secret demon inside him and a dark, twisted past!

I guess if you're 12 these might be compelling plot points. I won't deny that the other points on your list are interesting, but they're not exemplary by any means. Not saying the series is complete trash, but it doesn't stand out, and the fact that it was cancelled shows that Kubo's pacing didn't engage the reader enough to give them a compelling reason to care about the plot.

Not the same user but sauce on the weekly deadline floundering?

Also I always thought beginning Bleach was really engaging. Generic plot stuff sure, but Kubo gave it all a profound, surreal twist by tying it to horoscopes and weird poetic predictions, like all these characters were verging on something much greater than themselves. All that was tossed out the window once we discovered Aizen was in charge of everything though, and after that Zangetsu Quincy Shitfucker Future Omnipotent Clone was in charge of the things Aizen thought he'd been in charge of.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're prioritizing finding ways to sound condescending over exercising common sense. Not only were neither of those the point, but no one would ever be dumb enough to think they are. The hook wasn't whether or not Elwood would get stronger it was HOW he'd do it. Would he train with Gamma? Would he train with Smith? With Gemini? Was he going to stick to the knife throwing gimmick? Was he going to develop some kind of actual special skill to set him apart from all the generic mooks running around the wasteland? Similarly the entire hook with the berserker was that it wasn't clear if it was a "secret demon" or not. On the one hand it was phrased like a witch's curse placed on him. On the other hand the nature of his relationship with her was made out to be nebulous, so if they weren't adversaries the idea of her literally and deliberately cursing him kind of loses its teeth. There were some indications it might be more of a Rurouni Kenshin thing with the merciless and merciful being compartmentalized. The question was whether he'd have to "cure" himself of it or actually cope with it. And then again the nature of the thing with the witch; Gamma's idea was that he wronged her and she took revenge, but we know how Japan and at this point Kubo works. It could have been that familiar "I let her die, I killed her" sort of logic. It could have been that they were in love. It could have been that they were family. It could have been any number of things more complicated, which was again the appeal of thinking that his dream would lead to addressing all that.

it's less noticeable in the early parts of SS but with the benefit of hindsight you can see where he had the same issues throughout 1kBW and HM that he had in SS just in increasing scale. He meandered in Rukongai without accomplishing much and progressed things jerkishly, having slow plodding chapters and then exposition dump chapters instead of a steady stream of information and/or plot progression, and throwing whole chapters away on tables being turned in fights only to have them reversed immediately following: he did do a much MUCH better job of not having prolonged stalemates though. HM was full of fights that were just page after page of blury arms and generic swinging with no substantial damage being dealt and no indications of the direction of the battle. But plotwise he dodged a lot of issues in SS by having multiple plot lines to juggle to cover up but you can still spot where certain characters or plot lines just kind of had to be dropped: Ganju and Chad and Orihime being the most obvious cases, but even the way the progression of and around training in SS worked showed that he didn't really have a good plan on how to navigate it on a week by week basis. But again, SS at least held itself together. All the things that tugged at the seams harmlessly in SS came back to derail the HM arc. The issue there being that he didn't just drop a few balls to keep the act going, he straight up dropped most of the balls and it was a mess.

I don't think he really had a strong idea from the start of how he wanted the series to go. There was a vague shape to it in the beginning, but then he blew up all the groundwork he had laid when he went to Soul Society and things never really got back on the rails.

Happens to a lot of manga, but rarely this obviously.

Oh! Kubo

Since when were you under the impression that Bleach is ending?

>animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-08-04/bleach-manga-to-end-on-august-22-with-important-announcement/.105006

>Note that from Byakuya and Renji's first appearance, to the romping around Rukongai, to the actual bulk of the adventure through seireitei that SoulSociety got less and less generically period Japanese.

Only by going pseudo-modern, pseudo-futuristic like Gintama's Edo.

Loli fashion manga

And your failed attempt at getting quints negates what is said in the image.