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Comments on Profile Post by silentshot

  1. silentshot
    silentshot
    (Also, on that note, I really hope Halibel and Kukaku end up with Arcturus. It would be pretty awesome. Heh heh.)
    Jul 11, 2019
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  2. Slayer Anderson
    Slayer Anderson
    My primary complaint with the man is that when he hits a stumbling block in his writing he introduces an entirely new set of quirky characters instead of using the ones he's already got.
    Jul 12, 2019
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  3. Slayer Anderson
    Slayer Anderson
    Between that and the fact that the Shinigami are the villains of the setting that we're supposed to believe are the heroes and Ichigo being kind of a shit-character for a protagonist... I could write an essay on Kubo's mistakes.
    Jul 12, 2019
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  4. silentshot
    silentshot
    Hmm. I think I've heard that bit somewhere too. The one about Kubo creating more characters. I think he confessed to it himself in an interview or maybe it was Oda or them both...

    Either way I would certainly like to hear more about it.
    Jul 13, 2019
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  5. silentshot
    silentshot
    As for my gripes with him and Kishimoto, I find Kishimoto even more frustrating. So much so that I don't even know where to start. Naruto's underdog story becoming a hypocritical exercise with his Ultimate Chakra Battery allowing him to bulldoze the necessity for Skills that a ninja needs to become great, is one of those. Compared to him, Rock Lee was the better model for the underdog story.
    Jul 13, 2019
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  6. silentshot
    silentshot
    Another anecdote about Kubo I heard (and this isn't a rumour) was that he sort of abandoned his first manga Zombie Powder because he had some problems with the idea of death. Some psychological problems, I think.

    Years later, you can still see the traces of his ideas and opinions expressed in Bleach: Soul Society versus Yhwach. Repeated reincarnation versus Eternal life, that sort of thing.
    Jul 13, 2019
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  7. silentshot
    silentshot
    Too bad he discontinued Zombie Powder. It was pretty interesting for sure.
    Jul 13, 2019
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  8. Xicree
    Xicree
    It was definitely Kubo who does the 'Create New Characters when I'm stuck' thing... He said it on an interview.

    All the flaws in Bleach can be traced to the fact that he isn't really a 'Story' writer so much as a 'Character Interaction' writer. And his entire approach to having characters written into corners is 'Make more of them'.
    Sep 25, 2019
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