u/Jarisatis

Due to the tybw announcement and hype, I watched Bleach for the first time and Soul Society Arc was truly good as a first major arc of the story.

But right after that the Huendo Mundo arc + Areancar/Espada arc was *really* bad

First of all, I f*cking hated how useless and underutilized the main crew is, Orihime is a saint and doesn't fight, Renji is a living joke.. that man HAS LIKE ZERO WINS(UNTIL TYBW), SPAMS BANKAI LIKE THERE IS NO TOMMOROW AND ALWAYS NEARLY DIES, Iryu Ishida was such a compelling character as a Quincy but author blueballed him until Tybw like he doesn't know what to do with him. They'll do nothing until Tybw.

Why the hell Kisuke and Yoirichi aren't integral part of the story? They're so MUCH BETTER than half of Captains/Lieutenants

There is like zero tension in these arcs.. Ex Espada are underdeveloped and they just die by main characters pulling their secret tricks for example, Rukia defeating Espada 9 was such a big fat joke cause WHY THE HELL ARE YOU EVEN ALLOWING HER TO PUT HER BROKEN SWORD RIGHT TO YOUR HEAD.

The problem gets worse when Captains are introduced and they just defeat a bunch of filler Espada by their secret tricks again, the only Espadas who were even developed were Ulquirorra Cifer, Stark and maybe Harribel.

Aizen does aura farm but his gimmick of "oh I have planned everything about you" gets pretty old.

Fullbring is actually a way better arc than these two, but again the author fails to give Chad any of his moments when it's supposed to be his arc.

I personally feel Bleach has a lot of potential but it fumbles a lot by introducing so many filler villians and giving screentime to captains.

Whenever I see people are always like "oh here we go again with sad backstories for demons" and I'm likeee at how many times this shit is even applicable?

Kaigaku doesn't have any "sad" backstory, he is legit a traitor for putting Gyomei in jail and causing Zenitsu's master to commit suicide.

Gyokko was a highly psychopathic human who killed a child and put him in pot as a "painting", Hatengu is a legit loser that even Tanjiro didn't care to listen about his backstory.

Nakime is a murderer when she was human, Douma is highly sadistic and nihilistic probably the most terrifying upper moon, Kokoshibo is classic the one living under the shadow of strongest trope. Muzan is Muzan and i genuinely feel bad for you if you sympathize with him.

So... If I count on my fingerprints the ONLY upper moons who you can sympathize with are Daki + Gyutaro and Akaza. That's like 3 upper moons out of 9 upper moons + Muzan.

So majority of demons are not created to be likable so the notion itself is false.