Bleachness

Oh LOL 4evah and I can't believe you guys are STILL posting on yesterday's wankery trollery post.
Neha wanted to talk about tomato plants and Alex still has an essay to write about phallic imagery in rock formations in Bleach and Jenni did a law-school logical smack-down I need to reproduce elsewhere just because I fangirl her answers to illogic, but maybe the best convo to morph out of the comments was about does Kubo really need to resolve romance issues in Bleach and is such resolution possible in a shounen. I liked what karenai wrote.


Kylara (karenai):

I honestly think the simplest answer to this?

is that Kubo is too cheesy of a man NOT to resolve it.

No, he is seriously a cheesy, cheesy man. This is the man who made Byakuya a man who tragically married for love and then adopted a girl just because his wife told him to. This is the man who has Kurosaki Isshin, still single years later, smoke cigarettes in front of his wife's grave because it was the one time she complimented him. This is the man who has, yes, I'm including it, Ichigo tell Rukia that they've met before in other lifetimes and will meet again. I almost cried from how sweet that was, but my roommates burst out into hysterical laughter from the cheeeeeeese.

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This made me laugh because among my closest friends we've called Shishou "Shoujo man" for a few years now. SHOUJO MAN because of his proclivity for cheese. I remember that interview with Morita where Kubo-sensei said he got "goosebumps" watching the end of the Grand Fisher fight when Ichigo fell into Rukia's arms. What a fanboi. *__* And I also love this quote from that same interview which just tells me that Kubo works hard to "touch" people with his cheese:


“There are bits in the manga where I draw scenes that wouldn’t get the reader’s attention too much. I always put all my effort into my manga but how each audience read my manga are different. So it’s really important to make sure they would end up all having a similar idea of my story, but then again, it’s really up to them how they read the manga, but then there are scenes where I want the audience to be touched, so it’s really hard."

And yeah, it's worked. People have felt the cheese. The  IchiRuki ... and the bromance between Yumi and Ikkaku... the wah-wah poignancy that was NnoiNel... and the UlquiHime of recent chapters... and well, Kubo's skilled enough that if he wanted an audience to love IchiOri, there would be all kinds of IchiOri merchandising right now and an IchiOri movie and a swell of popularity for the pairing because he would've made it so. What Kubo's made so is an angstfest for Orihime--and it needs resolution. He can't leave her unhappy. So.... we wait and wait and wait.

In the meantime, there go more arms flying in the air! Weee!

Speaking of how we read Bleach, this is a comic by KawaiiS I just loved. It was a "had to be done" drawing in response to something Arrancar_Fan wrote: "The hand-reach was like a pie thrown at those who hadn't realized the UlquiHime-ness through-out the manga."

( Pie to the Face )
Also, yesterday there was a premiere of the new Bleach musical and Kubo was there. melodymix  posted some info about it at the IchiRuki FC at BA: ( Kubo attends musical )