Fukutaichou reporting, episode 49. Up to learning just who is, and the fate of, one (1) Shiba Kaien.
Ne, ne, really. Whoever thinks big swords means better results are fooling yourselves. Unless you're Cloud Strife, you have no right to even imagine yourself wielding one. Why, you might ask?
BECAUSE THE FIGHTING IS BORING LIKE PAINT DRYING.
Nevermind how the story arcs are moving through the anime, the fights, good god, FIRE whatever animator teams you just in charge of the episodes where Ichigo fights himself crossing blades with someone. How stupid each of them look so far.
I know Ichigo vs Byakuya is supposed to be excellent, and I know I caught an episode of it before, once upon a time, but really. IT BETTER BE. I refuse to believe I'm wasting my time bothering to give this series another shot, because then I'd have to ream Kristen and Dan new ones for be so enamored with...bullshit.
Yeah yeah anime =/= manga. I don't care. You watch a show animated because you want to see the transition of image to action work in its favor. This isn't. And you want to know why?
BECAUSE BIG SWORDS EQUAL LIMITED MOTION. The katana/nodachi/whatever-it-happens-to-be fights are fine....BUT NOT REALLY. Why? Because they literally DO NOTHING WITH ALL THEIR SWORD SWINGING.
There is NO PULP TO MY FICTION. It's not quality work. T_T It's bogus. All fights are superseded by other things (flashbacks, other characters' scenes, inner monologues studying/analyzing the opponent). There's nothing sustaining about them and particularly, there's nothing memorable about them either.
Ichigo couldn't wield his butter knife for attention-grabbing if he grew an extra pair of arms. His motions are so basic and stifling, it's irritating.
Actually, all four seem incredibly limited in action motion with their weapons. Chad only punches, but not in any style. Ishida jumps around, yes, and fires his arrows, but they can't give him a melee opponent of any skill or he's dead, so more limited mobility. Orihime is SO limited in attack at this point, it's rather sad.
It's so infuriating watching these people use their skills so poorly. And by skills, I mean Tite Kubo's writing style and distribution of battle prowess (which if the scenes mean anything, he's got none with it comes to the main cast).
I begin to suspect the only ones who got off the best in terms of realistic motion and flexibility is Ichimari, and Byakuya.
Did anyone even WATCH Hitsugaya vs Ichimaru, after Aizen's murder? That was /inane/. So failingly stupid and simple and ridiculous, with no redeeming value. Hitsugaya's chain WRAPS AROUND ICHIMARU'S SWORD, AND THEN JUST FALLS OFF. Nothing done with it at all. Sure, it come in handy later, a set-up for Ichimaru's "capture", but its initial appearance two minutes earlier made it seem so useless and pointless, it might as well have danced a jig and sang, "True Colors".
I'm just stupefied. D: Because now I don't get it. Even the story-telling is bogus. It drags on like a woman in labor to the point where even DBZ is going, "We weren't that bad." And the story arc itself is whack. It just doesn't seem the right time for any of this at all, which isn't fair to say, since it's entirely a set-up for Megane-sama's deflection, leading to bigger, badder problems all round, but it seems too soon for any of that. Like, something should have come before Rukia's arrest...that wasn't Grand Fisher, or Ishida. None of that was epic enough. Two-three episodes each?
Skull Joke!
...Shut up, I know I'm ranting too much. Suffer through it. Or skip it. *BURNING!* *there's a cream for that* *not that BURNING* *no tennis racket* *wrong show!*
Sleepies now. x.x
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