Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Vintage:
October 5, 2004
Status:
Still Airing
Summary:
Kurosaki Ichigo is a 15 year old boy that has an ability to see ghosts/spirits. Because of his ability, he is able to meet a female death god (a.k.a Shinigami) named Kuchiki Rukia. To save his family and friends from unwanted soul-eating spirits (Hollows), Rukia transfers her Shinigami powers to Ichigo. As Rukia takes on a human shell, together they solve mysteries involving spirits and hollows until from the spirit world comes 2 other shinigamis explaining that it is illegal to transfer Shinigami powers to humans and Rukia exceeded the time limit to stay in the human world. After they sentence her death for breaking the laws, Ichigo snaps and swears to everyone he will retrieve Rukia by breaking into the spirit world.
Although I'm watching this serie since the very first episode, and I'm going until it ends, it has a lot of flaws :
Story (4/5 Average)
Character transformation... I think they should try to find another DragonBallZSuperSayenPowerBoost idea, because it starting to get really old. So basically : there's Bankai, Hollow lv1, Hollow lv2 (that's what we see until now, when I wrote this review, in the anime). Character getting strong in 1 second and blowing the hell out of his opponent is really boring... even in Dragonball Z The battle last longer when they get their transformation.
Another annoying point... the character (Ichigo) keeps getting raped when facing his opponent every single damn combat, and when he gets the power boost he defeats him in like what... 2 seconds ? that's kind of stupid way to develop a fight...
Beside these things, the overall story is average. Nothing really special. Both Arcs (Soul Society and Aizen) start with saving a certain woman (ok can this get more cliché?) and every damn time Ichigo fights someone he beats him because he gets overpowered, that's why I'm not going to give it lower than 3/5.
BUT!!!
Since the first arc isn't about Good versus Evil, I'm going to give it a +1, so it's a Good Story (4/5)
Dialogue is poor (2/5) because it's so classic. The main character is like a retarded bastard who's lucky because every battle he gets a power boost (lol) and keeps telling his opponent that he ain't gonna die / other useless dialogue. Orihime is repeating herself... boring :/. Bayakuya is way to overconfidant in his speechs. Rukia is boring. Other characters are also boring in dialogue (no really...)
Animation is very average (3/5) (I almost give it a Poor rating...). The battles are not very impressives, they should have done something like Ichigo versus Ranji in the 2nd Opening, but they're too lasy putting useless long dialogue instead. Even the Ichigo bankai versus Bayakuya was average, and it was the best combat until now.
Entertainment : If you have time to waste, watch it. Don't watch filler, they will bore you to death. Even Narutard is better in all lines...
