Tite Kubo: “You Can’t Tell All These Moeblobs Apart At All!”

I'm sure he can tell the difference between DBZ's Goku, Naruto, and that spikey- and yellow-haired dude in Bleach.

Only to make people feel less gay about it. Well, I'm gay for bridget, but that's besides the point, or is it?

Naw, he should totally get some help from Nick Simmons. That guy knows how to draw!

He should stop trolling late night anime and spend some actual brain cells on developing Bleach from the craptastic dunghole it's been for over a year.

megidola is right Bleach=horrible loop anime.
After the save Rukia arc it all went to poo.
I hear the mangas good but you'll never see me watching another ep of Bleach.

So... I don't think people can use the plot in Bleach to get back at him.

I mean, SERIOUSLY, was there any plot in K-on!...? No, you shouldn't even have to reply to this one...

However, if a show with messed up/no plot gets better or worse by containing moe characters can be debated.

"So... I don't think people can use the plot in Bleach to get back at him.

I mean, SERIOUSLY, was there any plot in K-on!...? No, you shouldn't even have to reply to this one..."

dude, k-on and bleach have different genres...
a slice of life anime doesn't have plot at all, or not that much

Anonymous
05:59

bleach is a fighting shonen manga that had a plot the whole show, but after ss they took the plot and ran it into the ground, and than grabbed it by the hair and repeatedly rammed its face into the ground.

k-on was a slice of life that revolved around girls who started a school club for their band.

if you can stand slice of life, and non drama infused plots with no fighting, than k-on was as close to a masterpiece in its genre that you can get. the same cant be said about bleach, who after the ss arc, well... i honestly cant think of something that dropped the ball that badly before.

Anonymous
06:26

not exactly. its more a moe made by the same studio is kind of coppy paste change hair and eye colors. you can mostly tell who made what moe anime based on the animation style.

Anonymous
06:38

not exactly. some times there is a rock bottem moment in almost any long shonen battle fest, where the main character basicly loses everything, that happens randomly.

and with "moe" anime, what ever the fuck that means any more, it is a formula, but the difference is in the events themselves. there are standard ones, but than there are the ones that are anything but standard. the events and the way they are made make or break a moe from same shit, to maybe watch.

@megidola 07:16 That may be true but look at Avatar and Dances with Wolves or Pocahontas or any other similar movie. It's all the same story but they were all good movies.

My point is, at least the battle -> power up cycle invites more originality than the exact same situations with the exact same characters in the exact same settings, which is all unrelated to the plot (or lack thereof). I mean, the typical wussy-guy-falls-on-top-of-girl-and grabs-her-boob-by-accident scenario is so overdone as to be an eyeroller. Same for guy-bumps-into-girl-and-accidentally-sees-her-panties-and-gets-pawnched-in-the-face. And need I remind you this all happens in a school hallway or in the classroom.

AIZEN DIDN'T ACTUALLY DIE.

missing out on what diamond, eternal virginity?

OhYeah
12:18

never even thought of that, and 50 chapters is what, 15-25 episodes depending on how you stretch it?

hell, something like k-on may not have an over all plot, but it still goes faster than that.

now onto everyone else who says k-on doesnt have a plot.
and lets be clear here, k-on doesn't have a "the world will end if we don't **********" or "she will die unless **************" plot but it has episodic plots, that can be interesting if you are able to watch the show.

Bleach has always been derivative from the get-go. The ruffian -> ghost police with girl reaper partner premise is from Yu Yu Hakusho, Orihime and her brother are from Ushio and Tora, and so on. Then it got worse and started copying itself. Two guys from another world nab a girl, Ichigo trains and gets a team to rescue her. Everything that plays out, like forbidden techniques that cost the user's powers, are recycled. Using truckloads of bland, cloned bishounen.

Instead of having fight scenes like DBZ, though, Bleach spends 15 large, empty panels on single sentence word balloons for every panel of something happening... then has half the fights take place off screen. The manga moves at the DBZ anime's pace, just with less variety and payoff. Saying Bleach is like DBZ is a horrible insult to all generic shounen fighting series.

...but that's also why we love it. Bleach has always been a hilarious train wreck that gets worse any time anything happens, like Twilight. The serious defenders have got to be trolls, but that's no reason not to enjoy the series. You really can't top gems like Kubo complaining about interchangeable bishounen.

Aizen will most likely be back after 200 more chapters...as a good guy...

What he is saying is that these characters these days dont have wild enough hair styles

Yugioh hair please

@anon 06:38 does it really matter if the characters and settings are changed when it's still essentially the same thing happening?

For example, The Magnificent Seven is still considered a remake of Seven Samurai despite being set in the American west not Japan, because it's basically the same story.

I'm still willing to give bleach a chance to redeem itself. Although, it is down to one chance for me at this point. Which is what naruto is down to for me. Kinda sad that. My main issue with bleach right now, is that NOTHING IS HAPPENING. Don't try and tell me otherwise either. We've barely learned anything in what, 4 chapters? About what is happening next. Seriously, that is retarded.

Actually, Bleach died right after the first 9 volumes. I actually enjoyed it up until the point it became another power beatdown shitfest.

Given its priorities, moe pretty much beats it out in terms of quality simply because it does not spend 50 something chapters getting 1 fight over with.

Also, if you notice Kubo's penmanship, he doesn't actually practice what he preaches. If you remove the hair and extra features, you'll see that a lot of his characters all share very similar facial structures unless they are the more unique ones (like Gin Ichimaru).

"Oh, what's with all these characters? I can't even tell them apart because of their characteristic similarities."

"Oh what's with all those shounen anime/manga? I can't even tell them apart because of their plot similarities?"

And many others.

Bleach failed to be entertaining after volume 9.

The matter of practicing what you preach is important here as Kubo doesn't follow his own credo. Everything character he has drawn thus far have notably similar faces to the point where all you need to do to make a new character is to swap their hair. What's really amazing is how he is still up there as one of the big three.

anon @6:38
So avatar had a "new" plot because it wasn't based in north america? Hurp de durp