Bleach

Based purely on the art and aesthetic, what is your opinion Tite Kubo's manga? Do you like the lack of backgrounds?

I personally enjoy Kubo's minimalist style, leading to some fantastic panels.

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I like his art, and loads of other people do as well seeing as how his artbook that was going for over $150 sold over 30k copies.

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Kubo's sense of aesthetics and character design are superb.

kubo's art is lazy and uninspired, the lack of backgrounds is just the cherry on top.

I had no problem with Bleach's art, only with the writing and the uncreative designs.

>uncreative designs.
His character designs are his forte.

this, along some other stuff like sameface syndrom and predictable panels, get him a background assistant and a writer and we're good to go

Not in the manga, only on the out-of-universe cover pages where they walk around in full /fa/ gear. In the manga itself it's all shitty white/black coats with minimum detail and shitty sword designs that look like they were procedurally generated by an AI. And for major every character that doesn't look generic there's 30 that look like they stepped straight out of anime filler.

His naming conventions have gotten uncreative too. Half the Arrancars just have the names of foreign designers and architects.

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spot on

>sameface syndrom
Majority, if not all, mangaka and artists have sameface syndrome. It's called finding your own style.

His art was top notch, but bleach chapters took about 8 seconds to read.

>the writing
>entire chapter with no backgrounds
>5 words spoken total
he really started phoning it in at the end

I find it super boring, Every fucking location is the same abstract white bg with maybe a few structures if we're lucky. His character designs are not bad, but that's about it.

It's a demanding job, lots of mangaka burn out, fatigue could be felt as soon as post SS, all the Arrancars looked like filler red shirts and the Vizards looked like they stepped straight out of HxH. It was very jarring after the uniform designs of the Shinigami, like it was a suddenly trying to be a different manga.

I don't get why fags overreact at the lack of backgrounds, it's a pretty bold artistic choice and pretty fitting for the kind of manga Kubo was trying to narrate.

a style can hold many facial differences user, don't be silly. granted a lot of mangaka draw faces similar one to another but kubo just copy pastes shit all around

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>sameface
Get your eyes checked because they clearly arent working well

it's called being shitty artist my dude. if all your dudes look the same you don't have an artstyle, you use "artstyle" as a crutch and excuse to hide lack of skill or education.
Mangakas being hacks stuck in comfort zones doing one thing that sold them ain't anything new, doesn't make their "art" or writing any less shit tho.

It looked good when a character was otherwise filling 60% of a panel, but not when the character was also just a small smudge.

Were the glasses added on top of Ichigo supposed to prove your point? They look out of place, it makes their eyes look more distint

>pretty bold artistic choice
There was nonthing bold about it. He didn't start the manga drawing no backgrounds. Pre-SS and SS arc had lots of background. He decreased the amount of backgrounds to near zero once it got so popular that he could sell anything under the title.

>shitty white/black coats
user manga is a medium in black and white

Kubo was a joke mangaka.

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Backgrounds are drawn by assistants anyway, I don't know why you put so much focus on them when in reality they're just subsidiary

It looks like it was a deliberate artistic choice, you can see he stopped using backgrounds on Mexico arc, the same arc that started showing his fetish with brutalist architecture.

I really wished I had the money to purchase a JET book. Now I'm stuck waiting for some faggot to scan and post it online. Kubo's style is my jam.

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>He didn't start the manga drawing no backgrounds
Yes he did
>Pre-SS and SS arc had lots of background
So did post-SS arcs

This. Even BnH seems good compared to Bleach.

>the tale of Naruto
>this world doesnt matter to me

Bleach entertained me despite the white backgrounds and asspulls. I think Kubo had the big ideas of its universe imagined from the beginning, and the way he revealed things little by little was pretty amusing. For example I'm pretty sure he planned Masaki to be a quincy on day 1.

>a shopped glasses looks out of place

no shit bro
ignore that and tell me thats not the same character with a different hairstyle

>back when his characters didn't suffer from sameface syndrome
fuck, everything after SS was just wasted potential

Use Hisagi, he's a better example. You can handwave Kaien by genetics.

>muh sameface
Except you are wrong

I want to believe that maybe if Kubo didn't stuck with his publisher's deadline and workflow, he can produce something of this quality. A pixiv fanartist that started out (and it seems to be still do) imitating Kubo's artstyle and now ended up doing better.

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Kubo gets a bit lazy with his character art later on. All his characters kinda... stretch vertically. Most of them already had really long legs but they also seem to get skinnier too.

It's just masked by their clothing (which for the most part is good by itself). But underneath they're like those DRR DRR enigma fault things that slowly elongated over the course of the series.

Theres nothing special about what you posted

I love Tsukishima.

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You're on the spectrum if you honestly think all the characters look alike in Bleach. One can easily tell Uryu and Ichigo apart.

>totally not bankai

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I feel like Kubo could have carried on with his art style if it wasn't for the shitty writing

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Let's... let's not go that far.

What was shitty about his writing?

Mostly the constant power creep. He's not the only one guilty of it.

>Can Imagine anything
>Doesn't imagine a black hole the size of Soul Society

how did he lose again

He imagine the vacuum of space. Kenpachi cut through it

He imagined himself dying. It was dumb.

>Vacuum of Space=/=An actual Black Hole.
Lemme tell you something user.
A Black hole the size of a Marble? Weighs as much as the Earth you are standing on.
Now imagine (no Pun intended) Gremmy made one the size of a city.
Kenpachi would never be able to generate enough force to cut it

>Kenpachi would never be able to generate enough force to cut it
>>>>>implying

dead manga dead anime rest in piss you delusional faggots

Could it survive being serialized?

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bleach is dead give up

i will remember about Bleach
i will remember about it for everyone

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>leading to some fantastic panels
In the same way a broken clock is right twice a day. Shit like removing the background and other details should be reserved for choosing the right moment when to apply them.
The way Kubo did it made it so that it had the opposite effect and very rarely was anything memorable and not just something that makes you say "that's neat" then you forget about it in the next few hours

Kubo is Zack Snyder of mangakas

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Why didn't he just imagine Kenpachi dead

>The way Kubo did it made it so that it had the opposite effect
Based retard

I like the aesthetic more than the art itself. The character mannerisms and gestures. How they move and the perspectives. The effects of their powers on their surroundings and that trademark look of horror when the other dude flares their reiatsu.

One could say Kubo has style.

>Ulquiorra was a literal representation of nihilism
>Mocks materialistic desires and says how futile they are as a means to keep living.
>Gets defeated by those same desires turning into a mindless monster, showing him the importance of them and changing his outlook on humans.
>The page is ulquiorra (utter emptiness) or what he thought he was with his last conscious thoughts being about the same desires he reject before ironically turning into nothing.
>One of the best character growths in manga
>The culmination of said growth so perfect that a single world on a white page is enough to convey the emotion perfectly in a visual medium.
Kubo is a misunderstood genius.

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>Kubo is a misunderstood genius.
Careful, it was just evolved above basic shonen. It ticks off all the autists.

Arts good but story? Not so much. His designs are god tier though

If you weren't a speedreader you would also know that every Stern ritter had a power limitation based off Yhwach's power distribution. Gremmy most likely had a limit as to what he can imagine and realize in the physical world unless Yhwach performed Auswahlen and sapped other Stern ritters of their power to give it to him.

>Ulquiorra was a literal representation of nihilism
>This isn't even my final form, because I'm special

Didn't they end up being related?

His character designs make me vom, and the lack of backgrounds is just ugly.