User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 497: The Winter Mage, Review./@comment-5303512-20160819011037/@comment-4829046-20160820053221

Let me make a late youtube-approved late joke.

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Hmm, sorry, have too much imagination to make such a joke. Moving on. :P

The concept of souls got butchered the moment they first went to the Soul Society. That has been, and always will be, the biggest thing that made Bleach into the inconsistent and fluctuating nonsense series it became(imo).

Which is why I am glad for newer shounen like Noragami and Sousei no Onmyouji(not to be confused with the anime adaptation) that take the premise of Bleach and do it justice without the logical fallacy exhibited by Kubo. Not to mention that in those series the 'hollow' entities never lose their menace and are always extremely eery and threatening. Hollows in Bleach were the biggest reason for me to love the series as much as I did and I even based part of my own philosophy on the Hollow concept alone, but sadly they all became fodder and even the more powerful ones that still had some characterization, ultimately lost their awesomeness. In the other series, they are consistent; the lower ranked ones were always fodder to the audience since the main characters were introduced as experienced fighters, but even as fodder, they are still a very real threat and are able to psychologically affect the primary characters(mostly because 'anyone' can be turned into one at any time). In Bleach, they just became a big fat joke. Enough so that some of the more forgettable ones were arbitrarily resurrected and then swiftly forgotten once again whereas the real badass ones were just thrown out of the loop entirely.

Forgive me for my rants, but hey, I ranted just as much or more in regards to Naruto ;D