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.
You can only have so many story lines of “Save the world from people who are stronger and could blow up the universe if they really wanted to so you have to become stronger to save your friends (and the day).” Not to mention that half the bad-guys are not really bad, just misguided and want to right the wrongs but not in a way that goes with the “good guys” philosophy. Fights take several episodes each, half of that are cool poses and one-upmanship of attacks. And everyone has to have their fight in the spotlight.
Just when you think you are finally getting somewhere in the story, the anime has caught up to the manga and someone creates a totally off-tangent filler-arc that takes weeks to get through. When you finally get back to the main story, you forgot where you left off. Important questions from early have never been answered, nor probably never will, so you have to accept certain conditions as that is what they are and oh well.
I realized I had enough when I fast forwarded through several episodes and did not miss a thing. The first 100 episodes were good, now I am just bored.