10-21-2012, 04:55 AM
Different strokes, I guess.
Spoilers for why I like the early episodes.
[spoiler]It has a slow start (like Dragonball and One Piece) but they use that time for character development that is actually pretty decent. Orihime isn't just a Tits McGee - she's a lot stronger emotionally than her bubbly, easily scared exterior would suggest. Chad being a Gentle Giant now is partially because he was not so much when he was younger, and used his size to bully people - until that reckless anger ended up bringing violence on his family. Ishida and the fate of the Quincy presented a true dilemma, and revealed some really uncomfortable things about the morality of Soul Society. Rukia somehow managed to be charming, creepy, cute, and an (occasional) total bitch - all at the same time. She starts out pretty unsympathetic, but she grew on me. (I don't think I've ever not laughed at the running gag of her chicken-scratch diagrams.) But it's the events around the attack at the graveyard, though, that make her one of my favorite characters in the series. When she was taken to Soul Society, I was invested enough in wanting to see more of her to CARE ABOUT THE OUTCOME.
Later Kubo would turn the main cast into two-dimensional one-note props and pissed all the great characterization he had put into them up the wall in favor of what felt like New Character of the Week. But through the beginning of the series to the end of the Soul Society arc? I'd say that's as good in quality (even if in a different kind of genre of story) as One Piece has ever been.[/spoiler]
Spoilers for why I like the early episodes.
[spoiler]It has a slow start (like Dragonball and One Piece) but they use that time for character development that is actually pretty decent. Orihime isn't just a Tits McGee - she's a lot stronger emotionally than her bubbly, easily scared exterior would suggest. Chad being a Gentle Giant now is partially because he was not so much when he was younger, and used his size to bully people - until that reckless anger ended up bringing violence on his family. Ishida and the fate of the Quincy presented a true dilemma, and revealed some really uncomfortable things about the morality of Soul Society. Rukia somehow managed to be charming, creepy, cute, and an (occasional) total bitch - all at the same time. She starts out pretty unsympathetic, but she grew on me. (I don't think I've ever not laughed at the running gag of her chicken-scratch diagrams.) But it's the events around the attack at the graveyard, though, that make her one of my favorite characters in the series. When she was taken to Soul Society, I was invested enough in wanting to see more of her to CARE ABOUT THE OUTCOME.
Later Kubo would turn the main cast into two-dimensional one-note props and pissed all the great characterization he had put into them up the wall in favor of what felt like New Character of the Week. But through the beginning of the series to the end of the Soul Society arc? I'd say that's as good in quality (even if in a different kind of genre of story) as One Piece has ever been.[/spoiler]
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