Why shouldn't Kubo be capable of foreshadowing? Its easy, like the stuff with Ichigos parents. You just have a general idea in mind, tease that one as vague as possible and later on get back to it. Kishimoto did that and so does Oda. As if Oda sat down 10minutes and scribbled down the exact story from OP for 20years onwards. He introduces stuff, calls random numbers and then later on he fills the missing parts. You can see that clearly whenever a series ends and there are so many loose ends, cause they never were filled in by the mangaka himself. He himself didn't had a idea how stuff works out or how to connect them to the main story. There is simply no oherwise to write such long series.
The thing is easy: In both cases, Kishimoto & Kubo, I dont believe that they are good in making foreshadowings-
For example, once, a fan asked Kishimoto what the red circles meant on the backs of the Konoha-ninjas, and he responded, he didnt know it himself, but maybe he could make something out it later. And then it was a mememto of the Uzumaki clan or so. And in my eyes, that is not good foreshadowing, because it wasnt planned, but happened trough luck. In Odas case, I actually believes him, that he planned some things years beforehand(which he admited himself). And that makes his storytelling much more compelling to me and many others, because if he foreshowes something, then I know that he knows what he is doing.
I don't think "Schutzstaffel" is distasteful. The Quinchi are portrayed as "bad" people so its suits the image of Nazis. Also they are clearly referenced as such. Also we are in an age in which you do jokes on Hitler and such things. Heck they even laughted at Hitler as he was alive, just saying Chaplin here. You can close your eyes about bad stuff happening in the world but it wont go away. Kubo doesn't exploit it to get drama and more attention to his series. Maybe he uses it as a symbolic way, maybe because he is fascinated by the german military doctrine? Look how many american movies use that on to introduce badass villains.
It was pretty obvious long time ago that the Vandenreich was inspired by the old german empire & Third Reich, and I dont mind. On the contrary, the parallels and similiarities mixed with bad german were was pretty amusing. But to take the name of Hitlers elite force and giving it Yhwachs elite force was just clumsy & awkward, and just unnecessary.
The arc has been very interesting for the past 30 or so chapters now. I'll agree that the arc right after his hiatus was dull but since Kenpachi's fight, it's been going up. Opinions, I suppose.
The Sternritters were obviously modeled after the Nazis so I don't see why there should be any surprise in such naming patterns.
Yeahs, definitely opinions, but I dont mind. If someone can still enjoy Bleach, then it is a good thing.^^
I just wanted to say my own opinion in that matter.
And Bleach became better after that battle(although the battle itself was awful, because, well, Gremmy was awful), but I was just underwhelmed by Bleach. The fights arent excitiing to me anymore. Except the one with Mask De Masculine. He was awesome.
The Vandenreich is also clearly inspired by the old german empire, and not just by the Nazis.
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Boku no Hero Academia rose up in the rankings of everybody pretty fast. It is 5th for me, the story is not that complex to have to read drinking every word IMO, at least so far.
I guess, that is a reason, why I read it with more time. Because it is so young, and so successful, we can see the foundation of the BnHA now, to guess, in which direction it will go on later. I'm just interested to see, what we have to expect later.^^
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