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Highlighting Masashi Kishimoto's and Noriyaki Kubo's outstanding flaws

Mansions Dave
Oct 20, 20262 min read

Masashi Kishimoto]

Masashi Kishimoto's outstanding flaw is his backwards writing, he pre emptively decides that a rivalry or fight or event is going to happen, doesn't really know why, and then retroactively makes something up on the fly, you can trace this back all the way to the chronological very first event of Naruto, which was Kurama attacking Konoha

Masashi Kishimoto wasn't really sure why that happened, but he did it anyway, that's what really irritates, he doesn't care whether something happens organically or not, he wants to string together high impact plot points like a pearl necklace even if the underlying logic is weak to non existent

Then there was the "Masked Man" which he retroactively put into that exact storyline, apart from working backwards, another extremely annoying thing that he does is go "yeah, you know what I said happened, yeah well this also happened at the same time and I didn't explain it at the time"

He's making his backwards storytelling even worse by actually retconning his already flawed storytelling

[Noriyaki Kubo]

Noriyaki Kubo's outstanding flaw is that he hard retcons all the time, especially with spiritual beings and their subsequent transformations

Noriyaki Kubo not only retcons certain beings and transformations and dimensions but sometimes he forgets them cleanly, Bleach has a plethora of Chekhov's Gun beings, transformations and dimensions

Sometimes it's not disparate, sometimes he wipes the board clean and an entire being, subsequent transformation and dimension gets either hard retconned or hard forgotten

There's basically this flimsy structure to Bleach and absolutely nothing feels canon and everything is fair game to getting hard retconned, or forgotten

Noriyaki Kubo might wake up one day and announce that Bleach itself is not canon and that Burn The Witch is

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