Ichigo Awakens

by Teloch

A single spark can ignite the greatest change. When the two parts of his soul acted together and saved his mother, Ichigo's life was changed forever. He was then trained for war, or destiny. Stronger characters, all powers Ichigo, Ichigo/Harem, manga spoilers. I do not own Bleach. If I did, Isshin wouldn't have kept stuff from Ichigo.

26. Thank you Tite Kubo

A while ago Bleach ended. Not a lot of people were happy about it, especially a lot of fanatic shippers who reacted with the same level calm and understanding they've been associated with. Since the Fullbring Arc, I thought Kubo was just failing as a story teller who should've just stopped after Aizen's defeat and Ichigo loses his powers. Might not be too happy, but it was a good ending for the series in my mind. Then I finally caught wind of some answers. Tite Kubo, the creator of Bleach, was sick. Pretty badly too.

You can find it for yourself on Kubo's twitter, but the story went that on the 10th year anniversary of Bleach's run, his health began to deteriorate. He became depressed as well because of the same health issues, he could not deliver Bleach chapters of the quality he felt we deserved as his readers. He apparently kept all the fan mail that was delivered to him and one single letter kept him going the most. From a dying child who would not live to see how Bleach finally ends and urged him to write it as he wanted it to.

I can, and want to, believe this story as the last time I heard something similar it was Eiichiro Oda telling a boy with cancer personally how One Piece was going to end. We forget that Mangaka are people to and that they do a hard and demanding job of drawing out frames and backgrounds and characters over and over in the visual medium to portray the stories that we've come to love so much. And I understand how the love of the fans can push them to continue their series, even with trials like sickness and depression. Some of you tend to leave reviews that make me want write the next chapter right away. So this is my apology to Tite Kubo for getting pissed and annoyed for Bleach's later quality when I didn't have the full story. Out of all the main three during their runs in Shonen Jump, I looked forward to Bleach the most, despite having for fun with One Piece.

I will continue Ichigo Awakens and hopefully live up to the quality and legacy that Tite Kubo laid out when he was able to give the quality he felt we deserved.