Bleach Uncut Season 2 Box Set

The plot is actually decent, when they actually make progress on the polot, that is. Toward the end 50% of any given episode is spent on meaningless repetitive flashbacks, grunts, and repeating the same statements over and over ad infinum. It is getting to the point where a single attack will require an entire episode, and already the writers are too inept to fit a fight in a single episode. I am guessing that in future episodes a single grunt will be all the plot progression you get for your time and money.... oh wait, that's intentional. By taking a single action and dragging it out over several episodes the writers create more DvDs for the rabid fans to purchase. Brilliant.

The way they did this was via grandual degradation of the plotline. In season 1 virtually the entire episode was plot and relevant, with almost no unnecessary overlap. Now they overlap at least 2-3 minutes at every break thereby reducing the amount 'episode' by roughly 5 minutes (20 minute of anime - 5 minute of overlap). To make matters worse, they are now including incessant flashbacks that are nothing but animation you've aleady watched. A minor quantity of flashback properly placed can be a good thing, but over and over showing the same footage is simply insulting, especially when it delays any plot progression and restricts the main plot progression to roughly 5-7 minutes in any given episode.

Still, at the moment it is better than Naruto whose plot progression averages 2 minutes max per episode. But I can see how in the future this will be just another DragonballZ clone. Hopefully they end it before it gets that far.

I purchased this as a gift for a teen. She absolutely loved it. It was definitely hard to tear her away from the television.

This collection has it all! It covers Ichigo and his gang getting into the soul society. It has 3 of the best battles. Ichigo vs ikkaku, ichigo vs rengi, and ichigo vs Kenpachi. this collection contains episodes 21-41, bonus material, behind-the-scenes,artwork,and previews on the first Bleach movie!

Bleach is a great show. I love it to pieces. Episodes 21-41 deal with Ichigo, Chad, Uryu and Orihime entering the Soul Society to rescue Rukia Kuchki from execution. All the episodes are well done, the animation is fantastic. I love all the sword fights, it's just entertaining to watch.

As for the Japanese audio and English subs, I have to criticize all the so-called "fans" who just watch fansubs and have no intention of buying this set:

You're not a real fan unless you actually buy something to contribute to the original creator. If someone downloads a fansub and doesn't buy this DVD, they're only hurting the people who make the show. Sure, hate on the dub all you want, but if you like the Japanese language so much go take classes and become fluent so you can watch the DVDs without the subs, and to the reviewer who said that the English subs are similar to the English Dub, I'd say you're wrong, it's a WHOLE lot different than the dub, there's dialogue that wasn't even in the English version on the subs.

Yes, they say "Soul Reapers" instead of "Death Gods", but there is is a lot of dialogue that is not included in the English Dub, but the subs are professional, not those stupid inaccurate, clique-ish fansubs, it's still very good though, if you want to truly support Bleach and keep the DVDs coming, buy the DVD sets, I just did and I love it. But I prefer the dub because I, unlike a lot of these fans, do like shows in English. The average, non-die-hard person just getting into anime is not going to want to watch it in Japanese, they want to watch it in English, so hence, the REASON for English dubbing in the first place.

On another note, Bleach is not for young children, there's profanity, but not any more than a LOST episode. There's lots of blood, people get hurt and die in this show, so this is not meant for anyone under at least 12 or 13. Anyone younger should watch with a parent.

Bleach is awesome, can't wait for the next season.

This is a great series i cant weight for the rest of the 189 episodes to come out i want the entire series