Bleach Filler Arc

[XanBcoo]

They started on episode 64 (or 65?), I believe. Just after the hour-long special ending the SS arc. That was episode 63. Whether or not the special was counted as 2 episodes or just one though, I don't know as I never watched it.

[metrite]

Ep 63 was the hour long special, which was stuffed with flash backs of fights.
I guess ep 63 can be considered as filler already, although it picks up the storyline of the manga during the last few minutes of the ep. (Ichigo and co. leaving soul society.)

[Splash!]

How is this filler Arc coming along. I haven't watched a single episode. Are there actual episodes worth watching? From what i understand, it consists of minor story arcs so i might have to watch a few episodes after the other to get what is going on. But is there anything of such that i should probably look at? (in terms of Quality)

[Yukimura]

There seems to be an overall plot to this filler, it's not just mindless random crap, like Ichigo makes spirt noodels with Getsuga Tenshou, which, to bash Naruto even more, Ichigo doesn't seem to use unless it's quite important and nessecary. However the story is probobly not going to have any of the punch the SS arc had, but for now all I can say is it could be so much worse. There have been some interesting charachters and developments so far, though how this might affect the return to the manga storyline is anyone's guess now. In terms of quality, I like some of the new charachters, most of them have stories and stuff behind them and thus are entertaining enough for 23 min every now and then.
Additionally they aren't releasing an ep a week, it's more like every other week or so, basically the fillers live up to their name, they are filling time for the show with a plot that's not all that exciting or engaging but not revolting if you bother to watch it, essentially I haven't lost any IQ watching them, yet. Only time can tell.


EDIT @ BELOW: That's true, I'd forgotten about the very beginning of the filler arc, utter garbage, until about 2-3 eps ago, lets say starting after the 67-68 special it began to get good, but now were talking about a moderatly high slope from negative numbers here. There's as good a chance it'll flatten out as there is that it'll pull a switch and start heading right back down, i'm on the lookout for any inflection points (maybe I should just go back to studying calc and end this before it gets too much weirder...)

[Kraco]

Don't forget to mention that the action sucked really bad in all the filler eps except for the last few episodes. Had the action scenes not been so unbelievably bad, this long filler arc (with no end in vicinity so far) could have been much better.

[cugginenter]

Yeah, but they are still fillers. It doesn't really matter how good the action is, if the plot sucks, and there isn't any character development, then its not worth watching IMO.

[Narasho]

Yeah, but they are still fillers. It doesn't really matter how good the action is, if the plot sucks, and there isn't any character development, then its not worth watching IMO.

I agree with you to an extent, but I do think that some non-manga related content could be at least decent. It just happens that 95% of the time they make it horrible. Case in point: the FMA anime passed the manga, and while I think the first 26 episodes were better than the last 26, they still did a decent job.