User blog comment:Silver-Haired Seireitou/Sake Time with Sei - Kubo is a Genius, ain't he?/@comment-1493741-20140415120805

Kubo started out well, he had an interesting concept, nice enough world, and a story ripe with oppurtunities for a ginger kid to stab people in the face. It got to its height with the Soul Society Arc before Kubo's habits started to set in in force. His way of overcoming writer's block, coming up with new characters, is absolutely terrible in a series where he refuses to kill anyone off except the bad guys. The cast is absolutely huge as a result and most of them have so little personality they might as well be cardboard cut outs.

He also writes the story as he goes along (Or so I've been told) and that's okay, if you know what you're doing, and he did, the first arc and Soul Society were good, quality stuff, but then he went and shat the bed with everything after it. Incoherent plot points, glacial fucking pacing, and pretty much abandoning what is supposed to be your protagonists (Sado, Orihime, Uryu) in favour of focusing on the dead guys with Super Saiyan Swords. The only reason I still read Bleach (Or Naruto at this point, Oh God) is that I don't tend to like leaving things unfinished, especially if I've come as far as the final arc.