Ah cool! Well, I would keep a nifty filler guide. I finished
the whole series a few days ago except for the movies and it was
weird. You would be watching an ongoing fighting arc and as the arc
progressed, there would be a whole new side-story arc in the middle
of it. I think the final major arc had 2 or 3 side story arcs
spanning like 100+ episodes which was entirely irrelevant to the
show.
Why would they do this?
Well, I presume when they were making the anime, the manga was
ongoing and the show had caught up. But because they didn't want to
just make up an alternative ending to the fight or spoil the fun
for the manga readers, they had to wait it out. So instead of
making people wait long periods of time between seasons, they
decided (presumably) to add TV-only arcs and content.
Unfortunately, this was actually a hindrance to the enjoyment
of the show because the TV-only content was exceptionally boring to
watch and it was so boring that I had to skip a great deal of it to
get back to the main point.
Overall, I think it was nice to watch Bleach if only to watch
a cult classic that I skipped during its air time, but it's only a
2/10 if you have to watch the fillers but skipping them made it
tolerable at around 5 / 10. It's not a thrilling anime, it feels
generic and sometimes it drags on for too long. The premise is like
any other shounen of its time, no matter how powerful the MC gets,
there's always going to be a bigger fish even though they didn't
seem to exist until that moment in time. lol
