This is my rant thread, on everything wrong with Bleach.
This isn't to say Bleach is a bad series. Its in fact, very epic, and I love it. The Ichigo vs Byakuya episodes were the bestest.
The entire universe of bleach is flawed. I cannot exactly list them all in perfect chronological order, but I'll still go through them as best as possible.
1. Rukia is supposed to be a very powerful shinigami. Her strength actually remains consistent throughout the entire series, with the exception of having no power at all during the first two arcs. Yet she couldn't defeat a very average hollow at episode one, which is literally bullet fodder at any other point. With her incredible skills and swordsmenship, she could've defeated the hollow AND saved ichigo from its attack at the same time.
2. Rukia tells the lost spirit that Soul Society is a peaceful place, much better than the one she's currently at. This makes the job sound wonderful and Ichigo decides to help out. In just about any scene depicting soul society, everyone is living in a slum like area with so little food that they must steal or "die" of hunger.
3. Rukia says that people don't age in the Soul Society. She also says she's lived many more years than Ichigo has. Yet flashbacks suggest otherwise. She's a child in the Sou Society, growing up as orphans with Renji. While time might effect people slower in the Soul Society, it doesn't mean she should say that people don't age.
4. The scale of power is completely warped. According to Rukia, a menos should only be brought down by a captain (or vice) level shinigami. However, Ichigo manages to take it down like its nothing. Also, they're once again used like bullet fodder later in the series.
5. All the characters look 5 years older than they really are. 14 year olds? Seriously? I knew Yu Yu Hakusho was pushing it, but Bleach really took it another step. And what the hell is up with every female character either being completely flat, or absolutely boobtacular?
6. The ranking system is crap. Anyone outside of 3rd seat in any squad is COMPLETELY worthless, to the point where I just don't understand why they bother fighting hollows. Perhaps they do it in groups, or they have a strategy and use kidous.
7. The hollows in the series are all worthlessly weak, even after becoming a Adjuchas, the captains and vice are so freaking powerful that they don't even stand a chance. The only reason they're always after more power is because they're always so busy fighting each other. Seriously, half of this series was about shinigami fighting each other.
8. Somewhere along the line, flight is magically discovered with no explanation whatsoever. The first time flight is ever seen is when Ichigo uses a tool which lets him fly, and this shocks just about everyone who sees him. "OMG HE'S FLYING WHAT". The next time we see "flight" in general is when Ichigo first activates his bankai and his superior speed makes it look as if he's flying (though its strictly implied that he's jump around). And then afterwards... suddenly everyone is flying. What.
9. Ichigo's bankai ability is speed. Since speed is his advantage, he should technically be faster than just about anyone, or at least, a captain whose bankai ability is NOT about speed. However, after the whole "speedy bankai" hype dies down, just about everyone can keep up with Ichigo's speed, or even surpass it regardless. Thus it renders his bankai pointless, and suddenly serves as a general "power up" mode like a Super Sayan thing.
10. According to Byakuya, it takes a countless number of years of training to achieve bankai, and only a select few in many generations achieve it. This is surely a strange generation in which everyone can suddenly achieve bankai in a few days.
11. It is explained that both Hollows and Shinigami have a limit to how much power they can have, and the only way to remove this limit is to become a mixture of both. But the captains manage to constantly overwhelm every Hollow that has become Arrancar.
12. Ichigo gains tremendous power by becoming a viaazard. However, this still means nothing as the captains still manage to be just as powerful.
13. When a hollow is defeated by a zanpaktou, they are returned to their original human soul, and then sent to soul society. DID WE FORGET THIS? WHERE THE HELL DID EVERYONE GO? But wait, we're not really killing them with the swords anymore, we're just NUKING THEM OUT OF EXISTENCE WITH DOOM BEAMS.
14. Where did Nel go?
15. Why did Aizen even need those Arrancars if he's so freaking powerful?
16. Why does Aizen even fight? With his ability to screw with everyone's 6 senses, couldn't he have them all kill each other?
17. Has Soi Fon actually EVER killed anyone with her two stab ability?
Thats all for now. Will come back with like 50 more.