Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Separation

Meh. After feeling like the first season was very promising, the second disappointed big time. A lot of the time it felt cringe as hell, especially when the group of women Stern Ritter was on screen. Not because they're women, but because they were written to have incredibly cringe personalities and dialoge and Giselle, who technically doesn't even fit my description, was the worst. That whole yap about how much he likes that the girls are dead and that he likes to eat them killed something in me instead. The others were cringe too, but way less. And yes, I know that this show is your typicalbattle shounen, but I've always felt like the OG Bleach had the stupid tropes under control. Now, not only does Bleach lack what made Bleach Bleach in the original Bleach, that being the hollows, the cool music and the ominous vibe, the shounen tropes have now completely broken out of their cage. Every fight there is a stupid one-up that the enemy totally couldn't have seen coming, even though they're telling each other how their secret attacks work the whole fight long, the animation, while decent in the first season, actually has dropped to the level of the OG series instead. I thought; "Well, they're probably saving all the budget for the big fight at the end, but no, they animated some CGI hands and feet and called it a day. It honestly feels like Kubo has forgotten everything he's ever wrote before, and now had to write a continuation for Bleach based on bullet points the publisher gave him. And while doing that, he underestimated how much of a role Ichigo played in this, so not only does it lack everything I talked about previously, it is also the most Ichigo-less season to date (that I have watched). All in all; I've suffered through 12 boring episodes and hoping for the 13th to make up for everything in the end, only to be rewarded with a 13th boring episode. Absolute disappointment.