Bleached...

I'm not sure how many people knows the manga Bleach. It's pretty popular, as like many manga that I read, Naruto, Slam Dunk and the like. But I think Bleach is starting to suffer from the all-too-common power race to oblivion. What do I mean?

Let's use a famous example. Dragon Ball Z (DBZ). It's popularity was unreal, to the point I would compare it to the Michael Jackson of manga, comparing peak to peak. Basically, when you have movies using snippets of the manga, you know if crazy popular. It's like a crisis-of-the-month type of comic, and the difficulty grows more and more unreal.

I vividly remember that the author repeated a few tricks to gave the protagonist victory. But, however strong a character is in DBZ, there is a rule to the manga. Every unique character can only be revived thrice. So the protagonist died twice through his many battles. Then, like always, he stepped up against his latest challenge, another godlike being.

And he died. And almost everyone else died. And no one had a way to win. Then the "gods", knowing nothing else will work, changed the "3 revival" rule and that allowed the hero to win. Then the manga instantly fell into oblivion. Well, manga enthusiasts still know the manga, just that the buzz was flatlined.

Well, back to Bleach. I read the latest part where the protagonist just won again, obviously after being killed. Note, this manga does not have a revive rule at all. Meaning death equals to death and nothing else. Zilch. No other possibility. The manga did give the hero some special powers, which has something to do with death, but not after death. Hence, when the hero stood up to continue fighting, win and then revived. Now, that sounds like nearing the end already, but here's the extra kick in the teeth. The one the hero beat was not the strongest, and the minors are starting to lose. Protracting the knowledge that the good guys never lose...Huh?! What sort of story is that?

Now...you are not expecting me to read a ridiculous way a person will win, right? I think I have enough of the almighty "invisible hand of the market"...So reading nonsense from the US politics, economy and bank "truths" is enough nonsense for me already. Oh, and for those nonsense, I would really appreciate the knowledge that a lot of the nationalization nonsense is again untrue based on what Geithner has said. With so many who just want to do the right thing, why isn't the government using these valuable data? Or is it that the government is the one that messed up?