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Anyway, everyone, this book had reached its end!
This book had actually been conceived as early as the end of 2022, but I was busy with that Fairy Tail book at the time. I didn't have time to write this one, so it just stayed in a folder...
Then, when serialization first began, perhaps because I hadn't fully shifted my mindset yet, the plot ended up rather dry. I really suffered for that. People tore into the early parts so much that my mentality exploded, and I also failed to establish any advantage in follow-up readership.
And by this point, everyone still reading should probably have noticed that this Bleach fanfic was too fixated on the settings of Zanpakuto abilities and the religious background behind Bleach. In the end, the plot wasn't smooth enough, and the characterizations weren't vivid enough. Those were the areas I should have put more work into. Looking at it now, it felt like I'd made a whole meal of dumplings just for a little vinegar—I hadn't properly grasped what was primary and what was secondary.
Actually, when Kubo created Bleach, he was already making a whole meal of dumplings just for a little vinegar. Once every villain had said what they needed to say and expressed the ideas they needed to express, he would send in Kurosaki Ichigo, the only chosen deaf warrior in the entire work, to beat them down. If I kept repeating that on top of it, the story would become thoroughly uninteresting.
If I were to rewrite this book, I might devote a great deal of space to the romantic storyline between the protagonist and Unohana Retsu, or with other characters...
Next, let's talk about some of my understandings of Bleach. First of all, behind the Soul Reapers was Buddhism,