Naruto seriously owns Bleach.

After this, we will be going into the final round and so only be able to make limited arguments. 1) Plot failures. a. It is not documented anywhere the exact level of his growth, as it isn't for any captains. However, it is shown that the captains are training extensively, as they briefly shown here [1]. It also isn't hard to grasp that there is now a drive to get stronger, while before, it was a time of relative peace, and so, relaxation. Looking at the link provided by my opponent (regarding Aizen), the exact words are (I'm assuming accurate translation) "through temporarily fusing with one who has double the reiatsu of captain level. .. instantaneously, it'll exert the same level of power that hougyoku has when it is fully awaken" [2]. Now this is broken along several bubbles and so can be hard to follow. But it doesn't actually say that is the limit of Aizen's power, and based upon the pictures, Aizen reaches the needed level of power rather easily. In fact, based upon other statements by Aizen, the hougyoku would not accept anyone accept those that were so powerful [3], so that "double" level may likely just be a minimum needed, rather than a maximum. b. Ichigo is certainly under this assumption, and it is based entirely off of a short conversation with a captain. We must remember that Aizen has never used this ability in battle. The trance has always been instigated when his "opponents" were not fighting him. We can also see, that in first battle between Ichigo and Aizen, Aizen was more than satisfied with showing the great difference between the two. No need to use him main power, unlike before when he had challenging objectives other than just defeating an opponent. He could have killed Ichigo had he wanted, but chose not to. We even see that at the end of the Aizen ark, that Ichigo has a theory on what was going through Aizen's mind and heart, and was guessing that Aizen only wanted someone to be on his level power-wise [5]. This would explain why Aizen went to so much effort for Ichigo and why he never used that ability. c. (Naruto's Pain ending) Nagato has actually been a main antagonist for much of the story, not just another member, since he has been the leader of Akatsuki. The Akatsuki first appear in charpter 141 [6] and Nagato finally passes in 449 [7]. That is over 1/2 of the entire manga. My opponent states that Nagato is a "a shrivelled husk not really capable of fighting properly. " But yet he is referred to as "the 7th pain, able to control life and death" [7]. He shows to have the power to bring back countless lives from the dead, as in, completely alive, not just controlled like puppets. He is also revived to fight in the upcoming battle, indication that despite his physical appearance, he is quite powerful. 2. Characters One thing that should be noted is that character background is not the same as character development, as the development is based on how a character develops in the story. Nagato (since we are talking about him a lot) has little development (in fact, none other than his final act before dying), even though he has a lot of backstory. The same applies to Urahara, who has a lot of back story, but not much in line of actual development within the story. 3. Art work, I will also concede that the art work is not sufficiently important for either of these stories. After all, I don't think there is a high population that reads either of these with the artwork as their main point. And since the Sexy Technique is primarily an "artistic" argument (let's face it, no one is attracted to him/her/whatever because of its personality), we both concede to drop that as not important (that was the most important thing for me to do, was invalidate the sexy technique). Thank you, [1] . http://www.mangafox.com... [2] . http://www.mangafox.com... [3] . http://www.mangareader.net... [4] . http://www.mangareader.net... [5] . http://www.mangareader.net... [6] . http://naruto.wikia.com... [7] . http://www.mangareader.net...