Naruto seriously owns Bleach.

Thanks to you to, Con. It's been fun. 1) Plot failuresa. Again, while it's plausible to claim that a captain could hone or increase his abilities by training, increasing his power by over 5 times in such a short period of time (it can't be more than a few years arc-wise, and bankai takes at least 10 years to acheive [1]) is simply not tenable. The link Con gives doesn't really show a captain working to vastly increase their power, but Hitsugaya performing light training to keep his skills sharp. Well, it does if read literally say that twice is the limit of Aizen's power. But putting that aside, When Ichigo is talking to Unohana [2] she clearly states that Ichigo has double the reitsu of a normal captain and that he had a chance against Aizen because of it. If Aizen's power level was greater than five times that of a normal captain, she would hardly be so optimistic. In fact, if Aizen were so powerful surely he would have just immediately slaughtered all the captains with no worry of being hurt by their swords? Why would he even need to use Kyōka Suigetsu's ability?b. There is simply no reason to think that Aizen could not release his zanpakto in battle. Ichigo believes that Aizen could put him under Kyōka Suigetsu's hypnosis at any time, and he is correct as far as we can tell. Besides even if there is an invented rule that Aizen for some reason can't use his ability in battle, that doesn't address my point. I just expressed my dissapointment that Aizen's ability was not adequately addressed in the final battle - an arbitrary rule like that misses the point. That goes for Con's other suggestions as well. Sure, it's possible that Aizen purposefully neutered himself by not using his ability because he secretely wanted to lose, but that doesn't address the point that it was a dissapointing way for Ichigo to avoid having to deal with Aizen's ability. Besides, surely Ichigo would have mentioned that Aizen hadn't used his ability when he talked about Aizen possibly secretely wishing to lose his shinigami powers [3]? It seems like an important plot point to pass over. c. Nagato had been a character in the manga for some time, but only as a shadowy figue in the background, with few lines and not even properly shown until much later than chapter 141. Aizen, by contrast, had been a fully fledged character for most of the manga and moreover, was the main protagonist while Nagato is just one amongst several. Con points out that Nagato had the aility to control life and death, but the fact is that this ability is never shown to be used offensively and we don't know how it could be used, especially when Nagato was so weakened. And of course Nagato is powerful being the leader of the Akatsuki, but we don't know how he will be used - perhaps he will simply revive the seven bodies of pain again. I'm really not convinced that this ending is nearly as dissapointing as the finale with Aizen - if, indeed, it was even at all dissapointing. 2) CharactersI think that the character development and character background are inextricably linked, since the backstory of a character can show how the character progresses from their earlier selves to the current selves in the series. Sure, Nagato has little character development in the current events of the manga so far, but he does have character development insofar as he is shown to have become slowly consumed by revenge from his persecusion and betrayal from characters like Danzo and Hanzo and the death of his friend. Besodes, this doesn't address all the other characters I've mentioned, like Sasuke, Naruto, Tsunade and Sakura; all of whom have a greater degree of development than pretty much any of the characters from Bleach. 3) Art work.Con pretty much concedes this point. Per the sexy technique, it's pretty obvious that this wins me the debate anyway so I guess I won't pursue the issue.Vote Pro, thanks for the debate OreEle. ^^[1] http://bleach.wikia.com...;[2] http://manga.animea.net...;[3] http://manga.animea.net...;