Originally Posted by
Gallahadd
See the thing I was thinking... the MAIN problem with Bleach, the main reason I see people saying they don't like it is because of the fairly sterootypical shonen nature of progression. Ichigo fights badguy, Ichigo gets pwnd, Ichigo goes away and trains/descovers a new power, Ichigo comes back with more training/a new power and beats badguy, new badguy appears, repeat.
At it's heart, that is the pattern EVERY arc in Bleach has followed and while the journey has been fun, it's more than a little predictable. The cool thing about doing a new arc, NOT focused on a single character, but on the history as a whole is you remove that element and can focus more on overall story and hopefully break that cycle.