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That's only a part of it, there's a HUGE storyline that's going on behind the scenes. It has some of that formula....but that is NOT the driving force of the story, unlike DBZ. For instance in Bleach the guy trains not to get stronger to defeat some enemy....but to rescue a girl...and then finding out about a secret plot that encompasses ALL of Soul Society (Like heaven).

Well if I had no knowledge of the manga...I would not comment about the fillers. Unfortunately.....they're supposed to be having a 3 year gap where everyone is more grown up and awesome like, but they keep sending Naruto on all these new missions. TWO story arcs have been completed along with 1-3 quick episode fillers....and with a new one coming out next week. Otherwise it's a pretty good story and such....but STILL rather inferior to Bleach as Bleach keeps you guess a lot more, and is a more serious story.

I never said it didn't make sense, but a lot of it was a bit much. A human manages to create androids more powerful then Vegeta for one. There's also the fact that a lot of DBZ isn't THAT surprising...there's little in terms of plot twists. Comparing that story to something the likes of Bleach is just ignorant. If you really studied the two you would see that they are quite different...

I will admit PART of it is overused....but a lot of that training is a lot different then that of other series. Instead of just fighting to grow stronger...the first training is more like teaching Ichigo to actually USE his powers properly.

For the second part it's also a lot different as it's making Ichigo get a relationship with his weapon, a fight that's like a metaphysical representation of the spirit of his sword and such. Not to mention Ichigo really WAS risking his life in BOTH instances....the 1st was almost becoming a heartless monster....and the 2nd time was dying if he was unable to make it.

Besides there's an insane amount of plot twists, and the graphics ARE far superior and stuff...

Well their power levels were enough that when the Z fighters first faced off against the androids, they got their butts handed to them. Although the greatest strength of always having the high power level...was their greatest weakness....that they couldn't grow much stronger.

With Bleach there's a lot of insane things....but practically everything is carefully woven together from the death of a Shinigami's wife, to the conspiracy in Soul Society, to the execution sentence of Rukia, to the man who helped train Ichigo, to the cat that visits the man who trained Ichigo. At first glance Bleach just seems a lot like DBZ....but there's so much MORE to it. I mean just the fact that everyone has drastically different ways of expressing their power....unlike DBZ. Like just with Death Gods their swords have different powers AND appearances....you can't say that much for the world of DBZ where it's mostly based on energy blasts and melee combat based on beating eachother's faces in.

I call total and complete BULLSHIT!! Majin Buu was created BY MAGIC, which GAVE GOKU A RUN FOR HIS MONEY IN SSJ3! There was more then one time in which the DBZ crew NEEDED magic to RESERECT PEOPLE AND REPAIR THE MASSIVE DAMAGE!! Take Garlic Jr who managed to cause a lot of problems through his own magic. The fact of the matter is...is that the DBZ universe showed that magic was VERY powerful and could in fact defeat several of these highly trained fighters via majin buu and the power of the Dragon Balls. Hell if you had the Dragon Balls NO highly trained fighter could defeat you....as you could make a wish so that you would be the only one with incredible powers for all time and stuff... twisted

Well Goku managed to win only because of the dragonballs in the end. Goku's cockyness did him in at the end if memory serves correct, so they HAD to use the Dragonballs. Thus Majin Buu SHOULD have ben the true winner, had it not been a story in which good MUST ALWAYS triumphant in the end.