Originally posted by Q99
I gotta say, even as much as I rag on Bleach sometimes, there's a whole lot worse out there for plotting (let alone Kishimoto!).There's plenty of far, far worse series out there, and even Bleach-level writing takes considerable skills (heck, even Loeb, in terms of plot choices he makes they're often super dumb, but if you threw in tight editor control and you'd most likely see some not bad stories from him, like his earlier stuff).
It's easy to underestimate just how much skill it takes to create a series.
Spoken like someone that probably writes. 👆
As they say...
If everyone could do it...
Kubo isn't that bad of a writer, actually. Well, he is good, really. Kishimoto is a much better writer, as of late, than Kubo. Kishi seems to be able to tie in plot elements from hundreds of chapters ago and he writes it so well that it actually closes up "questions" tha he proposed. Even if he didn't know how he wanted to address some points, at the time he wrote the open ended plot point, he still closes later when he figures out how he wants to do it. That's top tier writing especially considering how far away those plot points are, at times. Like, I have a hard time remembering things I wrote many years ago.
There are better writers, of course, than all of the above.