Originally Posted by
Rynjin
No, the selling point was that they were inaccessible without INSIDE help. It was the singular good, thematic thing about making him a Fullbringer in the first place. It was a power he had to ****ing earn instead of being handed to him again and again, like his original Shinigami powers, his Hollow powers, and even his Bankai were.
Having him use Fullbring as a stepping stone to reawaken his true powers? Great! Awesome.
But that's not what happened. He was, again, quite literally gifted his powers back in a (and I cannot stress enough how absurd this is) quite literal giftwrapped box, thus making the entire arc in the end, pointless. The Fullbring Arc is a shaggy dog story. The moral lesson seems to be that hard work is punished; Ichigo wouldn't have had to go through so much **** if he had just laid down and gone back to his normal life until some folks from the Soul Society came and re-powered him.
It also feels like a complete Deus Ex Machina ending to an arc I'd already started to sour on when Ginjo was revealed to totally be the final villain of the arc. I don't really care if it was foreshadowed, it was still people coming out of the woodwork to, again, quite literally hand Ichigo the W at the end. It was not an earned victory, and it was not a satisfying fight.
Not that I ever saw the fight until I rewatched the anime last year, because I again dropped the series like a hot potato the instant he was just given his powers back. And I'll tell you, I was a helluva lot less critically aware of media when I was 19, so it took A LOT to make me drop a series. I watched every season of Heroes, even the ****ty reboot! Bleach was, to me, at the time worse than the later seasons of Heroes. It was very obviously doing something wrong.