It’s SOOOO long… like One Piece… I’ve lost track of where I was (in the two-hundreds), but I picked it up again in the three-hundreds somewhere and didn’t feel like I had missed much. Which in turn made me wonder if it’s worth watching still…!
SPOILER ALERT:(Highlight to see)Ichigo is part Quincy, his mom was a Qunicy Unohana is the first Kenpachi, Yamamoto is killed by a Quincy, Ichigo’s dad is a Shinigami, and Aizen was the main enemy before the time, Ichigo loses his powers after using the Final Getsuga Tenshou to beat Aizen, but later gets them back as a full bringer(people who have hollow like abilities), gets his full bring powers taken away by the enemy, then gets his shinigami powers back.
I didn’t watch the last couple story arcs in the anime, but I’ve been reading the manga still.
There are large chunks of the anime that you can skip without missing anything. The filler arcs only ever have a minor lasting impact on the story afterwards, because the story then has to pick back up with the manga, which never included the fillers. So pretty much any of the filler material can be skipped without missing much. Some of the fillers are pretty terrible, but at least the worst of them are one-shot episodes and not drawn out arcs.
I think the manga is overall much stronger, for various reasons: no fillers; Kubo’s art is better than the animation; even some of the canon anime episodes feel a little padded/the manga story feels more streamlined; and even though the lasting changes made to accommodate the filler arcs are generally minor, they can get annoying.
Another courtesy if you want to discuss spoilers would be to change the font colour to white using the [ color=white ] tag so that someone has to highlight it to read it easily. For example:
Spoiler (Episode 307):
Butterflaizen
/Spoiler
Also, if you quote a white-text spoiler, it would also be good to delete the spoilered text from the quote since it will show up against the quoted-text background.
P.S. That is a real (albeit not very specific) spoiler.