User blog comment:BraveHeart70/Is Bleach Dead?/@comment-2182964-20150827095654/@comment-24384232-20150827200245

I'm pretty much in the same boat with ya Kenji. I really enjoyed the Subsitute Shinigami Arc and the Soul Society Arc was just damn masterful as a shonen piece. The Arrancar War was good, but there was something lacking in it. I still wish that the Fullbringer Arc had been revealed to be Aizen's Bankai but hey, them's the works. As of now, Bleach is going downhill, if only because Kubo has fallen into the escalating power trap. Seated Officers while not as strong as Captains could at least be seen to be decent, but with the Quincy War? Anything less than a Captain is just weak. Like laughably weak, hilariously helpless in the face of danger. One has to wonder that if a toaster developed spiritual awareness, would they be able to handle it? Given what we've seen so far, Im betting on the toaster.

As for Fairy Tail, I was initially really hyped about the series, dont get me wrong, I knocked out the first hundred chapters in a single go and that was when it only had about a hundred chapters. But, there's just a huge vacuum when it comes to world building, politics and all the things that make a world... interesting. I just find the series and no pun intended, hollow.