it feels weird that before summer is over and i go off to college i won't be reading Bleach weekly anymore that a series that i have been reading since middle school and was the first Manga i read and the first Anime i caught with the Japanese for.

i thought Kubo was gonna ended at like chapter 700 and have like 20 chapters called The End but not like this.

Then why not 701?

Noooooooooo my bleach!!! :'(

at least we got Hunter x Hunter....... for like 10 weeks every 2 years.....

Everything is ending...at least Hajime no Ippo will continue, hell it's going slower than One Piece right now xD

Ikr, hopefully My Hero Academia ends up being extremely long.

Yeah I've heard nothing but praise for that one, I put it on my list a while ago, but haven't started it XP

Sweet sounds pretty cool might give it a read soon then. Hopefully I don't get addicted like Jojo and berserk, ended up sleeping at 6 am for a lot of nights xD

Bleach used to be my favorite weekly series during the Arrancar arc, but I'm honestly glad it's ending. I feel like Kubo lost his passion for the series some time ago. This arc has had some some good parts here and there, like Ychwach's backstory, Grimmjow's return, and Kenpachi's awakening...but the majority of the current arc has felt very lifeless to me. 

It seems to me like Kubo is just drawing out the chapters as long as possible with giant close-ups and all-black panels (even worse than before, surprisingly), and then hoping we all get excited when the bad guy is beaten by a surprise new Bankai/Super-Bankai/Modified-Bankai/Secret Bankai or whatever. It's disappointed me, because the Soul Society and Arrancar arcs were so well-written, with an actual sense of tension, and fantastic well-developed villains that I honestly liked more than the heroes. This arc...all the villains just seem so generic, as if Kubo thinks a freaky design and a weird power is all he needs to make a good villain. 

Well that rant aside, I'm just gonna hope Kubo finds a way to tie everything up by the end of the next volume. I'm very doubtful he can pull it off without leaving at least some loose ends...not the least of which is Aizen's return being rather pointless so far. 

Hardly an unpopular opinion, but I'd have a much higher opinion on this manga if it ended after the Aizen fight. At the time, I wanted it to keep going to make sure all the extra loose ends were tied up...but looking at it now, I'd rather I never had to see it sink to this level.