Well with its pacing it is still on a direct trajectory to end first half this year. Unless Kubo has some special arrangement there is no way it will still be around when issue #1, 2015 comes out.
If you say to end first half of this year, then it means Bleach going to end by within 20 chapters. It is no way Bleach going to end within 20 chapters.
Ichigo is litrally right there in position for final battle, he just needs six chapters to fight, one chapter epilogue. I imagine the next four or five chapters after this week is just getting people in position. Theres nothing left to be done.
Ichigo hasn't even arrived yet, so you can't really say that the battle going to be over by around next six chapters. Plus, the final arc going to focus on final 10 days (or 7 days or something), and it only has been like just 1 or 2 days.
Fullbringers haven't come back into the story
Exactly. Plus, Bleach isn't like Beelzebub; Bleach will end naturally. Furthermore, Bleach is in final arc, so it will not continue like another 10 years.
Remember though that this is Jump. A story doesn't necessarily get to take its time make everything clean if Jump wants it rushed to an ending.
Of course we are having this conversation. Bleach is ranked second from the bottom this week.
It will. Bleach's time is limited. Whether it is next fall, or very early in 2015, Bleach will probably have ended by this time next year.
True, Kubo is the king of stretching.
Bleach is not the series it used to be. It's anime ended, it's sales have dropped, it ranks near the bottom of nearly ever TOC. Bleach never was in the same class as One Piece, Naruto, and Hunter x Hunter. It's long since been passed by Kuroko. Assassination Classroom is passing it, Soma is catching up, Nisekoi's profile is high, and the marketing campaign for the upcoming Haikyuu anime is well underway. Bleach is a lion in winter. Jump will not let it coast on past success. What it was in 2007 counts for nothing in 2014. Bleach will be allowed to finish out this arc, but it's remaining time is extremely limited. Once these fights are done, Bleach is done. This arc will not drag out the way Hueco Mundo did. Not with how badly it has ranked for the last few years. There is a real chance that Bleach ends later this year, possibly in the fall.
We can have this post as often as it is relevant. When a series consistently places as low as Bleach in the TOC, it is going to be a talking point. Asking other members not to talk about something that is on topic and relevant to the current TOC is very disrespectful.
Even if they were, Bleach is in a much worse position than it ever has been and its situation getting worse.
But let's be serious here(and your opinion may vary) some of these things aren't really needed.
Agreed. It's just like something someone one said in another forum. Fans keep saying oh next issue this will happen then eventually it DOES happen and they go like "see? Predictable...". Know what I mean?
Exactly. People keep bringing up things that haven't happened yet in the story, but the thing is these things don't necessarily have to happen if a series is cancelled. Countless Jump series (the majority honestly) have not been able to properly conclude their series the way they might have wanted to due to the vigorous and competitive nature of the Jump rankings. Bringing up the plot is not a good argument when discussing the possibility of a series being cancelled in Jump.
However, you have to know that there really aren't much examples for Jump series which sell like at least 500,000 copies per volume and ranked really low. So far, we only had example like series that continued like 1 year or had a tank sale like 200,000 per volume. Bleach is one of rare case in Jump.
I think it seems that the ones buying it probably arent the ones voting in the survey or perhaps may not even read WSJ magazine either.
Most prefer Volumes ofc, so they buy volumes and the sales argument in based on the Volumes. However Jump wants the magazine to sell as well. Meh, it's way more expensive to buy wsj every week for one manga or two manga or even three, and less expensive to just buy the volumes of your favorite manga.
Exactly, you guys shouldn't think all of Bleach fans in Japan going to buy WSJ magazine and vote for Bleach. There are also many people who just buy volumes rather than follow by the chapters.
Even though Bleach's popularity has decreased, it is still one of most popular series in Jump. So, I don't think Jump going to axe Bleach.
I was about to bring this up.