They'll finish the arc before it's cancelled.

Toriko replaced it a good while ago.

Toriko or Bakuman I guess

Last time I checked, the big 3 in Japan were One Piece at top, followed by Toriko and Naruto and Gintama fighting closely for third. Granted, that was like, in August of last year, so I think anything can happen now. All I know is that Toriko is picking up steam fast in moonland.

wtf? are people this stupid? The top 3 has been different since 2010.

was bleach anime really cancelled? thats fucking hilarious

Is it really cancelled? I remember the article only saying that the time slot was replaced and nothing about the anime bieng over...

and why would they do that just when announcing a live action film from WB...

Oda ordered to Shueisha to replace it with Toriko

>Anime ending
>LOL IT WAS TOTALLY CANCELLED
Sure, and Gintama sure got cancelled back in the day too, right?

>disqualifies Bleach from being in the big three
That's not how the big three works. They're not supposed to be jumps best 'selling manga', but rather the flagship series that made it successfull. I don't have the numbers to back it up, but I'm fairly certain that Naruto, One Piece and Bleach aren't all in the top three spot and haven't been for quite a while.

>>61847417
No, Naruto has a very solid lock on #2. 3 is up for grabs. Shuiesha has been pushing Toriko but Bakuman and Gintama are probably stronger.

>Stopping to avoid fillers and do final arc all at once.
>HURR IT GOT CANCELLED

>>61847459
It's ending it's run on one timeslot, picking up somewhere else. It's not been cancelled yet.

>>61847492
It was. Gintama NEVER came back.

They started Gintama', with an apostrophe.

>2012
>still think bleach or naruto is in "big 3"

actually
>2010 or 2011
>still think bleach or naruto is in big 3

Well regardless, canceled or not. Bleach is done. Manga is wraping up this year

>>61847530
Will we get a Bleach' ?

>>61847563
Wasn't Kimi ni Todoke part of the Big 3 in 2010-2011?

>>61847602

That's not Jump.

>>61847459

Hollywood will make any piece of shit into a movie.

Bleach is on the final arc, and the anime is ENDING.

Have you seen the ratings for the Bleach manga? Have you seen how far the sales for DVDs and the manga volumes have dropped? Have you seen how few people actually WATCH the anime now?

Less people watch Bleach than Hitman Reborn, and D.Gray Man when THEY were cancelled, it is fucked.

It's only lasted this long because it has been a WSJ Juggernaut, and they didn't want to let it go, but if they'd cancel D.Gray Man and Hitman with MORE people watching those than Bleach, they'll definitely let go of Kubo's "master" work.

>>61847570
Hardly, Kubo mentioned this being the last arc, but his arcs can go from a year to 3-4.

>>61847636

No, I'm pretty sure it said 2012 was it's final year

>>61847492
Bleachfag in denial.

What happened with Gintama is incredibly rare. And it happened because sales of the manga and DVD's stayed strong.

With Bleach, the opposite is happening. The manga's sales have dropped significantly and the DVD's aren't selling either. Jump is suddenly signaling that the series is wrapping up despite no prior indication that the plot was heading toward a conclusion.

In other words, Jump has lost faith in the franchise and is looking to push it out of the way, probably to give more of the spotlight to its rising star Toriko.

>>61847459
Yeah, they announced a live action Evangelion movie, too. Ten years ago. How'd that work out?

>No sources anywhere

Come on folks, Bleach is just getting worse and worse. You guys should celebrate it's long run and stop getting so upset about it.

>>61847520
>>61847492 he actually thinks they would stop to avoid filler

Have you seen the massive quantities of filler the Bleach anime has produced so far? You really think they give a shit about making more?

>>61847308
>So the Bleach anime has been cancelled. And right in the middle of a non-filler arc, too.
Yeah, It would have been better if they ended the whole series before this stupid fullbring bullshit. No joke, I actually thought the series was ending right after he defeated Aizen.
>What series should replace it?
My guess would be...Fairy Tail.
It has a relatively steady fanbase, and considering that it started only around 2006 and its level of success, I think it's a good candidate.

>>61847675
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-02-23/bleach-tv-anime-ending-on-march-27

>>61847602
>kimi ni todoke
>shonen jump

nigger, you serious?

>>61847655
Inuyasha would like a word with you.

>>61847728
>Fairy Tail.
>shonen jump

...

>>61847728
Aizen's defeat would have been the perfect place to end the anime. It wraps everything up.

Actually, I think part of the reason the manga's sales have tanked is because the pre-timeskip ending was so damn conclusive. It makes everything after the timeskip feel like unnecessary padding.

Isn't Blue Exorcist a contender?

http://www.animeotakucorner.com/2011/12/01/3078/

>>61847805

Fucking this.

Aizen's defeat is the perfect place for it to end.

>>61847798 Inuyasha
>series from a completely different anthology, whose publisher follows a different business model
>based on a manga whose sales stayed strong for its entire run, unlike Bleach's

You're not very good at coming up with examples.

>>61847655

Why on earth is Toriko it's rising star?

>>61847798
>>61847492
Don't do this, guys. Don't go down that road. You're going to end up like the Kenshin fanbase, waiting decades for a proper sequel series that will never come.

>>61847839
Yes. It could have ended and been bad, but not the abortion of terrible wasted potential it is now.

>>61847841
Because it's really popular. It's close to overtaking Naruto as Jump's #2 series.

>>61847805
>>61847839
I disagree. If they took out all the mentions of the Spirit King and changed Aizen goals a little to reflect that then I would agree, but as it was, the Spirit King is too much of a mystery not to explore in the series.

IIRC Bleach is getting replaced by that Rock Lee spinoff anime adaptation.

Show me a concrete piece of evidence that says the manga ends this year.

It's supposedly the final arc.

The arrancar arc, you know, is from when Ulquiorra and Yammy show up in Karakura all the way until Aizen is sealed.

That's a long fucking time.

>>61847919

That's funny.

because it's true

>>61847841

Because despite the fact Toriko is goofy and ridiculous, it is a genuinely entertaining and fun manga series that does not take itself too seriously. It knows what it is, it KNOWS it is over the top and doesn't try to be anything other than a highly entertaining, ridiculous adventure that keeps the readers entertained.

Also, no "DARKNESS" bullshit, the characters' motives are pretty clear, and no one is filled with omni-dark pasts and enough teenage angst to put the Disney Channel to shame.

It's goofy and over the top, but it is over the top DONE WELL, and it deserves to be pushed. It is FAR better than Naruto and Bleach ever were.

Also, no overly "sexy," male characters designed specifically to draw in morbidly obese women writing yaoi fanfictions.

Obviously they will still find a way, but it is not filled with nearly as much faggotry as Naruto and Bleach.

Also, the author solicited sex from a sixteen year old girl, so you know he's awesome.

picture unrelated.

Big Three isn't something that changes. They are the three manga that saved SJ.

One Piece
Naruto
Bleach

>>61847839
The whole post-timeskip thing smacks of desperation.

I think Kubo saw the huge attention and sales One Piece was getting with its timeskip and said "OOOH ME TOO!" So he tried out Oda's "big climatic battle and then timeskip" idea.

But he forgot that Oda left a ton of subplots unresolved when he did his OP timeskip. Kubo resolved EVERYTHING before doing his timeskip, so there was no reason for readers to come back. It felt fake and unnecessary.

You can actually see Bleach's sales drop sharply after the last Aizen volume. A lot of fans decided to treat that as the ending.

>>61847908
Yeah, but by the time Aizen ended the Spirit King hadn't been mentioned in like two years.

I think most readers just rolled with it, because by then they were used to Kubo bringing up ideas and then taking them nowhere.

>>61847950

As they should have. Aizen was the bad guy from the begining. He beat him. Story over.

If Luffy found One Piece and the story continued on, I'd have problems with that too.

>>61847935
Hey, fuck you. Sani is a sexy beast

I can't even remember this Spirit King...

>>61847972
But luffy will find one piece before story ends. Then he will topple the government and get the same deadly illness roger did

>>61847967
That's not right at all.
Aizen's goal was the Spirit King and making the king's key to his dimension. Urahara and Aizen talked about him cryptically when Aizen was meeting his end.
I agree Kubo didn't do anything with the Spirit King at all yet, but to say he hadn't been mentioned is just inaccurate.

>>61847950
He didn't resolve everything, but the stuff he left unresolved was too boring and vague for people to care about.

Oda was smart because he split up the crew, and didn't bring them back together until after the timeskip. Since everyone wanted to see the crew back together again, it got people to keep reading.

Kubo didn't give us anything to come back for except some vague mentions of a Spirit King and Squad 0, neither of which were given enough context to be interesting.

>>61847950
>Kubo resolved EVERYTHING before doing his timeskip, so there was no reason for readers to come back. It felt fake and unnecessary.

The Spirit King and his dimension were unresolved.
I agree that post-time skip so far has felt fake and unnecessary, but to say everything was resolved just isn't true.

>>61847983

Yes, I agree; I completely wish for him to rape me profusely with his hair tendrils.

Though I was referring more to the fact that there aren't any "pretty," teenagers or little emo boys like Sasuke.

You know how the land whales love skinny, girl, emo boys.

Toriko is manly manga for men, the way it should be. No making feminine, angst-ridden, teenage boys with "darkness," for hambeasts to latch onto, just nineties art, giant muscles, and manliness.

God Damn it, the thought of Sani's imminent rapeage is really starting to turn me on.

Oda also put a 4 week break between the timeskip. I dunno about the rest of you but that was KILLING me.

>>61848006
Spirit King seems like he was just a plot device. There needed to be some sort of central authority to the afterlife that Aizen could overthrow fairly easily. Otherwise there wouldn't have been as much of a sense of urgency in the battles.

I kinda dropped bleach after Aizen. But if I was Kubo this is how i would end it.
>Aizen not taken out by Ichigos asspull powerlevel fluctuation (therefore Zanpakuto not forever lost)
>Aizen opens the door to the Spirit King, sacrificing 99% of Karakuri town Plot related characters mostly safe, except for those with no powerlevel to speak of
>Aizen makes it to the Spirit Kings throne room, while Ichigo+brahs regroup
>Aizen gets to the door, and Ichigo catches up quickly thanks to Aizen cleaning up the path there.
>Aizen opens the door
Aizen bursts into treats instantly
>Ichigo looks at the throne
Another Ichigo is sitting on the throne, somewhat more mature looking
Turns out the Ichigo we knew all along was just a part of a ritual that the Spirit King had created to test his worth/create successors. It involves Ichigo's from parallel universes fighting each other for the kings seat. Explains why he has learned so many abilities that most others can't
Aizen was just a tool to get Ichigo to come to the Spirit King (true in every universe)
>fite da kingu
>Ichigo loses instantly and is thrown to the bottom of the spirit kings kingdom
>has to fight his way back to the top against other Ichigos from other parallel worlds with different skillsets to prove himself worthy of a rematch against the king
pic related: Its basically what the other Ichigos are like
>TOURNAMENT ARC
>TOURNAMENT ARC
>TOURNAMENT ARC
>TOURNAMENT ARC
>TOURNAMENT ARC
>TOURNAMENT ARC
>TOURNAMENT ARC
>TOURNAMENT ARC
>TOURNAMENT ARC
>TOURNAMENT ARC
>Battle against Spirit Kings Judges/High Council/whatever group he keeps close to him
>Wins against Spirit King
Then Ichigo became god
THE END

yfw you cant complain because anything Kubo does is at this level or worse.

>>61848051
Oh god his hair would be like all over your most sensitive spots and oh wow it'd just be great.

There really needs to be Toriko doujins. And one where Toriko just totally fucking ruins Rin after she sprays him with that battle fragrance

>>61848060
This is why I said everything was resolved (though I forgot about Squad 0, my bad.) I never saw the Spirit King as a plotline that needed furthering, or a character we needed to see; he was pretty clearly a mcguffin.

>>61847948

Bleach never "saved" Jump. By the time Bleach was popular, Jump was doing incredibly well. And that was the ORIGINAL Big 3, Dragonball, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Samurai X.

>>61848066
That would be a huge, cheap asspull. Exactly the sort of thing Kubo would do. Good job.

Only problem is that Ichigo would never want to be king and would probably just tell him to fuck off. Though I'm sure the king would then pull a "fight me or I kill all your friends" deal.

>yfw Kubo finally finishes bleach.
Then makes Bleach Z

Has it ever been said why this is named after detergent? Just wondering

>>61848099
Actually, the timing on those is a little off. Rurouni Kenshin began when DB was ending, and Jump lost a huge number of readers when DB ended. Kenshin brought some of them back when it got popular, but it ended right around the time that One Piece began hitting it big.

Kenshin doesn't belong in either of the big three, but in a class by itself. It basically kept Jump alive as its only big franchise inbetween the end of the DB/YYH era and the start of the One Piece/Naruto era.

>>61848156

Something something, Nirvana. Something something, "white" is a stupid name for a series.

So tell me /a/...why do you guys hate this great man? He is the best thing to come out of Bleach ever.

>>61848066
I'm not gay, but I want Gentleman Ichigo to fuck me and never stop.

Alright, maybe I'm a little gay.

>>61848189

His loss was incredibly retarded.

>>61848127
>yfw One Piece ends and Luffy dies.
>yfw Luffy's son ends up making another series

Toriko is the obvious replacement which is great because I love it

In reality, what Jump needs to do is move to a more modern format. Magazines are dying. Digital distrobution or something

so how are bleachfags taking the ending?

>>61848242
It's ok, it just bothers me that it happens just after Kubo announces this is the final arc and it won't be animated.

>>61847308
bleach got cancelled? ahahahahaha seriously thoguh did it

>>61848189
He was pretty cool in the original Soul Society arc.

After that, he basically became a generic bad guy, and his plan got more and more stupid as time went on.

>>61847492
no it just caught up to the manga so it went on hiatus.

>>61848005
This. Oda has more than enough plot left to continue for a decade without it feeling contrived.

>>61848434
One Piece is pirate AiDS.

Remember when bleach was good?
Because I vaguely do.

Is toriko anime doing well? They are moving through arcs really fast.

I can't even imagine how amazing it would be with bleach's/naruto's budget.

>>61848456
Actually, One Piece is one of the few Shounen in WSJ I can tolerate right now.

I really like how Oda advanced the scope of the series naturally and how varied the locations are. World-building is great.

>>61848502
It's shit. They introduced a useless as fuck newscaster filler character that basically exists to stop the show being so full of men.

But I can't stop watching because Rin's voice is olev

>>61847919
I... I might actually check that out.

>>61848527
I mean the sales, not the show itself.

>complaining about it being censored and tina getting some screen time

Nigga are you serious? It's better than getting nothing at all, because that was probably the only other option. before it got so popular

>>61848471
First 60 or 70 chapters were awesome.

I just want tatsuki to be relevant ;_;

>>61848574
She's not

Get over it.

>>61848645
You lie!

madoka.

>>61848471 violate the dead

Well, then.

>>61848670
Madoka a shit

>>61848686
The fuck did you say? Madoka is ten times better than your Bleach bullshit.

>>61847935
And I bet it will turn to shit in the next six years.

>>61848686
Hipster time of the day, huh?

>>61848710
All the more reason to enjoy it now!

>第366話「変わりゆく歴史、変わらぬ心」2012年03月27日放送予定

Last episode of Bleach.
Ep366 "The ever changing history, the timeless sentiment" 2012 March 27th.

So... that's it.

I've dropped Bleach since Ep110, but I might actually try watching it if it's only another 200 eps.

This is actually a bit sad.

>>61848710

Just like how One Piece turned to shi-- oh wait, One Piece is still pretty fucking entertaining.

The thing is that Toriko started better and IS better than Bleach and Naruto EVER were, ever since the very beginning.

I honestly feel as though it has far more potential than either.

>>61849173
The reason I enjoy One Piece and Toriko so much is because their different approaches in the worldbuilding achieve the same effect. Oda comes up with his stuff on his own, making it all have the same feel. Shimabakuro has been adding more and more fan creations which I feel adds a whole lot more, since the entire world of Toriko leaves itself thousands of potential animals and plants.

One Piece introduces new technology or resources(dials) and keeps them relevant even later, but Toriko can just shove aside new ingredients and such because it is essentially an arms race of cooking. Both manage to blend them correctly and create really engaging worlds.

>>61849173
Toriko's premise is just too pants-on-head retarded. Martial artists, yes, pirates, yes, ninjas, yes, hunters, yes, shinigami, yes, Death Notes, OK. But food? No. Gourmets do not make a good basis for world building.

>>61849394

I agree completely with everything you said; Naruto is just our world with different technology levels, and ninjas. Bleach is our world with ghosts.

Toriko and One Piece create their own unique, truly fascinating, and engrossing worlds that give us a real sense of exploration and wonder.

The sense of EXPLORATION, and wanting to see more is what makes it great.

Wanting to see more of the Grand Line in OP, and wanting to see the Gourmet World in Toriko are what make each manga series amazing.

I wonder how much advice Oda gave the creator of Toriko before he conceived the series; I know they are pretty good friends.

Didn't we get a simmilar article last year when the Arrancar arc ended?

>>61849603
But did that come with magezine scans that confirmed the end? And an announcement for its replacement in the timeslot?

>>61849536
I personally take that one chapter introduction we got of the Gourmet world about a year ago as Shimabakuro basically saying to Oda "You've hyped up the New World for years: beat this."

And 3 chapters into this new arc...we have
-an island half burning and half frozen
-fucking samurai
-a talking pair of legs and a severed talking head
-a dragon
-a harpy
-scientific guinea pig kidnappers
-giant babies
-MOTHERFUCKING DRAGONS
-promise of Smoker on the horizon

>>61849487
It is hard to take seriously...bu food is like, an absolutely necessary thing. Ninja, piracy, samurai-y, that's just lifestyle. Food is mandatory, and making a world focused on the most godlike foods in all of history...it leads to sort of an interesting and varied world.

>>61849487

So pirates who eat magic fruit, have snail telephones, and magic floating islands are okay...

But a world based around cooking and gourmet food is not?

What the fuck is wrong with it being based around food? I honestly can't fathom why anyone would have an issue with the series being bent around exotic ingredients, and a global economy fully controlled by the market of said ingredients and cooking.

It allows for worldbuilding, and an interesting, adventurous story, and a unique premise without having to rely on the whole, "Oh, evil bad guys, oh we're just fighting and shit because we like to fight."

It's fun seeing the ingredients, and most shonen manga have ridiculous premises in the first place, why the fuck should Toriko bother you?

Would you HONESTLY rather read a generic manga about ninjas or ghost warriors with big swords over Toriko? Seriously?

Don't judge it by the premise, judge it by entertainment value.

Obviously the final arc of manga will be adapted few years later under different name

>>61849646
>Hellfire Peaks

Awww yea, this arc is starting out great.

>>61848574
>>61848645
>>61848663

Tatsuki is the true OTP