A manga rant, I mean you Naruto and Bleach
I have all but completely given up on both Bleach and Naruto. The story is going nowhere and taking an insane amount of time doing so and I just cannot muster up enough crap to actually be bothered to follow either of them anymore. I still occasionally try to catch up by reading anime blog recaps, but both feel like they've morphed into completely different manga with new characters I don't know and don't give a shit about. It might have turned into the best thing ever since the last chapter I read, for Bleach it was during the Fake-Karakura arc just before Ichigo achieved his billionth power up and for Naruto it was during the siege on Konoha when Pein got into his sob story past I seriously went fuck this shit.
I keep up with the wiki profiles of characters sometimes too, and until today do we still not know what happened to Grimmjow? Seriously I wanted him to survive and become another of Ichigo's allies but by this time I just want Tite Kubo to confirm the fact that he's dead and just allows us to move on.
Both Naruto and Bleach are mangas with a shit load of characters which we love and care for. Why do we need more? Why are the mangakas adding more when they can't even keep track of the characters they already have? Sure the money aspect is probably fueling the story lines to go on for all eternity and while I don't really hate sounding repetitive but both mangaka's should have taken lessons from Arakawa Hiromu whose manga, the renowned Fullmetal Alchemist, balanced both action and drama perfectly, had an amazing storyline and plot that fell into place like pieces of the most amazing jigsaw puzzle ever created and didn't take 1000 years to get to the fucking point.
And I know he has a lot of haters out there, I am not one of them, but did Sasuke and the rest of Team Falcon/Hawk/Eagle, get sucked into the realm of 'never-to-be-seen-again' or did they die in an unexplained Akatsuki related factory explosion that happened off screen?