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I have a higher tolerance for Bleach than most people do and I find it hard to recommend it
Most people say that only the first 2 arcs are good ("Hollow" and "Soul Society" but I don't really remember the official names for the arcs). Less tolerante people might say that only the first arc is good.
I am going far and say that up until the FaKaTo (shoretened due to spoiler, full name is "Fake Karakura Town" arc) arc this is all good. Yes, the arrancer and Hueco Muendo arcs are good as well

But then it falls hard. Like, super hard. I used to defend this series so much but it disappointed me plenty in this arc.
So many hyped characters turned out to be red herrings. Died so soon or just disappointed. So many promises were broken. So much stuff that fans hyped and speculated for years turned out to be nothing. Was it my fault for getting my hopes up? maybe. But it would still be disappointing otherwise

And then the Fullbringer arc is a massive shit and the Manga Only arc is pretty bad as well. Ending was super rushed to the point of face palming myself because of how rushed it was

And this was a manga review.
For the anime...it's even harder to recommend. There are so many fillers. Even if you try to skip them all, they went to the "let's merge filler in canon episodes" route and it sucked. They put filler characters in canon episodes. It's a mess

The only way I can recommend Bleach is if you are the kind of person that is fine with dropping a show midway. I am sure you will enjoy it for like the 100 first episodes you watch (assuming you avoid filler episodes) but will you be comfortable to stop when it shit the bed?

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