@Brainyz:
I don't know why everybody believes that Bleach got canceled, there is a big chance it's just Kubo getting tired of writing Bleach.
Even if Bleach is doing pretty bad in the weekly ranking in shonen jump, we can't deny that it still sells a lot, it sold more than Toriko, Kochikame and Saiki Kusuo last year, and I don't think the editors would prefer to end one of their higher selling franchises.
We all know how much of troll Kubo is, moreover, Jump won't wait for Bleach all this time and rush it just as the final fight was occurring.
It's weird such unconfirmed rumors are not only popular between salty fans who want to excuse the sudden ending, but also between other people who don't care about the series.
If there was actually any interview that states that it was canceled which I'm unaware of, please forgive me.
There is never a interview about cancellation! Cancellation is basically being fired, that is something personal with the author and the company, it has no reason to be talked in public, just like the author income also doesn't have any.
Note that the magazine brings more money and faster than all the volume sold of the series of the magazine. And by more I'm talking a lot more. Just the direct sales is enough, but than you have advertisement to add to that.
What a magazine needs is a group of interested series that attract more readers with time and keep the old ones. Bleach for 5 years has been the blacksheep of the magazine.
The defense about "wait for Bleach all this time and rush it just as the final fight was occurring" is a big faulty one.
First, who is to say that the final fight was occurring because of the rushing or the rushing started by the final fight?
Second, this about waiting a long time and than suddenly giving up argument is wrong. Things don't work like that. Things pile up, and the fact of all that time passing is a reason in favor not against. You can't say that a victim because it endured half a decade, it should now endure another half. If a wife endured and punch in the face by her abusive husband it should also endure a second one. If Shonen Jump endured Bleach horrible results for 5 years that should endure for a 1 or 2 more.
People also seem to forget, but the magazine pays, a lot, an author per page. I believe that 10k Yen(around 100$) per newbies and as they grow they can start getting more and more. When Oda earnings were estimated in one year they estimated that he was earning around 50k Yen(around 500$). I would assume that Kubo, a veteran author that works in Bleach for such a long time also gets around that value per page. Bleach as around 17 pages per chapter, right? That means he gets around 8,500$ per chapter. An amateur mangaka would only get 1,700$.
And not only that, but the magazine also pays an annual salary to the authors. And the royalties for the volumes are also bigger. The base is believed to be 10% and is believed that it can go up until 15%. So from the 400k copies per Bleach volume Kubo is getting 60k of them. An amateur that is able to reach those sales would get 40k. 20k less.
So the magazine has a manga in decline that is constantly loosing audience and that doesn't brings nobody to the magazine and it still pays this author in a VIP manner.
It makes all sense that the magazine would cancel Bleach manga. Though, while I'm giving all reasons for why Bleach could be cancelled by the magazine, In my opinion I'm quite divided in what happened, if the magazine or if just Kubo, specially because it would totally be in agreement with his modus operandi.