@goty:

Make it top 40, lol. Naruto seems to get lower every week, and Bleach was #39 last week, it's having trouble to reach even the 2.0 mark. Not even the return to canon is saving it, since 267 registered another drop.

I don't think Naruto has ever been out of the top 20. Though with Bleach, it's ratings haven't really been consistent so far this year. I wouldn't say it is having trouble reaching even "2.0" when it has probably been above or near 4.0 as often as it has been below 2.0 this year.

As far as canon is concerned, I don't think that affects viewer-ship much (save for people on English-speaking forums complaining.) The same probably applies to pacing to an extent.

The higher ratings are probably due to the marketing push that went with Movie 10. The manga seems to be doing better also. Though it has been on a rise since Thriller Bark started.

@BatrozX:

For what I have seen, the only thing maintaining the Naruto anime series alive is how well it's selling and being watched on the US, same goes for Bleach I think. The only place Naruto and Bleach sell the most is on the western market, obviously because they haven't advertised One Piece well on the west.

Outside of Gintama (which just ended), Bleach's anime DVD sales were, by a large amount, much better than the rest of the Jump series (including One Piece). It has dropped a bit, but still probably the best selling Jump series.

Ratings for both are hardly abysmal either, Naruto (and probably Bleach) is still consistently in the top 20.

@skeletonbrook:

the thing that bothers me about them floating mid air is howcome if every one can float mid air why the hell did ichigo need a cloak to fly in soul society

Because they don't "float". It was explained at the beginning of the manga, they stand on reiatsu they control (hence it would obviously appear that they are "standing on ground", because they essentially are.) It'd be a lot more convenient to use a device that carries him with likely greater mobility and less of his own energy used.

Not neccessarily related to this post, but I would say a good majoriy of Bleach criticism (and claims of plot holes) come from people not paying attention to the manga (and I won't be surprised if a lot of bashers don't even read it) and those who read it with the intentiosn of hating on it.

Battles are part of One Piece, those things would be relevant to progressing the story. Otherwise you might as well say all war novels do not have a a "lot of" plot (though I don't see the relevance or the exact meaning being used here in quantifying plot.)

In regards to the "I want to test how far I am away from him", I don't see how that is definitely "I am far away from him, I want to see how much weaker" as opposed to him basically saying he wants to test himself against Whitebeard. It seems to me like when people Whitebeard's "You are 100 years to tell me what to do" comment against Shanks to say Whitebeard is 100+ years old.

As for Jozu blocking an attack (which was long ranged and went through quite a few meters of ice), nothing really says that if Jozu can block it, Whitebeard can also.

@Captain:

And yet little to no one was talking about it. His caliber was a retrospective one. Before he died, he had plumetted. Very few gave a shit. He didn't become beloved again until he died, and everyone started pretending the last 20 years didn't happen.

You say 20 years, yet even in the past 10 years he has had successful albums such as Invincible (not up to par with his initial success, but 10x Platinum is impressive by most standards.)

20 years ago he was still becoming increasingly popular and arguably reached the peak of his fame a few years past the '20 year' mark.

Aside from that, when someone who did contribute dies despite a 'lull', their accomplishments in life are generally recognized. And in this case it's Michael Jackson, one of the best most well known figures in general who accomplished a lot from the mid/late-60s for many decades. I think it's a positive thing that "the media"/"people" aren't extremely short-sighted and live only in 'current trends.' And I think you might greatly underrate Michael Jackson's status for the large part of many people's lives (not everyone was born in the mid-90s).

Though I doubt this is all that relevant to your point (you don't like seeing someone extraordinarily famous on the news after his death so you feel justified in complaining), just wanted to point something out.

A somewhat more poignant are recent example would be Mike Tyson. He was convicted or rape, he did many dislikable things and in general he might not be extremely 'well liked.' Yet even now without his death, if you talk about his boxing career, it would largely be positive. Ali is similar to an extent, despite all his trash talking and down-talking of many others (such as the infamous Frazier dispute), he is regarded positvely. I'm sure you could get into the same scenario with Elvis among countless others, MJ is hardly unique (though many will still label him a pedophile despite lack of evidence just 'gut feeling' based on his strangeness). Some people are able to seperate peronal flaws (being the butt of many jokes in MJ's case) from their accomplishments often enough.

@123:

I don't see Buggy getting a increase in bounty unless all the other prisoners who have successfully escaped get a increase in bounty. Cause at this point they don't know that Buggy let the prisoners in level 2 out. Besides they will focus on Luffy,Jinbei , Croc and Iva(Maybe others who helped them too)

Buggy was one of the first prisoners reported to be out and part of Luffy's intrusion. They would probably assume (accurately) that he had a role in things.

@The:

Something somebody posted on Tz, that I meant to post yesterday..

I don't see how that image has to do with age in the first place. Aside from that, giving his "rot" command, how his ability affected Soi Fon, among othe rthings. I'd say that he makes the bone seem like old literally (as he stated) as opposed to making them older.

Well according to stephen's translation of the earlier chapter, Kuroobi did Hyakumai-Gawara Seiken and was going to do Senmai-Gawara Seiken.

While Jinbei's was Karakua-Gawara Seiken, so not the exact same.

@Djoixu:

Logic says so but Crocodile still doesn't get hit by them… Agh it's annoying to get annoyed by these kind of things S:

It could be that they used regular bullets initially as it was explicitly pointed out afterwards to use the Gaol Bullets when they were fired on Luffy.