It's funny how Bleach goes from a completely shitty and irrelevant arc to a gripping and meaningful part of the story.

Yamamoto of all people is dead
Byakuya is dead
Ichigo is a quincy
Aizen is now relevant again and seemingly pulling some trickery
Squad Zero is set to make an appearance

Like...damn.

The first one was off but the second manga reference I tried was on the mark.
It has the first ever mention of there being a Soul King and a royal guard (Squad Zero as we know it).

looked and couldn't find anything.
iso link.
no way it's twice as long

Naruto and bleach are getting interesting

quincy....

Naruto has been progressively losing my interest as the weeks go on and it's not getting any better. We're finally at a part in the story that's rather unpredictable. I don't have many good guesses as to how the current situation is going to transpire, so that's decent I guess. The pacing has just gotten unbearable for me. We get next to no content each week and Kishi drags out every moment as long as he can. I'm finding it dumber and dumber.

Bleach on the other hand I think is being well-written. The story is actually going places and the events are dynamic (i.e, significant characters dying). It doesn't necessarily take significant characters to die to make a story good, but it really adds to the impact.

vouch,
naruto is at the same place at least for 2 months already

Fixed

When I said trickery, I referred to Aizen using his powers from his cell, as noted by Juha Bach. I'm pretty confident that Byakuya is dead, lol. He was absolutely brutalized and bloody beyond belief.

He died the same way Ichimaru did. They both put their faith in Ichigo.