Yes, I still am following Bleach. Thusfar, I happy with where the manga is going. Seems Zaraki might finally know his zanpakutou's name...And Byakuya has kicked major 7th Arrancar butt.
ANYWAY...

In terms of the side content in Bleach;
Anyone else follow the Musicals? Last was No Clouds In the Blue Heavens and Bankai Live: Code 001, personally of which were both really good. NCITBH features the betrayal of Aizen, Gin, and Tousen, and the events that take place in episode 59-64. Bankai Live was a nice New Year's event that feature several characters in a joke fest. Anyway, I heard they are having two more musicals in March, so hopefully they'll be as epic as the previous ones.

They also released a new movie 22.12.07 called 'The Bleach Movie 2: The Diamond Dust Rebellion, Another Hyourinmaru'. Personally I cannot wait for this to surface on the internet. With Hitsugaya as the main character O_O...it'll be epic, lol. It seems it features an friend of Hitsugaya's who steals the King's Seal from him.

The anime itself is progressing, but isn't as interesting as the manga or side-content in my opinion. It was sad to see Luppi die though ='(.

Anyone?

A nice pic from the musical =]

I also follow blwach and agree with you regarding the manga being more interesting than the anime. But the manag is a bit dissapointing in terms of "surprising events" comapared to Naruto, though I think it is to be expected since it's a war, it's only normal to see just deadly battles.
And regarding Zaraki I think he will release a shikai and a bankai too.
Musicals? I don't like them and I didn't there are ones for Bleach, but the movie is something to be waited, though.

Oh my, Bleach is still going? I always thought the manga and anime was long over. I've never read the manga, but I've watched a few episodes. I couldn't really get into the series because I couldn't figure out what was going on. And shows involving sword battes don't interest me. I've watched one musical (again, I had no idea what was going on) and I found it very odd. I've never seen an a show, let alone animation, be turned into a musical. I'm guessing that Bleach has just musicals and not OVA/OAVs? And that the musicals contain different stories? Or do they have to do with the original storyline?

They have 2 OAVs, Memories in the Rain and The Sealed Sword Frenzy. The storyline in the beginning is confusing, however the current point in the plot is really good. Bleach hasn't ended and I am glad because they have a good thing going on.

Its understandable if you dislike the violence, but looking past the violence...atleast in reference to Soul Society, you see a real deep character plots and story background.

Well even I watch it (aka why we have episodes [needs to get the rest of them up to 52 or so <.<])

Now we have own forum for bleach moving it there

the musical looks interesting i will probably watch it so i can clame i'm cultured (i've been using evil dead the musical for too long though its epic win!!!) on the movie note it will be boring i saw Mirai got memory's animanga *i didn't know japan did those* and im sure like every other anime movie it will confect with the plot like crazy add no new or interesting details and most of all make everyone who knows nothing go this and that is in the movie thus fact *which is almost never true*

on the manga note
bleach will keep going for a long time if it keeps getting fans i recall seeing bleach 28 being the 7th or so best selling manga in japan of 2007 so its clear its doing well *one piece chapter 46 was #1 =]* so it will keep going till the story gets killed *being no more can be written* so we will probably see a arc in hell and that will be it the manga/anime have the problem of dragging things out which have been getting more and more and more annoying and seem to show the least interesting people first =[ in all seriousness it should have ended at soul society when it was interesting

lol, the Musical, imo, considering I can't understand a damn thing they are saying is good. The movie is supposed to be about Hitsugaya's past, which I'm assuming 304.5 started and the movie will finish. Naturally I wanna see the movie simply because he's my favorite character . But the plot seems to include before Hueco Mundo and after Aizen's betrayal.

As for the manga, I wish they could not prolong Nnoitora and Zaraki's fight x_x.

i heard the writer is trying to drag out things for the movie or some other BS and its better to have no info than candid info you will get them confused sooner or later

Oh, then that makes sense.
Yeah, but I'm a sucker to atleast know info then none at all.
Atleast with some information I can make my deductions until I see it myself.

thats just the point lol ill explane it on msn