AN1M3BROZ said:Squiyn said:Popularity does not nessarily equate to it being good.
Popularity on MAL just means how many people have it on there list, it doesn't account for their score. It also makes sense as Bleach is one of the most widely known and bought mangas.
People didn't like parts of the bleach manga, you enjoying it and thinking it deserves a higher score doesn't nessarily reflect the opinions of others.
7.69 is actually not that low of a score in my opinion. A score of 5-6 is quite prevalant if you look around on MAL. So 7 is above average.
You mentioned that people are starting to like bleach again because the anime is coming back to adapt the arcs it couldn't. Well that's just hype isn't it? Bleach manga readers have already finished those arcs and the score is a reflection of what they thought of Bleach overall, which contains those arcs.
Haven't read all bleach yet, so I can't make a judgement of how good/bad it is. But based on what I've heard, it just gets worse after the soul society arc.
I'm really liking it atm though. Not sure I agree with your rating though.
Again like I said, it was a popular trend to say “bleach falls off after soul society”, but anyone who read the manga, even if they rate soul society as their favourite arc in bleach, will say that the arcs after actually don’t fall off.
About the score rating. It even happened recently, where fmab fans review bombed series such as fruba and Gintama the final. These are fans, who rate series low in order for their series to be higher. It happens all the times and it’s happened to many series and I think it needs to stop. The only reason I mentioned bleach was because it was one of many that a lot of people and I think that don’t deserve that rating. I get what’s done is done but it shouldn’t be a community where people try the hardest to get their animanga to rate the highest but instead to see, what anime has the whole fandom buzzing to be rated so high and what anime we should stay clear of