In my opinion, Bleach got a good story, where we can see a lot of characters with different opinions, own mentality and personality, based on friendship and trust on each other, and a plot based on a battle of "good against the evil". As the story progresses, we notice that the course changes and the own opinion of the viewer can change too and shapes itself according to the appreciation of the anime itself.
The 1st episode was an awesome entrance to the anime, where it shows the good and the bad guys of the story, the main characters, the abilities of each other, and the type of anime it will become forward.
As the story progresses, it start to enter an enormous variety of characters, which is difficult at the start the record all of them, but as it goes on, we can relate the characters with their occupations and positions. Of course the anime cannot relate the full biography of all of that secondary personages, or it will be impossible to continue the story, but we got the essential of each one of them. With that, each viewer can get more related with one char than others, where we discover some badasses and others who are more reserved and closed.
The music and soundtracks are well played, as the state of mind of the characters, the battles, or just when some new power is discovered.
The battles are in fact one major theme in Bleach. We can see a lot of moves and understand the strength and the speed of each one of them. The graphics are very good, and there are many meanings behind each confrontation. As the episodes goes on, so the duration and force goes up as well.
There also some negative parts in Bleach. One big fail (in my opinion of course) is the fact that there is too much fillers that run parallel to the main story, and that is a mainline problem that leads to that people hate this anime (in 366 eps, about 150 are fillers? It's an enormous waste!). Or u can also explain that in factors like " financial issues ", or even "it's made for the fans". I really think that these excessive fillers spoiled a lot!
The ambiance will vary enough, which have very heavy climates, and can quickly jump to a joyful moment, comic, or even stupid moment. It appears a lot.
Another point I can add is the love/hate relationship I have with the main character. Ok, Kurosaki Ichigo goes to an almost normal student with orange hair who can see ghosts, to a baddass human who got shinigami, hollow, fullbringer and quincy powers, reached the maximum power output of any living been, like a God or something like that, and just for saving the ones who he loves (in other words, everyone he knows or has just met 2 seconds ago).
One last thing: the story develops around a gigantic battle against two or more super powers (Shinigamis, Hollows, and you can also add the Vaizards), who finishes in a almost extermination of the enemy. The "good" side finishes with 0 deaths (everyone "almost" died, one old man lost an arm, and a dude lose [temporarily] is powers). Seems legit.
At the end, I say that after all, I loved the anime. The fact that it was my 1st can influence my taste, but I still recommend it. If you can watch it without the fillers it will make it better, but you are a fan or you based on a rule that you only watch from the beginning to the end, go for it.
