One of my complaints about the anime is that there are a lot of fillers, I don't believe as many as Naruto & Shippuden, but there are plenty of things that happen in the anime that just don't occur in the manga.
I definitely recommend watching the anime BEFORE reading the manga. Another thing is the manga tends to be alot more graphic and less fan fare?
There are random spurts of comedic relief, but a lot of people you wish you could have gotten to know better DIE.
Also, the only way you could even finish Bleach at this point is if you were to read the manga. In a way I hope that there are more episodes of Bleach, and that the ending of the anime expands on the ending in the manga, but there really is no relief in the end.
The anime leaves you at this arc that really feels strange in the way that it feels like it was rushed and tossed at you, but the manga does this at times too especially in the final arc.
Overall, I loved Bleach and I appreciate the wisdom it offered, especially in regard to friendship and love. Ideally, I would like to see more from Tite Kubo, I don't think Bleach is over. I think that if you consider the ending of the anime and the manga, it doesn't feel over.
I hope that in time after Kubo takes a long rest, he comes back and pushes for more, both for the anime and manga.
Some minor advice: SKIP the fillers and watch them at the end. They are really time consuming and while they offer you little details on minor characters, some of those characters don't even truly exist. AT ALL. So just save yourself the time and watch the anime's true storyline first, my best advice is to stray from looking anything up until you read the final arc in the manga. I started where I had left off in the show and immediately got through it in like 24 hours.
Good luck!
