User blog comment:DevaunteSucksBalls/One Piece Vs Bleach , HELP US DECIDE./@comment-1774413-20100802003430

Well i dont want to argue with you Megadoomer, i can see that you have a perfectly valid preference to One Piece and you are right on many points, though i would say that alot of the neative points you made towards bleach show a misunderstanding of parts of the story and certain aspects of the bleach universe as a whole... but i cant argue that the recent deicide chapters up to 414 havent been very boring and quite like time wasting. I deffinately do not agree that Bleach doesnt know where it is going at any rate, it has as mch of an overarching goal as One Piece does. As for why Bleach is more popular in N America, i would say that its because certain aspects of One Piece make it look silly from the outside, the pirate element is not well understood, the characters (especially luffy with his rubber) sometimes look quite childish etc, whereas bleach looks quite clinical, cool and poetic in a sense with much better drawn characters in the manga. I think One Piece needs people to endure itfor the first chapters ( probably till right up to entering the grandline) before it gets really interesting. I have to say i do love both series equally though... i love their differences, it means im not reading the same thing twice every week.