Bleach? Bleach Detergent? Who Cares! My Eyes/Brain hurt from watching.

-Great potential, but became annoying with poor character development and random /Powerups.
-THIS SERIES CONTAINS AT LEAST 40-55% FILLER!

Im Gonna Talk About Bleach's most "popular arc": Soul Society.

This arc is variously called the First Karakura Arc or Karakura Adventures Arc, but the term Ghostbusters Arc is more fitting since it's more to the point about its appeal. This is the only truly good arc in Bleach, and it's not even that good.

It dumped loads of new characters onto the watchers, thereby shoving the established characters to the side, completely shelved the Hollow Vs Shinigami dynamic for the utterly incomprehensible Soul Society setting which is so rife with plot holes and nonsense that makes no sense

It changed the series to focus almost exclusively on 1v1 duels between characters with ideological differences, like every other Battle Shounen ever created. Everything was ruined in this arc: the setting, the characters, even the fights.

The last bit of good choreography was Ichigo vs Kenpachi, and had some meaning in terms of story telling...from that moment on fights became more and more reliant on spamming special attacks.

Fans talk about how Hueco Mundo ruined or how Arrancars ruined Bleach, how Fullbrings ruined bleach etc. Everything they hate can be traced back to Soul Society. It all started with this arc.

The Tone Of Bleach
Bleach had a town-level setting. Ichigo's motivations made sense, the threats were immediate, and all the characters introduced were still relevant if only by the general threat that the hollows made on the whole town.

Soul Society completely removes the story from Karakura, alienates the existing characters and setting, making them totally irrelevant to what is happening. And that's pretty much how it continues on from there.

Arrancar's show up, but apparently even they don't want to hang around in Karakura town for every long because soon everybody leaves and goes to Hueco Mundo. And by the time we get back Kubo pulls the cruelest joke of all by switching out Karakura with a decoy town. 1/2

A chance for Karakura to be relevant as setting again, and we get a fucking decoy town. Bravo, Kubo. 2/2

Bleach is a big sack of shit. The only redeeming thing about the anime adaptation is the soundtrack, which is far better than it has any right to be.

My advice is to download the entire OST and listen to it while reading the manga. You will enjoy the story much more without the shitty production values, obnoxious voice acting, and interminable filler arcs that make this anime unwatchable.

I can't believe there was a time I actually believed bleach would continue to be awesome forever. I tried to keep my hope during HM arc but it never really did get better after SS arc.

Full bringer arc wasn't even worth talking about because it was just a filler ass pull arc centred around having an excuse to give Ichigo his powers back, which makes all the drama over him losing powers kind of pointless.

OVERALL
I would recommend bleach up to soul society arc. After that don't bother if you value your time and intelligence.

Bleach As A Whole 4/10
Bleach Up To SS 5 or 6/10