i plan to watch Bleach, but some people say it's dog shit. So is Bleach worth watching?
If you skip the fillers, you're pretty much in for a good but at times bumpy ride. The first major arc is what many regard as one of the best arcs in shonen (my self included) and the rest are very good as well. Characters are definitely interesting and the fights are very dynamic and for the most part, nicely choregraphed and animated.
Bleach is great. I'd recommend watching it with the Bounts arc you can look on a list of Bleach episodes here, so you'll know how long the arc is. Yeah, it's a filler, but the characters from this filler also appear in some episodes of the main story, so I think it's better to watch the main story with this filler included. You'll understand the characters.
Well ask yourself, would you rather watch 366 episodes long anime
or read 705 chapters
366 episodes is 122 hours
705 chapters is 58.75 hours
That's assuming one chapter takes you 5 minutes to read and it should because author is a lazy slob, barely draws backgrounds so you're only mostly reading speech bubbles and looking at characters.
Plus manga has way more content, no fillers and you can read it at your own pace instead of having to go along with anime pace which may feel slow or not for you.
AND manga is finished, anime isn't. Anime is about halfway? Or bit more
I would watch the anime since Bleach is getting a new anime that will adapt the final arc of the manga and it wont start airing for a while so you have time to catch up. It has alot of filler but you can skip them if you want to, you wont miss out on anything aside some side characters that becomes canon
Hi, watch the anime, mainly because the OST is epic as well as the animation is great and gets better every season. It's pretty faithful to the manga actually, so you won't miss out on important stuff (though the anime decreased the gore a bit, not so much the blood cause there is pretty much blood everywhere, but mainly when some body parts get wrecked). Bleach has a lot of fillers, but you can skip em if you want (or should haha). The last Filler arc is actually pretty good though.
The main appeal of the show is the awesome fights for me so based on that, I'd recommend to check out the manga first and if you find yourself enjoying the fights even without the animation, I wouldn't bother with the anime. But I can't really do that, I often get lost in the fights when just reading thus I enjoy the manga a lot less than the anime.