I would say the description of bleach is accurate although it starts off fast due to the weak initial challenges and the lower character count. As soon as the challenge level rises the number of characters shoot through the roof as well...then it gets slow but they explain and give most of the characters back stories.

It is up to issue 350 or something crazy like that and I think it has slowed down too much. Mainly because the enemies are just are not interesting.

I don't know. It is a fight fight fight thing but oh well. The characters are what kept it interesting to me as the story moves too slowly to really grip you due to the nature of these fight fight fight things XP