i don't think Bleach is really getting stale but after some hundred chapters of nothing but fighting taking a step back to tell the story again is kinda jarring. Rumor is Bleach only has this arc and one more before it's over anyway so no point bailing now.

Some of these recent issues of Naruto have been good with Madara stepping it up in his role as evil super ninja (bonus points for coughing up two people) but at other times I want to bang my head against the wall reading this stuff. Naruto himself comes off dumber then ever and it seems everyone in the war not from Konoha is borderline incompetent .