User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 686 - Death & Strawberry (End of Bleach reMIX)/@comment-24769684-20160820020548/@comment-29190231-20160821065601

I don't think the suggestion was, "Read Bakuman to like what Jump does." Merely read it to understand them. The fact of the matter is, even in the West, unless you self-publish (which isn't a reliable way for an author to get their work read and known), you are subject to editors, publishers, contracts, and the ways of the business.

In a perfect world, every author would have 100% full say in everything they write, and in many ways, they still do (I'm reminded of how Toriyama threatened to quit if his editors didn't allow him to age Goku up), but this isn't a perfect world. Kubo chose to publish with Jump. He wasn't press-ganged into service. If Jump was as bad as many would have us believe it is (and I am very resistant to take the opinion of a fan base angered by what they perceive to be an injustice done just because the target of said "injustice" is their favorite series), Kubo could have always finished up his contract and ended his relationship with them — he had certainly made enough money off of Bleach at that point for that to have been a feasible option. But he didn't, and never gave any indication that such a course of action was within his intentions, so that leads me to believe that Jump is not the sweat shop some of you would like us to believe it is.

And in the end, no matter the reasons that are given, or the arguments that are presented on either side of this debate, the nature of the business is just something that has to be accepted.