User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/408: Deicide 10/@comment-1454424-20100619051010

Well Grimmjow2, let me tell you the story of another mangaka who did give fans what they wanted. Let us talk about Akira Toriyama, who was Shonen Jump mangaka as well.

At the end of the Cell Saga, Toriyama killed off Goku permanently because he felt that as a character he was tapped out. He wanted to switch the focus of Dragonball to Gohan from then on. However, his fans pretty much forced him to bring Goku back during the Buu Saga. The majority of Dragonball fans, myself included, did not care for the Buu Saga. Some did but most did not. Even Toriyama himself was not happy with the direction of Dragonball and ended the series. He's heart was simply not in it and drawing Drabonball became a chore, exhausting him.

That is what will happen to Bleach if Kubo's hand is forced. If Kubo is no longer writing for himself, his heart won't be in it. I don't think you can work as hard as the average mangakana does when your heart is not in it. But I am sure that Kubo is aware of this. I am sure, one of the things Toriyama said in his letter to Kubo encouraging him to continue with Bleach is "do what you want to. If no one reads, then it just means that the story you want to tell was not interesting enough." Heh, maybe that's the story behind Shinji's tip to Urahara about being a captain.

http://www.onemanga.com/Bleach/315.02/16/

So I guess what I am saying, there is a difference between adding a strawberry on top of a cake because the people who are going to eat the cake like strawberry but it is completely a different matter if you intended to make chocolate cake but ended up being forced to make a vanilla cake. In addition, there is the question of whether the strawberry would go with the cake. If it goes, sure put it in. If the strawberry would ruin the taste of the cake, only the most novice of bakers would still add the strawberry - just to please the audience - who might end-up hating the cake because, you know, the strawberry ruined the taste. Kubo is not a novice baker.