User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 686 - Death & Strawberry (End of Bleach reMIX)/@comment-25690287-20160818174032/@comment-2226235-20160819065022

It just wasn't as popular. Anime and manga companies don't care much about sales in the west and only really base their business decisions on the Japanese fanbase. Bleach hasn't been a great seller since the Fake Karakura Town arc ended. Volume sales were down and it's been polling low in reader polls for years. No company would cancel a popular product just because they didn't like the creator. As for Naruto, the anime is still popular in Japan and gets higher ratings than almost every other anime out there. Popularity in the west has nothing to do with why they've been keeping it around.