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Point being, it was still cancelled out of spite. Naruto is still going because they insist "It's popular in the west. Westerners will buy it. It's what the west wants." It's not. But then those same people cancel Bleach and say it's because it isn't selling in Japan. That's true but it's also true that in the west it's still one of the most popular series. Given Kubo rather public disagreements with the editors of Shonen Jump, it becomes hard to believe there was any other reason for them to cancel it.