User blog comment:Lemursrule/BLEACH episode 299 review: Welcome to HELL!/@comment-1268838-20101202055443/@comment-1268838-20101202080407

Now, now Lia, don't jump the gun - there's a reason that this here internet exists. Good thing, too, because just to buy a box set containing volumes 1-21, I would have to dish out 150 bucks, something that just ISN'T gonna happen. It doesn't help that Viz bumped the price of all of their volumes up by two bucks in the past year or so. I had always wondered how Japan could have a magazine as awesome as Weekly Shonen Jump, compared to the sad version Viz releases.

Here I am saying this, yet I own all 49 Viz volumes of Naruto, 50 come this February. It makes me wonder - Viz went full gear to catch up to the Japanese with Naruto and One Piece. Why was Bleach left in the dust?