[Taiyz]

I don't know why I'm watching Naruto or D.Gray-Man anymore. D.Gray-Man is essentially going the path of Bleach; telling you what will happen if you don't stop the bad guys in time, and so the rest of the series consists of fighting said guys to stop the event from happening.

Needless to say I dropped Bleach in the 150s; the Arrancar were as bad as the filler Bount/Bounto/Bound/whatever. The Vizard are a bit more interesting, however...Really, I naively continued watching past the Soul Society arc when I should've dropped it back then.

Naruto is still amusing on some levels, but it takes itself too seriously (though not as badly as Bleach.)

One of my issues with both Bleach and Naruto is that their fighting game series' are so long. The Bleach games by Treasure, and the Ultimate Ninja series by CyberConnect2 are intriguing, but I don't want to support constant updates to rosters, so I haven't really bought into them yet. Ubisoft's Rise of a Ninja however, looks great.

I think the general rule is that any Shounen Jump manga adapted into an anime that exceeds 52 episodes will hit a dead end there. That's approximately where Rurouni Kenshin's third arc began, where the Soul Society arc ended and so on.
Naruto was a bit of an exception, in that it hit a better stride and kept strong until they decided to convert the anime entirely into filler until Shippuuden was announced.

So basically, I'm saying that stuff like Houshin Engi and Busou Renkin and even Black Cat are actually pretty solid series', despite being "Shounen Jump" style shounen, which this topic is basically about.

Though, all that said, I find it easier to get into anything non-Shounen Jump. Busou Renkin was amazing and Houshin Engi was a riot, but stuff like Nabari no Ou or Zombie Loan are my bread and butter.