Bleach fans come

If you remove fillers how many episodes of the anime are there? Also if I liked HxH would I like this? How consistent is the animation quality? Good characters?

the little lion guy is cool

idk probably 250 episodes. Not necessarily, personally I think HxH is better. It's bad for today standards but overall I did enjoyed the animation at the time. There is a lot of good characters so that's not a problem

the main cast aside from ichigo and rukia is insufferable, side cast is pretty bomb tho

Ulquiorra is hot

Spoiler:

Not worth your time

bleach more like my eyes needs a bleach to clean it by how awful this anime is