Well, the problem I have with all those couples is that... there is no chemistry between them! Or maybe there is later, but we don't see any of it!
They are just friends (some with one sided feelings that should totally remain this way) and ten years later they are married. « It doesn't make sense but it's just because we didn't show you how they got closer, so it's fine! »
One of them could have become president (well, Rukia became head of the shinigami...) and it would have been fine. No wouldn't.
It's not that you have to show all of it, but if you don't show at least a little bit of their relationship building this way, it won't make seeeeeense! (/  ̄Д ̄)/
And the couple that made me laught so hard in Naruto was obviously Sasuke/Sakura. Just no way xD
She got rejected so many times, I think by the end she clearly had more friendly feelings than anything else. And he was soooo not interested xD
Hmm.. you didn't realize it yet? It's been about 15 years we read Naruto, Kishimoto-sensei just a bit lacking in expressing romance. Well what do you expect? It's a shounen manga to begin with and i love it that way.
I don't know about Bleach since i stop reading it long ago, but in Naruto manga Sakura always love Sasuke and never stray from her feeling. Knowing that i think even a stone heart man like Sasuke can moved a bit, one way or another it's still make sense that they end up together.
If you want more romance how about start reading shoujo then instead of shounen and complaining about the lack of romance in shounen manga.
I tried to put myself in the characters' place and asked myself : would I fall in love with this person? No. No, I wouldn't. Unexpectedly, some people in life do have unrequited love, and most of our first loves won't bear fruits.
I don't read only shounen. I read absolutely every kind of manga, so I know what to expect of them. And this is precisely why it's not working here, the ending is one of a shoujo manga! For me, this is just fan service.
Anyway, I was just really annoyed at all theses endings that left me disappointed, but I can totally conceive that people will like them. Everybody has his own opinion and I respect that, but I still wanted to put mine here to show my discontent (づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ
Did I ever say I was a writer? I am sorry, but what you said clearly doesn't make sense.
I think Samourai Deeper Kyo had a good ending. Characters got together but it didn't feel forced, because you saw them getting closer through the story. It was still a shounen, there was no kissy stuff (well there was gropping, but it hardly count for "romance"), but it just felt natural when they got together! This is what Naruto and Bleach are missing (just for the ending tho, the rest of the story is fine).
Oh my gooood, this ending! This is just like Naruto's, it's the worst xD
The couples are so silly! They are those you just know would never happen. I mean come on, Inoue is so annoying and Ichigo clearly did not have any interest in her! This is just (bad) fan service.
Tho, at the end, I really thought all this s**t was just a possible futur that Kurosaki had destroyed when he killed mister bad guy. That would have been a nice twist.
Instead we get this shoujo ending where Rukia has a kid with Renji (when they had a brother-sister relationship) and become head of the shinigami...
With so much lack of imagination, it clearly was time to end this manga.