Bleach

Ichigo Kurosaki is an ordinary high schooler—until his family is attacked by a Hollow, a corrupt spirit that seeks to devour human souls. It is then that he meets a Soul Reaper named Rukia Kuchiki, who gets injured while protecting Ichigo's family from the assailant. To save his family, Ichigo accepts Rukia's offer of taking her powers and becomes a Soul Reaper as a result.

However, as Rukia is unable to regain her powers, Ichigo is given the daunting task of hunting down the Hollows that plague their town. However, he is not alone in his fight, as he is later joined by his friends—classmates Orihime Inoue, Yasutora Sado, and Uryuu Ishida—who each have their own unique abilities. As Ichigo and his comrades get used to their new duties and support each other on and off the battlefield, the young Soul Reaper soon learns that the Hollows are not the only real threat to the human world.

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Background

Bleach adapts the first 54 volumes of Tite Kubo's manga series of the same name. In addition, 4 anime-original arcs were broadcast in-between and during the adaptations of original arcs of the manga.

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Adaptation:	Bleach
Side story:	Bleach: Memories in the Rain, Bleach: The Sealed Sword Frenzy, Bleach Movie 1: Memories of Nobody, Bleach Movie 2: The DiamondDust Rebellion - Mou Hitotsu no Hyourinmaru, Bleach Movie 3: Fade to Black - Kimi no Na wo Yobu, Bleach Movie 4: Jigoku-hen, Bleach KaraBuri!: Gotei Juusan Yatai Daisakusen!
Other:	Bleach: Gotei 13 Omake
Sequel:	Bleach: Sennen Kessen-hen
Alternative setting:	Burn the Witch
Summary:	Bleach: Shuku! Rukia Dakkan! Kagayaku! Shinigami Juuban Shoubu! Mitai Shinigami Doon to Misemasu Special

Park, Romi
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Simone, Jamie

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Abe, Noriyuki

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Tachikawa, Yuzuru

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Ishihama, Masashi

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Opening Theme

	1: "Asterisk (～アスタリスク～)" by Orange Range (eps 1-25)
	2: "D-tecnolife" by UVERworld (eps 26-51)
	3: "Ichirin no Hana (一輪の花)" by High and Mighty Color (eps 52-74)
	4: "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" by Beat Crusaders (eps 75-97)
	5: "Rolling star" by YUI (eps 98-120)
	6: "ALONES" by Aqua Timez (eps 121-143)
	7: "After Dark (アフターダーク)" by Asian Kung-Fu Generation (eps 144-167)
	8: "CHU-BURA" by Kelun (eps 168-189)
	9: "Velonica" by Aqua Timez (eps 190-214)
	10: "Shoujo S (少女S)" by Scandal (eps 215-242)
	11: "Anima Rossa (アニマロッサ)" by Porno Graffitti (eps 243-265)
	12: "chAngE" by miwa (eps 266-291)
	13: "Ranbu no Melody (乱舞のメロディ)" by SID (eps 292-316)
	14: "BLUE" by ViViD (eps 317-342)
	15: "HARUKAZE" by Scandal (eps 343-366)

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Ending Theme

	1: "Life is Like a Boat" by Rie Fu (eps 1-13)
	2: "Thank You!! (サンキュー!!)" by HOME MADE KAZOKU (eps 14-26)
	3: "Houkiboshi (ほうき星)" by Younha (eps 26-38)
	4: "Happy People" by Skoop on Somebody (eps 39-51)
	5: "Life" by YUI (eps 52-63)
	6: "My Pace (マイペース)" by SunSet Swish (eps 64-74)
	7: "Hanabi" by Ikimonogakari (eps 75-86)
	8: "MOVIN!!" by Takacha (eps 87-97)
	9: "Baby It's You" by JUNE (eps 98-109)
	10: "Sakura Biyori (桜日和)" by Mai Hoshimura (eps 110120)
	11: "Tsumasaki (爪先)" by Ore Ska Band (eps 121-131)
	12: "Daidai (橙)" by chatmonchy (eps 132-143)
	13: "Tane wo Maku Hibi (種をまく日々)" by Atari Kousuke (eps 144-154)
	14: "Kansha. (感謝.)" by RSP a.k.a Real Street Project (eps 155-167)
	15: "Orange (オレンジ)" by Lil'B a.k.a MIE&AILA (eps 168-179)
	16: "Gallop (ギャロップ)" by pe'zmoku (eps 180-189)
	17: "Hitohira no Hanabira (ヒトヒラのハナビラ)" by STEREOPONY (eps 190-201)
	18: "Sky Chord ~Otona ni Naru Kimi he~ (Sky chord~大人になる君へ~)" by Tsuji Shion (eps 202-214)
	19: "Kimi wo Mamotte, Kimi wo Aishite (君を守って, 君を愛して)" by Sambomaster (eps 215-229)
	20: "Mad Surfer" by Kenichi Asai (eps 230-242)
	21: "Sakurabito (さくらびと)" by SunSet Swish (eps 243-255)
	22: "Tabidatsu Kimi e (旅立つキミへ)" by RSP (eps 256-265)
	23: "Stay Beautiful" by Diggy-MO' (eps 266-278)
	24: "Echoes" by universe (eps 279-291)
	25: "Last Moment" by SPYAIR (eps 292-303)
	26: "Song for..." by ROOKiEZ is PUNK’D (eps 304-316)
	27: "Aoi Tori (アオイトリ)" by fumika (eps 317-329)
	28: "Haruka Kanata (ハルカカナタ)" by UNLIMITS (eps 330-342)
	29: "Re:pray" by Aimer (eps 343-354)
	30: "Mask" by Aqua Timez (eps 355-366)

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Jan 24, 2018

_RedCat_

Recommended

Bleach will always warm my heart no matter how many times I watch it. There are scenes in this anime that I consider iconic to the anime community, regardless of how many people disagree with me, I truly believe Tite Kubo inspired greatness in so many fans. He has the most beautiful artwork I've seen in manga, and while the anime doesn't quite reach the level of skill Kubo possessed, it still presented a beautiful adaptation of his story in a way that impacted millions of people around the world.

You can argue that it has cliche moments, or maybe some flat characters, and yeah, the ...

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Apr 28, 2015

Mean_Monkeys

Mixed Feelings

*NO SPOILERS*

Bleach had great potential, but became annoying with poor character development and random powers.

Bleach has one of my favorite concepts ever. The Soul Society is awesome and the Gotei 13 are probably the best part of the show. They are squads composed of a multitude of Shinigami(Soul Reapers) and the show focuses more on the Captains and Lieutenants of those squads that are the most interesting characters in the show. Although, their could have been less squads(like 6) with less members in them(like 5) to have a more focused cast of characters that get more development. Hollows are also very interesting, they are souls ... that have either decide to let themselves be taken by evil or have been capture by other hollows. The basic concept is that the Soul Society dispatches Soul Reapers to purify the souls of hollows to let them live in the Seretei(basically heaven) unless they were evil while human( then they go to hell). The Soul Reapers use their swords called Zampakuto, that have 2 transformations to purify hollows.

The story of Bleach is ok, it is basically a regular shounen protagonist (Serious while fighting and Over powered) vs a traitorous, power hungry, intellectual villain.

Bleach biggest problems are its disrespect of its own power level system, its useless side characters, its horrible explanations for certain powers and its fillers..

Bleach doesn't make sense when it comes to power levels, a character can be defeated by an opponent, and then can defeat someone that utterly destroyed that opponent without training or power ups. I don't know how to describe it without spoilers but the power level system is non existent and it is really aggravating to not see that system in place. Ichigo, the main character, will discover some new ability to beat his opponent that is portrayed as being way more powerful than Ichigo, this will happen multiple times. Ichigo is easily defeated by the main antagonist(villain), that same villain levels up 5 times and is defeated by Ichigo who trained for 3 months. What? at least don't make the villain level up 5 times so it makes more sense.

The side characters in bleach are useless. The Captains and Lieutenants aren't, but Ichigo's friends are. First off, Orehime Inoue, F**K is this character annoying. Shes is the typical damsel in distress, she is hot, she tries to be extra cute and she has stupid powers that have no explanation(Maybe Fullbringer). Orehime's only use is healing Ichigo so he can get back into a fight. Chad has *MINOR SPOILER* Fullbringer powers, these are probably the stupidest powers in the Bleach universe. Fullbringer is the abillity to control the souls found inside objects. WTF!! an object has a soul? I guess it does in the Bleach universe. Uryu Ishida is probably the on except-able friend Ichigo has. Uryu is a Quicy, they are similar to soul reapers, but instead of using a sword they use a bow and arrow. They also kill hollows instead of purifying them. The problem with all three of these characters is they become to weak to participate in battles except Uryu who can still provide support in battle.

Bleach is almost 50% filler. These can be skipped if you binge watch Bleach but on a week to week basis it can be really annoying to have to watch filler almost every other arc.

Although Bleach has a huge list of problems I was still hooked until the last cannon arc because the concept of Bleach was so interesting. The Soul Society and the captains are the main reason I continued to watch the show. The most annoying part of Bleach for me was its lack of explanation and logic for powers, Ichigo's friends that shouldn't have existed, especially Orehime and the fact that the main characters can just come full circle and defeat a character that should be way above them in terms of power.

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Mar 6, 2015

lokergnome

Not Recommended

---- Spoilers

(FIRSTLY THIS SEIRES CONTAINS AT LEAST 40-55% FILLER! )

Bleach: This anime is a cluster-fuck!
Nothing more, nothing less.

The concept of bleach is actually decent, and it's execution was 8/10 right up till episode 63. The relationship between hollows , humans and shinigami(death gods) was interesting and continued to progress into a rescue mission . This anime honestly should of ended as that!

But instead we get shitty plot after plot hole, deus ex machina(shikai >bankai> hollow mask>hyper bolic time chamber) and basic shounen formula... the ...

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