Bleach

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English: Bleach

Japanese: BLEACH - ブリーチ -

Information

Type: TV

Episodes: 366

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 5, 2004 to Mar 27, 2012

Premiered: Fall 2004

Broadcast: Tuesdays at 18:00 (JST)

Producers: TV Tokyo, Aniplex, Dentsu, TV Tokyo Music, Studio Kelmadick, Shueisha

Licensors: VIZ Media

Studios: Studio Pierrot

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Supernatural, Shounen

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.80¹ (scored by 677,545 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #825²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #36

Members: 1,353,272

Favorites: 56,817

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Fall 2004TVStudio Pierrot

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Synopsis

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.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

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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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Related Anime

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

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Characters & Voice Actors

Kurosaki, Ichigo

Main

Matsuoka, Yuki
Japanese

Kuchiki, Rukia

Main

Orikasa, Fumiko
Japanese

Abarai, Renji

Main

Itou, Kentarou
Japanese

Inoue, Orihime

Main

Matsuoka, Yuki
Japanese

Ishida, Uryuu

Main

Sugiyama, Noriaki
Japanese

Sado, Yasutora

Main

Yasumoto, Hiroki
Japanese

Zaraki, Kenpachi

Supporting

Tachiki, Fumihiko
Japanese

Hitsugaya, Toushirou

Supporting

Park, Romi
Japanese

Urahara, Kisuke

Supporting

Miki, Shinichiro
Japanese

Cifer, Ulquiorra

Supporting

Namikawa, Daisuke
Japanese

More staff

Staff

Abe, Noriyuki

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Tachikawa, Yuzuru

Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

Ishihama, Masashi

Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation, Animation Director

Kon, Chiaki

Episode Director, Storyboard

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Opening Theme

#01: ""*Asterisk (*～アスタリスク～)" by Orange Range (eps 1-25)
#02: "D-tecnolife" by UVERworld (eps 26-51)
#03: "Ichirin no Hana (一輪の花)" by High and Mighty Color (eps 52-74)
#04: "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" by Beat Crusaders (eps 75-97)
#05: "Rolling star" by YUI (eps 98-120)
#06: "ALONES" by Aqua Timez (eps 121-143)
#07: "After Dark (アフターダーク)" by Asian Kung-Fu Generation (eps 144-167)
#08: "CHU-BURA" by Kelun (eps 168-189)
#09: "Velonica" by Aqua Timez (eps 190-214)
#10: "Shoujo S (少女S)" by Scandal (eps 215-242)

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Ending Theme

#01: "Life is Like a Boat" by Rie Fu (eps 1-13)
#02: "Thank You!! (サンキュー!!)" by HOME MADE KAZOKU (eps 14-25)
#03: "Houkiboshi (ほうき星)" by Younha (eps 26-38)
#04: "Happy People" by Skoop on Somebody (eps 39-51)
#05: "Life" by YUI (eps 52-63)
#06: "My Pace (マイペース)" by SunSet Swish (eps 64-74)
#07: "Hanabi" by Ikimonogakari (eps 75-86)
#08: "MOVIN!!" by Takacha (eps 87-97)
#09: "Baby It's You" by JUNE (eps 98-109)
#10: "Sakura Biyori (桜日和)" by Mai Hoshimura (eps 110-120)

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Apr 28, 2015

366 of 366 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

Mean_Monkeys (All reviews)

496 people found this review helpful

*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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Jan 24, 2018

366 of 366 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

_RedCat_ (All reviews)

296 people found this review helpful

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 read more

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Mar 6, 2015

366 of 366 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

lokergnome (All reviews)

249 people found this review helpful

---- 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 read more

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Oct 12, 2016

366 of 366 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

ItIsIDio (All reviews)

137 people found this review helpful

Bleach is a good choice for you if you're looking to observe the process of the mainstream anime of the 2000's and what they tried to pull off to sell and stay relevant. Outside of the popularity that it got, I see Bleach as a very stale and mediocre anime, which I'll go and detail in the review later, but I'd like to start with the cause and then the effects.

You see, Bleach is a product of a time when a shounen reaches popularity to an extent that it can be milked, hinduism will then sue the studios and authors in question for treating their read more

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