What can I say? You either like it or hate it.
I loved Bleach.
I've never done anything like this, this is my first review so please go easy on me guys! I'm not going to do a "traditional" review. I'm not going to give a rating on Bleach based on how good it was, I am going to give a review on Bleach based on how much I enjoyed it. It may be bias to you but I don't care this is my review, I'll do things my way.
Bleach isn't a perfect anime nor will it ever be. It actually has many flaws, the most noted one is the amount of fillers. Note that I skipped just about all the fillers. I'm doing this review based on the canon stuff from Bleach which I enjoyed a lot.
Bleach was the anime that got me back into anime. I stopped watching anime in my last year of Middle School which was in the 2007/2008 year. I was fairly familiar with the Bleach anime. I used to watch it sometimes on TV. I remember the hype of 3 animes back then in 2006/2007 , Naruto (which I was a huge fan of and always watched back then), Bleach (which I watched on TV sometimes and tried to watch online to get into) and One Piece (which I watched on TV, the 4kids version). Long story short, I could never really get into Bleach. I had plans to "one day" watch and catch up with Bleach because of the hype (and One Piece also).
5 years later in February of 2013, in my final year of High School in my Civilization class my teacher would sometimes talk about anime and I kept getting this weird sensation to watch Bleach it was like an itch. Something was telling me to watch Bleach, I kept remembering it in class. I kept imagining Ichigo killing ghosts. So I started watching Bleach, I gave the series time and I began to really love it. I took a lot of breaks with it though but a year later (February 2014) I finished it.
I will always love Bleach and one of the reasons was for it restoring my love back in anime.
I love the story, characters, music, fights, art and most of all I enjoyed it.
I loved the story of Bleach which is often criticized by many. Ichigo wants to protect his friends and family and will do anything to do that. It was fun for me to see Ichigo find himself out of precarious situations. Soul Society is one of the greatest arc's I've ever seen in any anime.
Bleach has many likeable characters, one of the problems is that there can be a lack of development. I liked almost every character in Bleach. Bleach has a plethora of unique characters. The character's are one of my favourite parts about Bleach.
Bleach has amazing music, that does a VERY good job of setting the tone well. There's funny music for funny moments and very sad music for sad moments that do a good job of setting the tone and mood. The music is also very catchy and great to listen to. Especially in the Arrancar, Hueco Mundo and Fake Karakura Town arcs, a lot of Spanish kind of music (which I am listening to now!). Bleach has many good theme songs and ending songs which have a spot in my ipod. Not many complain about Bleach's music.
Bleach has amazing fights, I'm not going to go into too much detail because I don't want to spoil for future watchers. Bleach's fights are very well paced and never take too long because of the fast pacing of the show. This is something that I think makes Bleach unique to many shounen animes that have fights go on for episodes on end. Bleach has long fights sometimes don't get me wrong, but the pacing for most the fights are perfect.
Bleach art wise is perfect if you ask me. It's not too colourful, it's something you can take very seriously. The art for Bleach is one of the best things about the show.
All in all coming to an end, Bleach wasn't perfect. It can be vastly overrated at times with fans saying it's the greatest anime/manga of all time. Bleach is one of my favourites, but I'll never claim that Bleach is better than everything. Bleach can be inconsistent and it has way too many fillers for most people's liking but what I enjoyed about Bleach was when it was canon it was pretty damn good IMO. I don't know what more to say other than I loved it. Bleach to me is a classic that I will rewatch many times. All I have to say is give it a chance once you get past the first 20 episodes it will be amazing for awhile and if you skip most the fillers you may really enjoy Bleach. (Some have said some fillers are pretty good, I wouldn't know though. I plan to watch them eventually).
But yeah man, I love Bleach it helped get me back into anime and it has even taught me to protect my friends and family. I loved Ichigo as a main character. I just love Bleach and that is something no one will take away from me I don't care what anyone says. I hereby rate Bleach a 10/10 because I really enjoyed this series and to me that's all that matters whether I enjoyed it or not.
