The story itself, I think is great; I love animes that have to do with fighting supernatural being such as demons or ghosts or in this case Hollows. The series starts off a tad bit slow untill the first real arc begins in Soul Society, and from there I was hooked. The fight scenes are suberb and I love they shinigami weapons, called Zanpakutos and how they each have their own abilities and personalities. There is of course powered up forms reminiscent of plent of other shounen anime, but I actually like chaacters being able to turn into stronger forms. Ever since Dragonball Z's super saiyans; in the case of Bleach they release their swords, and then can go into Bankai form with some of the characters having even stronge forms.
My only real gripe with this series is the fact that rarely anyone dies at all. Characters get stabbed, sliced, and put into near-death states but they always get healed or something, even villians. The villians are the only ones who seem able to actually die eventually, while all the good guys can get stabbed and whatever repeatedly and still fight like nothing happened. While this little gripe of mine does not deter from my overall enjoyment of the series, it can be a little annoying at times. They really need to allow some of the good guys to be killed, not main characters per-say, but atleast some of the secondary good guys every once in awhile just so we see they're not all invincible. All in all, I would easily reccommend this anime to any fans of action, or shounen in general because it is truly great.
