Bleach

Ichigo Kurosaki has the unusual ability to see ghost and helps those he can. One day Ichigo is draged into a world of Shinigami, Hollows, and Quincy where he struggles to hold on to his humanity whilst fulfilling the duties of a Shinigami. This series is very long (366 episodes) and has alot of fillers in between the main story that Tite Kubo is trying to tell. I did enjoy this series when the main story was actually going on and my favorite arc was the Soul Society arc. Once Aizen captured the show was never the same after.

Bleach is definitely one of the best animes today even though it has went a little overboard with the filler episodes. The storyline, the characters and the fight scenes in my opinion make up for the extensive fillers but I do wish they would quit with the fillers or at least make a proper transition from the original storyline to the fillers. I hate it when they just decide to cut the story and all of a sudden switch to a filler and this is the only reason why I don't give Bleach a 10.

still cant believe that this amazing masterpieace is over , it really was a one hell of a ride. I envy everyone who hasnt watched it yet because i would do anything to watch it all over again for the first time.

I have been addicted to bleach ever since it came out and have all the episodes on dvd so far.... just wish they could bring them out faster... I'm always trying to get other people to watch them with me so they can see how good it is... with something different happening all the time it just makes you want to watch to see how it all ties in at the end

I love this anime, It has a lot of action, super powers and a lot more. Ichigo is a easy character to like. And if anyone haven't started looking at this anime must start looking at it now because your missing out on a lot of fun and action. If your looking for romance or love interest in this anime this is not for you. Even though there might be some situations where there might be some love interest it's never clear on it meaning they don't exploit it. But they do have a lot of deep friendship in this anime and that's why its so great. DON'T MISS OUT!!!

P.S. One con is they have pretty good amount of fillers and sometimes fillers within fillers.

First off let me just say,don't complain about Any anime.the producers put a lot of effort into it and we should at least honor it.
Now,I'm not a hardcore bleach fan,but even i know that it's cool.
Pros:Decent character development,Good fight scenes.Good plot.and Superb animation.
It's pretty damn cool.although,
Cons:Fights could be made a little more fast paced.Plot can be a bit more diverse and the characters need a little more work.This one is in my top 10 anime list.

Last time I gave Naruto a 1/10, and some people was offended. So this time I’m giving Bleach a 4.2. Before you guys call me an idiot again, let me just say that the highest score I’ll ever give to a Shonen work is 5. Therefore, 4.2 is like a 84%. I also want to say that I feel bad for Kubo the mangaka. This guy has the skills, yet he chose to go for Shonen and by doing so Bleach lost a lot of its potentials. The last thing I want to mention before getting into the review is that this might be my last long review on Shonen works therefore I’ll use it to explain why I despise Shonen in general.

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Then comes the HM arc, where the series started going downhills. Seriously, if Bleach ended right after Rukia was saved, I might have given it a higher score say 4.5. It would be a great saga about friendship packed with not the best but still very very good actions. Instead Kubo decided to prostitute himself, and we have the HM arc. Now what else can I say about HM arc except it’s a rip off of the SS arc? Sure, the action is getting more intense, and Ichigo is getting stronger and stronger. But it is still the same story, with Ichigo trying to save another friend of his—Orihime this time. The group is also going into another foreign land, this time instead of the Soul Society we have HM which hasn’t been mentioned at all prior to the arc and I was like “huh…why would hollows have a mansion…?”. What about Ichigo’s fights? Well, so far it is still pretty similar to what we had in the SS arc. The first fight he had in the SS was with Ikkaku, the third seat in the 11th division, in other words a weakling. So now in the HM arc he fought with a loser from the 3-digit division first. The second fight he had in the SS was with Renji, Lieutenant of the 6th division. The second fight he had in HM is with Grimjow right now, the 6th espada. I bet the next fight is going to be him Vs. Ulqi, because the third fight he had in the SS arc was with Kenpachi, not the strongest but still very very strong. Then Ichigo is going to fight with the top espada who corresponds to Byakuya in SS arc and then finally Aizen. Also note that in both arcs Ichigo always had a traitor beside him. In the SS arc was the guy from the 4th division and now we have the little hollow. Thus basically it’s the SS arc all over again, and at least for me, I’ve lost not all but most of my interests in Bleach these days. The only thing that still keeps me going is that I like the hollow Ichigo character and would like to see him fight again. I also like Orihime but for different reasons (see the character discussion part). Besides that, I don’t really care about what’s going to happen next.



Another thing I’d like to comment on is the change in the fighting styles going from the SS arc to the HM arc. It’s not really included in the storyline but I don’t know which aspect this thing belongs to so I’ll just write it here. I mean, the best action scenes to date are still those in DBZ. So nowadays what people usually do is to avoid what’s already been done in DBZ and think about other ways of physical fighting. Sure it’s not going to be as spectacular as DBZ but what it lacks it makes up with innovation. Kubo did a good job in Bleach, at least in the SS arc. The most important aspect of the actions in the SS arc is that different people have totally different forms of power, which is demonstrated in the various Bankai releases. For example, Ichigo can either have superior speed or superior power but never both at the same time in his Bankai (I’m not talking about HM arc here). Byakuya’s bankai is more focused on ranged attack and cookie cutters with speed. Sure there might be some overlap but overall each character has his or her own distinct skills. All these are lost in the HM arc. In this arc, power and speed is everything, which basically contradicts what had been set up in the first arc. Tell me one thing that is unique about Ichigo’s Vizard state except it’s faster and has higher raw power. The most ridiculous thing in Bleach was when Ichigo outsped by Grimjow yet Ichigo was supposed to be the fastest in his Bankai form, at least that’s what I got from reading the SS arc. I mean, I don’t mind Grimjow beating Ichigo, but surpassing him in speed just doesn’t make any sense to me after Ichigo spent all that time finally achieved his Bankai state. These days in Bleach, speed and power have become the only determinant on who is stronger. With the loss of the variety of the skills, the fights themselves are getting more and more boring because we already have this in DBZ with much better actions. Also speaking of the similarity between HM arc and DBZ, doesn’t Grimjow’s released form look a lot like SuperSaiyin 3 in DBZ, with the eyes and the long hair and everything? I was practically laughing when I saw him like that.



One more thing before going into the characters. The power of the arrancars seemed to be a little too strong. The non-espada arrancars are OK. It makes sense that only the Shinigamis with Bankai are able to kill them since they are indeed transformed from Menos which are usually handled by captains. I’m talking about Espadas here, especially from Ichigo’s perspective. During the SS arc, Ichigo defeated Kenpachi in his normal state. When faced with Byakuya, he still did very well in the beginning, and he only lost that battle (yes he did lose that battle, no question there) because at that time he couldn’t last his bankai very long. The conclusion is that if Ichigo can manage to increase his Bankai duration, he should be able to defeat Byakuya, who was portrayed as the final boss of the SS arc and the strongest Captain. However, Ichigo got his ass kicked by Grimjow even in his Bankai form during their first battle, and GJ didn’t even release. Later on Ichigo became a Vizard and greatly increased his power, and it’s true that he was stronger than released GJ in this form, but only a little as shown in Chapter 256. Therefore I wonder if SS even stands a chance against Espadas. Ichigo can beat Byakuya in his bankai form, yet he barely beat the 6th Espada in his Vizard form. There seems to be a huge power gap between the captains and the Espadas. I’m sure Byakuya, Kenpachi, and Hitsugaya will make their appearances later on in the series due to fans’ demand, most likely fighting an Espada as well, but how is Kubo going to pull it off when the Espadas are already being portrayed this strong? 1

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Now characters. This is what sets Bleach below 5/10 and is the main reason why I despise Shonen in general. To create characters with a certain depth, one must have a lot of life experience in order to understand the meaning of life, at least to some extent, otherwise you end up with Naruto. As I said many times already in this review, Kubo is no 20-year-old amateur mangaka. This guy has the skills to portrait realistic characters. You can tell that he really wanted to add real souls into his characters, yet these characters don’t fit in the Shonen genre so he basically gave up. Same as the storylines, I’ll discuss the two arcs separately because there are some changes in the characters between the two arcs. For the SS arc, all of the characters are still very close to the stereotypical Shonen characters that are not even worth discussing because there is nothing to talk about. We have a male lead who always makes rash decisions. We also have a cutie who has a good heart but kinda slow (Orihime in case you don’t know). The male lead has a rival too, who competed with him for cheesy reasons. The problem with all these characters, and this is also what I meant by characters with no depth, is that they often have less than five personal traits. The excessive appearance of this type of characters in Shonen works is because the mankaga wants to make their characters more heroic and more appealing to younger readers. What’s lost in doing so is the human touch which is what connects the characters with readers like me. I hate to reiterate this again and again, but if we can’t see ourselves in the characters and the things he/she does, then we won’t be able to make that connection. What makes us human is that we have a full range of emotions, and by having a character with only a few personalities, the connection is lost. Now the characters in Bleach are not the worst I’ve seen, but it’s nowhere near good. For example Ichigo, he makes rash decisions and sometimes behaves irrationally, he cares a lot about his friends and family, he is also arrogant, and that’s probably all there is to this guy. See what I meant by “nothing to talk about”? I would love to go deep into the characters and talk about their personalities but I just can’t do it with Shonen. Kubo did try to make him more realistic using all the fillers, you have to give him credits for at least trying. But he failed. The personalities that are supposed to come out of those fillers don’t have anything to do with the Ichigo later in the series, and I feel really sorry for Kubo because some of the fillers actually have some great potentials. For example, one filler chapter introduced Ichigo’s past and how he lost him mom. This one actually touched me a little considering it is a Shonen work. Ichigo’s fear of facing his past and him blaming himself for his mom’s death is well portrayed. Yet Kubo decided to drop this, along with other traits in those filler chapters. Indeed, we never see his connection with his mom ever again, and it’s such a good story to explore. I’ll tell you why Kubo did this though. He wanted to add depth into his characters, but he is afraid that by going too deep the readers won’t be able to understand what’s going on (thanks to the general stupidity of todays’ anime fans btw). So he hesitated, and ended up with these half-developed characters. 1

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However, there is one person in Bleach who does seem to have a soul and who started to shine right after the SS arc. I was really surprised by this, considering her role in the SS arc was her big breasts and her stupidity, and I already stated that I don’t really like the whole HM arc. I guess you readers have already figured out who I am talking about here. That’s right, this special person is Orihime. In the HM arc, Kubo did a very good job in portraying Orihime’s feelings towarda Ichigo yet not begging for sympathy. And this time, he didn’t hesitate on adding depth. Orihime clearly loves Ichigo, yet she is too shy to confess. More importantly, Ichigo obviously cares about Rukia a lot, and Orihime is afraid that she might ruin the relationship between Ichigo and Rukia by revealing her feelings, which again illustrates how much she cares about Ichigo. Yearning for love yet afraid to love, this is her role in HM arc, and a great personal conflict this is. From the look on her face when she was healing Rukia and seeing how worried Ichigo was, to her confession to the unconscious Ichigo on the night before she went to HM (perhaps the most touching moment in Bleach, I almost cried when she didn’t kiss Ichigo), Kubo has certainly shown that he does have the skills to develop realistic characters. The reason why she appears so real is that Kubo used a completely different approach to develop her character compared to all the others. No flashback, no inner world, but all from her facial expressions, her decisions, her thoughts, her behaviors, and her dialogues. And really, that’s how we get to know another person in real life. Rarely do we know a person’s past or his/her inner world, yet by observing the person’s appearance we start to make connections. However, this is why I hate HM arc. We have such a beautiful and well-developed character here, yet the story is not even focused on her. I mean, if I were Kubo, the relationship between Ichigo and Orihime would be the central theme of HM arc. Then Bleach would probably become the greatest Shonen work in history, or maybe even go beyond the Shonen genre. I’m not saying to turn Bleach into a romance story, fights should be retained, but more importantly the emphasis should be place on the characters’ emotion and interactions. Yet besides these shining scenes reserved for Orihime, the entire arc so far seems to be irrelevant to her at all. The focus of the HM arc is still about Ichigo’s group and all these mindless fightings. What I can’t accept even more is that we still don’t know how Ichigo feels about Orihime. Just exactly why is he going through all these troubles to save her, and don’t tell me it’s for the same reason when he tried to save Rukia. I can tell you guys right now there is absolutely nothing going on between Ichigo and Rukia, they are just good friends, even a blind guy can tell this. Yet Kubo still hasn’t revealed any of Ichigo’s feelings or thoughts toward Orihime. It would suck totally if it turned out to be a one-sided love as a conclusion because not only all the effort on developing Orihime but also the only potential of HM arc will be ruined.



The art style is pretty decent in the manga. True, it’s not the best one I’ve seen. It also lacks some details in terms of shadows and textures. What it lacks in details it makes up by offering a very crisp style which I find enjoyable. For anyone wishing to go into the anime/manga business, the art style in Bleach is certainly a good place to start imitating. The anime somewhat lost this crispness. The graphics isn’t that good either. Some details in the background are missing. The characters sometimes seemed to be moving on a still hand-drawn background too. It also seems that they tried to integrate some 3D cells into the background design but the thing with 3D is that it can look amazingly good in a pro’s hand, but it can also look awkwardly uncomfortable if the person is not a pro. And whoever doing the background design for the anime is certainly not a pro. However, I only watched the part before they entered the soul society and I did hear the graphics was getting really good later on. Therefore I won’t judge this work in terms of its anime graphics. Same for the music.



Other technical stuff about Bleach. First the humours. I don’t find the ones in Bleach as annoying and disgusting as that in Naruto. However, they are still not very funny to me. I can tell that Kubo does try to make the humours more mature, but since he chose to create a Shonen work, inevitably they still belong to those traditional Shonen gags. Examples include Orihime sometimes talking like a 2-year-old, Hiyori’s beating on Shinji, Ichigo’s spontaneous and rash decisions in the beginning of the series, etc. The good thing about these gags in Bleach is that they are not as exaggerated as in other Shonen works such as Slam Dunk or Dragon Ball, which helped to keep the characters more realistic and which also shows Kubo is doing his best to keep Bleach as mature as possible even in Shonen genre. The dialogues are definitely another shining spot. Some of the lines are really beautiful and actually have a certain depth in them, which are rarely found in this genre. The one I liked the most is the one about how people are similar yet dissimilar, and he used the analogy of magnets and water. Orihime’s confession in front of the unconscious Ichigo is also touching too. The problem with these lines is that they don’t really fit in with the characters because the characters still belong to those stereotypical Shonen types. Sometimes it feels a little fake seeing these lines coming out of those characters’ mouths. However that’s the problem with the characters. The lines themselves are perfectly fine.



Overall, Bleach is a good Shonen work. The SS arc is certainly very intereting and even though it is getting more and more boring , also more and more repetitive these days, it still beats other Shonen works out there. Some depth can also be associated with this work thanks to Kubo. I will follow Bleach to the end, and if you are into this genre, Bleach is definitely something you should check out.

People that complain about a show NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO WATCH, YOU MORONS. If you're too stupid to follow the plot changes/different arcs, too stupid to grasp the subtle jokes, and too stupid to grasp any of the concepts, then go watch naruto, or pokemon, or dragon ball z (go watch something made for children!). This show is unique, and is geared toward people who actually like to think about what they are watching (like Death Note).

I can tell you for a fact that every show I watch is better than every show you watch.

See how stupid that last sentence sounds? Well that's how every single person sounds that is whining about a tv show that NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO WATCH, YOU MORONS.

Go play some WOW, fat kids.

I was a bleach addict till episode 167 but once those additional arcs which made no sense started happening, the show got worse and worse until I gave up trying to justify it in front of my friends and became a critic myself. Damn stupid show!!!!!

Bleach was first considered good in my books, but now it's going downhill. Not only that, but it's very unrealistic. I understand that this is just a manga/anime, but really? ichigo loses like 1 milk carton of blood,says something like "my vision is getting blurry" and next thing you know 10 chapters later hes gotten cut,beaten,and so many other things, yet he still manages to win the fight.Another thing would be every single character, just gets stronger and stronger just like that. within a blink of an eye.yep.makes perfect sense.The story has just drifted farther and farther away from the original idea.Although i am impressed about how many characters there are all with there own power.that's all folks.

Bleach. It has become one of the most popular and watched animes on the charts, and I simply had to find out what was so good about it. I have watched all the way to episode 65, and so I have a pretty good grasp on this show. Bleach was nothing brand spankin' new in my book. It had the typical shonen hero who happened to be a rebellious thug infamous for how hard his punches were. He was commonly ridiculed for the color of his hair, which affected the number of friends he had in his life negativly. Amazingly, his life took a gut wrenching twist when he met Rukia, who happened to be a full fledged shinigami. Because desperate times call for desperate measures, Ichigo, the main character, was given these powers to save his family from demon like creatures named Hollows.



Later in the anime, things didn't become much more original. I will not mention any spoilers in this review, but only that the typical themes of past shonen animes were very much used, including physical training through a master who happened to be incredibly famous and strong (not to mention he was a stud when he was younger), and Ichigo undertaking many tests and quests that constantly brought me to a De Ja Vu.



This anime entirely reflected a LOT of ideas used in animes such as Yu Yu Hakusho, and it really disappointed me.



However, this show was full of really cool looking characters that really complemented each other. I enjoyed looking at them. The bad thing about that though was that there were simply TOO many characters introduced at one time, I can't even remember half of their names.



If you like action packed, ghost-bustin, fist beating animes , then you'll definelty like Bleach. However, do not expect anything completely original from this show. Sadly, I'm afraid to say Bleach is extremely overrated.

this is cool because it has dudes that wear cool clothes like ninjas do and they can sommon animals and has captian codiga from naruto. you think this show is not cool but it is since there is nothing on tv too watch on this time so just watch it but the cool shows are naruto, code gease and espically not family guy. watch naruto its the same but it doesnt show the same mission like to destroy the dolss that toke about 2 months to kill the 4 of doll or 3 of them that is boring BUT has action nija style taijutsu and super powers . :0 :@ ).

A very good show that you could easily start watching. It has a good storyline. The show has some funny moments along with pretty good action. Has some unlikely characters such as Kon a mod soal in a lion plushie toy. The character design in layout is really good. The manga is better then the anime...but yet the anime is one I would recommened. In Japan they are on episode 131 (prior to 7-5-07) and the DUB is on episode 40 (prior to 7-7-07) Some characters are inspirational, while others are just plain weird. So all around it is a great show.

this is the best show i have everwachedand it is super full of

action andsupenceit just wants you towachmore and more

of it i just can'tblievepeolpesay it is bad it is the best they are

wrong when they say that it is bad they are not smart!!!!!!!

I don't know why but I just really hate this anime / manga for it's abysmal stroyline and for the fact that it's a ripoff of Yu Yu Hakusho! Bleach is known to be a very famous series but I think it's just nothing but uber crap! Bleach is about ghosts, souls, & reapers and other shit. So I will give this 1 / 10!

I decided to review Bleach anime now, because there are lots of episodes are shown on TV. So I would like to review it, but not as a fan (even I am), I try to be objective this time and I try to write it spoiler free.



Story and my opinions about the show:

Bleach started as a great anime. That's true, there were similarities to Yu Yu Hakusho, then it turned into a different story. At the beginning we get to know the main characters, informations about Bleach's world. It started as a very interesting anime with great ideas. The character development was good, all the main characters were almost equal in development, the fight were good, the story was more multi-threaded compared to newer arcs. I think the first 63 episodes were excellent(except some filler episodes).



After that a bad thing happened: a filler arc. Bleach became a little bit boring at that time. I was thinking about not to watch Bleach. In a filler of course, there couldn't be good character development, because it had effect on the later arcs. Ok, that is understandable. But the story was very weak compared to the first 63 episodes. The villians were just lame, their personality was not so complicated, they weren't interesting. Unlike in the previous chapters. We got to know a lot about the past of the other characters, the relationships were interesting, we got to know about why this, and this character do that, and that (sorry, I said, spoiler free!). The characters were more likable, there were nice twists in the story. I finally finished watching that arc, and a non-filler arc started.



It was WAY better than that filler. New enemies, places, new likable characters, some of them were bad guys, but likeable bad guys. New allies appeared. The story here were good, but something bad happened with the character development. I mean the main character stayed in focus, his friends became less important in the story. The new allies were a good refreshment for Bleach, and they were really cool characters, personally I really liked most of them. Mainly the "creepy smile" guy. While the main protagonist became better, stronger, some of the others were just stopped in that, or developed slowly. One of Ichigo's friend became really annoying... "Kurosaki-kun!, Kurosaki-kun!" - drove me crazyness



Other lame thing: the main antagonist. He was WAY TOO STRONG! Also very arrogant, nothing interesting in personality. Three of the main antagonists the other twos story were very well done, and they were very interesting compared to the previously mentioned guy. There were more fillers, but they weren't bad, personally I enjoyed most of them. Later the Ichigo's friend were useless in battles, but the captains, and vaizard were very useful, and they made Bleach more "colorful". But I can't say, Bleach became the old. Something was really missed and still missing from it. I became a little bit disappointed with it. I don't understand why Kubo Tite (the creator of the manga) ruined it with the above mentioned things. Sometimes I feel "Bleach is superb" sometimes I think "This is pathetic, and lame." That's the truth. The quality of the series is very variable. For some reason I like to compare Bleach with Yu Yu Hakusho. YYH was awesome. That was never boring, that's standard were always good, it was way more "stable". More emotional, Bleach became less emotional, Kubo didn't let the main characters die, always just "almost", that was pretty lame.

I'm at episode 311 and I was so sad, how bad that was. Also the fight between Ichigo and the main antagonist wasn't good as people expected. Let's see it from an other aspect.



The show is not only about fighting, there are lot of funny thing in Bleach. One of them is the artifical soul called Kon. He is a perverted, and he how he acts is very funny. But not only him is a funny character. Isshin Kurosaki, who is Ichigo's father is a very idiot character of Bleach, he is likeable, acting so childishly, otherway, he can be very serious, and really, not a bad person.

The captains are cool. They have very different power, and there are reason to like them. Character design is very good too. In this aspect, I'm satisfied with Bleach. Animation / graphics:

I think it is true to nowaday's anime standard. Not excellent, but good. Sometimes they used 3D animation, but rarely, and the usage of it was good. Unlike the story, the animation's quality was good all the time.



The graphics are also not bad, the scene are the very same quality at all the time, the characters and the scenes look good.



Music:

Music of Bleach is EXCELLENT! Shiro Sagisu made Bleach's music absolutely brilliant, very varied, and I can't say a bad word about the soundtrack. That's very well done! Same pertain to the openings and endings.



Sounds / voices:

Japanese voices are very good, but the english dub isn't good as the japanese one. But overally, it's ok. Sound effect are also good in my opinion.



Final verdict:



Story:

Started as very good, nowadays it's just a little bit above mediocre. Started as a 9/10, continues, as a 5.5~6/10 than it is around 7.5~8.0/10



Animation / graphics:



Not bad, it could be a little bit better. Not comparable with a Death Note, so I give a 7.5/10



Music:

Definitely a 9/10. Very good, varied, no boring, and lame music, good ending and opening songs. Lot of different styles are not problem, I think that's rather a good point.



Sounds / voices:

8.5/10, the voices are the stronger part compared to the sounds. Japanese voices are better, than other dubs.



Final score: 7.5 (not an average)

(It was promising at the start)

Bleach is a manga and anime series about a man named Ichigo Kurosaki who one day meets a shinigami (dubbed soul reaper in english) named Rukia Kuchiki and Ichigo steals her job as soul reaper and becomes one himself and along with him are Uryu Ishida a man who hates soul reapers because one of them killed his family except for his dad and Yasatora Sado who's nickname is "Chad" who gets strong after getting bitten by a hollow and can see hollows and Orihime a girl who can heal people. On there way they enter the soul society and what happens is that a evil soul reaper named Souske Azien who is the antagonist of the series who of course is the one who was unleashing hollows upon the world and wants to become ruler of the world so it is up to Ichigo to defeat Souske Aizen and save the world. Bleach is a great series the only problem is that in the anime they don't usually have much action this series right now has been getting worse since then but Bleach I will still watch now and then so Bleach is a good series I would give this a 8.5.

Nel Pisses me off, because she is a jerk for not telling ichigo first and leaving him to face that espada wounded and severely damaged. Bleach is just great

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Bleach is just great

Bleach is just great

Bleach is just awesome

Bleach is just awesome

Bleach is just awesome

Bleach is just awesome

Bleach is just awesome

Bleach is just awesome

Bleach is just awesome

Bleach is just awesome

This is a really nice show but the thing that pisses me off about this show is that the arcs drag on and on and on thats y i took 10 points off. That "defeat the arancar" arc is gonna be hell-a-long as the show progresses.I really wish the author of the series would stop dragging on battles and let the bad guys hurry up and die already.



Also this show is so similar to Inuyasha and thats y i took off half of a point. I was gonna give it an 8 but there is something about the anime and the manga that I just cant help but love so i settled on giving it an 8.5.

Amazing. And the episodes are still coming! It's so Awesome! Right now... Bleach is probably my favourite anime, and hopefully, I'll never lose interest in it. I haven't seen a lot of episodes, and I'm just near the start of the second season, but it's getting really awesome. Not to mention that Ichigo's getting more powerful, and everyone's killing everyone else, the major funny moments, AND... Toshiro Hitsugaya is just a little cutie, so Awesome and Adorable! I Loved him as soon as I saw him, except... I kinda spoiled everything for myself, since I read what happens to him and Momo and Aizen on the internet before I watched it, but now I know what to expect... still, I wish I hadn't done that. Anyways, at the start when Ichigo first became a Soul Reaper I just loved it, not to mention Keigo's Awesomeness with his jokes and all, I couldn't stop laughing. And then came all the Hollows, the Quincy's, the... ah... Spiritual Pressure, lol, the Zan-Pakuto (or however it's spelt), the Lieutenants, and of course the Awesome and Lovable Captains, then the murdering of a fellow captain. Non-Stop Awesome fights and never-ending hilarious moments are hopefullly going to never stop! It's something that you can't get out of, obsession much, lol. I'd have a lot more to say about Bleach, but that's be too many words to type. Forever will Bleach be Awesome. ... The Hotness of the guys are an added bonus!

i started to watch this show because adult swim was running out of anime show to watch since they keeped on showing reruns,but over all this show ain't half bad accually i was writing a stroy along though lines of spirits and what not but this show is much better than what i had in mind..(lol). thats why i give this show a 9.4/10.

I love watching bleach it is good show it's about a soul reaper name Ichigo Kurosaki who gains soul reaper power from another soul reaper name Rukia Kuchiki together they fight off hollows before they turn lost soul into hollows later in the series rukia gets taken by other soul reapers to the soul society and now Ichigo must save her from being died but before that he trains to get stronger in ode to save her after saving her he has to save the world from other evil. I watch this anime every week when there are new episodes. I love it

I originally gave a positive 8.5 review for Bleach because I had seen the first 70 or 80 episodes or so. I originally watched the anime (dubbed version) and I became intrigued especially the conflict between Ichigo and his friends trying to stop the Soul Society from executing Rukia. I don't want to recap the whole series but yeah, you know basically Ichigo becomes a Soul Reaper or Shinigami as they say in the Japanese version which sounds so much cooler btw, and stops Evil Hollows or monsters who devour human souls, blah, blah. I'm not getting to technical or it would take years. Anyway the problem I found with Bleach is that they really topped themselves with the Soul Society Arc and kind of had nowhere to go after that. The structure of the storylines became kind of worse, Ichigo was severely weakened for the most part. I mean how many battles do he lose before he wins? And the show lost all the compelling aspects of character development in favor of having a insignificant battle every week. Not to mention the Bount saga, that was such a horribly boring saga. I had to fast forward episodes just to see Ichigo or Ishida fight. I mean seeing all these other characters fighting it's not that entertaining because we don't know them to begin with and they just appear out of the blue and start fighting. Which leads me to a problem with another problem they have too many stock characters and though some of them are cool, the majority of them are quite boring. So yeah the structure of the storylines I have found a little bit irritating. They set up this anticipation for a battle, cancel the anticipation and just do the battle as fast as possible. At-least build it up like a show like DBZ would do. For example during the Freeza saga Goku didn't face Freeza till the end, because they built this anticipation. In Bleach, there is no anticipation the characters will fight, practically the entire story and they'll get their butts kicked and end up fighting these people 4 to 5 times before they beat them. Anyway Bleach is for some people, but I'm heavily disappointed and I'm officially through with it. It just takes all the anime stereotypes and reinforces it and not even in a good way. It's Yu Yu Hakusho-lite in my opinion.

Bleach is an amazing anime, but there are somethings that have made me lose interest. I have followed this anime for 9 seasons. It kept wanting more and more then the fillers came. I understand that they needed to place fillers in to allow the manga, that their following, time to get ahead for a short while, but the fillers that they placed into the anime were both boring and, to me, unappealing. The bounto season was great for originality, but the others I cannot watch. Other than the fillers, except the bountos, I'm completely addicted to BLEACH. Love It!!!

I was reluctant to start watching this anime, I thought, oh great another uninspired anime with repetitive enemies and I was right, in the start...



But after watching some episodes of Bleach I found that this is actually a quite amusing new anime with a good storyline (for an anime that's bound to be 100+ episodes) and great characters. The story really picks up after about episode 20, and if you last this far you'll never gonna stop watching. The soundtrack is also awesome and it fits into the fighting scenes very nicely.



At the moment we're all waiting for the fillers to stop, but even with the fillers this anime is still worth watching, so if you must suffer the first 20 episodes and get ready for an anime to blow you away.



Also, watch it in the original Japanese version (don't even know if there are other versions available, but if there are, you know what to do)

I started watching this on recommendation, saw the first few episodes and was hooked. The characters are likeable and the overall concept is quite interesting. The only thing that bugs me about this show is that there is quite a lot of filler, you dont really notice it at first, but after a while you realise that very little actually happens in an episode and the fights are often broken up with needlessly long sections of dialogue which had me wondering 'wait are they still fighting?' Another thing is that the afterlife in many scenarios looks quite a lot more miserable than initial life, which seems a bit odd, although this may well be purposeful.

Having said that I do like a lot of the ideas in Bleach, the Hollows are pretty well designed and I feel that the different Soul Slayers are a very nice addition.

Overall a pretty decent show, good animation although its not the best (see Samurai Champloo and GITS for great aesthetics). Bleach is definately worth checking out, but in my opinion it cant compare to Fullmetal Alchemist.

Bleach...what can i say about this anime?



At first i thought it was a rip off of other anime's i've seen in my lifetime,namely Yu Yu Hakusho and Inuyasha with a slightly Kenshin twist in it.



I never wanted to see it but coming apon my sisters who seemed to be enjoying the show i decided to give it a go.I was hooked on it after seeing it,but slowly and surely it quickly lost my intrest.



The main character Itchigo is one of the more basic main characters that would appear in a anime geeks wild fanfiction.He's handsome (?) athletic basically a total toughguy,seriously he's almost perfect.Then he gains the powers of a soul reaper by the name of Rukia and after that he continuously amazes everyone around him by using ablilities that Rukia never fails to tell us that they would take a normal person years of training to even begin to attempt it.



But seeing how he's the Main character of the guys own manga/anime series,he can get away with it.



Most of the other characters were nicely thought out and had interesting backgrounds and stories to tell.Each contributed something to the series be it for comedy relief or action packed buttkicking it was never a dull moment until "Superman" showed up.



All in all a good anime and should be watched mainly for its well thought out storyline,actionpacked battles,funny moments and romantic scenes.

So anyways, this show has one of the most horrible ideas ever. "Hey look! It's a girl from a spirt world and we don't know what she's doing & so we'll call her stupid!" and such ... the whole plots lame and good shows like Rocko's Modern Life make this show look like pre-kinder garbage ... I was happy that Chalkzone got canned and canned good. I never want to see Chalkzone on Nicktoons Network ever again and if I do, I will shoot myself so hard ... as for Bleach well it's seriously messed up. That's final, and I'd rather watch Attomic Betty instead of this trash. That's all.



let's see... I have to make this one hundred words, otherwise this review won't show. I mean, it really doesn't need a lot to say that this show sucks. The animation is horrible, and the people who voice everything is in monotone. I don't know how this, Yakkity Yak, and 6teen ever made the Adult Swim company willam street. It appears like the network was justing fulfilling their contract obligations to the creaters of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, 12 oz Mouse, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Squirrel Boy, everything eles from William Street. Turns out that the shows all became a big pile of crap that we see now. There is no love in this show.



In a word: It Sucks.

I grade this anime out at a C- and I think that I am being very generous. If the show was as good is the first 8 or 9 episodes, I would have graded it out at a 9.2; if it was as bad as the middle episodes, I would have given it a 3.3 or lower. This show is going down hill - on a slippery slope with no breaks - fast. Given how intriguing the basic premise is, how imaginative the characters are, the depth of the relationship and devotion among Ichigo, Rukia, and their friends, Bleach really should be a much, much, much better anime. Perhaps I made a mistake in watching a few of the middle episodes on impulse so my first impression was a particularly bad one. But I just can't get by how grotesquely horrible the dialogue is. Watching CSPAN is more stimulating - and I am an anarcho-syndicalist at heart! I think that I summed it up as well as it can be above: "my spiritual pressure is bigger than yours!" That's it. There isn't anything more sophisticated in the dialogue than that. I kept hearing how good this anime is and how many people recommend it, so I have been trying to stick with it...but please, somebody tell me it gets better. Tell me that the enormous pool of intrigue and potential that is Bleach comes to some sort of fruition. And that the time I spend watching it while waiting for Blood+ or Inuyasha hasn't be in vain.

There is a problem with bleach that drags down the whole ratinga abit. The quallity is very shiffted, sometimes i love it and could watch it for hours, and sometimes i barley manages to watch throgh it. The problem is the same as naruto, but the overall quallity is better.



I also thinks that the animation is "Creepy" sometimes, like when Rukia presents here paintings, it's somewhat crude.

Bleach also succed where Naruto fails, making fillers that is watchible.



In short notice, Bleach needs some finetuning to reatch the real high points on the scale, and maby cut down on the whole fighting and concentrate abit more on the story.