All about Bleach (manga)

[BeNighted]

Wow, people sure like to diss Bleach here

I, personally, love this series. Sure, it's a Shounen title, so it gets a little repeatative from time-to-time... but if I let that bother me, there wouldn't be much point to reading manga.

For me, Volume 6 was when Bleach really started getting good. The whole concept of Soul Society is great, even though I can pick up one or two things that KuboTite might have overlooked when he was planning Bleach out.. but he brought Shunsui { pictured in avatar }into my life and for that, I owe him my respect and loyalty xD

[sOnJoOL]

Originally Posted by TRUETBOY

does any1 knw how far they have released the manga upto in japan?

its 14 volumes. 15 is coming out.

[sOnJoOL]

Originally Posted by Ikongamer

yah Hes right about the volumes but the chapters should be around what...150-160?
English so far is up to 136...personally I think this is a great manga

i wish manga-rain goes faster with the releases...

Even tho they're allready fast! Im just not patient haha

and chapter is on 152 so far.
probably 153 this week.

[Frog]

Just a quick question is bleach the manga done in japan because thats what ANN led me to believe?

I just started reading bleach but yeah is it still going on or what..

[Yoska]

The manga is still going on.

[rorosama]

Something just came to me. Is it just me or does ishida and ise, shunsui's vice captain(girl with glasses) look very similar to each other. Almost carbon copies. It came to me when i saw ishida in a shinagami uniform.

[Cha]

Not sure that I may ask this, but does anyone know where I can download volume 8 and up?

[IMSabbel]

i dont think that asking is allowed...
But nevertheless, just google a bit for manga-rain....

[Crimsonmon]

It looks like Baka-Fish is going to start scanlating Bleach also.

[monolithic]

Ruika's cuter in the manga ^_^ especially when she tries to be a normal schoolgirl Sadly the taiwanese version has several volumes out of print, if not I would have gotten volume 1...

[sarcasteak]

Originally Posted by monolithic

Ruika's cuter in the manga ^_^ especially when she tries to be a normal schoolgirl Sadly the taiwanese version has several volumes out of print, if not I would have gotten volume 1...

True story, I have Taiwanese version!
But her funny dialect is lost in the translation... >_<

[Gevurah]

LOL, I like Rukia's fake accent in the anime. But the best part about her is her eyes. God those eyes are cute.

Anyways, for those of you who have read that far...

Spoiler:

Who do you think is behind the conspiracy in the SS? A buddy of mine and I were discussing this on Skype and she mentioned that Captain Aizen, although dead, might have a big part in this. I mean, Ichimaru seems to be the main baddy behind all of this, but what my friend mentioned seemed pretty convincing. If Ichimaru and Aizen did fight the night before Aizen died, assuming that they fought pretty hard since Aizen was left on the wall, wouldn't someone have noticed their spiritual energy like how Hitsugaya's Vice-Captain *mmmm she's hot* felt it when Hitsugaya and Ichimaru fought? Another thing is the letter that Aizen wrote, it just seems too weird that he would blame Hitsugaya. I'm assuming it's not forged as people seem to believe and Aizen somehow is plotting Hitsugaya against Ichimaru... I'm thinking too much obviously, but I really want to know who's behind this! Shoot for all we know it could be Uruhara and Yoroichi. Oh well.

What do y'all think?

And yeah, manga-rain is taking their sweet time. Someone needs to start at 140 and on so I don't have to eek out the tiny tiny Japanese that I know in order to read them. Well, at least the pics look awesome.

BTW, Ichimaru = Orochimaru... to me anyways.

[Ambience Blue]

Originally Posted by Gevurah

Anyways, for those of you who have read that far...

Spoiler:

Who do you think is behind the conspiracy in the SS? A buddy of mine and I were discussing this on Skype and she mentioned that Captain Aizen, although dead, might have a big part in this. I mean, Ichimaru seems to be the main baddy behind all of this, but what my friend mentioned seemed pretty convincing. If Ichimaru and Aizen did fight the night before Aizen died, assuming that they fought pretty hard since Aizen was left on the wall, wouldn't someone have noticed their spiritual energy like how Hitsugaya's Vice-Captain *mmmm she's hot* felt it when Hitsugaya and Ichimaru fought? Another thing is the letter that Aizen wrote, it just seems too weird that he would blame Hitsugaya. I'm assuming it's not forged as people seem to believe and Aizen somehow is plotting Hitsugaya against Ichimaru... I'm thinking too much obviously, but I really want to know who's behind this! Shoot for all we know it could be Uruhara and Yoroichi. Oh well.

What do y'all think?

Hehehe, I suppose that's the secret everyone else wants to know too. My person opinion is

Spoiler for what happened to Aizen:

I'm assuming he was either murdered in cold blood or surprised to the point where he couldn't possibly retaliate. As for the rest of the SS conspiracy, I think we can slowly start tabulating who's on which side. IMO, the one masked captain (2nd director of SS research-- can't remember his name) is obviously on the side of the conspiracy. Hitsugaya's vice-captain is probably siding (albeit reluctantly) with the consipiracy due to her history with Ichimaru. Captain Kuchiki is probably completely unaware about all of this, being used as a tool b/c of his strong sense of pride... Well, that's what I can come up with for the time being. It really is a mind boggler

[Gevurah]

Originally Posted by Ambience Blue

Hehehe, I suppose that's the secret everyone else wants to know too. My person opinion is

Spoiler for what happened to Aizen:

I'm assuming he was either murdered in cold blood or surprised to the point where he couldn't possibly retaliate. As for the rest of the SS conspiracy, I think we can slowly start tabulating who's on which side. IMO, the one masked captain (2nd director of SS research-- can't remember his name) is obviously on the side of the conspiracy. Hitsugaya's vice-captain is probably siding (albeit reluctantly) with the consipiracy due to her history with Ichimaru. Captain Kuchiki is probably completely unaware about all of this, being used as a tool b/c of his strong sense of pride... Well, that's what I can come up with for the time being. It really is a mind boggler

Well whatever the case is...

Spoiler:

I hope Ichigo kicks the crap out of Byakuya because he is a tool in both the literal and figurative sense. When you said masked Captain, I thought you meant that doggie captain with the basket on his head. The whole scene with Ichimaru, Aizen, and Hitsugaya is bugging me though... I wonder who was it "perfect" for. Damn you Kubotite... your awesome story is killing me!

[Ambience Blue]

Originally Posted by Gevurah

Well whatever the case is...

Spoiler:

I hope Ichigo kicks the crap out of Byakuya because he is a tool in both the literal and figurative sense. When you said masked Captain, I thought you meant that doggie captain with the basket on his head. The whole scene with Ichimaru, Aizen, and Hitsugaya is bugging me though... I wonder who was it "perfect" for. Damn you Kubotite... your awesome story is killing me!

Hehehe. Kubo Tite sure does write a good story. Anyways, we'll see what develops. I haven't been keeping up on this manga as much as I'd like (only to end of Ch. 14 so far) so it's interesting that things still haven't progressed that much. IMO, the guard-break thing seems a bit pathetic... It's logically disjointed and too shounen-esque...

[Bronwen Stx]

The title Bleach:
A perfectly nice title for a decent anime/manga. For those of you confused as to why the hell would a mangaka author title his manga bleach, think about it. Hollows, purification, SS...shinigamis...repentance; what does bleach do? (think washing dirty clothes, lol)A reason why Bleach is called...bleach

I recently just got into the hyped having found Bleach by watching the newly released anime first and then going on and reading the manga up to chapter 154 (although I was only able to read text translations between 141 to 152). The manga is great, I can vouch for that. And while though it extensively attaches itself to the typical generic shounen manga you'll find (think DBZ, Naruto, Shaman King...etc), I think it does stand on its own in some aspects. For one I found the relationship between each characters very appealing. Characterization, I found, was pretty decent as well. Admittedly, it could still use some work but I think we'll see as the SS arc evolves.

My favourite arc by far is the SS arc. The reason why its probably long is because I think this place is where everything evolves, soul society, after all, is where it all started. Plus we get to see alot of ass kicking courtesy of Ichigo *can I say squee?* and we get to see more of Rukia's past and why she is...that she is. heh.

The anime is fairly decent, hilarious, especially seeing Rukia trying to drink juice in an orange box not knowing what a straw is animated. But I'm not sure what to make of it yet. People I know don't seemed to be too impressed with the anime but I think some people should give it a benefit of the doubt. But that's just me, I'm too easy to please.

[rorosama]

I wanna join you guys conspiracy talk. I never thought of aizen being behind the whole thing! That's very credible. With aizen being gin's former captain and all. They could be incahoots. I also hope ichigo beats byakuya's ass and back. I hate that prick. I also agree that if anything, byakuya doesn't have anything to do with the ss conspiracy as i doubt he's evil just stuck up. I also gin is too obvious a choice for the main enemy. So who does that leave? Maybe the big old guy himself. But who can defeat the old guy. Ichigo has gotten strong but if he beats the old guy i'll be done. Although with the latest chapter, the gap between a vice captain and a captain is shown to be huge as ise got her ass handed to her be old guy.

[Yoska]

After chapter 155 even my heterosexual male butt is fully blowed by Renji's sexiness.

Seriosly, now that the series is picking up more popularity there is a glim of hope that some group(s) would start to scanlate the freshest chapters as they are doing with Naruto.

[wc3promet]

What's the relationship between Shiba Kaien and Kurosaki Ichigo?
They seem to have the same face... but of course different hair colour.

Sounds like a spoiler question.

[rorosama]

Nothing's been said yet but they do look simliar but their attitudes are different.