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Bleach
Bleach cover 01.jpg

First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Ichigo Kurosaki
Genre
  • Adventure[1]
  • Supernatural[1]
Manga
Written by Tite Kubo
Published by Shueisha
English publisher

AUS

Madman Entertainment

NA

Viz Media
Imprint Jump Comics
Magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump
English magazine

NA

  • Shonen Jump (former)
  • Weekly Shonen Jump
Demographic Shōnen
Original run August 7, 2001 – August 22, 2016
Volumes 74 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
  • Bleach (2004–2012)
  • Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (2022–present)
Anime films
  • Bleach: Memories of Nobody (2006)
  • Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion (2007)
  • Bleach: Fade to Black (2008)
  • Bleach: Hell Verse (2010)
Live-action film
  • Bleach (2018)
Media franchise
  • List of Bleach light novels
  • List of Bleach video games
  • Bleach Trading Card Game
  • Bleach musicals

Bleach (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tite Kubo. It follows the adventures of a teenager Ichigo Kurosaki, who inherits his parents’ destiny after he obtains the powers of a Soul Reaper—a death personification similar to the Grim Reaper—from another Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki. His new-found powers allow him to take on the duties of defending humans from evil spirits and guiding departed souls to the afterlife, and set him on journeys to various ghostly realms of existence.

Bleach was serialized in Shueisha’s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from August 2001 to August 2016, with its chapters collected in 74 tankōbon volumes. The series has spawned a media franchise that includes an anime television series adaptation that was produced by Tokyo-based studio Pierrot from 2004 to 2012, two original video animation (OVA) episodes, four animated feature films, ten stage musicals, and numerous video games, as well as many types of Bleach-related merchandise. A Japanese live-action film adaptation produced by Warner Bros. premiered in 2018.

In North America, the manga was licensed for English release by Viz Media in 2004. They have released the collected volumes and published its chapters in their Shonen Jump magazine from November 2007 until the magazine’s final issue in April 2012.

Bleach received the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category in 2005. The manga had over 130 million tankōbon volumes in circulation worldwide as of 2022, making it the twelfth best-selling manga in history.

Plot summary[edit]

Ichigo Kurosaki is a teenager from Karakura Town who can see ghosts, a talent allowing him to meet a supernatural human Rukia Kuchiki, who enters the town in search of a Hollow, a kind of monstrous lost soul who can harm both ghosts and humans. Rukia is one of the Soul Reapers (死神, Shinigami, literally ‘Death Gods’), soldiers trusted with ushering the souls of the dead from the World of the Living to the Soul Society (尸魂界（ソウル・ソサエティ）, lit. «Dead Spirit World»), the afterlife realm from which she originates and with fighting Hollows. When she is severely wounded defending Ichigo from a Hollow she pursues, Rukia transfers her powers to Ichigo, so he may fight in her stead while she recovers her strength. Rukia is thereby trapped in an ordinary human body, and must advise Ichigo as he balances the demands of his substitute Soul Reaper duties and attending high school. For aid in hunting the Hollows, the pair ally with a trio of other spiritually empowered allies: Ichigo’s high school classmate Orihime Inoue, best friend Yasutora «Chad» Sado and Uryū Ishida, a Quincy classmate with the ability to control spiritual particles.

Eventually, Rukia is arrested by her Soul Reaper superiors and sentenced to death for the illegal act of transferring her powers into a human. Ichigo and his friends enlist the help of ex-Soul Reaper scientist Kisuke Urahara, who trains Ichigo to access his own Soul Reaper powers, to enter the Soul Society and rescue Rukia. Shortly after the party’s arrival in the Soul Society, conflict arises among the captains of the Thirteen Court Squads when the captain of the fifth company, Sōsuke Aizen, is apparently murdered; the captains believed that the intruders might have been responsible, which causes the Soul Reapers to begin fighting amongst themselves. Thereafter, the Captain Commander Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto, issues the Soul Reapers to arrest Ichigo and his friends as suspects. However, Ichigo saves Rukia and manages to stop the war against the Soul Society. Aizen reappears and reveals his intention to obtain the Hōgyoku (崩玉, lit. «Crumbling Orb»), an orb of immense power Kisuke planted inside Rukia, by faking his death and arranging the execution. Aizen accompanies his fellow conspirators, Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tōsen, who are the third and ninth company’s captains, as they use Hollows to cover their escape into the Hollows’ realm, Hueco Mundo (虚圏（ウェコムンド）, lit. «Hollow World»). Afterwards, Ichigo and Rukia reconcile with the Soul Reapers, who view the former as a powerful ally and designate him an official title as Substitute Soul Reaper.

Ichigo soon finds himself and his friends in escalating skirmishes with Aizen’s army of humanoid Hollows, the Arrancar, as they are joined by the Vizards. Soul Reapers who were victims of Aizen’s experiments in creating Soul Reaper/Hollow hybrids. When Ulquiora, one of the Espada (Aizen’s ten most powerful Arrancars) kidnaps Orihime, Ichigo and his allies enter Hueco Mundo to invade Las Noches. However, as Ichigo rescues Orihime, Aizen reveals her abduction was a distraction as he launches an attack on Karakura Town, in order to sacrifice everyone and create a key to the Soul King’s Palace, so he can kill the Soul King who reigns over the Soul Society. Anticipating Aizen’s attack, the Thirteen Court Squads had already been waiting for him by moving the entire Karakura Town to the Soul Society prior to his attack. When the Vizards join the remaining Soul Reapers, Gin reveals his agenda of killing Aizen. The latter uses the Hōgyoku to become a Hollow-like being. However, Ichigo sacrifices his power to defeat Aizen and reverts to a normal human.

Months later, preparing for life after high school, Ichigo is called back into action when Xcution, a gang of Fullbringers—supernaturally aware humans like Chad—manipulate him and his loved ones in a scheme to siphon his Fullbring abilities. After his Soul Society allies restore his Soul Reaper powers, Ichigo learns that Xcution’s leader, Kugo Ginjo, was his predecessor. It is revealed that the Soul Society did not trust the substitute Soul Reapers, so they used the badge given to the Substitute Soul Reaper to monitor and restrict his power output. Ginjo felt betrayed and swore vengeance to all Soul Reapers. Despite knowing the truth, Ichigo decides to trust his Soul Reaper friends and defeats Ginjo. With his power restored, Ichigo once again is reinstated as a Substitute Soul Reaper.

After Ichigo regained his powers, an army of Quincies known as the Wandenreich (見えざる帝国（ヴァンデンライヒ）, lit. «Invisible Empire») appear and declare war against the Soul Society, having already enslaved many Arrancars in Hueco Mundo. The group is led by Yhwach, the ancient progenitor of the Quincies, who seeks to kill the Soul King and rid the world of death and fear. In their first invasion, the Wandenreich kill many Soul Reapers including the Head-Captain, Yamamoto. Uryū joins Yhwach and learns the truth behind the death of his mother. Later on, Ichigo and his friends aid the Soul Society in fighting the Wandenreich’s second invasion, but Yhwach succeeds in invading the Royal Palace and killing the Soul King. In the final battle, the surviving Shinigami, along with Ichigo and his friends, assault Yhwach’s new palace and defeat his most powerful Sternritter. Yhwach returns to the Soul Society to destroy it, but Ichigo defeats him with the help of Uryū and Aizen, after the latter was temporarily released from prison.

Ten years later, Rukia becomes the new captain of the thirteenth company and has a daughter, an apprentice Soul Reaper named Ichika, with her childhood friend Renji Abarai. Meanwhile, Ichigo and Orihime have a son named Kazui, who is also a Soul Reaper. Two years later, Ichigo attends the Soul Funeral Ceremony for Jūshirō Ukitake. While the Captains are waiting in the Soul Society to perform the ritual, Ichigo joins the Lieutenants at Karakura Town to capture Hollows that will be used as a sacrifice. They are ambushed by the Beasts of Hell, led by the late Octava Espada. Even though the lieutenants managed to easily suppress them, it is revealed that the ceremony is a process of sending the late captains to Hell.

Production[edit]

Bleach was first conceived from Tite Kubo’s desire to draw a Shinigami (Soul Reaper) in a kimono, which formed the basis for the design of the Soul Reapers in the series.[2][3] At first, Kubo thought that the Soul Reapers should use guns, so the first title for the series was «Snipe» (as in «sniper»); however, this was changed with the inclusion of swords.[4] After that, the series was meant to be named «Black» due to the color of the Soul Reapers’ clothes, but Kubo thought the title was too generic. He later tried the name of «White», but came to like «Bleach» more for its association with the color white and that he did not find it too obvious.[5] The original story concept was submitted to Weekly Shōnen Jump shortly after the cancellation of Kubo’s previous manga, Zombiepowder, but was at first rejected.[6] Manga artist Akira Toriyama saw the story and wrote a letter of encouragement to Kubo.[3] Bleach was accepted for publication a short time later in 2001, and was initially intended to be a shorter series, with a maximum serialization length of five years.[3] Early plans for the story did not include the hierarchical structure of the Soul Society, but did include some characters and elements that were not introduced into the plot until the Arrancar arc, such as Ichigo’s Soul Reaper parentage.[2]

Kubo has cited influences for elements of Bleach ranging from other manga series to music, foreign language, architecture, and film. He attributed his interest in drawing the supernatural and monsters to Shigeru Mizuki’s GeGeGe no Kitaro and Bleach‘s focus on interesting weaponry and battle scenes to Masami Kurumada’s Saint Seiya, manga that Kubo enjoyed as a boy.[2] The latter is based on Greek mythology and Kubo also considered it as a source for his focus on myths, monsters and the afterlife.[4] The action style and storytelling found in Bleach are inspired by cinema, though Kubo has not revealed any specific movie as being an influence for fight scenes. When pressed, he told interviewers that he liked Snatch but did not use it as a model.[7] Bleach‘s fight choreography is instead constructed with the aid of rock music, which the author listens to while imagining the fights in order to give him a sense of pacing for the panel cuts and change of angles through the scenes.[8] Kubo prefers to draw realistic injuries in order to render the fight more impactful, by making the readers feel the pain the characters are feeling.[9] Bleach‘s fight scenes are often broken up with brief gags, which the author inserts when he grows bored during the illustration process.[8]

Bleach‘s plotting process is focused around character design. When writing plotlines or having difficulties generating new material, Kubo begins by thinking of new characters, often en masse, and rereading previous volumes of Bleach.[2][9] Kubo has said that he likes creating characters that have outward appearances that do not match their true nature—an element that can be found in many Bleach characters—as he is «attracted to people with that seeming contradiction» and finds an «urge to draw people like that» when he works.[10] The terminology used in Bleach has a variety of inspirations, with each category of characters bearing a different linguistic theme. Many of the names for swords and spells used by Soul Reapers were inspired by ancient Japanese literature. Hollows and Arrancars use Spanish terms. Fullbringers use English vocabulary, with names referencing rock music, and finally, both Quincy and Bounts draw on the German language. This multilingual terminology, along with the variety in apparent character ethnicities, emphasizes the international nature of the Bleach settings.[10]

Themes and analysis[edit]

Bleach‘s plot incorporates the traditional Japanese belief of spirits coexisting with humans and their nature, good or evil, depends on the circumstances.[11] An example is Orihime’s backstory. She was raised from the age of three by her brother Sora, and prayed for his soul’s peace after he died in a car accident.[12] As time went on, she prayed less and Sora became jealous and turned into a Hollow and attacked Orihime. Academic Patrick Drazen says this is a reminder to the audience to not abandon the old ways or risk the spirits taking offense and causing problems in the world.[13] Bleach also incorporates Shinto themes of purification of «evil spirits through charms, scrolls, incantations, and other rituals».[11] Christopher A. Born regards Bleach as transmitting Confucian values.[14]

Von Feigenblatt describes Bleach as being culturally and religiously aware, as it draws upon Christianity and Caribbean Santería.[11] Spanish terms are prevalent throughout the realm of Hueco Mundo,[11] while both Quincy and Bounts have been known to associate with the German language, making Kubo’s world of characters diverse in race and language as well.[10] Von Feigenblatt notes that the Quincy «are clearly inspired by the Roman Catholic Christian Orders of Knighthood such as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre whose influence is shown in terms of the uniform worn by the Quincy as well as by the symbolism of the cross».[11]

Publication[edit]

Bleach, written and illustrated by Tite Kubo, was serialized for fifteen years in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump from August 7, 2001,[15][16] to August 22, 2016.[17][18] Its 698 individual chapters[a] were collected in seventy-four tankōbon volumes released between January 5, 2002, and November 4, 2016.[19][20] Shueisha published the first twenty-one volumes compiled into six omnibus collections under the name Resurrected Souls to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the series.[21] The first collection was released on August 22, 2011;[22] the last collection was published on January 23, 2012.[23] On September 21, 2012, Shueisha released 45 digital volumes in Japanese e-book stores,[24][25] concluding with the 74th on November 4, 2016.[26] These digital editions have been re-released as a set of 10 volumes on April 26, 2013;[27] the sixth was released on March 14, 2014.[28]

North American licensor Viz Media serialized the first chapters in the print magazine Shonen Jump from its November 2007 to April 2012 issues.[29][30] The series moved to the digital anthology Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha in January 2012 and Viz Media released it digitally as Shueisha published new chapters in Japan.[31][32] The first volume on English was released on July 6, 2004,[33] and the last volume–the 74th–was released on October 2, 2018.[34] Viz also released a hardcover «collector’s edition» of the first volume that came with a dust jacket,[35] two box sets,[36][37] and twenty-five «3-in-1 edition» volumes between June 7, 2011,[38] and March 5, 2019.[39] Viz Media released first 16 volumes in English digitally on June 17, 2011.[40][41] As of October 2, 2018, all 74 digital volumes were released.[34]

A 73-page chapter was published in Weekly Shōnen Jump, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the manga’s debut in the magazine, on August 10, 2021.[42] It was published in English by Viz Media’s Shonen Jump online magazine and on the Shueisha’s Manga Plus online platform. The one-shot ends seemingly on a cliffhanger and features the words «New Breathes From Hell» in English and «Gokui Meimei-hen» (獄頤嗚嗚篇) in Japanese, where the character for «hen» (篇) is usually used to denote the title of a story arc.[43] The chapter was digitally released as a collected volume on December 3, 2021.[44]

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Anime[edit]

Bleach was adapted by studio Pierrot into an anime television series directed by Noriyuki Abe and broadcast for 366 episodes on TV Tokyo, from October 2004 to March 2012.[45][46][47]

In March 2020, it was announced that the manga’s final story arc, «Thousand-Year Blood War», would receive a new anime project.[48] In November 2021, it was announced that the new project would be an anime television series.[49][50] It is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and premiered in October 2022.[51][52]

Films[edit]

The series has spawned four animated films: Bleach: Memories of Nobody, premiered on December 16, 2006;[53] Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion, premiered on December 22, 2007;[54] Bleach: Fade to Black, premiered on December 13, 2008;[55] and Bleach: Hell Verse, premiered on December 4, 2010.[56] A live-action film adaptation premiered in Japan on July 20, 2018.[57]

Light novels[edit]

Tite Kubo and Makoto Matsubara have co-authored three novelizations of the Bleach series, which were published by Shueisha under its Shounen Jump Books label. The first volume, Bleach — Letters From The Other Side: The Death and The Strawberry, was published on December 15, 2004, and re-released as Bleach — Letters From The Other Side: The Death and The Strawberry — New Edition on November 4, 2009.[58][59] The second, Bleach: The Honey Dish Rhapsody, was published on November 30, 2006.[60] The third, Bleach: The Death Save The Strawberry, was published on September 4, 2012.[61] Two novelizations of the Bleach series have been co-authored by Narita Ryohgo. The first volume, Bleach: Spirits Are Forever With You, and the second, Bleach: Spirits Are Forever With You 2, were published on June 4, 2012.[62][63]

After the series ended in 2016, a series of novels were released by Shueisha.[64] The first novel, Bleach: WE DO knot ALWAYS LOVE YOU, was written by the writer of Bleach: The Death Save The Strawberry Makoto Matsubara and was published on December 27, 2016. The second, Bleach: Can’t Fear Your Own World, is a serialized novel written by the writer of Bleach: Spirits Are Forever With You series Narita Ryohgo and was released bi-weekly from April 28, 2017.[65] The first volume was released on August 4, 2017[66] and the second volume was published on November 2, 2018. The novel series ended with the release of the third volume on December 4, 2018.[67] Viz Media published the three volumes of Bleach: Can’t Fear Your Own World between July 7, 2020,[68][69] and April 20, 2021.[70]

Shueisha published four novelizations based on the Bleach movies. The first volume, Bleach: Memories of Nobody, was published on December 18, 2006.[71] The second, Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion, Another Hyōrinmaru, was published on December 22, 2007.[72] The third, Bleach: Fade to Black, I Call Your Name, was published on December 15, 2008.[73] The fourth volume, Bleach: Hell Chapter, was published on December 6, 2010.[74]

Video games[edit]

A number of video games have been created featuring characters from the Bleach series, primarily though not exclusively fighting games. The first video game to be released from the Bleach series was Bleach: Heat the Soul, which debuted on March 24, 2005, for the Sony PlayStation Portable.[75] Currently, the majority of the games have only been released in Japan, though Sega has localized the first three Nintendo DS games and the first Wii game for North America.[76] So far, all dedicated Bleach games released for Sony’s consoles have been developed and published by SCEI, whereas the games for Nintendo consoles are developed and published by Sega, and the Nintendo DS games are developed by Treasure Co. Ltd.[77][78] Two mobile games had also been released in 2014 (Bleach: Bankai Batoru) and 2015 (Bleach: Brave Souls) for the series, which are available for iOS and Android.[79][80] In 2017, Line announced the release of a game exclusive for their communication app called Bleach: Paradise Lost.[81]

Trading card game[edit]

Two collectible card games (CCG) based on the Bleach series have been produced, one in the Japanese market and a different one in North America. Bleach Soul Card Battle, produced by Bandai, was introduced in Japan in 2004.[82] Twenty named sets were released for the series.[83] After Bleach Soul Card Battle, Bandai introduced three more series. Bleach The Card Gum, which contains 14 sets, was released in early September 2007.[84] The next series, Bleach Clear Collection, which contains six sets, was released in July 2008.[85] The last series, Bleach Clear Soul Plate, which consists of three sets, was published in December 2009.[86]

Bleach TCG was introduced in the United States by Score Entertainment in May 2007,[87] but ceased publication April 2009, just before the planned launch of its seventh expansion, Bleach Infiltration.[88] This cancellation was attributed to the ongoing recession, which has heavily affected TCG sales.[88] Designed by Aik Tongtharadol, the TCG is a two-player game in which each player starts with at least 61 cards: a «Guardian» card, a 60-card «main deck», and an optional 20-card «side deck». A player loses if his or her power, as dictated by the Guardian card, is reduced to zero, or if he or she is unable to draw or discard a card from his or her deck.[89] The cards for the game have been released in named sets with each set released in three formats: a 72-card pre-constructed box set containing a starter deck and two booster packs, a 10-card booster pack, and a 12-pack booster box. Six named sets were released.[90]

Musicals[edit]

Bleach has been adapted into a series of rock musicals, jointly produced by Studio Pierrot and Nelke Planning. There have been five musicals produced which covered portions of the Substitute and Soul Society arcs, as well as five additional performances known as «Live Bankai Shows» and «Rock Musical Bleach Shinsei», which did not follow the Bleach plotline. The initial performance run of the Bleach musical was from August 17–28, 2005, at the Space Zero Tokyo center in Shinjuku.[91][92][93]

The musicals are directed by Takuya Hiramitsu, with script adaptation by Naoshi Okumura and music composed by playwright Shoichi Tama. The songs are completely original and not taken from the anime soundtrack. Key actors in the series include Tatsuya Isaka, who plays Ichigo Kurosaki, Miki Satō, who plays Rukia Kuchiki, and Eiji Moriyama, who plays Renji Abarai.[94]

In 2016, another musical was produced to celebrate Bleach 15th anniversary. The musical was directed and written by Tsutsumi Yasuyuki with Dream5’s Akira Takano and Chihiro Kai as Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki respectively. The musical debuted on July 28, 2016, in AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo.[95][96]

Other media[edit]

The first Bleach artbook, All Colour But The Black, was released in Japan, the United States, and Europe. The artbook compiles a selection of color spreads from the first 19 volumes of the series, as well as some original art and author commentary.[97][98] The second artbook, Bleach Official Bootleg: KaraBuri+ (BLEACH OFFICIAL BOOTLEG カラブリ プラス), was released on August 3, 2007. In addition to character guides and articles on other fictional aspects of the series, it compiles the various short comics, Tedious Everyday Tales Colorful Bleach (徒然日常絵詞 カラフル ブリーチ, Tsuredure Nichijou Ekotoba Karafuru Buriichi), that were published in V Jump. The omake-style panels are similar to those included in the main series, but reveal more of the daily lives of characters.[99] Color Bleach+: Bleach Official Bootleg was released in English by Viz Media on August 10, 2010.[100] In December 2018, another artbook, titled Bleach JET was released, which contains a massive 700 artworks from the series’ 15 years tenure.[101]

Seven databooks have also been released about the series. The first two, Bleach: Official Character Book SOULs. and Bleach: Official Animation Book VIBEs., were released on February 3, 2006.[102][103] Bleach: Official Character Book SOULs. was later released in English by Viz Media on November 18, 2008.[104] The third book, Bleach: Official Character Book 2: MASKED, was released on August 4, 2010. This book covers details about characters that appear 100 years prior to the story, such as former captains and lieutenants, along with the Arrancars and Visoreds. Although it was released on the same day as volume 46, Back From Blind, the book only covers material up to volume 37, Beauty Is So Solitary.[105] The English version was released by Viz Media on March 6, 2012.[106] A fourth book Bleach: Official Invitation Book The Hell Verse, was published on December 4, 2010. This book was released to promote Bleach: Hell Verse and it contains character sketches, promotional posters and the one-off Hell manga special.[107] A fifth book Bleach: Official Character Book 3: UNMASKED, was released on June 3, 2011, the same day as the volume 50 of the series. However it only covers material up to volume 48, God is Dead.[108] On June 4, 2012, a sixth book was released under the name Bleach: The Rebooted Souls. This free booklet was distributed with Bleach manga volume 55, with the aim to provide information to readers about the manga’s final arc, The Thousand-Year Blood War.[109] The seventh book, BLEACH 13 BLADEs., was released on August 4, 2015, and focused solely on the Soul Reapers and the 13 Court Squads.[110]

Shueisha published a special book Bleach: JCCover Postcard Book MAILs., which was released on December 4, 2013. It features cover pages as postcards up to volume 60 with poems on the back.[111]

Reception[edit]

Fans dressed as characters from Bleach in 2014

Sales[edit]

Bleach had over 90 million tankōbon copies in circulation worldwide as of 2017;[112] over 120 million tankōbon copies in circulation worldwide as of 2018;[113][114][115] and over 130 million copies in circulation worldwide as of 2022, making it the 7th best-selling series of all time from Weekly Shōnen Jump.[116] During 2008, volume 34 of the manga sold 874,153 copies in Japan, becoming the 12th best-seller comics from the year. Volumes 33 and 35 have also ranked 17 and 18, respectively.[117] In total the manga has sold 3,161,825 copies in Japan during 2008, becoming the year’s 5th best selling series.[118] In the first half from 2009, Bleach ranked as the 2nd best-selling manga in Japan, having sold 3.5 million copies.[119] Having sold 927,610 copies, volume 36 ranked 7th, volume 37 was 8th with 907,714 sold copies, and volume 38 at 10th with 822,238 copies.[120]

North American sales of the manga have also been high, with tankōbon volumes having sold over 1.2 million copies by 2007.[121][122] Volume 16 placed in the top 10 graphic novel sales in December 2006 and volume 17 was the best-selling manga volume for the month of February 2007.[123][124][125] In a 2010 interview, Gonzalo Ferreyra, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Viz, listed Bleach as one of six Viz titles that continue to exceed expectations in spite of the harshening manga market.[126] As of 2022, the manga had over 2.7 million tankōbon volumes in circulation in the United States.[127]

Critical reception[edit]

Deb Aoki from About.com considered the series as the Best Continuing Shōnen Manga of 2007, along with Eyeshield 21, praising the «compelling stories, dazzling action sequences and great character development».[128] She also placed the title on her list of «Top 10 Shōnen Manga Must-Reads».[129] The artwork and the character designs received positive response by IGN’s A.E. Sparrow. He also commented on the series’ ability to handle multiple minor character plotlines at the same time, which he considered a point of appeal, in response to fans’ claims about a «lack of a story» in Bleach.[130] Leroy Douresseaux from ComicBookBin agreed with Sparrow in the number of storylines, but also praised the fighting scenes finding them comparable to the ones of popular films.[131][132] On the other hand, Mania reviewer Jarred Pine criticized the series as being plagued with stereotypes from the genre. He felt it was a rough start for the series with unimpressive battles, overused gags, and a bad introduction for central character Ichigo that causes him to come across «as a frowning punk» whose one good trait is his desire to protect. Despite this, Pine notes that he loves the series, particularly its quirky, lovable characters.[133] Jason Thompson said he was no longer able to take Bleach seriously after it introduced villains Ulquiorra and Yammy in a scene precisely mirroring Vegeta and Nappa’s arrival in Dragon Ball Z, but acknowledged it was likely intended as a deliberate homage. He also said Kubo was able to avoid the worst artistic failings typical in series which indulge in superpowered combat, but that the battle scenes were still sometimes difficult to follow.[134]

Accolades[edit]

In 2005, Bleach was awarded the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.[135][136] The English version of the manga was nominated for the «best manga» and «best theme» awards at the 2006 and 2007 American Anime Awards, but did not win either category.[137][138]

In November 2014, readers of Media Factory’s Da Vinci magazine voted Bleach #16 on a list of Weekly Shōnen Jump‘s greatest manga series of all time.[139] On TV Asahi’s Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll, in which 150.000 people voted for their top 100 manga series, Bleach ranked 23rd.[140]

See also[edit]

  • Burn the Witch, another manga series created by Kubo and set in the Bleach universe

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Comprising 686 listed chapters and 12 chapters which were listed as -108 to -97.

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External links[edit]

  • Bleach official website (in Japanese)
  • Bleach official website at Weekly Shōnen Jump (in Japanese)
  • Bleach (manga) at Anime News Network’s encyclopedia
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    bleach

    bleach [bli:tʃ]

    1) отбе́ливающее вещество́; хло́рная и́звесть

    2) отбе́ливание

    1) бели́ть; отбе́ливать(ся); обесцве́чивать

    2) побеле́ть

    Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > bleach

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    Персональный Сократ > bleach

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    bleach

    bleach 1. отбеливание; отбеливатель; 2. отбеливающее вещество; 3. обесцвечивание; обесцвечивать(ся)

    English-Russian dictionary of biology and biotechnology > bleach

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    Англо-русский синонимический словарь > bleach

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    bleach

    1. отбеливающее вещество; отбеливающий раствор

    2. отбеливание, отбелка; обесцвечивание; отбеливать; обесцвечивать

    English-Russian big polytechnic dictionary > bleach

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    bleach

    1. n хлорная, белильная известь

    2. n отбеливающее вещество

    3. n отбеливание, беление

    4. v белить, отбеливать

    5. v обесцвечивать

    6. v побелеть; обесцветиться

    Синонимический ряд:

    2. whiten (verb) blanch; blench; decolor; decolorize; etiolate; fade; pale; wash out; white; whiten

    English-Russian base dictionary > bleach

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    [bli:tʃ]

    bleach белить; отбеливать(ся); обесцвечивать bleach отбеливание bleach отбеливающее вещество; хлорная известь bleach побелеть

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    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > bleach

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    2) выцветание || выцветать

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    Англо-русский словарь технических терминов > bleach

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    bleach

    1) отбеливающее вещество; отбеливающий раствор

    2) отбеливание, отбелка; обесцвечивание || отбеливать; обесцвечивать

    Англо-русский словарь по полиграфии и издательскому делу > bleach

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    1) отбеливатель || отбеливать

    2) выцветание; обесцвечивание || выцветать; обесцвечивать(ся)

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    English-Russian electronics dictionary > bleach

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    1) отбеливатель || отбеливать

    2) выцветание; обесцвечивание || выцветать; обесцвечивать(ся)

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    The New English-Russian Dictionary of Radio-electronics > bleach

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    English-Russian military dictionary > bleach

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    bleach

    [bliːʧ]
    1.

    сущ.

    1) отбеливание, беление

    2) отбеливатель, отбеливающее вещество

    4) белизна, бледность

    Syn:

    2.

    гл.

    1) белить; отбеливать; обесцвечивать

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    bleach

    1. [bli:tʃ]

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    2. отбеливание, беление

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    1) белить, отбеливать

    2) обесцвечивать

    3) побелеть; обесцветиться

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Источник
Bleach
Bleach cover 01.jpg

First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Ichigo Kurosaki
Genre
  • Adventure[1]
  • Supernatural[1]
Manga
Written by Tite Kubo
Published by Shueisha
English publisher

AUS

Madman Entertainment

NA

Viz Media
Imprint Jump Comics
Magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump
English magazine

NA

  • Shonen Jump (former)
  • Weekly Shonen Jump
Demographic Shōnen
Original run August 7, 2001 – August 22, 2016
Volumes 74 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
  • Bleach (2004–2012)
  • Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (2022–present)
Anime films
  • Bleach: Memories of Nobody (2006)
  • Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion (2007)
  • Bleach: Fade to Black (2008)
  • Bleach: Hell Verse (2010)
Live-action film
  • Bleach (2018)
Media franchise
  • List of Bleach light novels
  • List of Bleach video games
  • Bleach Trading Card Game
  • Bleach musicals

Bleach (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tite Kubo. It follows the adventures of a teenager Ichigo Kurosaki, who inherits his parents’ destiny after he obtains the powers of a Soul Reaper—a death personification similar to the Grim Reaper—from another Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki. His new-found powers allow him to take on the duties of defending humans from evil spirits and guiding departed souls to the afterlife, and set him on journeys to various ghostly realms of existence.

Bleach was serialized in Shueisha’s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from August 2001 to August 2016, with its chapters collected in 74 tankōbon volumes. The series has spawned a media franchise that includes an anime television series adaptation that was produced by Tokyo-based studio Pierrot from 2004 to 2012, two original video animation (OVA) episodes, four animated feature films, ten stage musicals, and numerous video games, as well as many types of Bleach-related merchandise. A Japanese live-action film adaptation produced by Warner Bros. premiered in 2018.

In North America, the manga was licensed for English release by Viz Media in 2004. They have released the collected volumes and published its chapters in their Shonen Jump magazine from November 2007 until the magazine’s final issue in April 2012.

Bleach received the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category in 2005. The manga had over 130 million tankōbon volumes in circulation worldwide as of 2022, making it the twelfth best-selling manga in history.

Plot summary[edit]

Ichigo Kurosaki is a teenager from Karakura Town who can see ghosts, a talent allowing him to meet a supernatural human Rukia Kuchiki, who enters the town in search of a Hollow, a kind of monstrous lost soul who can harm both ghosts and humans. Rukia is one of the Soul Reapers (死神, Shinigami, literally ‘Death Gods’), soldiers trusted with ushering the souls of the dead from the World of the Living to the Soul Society (尸魂界（ソウル・ソサエティ）, lit. «Dead Spirit World»), the afterlife realm from which she originates and with fighting Hollows. When she is severely wounded defending Ichigo from a Hollow she pursues, Rukia transfers her powers to Ichigo, so he may fight in her stead while she recovers her strength. Rukia is thereby trapped in an ordinary human body, and must advise Ichigo as he balances the demands of his substitute Soul Reaper duties and attending high school. For aid in hunting the Hollows, the pair ally with a trio of other spiritually empowered allies: Ichigo’s high school classmate Orihime Inoue, best friend Yasutora «Chad» Sado and Uryū Ishida, a Quincy classmate with the ability to control spiritual particles.

Eventually, Rukia is arrested by her Soul Reaper superiors and sentenced to death for the illegal act of transferring her powers into a human. Ichigo and his friends enlist the help of ex-Soul Reaper scientist Kisuke Urahara, who trains Ichigo to access his own Soul Reaper powers, to enter the Soul Society and rescue Rukia. Shortly after the party’s arrival in the Soul Society, conflict arises among the captains of the Thirteen Court Squads when the captain of the fifth company, Sōsuke Aizen, is apparently murdered; the captains believed that the intruders might have been responsible, which causes the Soul Reapers to begin fighting amongst themselves. Thereafter, the Captain Commander Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto, issues the Soul Reapers to arrest Ichigo and his friends as suspects. However, Ichigo saves Rukia and manages to stop the war against the Soul Society. Aizen reappears and reveals his intention to obtain the Hōgyoku (崩玉, lit. «Crumbling Orb»), an orb of immense power Kisuke planted inside Rukia, by faking his death and arranging the execution. Aizen accompanies his fellow conspirators, Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tōsen, who are the third and ninth company’s captains, as they use Hollows to cover their escape into the Hollows’ realm, Hueco Mundo (虚圏（ウェコムンド）, lit. «Hollow World»). Afterwards, Ichigo and Rukia reconcile with the Soul Reapers, who view the former as a powerful ally and designate him an official title as Substitute Soul Reaper.

Ichigo soon finds himself and his friends in escalating skirmishes with Aizen’s army of humanoid Hollows, the Arrancar, as they are joined by the Vizards. Soul Reapers who were victims of Aizen’s experiments in creating Soul Reaper/Hollow hybrids. When Ulquiora, one of the Espada (Aizen’s ten most powerful Arrancars) kidnaps Orihime, Ichigo and his allies enter Hueco Mundo to invade Las Noches. However, as Ichigo rescues Orihime, Aizen reveals her abduction was a distraction as he launches an attack on Karakura Town, in order to sacrifice everyone and create a key to the Soul King’s Palace, so he can kill the Soul King who reigns over the Soul Society. Anticipating Aizen’s attack, the Thirteen Court Squads had already been waiting for him by moving the entire Karakura Town to the Soul Society prior to his attack. When the Vizards join the remaining Soul Reapers, Gin reveals his agenda of killing Aizen. The latter uses the Hōgyoku to become a Hollow-like being. However, Ichigo sacrifices his power to defeat Aizen and reverts to a normal human.

Months later, preparing for life after high school, Ichigo is called back into action when Xcution, a gang of Fullbringers—supernaturally aware humans like Chad—manipulate him and his loved ones in a scheme to siphon his Fullbring abilities. After his Soul Society allies restore his Soul Reaper powers, Ichigo learns that Xcution’s leader, Kugo Ginjo, was his predecessor. It is revealed that the Soul Society did not trust the substitute Soul Reapers, so they used the badge given to the Substitute Soul Reaper to monitor and restrict his power output. Ginjo felt betrayed and swore vengeance to all Soul Reapers. Despite knowing the truth, Ichigo decides to trust his Soul Reaper friends and defeats Ginjo. With his power restored, Ichigo once again is reinstated as a Substitute Soul Reaper.

After Ichigo regained his powers, an army of Quincies known as the Wandenreich (見えざる帝国（ヴァンデンライヒ）, lit. «Invisible Empire») appear and declare war against the Soul Society, having already enslaved many Arrancars in Hueco Mundo. The group is led by Yhwach, the ancient progenitor of the Quincies, who seeks to kill the Soul King and rid the world of death and fear. In their first invasion, the Wandenreich kill many Soul Reapers including the Head-Captain, Yamamoto. Uryū joins Yhwach and learns the truth behind the death of his mother. Later on, Ichigo and his friends aid the Soul Society in fighting the Wandenreich’s second invasion, but Yhwach succeeds in invading the Royal Palace and killing the Soul King. In the final battle, the surviving Shinigami, along with Ichigo and his friends, assault Yhwach’s new palace and defeat his most powerful Sternritter. Yhwach returns to the Soul Society to destroy it, but Ichigo defeats him with the help of Uryū and Aizen, after the latter was temporarily released from prison.

Ten years later, Rukia becomes the new captain of the thirteenth company and has a daughter, an apprentice Soul Reaper named Ichika, with her childhood friend Renji Abarai. Meanwhile, Ichigo and Orihime have a son named Kazui, who is also a Soul Reaper. Two years later, Ichigo attends the Soul Funeral Ceremony for Jūshirō Ukitake. While the Captains are waiting in the Soul Society to perform the ritual, Ichigo joins the Lieutenants at Karakura Town to capture Hollows that will be used as a sacrifice. They are ambushed by the Beasts of Hell, led by the late Octava Espada. Even though the lieutenants managed to easily suppress them, it is revealed that the ceremony is a process of sending the late captains to Hell.

Production[edit]

Bleach was first conceived from Tite Kubo’s desire to draw a Shinigami (Soul Reaper) in a kimono, which formed the basis for the design of the Soul Reapers in the series.[2][3] At first, Kubo thought that the Soul Reapers should use guns, so the first title for the series was «Snipe» (as in «sniper»); however, this was changed with the inclusion of swords.[4] After that, the series was meant to be named «Black» due to the color of the Soul Reapers’ clothes, but Kubo thought the title was too generic. He later tried the name of «White», but came to like «Bleach» more for its association with the color white and that he did not find it too obvious.[5] The original story concept was submitted to Weekly Shōnen Jump shortly after the cancellation of Kubo’s previous manga, Zombiepowder, but was at first rejected.[6] Manga artist Akira Toriyama saw the story and wrote a letter of encouragement to Kubo.[3] Bleach was accepted for publication a short time later in 2001, and was initially intended to be a shorter series, with a maximum serialization length of five years.[3] Early plans for the story did not include the hierarchical structure of the Soul Society, but did include some characters and elements that were not introduced into the plot until the Arrancar arc, such as Ichigo’s Soul Reaper parentage.[2]

Kubo has cited influences for elements of Bleach ranging from other manga series to music, foreign language, architecture, and film. He attributed his interest in drawing the supernatural and monsters to Shigeru Mizuki’s GeGeGe no Kitaro and Bleach‘s focus on interesting weaponry and battle scenes to Masami Kurumada’s Saint Seiya, manga that Kubo enjoyed as a boy.[2] The latter is based on Greek mythology and Kubo also considered it as a source for his focus on myths, monsters and the afterlife.[4] The action style and storytelling found in Bleach are inspired by cinema, though Kubo has not revealed any specific movie as being an influence for fight scenes. When pressed, he told interviewers that he liked Snatch but did not use it as a model.[7] Bleach‘s fight choreography is instead constructed with the aid of rock music, which the author listens to while imagining the fights in order to give him a sense of pacing for the panel cuts and change of angles through the scenes.[8] Kubo prefers to draw realistic injuries in order to render the fight more impactful, by making the readers feel the pain the characters are feeling.[9] Bleach‘s fight scenes are often broken up with brief gags, which the author inserts when he grows bored during the illustration process.[8]

Bleach‘s plotting process is focused around character design. When writing plotlines or having difficulties generating new material, Kubo begins by thinking of new characters, often en masse, and rereading previous volumes of Bleach.[2][9] Kubo has said that he likes creating characters that have outward appearances that do not match their true nature—an element that can be found in many Bleach characters—as he is «attracted to people with that seeming contradiction» and finds an «urge to draw people like that» when he works.[10] The terminology used in Bleach has a variety of inspirations, with each category of characters bearing a different linguistic theme. Many of the names for swords and spells used by Soul Reapers were inspired by ancient Japanese literature. Hollows and Arrancars use Spanish terms. Fullbringers use English vocabulary, with names referencing rock music, and finally, both Quincy and Bounts draw on the German language. This multilingual terminology, along with the variety in apparent character ethnicities, emphasizes the international nature of the Bleach settings.[10]

Themes and analysis[edit]

Bleach‘s plot incorporates the traditional Japanese belief of spirits coexisting with humans and their nature, good or evil, depends on the circumstances.[11] An example is Orihime’s backstory. She was raised from the age of three by her brother Sora, and prayed for his soul’s peace after he died in a car accident.[12] As time went on, she prayed less and Sora became jealous and turned into a Hollow and attacked Orihime. Academic Patrick Drazen says this is a reminder to the audience to not abandon the old ways or risk the spirits taking offense and causing problems in the world.[13] Bleach also incorporates Shinto themes of purification of «evil spirits through charms, scrolls, incantations, and other rituals».[11] Christopher A. Born regards Bleach as transmitting Confucian values.[14]

Von Feigenblatt describes Bleach as being culturally and religiously aware, as it draws upon Christianity and Caribbean Santería.[11] Spanish terms are prevalent throughout the realm of Hueco Mundo,[11] while both Quincy and Bounts have been known to associate with the German language, making Kubo’s world of characters diverse in race and language as well.[10] Von Feigenblatt notes that the Quincy «are clearly inspired by the Roman Catholic Christian Orders of Knighthood such as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre whose influence is shown in terms of the uniform worn by the Quincy as well as by the symbolism of the cross».[11]

Publication[edit]

Bleach, written and illustrated by Tite Kubo, was serialized for fifteen years in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump from August 7, 2001,[15][16] to August 22, 2016.[17][18] Its 698 individual chapters[a] were collected in seventy-four tankōbon volumes released between January 5, 2002, and November 4, 2016.[19][20] Shueisha published the first twenty-one volumes compiled into six omnibus collections under the name Resurrected Souls to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the series.[21] The first collection was released on August 22, 2011;[22] the last collection was published on January 23, 2012.[23] On September 21, 2012, Shueisha released 45 digital volumes in Japanese e-book stores,[24][25] concluding with the 74th on November 4, 2016.[26] These digital editions have been re-released as a set of 10 volumes on April 26, 2013;[27] the sixth was released on March 14, 2014.[28]

North American licensor Viz Media serialized the first chapters in the print magazine Shonen Jump from its November 2007 to April 2012 issues.[29][30] The series moved to the digital anthology Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha in January 2012 and Viz Media released it digitally as Shueisha published new chapters in Japan.[31][32] The first volume on English was released on July 6, 2004,[33] and the last volume–the 74th–was released on October 2, 2018.[34] Viz also released a hardcover «collector’s edition» of the first volume that came with a dust jacket,[35] two box sets,[36][37] and twenty-five «3-in-1 edition» volumes between June 7, 2011,[38] and March 5, 2019.[39] Viz Media released first 16 volumes in English digitally on June 17, 2011.[40][41] As of October 2, 2018, all 74 digital volumes were released.[34]

A 73-page chapter was published in Weekly Shōnen Jump, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the manga’s debut in the magazine, on August 10, 2021.[42] It was published in English by Viz Media’s Shonen Jump online magazine and on the Shueisha’s Manga Plus online platform. The one-shot ends seemingly on a cliffhanger and features the words «New Breathes From Hell» in English and «Gokui Meimei-hen» (獄頤嗚嗚篇) in Japanese, where the character for «hen» (篇) is usually used to denote the title of a story arc.[43] The chapter was digitally released as a collected volume on December 3, 2021.[44]

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Anime[edit]

Bleach was adapted by studio Pierrot into an anime television series directed by Noriyuki Abe and broadcast for 366 episodes on TV Tokyo, from October 2004 to March 2012.[45][46][47]

In March 2020, it was announced that the manga’s final story arc, «Thousand-Year Blood War», would receive a new anime project.[48] In November 2021, it was announced that the new project would be an anime television series.[49][50] It is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and premiered in October 2022.[51][52]

Films[edit]

The series has spawned four animated films: Bleach: Memories of Nobody, premiered on December 16, 2006;[53] Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion, premiered on December 22, 2007;[54] Bleach: Fade to Black, premiered on December 13, 2008;[55] and Bleach: Hell Verse, premiered on December 4, 2010.[56] A live-action film adaptation premiered in Japan on July 20, 2018.[57]

Light novels[edit]

Tite Kubo and Makoto Matsubara have co-authored three novelizations of the Bleach series, which were published by Shueisha under its Shounen Jump Books label. The first volume, Bleach — Letters From The Other Side: The Death and The Strawberry, was published on December 15, 2004, and re-released as Bleach — Letters From The Other Side: The Death and The Strawberry — New Edition on November 4, 2009.[58][59] The second, Bleach: The Honey Dish Rhapsody, was published on November 30, 2006.[60] The third, Bleach: The Death Save The Strawberry, was published on September 4, 2012.[61] Two novelizations of the Bleach series have been co-authored by Narita Ryohgo. The first volume, Bleach: Spirits Are Forever With You, and the second, Bleach: Spirits Are Forever With You 2, were published on June 4, 2012.[62][63]

After the series ended in 2016, a series of novels were released by Shueisha.[64] The first novel, Bleach: WE DO knot ALWAYS LOVE YOU, was written by the writer of Bleach: The Death Save The Strawberry Makoto Matsubara and was published on December 27, 2016. The second, Bleach: Can’t Fear Your Own World, is a serialized novel written by the writer of Bleach: Spirits Are Forever With You series Narita Ryohgo and was released bi-weekly from April 28, 2017.[65] The first volume was released on August 4, 2017[66] and the second volume was published on November 2, 2018. The novel series ended with the release of the third volume on December 4, 2018.[67] Viz Media published the three volumes of Bleach: Can’t Fear Your Own World between July 7, 2020,[68][69] and April 20, 2021.[70]

Shueisha published four novelizations based on the Bleach movies. The first volume, Bleach: Memories of Nobody, was published on December 18, 2006.[71] The second, Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion, Another Hyōrinmaru, was published on December 22, 2007.[72] The third, Bleach: Fade to Black, I Call Your Name, was published on December 15, 2008.[73] The fourth volume, Bleach: Hell Chapter, was published on December 6, 2010.[74]

Video games[edit]

A number of video games have been created featuring characters from the Bleach series, primarily though not exclusively fighting games. The first video game to be released from the Bleach series was Bleach: Heat the Soul, which debuted on March 24, 2005, for the Sony PlayStation Portable.[75] Currently, the majority of the games have only been released in Japan, though Sega has localized the first three Nintendo DS games and the first Wii game for North America.[76] So far, all dedicated Bleach games released for Sony’s consoles have been developed and published by SCEI, whereas the games for Nintendo consoles are developed and published by Sega, and the Nintendo DS games are developed by Treasure Co. Ltd.[77][78] Two mobile games had also been released in 2014 (Bleach: Bankai Batoru) and 2015 (Bleach: Brave Souls) for the series, which are available for iOS and Android.[79][80] In 2017, Line announced the release of a game exclusive for their communication app called Bleach: Paradise Lost.[81]

Trading card game[edit]

Two collectible card games (CCG) based on the Bleach series have been produced, one in the Japanese market and a different one in North America. Bleach Soul Card Battle, produced by Bandai, was introduced in Japan in 2004.[82] Twenty named sets were released for the series.[83] After Bleach Soul Card Battle, Bandai introduced three more series. Bleach The Card Gum, which contains 14 sets, was released in early September 2007.[84] The next series, Bleach Clear Collection, which contains six sets, was released in July 2008.[85] The last series, Bleach Clear Soul Plate, which consists of three sets, was published in December 2009.[86]

Bleach TCG was introduced in the United States by Score Entertainment in May 2007,[87] but ceased publication April 2009, just before the planned launch of its seventh expansion, Bleach Infiltration.[88] This cancellation was attributed to the ongoing recession, which has heavily affected TCG sales.[88] Designed by Aik Tongtharadol, the TCG is a two-player game in which each player starts with at least 61 cards: a «Guardian» card, a 60-card «main deck», and an optional 20-card «side deck». A player loses if his or her power, as dictated by the Guardian card, is reduced to zero, or if he or she is unable to draw or discard a card from his or her deck.[89] The cards for the game have been released in named sets with each set released in three formats: a 72-card pre-constructed box set containing a starter deck and two booster packs, a 10-card booster pack, and a 12-pack booster box. Six named sets were released.[90]

Musicals[edit]

Bleach has been adapted into a series of rock musicals, jointly produced by Studio Pierrot and Nelke Planning. There have been five musicals produced which covered portions of the Substitute and Soul Society arcs, as well as five additional performances known as «Live Bankai Shows» and «Rock Musical Bleach Shinsei», which did not follow the Bleach plotline. The initial performance run of the Bleach musical was from August 17–28, 2005, at the Space Zero Tokyo center in Shinjuku.[91][92][93]

The musicals are directed by Takuya Hiramitsu, with script adaptation by Naoshi Okumura and music composed by playwright Shoichi Tama. The songs are completely original and not taken from the anime soundtrack. Key actors in the series include Tatsuya Isaka, who plays Ichigo Kurosaki, Miki Satō, who plays Rukia Kuchiki, and Eiji Moriyama, who plays Renji Abarai.[94]

In 2016, another musical was produced to celebrate Bleach 15th anniversary. The musical was directed and written by Tsutsumi Yasuyuki with Dream5’s Akira Takano and Chihiro Kai as Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki respectively. The musical debuted on July 28, 2016, in AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo.[95][96]

Other media[edit]

The first Bleach artbook, All Colour But The Black, was released in Japan, the United States, and Europe. The artbook compiles a selection of color spreads from the first 19 volumes of the series, as well as some original art and author commentary.[97][98] The second artbook, Bleach Official Bootleg: KaraBuri+ (BLEACH OFFICIAL BOOTLEG カラブリ プラス), was released on August 3, 2007. In addition to character guides and articles on other fictional aspects of the series, it compiles the various short comics, Tedious Everyday Tales Colorful Bleach (徒然日常絵詞 カラフル ブリーチ, Tsuredure Nichijou Ekotoba Karafuru Buriichi), that were published in V Jump. The omake-style panels are similar to those included in the main series, but reveal more of the daily lives of characters.[99] Color Bleach+: Bleach Official Bootleg was released in English by Viz Media on August 10, 2010.[100] In December 2018, another artbook, titled Bleach JET was released, which contains a massive 700 artworks from the series’ 15 years tenure.[101]

Seven databooks have also been released about the series. The first two, Bleach: Official Character Book SOULs. and Bleach: Official Animation Book VIBEs., were released on February 3, 2006.[102][103] Bleach: Official Character Book SOULs. was later released in English by Viz Media on November 18, 2008.[104] The third book, Bleach: Official Character Book 2: MASKED, was released on August 4, 2010. This book covers details about characters that appear 100 years prior to the story, such as former captains and lieutenants, along with the Arrancars and Visoreds. Although it was released on the same day as volume 46, Back From Blind, the book only covers material up to volume 37, Beauty Is So Solitary.[105] The English version was released by Viz Media on March 6, 2012.[106] A fourth book Bleach: Official Invitation Book The Hell Verse, was published on December 4, 2010. This book was released to promote Bleach: Hell Verse and it contains character sketches, promotional posters and the one-off Hell manga special.[107] A fifth book Bleach: Official Character Book 3: UNMASKED, was released on June 3, 2011, the same day as the volume 50 of the series. However it only covers material up to volume 48, God is Dead.[108] On June 4, 2012, a sixth book was released under the name Bleach: The Rebooted Souls. This free booklet was distributed with Bleach manga volume 55, with the aim to provide information to readers about the manga’s final arc, The Thousand-Year Blood War.[109] The seventh book, BLEACH 13 BLADEs., was released on August 4, 2015, and focused solely on the Soul Reapers and the 13 Court Squads.[110]

Shueisha published a special book Bleach: JCCover Postcard Book MAILs., which was released on December 4, 2013. It features cover pages as postcards up to volume 60 with poems on the back.[111]

Reception[edit]

Fans dressed as characters from Bleach in 2014

Sales[edit]

Bleach had over 90 million tankōbon copies in circulation worldwide as of 2017;[112] over 120 million tankōbon copies in circulation worldwide as of 2018;[113][114][115] and over 130 million copies in circulation worldwide as of 2022, making it the 7th best-selling series of all time from Weekly Shōnen Jump.[116] During 2008, volume 34 of the manga sold 874,153 copies in Japan, becoming the 12th best-seller comics from the year. Volumes 33 and 35 have also ranked 17 and 18, respectively.[117] In total the manga has sold 3,161,825 copies in Japan during 2008, becoming the year’s 5th best selling series.[118] In the first half from 2009, Bleach ranked as the 2nd best-selling manga in Japan, having sold 3.5 million copies.[119] Having sold 927,610 copies, volume 36 ranked 7th, volume 37 was 8th with 907,714 sold copies, and volume 38 at 10th with 822,238 copies.[120]

North American sales of the manga have also been high, with tankōbon volumes having sold over 1.2 million copies by 2007.[121][122] Volume 16 placed in the top 10 graphic novel sales in December 2006 and volume 17 was the best-selling manga volume for the month of February 2007.[123][124][125] In a 2010 interview, Gonzalo Ferreyra, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Viz, listed Bleach as one of six Viz titles that continue to exceed expectations in spite of the harshening manga market.[126] As of 2022, the manga had over 2.7 million tankōbon volumes in circulation in the United States.[127]

Critical reception[edit]

Deb Aoki from About.com considered the series as the Best Continuing Shōnen Manga of 2007, along with Eyeshield 21, praising the «compelling stories, dazzling action sequences and great character development».[128] She also placed the title on her list of «Top 10 Shōnen Manga Must-Reads».[129] The artwork and the character designs received positive response by IGN’s A.E. Sparrow. He also commented on the series’ ability to handle multiple minor character plotlines at the same time, which he considered a point of appeal, in response to fans’ claims about a «lack of a story» in Bleach.[130] Leroy Douresseaux from ComicBookBin agreed with Sparrow in the number of storylines, but also praised the fighting scenes finding them comparable to the ones of popular films.[131][132] On the other hand, Mania reviewer Jarred Pine criticized the series as being plagued with stereotypes from the genre. He felt it was a rough start for the series with unimpressive battles, overused gags, and a bad introduction for central character Ichigo that causes him to come across «as a frowning punk» whose one good trait is his desire to protect. Despite this, Pine notes that he loves the series, particularly its quirky, lovable characters.[133] Jason Thompson said he was no longer able to take Bleach seriously after it introduced villains Ulquiorra and Yammy in a scene precisely mirroring Vegeta and Nappa’s arrival in Dragon Ball Z, but acknowledged it was likely intended as a deliberate homage. He also said Kubo was able to avoid the worst artistic failings typical in series which indulge in superpowered combat, but that the battle scenes were still sometimes difficult to follow.[134]

Accolades[edit]

In 2005, Bleach was awarded the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.[135][136] The English version of the manga was nominated for the «best manga» and «best theme» awards at the 2006 and 2007 American Anime Awards, but did not win either category.[137][138]

In November 2014, readers of Media Factory’s Da Vinci magazine voted Bleach #16 on a list of Weekly Shōnen Jump‘s greatest manga series of all time.[139] On TV Asahi’s Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll, in which 150.000 people voted for their top 100 manga series, Bleach ranked 23rd.[140]

See also[edit]

  • Burn the Witch, another manga series created by Kubo and set in the Bleach universe

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Comprising 686 listed chapters and 12 chapters which were listed as -108 to -97.

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External links[edit]

  • Bleach official website (in Japanese)
  • Bleach official website at Weekly Shōnen Jump (in Japanese)
  • Bleach (manga) at Anime News Network’s encyclopedia
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Bleach
Bleach cover 01.jpg

First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Ichigo Kurosaki
Genre
  • Adventure[1]
  • Supernatural[1]
Manga
Written by Tite Kubo
Published by Shueisha
English publisher

AUS

Madman Entertainment

NA

Viz Media
Imprint Jump Comics
Magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump
English magazine

NA

  • Shonen Jump (former)
  • Weekly Shonen Jump
Demographic Shōnen
Original run August 7, 2001 – August 22, 2016
Volumes 74 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
  • Bleach (2004–2012)
  • Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (2022–present)
Anime films
  • Bleach: Memories of Nobody (2006)
  • Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion (2007)
  • Bleach: Fade to Black (2008)
  • Bleach: Hell Verse (2010)
Live-action film
  • Bleach (2018)
Media franchise
  • List of Bleach light novels
  • List of Bleach video games
  • Bleach Trading Card Game
  • Bleach musicals

Bleach (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tite Kubo. It follows the adventures of a teenager Ichigo Kurosaki, who inherits his parents’ destiny after he obtains the powers of a Soul Reaper—a death personification similar to the Grim Reaper—from another Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki. His new-found powers allow him to take on the duties of defending humans from evil spirits and guiding departed souls to the afterlife, and set him on journeys to various ghostly realms of existence.

Bleach was serialized in Shueisha’s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from August 2001 to August 2016, with its chapters collected in 74 tankōbon volumes. The series has spawned a media franchise that includes an anime television series adaptation that was produced by Tokyo-based studio Pierrot from 2004 to 2012, two original video animation (OVA) episodes, four animated feature films, ten stage musicals, and numerous video games, as well as many types of Bleach-related merchandise. A Japanese live-action film adaptation produced by Warner Bros. premiered in 2018.

In North America, the manga was licensed for English release by Viz Media in 2004. They have released the collected volumes and published its chapters in their Shonen Jump magazine from November 2007 until the magazine’s final issue in April 2012.

Bleach received the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category in 2005. The manga had over 130 million tankōbon volumes in circulation worldwide as of 2022, making it the twelfth best-selling manga in history.

Plot summary[edit]

Ichigo Kurosaki is a teenager from Karakura Town who can see ghosts, a talent allowing him to meet a supernatural human Rukia Kuchiki, who enters the town in search of a Hollow, a kind of monstrous lost soul who can harm both ghosts and humans. Rukia is one of the Soul Reapers (死神, Shinigami, literally ‘Death Gods’), soldiers trusted with ushering the souls of the dead from the World of the Living to the Soul Society (尸魂界（ソウル・ソサエティ）, lit. «Dead Spirit World»), the afterlife realm from which she originates and with fighting Hollows. When she is severely wounded defending Ichigo from a Hollow she pursues, Rukia transfers her powers to Ichigo, so he may fight in her stead while she recovers her strength. Rukia is thereby trapped in an ordinary human body, and must advise Ichigo as he balances the demands of his substitute Soul Reaper duties and attending high school. For aid in hunting the Hollows, the pair ally with a trio of other spiritually empowered allies: Ichigo’s high school classmate Orihime Inoue, best friend Yasutora «Chad» Sado and Uryū Ishida, a Quincy classmate with the ability to control spiritual particles.

Eventually, Rukia is arrested by her Soul Reaper superiors and sentenced to death for the illegal act of transferring her powers into a human. Ichigo and his friends enlist the help of ex-Soul Reaper scientist Kisuke Urahara, who trains Ichigo to access his own Soul Reaper powers, to enter the Soul Society and rescue Rukia. Shortly after the party’s arrival in the Soul Society, conflict arises among the captains of the Thirteen Court Squads when the captain of the fifth company, Sōsuke Aizen, is apparently murdered; the captains believed that the intruders might have been responsible, which causes the Soul Reapers to begin fighting amongst themselves. Thereafter, the Captain Commander Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto, issues the Soul Reapers to arrest Ichigo and his friends as suspects. However, Ichigo saves Rukia and manages to stop the war against the Soul Society. Aizen reappears and reveals his intention to obtain the Hōgyoku (崩玉, lit. «Crumbling Orb»), an orb of immense power Kisuke planted inside Rukia, by faking his death and arranging the execution. Aizen accompanies his fellow conspirators, Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tōsen, who are the third and ninth company’s captains, as they use Hollows to cover their escape into the Hollows’ realm, Hueco Mundo (虚圏（ウェコムンド）, lit. «Hollow World»). Afterwards, Ichigo and Rukia reconcile with the Soul Reapers, who view the former as a powerful ally and designate him an official title as Substitute Soul Reaper.

Ichigo soon finds himself and his friends in escalating skirmishes with Aizen’s army of humanoid Hollows, the Arrancar, as they are joined by the Vizards. Soul Reapers who were victims of Aizen’s experiments in creating Soul Reaper/Hollow hybrids. When Ulquiora, one of the Espada (Aizen’s ten most powerful Arrancars) kidnaps Orihime, Ichigo and his allies enter Hueco Mundo to invade Las Noches. However, as Ichigo rescues Orihime, Aizen reveals her abduction was a distraction as he launches an attack on Karakura Town, in order to sacrifice everyone and create a key to the Soul King’s Palace, so he can kill the Soul King who reigns over the Soul Society. Anticipating Aizen’s attack, the Thirteen Court Squads had already been waiting for him by moving the entire Karakura Town to the Soul Society prior to his attack. When the Vizards join the remaining Soul Reapers, Gin reveals his agenda of killing Aizen. The latter uses the Hōgyoku to become a Hollow-like being. However, Ichigo sacrifices his power to defeat Aizen and reverts to a normal human.

Months later, preparing for life after high school, Ichigo is called back into action when Xcution, a gang of Fullbringers—supernaturally aware humans like Chad—manipulate him and his loved ones in a scheme to siphon his Fullbring abilities. After his Soul Society allies restore his Soul Reaper powers, Ichigo learns that Xcution’s leader, Kugo Ginjo, was his predecessor. It is revealed that the Soul Society did not trust the substitute Soul Reapers, so they used the badge given to the Substitute Soul Reaper to monitor and restrict his power output. Ginjo felt betrayed and swore vengeance to all Soul Reapers. Despite knowing the truth, Ichigo decides to trust his Soul Reaper friends and defeats Ginjo. With his power restored, Ichigo once again is reinstated as a Substitute Soul Reaper.

After Ichigo regained his powers, an army of Quincies known as the Wandenreich (見えざる帝国（ヴァンデンライヒ）, lit. «Invisible Empire») appear and declare war against the Soul Society, having already enslaved many Arrancars in Hueco Mundo. The group is led by Yhwach, the ancient progenitor of the Quincies, who seeks to kill the Soul King and rid the world of death and fear. In their first invasion, the Wandenreich kill many Soul Reapers including the Head-Captain, Yamamoto. Uryū joins Yhwach and learns the truth behind the death of his mother. Later on, Ichigo and his friends aid the Soul Society in fighting the Wandenreich’s second invasion, but Yhwach succeeds in invading the Royal Palace and killing the Soul King. In the final battle, the surviving Shinigami, along with Ichigo and his friends, assault Yhwach’s new palace and defeat his most powerful Sternritter. Yhwach returns to the Soul Society to destroy it, but Ichigo defeats him with the help of Uryū and Aizen, after the latter was temporarily released from prison.

Ten years later, Rukia becomes the new captain of the thirteenth company and has a daughter, an apprentice Soul Reaper named Ichika, with her childhood friend Renji Abarai. Meanwhile, Ichigo and Orihime have a son named Kazui, who is also a Soul Reaper. Two years later, Ichigo attends the Soul Funeral Ceremony for Jūshirō Ukitake. While the Captains are waiting in the Soul Society to perform the ritual, Ichigo joins the Lieutenants at Karakura Town to capture Hollows that will be used as a sacrifice. They are ambushed by the Beasts of Hell, led by the late Octava Espada. Even though the lieutenants managed to easily suppress them, it is revealed that the ceremony is a process of sending the late captains to Hell.

Production[edit]

Bleach was first conceived from Tite Kubo’s desire to draw a Shinigami (Soul Reaper) in a kimono, which formed the basis for the design of the Soul Reapers in the series.[2][3] At first, Kubo thought that the Soul Reapers should use guns, so the first title for the series was «Snipe» (as in «sniper»); however, this was changed with the inclusion of swords.[4] After that, the series was meant to be named «Black» due to the color of the Soul Reapers’ clothes, but Kubo thought the title was too generic. He later tried the name of «White», but came to like «Bleach» more for its association with the color white and that he did not find it too obvious.[5] The original story concept was submitted to Weekly Shōnen Jump shortly after the cancellation of Kubo’s previous manga, Zombiepowder, but was at first rejected.[6] Manga artist Akira Toriyama saw the story and wrote a letter of encouragement to Kubo.[3] Bleach was accepted for publication a short time later in 2001, and was initially intended to be a shorter series, with a maximum serialization length of five years.[3] Early plans for the story did not include the hierarchical structure of the Soul Society, but did include some characters and elements that were not introduced into the plot until the Arrancar arc, such as Ichigo’s Soul Reaper parentage.[2]

Kubo has cited influences for elements of Bleach ranging from other manga series to music, foreign language, architecture, and film. He attributed his interest in drawing the supernatural and monsters to Shigeru Mizuki’s GeGeGe no Kitaro and Bleach‘s focus on interesting weaponry and battle scenes to Masami Kurumada’s Saint Seiya, manga that Kubo enjoyed as a boy.[2] The latter is based on Greek mythology and Kubo also considered it as a source for his focus on myths, monsters and the afterlife.[4] The action style and storytelling found in Bleach are inspired by cinema, though Kubo has not revealed any specific movie as being an influence for fight scenes. When pressed, he told interviewers that he liked Snatch but did not use it as a model.[7] Bleach‘s fight choreography is instead constructed with the aid of rock music, which the author listens to while imagining the fights in order to give him a sense of pacing for the panel cuts and change of angles through the scenes.[8] Kubo prefers to draw realistic injuries in order to render the fight more impactful, by making the readers feel the pain the characters are feeling.[9] Bleach‘s fight scenes are often broken up with brief gags, which the author inserts when he grows bored during the illustration process.[8]

Bleach‘s plotting process is focused around character design. When writing plotlines or having difficulties generating new material, Kubo begins by thinking of new characters, often en masse, and rereading previous volumes of Bleach.[2][9] Kubo has said that he likes creating characters that have outward appearances that do not match their true nature—an element that can be found in many Bleach characters—as he is «attracted to people with that seeming contradiction» and finds an «urge to draw people like that» when he works.[10] The terminology used in Bleach has a variety of inspirations, with each category of characters bearing a different linguistic theme. Many of the names for swords and spells used by Soul Reapers were inspired by ancient Japanese literature. Hollows and Arrancars use Spanish terms. Fullbringers use English vocabulary, with names referencing rock music, and finally, both Quincy and Bounts draw on the German language. This multilingual terminology, along with the variety in apparent character ethnicities, emphasizes the international nature of the Bleach settings.[10]

Themes and analysis[edit]

Bleach‘s plot incorporates the traditional Japanese belief of spirits coexisting with humans and their nature, good or evil, depends on the circumstances.[11] An example is Orihime’s backstory. She was raised from the age of three by her brother Sora, and prayed for his soul’s peace after he died in a car accident.[12] As time went on, she prayed less and Sora became jealous and turned into a Hollow and attacked Orihime. Academic Patrick Drazen says this is a reminder to the audience to not abandon the old ways or risk the spirits taking offense and causing problems in the world.[13] Bleach also incorporates Shinto themes of purification of «evil spirits through charms, scrolls, incantations, and other rituals».[11] Christopher A. Born regards Bleach as transmitting Confucian values.[14]

Von Feigenblatt describes Bleach as being culturally and religiously aware, as it draws upon Christianity and Caribbean Santería.[11] Spanish terms are prevalent throughout the realm of Hueco Mundo,[11] while both Quincy and Bounts have been known to associate with the German language, making Kubo’s world of characters diverse in race and language as well.[10] Von Feigenblatt notes that the Quincy «are clearly inspired by the Roman Catholic Christian Orders of Knighthood such as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre whose influence is shown in terms of the uniform worn by the Quincy as well as by the symbolism of the cross».[11]

Publication[edit]

Bleach, written and illustrated by Tite Kubo, was serialized for fifteen years in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump from August 7, 2001,[15][16] to August 22, 2016.[17][18] Its 698 individual chapters[a] were collected in seventy-four tankōbon volumes released between January 5, 2002, and November 4, 2016.[19][20] Shueisha published the first twenty-one volumes compiled into six omnibus collections under the name Resurrected Souls to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the series.[21] The first collection was released on August 22, 2011;[22] the last collection was published on January 23, 2012.[23] On September 21, 2012, Shueisha released 45 digital volumes in Japanese e-book stores,[24][25] concluding with the 74th on November 4, 2016.[26] These digital editions have been re-released as a set of 10 volumes on April 26, 2013;[27] the sixth was released on March 14, 2014.[28]

North American licensor Viz Media serialized the first chapters in the print magazine Shonen Jump from its November 2007 to April 2012 issues.[29][30] The series moved to the digital anthology Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha in January 2012 and Viz Media released it digitally as Shueisha published new chapters in Japan.[31][32] The first volume on English was released on July 6, 2004,[33] and the last volume–the 74th–was released on October 2, 2018.[34] Viz also released a hardcover «collector’s edition» of the first volume that came with a dust jacket,[35] two box sets,[36][37] and twenty-five «3-in-1 edition» volumes between June 7, 2011,[38] and March 5, 2019.[39] Viz Media released first 16 volumes in English digitally on June 17, 2011.[40][41] As of October 2, 2018, all 74 digital volumes were released.[34]

A 73-page chapter was published in Weekly Shōnen Jump, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the manga’s debut in the magazine, on August 10, 2021.[42] It was published in English by Viz Media’s Shonen Jump online magazine and on the Shueisha’s Manga Plus online platform. The one-shot ends seemingly on a cliffhanger and features the words «New Breathes From Hell» in English and «Gokui Meimei-hen» (獄頤嗚嗚篇) in Japanese, where the character for «hen» (篇) is usually used to denote the title of a story arc.[43] The chapter was digitally released as a collected volume on December 3, 2021.[44]

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Anime[edit]

Bleach was adapted by studio Pierrot into an anime television series directed by Noriyuki Abe and broadcast for 366 episodes on TV Tokyo, from October 2004 to March 2012.[45][46][47]

In March 2020, it was announced that the manga’s final story arc, «Thousand-Year Blood War», would receive a new anime project.[48] In November 2021, it was announced that the new project would be an anime television series.[49][50] It is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and premiered in October 2022.[51][52]

Films[edit]

The series has spawned four animated films: Bleach: Memories of Nobody, premiered on December 16, 2006;[53] Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion, premiered on December 22, 2007;[54] Bleach: Fade to Black, premiered on December 13, 2008;[55] and Bleach: Hell Verse, premiered on December 4, 2010.[56] A live-action film adaptation premiered in Japan on July 20, 2018.[57]

Light novels[edit]

Tite Kubo and Makoto Matsubara have co-authored three novelizations of the Bleach series, which were published by Shueisha under its Shounen Jump Books label. The first volume, Bleach — Letters From The Other Side: The Death and The Strawberry, was published on December 15, 2004, and re-released as Bleach — Letters From The Other Side: The Death and The Strawberry — New Edition on November 4, 2009.[58][59] The second, Bleach: The Honey Dish Rhapsody, was published on November 30, 2006.[60] The third, Bleach: The Death Save The Strawberry, was published on September 4, 2012.[61] Two novelizations of the Bleach series have been co-authored by Narita Ryohgo. The first volume, Bleach: Spirits Are Forever With You, and the second, Bleach: Spirits Are Forever With You 2, were published on June 4, 2012.[62][63]

After the series ended in 2016, a series of novels were released by Shueisha.[64] The first novel, Bleach: WE DO knot ALWAYS LOVE YOU, was written by the writer of Bleach: The Death Save The Strawberry Makoto Matsubara and was published on December 27, 2016. The second, Bleach: Can’t Fear Your Own World, is a serialized novel written by the writer of Bleach: Spirits Are Forever With You series Narita Ryohgo and was released bi-weekly from April 28, 2017.[65] The first volume was released on August 4, 2017[66] and the second volume was published on November 2, 2018. The novel series ended with the release of the third volume on December 4, 2018.[67] Viz Media published the three volumes of Bleach: Can’t Fear Your Own World between July 7, 2020,[68][69] and April 20, 2021.[70]

Shueisha published four novelizations based on the Bleach movies. The first volume, Bleach: Memories of Nobody, was published on December 18, 2006.[71] The second, Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion, Another Hyōrinmaru, was published on December 22, 2007.[72] The third, Bleach: Fade to Black, I Call Your Name, was published on December 15, 2008.[73] The fourth volume, Bleach: Hell Chapter, was published on December 6, 2010.[74]

Video games[edit]

A number of video games have been created featuring characters from the Bleach series, primarily though not exclusively fighting games. The first video game to be released from the Bleach series was Bleach: Heat the Soul, which debuted on March 24, 2005, for the Sony PlayStation Portable.[75] Currently, the majority of the games have only been released in Japan, though Sega has localized the first three Nintendo DS games and the first Wii game for North America.[76] So far, all dedicated Bleach games released for Sony’s consoles have been developed and published by SCEI, whereas the games for Nintendo consoles are developed and published by Sega, and the Nintendo DS games are developed by Treasure Co. Ltd.[77][78] Two mobile games had also been released in 2014 (Bleach: Bankai Batoru) and 2015 (Bleach: Brave Souls) for the series, which are available for iOS and Android.[79][80] In 2017, Line announced the release of a game exclusive for their communication app called Bleach: Paradise Lost.[81]

Trading card game[edit]

Two collectible card games (CCG) based on the Bleach series have been produced, one in the Japanese market and a different one in North America. Bleach Soul Card Battle, produced by Bandai, was introduced in Japan in 2004.[82] Twenty named sets were released for the series.[83] After Bleach Soul Card Battle, Bandai introduced three more series. Bleach The Card Gum, which contains 14 sets, was released in early September 2007.[84] The next series, Bleach Clear Collection, which contains six sets, was released in July 2008.[85] The last series, Bleach Clear Soul Plate, which consists of three sets, was published in December 2009.[86]

Bleach TCG was introduced in the United States by Score Entertainment in May 2007,[87] but ceased publication April 2009, just before the planned launch of its seventh expansion, Bleach Infiltration.[88] This cancellation was attributed to the ongoing recession, which has heavily affected TCG sales.[88] Designed by Aik Tongtharadol, the TCG is a two-player game in which each player starts with at least 61 cards: a «Guardian» card, a 60-card «main deck», and an optional 20-card «side deck». A player loses if his or her power, as dictated by the Guardian card, is reduced to zero, or if he or she is unable to draw or discard a card from his or her deck.[89] The cards for the game have been released in named sets with each set released in three formats: a 72-card pre-constructed box set containing a starter deck and two booster packs, a 10-card booster pack, and a 12-pack booster box. Six named sets were released.[90]

Musicals[edit]

Bleach has been adapted into a series of rock musicals, jointly produced by Studio Pierrot and Nelke Planning. There have been five musicals produced which covered portions of the Substitute and Soul Society arcs, as well as five additional performances known as «Live Bankai Shows» and «Rock Musical Bleach Shinsei», which did not follow the Bleach plotline. The initial performance run of the Bleach musical was from August 17–28, 2005, at the Space Zero Tokyo center in Shinjuku.[91][92][93]

The musicals are directed by Takuya Hiramitsu, with script adaptation by Naoshi Okumura and music composed by playwright Shoichi Tama. The songs are completely original and not taken from the anime soundtrack. Key actors in the series include Tatsuya Isaka, who plays Ichigo Kurosaki, Miki Satō, who plays Rukia Kuchiki, and Eiji Moriyama, who plays Renji Abarai.[94]

In 2016, another musical was produced to celebrate Bleach 15th anniversary. The musical was directed and written by Tsutsumi Yasuyuki with Dream5’s Akira Takano and Chihiro Kai as Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki respectively. The musical debuted on July 28, 2016, in AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo.[95][96]

Other media[edit]

The first Bleach artbook, All Colour But The Black, was released in Japan, the United States, and Europe. The artbook compiles a selection of color spreads from the first 19 volumes of the series, as well as some original art and author commentary.[97][98] The second artbook, Bleach Official Bootleg: KaraBuri+ (BLEACH OFFICIAL BOOTLEG カラブリ プラス), was released on August 3, 2007. In addition to character guides and articles on other fictional aspects of the series, it compiles the various short comics, Tedious Everyday Tales Colorful Bleach (徒然日常絵詞 カラフル ブリーチ, Tsuredure Nichijou Ekotoba Karafuru Buriichi), that were published in V Jump. The omake-style panels are similar to those included in the main series, but reveal more of the daily lives of characters.[99] Color Bleach+: Bleach Official Bootleg was released in English by Viz Media on August 10, 2010.[100] In December 2018, another artbook, titled Bleach JET was released, which contains a massive 700 artworks from the series’ 15 years tenure.[101]

Seven databooks have also been released about the series. The first two, Bleach: Official Character Book SOULs. and Bleach: Official Animation Book VIBEs., were released on February 3, 2006.[102][103] Bleach: Official Character Book SOULs. was later released in English by Viz Media on November 18, 2008.[104] The third book, Bleach: Official Character Book 2: MASKED, was released on August 4, 2010. This book covers details about characters that appear 100 years prior to the story, such as former captains and lieutenants, along with the Arrancars and Visoreds. Although it was released on the same day as volume 46, Back From Blind, the book only covers material up to volume 37, Beauty Is So Solitary.[105] The English version was released by Viz Media on March 6, 2012.[106] A fourth book Bleach: Official Invitation Book The Hell Verse, was published on December 4, 2010. This book was released to promote Bleach: Hell Verse and it contains character sketches, promotional posters and the one-off Hell manga special.[107] A fifth book Bleach: Official Character Book 3: UNMASKED, was released on June 3, 2011, the same day as the volume 50 of the series. However it only covers material up to volume 48, God is Dead.[108] On June 4, 2012, a sixth book was released under the name Bleach: The Rebooted Souls. This free booklet was distributed with Bleach manga volume 55, with the aim to provide information to readers about the manga’s final arc, The Thousand-Year Blood War.[109] The seventh book, BLEACH 13 BLADEs., was released on August 4, 2015, and focused solely on the Soul Reapers and the 13 Court Squads.[110]

Shueisha published a special book Bleach: JCCover Postcard Book MAILs., which was released on December 4, 2013. It features cover pages as postcards up to volume 60 with poems on the back.[111]

Reception[edit]

Fans dressed as characters from Bleach in 2014

Sales[edit]

Bleach had over 90 million tankōbon copies in circulation worldwide as of 2017;[112] over 120 million tankōbon copies in circulation worldwide as of 2018;[113][114][115] and over 130 million copies in circulation worldwide as of 2022, making it the 7th best-selling series of all time from Weekly Shōnen Jump.[116] During 2008, volume 34 of the manga sold 874,153 copies in Japan, becoming the 12th best-seller comics from the year. Volumes 33 and 35 have also ranked 17 and 18, respectively.[117] In total the manga has sold 3,161,825 copies in Japan during 2008, becoming the year’s 5th best selling series.[118] In the first half from 2009, Bleach ranked as the 2nd best-selling manga in Japan, having sold 3.5 million copies.[119] Having sold 927,610 copies, volume 36 ranked 7th, volume 37 was 8th with 907,714 sold copies, and volume 38 at 10th with 822,238 copies.[120]

North American sales of the manga have also been high, with tankōbon volumes having sold over 1.2 million copies by 2007.[121][122] Volume 16 placed in the top 10 graphic novel sales in December 2006 and volume 17 was the best-selling manga volume for the month of February 2007.[123][124][125] In a 2010 interview, Gonzalo Ferreyra, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Viz, listed Bleach as one of six Viz titles that continue to exceed expectations in spite of the harshening manga market.[126] As of 2022, the manga had over 2.7 million tankōbon volumes in circulation in the United States.[127]

Critical reception[edit]

Deb Aoki from About.com considered the series as the Best Continuing Shōnen Manga of 2007, along with Eyeshield 21, praising the «compelling stories, dazzling action sequences and great character development».[128] She also placed the title on her list of «Top 10 Shōnen Manga Must-Reads».[129] The artwork and the character designs received positive response by IGN’s A.E. Sparrow. He also commented on the series’ ability to handle multiple minor character plotlines at the same time, which he considered a point of appeal, in response to fans’ claims about a «lack of a story» in Bleach.[130] Leroy Douresseaux from ComicBookBin agreed with Sparrow in the number of storylines, but also praised the fighting scenes finding them comparable to the ones of popular films.[131][132] On the other hand, Mania reviewer Jarred Pine criticized the series as being plagued with stereotypes from the genre. He felt it was a rough start for the series with unimpressive battles, overused gags, and a bad introduction for central character Ichigo that causes him to come across «as a frowning punk» whose one good trait is his desire to protect. Despite this, Pine notes that he loves the series, particularly its quirky, lovable characters.[133] Jason Thompson said he was no longer able to take Bleach seriously after it introduced villains Ulquiorra and Yammy in a scene precisely mirroring Vegeta and Nappa’s arrival in Dragon Ball Z, but acknowledged it was likely intended as a deliberate homage. He also said Kubo was able to avoid the worst artistic failings typical in series which indulge in superpowered combat, but that the battle scenes were still sometimes difficult to follow.[134]

Accolades[edit]

In 2005, Bleach was awarded the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.[135][136] The English version of the manga was nominated for the «best manga» and «best theme» awards at the 2006 and 2007 American Anime Awards, but did not win either category.[137][138]

In November 2014, readers of Media Factory’s Da Vinci magazine voted Bleach #16 on a list of Weekly Shōnen Jump‘s greatest manga series of all time.[139] On TV Asahi’s Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll, in which 150.000 people voted for their top 100 manga series, Bleach ranked 23rd.[140]

See also[edit]

  • Burn the Witch, another manga series created by Kubo and set in the Bleach universe

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Comprising 686 listed chapters and 12 chapters which were listed as -108 to -97.

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External links[edit]

  • Bleach official website (in Japanese)
  • Bleach official website at Weekly Shōnen Jump (in Japanese)
  • Bleach (manga) at Anime News Network’s encyclopedia
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This article is about Japanese anime television series. For other uses, see Bleach (disambiguation).

Bleach
Bleachanime.png

Key visual of the series featuring (from left to right) Rukia Kuchiki, Kon, Yasutora «Chad» Sado, Ichigo Kurosaki, Uryū Ishida and Orihime Inoue
Genre
  • Adventure[1]
  • Supernatural[1]
Anime television series
Directed by Noriyuki Abe
Produced by
  • Ken Hagino
  • Noriko Kobayashi (#1–86, 226–328)
  • Yutaka Sugiyama (#1–25, 355–366)
  • Yukio Yoshimura (#26–133)
  • Shunji Aoki (#87–225)
  • Aya Mizobuchi (#134–157)
  • Mai Nagai (#158–354)
  • Hatsuo Nara (#343–366)
Written by
  • Masashi Sogo (#1–229, #266–316)
  • Tsuyoshi Kida (#230–265)
  • Kento Shimoyama (#317–366)
Music by Shirō Sagisu
Studio Pierrot
Licensed by
  • Viz Media[a]

  • SEA

    Medialink
Original network TXN (TV Tokyo)
English network

AU

SBS

AUS

Adult Swim

CA

YTV

NA

Neon Alley

SEA

Animax

UK

AnimeCentral

US

Adult Swim (Toonami)[b]
Original run October 5, 2004 – March 27, 2012
Episodes 366 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War
Directed by
  • Tomohisa Taguchi
  • Mitsutoshi Satou[c]
  • Hikaru Murata[c]
Produced by
  • Makoto Hijikata
  • Tasuku Honda
  • Genki Negishi
  • Yoshihiro Tominaga
Written by
  • Tomohisa Taguchi
  • Masaki Hiramatsu
Music by Shirō Sagisu
Studio Pierrot
Licensed by
  • Viz Media

  • SEA

    Medialink
Original network TV Tokyo
Original run October 11, 2022 – present
Episodes 13 (List of episodes)
Related works
  • Bleach (manga)
  • Bleach: Memories of Nobody
  • Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion
  • Bleach: Fade to Black
  • Bleach: Hell Verse
  • Rock Musical Bleach
  • Bleach-related video games

Bleach (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese anime television series based on Tite Kubo’s original manga series of the same name. It was produced by Studio Pierrot and directed by Noriyuki Abe. The series aired on TV Tokyo from October 2004 to March 2012, spanning 366 episodes. The story follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki after he obtains the powers of a Soul Reaper—a death personification similar to the Grim Reaper—from another Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki. His newfound powers force him to take on the duties of defending humans from evil spirits and guiding departed souls to the afterlife. In addition to adapting the manga series it is based on, the anime periodically includes original self-contained storylines and characters not found in the manga.

Viz Media obtained foreign television and home video distribution rights to the Bleach anime in March 2006. Bleach was broadcast in the United States on Adult Swim from September 2006 to November 2014.

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, a sequel series covering the manga’s final story arc, also animated by Pierrot and directed by Tomohisa Taguchi, premiered in October 2022.

Plot[edit]

The series adapts Kubo’s manga with the main story arcs and introduces anime exclusive ones. In Karakura Town, high school student Ichigo Kurosaki becomes a substitute Soul Reaper (死神, Shinigami, literally, «Death God»), when Rukia Kuchiki risks her life to protect him from a Hollow. Although initially reluctant to accept their responsibility, he takes her place, and during this time they discover that a few classmates are spiritually aware and have their own powers: Quincy survivor Uryū Ishida uses spiritual particles, Orihime Inoue has a group of protective spirits called Shun Shun Rikka and Yasutora Sado («Chad») has strength equal to the Hollows encased in his arm.

When Rukia is sentenced to death for transgressions in the human world and sent to the Soul Society, Ichigo meets Kisuke Urahara and Yoruichi Shihōin, who unbeknownst to him are two exiled Soul Reapers, to allow himself and his friends to save Rukia. After this, it is revealed that ex-squad captain Sōsuke Aizen framed Rukia for the crime and has been illegally experimenting on Soul Reapers and Hollows. Aizen plans to conquer the Soul Society by using the Hōgyoku, a legendary powerful substance turning Hollows into half Soul Reapers. After faking his death and his reappearance caused a fight with some people, Aizen escapes into Hueco Mundo, the realm of Hollows, and later kidnaps Orihime as she is instrumental in creating the Oken, a power that will allow him to kill the Soul King, the ruler of the Soul Society.

After being trained by the Vizards, other exiled Soul Reapers and the victims of Aizen’s experiment, Ichigo and his friends travel into Hueco Mundo. Facing a group of Arrancars, who are Hollows given Soul Reaper abilities, led by an elite group known as the Espadas, which are composed of ten Arrancars with exemplary strength. Espadas serve as commanders in Aizen’s army and each has the factions of weaker Arrancars. Along with Aizen, Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tōsen, the Espada as a group possess comparable strength to Soul Reaper captains. After rescuing Orihime, Aizen reveals her kidnapping was a distraction to allow him to take Karakura Town, as its spiritual energy is what is needed for the Oken. After being trained by his father Isshin, another exiled Soul Reaper, Ichigo sacrifices his power to seal Aizen away when the Hōgyoku rejects its master, and the Soul Reapers defeat the Espadas. Months later, Chad and the members reveal themselves as Fullbringers in a group called Xcution. They can give up their powers to restore other ones and they plan on doing so for Ichigo, who uses the power of Fullbringer. However, it is all a ruse by their leader Kugo Ginjo, a Fullbringer and former Substitute Soul Reaper, to extract his powers and empower all of them. Ichigo has his Soul Reaper powers restored, when he gains his trust from the Soul Society. After helping other Soul Reapers defeat Ginjo’s team, Ichigo resumes his duty as a Substitute Soul Reaper.

Several anime exclusive story arcs are introduced during the series. The first arc focuses on the Bount, a group of spiritual humans who are immortal longer by stealing souls. Their leader, Jin Kariya, seeks to destroy the Soul Society in revenge. However, Ichigo and his allies defeat them. The second arc focuses on Shūsuke Amagai, a Soul Reaper captain replacing Ichimaru. Amagai seeks revenge against Captain Yamamoto for the death of his father and uses the clan’s forbidden experiment. However, Amagai realizes his mistake and kills himself. The third arc features the evil Zanpakutō spirit Muramasa, who turns itself and other ones into spiritual beings to take revenge on the Soul Society for imprisoning its master Kōga Kuchiki. After succeeding, he is double-crossed and transforms into a monstrous creature that Ichigo defeats, but after Muramasa reveals the intention was to have Soul Reapers and Zanpakutō communicate on equal terms. The fourth and final arc features an event in which Kagerōza Inaba creates modified copies of all Soul Reapers in Reigai bodies. He attempts to fuse with Nozomi Kujō into an original being Ōko Yushima. However, Nozomi sacrifices herself to defeat Inaba and Ichigo loses his power.

Casting[edit]

Ichigo’s voice actor, Masakazu Morita, tried to recreate the mood that he felt when he read the manga and imagined hearing the dialogue. In an interview with Elicia O’Reilly of the Japan Foundation, Morita said that to get into character, he would say a line that epitomizes that character.[3]

English voice cast[edit]

Studio City, Los Angeles-based Studiopolis was hired to dub the anime. The English-language cast was assembled from experienced industry actors that have dozens of roles in other anime series, films and video games. Originally, Johnny Yong Bosch, Ichigo’s English voice actor, found pronouncing the names of the characters to be difficult and tried to emulate the deep gruff voice of the Japanese Ichigo.[4] Bosch acknowledges that the directorial control was loosened as the work progressed; stating around episode 10, as he was guided into the role of Ichigo and the growth of the character.[4] Bosch noted that the long scenes of screaming and panting, in particular, the scene in episode 18, have nearly made him pass out.[4] Stephanie Sheh noticed the difference in the tone of her Orihime voice in the English adaptation and described it as being higher-pitched and «innocent-sounding».[4] The English dub producers wanted to make Orihime sound tough, and comedic, but not «ditzy». She relates to her character’s unusual creations for food.[4] Derek Stephen Prince likes to play Uryu because he is the black sheep of the cast and he is a complex character.[4] Throughout the production, Prince acknowledges his role as the English voice actor of Shino Aburame from Naruto and sets them apart by taking a Clint Eastwood tone for Uryu.[4]

For the voicework, one of the challenges was stating Japanese phrases while maintaining pronunciation and inflection.[4] The duality of the story was hard to keep up with, and the cast had to juggle the challenges of performing under the different lifestyles of the characters.[4] The voice actors often made suggestions for the scenes that differ from the approved script and results in rewriting and additional takes that were put into the dub.[4]

Production[edit]

Noriyuki Abe was chosen as director of the series while Masashi Sogo [ja] acted as head writer for episodes 1–212. Tsuyoshi Kida was the head writer for episodes 230–265. Kento Shimoyama held the title of head writer for episodes #17–366. Masashi Kudō provided the character designs, occasionally providing key animation or acting as an animation supervisor himself.

The music of Bleach was composed by Shirō Sagisu. Sagisu’s musical score for the television series was released in four-CD sets. Four additional CDs were released for the music composed for the four Bleach animated films.

During the production and broadcast of the first 167 episodes, the screen size was in 4:3; episodes 168 through 366 were produced and broadcast in 16:9 widescreen.

In a 2009 interview, Kubo and Kudō discussed the upcoming anime original season Zanpakutō: The Alternate Tale, with Kubo expressing that he desired to borrow events and concepts within it for the manga. Kubo also revealed that his art style varies in the production of the work and only became cemented after the airing of the anime. He acknowledges his art style has changed as a result of his work and gave an example that he no longer draws hair growing from behind the ears of characters.[5]

Music[edit]

The soundtrack of Bleach, composed by Shirō Sagisu, was released in four volumes and an anniversary box set. A series of character song albums, the «Bleach Beat Collection» albums, and best-of albums composed of the theme songs were released, all by Sony Music Entertainment Japan.[6]

Five volumes of Bleach Soundtracks have been released. Bleach Original Soundtrack 1 has twenty five songs, released on May 18, 2005.[7] Bleach Original Soundtrack 2 has twenty three songs covering up to episode 64 of the Bount Arc and was released on August 8, 2006.[8] Bleach Original Soundtrack 3 has twenty seven songs and was released on November 5, 2008.[9] Bleach Original Soundtrack 4 was the fourth and final album that has thirty songs, and was released on December 16, 2009.[10] The fifth anniversary box set was released on July 29, 2009, with a CD including 21 previously unreleased songs.[11]

The Bleach Beat Collections is a set of CDs published by Sony Music featuring recordings by the original Japanese voice actors that provide a look at the personalities of the characters they play, as well as the voice actors themselves. The first CD was released on June 22, 2005, twenty-one volumes followed across four named sets called Sessions.[12]

A number of additional collections have been released. Two volumes were released as «The Best», with each volume containing twenty four songs each on two discs; the first volume released March 21, 2007, and the second one on March 18, 2009.[13][14] The «Bleach Breathless Collection» contains six releases featuring five tracks of the individual Soul Reaper. The six volumes feature Ichigo, Rukia, Renji, Toshiro, Shuhei and Byakuya, respectively. Three Radio DJCD Bleach ‘B’ Station season CD sets, each containing six volumes, have been released in Japan.[15]

Broadcast and release[edit]

Bleach premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo on October 5, 2004.[16] The series was directed by Noriyuki Abe, and produced by TV Tokyo, Dentsu and Studio Pierrot.[17] It ran for 366 episodes, finishing on March 27, 2012.[18] 88 DVD compilations were released by Aniplex in Japan from February 2, 2005, to January 23, 2013.[d]

Viz Media obtained the foreign television, home video and merchandising rights to the Bleach anime from TV Tokyo Corporation, and Shueisha on March 15, 2006.[35] Viz Media had later licensed its individual Bleach merchandising rights to several different companies.[36] In North America, the series first premiered on Canada’s YTV channel in the Bionix programming block on September 9, 2006.[37] Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim began airing Bleach in the United States on September 10, 2006.[38][39] Adult Swim stopped broadcasting episodes of the English adaptation on October 13, 2007, after airing the first 52 episodes of the series. It was replaced with another Viz Media series, Death Note, to provide Studiopolis more time to dub additional episodes of Bleach.[40] The series resumed airing on March 2, 2008,[41] but went back on hiatus on November 21, 2009, after the 167th episode. The series returned to the block with new episodes on August 28, 2010, replacing Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.[42] The anime joined the relaunched Toonami anime block, when it returned to Adult Swim on May 27, 2012.[43] The series ended on November 2, 2014,[44] and continued airing reruns on Adult Swim until February 1, 2015.[45]

Viz Media had released the first 135 episodes on 32 DVD compilations of the English adaptation of the anime from November 28, 2006, to September 21, 2010,[46][47] and released the entire series on 26 box sets from October 6, 2008, to September 29, 2015.[48][49] In July 2016, Viz Media announced the uncut Blu-ray box-set release of the series.[50] The 366 episodes were collected in thirteen sets, released from July 19, 2016,[51] to December 7, 2021.[52]

In the United Kingdom, Bleach premiered on AnimeCentral on September 13, 2007, with episodes airing weekly.[53] The English dubbed version of Bleach premiered on Animax Asia on December 18, 2009,[54] with the first 52 episodes; the «season 2» premiered on March 18, 2011,[55] this time with the original Japanese audio with English subtitles.

Thousand-Year Blood War[edit]

In March 2020, Weekly Shōnen Jump and «Bleach 20th Anniversary Project & Tite Kubo New Project Presentation» livestream announced that the manga’s last story arc, «Thousand-Year Blood War», would receive an anime project.[56] In November 2021, it was announced that the anime project would be a television series, Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (BLEACH 千年血戦篇, Burīchi Sennen Kessen-hen). The trailer and visual for the series were revealed at the Jump Festa ’22 on December 18, 2021.[57][58] Tomohisa Taguchi replaced Noriyuki Abe as the series director at studio Pierrot. Taguchi is also overseeing the series scripts alongside Masaki Hiramatsu; Masashi Kudo returned as the character designer and Shirō Sagisu returned to compose the music.[59][60] An advanced screening of the first two episodes was held in Tokyo on September 11, 2022.[61] The series will run for four cours with breaks in between.[62][63] It premiered on TV Tokyo on October 11, 2022,[62][63][e] and the first cour of 13 episodes finished on December 27 of the same year.[64][f] The second cour is set to premiere in July 2023.[65]

Viz Media held the North American premiere at the New York Comic Con on October 8, 2022, ahead of the simulcast of the anime.[66] The series is streamed on Hulu in the United States and on Disney+ internationally (excluding Asian territories, in which Medialink retained the rights and airs the series on Ani-One Asia YouTube channel with the Ultra membership scheme).[67][68]

Other media[edit]

All four films based on the manga series were directed by Noriyuki Abe. They feature an original plotline along with original characters designed by Tite Kubo, which is contrary to the normal practice for anime-based films, as the original author usually has little creative involvement.[69] The first film, Bleach: Memories of Nobody, was released in Japan on December 16, 2006, and had a limited release in American theaters in June 2008.[70][71] The second film, Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion, was released on December 22, 2007.[72] The third film, Bleach: Fade to Black, was released on December 13, 2008. The fourth and final film, Bleach: Hell Verse, was released on December 4, 2010.[73]

In March 2010, Warner Bros. (outside Japan) confirmed that it was in talks to create a live action film adaptation of the series. Peter Segal and Michael Ewing had been lined up to produce the movie.[74] In 2012, Dan Mazeau was added as a screenwriter for the project, and Masi Oka joined as producer.[75]

A live action film adaptation of the same name produced by Warner Bros.[76] directed by Shinsuke Sato and starring Sota Fukushi was released in Japan on July 20, 2018.[77]

Aniplex released thirteen drama CDs featuring the original voice actors from the series; these drama CDs have only been included as part of the DVD releases.[78]

The popularity of the anime series[79] resulted in the series of rock musicals, jointly produced by Studio Pierrot and Nelke Planning. There have been five musicals produced which covered portions of the Substitute and Soul Society arcs, as well as three additional performances known as «Live Bankai Shows» which did not follow the Bleach plotline. The initial performance run of the Bleach musical was from August 17–28, 2005 at the Space Zero Tokyo center in Shinjuku.[80][81][82] The musicals are directed by Takuya Hiramitsu, with a script adaptation by Naoshi Okumura and music composed by playwright Shoichi Tama. The songs are completely original and not taken from the anime soundtrack. Key actors in the series include Tatsuya Isaka as Ichigo Kurosaki, Miki Satō as Rukia Kuchiki and Eiji Moriyama as Renji Abarai.[83]

Reception[edit]

The anime has been featured various times in the top ten from the Japanese TV Ranking.[84][85][86] DVDs have also had good sales having commonly appeared in the Japanese DVD Ranking.[87][88] The anime was nominated in the 2007 America Anime Awards in the fields of «best manga», «best actor», «best DVD package design», and «best theme», but failed to win any awards.[89][90] In a 2006 Internet poll by TV Asahi, Bleach was ranked as Japan’s seventh-favorite anime program.[91] The previous year, it was ranked as the twenty-seventh favorite program.[92] During February 2009, Bleach ranked as the 9th most viewed animated show from Hulu.[93]

Anime News Network’s Carlo Santos praised the anime adaptation, describing it as «…one incredibly entertaining anime that will grab you and refuse to let go.»[94]Animefringe‘s Maria Lin liked the varied and distinct characters, and how well they handle the responsibilities increasing powers give them. She also complimented the series for its attention to details, well paced script, and balance of seriousness and comedy. In summary, she notes «Bleach the anime deserves its popularity. It has something for everyone: the supernatural, comedy, action and a little bit of romance, all tied together with excellent animation and a very enthusiastic sounding bunch of voice actors.»[95] Adam Arseneau of DVD Verdict, felt Bleach was a «show that only gets better with age» and was «surprisingly well-rounded and appealing» with well-developed characters and pacing.[96] Active Anime’s Holly Ellingwood praising the anime for perfectly capturing «the excitement, the caustic humour and supernatural intrigue» of the original manga.[97] She felt that the series «does a wonderful job of building on its continuity to provide increasingly tense and layered episodes involving not only Ichigo and Rukia, but the secondary characters as well».[98] She also praised the series for its striking visual effects, intriguing plot and its «brilliant blend of action, off the wall comedy.»[99][100]

In reviewing the series for DVD Talk, Don Houston felt the characters surpassed the usual anime typicals and liked «the mixture of darker material with the comedic».[101] Another Fellow reviewer John Sinnott felt series starts out as a boring «monster-of-the-week program» that becomes more epic as the stories build and the characters are fleshed out.[102] Otaku USA‘s Joseph Luster wrote that «the storylines are consistently dramatic without hammering it home too heavily, the characters manage comic relief that’s not as eye rolling as one would expect, and the action (in classic fighting series form) has only gotten more ridiculous over the years; in a good way, of course».[103] Mania.com’s Chris Beveridge describes the series as «Bleach is a solid entry into the Shōnen Jump line up, this is a very easy recommendation to make if you’re looking for something in this genre».[104] Bryce Coulter from the same website praised the series for its plot twists and «the quirky and amusing characters».[105][106] Von Feigenblatt notes that «in terms of demographics, Bleach appeals to a narrower international audience than Naruto due to the higher complexity of its plot as well as due to the religious aspects of the story.»[107] Louis Kemner of CBR said that the anime has «one of the most interesting and flexible combat systems» in anime and says this makes for some «stunning action scenes.»[108] Kemner also said that the series had «a wide and colorful cast of characters.»[109]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Holds the full worldwide license for the series outside of Asia since 2022. Crunchyroll had previously held the license in the United Kingdom and Australia before they were allowed to expire.
  2. ^ Originally aired on Adult Swim under its Action/AcTN branding, Bleach joined the newly relaunched Toonami programming block at episode 255 on the broadcast night of May 26, 2012.[2]
  3. ^ a b Chief Unit Director (チーフ演出).
  4. ^
    • The Substitute; 5 volumes[19]
    • The Entry; 5 volumes[20]
    • Soul Society: The Rescue; 5 volumes[21]
    • The Bount; 7 volumes[22]
    • The Assault; 4 volumes[23]
    • The Arrancar; 5 volumes[24]
    • The Arrancar Part 2: The Hueco Mundo Sneak Entry; 5 volumes[25]
    • The Arrancar Part 3: The Fierce Fight; 4 volumes[26]
    • The New Captain Shūsuke Amagai; 5 volumes[27]
    • The Arrancar Part 4: Arrancar vs Soul Reaper; 4 volumes[28]
    • The Past; 2 volumes[29]
    • The Arrancar Part 5: Battle in Karakura; 4 volumes[30]
    • Zanpakutō: The Alternate Tale; 9 volumes[31]
    • The Arrancar Part 6: Fall of the Arrancar; 12 volumes[32]
    • Gotei 13 Invading Army; 6 volumes[33]
    • The Lost Agent; 6 volumes[34]

  5. ^ TV Tokyo lists the air dates for the series on Monday at 24:00, which is effectively Tuesday at 0:00 a.m. JST.[62]
  6. ^ The first cour’s finale was a one-hour special that aired the 12th and 13th episodes back-to-back.[64]

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External links[edit]

  • Official website (in Japanese)
  • Official website at Pierrot (in Japanese)
  • Official website at TV Tokyo at the Wayback Machine (archived March 1, 2020) (in Japanese)
    • Thousand-Year Blood War official website at TV Tokyo (in Japanese)
  • Official website at Aniplex (in Japanese)
  • Official website at Viz Media
  • Bleach (anime) at Anime News Network’s encyclopedia

I will as soon as you give me what you took from her.

I got a gallon of bleach,a tarp and a hacksaw in the trunk of my car.

One hour,tops— you’re off the face of the earth.

Уйду. Как только отдашь мне то, что забрал у нее. Ничего я не брал.

У меня в багажнике хлорная известь, брезент и ножовка….

Один час… и ты стерт с лица земли.

Help.

You should try bleach.

— Ooh. Or Comet.

Помогите.

Попробуй отбеливатель.

— О, или «Комет».

This cleanser isn’t strong enough.

Kitty, it’s bleach and lighter fluid.

There is nothing stronger.

Этот очиститель недостаточно сильный.

Китти, это отбеливатель и бензин для зажигалок.

Больше нет ничего сильнее.

Yeah, after training in L.A.

Got tired of bleach-blond nurses and gunshot wounds, huh?

— Never a dull moment.

Да, после практики в Лос-Анджелесе.

Устал от пергидрольных медсестер и огнестрелов?

— Ни одной скучной минутки.

— What do I have to do?

— Bleach your hair, for starters.

— You’re kidding.

— Что надо делать?

— Для начала — обесцветить волосы.

— Вы смеётесь.

Look at this.

These bands are like weII-designed bottles of bleach.

It’s beer-and-IifestyIe music.

Взгляни на это.

Эти группы выглядят как красивые бутылки от отбеливателя.

Это пивная, стильная музыка.

Great perm.

Blond hair— obvious bleach job.

Too bad it’s six months old.

Классный перманент.

Светлые волосы— очевидно, работа отбеливателя.

Этому недоразумению уже шесть месяцев.

I always seem to be looking at life… from the wrong side of the window.

Maybe I should bleach my hair, change my life, you know?

Platinum.

Я всегда, кажется, смотрю на жизнь…. не с той стороны окна.

Может, мне надо отбелить мои волосы, изменить мою жизнь, знаешь?

Платина.

— It looks like her eyebrow fell down.

Unless we convince her to let me bleach it Van Damme will be making out with Gabe Kaplan.

I’ll talk to her.

— Они похожи на упавшие брови.

Может, мы уговорим её, если я их отбелю а Ван Дамм переспит с Габи Каплан.

Я поговорю с ней.

— Enemies… — Women…

Soap, bleach, toilet paper, napkins.

Everything for the house. Toothpaste, deodorant, detergent. glasses for coffee milk, capuccino. Brooms, mops, dusters.

Друзья.

Женщины, приехал Чезаретто!

Мыло, ветошь, туалетная бумага, бумажные салфетки, тальк, пена для ванн, спрей от насекомых, порошок ДДТ, чашки кофейные, чайные, веники, метёлки, щётки, метёлочки из перьев, всё за дёшево.

That’s a pity, because we had some good talks… and it struck me that Nino may be more melancholy… but Bo does try to see the brighter side of life.

For instance, Bo associates the word «mother» with love… while it made Nino think of bleach.

I didn’t understand that until today!

Очень жаль, поскольку тут есть о чем поговорить. Как мне кажется, Нино более склонен к меланхолии, тогда как Бо всегда стремится к светлой стороне жизни.

Например, Бо ассоциирует слово «мать» с любовью, а Нино сразу вспоминает об осветлителе.

И только сегодня я понял почему!

— A new experience.

It’s bleach-free, low-salt rice.

You like rice.

— Новый эксперимент.

Это очищающий, с малым содержанием соли, рис.

Ты любишь рис.

I mean, white, sparkling teeth.

I know you probably hear this all the time from your food, but you must bleach, ’cause that is one dazzling

Do I detect a hint of minty freshness?

То есть, большие блестящие зубки.

Ты наверное это часто слышишь от своей еды, но свои зубки ты наверное отбеливаешь, потому что у тебя ослепительная улыбка.

А какая мятная свежесть.

Gunn, you do know it’s not papier-mâché.

We still got that bleach in the bathroom?

I gotta say, this is not how I pictured this turning out.

Э, Ганн, ты же знаешь, что это не папье-маше?

У нас в ванной еще остался отбеливатель?

Должен сказать, что я не представлял, что так все обернется.

Do you know what they do?

They freeze them, so as not to bleach out.

And it shows, of course, it ain’t the same.

А знаете, что делают?

Чтобы фильмы не портились, их замораживают.

И конечно, это уже не то, что было.

Where’s the pie?

There’s no more food, and we haven’t seen Bleach-Head.

I came to see Renee.

А где пирог?

Еды больше нет, и мы не видели Обесцвеченную Голову.

Я пришла к Рене.

There’s something on the back of your dress.

It looks like bleach or something.

The dry cleaner must have done it.

У тебя что-то сзади на платье.

О, мой Бог, похоже на отбеливатель или что-то такое.

Наверное, это сделали в химчистке.

Typical for you to think it’s all about you!

But I hear that can happen when a person soaks his head in bleach for too long.

Georgia, I suggest that you keep our problems between you and me, and I hope you don’t air them out in the courtroom.

Типично для тебя думать, что все крутится вокруг тебя!

Но я слышала, что это может случаться, если держать голову обесцвеченной долгое время.

Джорджия, я бы попросил, чтобы ты не выносила на люди то, что происходит между мной и тобой, и я надеюсь, что в зал суда тем более.

Dumped the body overthere.

Bleach.

Anne Marie Vicksey.

Выбросил тело там.

Хлорка.

Энн Мэри Виксей.

My favorite dress ruined!

I’d gotten the wine stain out, someone pulled it out of the machine and tossed it into a puddle of bleach

(loud cheering) I got them back, though.

Моё любимое платье уничтожено!

Когда я вывела винное пятно кто-то вытащил платье из стиральной машинки и швырнул в лужу отбеливателя.

Но я им отомстила.

I’m in a jam.

It’s Bleach-Head’s favorite holiday.

Come to my house.

Я в затруднении.

Это любимый праздник Обесцвеченной-Головы.

Приходите ко мне.

Let’s just forget it.

got to sit through a turkey dinner, looking at Ally’s father whose tongue was in my mouth, while my bleach-head

Georgia, it’s not a crisis.

Давай просто забудем обо всем.

Я должна сидеть за ужином с индейкой и смотреть на отца Элли, чей язык был у меня во рту пока мой обесцвеченный муж поет караоке!

Джорджия, это не конец света.

Check.

Toilet bleach.

Don’t touch it, I’ll get it.

Есть.

Средство для унитаза.

Не трогай, я возьму.

Coffee drinker.

I can bleach them.

Too much green.

Кофеманка.

Я могу отбелить их.

Слишком зелено.

Don’t forget to use the Plax too.

-That stuff tastes like bleach.

-l don’t know anything about that.

Не забудь прополоскать рот «Плексом».

-У него вкус как у отбеливателя.

-Я не в курсе.

When I’m through with her mouth, she’ll be able to eat off it.

is it safe to drink bleach if you dilute it?

No.

Когда я закончу с ее ртом, она сможет этим пользоваться.

Безопасно пить разведенный отбеливатель?

Нет.

Clean!

It stinks of bleach. like a hospital!

I can’t stand this place anymore.

..

И хлоркой воняет прямо как в богадельне!

Доконал меня этот дом…

Anything special for me?

Chlorine bleach.

Chap Stick.

Ecть чтo-тo вкуcнeнькoe для мeня?

Хлopный oтбeливaтeль.

Пoмaдa.

Yes, purple, you’re brilliant.

And bleach, don’t forget the bleach. Bleach, right, okay, I’ll get the bleach.

Thank you.

Может, фиолетовый? Да, фиолетовый, ты великолепна.

И перекись не забудь.

Перекись, точно, хорошо, я возьму.

— It’s freezing outside.

Yeah, but the bleach is gonna stink up the whole house. Let it.

Let it be the first clue that something’s happened for when my mom gets home.

— На улице холодно.

Да, но весь дом провоняет перекисью.

Пусть. Пусть сразу станет ясно, что что-то случилось, когда мама придет домой.

Показать еще


На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать грубую лексику.


На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать разговорную лексику.


Soaked in bleach) от американского режиссёра бенджамина статлера (benjamin statler), который написал и спродюсировал его совместно с ричардом мидлтоном (richard middelton) и донни эйчаром (donnie eichar).



Soaked in Bleach is American docudrama directed by Benjamin Statler, who co-wrote and produced it with Richard Middelton and Donnie Eichar.


Ваши страхи и чувства о вашей семье могут касаться персонажей Bleach во сне.



Your fears and feelings about your family may relate the characters of Bleach in your dreams.


Возможно, оно произошло от сочетания старого английского слова «bleach», вместе с формой слова «burn», то есть «поток», связанное, вероятно, с процессом отбеливания, очищения.



It has been suggested that it may be a combination of an Old English word for bleach, together with a form of the word «burn», meaning stream, may be associated with a bleaching process.


Наберите в поисковой форме «bleach» и увидите два варианта: «BleachBit» и «BleachBit (as root)».



Type «bleach» in the search field and two options will appear: BleachBit and BleachBit (as root).


Недавно вышел трейлер live-action адаптации Bleach.



The latest trailer for the live action adaptation of Bleach has been released.


Дебютный альбом «Bleach» легендарного коллектива принес 3000 долларов музыкантам.



The debut album «Bleach» of the iconic band brought musicians $3000.


Bleach — японская мультипликационная серия, разработанная с сочетанием действия, фантазии и приключений.



Bleach is a Japanese animated series that is designed with a blend of action, fantasy and adventure.


Все трое были центральными персонажами первой части сюжета Bleach.



All three were Central characters in the first part of the plot of Bleach.


В Bleach Ичиго обладает особым качеством видеть мертвых людей и призраков.



In Bleach, Ichigo is gifted with special quality of seeing dead people and ghosts.


Это ломает меня, чтобы увидеть Bleach так низко в этом списке.



It breaks me down to see Bleach so low on this list.


Мечты, связанные с Bleach, также обозначают связь, которую вы разделяете со своей семьей.



Dreams related to Bleach also denote the bonding you share with your family.


Bleach убьет некоторые, но не все, виды болезнетворных организмов, которые могут быть в воде.



Bleach will kill some, but not all, types of disease-causing organisms that may be in water.


Его посвятили героям Bleach (видео)



It was dedicated to the heroes of Bleach (video)


Nirvana задолжали продюсеру своего первого альбома, «Bleach,» который они уже записали.



Nirvana owed money to the producer of their first album, «Bleach,» which they’d already recorded.


Он выпустил свой первый альбом под названием «Bleach» в 1989 году.



They released their first album, «Bleach,» in 1989.


Хотя обе песни позже появятся на диске Bleach, оригинальный сингл сейчас считается одним из самых ценных релизов группы.



Though both songs would later be available on the Bleach CD, the original single is now one of the groups most valuable releases.


«Bleach» был выпущен 15 июня 1989 года, изначально скромные продажи и теплые отзывы.



‘Bleach‘ was released on June 15, 1989, to initially modest sales and lukewarm reviews.


Bleach был выпущен 15 июня 1989 года.



Bleach was released on June 15, 1989.


Эверман гастролировал с группой летом 1989 года в поддержку альбома Bleach.



Everman toured with Nirvana the summer of 1989 in support of Bleach.


Игра Bleach Online проработана в стиле аниме, здесь вам предстоит выступить на стороне добра в бесконечной битве со злом.



Bleach Online game created in anime style, here you have to take the side of light in the endless battle against evil.

Ничего не найдено для этого значения.

Результатов: 171. Точных совпадений: 171. Затраченное время: 76 мс

Documents

Корпоративные решения

Спряжение

Синонимы

Корректор

Справка и о нас

Индекс слова: 1-300, 301-600, 601-900

Индекс выражения: 1-400, 401-800, 801-1200

Индекс фразы: 1-400, 401-800, 801-1200

Примеры из текстов

I sniffed at the opening carefully, not especially wanting to pass out from bleach fumes.

Я осторожно вдохнула, не горя желанием нанюхаться едкого отбеливателя.

Meyer, Stephenie / The HostМайер, Стефани / Гостья

Гостья

Майер, Стефани

© Н. Балашова, 2010

© Издание на русском языке AST Publishers

© Stephenie Meyer, 2008

The Host

Meyer, Stephenie

© 2008 by Stephenie Meyer

He stands taking deep breaths of dust and bleach and the comforting, somehow childlike perfume of fabric softener.

Он стоит, вдыхая запахи мыла, отбеливателя и легкий аромат умягчителя ткани.

King, Stephen / Wolves of the CallaКинг, Стивен / Волки Кэллы

Волки Кэллы

Кинг, Стивен

© Stephen King, 2003

© Перевод В.А.Вебер, 2004

© ООО «Издательство АСТ», 2004

Wolves of the Calla

King, Stephen

«Noooo!» I yelled, remembering there was an open tub of Jolene bleach and a copy of What Men Want on the side of the washbasin.

– Не-е-ет! – издаю я вопль, вспомнив, что на ванне лежит открытый тюбик депилятора для лица и брошюрка «Чего хотят мужчины».

Fielding, Helen / Bridget Jones: The Edge of ReasonФилдинг, Хелен / Бриджит Джонс: Грани разумного

Бриджит Джонс: Грани разумного

Филдинг, Хелен

© Helen Fielding, 1999

© Москвичева А.Н., перевод на русский язык, 2001

© «Торнтон и Сагден», издание на русском языке, 2002

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Fielding, Helen

A neurotic pause, as if the air and the bleaching sun were waiting.

Наступила некая невротическая пауза, словно сам воздух и безжалостное солнце пребывали в ожидании.

Mieville, China / The ScarМьевиль, Чайна / Шрам

Шрам

Мьевиль, Чайна

© Перевод. Г. Крылов, 2008

© Издание на русском языке. ООО «Издательство «Эксмо», 2008

© 2002 by China Mieville

Wild beasts had disinterred many of the bodies, and human bones were bleaching in the rains of summer.

Дикие звери раскопали могилы, и на поверхности валялись кости, омытые летними дождями.

Cooper, James Fenimore / The DeerslayerКупер, Джеймс Фенимор / Зверобой, или Первая тропа войны

Зверобой, или Первая тропа войны

Купер, Джеймс Фенимор

© Издательство «Детская литература», 1974

The Deerslayer

Cooper, James Fenimore

© Wordsworth Editions Limited 1995

The world turned gray, light from the emerald set in my cheek bleaching stone.

Мир вокруг сделался серым: свет вживленного в щеку изумруда разбавлял тьму.

Saintcrow, Lilith / To Hell and BackСэйнткроу, Лилит / Дорога в ад

Дорога в ад

Сэйнткроу, Лилит

© 2008 by Lilith Saintcrow

© Волковский В. Перевод на русский язык, 2011

© Издание на руском языке, ООО «Издательство «Эксмо», 2011

To Hell and Back

Saintcrow, Lilith

© 2008 by Lilith Saintcrow

They may only become apparent in textured areas when the texture is bleached out.

Они могут стать очевидными только в текстурированных областях, когда текстура отбеливается.

Jähne, Bernd / Digital Image ProcessingЯне, Бернд / Цифровая обработка изображений

Цифровая обработка изображений

Яне, Бернд

© 2005, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

© 2006, ЗАО «РИЦ «Техносфера» перевод на русский язык

Digital Image Processing

Jähne, Bernd

© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005

Finally, the bleaching, dyeing and printing industries were renovated.

Наконец, получили совершенно новый вид белильное, красильное и набивное производство.

Плеханов, Г. В. / Наши разногласия. Письмо к П. Л. ЛавровуPlekhanov, G. V. / Our Differences. Letter to P. L. Lavrov

Our Differences. Letter to P. L. Lavrov

Plekhanov, G. V.

Наши разногласия. Письмо к П. Л. Лаврову

Плеханов, Г. В.

© Государственное издательство политической литературы, 1949 г.

External impacts can influence both bleaching of fluorescence and its increase. It can cause a significant change of the photothermal signal amplitude, up to several order.

Действие внешних факторов может сказаться как на тушении флуоресценции, так и на ее усилении, что может привести к существенному изменению амплитуды ФТ сигнала, до несколько порядков.

It reduces the nitrates to nitrites, it bleaches methylene blue.

Редуцирует нитраты, обесцвечивает метиленовую синьку.

The day had grown sultry, and in the windows of the grocers’ shops musty biscuits lay bleaching.

Становилось душно, в окнах бакалейных лавок выгорали на солнце заплесневелые пряники.

Joyce, James / An EncounterДжойс, Джеймс / Встреча

Встреча

Джойс, Джеймс

© Оформление, издание на русском языке. ООО «Издательство «Эксмо», 2007

An Encounter

Joyce, James

© 1967 by the Estate of James Joyce

This Ashley Wilkes in his faded, patched uniform, his blond hair bleached tow by summer suns, was a different man from the easygoing, drowsy-eyed boy she had loved to desperation before the war.

Этот Эшли Уилкс, в линялом, залатанном мундире, с выгоревшими от палящего летнего солнца волосами, был совсем не похож на того беспечного юношу с мечтательным взглядом, в которого она так отчаянно влюбилась накануне войны.

Mitchell, Margaret / Gone with the windМитчелл, Маргарет / Унесенные ветром. Том 1

Унесенные ветром. Том 1

Митчелл, Маргарет

© Перевод. Т. А. Озерская, 1982

Gone with the wind

Mitchell, Margaret

© 1936 By Macmillan Publishing Company, a division of Macmillan. Inc.

© renewed 1964 by Stephens Mitchell

© renewed 1964 by Stephens Mitchell and Trust Compnay of Georgia as Executors of Margaret Mitchell Marsh

Today she wore white, a pristine crisp buttondown shirt with the tapered sleeves that were fashionable now, a pair of bleached jeans, good boots.

Она надела белоснежную накрахмаленную блузку с воротником на пуговицах и модными сужающимися рукавами, выцветшие джинсы и великолепные сапоги.

Saintcrow, Lilith / Saint City SinnersСэйнткроу, Лилит / Грешники Святого города

Грешники Святого города

Сэйнткроу, Лилит

Saint City Sinners

Saintcrow, Lilith

© 2007 by Lilith Saintcrow

The coral reef work programme will concentrate on two issues considered to be the major causes of coral reef mortality worldwide: coral bleaching and the physical degradation and destruction of coral reefs.

В программе работы по коралловым рифам внимание будет сосредоточено на двух вопросах, которые считаются основными причинами гибели коралловых рифов в мире обесцвечивание кораллов и физическая деградация и разрушение коралловых рифов.

She is tall and almost pretty, with her hair bleached and trained up in a fluffy Mohawk, and a row of little earrings all around the edge of one ear, and dark dusty-rosy spots rouged behind her eyes.

Она рослая и, можно сказать, хорошенькая, хоть на голове у нее пушистый гребень пероксидных волос, мочка одного уха унизана крохотными сережками, а вокруг глаз темнеют грязно-розовые тени.

Updike, John / Rabbit At RestАпдайк, Джон / Кролик успокоился

Кролик успокоился

Апдайк, Джон

© Перевод. Н. Роговская, 2009

© ООО Издательство «АСТ МОСКВА», 2009

© John Updike, 1990

Rabbit At Rest

Updike, John

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bliːʧСуществительноеотбеливание; беление

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bleach liquid

белильная жидкость

bleach powdering

отбеливатель

bleach-fix

отбеливающе-фиксирующий раствор

tanning bleach

дубящий отбеливатель

electrolytic bleach

электролитическое отбеливание

bleach liquor

белильная жидкость

bleach liquor

сок для раскисления

bleach oil

отбеливать масло

alkaline bleach liquor

щелочной белильный раствор

bleach and color method

метод определения степени отбеливания и цвета

bleach chamber

камера хлорирования извести

bleach mixing plant

установка для подготовки отбеливающего раствора

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На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать грубую лексику.


На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать разговорную лексику.


Soaked in bleach) от американского режиссёра бенджамина статлера (benjamin statler), который написал и спродюсировал его совместно с ричардом мидлтоном (richard middelton) и донни эйчаром (donnie eichar).



Soaked in Bleach is American docudrama directed by Benjamin Statler, who co-wrote and produced it with Richard Middelton and Donnie Eichar.


Ваши страхи и чувства о вашей семье могут касаться персонажей Bleach во сне.



Your fears and feelings about your family may relate the characters of Bleach in your dreams.


Возможно, оно произошло от сочетания старого английского слова «bleach», вместе с формой слова «burn», то есть «поток», связанное, вероятно, с процессом отбеливания, очищения.



It has been suggested that it may be a combination of an Old English word for bleach, together with a form of the word «burn», meaning stream, may be associated with a bleaching process.


Наберите в поисковой форме «bleach» и увидите два варианта: «BleachBit» и «BleachBit (as root)».



Type «bleach» in the search field and two options will appear: BleachBit and BleachBit (as root).


Недавно вышел трейлер live-action адаптации Bleach.



The latest trailer for the live action adaptation of Bleach has been released.


Дебютный альбом «Bleach» легендарного коллектива принес 3000 долларов музыкантам.



The debut album «Bleach» of the iconic band brought musicians $3000.


Bleach — японская мультипликационная серия, разработанная с сочетанием действия, фантазии и приключений.



Bleach is a Japanese animated series that is designed with a blend of action, fantasy and adventure.


Все трое были центральными персонажами первой части сюжета Bleach.



All three were Central characters in the first part of the plot of Bleach.


В Bleach Ичиго обладает особым качеством видеть мертвых людей и призраков.



In Bleach, Ichigo is gifted with special quality of seeing dead people and ghosts.


Это ломает меня, чтобы увидеть Bleach так низко в этом списке.



It breaks me down to see Bleach so low on this list.


Мечты, связанные с Bleach, также обозначают связь, которую вы разделяете со своей семьей.



Dreams related to Bleach also denote the bonding you share with your family.


Bleach убьет некоторые, но не все, виды болезнетворных организмов, которые могут быть в воде.



Bleach will kill some, but not all, types of disease-causing organisms that may be in water.


Его посвятили героям Bleach (видео)



It was dedicated to the heroes of Bleach (video)


Nirvana задолжали продюсеру своего первого альбома, «Bleach,» который они уже записали.



Nirvana owed money to the producer of their first album, «Bleach,» which they’d already recorded.


Он выпустил свой первый альбом под названием «Bleach» в 1989 году.



They released their first album, «Bleach,» in 1989.


Хотя обе песни позже появятся на диске Bleach, оригинальный сингл сейчас считается одним из самых ценных релизов группы.



Though both songs would later be available on the Bleach CD, the original single is now one of the groups most valuable releases.


«Bleach» был выпущен 15 июня 1989 года, изначально скромные продажи и теплые отзывы.



‘Bleach‘ was released on June 15, 1989, to initially modest sales and lukewarm reviews.


Bleach был выпущен 15 июня 1989 года.



Bleach was released on June 15, 1989.


Эверман гастролировал с группой летом 1989 года в поддержку альбома Bleach.



Everman toured with Nirvana the summer of 1989 in support of Bleach.


Игра Bleach Online проработана в стиле аниме, здесь вам предстоит выступить на стороне добра в бесконечной битве со злом.



Bleach Online game created in anime style, here you have to take the side of light in the endless battle against evil.

Ничего не найдено для этого значения.

Результатов: 171. Точных совпадений: 171. Затраченное время: 83 мс

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