The anime was not able to continue due to the deteriorating health situation of Kubo Tite Sensei, the Bleach Mangaka was not able to keep up with the serialization of the anime and eventually it ended on episode 366 — which might explain why the fullbring episodes may seem hurried along toward the end.
This arc started airing on October 5, 2004, and the last episode (20) aired on February 22nd, 2005. The Substitute is also known as the “Agent of the Shinigami” arc.
In 2020, via Crunchyroll, "Bleach" was confirmed for a 2021 return during the series' 20th Anniversary Project and Tite Kubo New Work presentation stream. The news was revealed by Tite Kubo himself...
Folks over at Anime News Network, Bleach subreddit and MangaHelpers have confirmed that Bleach will be ending with chapter 686 (Shonen Jump #38). Bleach 686 will be released, or is expected to release on or around the 18th of August.
After all, no anime adaptation is completely faithful to the manga, and Bleach is no exception. For starters, the anime treats Isshin Kurosaki like a joke character, while he has his moments near the start of the manga where it's shown that Ichigo clearly looks up to him.
The Bleach Series ended on episode 366 after Ichigo's battle with Tsukishima and Ginjo. And the corresponding Manga Chapter is 478. It was very unfortunate that the series had to end the way it did.
Bleach fans were devastated when the anime was halted in 2012 after the completion of the "Fullbringer" arc. No official reason was given for the series' cancellation, but many believe that the rising costs of production along with the anime catching up to the manga too quickly were major factors.
The anime pretty much stick to the manga, except of course during the filler arcs. The filler arcs are the Bounto Arc, Third Squad New Captain Amagai Shuusuke, Zanpakutou Rebellion, and the Gotei 13 Invading Army arc. There are also occasionally filler episodes among the canon arcs.
Whenever a Shounen anime ends, it usually offers its fans some form of fanservice, and that usually means that certain characters are going to be married. With Bleach, Ichigo and Orihime got married, and although many fans wanted to see him end up with Rukia, the marriage we did get makes a lot more sense.
For most people, Aizen will always be Bleach's main antagonist since he his currently serving a 20,000 year sentence for his crimes, but he plays an important role in the final arc by helping Ichigo to defeat Yhwach in the final battle.
When Mayuri Kurutsuchi first appears, it looked like he was a sociopath who didn't care about his subordinates, especially his lieutenant Nemu. However, their relationship was much more complicated than that. During the final arc, it's revealed that Nemu was part of an experiment performed by Mayuri to see if he can create an artificial being, which means that Nemu is technically his daughter.
Aizen appears in the final manga chapter where he recalls Yhwach's final words, and in doing so he states that people would never develop hope and courage if the fear of death did not exist. This is a significant statement for Aizen to make because he is immortal so without that mortal fear and hope, he realizes that he is now living a hopeless existence .
When Naruto ended, it gave a glimpse at the the next generation of ninjas and two years later Bleach did the same thing when it introduced us to Kazui Kurosaki and Ichika Abarai. Kazui is Ichigo and Orihime's son, while Ichika is Rukia and Renji's daughter and based on Kazui 's ability to manifest a Soul Reaper outfit and Zanpakutō, he'll be involved with the Soul Society in the future.
Ichigo thwarted Yhwach's plan when he cut him in half with a Getsuga Tenshō but years later, Yhwach attempted to destroy the future from the past, which proves that Ichigo did not actually defeat him.
8 Rukia 's Journey Came Full Circle. When Rukia first appears, she is an ordinary Soul Reaper who willingly transfers her powers to Ichigo so he can defeat a Hollow, but she ends up being branded as a criminal by her own people.
Bleach (stylized as BLEACH) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tite Kubo. Bleach follows the adventures of the hotheaded 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.
There are four animated feature films based on the Bleach series, all of which are directed by Noriyuki Abe, director of the Bleach anime series. The films were released annually each December starting in 2006, though none were released in 2009. Each movie features 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.
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. 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. 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. 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. Manga artist Akira Toriyama saw the story and wrote a letter of encouragement to Kubo. 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. 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.
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. Twenty named sets were released for the series. After Bleach Soul Card Battle, Bandai introduced three more series. Bleach The Card Gum, which contains 14 sets, was released in early September 2007. The next series, Bleach Clear Collection, which contains six sets, was released in July 2008. The last series, Bleach Clear Soul Plate, which consists of three sets, was published in December 2009.
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."
Despite significant downturns in both the Japanese and English manga markets, Bleach continued to perform well commercially, and had over 120 million tankōbon volumes in circulation worldwide as of 2018, making it the thirteenth best-selling manga in history.
This cancellation was attributed to the ongoing recession, which has heavily affected TCG sales.
Bleach, by contrast, just kind of fizzled out, with the anime getting canceled in 2012 right before the final arc. Bleach 's cancellation was a blow from which its most loyal fans never truly recovered. But now, eight years later, the seemingly impossible is happening. Bleach 's final arc, "Thousand-Year Blood War," is getting an official ...
After Ichigo Kurosaki becomes a shinigami, he learns that Rukia, his shinigami mentor who transferred her powers to him in order to save his family, has actually committed a cardinal sin according to the leaders of Soul Society (the shinigami world).
Few anime series have had as depressing a trajectory as Bleach. If you were an anime fan in the early-mid 2000s, three shonen series dominated the medium: One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach. In time, these series became known as "The Big Three"—a term encompassing everything from the massive length of their long-running stories to the size ...
To answer that, it's important to understand how publication works in Weekly Shonen Jump, the Japanese manga magazine where all of these titles are serialized.
Perhaps the main reason that Weekly Shonen Jump has been so successful is its reliance on weekly " reader surveys " to determine which series people are most enjoying.
To this day, Bleach 's Soul Society arc still holds up as one of the best shonen arcs of its genre. The tension is always palpable, and the battles are phenomenal. The problem, though, is that Kubo didn't really seem to know what to do with the series afterwards. The characters in Bleach weren't as strongly defined as the characters in One Piece and Naruto, and the world-building for Soul Society was never especially prominent. So Bleach tripled down on style, essentially repeating similar "rescue" arcs again and again with cool new villains who were, indeed, very stylish.
But Bleach didn't have the world-building of One Piece or the character development of Naruto. Shueisha. What Bleach had was a whole lot of style. Following a teenager who gets shinigami (soul reaper) powers, Tite Kubo managed to create a world that felt edgier, more mature, more punk rock than its contemporaries.
Bleach (stylized as BLEACH) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tite Kubo. It follows the adventures of the hotheaded 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 force him to take on the duties o…
Ichigo Kurosaki is a teenager from Karakura Town who can see ghosts, a talent which lets him meet supernatural trespasser Rukia Kuchiki who enters Ichigo's room 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")…
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. 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. 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 g…
Bleach's plot incorporates the traditional Japanese belief of spirits coexisting with humans and their nature, good or evil, depends on the circumstances. 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. 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 t…
Bleach, written and illustrated by Tite Kubo, was serialized for fifteen years in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from August 7, 2001, to August 22, 2016. Its 698 individual chapters were collected in seventy-four tankōbon volumes released between January 5, 2002, and November 4, 2016. 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. The first collection wa…
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 5, 2004, to March 27, 2012.
In March 2020, it was announced that the manga's final story arc, "Thousand-Year Blood War", would receive a new anime project. In November 2021, it was announced that the new project would be an anime television series. The series will be directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and it is s…
Bleach had over 90 million tankōbon copies in circulation worldwide as of 2017 and had over 120 million tankōbon copies in circulation worldwide as of 2018, making it the 6th best-selling series of all time from Weekly Shōnen Jump. 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 …
• Burn the Witch, another manga series created by Kubo and set in the Bleach universe