Bleach Review
By sammo
Bleach Review
Kubo Tite
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Plot Synopsis
The series begins in the human world, with the sudden entry of a stranger into Ichigo's bedroom. This stranger is Rukia Kuchiki, a Soul Reaper (in the Japanese version, a shinigami, literally God of Death). After an ensuing conversation, Ichigo and Rukia are forced into combat against a hollow (evil spirit). Rukia is disabled, and forced to transfer her power into Ichigo, transforming him into a Soul Reaver. As it turns out, Ichigo is very powerful, and even has a semi-unique zanpukat�? (sword that is his primary weapon, it is much larger than most). Ichigo makes quick work of the hollow, and Rukia leaves.
The next day, she shows up in his classroom, apparently a normal human student. It turns out that Ichigo has completely absorbed her abilities, and she must recover them by using a temporary human form, Gigai. It is later revealed that the Gigai she entered was specially designed by Urahara and given to her. In the mean-time, Ichigo must take over her job, cleansing the hollows in the region.
As Ichigo get involved in a closer friendship level to Rukia, Ichigo got more to know about Shinigami life and its issues.
Credits: niomea
Story & Characters
In our world, there exists two types of ghosts; the normal ghosts who are tied down to the world of living and the ones who devour them, also known as hollows. In order to maintain equilibrium, shinigami, or the god of death, vanquish lost souls and defeat hollows.
Kurosaki Ichigo, age 15, is about to have his life turned upside down. True, he has the inate, unusual ability to touch, see, and talk to ghosts, but fate throws him another twist when he encounters a hollow chasing a ghost. Before the moment of his demise, he is rescued by a shinigami who leaves withot saying another word. The same shinigami pays Ichigo a visit after detecting a strong spiritual power at his house. She introduces herself is Rukia Kuchiki after a surprisng realization that Ichigo has the ability to see and touch her. Rukia decides to place a demon art restraint on Ichigo after she finds him annoying, and their conversation is interupted by a hair-raising yell. When Rukia opens the door, she feels an immense spiritual power and Ichigo's sister on the floor. Ichigo breaks the restraint, much to Rukia's surpise, and lashes wildly at the hollow that is attacking his other sister and is saved by Rukia. Rukia transfers her shinigami powers to Ichigo in order to help save everyone. Thus, a new shinigami is born.
- Rating
- 10 (excellent)
Art
Character design in Bleach is perhaps my favorite part of the series. Their are many facial expression in the series that help carry out the emotions that the characters are supposedly feeling. The CGing technique is somewhat unusual, kind of like a oil painting method (for all Photoshop junkies...It resembles the method of duplicating a layer, gussian blurring it,a nd setting the layer in overlay) although it's not like that 100% of the episode - just around fighting sequenec.
The character movement is also nice and fluid, especially the fighting sequences. One of my favorite part is how it shows the streaks of the shinigami sword, or soul cutter. The apparation and the disparation of the hollows when they are damaged also looks pretty cool, and the whole anime series carries a refreshing sense people who have kept up with the manga series.
- Rating
- 10 (excellent)
Sound
In terms of the quality of the sound in Bleach, I cannot say much because the origional sound track has yet to come out. The opening. "Asterisk", is done by Orange Range while the ending, "Life is like a Boat" is done by Rie Fu, which may or may not interest some of you.
From what little I can gather from the two episodes that was released in the first two weeks of airing, the sound department does a good job of doing what it's suppose to do. Explosion, sword slashes, and soul burial magic - all works fine. The background music is quite creative in that it has hint of punk rock in it, although most of them are your average OST with not much special feel to it.
Voice acting is also well done, to an extent where it would please most of the devoted manga readers in that the characters sound like what they look like. Lots of emotion, and pleasant to the ear.
- Rating
- 8 (good)
Presentation
All in all, Bleach is a very origional series that one can definitely look forward to as this year's top anime series. The story is very origional as it employs a relationship with a shinigami, which can be compared to the grim reaper in the European society and United States culture. As the series goes on, it discusses the real truth behind hollows and the society in which the ghosts are vanquished to, the Soul Society. Although the jokes in the manga are not carried well to the anime, many people will find the series funny with plenty of places to laugh at. With many plot twist coming toward to viewers, it is sure to please those who look for genre that include comedy, super power, school kids, and fighting.
All in all, presentation of Bleach is very promising. It is with no doubt one of the year's best series, and is recommend for anyone who is currently looking for a new worthy series to watch after finishing Fullmetal Alchemist or anything of sort.
Questions? Let me know. Find out more information at http://bleachtalk.com or http://bleachportal.com.
- Rating
- 10 (excellent)
Final Verdict
9.67 (excellent)
Reviewed by sammo, 3y 30wk ago
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im going to delete this when the option comes :3
cant review a series if you havnt finished it
lmao! Oh but did you know Osi? Thats what makes it the best. Because you don't know the full plot, thus you can't spoil anything. Whenever you fully see a series you always run the risk of ruining the plot. Spoilers are hated by quite a few and sammo made a VERY professional review on Bleach here, I like it cause it gives just that, a basic description of the plot, so its enough to intrigue someone. The Art and Sound is very nicely done as well because you can get a general concept of it.
Though I do understand your reason for deleting, I just think its very well done with no spoilers and thats what ALOT of people really like to see in a review.
The Review is good
The
first impression may be the wrong one however the review is without spoilers
the review is pretty good
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it make who read it feel interest ^^
at least for me
thx for this review , sammo
now i will find the anime
and the ending song is very touch and serene to me
every time i hear the song, i remember my mom, duno why
*searching for some anime fan-sub for bleach
So far it's been a pretty interesting anime. I just hope it won't end like so many others these days, where they have a great action all throughout the series, and have a crappy ending.
Another great review from momo.
This
series really is a two thuimbs up. I love how they did the CGs and absolutely
the OP of the anime. "Asterisk" sung by my favorite jpop band Orange
range. 
great review, Bleach rules. I've downloaded up to chapter 4 and... its cool xDD great review .3
Hmm I think it is kinda early to write a review on this because there hasn't been a lot of episodes out yet. The review provides information, and doesn't include spoilers..but I don't feel like it is enough to assume that it is automatically -that- good when we haven't been introduced to more characters and plot (twists/enhancement).
i haven't even read the manga, but I don't know if it will follow along well with it.
While I have to agree that Bleach seems to be a really solid anime, especially now that I've seen twelve episodes of it, I think that your giving tens for various categories was extremely premature. A 10 rating should be, in my mind, reserved for the absolute best anime ever, the pinnacle of animation achievement, and not just given to any anime. In the course of your reviews, one should only ever give a handful of 10s. . . that is just to make the reviews more accurate and therefore more useful for everyone else who would like an objective opinion on a particular series.
In other sites, such as animenfo.com, anime ratings are generally 10s down the board, rendering them absolutely useless. In general, anyone who writes a review of an anime considers that anime either extremely good or extremely bad, and viewers will take that into consideration. Therefore, it is the responsibility of a good reviewer to take a step back and try to be as objective as possible and realize that even though they may enjoy a particular series very much at the moment, it is certainly not the end-all-be-all anime that a 10-rating entails.
I've only watch it till ep 4-5, it's very good but could somebody tell how many ep that bleach have, cause it's quite a pain if it's very long like naruto.
I actually hope it's going to be kind of long like Naruto.. but then again it may be better shorter.
i watched 12 episodes in under 24 hours... and i f'n LOVE this anime. i might have to slow down to one a day or i'm gonna run out of episodes to watch!!
Your review is really dead on, I've watched to episode 28 and it really is super. It is true that some of the humour is lost out on from the manga, but it still is quite funny.
Wow Great Review!!! I can't wait to Review Bleach myself too!!! 1 day
Must
find the time to write a Review for Bleach 
bleach rawks.. i have a feeling is it gng to over take naruto.. the fight scence are better.. the chars are better! lolz
well i just happen to see bleach through manga and i find it very good comic ^^ my area had the manga till volume 18 how bout ur place?
anyone know how many episodes there are? i want to buy it after the reviews ... anyway good review.
bleach rocks bigtime!! its my top number 1 anime!!! and i have the same feeling as nicholasyeo...i really do think its gonna take over naruto ...when i compare bleach to naruto...its like a fat kid comparing a chocolatecake to a carrot
...bleach is the chocolate cake and naruto is the carrot....hehe 
i
love bleach!
I love that serie becouse the historu have sense... the characters are great and the manga is bloody than the anime.....
I love that anime becouse have sense...the characters are great and tha manga is bloody than the anime
blech is kind like yuyu hakuso, but more betterin plot,and action
I haven't seen this anime yet but I've been wanting to and planning to see the fansub....I just can't seem to get around it though.
Bleach easily earns one the top spots on my fave animes list! Good character designs, nice fight scenes and a kick ass story to boot! Well sure it does drag a bit but who the hell cares! Not me obviously! Bleach rocks! Ok i'm becoming more and more like a raving fanboy so i'll cut this short. I also give blaech a 9.5! wooohooo!
AH! i love this series! it is like WOW! =D great review! ichigo is hot! =D