Bleach - Renji

Bleach dog style (funny)

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Bleach characters canine version, Kon and Sado are simply perfect! rotfl

Bleach - The 6th sense of Ichigo - funny

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A funny bleach parody by DanaArena on Deviantart

Tite Kubo: “I’ll Keep Bleach Going For At Least 10 Years”

There it is, from the man himself.

According to Sankakucomplex's site, "Bleach’s author Tite Kubo is apparently set on keeping Bleach going for at least another 10 years, remarking that it is only halfway through.

Kubo’s remarks were reported by 2ch-frequenting attendees of the recently held Jump Festa, where he took the stage to talk about his creation:

“It’s about halfway through the story at the moment.
[...]
At the very least, I’ll be doing it for another 10 years.”

Another version has him being asked “So will you be keeping it going for the next 30 years?” to which he responds “I think I’d like to make it a bit shorter than that,” with the other speaker quipping that “It should be continuing for at least another 10 years!”

Both accounts agree on him saying he is about half done however, which for a 10-year-old title would rather suggest another 10 years to go.

Reactions to all this are mixed to say the least, ranging from enthused to horrified…"

Well.... O_O as long as it doesn't become Dragon Ball GT, I don't know what to think right now, really.

Bleach anime December schedule

The fight against Aizen continues and reaches its turning point! Aizen becomes more and more powerful (and pretty) after fusing with the Hogyoku!

December 14th
301 - "Ichigo Loses His Fighting Spirit!? Gin's Expectation!"

December 21st
302 - "The Final Getsuga Tenshō!? Ichigo's Training!"

December 28th
No episode

January 4th
303 - "Real World and Shinigami! The New Year Special!"

Credit to insane111 from NarutoFan forums :)

New Bleach 4th movie promo!

The new promo aired as a part of the opening of the Bleach anime.



The movie is set to premiere in Japanese theaters on December 4th. There's still no info on when the DVD is going to come out.

The quality as always is spectacular!

Bleach - Ichigo Kurosaki fighting

Ichigo Kurosaki fighting - Bleach

A very beautifull image of Ichigo by keelerleah on DevianArt

Bleach anime November schedule

Credit to ANN and Gaarasbitch from NarutoFan forums :)

The fight between Aizen and Ichigo continues until Gin interferes! We've got also two filler episodes that will tie in with the December premiere of the upcoming fourth movie Bleach: Jigoku Hen or Hell Chapter.

November 9 - 296. TBA

November 16 - 297. The Extending Blade?! Ichigo vs. Gin!

November 23 - 298. Film! Festival! Shinigami Film Festival!

November 30 - 299. Theatre Opening Commemoration! Hell Chapter・Prologue

December 7 - 300. Urahara Appears! Stop Aizen!

Bleach - Ichigo vs Renji shirtless cosplay

Renji vs Ichigo shirtless cosplay

Near naked as they are ... I hope that the photo has taken during summer...

Image by dunkler-adlig on DeviantArt

Bleach - Ichigo on Bleach Calendar 2010

Ichigo, Bleach calendar 2010

Bleach - Halloween Bleach

Halloween Bleach

Bleach - Cool Kurosaki Ichigo

Cool Kurosaki Ichigo from Bleach

Bokkuko (tomboy) characters in anime

These types of characters can be quite common in some shonen manga. Bokkuko girls are basically tomboys that serve as sidekicks and can also play the role of the female heroine along with their hero counterpart.

They can be physically slim, with short hair, skinny and flat chested, yet also have particular skills that you would normally expect from their male counterpart. (Shonen manga can be a bit mysoginistic when it comes to delimiting specific roles by gender, so don't shoot the messenger here XD)

At least we know that these delimitations by gender are changing.

Good examples would be Tatsuki Arisawa from Bleach, or Tenten and Sakura from Naruto.

These type of characters have evolved into strong female characters that don't necessarilly have to be the less appealing, quite the contrary, in fact.

Look at Yuzuriha from Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas. In the original manga, she would have just been another side character as Marin and Shaina with little to almost no development. But she has a key role in helping her friends to achieve all the misions through Hades' Inferno.

Tite Kubo: "it's common to hate the female antiheroine or heroine"

This is what the author of Bleach said in an interview regarding Orihime Inoue, the second most impopular character in the Bleach fandom, and added that if people don't like his story and how things are developing around the character, then they can choose to not read it.

This is the link to original interview by 2ch, although it is in Japanese and translation is always difficult.

http://toki.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/moeplus/1281968273/

What do you think? I really have nothing against Inoue-san, it's just that they pumped her too much in the anime, pairing her with Ichigo, in a sort of 'princess and the prince' way.

New Bleach movie will open on theaters on December 4th!!

Tv Tokyo has announced that the fourth Bleach movie, titled Gekijouban Bleach: Jigoku-hen, which translates to Bleach: Hell Chapter, will open on theaters in Japan on December 4th. The manga's author, Kubo Tite, is personally supervising the project.

The poster looks spectacular!!

This reminds me a little of the Saint Seiya Hades saga! I think there's a parallel here given that Kubo also loves that manga!

Bleach regresa a Cartoon Network USA en Agosto!

Bleach regresa a las pantallas de Cartoon Network con nuevos episodios que se transmitirán en Agosto junto con las dos primeras películas; Bleach: Memories of Nobody y Bleach 2: the Diamond Dust Rebellion, a partir del 14 de agosto, y luego saldrán al aire los episodios 166 y 167 el 21 de agosto.


Es una gran noticia ya que significa que la estrategia adoptada recientemente por Viz Media, en la que los episodios son transmitidos simultáneamente en Crunchyroll, hacen que sea más probable que sean visto en todo el mundo y también permite la oportunidad de ser traducida en varios idiomas, incluyendo el español, lo que favorece una mejor distribución. Atrás quedaron los días en que había que esperar meses para ver los episodios nuevos de tu anime favorito!


Aquí está el enlace del calendario de programación de Adult Swim de agosto:

http://www.adultswim.com/schedule/onair.html 

Bleach will be back with new episodes on Cartoon Network on August!!

Bleach is scheduled to come back with new episodes in August the special airing of the first two movies; Bleach: Memories of Nobody and Bleach 2: the Diamond Dust Rebellion, starting on August 14, and following on August 21 with episodes 166 and 167.

It's great news since that means that the recent strategy adopted by Viz Media, in which the episodes are simulcasted on Crunchyroll, makes it more likely to be seen worldwide and also to be translated in various languages, including Spanish, which makes for a better distribution. Long gone are the days in which you had to expect months to see your favorite anime episodes!

Here's the link to the entire Adult Swim August schedule:

http://www.adultswim.com/schedule/onair.html

Bleach - Renji

Abarai Renji (Bleach)

A good image of Abarai Renji (Bleach) by Akiahara on Deviant Art

Bleach - Burning Ichigo

Burning Ichigo from Bleach

Bleach - Renji - cosplay

Wow, great computer manipulated cosplay of Renji from Bleach