Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Vintage:
October 5, 2004
Status:
Still Airing
Summary:
Kurosaki Ichigo is a 15 year old boy that has an ability to see ghosts/spirits. Because of his ability, he is able to meet a female death god (a.k.a Shinigami) named Kuchiki Rukia. To save his family and friends from unwanted soul-eating spirits (Hollows), Rukia transfers her Shinigami powers to Ichigo. As Rukia takes on a human shell, together they solve mysteries involving spirits and hollows until from the spirit world comes 2 other shinigamis explaining that it is illegal to transfer Shinigami powers to humans and Rukia exceeded the time limit to stay in the human world. After they sentence her death for breaking the laws, Ichigo snaps and swears to everyone he will retrieve Rukia by breaking into the spirit world.
Now I am walking on a mine field. Bleach and Naruto must be the two most contested animes on this sight. Even worse give one of these animes a good or excellent review and you are verbally slung with mud hehehe. But I can't help myself. Bleach is something that stuck one me since I saw it two years ago and even then I really did not know what this anime was all about. I am loving the arc at present. It is constructed in such a way that it won't deviate from the manga as much. There are times when I wish it would just stay focused on the manga material but if it did, we would not really have so many other arcs to look forward to do we? I love this anime for its animation and comedy, not to mention the serious dramatic moments that let you see an almost realistic and humane side to the animated characters - not quite slice of life but bordering between drama, fantasy and reality. Or rather it is a mixture of all three and I can't get enough of it. Death note is so reminiscent of this anime even though it does have more sinister connotations. I love Bleach for its complex simplicity (and I assume this is the main thing that pisses people off about this anime) but there is a significant point to it - instead of being a childish fight-fight scene, it carries a lot of morale - something you rarely see in recent anime. It falls under the ranks of the GREATS such as FMA, Naruto, Death Note, Dragon Ball Z and Naruto Shippuuden. A fantastic piece of work that got me to actually read the manga hahaha! I love it! Watch this one guys :)
