New OP and ED for Bleach this week.

"Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" by Beat Crusaders

"Hanabi" by Ikimono-gakari

The OP is ok, but not that great, but the ED is pretty solid. Can't wait for the full verison of Hanabi. As for the anime, it was a one hour special this week. It was not that terrible, but it's not that great. Like I said, the this filler saga not all that bad, but the animation could be better.

Oh yeah, Bleah is coming to Adult Swim in September. I hope they chose good VCs. Kinda hard to imagine it without the Japanese voices.

http://www.bleach7.com/

You can watch the promo in the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuOr682PfkQ

Well, it was expected that a movie for Bleach would be coming at some point. No real information about the movie just yet. Though, like most anime movies, don't expect it to follow the storyline. Except it to be like a Naruto and DBZ type movie. Should be extremely flashy and a lot of your favorite characters in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZSlpIhO3ts

Link to the latest trailer for it, nothing revealing though except maybe a character that looks like a cross between Ukitake and Kenpachi. The movie will be out 16th of December in Japan

I also read just about everywhere that it's going be on par with the second Naruto Movie, so don't expect something great out of this.

You can also find the synopsis on the movie on the actual site, problem is, it's in Japanese xD. So if you can read that, luck you.

http://www.bleach-movie.com/

For no real good reason, I felt like watching Bleach. Since the filler arc is an actual story and find it mildly entertaining before I decided not to bother keeping up with it back in June after I lost my net for a month. I decided to start watching it once again and to my surprise, it's got very good.
So far, it's got much better after the first bunch of filler episodes were kinda boring, but it's got a lot better lately. Though, not sure how many people are watching the filler arc here.

So, any person still following the series?

Oh yeah, there's a new OP and ED, but I'm sure most people know that.

Lol... I'm still trying my very best to convince myself that Bleach has no filler. The first few... more like half to a dozen of filler episodes were not to my liking, especially with some rather obvious logic errors coupled with not as good animation. But if they invaded Soul Society... I may just want to check it out. I don't know yet, since I have some animes I have yet to finish.

Only managed to watch upto episode 96, I think the latest is 99 or so... so I have a few to get off of my brother. I don't know anyone that's watched all the filler eps besides me... or the fact that I'm the only one that likes it xDD.

The animation isn't too good because we all know it's fillers, but the storyline has moved on from bounto's acting like vampires. I'll see if I can get the rest of the eps from my friends instead since they've been updating me on the series so far since I can't get it xDD.



I think the best starting point would be Ep 95, Sel since they did a short recap of what's happening so far.

Ep 95 hm? I'll keep that in mind and wait a little while longer for more eps to be released before I check them out with my boyfriend. Just wondering... any idea when are the fillers going to last until?

Yeah, I've recently become a bit of a fanboy of the show. I just finished watching up to episode 99 on YouTube not long ago, and I'm still loving it. Ichigo's my favorite character, with "Chad" being my second favorite. Don Kan'Onji is quite awesome as well, haha. Been listening to a handful of the opening and ending themes lately (as well as other songs by the artists who did them), and I grabbed the first OST sometime last week. Heck, I'm even thinking about "dressing up" as Ichigo, more or less, for Halloween this year. Haha. Been going a li'l nuts over this show these days. o.o; Love it.

There's also supposed to be a movie (as mentioned above) coming out in December, though I don't know if it'll hit the states or not. >.< I hope it does. For those who don't know about it, it's called "Memories of Nobody," and it's supposed to take place... sometime right after the first Soul Society arc, I believe. (When the anime-only Bount arc starts up, I believe.)

The opening dosen't show any bounto or anything, I'm guessing when the next ending comes around since it shows those detectors. I hope to see Sado and Ishida fight before this arc is over..but knowing bleach, they'll screw over my favorite characters and have either Ichigo kill them all or Kariya kill them all and Ichigo kill Kariya. - -; Movie looks stupid too.

I'm pretty sure it had Kariya in the new opening at least for around 3 seconds, but the rest of the opening focuses on Ichigo's hollow side and all of the other flashy characters, so I'm assuming the fillers should end soon. If not, then they might put in Ichigo's hollow side fighting Kariya, which might not be too surprising.

The ending is blaghy... nothing really interesting about it and the song's abit iffy as well (at least to me). Rolling Star sung by Yui, I love though xPP.

Anyways, finally managed to get up-to-date with Bleach and I got that Yoshino thing answered xP. Episode 100 this week, might be a good one... or not.

The show is bombdiggidy, but honestly I am starting to get bored of the bunto story at first I thought it was kick ass but now its just getting drawn out so long that I hope they end it soon.

Watching episode 99 has given me at least some hope that the bunto plot will end sometime soon.

I only saw this Anime a month ago. Never know when it comes on, rly. But the episode I saw looked really interesting. Think I might get into it.

Today, THe fillers for Bleach are officially over. Be happy and rejoice, because they actually had a good filler arc, and now, it's over, time for the story to really move on, and, I can't wait for Grimmjaw to come <3

Death, how do you know that the fillers are over? Was there an announcement or something?
Also, then I assume that the guy that appears in the endwas in the manga?

Yes, and Yes.

www.bleachworld.com

At the moment, your answer is at the third post down.

Finished the filler arc today, it was alittle typical but whatever I thought it was good xP.

They changed the OP animation but still kept the song for it, it's pretty much set that they're returning to the original storyline since I have no clue who the characters are appearing in the OP but it looks good and the animation seems back to normal for it as well.

I'm thinking about picking up the manga (the amount of people telling me to pick it up ages ago xDD). So, just a question of what's the latest manga put out and I'll give it a search?

They are all from the Bleach Movie that came out last month in cinemas in Japan.



And the animation for it looks to me like a step above the "normal", as expected. =p

I'm suprised they included Rukia's released zanpakuto in the movie. I mean the movie was released a month ago right? So that means the people who only watch the anime will see earlier and sorta ruin things abit won't they?

Oh and that guy at the end of episode 109 (can't remember his name in the manga). He's blond?!

Uhhhh yeah, Don't you look at the volume covers?

I just started to watch bleach and ive only seen like 3-4 episodes so far, but is is interesting I tend to like the guy that has that blue energy bow and arrow wepon...Its strange to see that I know but he is cool with it and he seems to be a very strong individual....

The first episode of non-filler Bleach just been released.

Bleach filler start long after Naruto's filler and they return to actual plot before Naruto.

Episode 63 is annoying >.> So far it's just been showing battles that have happened in soul society (I've skipped them, I can't be bothered to watch it again just with Ichigo, Kon and Renji commenting over the top of it...)

*Soul Society Spoilers Ahoy* (Don't read if you havn't reached episode 63 yet)
I don't really understand why they set up that battle with the old guy (and they took up a whole episode just showing off this old guys muscles) just to have nothing come of it. Most of the other battles have been very exciting... I find myself looking more forward to battles that Ichigo doesn't appear in. The whole soul Society thing has been very exciting indeed. I thought that maybe the whole story would be neatly tied up but with those guys running off to the Hollow world I guess it's not. The next story arc is filler right? So I guess after that the characters will be going to the hollows world to chase them down...

Should I bother watching the filler arc?

Yea flame, it's a good filler arc, especially compared to Naruto.
Also, Episode 110, of the newly non-filler episodes, seems to have everyone in quite of a pinch. I'd say more, or inquire more, if i didn't read the manga. Also, next chapter should be around the 15th RAW, any number of days after the 15th Translated

I just thank god that Bleach' fillers arent as annoying and short as Naruto's. Practically all of the latest Bleach-"fillers" have been focused on the Bounto. So I find it more of a 2nd storyline ^^
Too bad it's over, I kinda got rather fashinated by Kariya...

Hm... I just finished the Soul Society arc today myself. I have to agree with Flame on the account of Yamamoto-Genryūsai's zanpakuto release. They neglect to show that fight pretty much entirely. You never really get to see the extent of what Ukitake's and Shinsui's zanpukato are capable of either, aside from their initial release. All trivial things aside though, I thoroughly enjoyed that arc, and I'm excited as to how things will unravel from this point on.

Episode 211 RAW out now!

Tomorrow probably subbed by dattebayo. No idea when, or if Triumph will have it subbed soon.

I was so hyped about that fight. I wanted to see these very powerful fighters duke it out and both manga and anime skipped it over! RARGH!! >.> Evil Kubo Tite. Totally craptastically evil. But then again, considering whatever interrupted all the captain fights happened not long after... they may have just swung their weapon at each other like twice before the fight ended.

Episode 111 out by dattebayo now! it's been out a whole 13 minutes!

Okay so uhm, I don't feel like waiting on [as] to watch Bleach once a week, so I've been looking around YouTube, and haven't seen many episodes, so where else is a good place to look for them?

Havn't seen many episodes on YouTube? I've watched about 70 episodes on YouTube and they have been very good quality... There is the user "Marluxiax" Who has uploaded about 65 and the user "shadow1748" who also uploads...

I just watched episode 111. Very interesting about Ichigo's father. He seems to suggest that he is a Captain class Shinigami.

He was.../is? I accidentally read about it on Wikipedia quite a while ago. I'm glad that they're bringing it up now, though.
I'm definitely looking forward to more of this stuff with the Arrancar and Vizards/Vaizards. I think Ichigo might be kinda pissed about not getting to slay Grand Fisher himself. ^^; I guess his dad was a good person to do it in his place, though. Oh, and I'm interested to see what Uryuu decides to do. I'd love to see him get his powers back, but I'd hate to see him not together with the others anymore.

To Geist: If you can't find any episodes on YouTube, just check out Bleach Portal.

Just watch episode 111. Looks like they are keeping the bounto soulmods to stretch out the anime so it can't catch up with the manga so easily. I mean that episode was kind like on manga chapter although still cool to finally watch those scenes in anime version. Things will continue to be this interesting from now on ^^.

Sounds kinda similar though, except reversed order. They're both half shinigami/hollow, right?

Anyway, I thought Aizen talked about removing someones limit by making them half shinigami, half hollow? But then why are his 10 subordinates all much weaker than himself? What's the point? Why are those with their limits removed weaker than a shinigami? And I thought he was going to aquire a hollow for himself, like Ichigo, but maybe not.

I just recently got into the series, mainly the manga. However one question has been bugging me this whole entire time. How come characters age inside the Soul Society? Is it because they can use Spirit Powers?

I thought they didn't age?

No idea if they are Hiks. Rember the flashbacks of rukia and renji as kids? If i remember correctly, There has been nothing said about the aging process. and


I'm thinking because Aizen was a captain, who kill the 46, deceived soul society, and has the Menos grande working for him, that he is rather more powerful then anything yet. which is possibly why he hasn't been over thrown by a hollow/shinigami.


and yeah, reversed order, but in the way ichigo became a shinigami, I'm guessing it creates a hollow within, where as, hollows who become shinigami, are just themselves.

But what I mean is, Aizen is just a shinigami. By his own words, these Numeros arancar should not have the same limitations as himself.
But if Aizen is so great, then why doesn't he search for/create more of himself instead? (However he came to be so strong)
If Numeros arancar are supposed to surpass the limits of Shinigami, then it sounds like Aizen might be something else if he is still so much more powerful than them.

You have to assume there's more to Aizen than being a mere shinigami. What that exactly isn't explained yet. If Tousen's power the same during the Soul Society arc, he shouldn't even be able to keep up with Aizen's Arrancar. Gin, Tousen and Aizen must have enhanced their power.

What's numeros?

I don't know if Tousen has increased his powers. He may still be as strong as before. (but perhaps a bit stronger if Aizen has trained him) The reason he can threaten the Espada Arancar is probably because of the position Aizen gave him, and not that he is so strong. You see that Grimmjaw is trying to attack Tousen, but Aizen threatens to kill him if he does. He has to put up with Tousen because of Aizen's orders.

And I think Numeros are the arancar with numbers.

Is there any reason why he would not be a vaizard? They don't have their hollow masks out all the time after all, that and Aizen's power was rather effective means of control any way.

As far as I know, Aizen underwent all of the required Shinigami training that the others in Soul Society did. He was a Vice-Captain himself once, and it seems he more or less defected to lead the Arrancar. This is just by speculation, of course. It seems that he's controlling the Arrancar specifically, and not full-fledged Hollows. So I'm going to have to agree with Atty at this point. It does make me wonder too, however... Aizen is very respected by his inferiors, and I'm suspicious of his overall limits as well.

All they flashbacks of Matsumoto, and Renji in the manga have proved that wrong. I believe in volume 11 and volume 15 or 16 are the ones with the flashbacks.

Well they weren't shinigami back then.
Once they are inside of soul society they don't seem to age.

This series rox! Seriously. I just love Renji's eyebrows! I'm going as Rukia for Anime Iowa 2007 with a group of friends for our Bleach Cosplay. And Shinigami do age just slower. I mean look at Rukia, Hitsugaya, Hinamori and Hanataro.

I don't know about the others, but Rukia aged while outside of Soul Society. She was in one of those villages with Renji.

People with higher spirit power can control their aging. Without control, those who have higher spiritual power age slower. I think thats how they explained it in the Soul Society Arc.

I was more satisfied with this episode than the last. While I'm usually not bothered by filler-ness and the like, the previous episode seemed almost pointless, and could've been summarized in a mere sentence or two. (I guess it's just 'cause it was a bit of an introduction to the new arc and its villains, though.) My only complaint about the new one: Did they really have to show Yoruichi eating for THAT long?! Sheesh! Talk about a waste of time that could've been spent on a fight scene or an important discussion or something similar. However, I was glad to see some more action and story in this one. Looking forward to the upcoming episodes, as usual.

Damnit >.< I want to be able to reveal all those spoilers... However, I just can't get into the bount filler arc. I dunno why, I just don't care too much for it. I really want to get back to the soul society storyline...