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Bleach is originally a manga that started its serialization in Japan’s hit magazine Weekly Shounen Jump. Soon afterwards, Bleach was published in compiled volumes, or tankoubon / trade paperbacks, by Jump Comics. Jump Comics is the monster manga publishing division of successful publisher Shueisha and has seen many a big manga title. (Death Note, Naruto, One Piece, Dragonball, Rurouni Kenshin, Tennis no Oujisama, Slam Dunk, just to name a few)
Bleach can call itself Shounen in the manga genres, which means its prime target is a general male audience at an average High School age. Bleach carries the common features distinct to Shounen; it contains a lot of action, adventure and combat, mixed with humour, camaraderie and extravagant power show downs.
The prominent underlying theme in Bleach is the supernatural, or more specific, the term Shinigami (means Death God). The spiritual, spirits, souls of the deceased, the ’after life’; upon all of this, Bleach manages to set up a world and resulting ocean of information that the manga can call its own.
Bleach shows you an average modern day school life, filled with its own trials and challenges, and then pulls up the curtains for different worlds to explore. The elements that make Bleach stand out are the incredibly well-timed surges of good solid dork jokes and twisted, twisted plot turns. Action is paced nicely with slower, emotional moments, just to give the story enough intense deepness to keep the reader wanting more. For the eye, Bleach is simply candy. Character features and clothing are applied with dedication, up to the point where you don’t know if the individual makes the trademarks his/her own, or that the trademarks make the individual. The creator also manages to make the large part of his characters look like they have their clothing ideas hot off the hippest fashion-street press.
All in all, Bleach makes a good laugh and, I guarantee, a great read.
At present, the manga is still ongoing in Weekly Shounen Jump. Collected volumes are also still in the process of publishing in- and outside Japan. An anime version of Bleach has been airing as a weekly show on Japanese television since October 2004. Besides that, two OVA’s (Original Video Animation, available as DVD/video), a movie and rock musical have been developed based on Bleach.
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