#Bleach manga color series

Ichigo Kurosaki is a teenager from Karakura Town who can see ghosts, a talent which lets him meet supernatural trespasser Rukia Kuchiki.

#Bleach manga color series

As of 2018, the series had over 120million tankÅbon volumes in print worldwide. Despite significant downturns in both the Japanese and English manga markets, Bleach continued to perform well commercially, and has sold more than 90million tankÅbon copies in Japan alone. Viz Media has also released each of the four Bleach feature films in English.īleach received the Shogakukan Manga Award for the shÅnen demographic (teenage males) in 2005, and is among the best-selling manga in both Japan and the United States. Cartoon Network began airing dubbed episodes of Bleach in the United States that Fall as part of its Adult Swim block, and Hulu later began to stream subtitled versions of the anime a week after each episode aired in Japan. Viz Media secured foreign television and home video distribution rights to the Bleach anime in 2006. was released in 2018.Įnglish-language releases of Bleach are coordinated by Viz Media, which has released several volumes of the manga each year since 2004, and published chapters of Bleach in its Shonen Jump magazine since November 2007. A Japanese live-action film adaptation produced by Warner Bros. The series has spawned a media franchise that includes an animetelevision series that was produced by Tokyo-based Studio Pierrot from 2004 to 2012, two original video animation (OAV) episodes, four animated feature films, ten stage musicals, and numerous video games, as well as many types of Bleach-related merchandise. Is the the policy of this wiki to keep the b&w scans instead of using the color ones or is it just because nobody uploaded them yet?īleach was serialized in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly ShÅnen Jump from August 2001 to August 2016, with its chapters collected into 74 tankÅbon volumes. In other wikis (like One Piece) those color scans are always used and replace the b&w ones as soon as they are made available, but from what I saw it doesn't look like the Bleach one does the same. His new-found powers force him to take on the duties of defending humans from evil spirits and guiding departed souls to the afterlife, and set him on journeys to various ghostly realms of existence. Bleach follows the adventures of the hotheaded teenager Ichigo Kurosaki, who inherits his parents' destiny after he obtains the powers of a Soul Reaper ( æ»ç¥ Shinigami, literally 'Death God')âa death personification similar to the Grim Reaperâfrom another Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki. Bleach (Japanese: ããªã¼ãHepburn: BurÄ«chi) is a Japanese shÅnenmanga series written and illustrated by Tite Kubo that started an entire franchise, including an anime series.