Despite not personally topping the likes of Naruto and One Piece, Bleach truly was something unique with a more mature take in story than its perhaps more appealing counterparts (particularly in the west) the style and tone of the story is obvious and set from the first scene in the anime. With such a defined look and a handful of truly compelling arcs the show is a fantastic watch

I'm looking forward to see next season 17 plz realse it

So I had a nice long review written out... naturally that meant I would accidentally close my browser. I even knew this was going to happen too, yet, fool that I am, I continued anyway. I feel like shouting (in Japanese), "Howl, Zabimaru!" or "teh-meh!!" (or however you spell that) as I smash the computer, but I won't. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go watch Bleach and learn.I guess to sum up what I had before: This is a very versatile anime that will make you both laugh and cry. The character design, music, and animation are excellent. Give the fillers a chance, I liked them a lot. The only consistently bad/annoying thing about the show is the occasional overly drawn-out fight.I'll edit this when I feel like doing a more detailed review.

Among anime series or Shonen series, Bleach is an epically interesting anime about 15-17 year old young man that has the curious ability to see ghosts. because of this, she sees a Soul Reaper on a mission named Rukia.(Their job is to either help the dead pass on to the afterlife, or vanquish evil souls called Hollows with swords called Zanpakuto. Long Story short, Rukia saves Ichigo from an attacking Hollow with her powers and gets pretty injured. Unable to fight, Rukia asks Ichigo to take her powers and save his family, which he agrees to do. Ichigo from then on became known as The Substitute Soul Reaper. The show basically revolves around him trying to balance his secret life as a basically Stand-In Grim Reaper and his average high school life. While Rukia regains her powers, it's up to Ichigo to save lives and help the dead move on. It's a tough job that he didn't bargain for at first, but he later chooses he wants to protect people, and executes his duties as a Substitute. Now don't get fooled, the story changes pace as you go on. Spoilers, but we find out that what "Team Substitiute" did was forbidden. The story goes from normal adventures to a more serious battle to save Rukia from execution at the hands of Soul Society, the place where Soul Reapers come from. They mean well, but when the i$h hits the fan, Ichigo doesn't care. He meets a bunch of friends in his class with strange powers of their own and they team up to rescue Rukia in The Soul Society Arc. Bleach is a great anime, but honestly, it has a plot I can't explain or even tell enough in just a few paragraphs. Unlike most other anime, Bleach is a story in which the main character has no one specific goal he must achieve. It's not bad, just different.The action in Bleach is phenomenal and EPIC(bait gory though)!! If action anime is what you want, you'll love this anime. Bleach gives us some of the most epic scenes with Ichigo. He's not okay with the heartless way things work in Soul Society and shows everyone that even though he's just human, he became one of the most powerful and dangerous Soul Reapers of all time! You'll learn to love the dynamic of the main characters and their abilities. One annoying thing is that the characters, especially Ichigo, tend to get a crazy power-up every single arc, which gets Super annoying at times. The animations of the show are fantastic most times and make fights beautiful. Music is also pretty fresh and helps a lot to hype up intense moments in the anime. All anime have issues with fillers, but another issue with Bleach is that it's fillers don't even fit in the canon plot of the series, like returning characters who are supposed to be gone like Rukia in The Bount Arc. Plus, most of it's filler arcs aren't that entertaining and appear when the canon story is really intense. You also have to consider that the story is almost a knock-off of YuYu Hakusho. They both have a notorious but average high-school kid that can fight and they get involved with spirits and get jobs dealing with them. But I can't say it totally copied though, because it has a lot of awesome original content itself.Another thing you gotta love about Bleach is the dynamic and relationship between characters. Ichigo cares deeply for each of his friends, especially his main gang of five, and oddly, he has a pretty awesome back-story with each of them, like Sado(or Chad), who fight for each other's backs and Orehime, a pretty beautiful girl in his grade that has a crush on Ichigo. There's also Uryū, the Quincy( a near extinct race of people who kill hollows that rival Soul Reapers) who has a rival-type bond with him. There's a lot of emotion to the series and one thing about Bleach is that of all anime-viewers, it appeals best to high-school teenagers, and maybe those kids and teens that were forced to grow up early cause they lost their mom or dad or maybe both and had to man up. Ichigo's like one of the first non-rambunctious happy-attitude main characters to care so much about his pals, and he's ready to push himself beyond his limits to turn his anger and love into strength, probably why he pulls power-ups out the @$$ all the time. So over all, Bleach is an Extremely great anime with tons of blade action, hand-to-hand action, a nice but repeatedly shifting plot, a wide variety of characters, a stupid amount of confusing names and facts for things, not much romance(understandable) and pretty funny! Name:Bleach Main Character: Ichigo Kurosaki Hair Color: Orange Eye Color: Brown Score: Awesome, Epic and Bad@$$! 9.3/10 or just 9