Bleach (Manga)
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transcription | Burichi | ||||||||||||
Bleach logo | |||||||||||||
genre | Shōnen , action series | ||||||||||||
Manga | |||||||||||||
country | Japan | ||||||||||||
author | Tite Kubo | ||||||||||||
publishing company | Shueisha | ||||||||||||
magazine | Weekly Shōnen Jump | ||||||||||||
First publication | August 20, 2001 - August 22, 2016 | ||||||||||||
expenditure | 74 | ||||||||||||
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Country of production | Japan | ||||||||||||
original language | Japanese | ||||||||||||
Year (s) | 2004–2012 | ||||||||||||
Studio | Studio Pierrot | ||||||||||||
length | 20 minutes | ||||||||||||
Episodes | 366 in 16 seasons ( List ) | ||||||||||||
Director | Noriyuki Abe | ||||||||||||
production | Jun Takibuchi | ||||||||||||
music | Shirō Sagisu | ||||||||||||
First broadcast | October 5, 2004 - March 27, 2012 on TV Tokyo | ||||||||||||
German-language first broadcast |
July 18, 2009 - January 23, 2010 on Animax | ||||||||||||
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Bleach (original spelling:
action
scenario
In the world of Bleach there are other parallel dimensions besides the world of humans. In one of these live the Shinigami (dt. "Death Gods"), which are organized as a military-run training center. The world itself is called Soul Society (
The Shinigami are souls of deceased people who have acquired supernatural powers. They are invisible to normal people and, like the Hollows, can only be perceived by people who themselves have spiritual energy and abilities. They appear to them in human form. All Shinigami carry a weapon specially tailored to them, the zanpakutō ( 斬 魄 d , dt. "Soul-headed sword") is called. Constant training with the weapon that reflects parts of their soul enables them to learn the name of their weapon, which enables them to elicit additional capabilities from their weapon. The first level of this skill is called Shikai ( 始 解 , dt. "Initial solution"). When a certain command is called out, the sword changes into a different shape that better suits the character of the Shinigami. A second form of transformation is called Bankai ( 卍 解 ). This skill can only be used by a few Shinigami, which is acquired through years of training and is actually a necessary prerequisite for being elevated to the rank of commander. In addition to handling their weapons and their special skills, the Shinigami are also able to use Kidō ( 鬼 道 , dt. "Path of the Demon"), a form of magic. There are two types of Kidō, Bakudō ( 縛 道 , dt. "Path of fetters"), and hadō ( 破 道 , dt. "Path of destruction"). Each of these types supposedly belong to 99 spells, all of which differ from one another and are used for various purposes.
Overview of the events
15-year-old student Ichigo Kurosaki has had the ability to see ghosts since childhood . One day he meets the Shinigami Rukia Kuchiki who is hunting a hollow. As she is seriously injured during the fight, she is forced to transfer her powers to Ichigo so that Ichigo can defeat the hollow in her place. Until Rukia recovers, Ichigo has to do the work of a shinigami. Rukia registers at Ichigo's school and moves into his closet. Over time, the two become friends.
Since Rukia Kuchiki has exceeded her stay in the human world, Rukia is forcibly returned to the Soul Society by her stepbrother, the commander of the 6th Division of the 13 Protection Units of the Soul Society Byakuya Kuchiki and the vice-commander of the 6th Division Renji Abarai , where everyone departed souls, including the Shinigami. Because of the transfer of her Shinigami powers to a person, which is a grave offense, she is sentenced to the annihilation of her soul. As Ichigo desperately wants to save Rukia, he takes training from Kisuke Urahara, who runs a business with products for spiritual beings and is an extremely experienced former commander of the 12th Division. So he and his friends and schoolmates Yasutora "Chad" Sado and Orihime Inoue, who also have special powers, as well as Quincy Uryū Ishida, set off to the Soul Society , where an attempt to save Rukia leads to confrontations with powerful Shinigami comes. Bit by bit a plot planned by one or three commanders Seireiteis is uncovered, which could have serious consequences, not only for the Soul Society, but also for this world, with Karakura ( 空座 町 , - chō ), the hometown of the Main characters, explicitly targeted by the conspiracy.
Characters
A multitude of different characters appear in Bleach, which have a greater or lesser importance depending on the plot section. Ichigo Kurosaki, Orihime Inoue, Yasutora “Chad” Sado and Uryū Ishida come from the human world. Everyone in the human world goes to the same school and is soon confronted with the Shinigami and their constant fight against the Hollows.
Publications
Manga
Bleach was published in Japan from August 20, 2001 to August 22, 2016 in 686 individual chapters in the weekly manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump by Shueisha- Verlag. These individual chapters were regularly summarized in anthologies, which were concluded with Volume 74.
The German offshoot of Tokyopop brought out the manga series in German from April 2006 to August 2017. Tokyopop Germany had sold over 800,000 copies of the manga by August 2017. An art book with the title Bleach: All Color But The Black was published for the manga . This was published in October 2008 by Tokyopop in Germany.
The manga appeared in Italy, France and the USA, among others.
Anime
Studio Pierrot (including Saber Rider and the Star-Sheriffs , Naruto ) produced an anime series with 366 episodes for the manga, directed by Noriyuki Abe . The series was broadcast weekly on the Japanese television station TV Tokyo from October 5, 2004 to March 27, 2012 , with the days of the week changing in the meantime. It last ran every Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. Japanese time. Studio Pierrot also wrote the two 30-minute Bleach - OVA episodes Memories in the Rain and The Sealed Sword Frenzy .
Panini licensed the anime for Germany in March 2008. Panini commissioned SPV to distribute the series. In 2009, SPV released five DVDs at monthly intervals that dubbed the first 20 episodes of the anime and contained them in the original sound. After the insolvency of SPV, Panini commissioned the distributor Nipponart to distribute the DVDs. They only used the DVDs that had been released so far. Episodes 21 to 53 had already been dubbed by Panini, but Panini saw a TV evaluation (up to episode 52) but no longer a DVD evaluation. In early 2017 it became known that Kazé Germany had licensed the series. So far, 131 episodes have been confirmed. Since July 2017, 63 episodes have been released on 3 DVD boxes. DVD boxes 4 to 6 are planned for February 2018.
From July 19, 2009, the German branch of Animax broadcast episodes 1 to 52 as a German TV premiere. It aired two episodes a week. Since October 27, 2017, the station ProSieben Maxx Bleach has been broadcasting as part of its Anime Night. This is wrongly advertised by ProSieben Maxx as a German TV premiere, which is factually wrong, as episodes 1 to 52 were already running on the German Animax offshoot on German pay TV. Thus, episodes 1 to 52 are in fact only German free TV premieres and not German TV premieres. Only the broadcast from episode 53 would be a German TV premiere.
The Weekly Shonen Jump announced in March 2020 that the anime would continue. The "Quincy Blood War" arc of the manga is to be adapted. The one-shot manga Burn the Witch should also be adapted in autumn 2020.
- Anime films
On December 16, 2006, the movie Bleach: Memories of Nobody was released in Japan . The film was due to be shown in American cinemas in June 2008.
The first Bleach film was released on September 24, 2010 by Kazé Germany in German-speaking countries. All of the German voice actors in the series were adopted for their roles in the film. On June 24, 2011, the film was released under the title Bleach Movie 1 - Memories of Nobody by Kazé on Blu-ray Disc .
On December 22, 2007, the second film Gekijōban Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion - Mō Hitotsu no Hyōrinmaru ( 劇場版 BLEACH The DiamondDust Rebellion も う 一 つ の 氷輪 丸 ) in Japanese cinemas.
Kazé Germany released the second Bleach film on August 26, 2011 in German-speaking countries simultaneously on DVD and Blu-ray Disc under the name Bleach Movie 2 - The DiamondDust Rebellion .
On December 13, 2008, the third feature film was released in Japanese cinemas. The title is Gekijōban Bleach: Fade to Black - Kimi no Na o Yobu .
On December 4, 2010, the fourth film with the title Gekijōban Bleach: Jigoku-hen (Chapter of Hell) came in Japanese cinemas.
synchronization
The German synchronization of episodes 1 to 53 was still commissioned by Panini. Panini commissioned the synchronization studio G&G Studios at the time .
Since episode 54, the German dubbing has been done on behalf of Kazé Germany. Kazé was able to win almost all of the old cast members for the dubbing.
role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) | German speaker |
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Ichigo Kurosaki | Masakazu Morita | Konrad Bösherz |
Rukia Kuchiki | Fumiko Orikasa | Antje von der Ahe |
Orihime Inoue | Yuki Matsuoka | Ilona Otto |
Yasutora Sado | Hiroki Yasumoto | Björn Schalla |
Uryu Ishida | Noriaki Sugiyama |
Markus Pfeiffer (up to episode 53) Arne Stephan (from episode 54) |
Renji Abarai | Kentarō Itō | David Nathan |
Kisuke Urahara | Shin'ichiro Miki | Kim Hasper |
Jinta Hanakari | Takako Honda | Patrick Mölleken |
Byakuya Kuchiki | Ryotaro Okiayu | Lars Schmidtke |
Con | Mitsuaki Madono | David Turba |
Yoruichi Shihōin | Satsuki Yukino | Susanne Dobrusskin (up to episode 53) Julia von Tettenborn (from episode 54) |
Yoruichi Shihōin as a cat | Shirō Saitō | Rolf Berg |
Jūshirō Ukitake | Hideo Ishikawa | Andreas Meese |
Gin Ichimaru | Kōji Yusa | Vanya Gerick |
Tōshirō Hitsugaya | Romi Park | Dennis Saemann |
Kenpachi Zaraki | Fumihiko Tachiki | Michael-Che cook |
Yachiru Kusajishi | Hisayo Mochizuki | Rieke Werner |
Ikkaku Madarame | Nobuyuki Hiyama | René Dawn-Claude |
Hanatarō Yamada | Kōki Miyata | Dirk Stollberg |
Sōsuke Aizen | Sho Hayami | Andreas Meese |
Other adaptations
Live action movie
The real film Bleach was released in Japanese cinemas on July 20, 2018 . Sota Fukushi played the leading role of Ichigo Kurosaki. Shinsuke Sato directed it.
musical
Musicals were performed, of which there are now five. The musicals are directed by Takuya Hiramitsu and the script was written by Naoshi Okumura. The music was written by Shoichi Tama and is not the same as the anime. The premiere of the first musical, Rock Musical BLEACH, was on August 17, 2005 in the Zero Tokyo Center in Shinjuku . Later the musicals Rock Musical BLEACH Saien , Rock Musical BLEACH The Dark of The Bleeding Moon , Rock Musical BLEACH Live Bankai Show Code 001 , Rock Musical BLEACH No Clouds in the Blue Heavens and Rock Musical BLEACH Live Bankai Show Code 002 and Rock Musical BLEACH The All listed. The Live Bankai Show Code 003 is currently running .
Video games
Several video games have been developed based on the manga. Sony Computer Entertainment developed nine games, four for PlayStation 2 and five for PlayStation Portable . Sega released a total of six games for various Nintendo consoles . Of these, Bleach - Shattered Blade for the Nintendo Wii and Sega Bleach - The Blade of Fate , Bleach - Dark Souls and a strategy-related game The 3rd Phantom appeared for the Nintendo DS in Germany. Bleach: Soul Ignition for the PlayStation 3 followed on June 23, 2011, and was also released in Europe on September 16, 2011 under the title Bleach: Soul Resurrección .
Effects on other media
The character Orihime is partly known not only to the fans of the series, since she became the leading actress in an Internet flash cartoon " Loituma Girl " that spreads like a virus . The cartoon consists of a short, repetitive animation in which Orihime swings a leek stick around to which the interlude of the Ievan Polkka is played continuously in an endless loop . As a result, Loituma's Ievan Polkka achieved a certain cult status and sales of the album were greatly boosted.
Awards
Tite Kubo was awarded the 50th Shogakukan Manga Prize in the Shōnen category for Bleach in 2004 .
Web links
- Official website of Shueisha for the manga series ( Memento of May 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Japanese)
- Official homepage of TV Tokyo for the anime series (Japanese)
- Bleach in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- German Wiki about Bleach
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bleach Manga to End in 74th Volume. Anime News Network , July 3, 2016, accessed July 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Bleach farewell with extras and prizes! Tokyopop Germany, July 3, 2016, accessed July 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Bleach TV Anime Ending on March 27 . Anime News Network . Retrieved May 11, 2012.
- ↑ Release certificate for Bleach Vol. 13 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Kazé Online - The Return of the Shinigami. Kazé Germany, January 9, 2017, accessed January 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Kazé Online - With the Shinigami into the new year. Kazé Germany, September 24, 2017, accessed September 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Bleach on ANIMAX. (No longer available online.) Animax, July 8, 2009, archived from the original on February 9, 2010 ; Retrieved December 8, 2009 .
- ↑ ProSieben Maxx - The Anime Night in October - Rebellion and gods of death in the Anime Night. ProSieben Maxx, September 12, 2017, accessed on September 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Endymion: "Bleach" anime continues and "Burn the Witch" gets an anime adaptation. Anime Sushi, March 19, 2020, accessed March 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Anime News Network about the first Bleach movie in theaters
- ↑ Bleach the Movie - Memories of Nobody in autumn 2010 on DVD. (No longer available online.) AnimeVirtual, July 8, 2009, archived from the original on July 18, 2011 ; accessed on September 22, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Bleach. SynchronKartei, accessed on September 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Kazé Online - Synchro-Bankai for the 3rd Bleach Box. Kazé Germany, January 22, 2017, accessed January 22, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Kazé Online - Everything the same at Ichigo & Co! Kazé Germany, July 23, 2017, accessed September 24, 2017 .