Bleach anime manga chapter series#

Viz Media released the first volume on Jas of Jthirty-one volumes have been released. The latest volume is forty-six, released on August 4, 2010. The first volume was released on January 5, 2002.

Bleach anime manga chapter series#

The individual chapters are collected by Shueisha in a series of tankЕЌbon volumes, which include a poem based on the cover character. North American licensor Viz Media has been serializing the individual chapters in Shonen Jump since November 2007 in the United States. An airing anime adaptation, produced by Studio Pierrot and TV Tokyo, premiered on TV Tokyo on October 5, 2004. These 'negative' chapters are side stories and consist of events that precede the start of the series. In addition to the main series chapters, some chapters are published with a negative chapter number. Most chapter names are in English and have katakana above them to indicate how they are read in Japanese, similar to furigana ruby characters used with advanced kanji characters. Since Bleach 's premiere, four hundred chapters have been released in Japan. He also encounters former Soul Reaper SЕЌsuke Aizen, who created an army of powerful hollow called arrancar to destroy the Soul Reapers' organization, Soul Society.

Since that event, Ichigo has to fight hollows, evil spirits that attack people. The plot follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki, a teenager who accidentally steals the powers of the Soul Reaper Rukia Kuchiki and subsequently assumes her duties while she convalesces. In Japan, they have been published in Shueisha's Weekly ShЕЌnen Jump since 2001. The chapters of the Bleach manga are written and illustrated by Tite Kubo. Cover of the first tankЕЌbon for Bleach, released in Japan by Shueisha on January 5, 2002