Bleach

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Bleach (Burīchi) ブリーチ

Format	DVD/Paperback
Creator	Tite Kubo
Production	Shueisha (manga, serialized in 'Monthly Shonen Jump') Dentsu Inc., Studio Pierrot, TV Tokyo
Release	265 episodes (at 3/13/10, anime, ongoing) 34 volumes (manga as of 3/13/10, ongoing)
Genre	Action
Rating	16+

Bleach is an ongoing manga series written by Tite Kubo. Since its debut in 2001, Bleach has been adapted into an anime series, two OVAs, an anime film, a rock musical, and numerous video games. Compilation volumes of the manga have sold over 36 million copies in Japan.

Bleach follows the lives of Ichigo Kurosaki, who is a high school student with the ability to see ghosts, and a shinigami (Soul Reaper, literally, "death god") named Rukia Kuchiki, who crosses paths with Ichigo while hunting an evil spirit known as a "hollow". Rukia is wounded during the ensuing confrontation with the spirit and is left with no choice but to transfer her powers into Ichigo. Thus the adventures of Ichigo and Rukia begin. Together, they search for hollows and perform soul burials on wayward souls, cleansing the spirits and sending them to the other side.

The early part of the story focus mainly on the characters and their pasts, rather than the actual occupation of the Soul Reapers. As events unfold, the story begins to delve deeper into the world of these gods of death on the "other side" called Soul Society.

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