Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Vintage:
October 5, 2004
Status:
Still Airing
Summary:
Kurosaki Ichigo is a 15 year old boy that has an ability to see ghosts/spirits. Because of his ability, he is able to meet a female death god (a.k.a Shinigami) named Kuchiki Rukia. To save his family and friends from unwanted soul-eating spirits (Hollows), Rukia transfers her Shinigami powers to Ichigo. As Rukia takes on a human shell, together they solve mysteries involving spirits and hollows until from the spirit world comes 2 other shinigamis explaining that it is illegal to transfer Shinigami powers to humans and Rukia exceeded the time limit to stay in the human world. After they sentence her death for breaking the laws, Ichigo snaps and swears to everyone he will retrieve Rukia by breaking into the spirit world.
The manga was amazing, so I started watching the anime. I also really liked the anime; the dialogue was serious and funny. The story twists and turns and there's a lot of good action. The only thing that I don't like are the fillers. They're not original, so they're not as good as the real story. Sometimes you're at the best part of the story, then the fillers come in and they screw things up. That's why I like to skip fillers.
Summary:
Good:
Animation, dialogue; interesting story, lots of likable characters.
Bad:
Fillers. And if you don't like long stories and are thinking of watching Bleach, you may be overwhelmed with the number of episodes, as with a few friends of mine.