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 animation has come a long way, as has Kubo's drawings. It's much better now.
The original storyline, according to the manga, is usually top notch. But you can't really expect something running for a few hundred episodes to be that way every single episode.
The fillers are all really quite awful. But I think the Unknown Zanpakuto Tales arc was actually pretty good. You should probably skip fillers unless someone recommends it. They're irrelevant to the original storyline. You have to know that they make fillers to give the original story some time to develop. Only about 20 pages of the manga are released PER WEEK, minus breaks. I guess the movies can be considered fillers so you should read reviews on those too if you don't wanna waste dload time.
Overall I really love Bleach it's my first and favourite anime so I definitely recommend you take a shot at it.