If you need something clean then you need Bleach.
It's 2025 and my love for Bleach hasn't faded one bit. Literally just realized I have never talked about Bleach as an anime here before; asides mentioning Ichigo as one of my favourite character and participations in anime quests. Let's begin.
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I started my Bleach journey sometime in 2023 and it was part of the top 10 decisions I made that year. At first, I wasn't getting into it quickly,I was bored at some points and I forgot to take the filler episodes out. Actually I was too lazy to search for which and which were filler episodes so I ended up watching the full 366 episodes straight one. And yes, it's a tad bit bulky. But this is practically dust compared to One piece,ha!
The mc, Ichigo Kurosaki is a teenage highschooler who has the ability to see ghosts. It wasn't something abnormal anymore for him as he had always had the ability so instead of being scared away or frightened,he tries to help these spirits however he can. Things took a wild turn when he bumbed into a soul reaper on her way to finish off a hollow. Hollows are spirits born of human souls that has been corrupted by negative or evil feelings. A soul reaper is a person with a job solely to kill hollows and protect the soul society. They are spiritual beings with immense powers who can only be seen by other spiritually aware beings. And like any association of people,there are the higher ones,the people of more power than the others,hereby bringing out the system of 'ranks'. Rukia is the soul reaper that Ichigo bumps into as she's trying to take down a hollow but unfortunately injured herself severely and can't fight anymore. She takes the drastic move to transfer her sole reaper powers to Ichigo to serve as a temporary soul reaper with sufficient powers to take down the hollow.
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The first 20-30 episodes might be a bit crappy, it's an old anime. Old but gold. Bleach is written by Tite Kubo and sometimes I wake up and appreciate the universe for making him draw bleach. Let's talk about how I came about Bleach. It wasn't a planned schedule when I started Bleach. I was about to begin my second semester exams in year 1 when I got the sudden urge to start a 366 episode anime. We're literally talking about 8 days to the exams,haha. The characters development in Bleach was one the best things I witnessed 2023, asides rewatching Avatar;the last Airbender and witnessing Zuko's beautiful character development again,for the 8th time(Oh my glorious prince).
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Asides the excess amount of fillers in the first 20 seasons,Bleach is cinema. There were a lot of characters that had me glued to my screen. Alot of amazing,talented, extraordinarily, smart, beautiful characters.
What prompted me to talk about Bleach was the conclusion of the TBYW 3. I just want to say I'm in love with about 90% of the entire bleach cast,including arrancars and quincies and none of them are safe around me;)
I genuinely hope you decide to start your Bleach journey soon if you haven't. It's a beautiful show and I won't understand why you wouldn't want to see a glorious show.
Thanks for reading...