While I was happily immersing my head in Gintama to mediate the negativity radiating from Bleach anime/manga's present Hueco Mundo arc, stuff was happening. Major stuff.  News of the new filler arc was already published in Jump on 2/28, but I guess I was too busy being sick and drooling at Gin-san/Hijikata-san to notice.

( Anime-wise: New filler arc )

Heh, I spent my three-day Presidents' Day weekend watching Ep. 1-13 of Honey and Clover and up to the end of the Wa Rebellion arc (Ep 39) in Juuni Kokki. Bad, bad me didn't get any work done, but I think it was worth it.

Honey and Clover:

I started Honey and Clover for two reasons: one, it's a purported favorite of Kubo Tite's, and I was interested ( Read more... )

Sometime around this month or the next, I will have been a fan of Kubo Tite's Bleach for exactly one year.

While my early interest in Naruto faded after about six months, Bleach has been keeping me reeled in. Admittedly the latest chapters aren't the best, but I still enjoy them enough to keep up with it. And Bleach's anime is running circles around ( Read more... )

An unexpected late Christmas present awaited me at BleachExile.com, where I found the soundtrack for the second Bleach movie, "The DiamondDust Rebellion".  That's a speedy release, considering the movie only came out Dec. 22.

I haven't seen the film yet, so I can't connect tracks to specific plot points, but my overall impression is that this whole ( Read more... )

From Air's post on BleachAsylum forums:  A recurring subject in Bleach omake/Colorful Bleach chapters featuring Byakuya is his obsession with his personally-designed character, Wakame-Taishi.  While Rukia's obsession with Chappy the Bunny is well known, Byakuya doesn't mention his rather silly original mascot in normal manga, probably because he ( Read more... )

I think I'm going to be a Bleach fan for life at this rate. I picked up Bleach when I began losing interest in Naruto, and I'm still eagerly following Bleach anime/manga every week. Even re-watching old episodes makes me happy no matter how many times I've seen them before. (I wish I could say the same for Naruto  Shippuuden...)

The latest Bleach ( Read more... )

I always wondered how those doujin circles could get away with everything.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-11/ff_manga?currentPage=1

This article is a pretty good explanation of the tacit agreement between doujin authors and mainstream manga publishers in Japan, with a micro-interview at the end with CLAMP leader Ageha Ohkawa.

Most of ( Read more... )

Major Bleach fangirl disclaimer here: I may begin to babble about crazy crap that you don't understand/care much for, but oh boy do I need to gush right now...

( RUKIA IS BACK!! )

Third Saiunkoku Monogatari entry in a row! (That's a mouthful... is there a standard abbreviation for it?) I've finished Season 1. Since Season 2 is still very much a work in progress, I've contented myself with watching eps 1 and 2, and am holding off on the rest for now. Following a series weekly can take some of the jazz out of it...

This doesn't ( Read more... )

Okay, I'll confess, I'm a giant IchiRuki shipper and have been since nearly the time when I started being a Bleach fan too, enough to consider making an IchiRuki theme blog, even.

This set of questions was posted ages ago at the Bleach Asylum (forum) IchiRuki thread, so I'll answer it here instead of there.

( Onwards for more IchiRuki-ness! )