The Honey Dish Rhapsody

[r_dahlia]

The Honey Dish Rhapsody is a novel coauthored by Tite Kubo and Matsubara Makoto, set during the week that Ichigo and his friends spent in Soul Society between manga chapter 179 and chapter 180 (at the end of the Soul Society arc).  It contains most of the characters featured in that arc, during rarely-seen downtime.

This novel was originally

Comments

[kyliwolf]

I will read this when I have more time to. It's always interesting to see how much of what appears in fanfiction and fanart is canon.

Well, now we know why Nanao was looking for Shunsui.

[r_dahlia]

It is interesting how fans develop their own conventions about characters. Then you see that fanon everywhere and people expect to see it in fanfiction and fanart, even if there isn't any canon basis for it.

I was a little surprised to see what Nanao did to Shunsui in the last scene, as it means there is some canon basis for what I've seen in a lot of fanworks. I had thought that such a situation was a bit too exaggerated before. ^_^;

[akai_miko]

Wah. Thank you for posting. Without you I would have probably found it few months later XD Gonna read now :D

[r_dahlia]

I hope you enjoy it! I think it's a lovely translation by Estella May, and it's fun to see the characters when they aren't fighting.

[akai_miko]

Yes I liked it much :D hope that Kubo will make things like this again soon :)

[r_dahlia]

Well, there are a couple other things by Matsubara Makoto and Tite Kubo: Nestle to Night, a short story from the Unmasked databook, translated here at Bleach Asylum by Estella May: http://bleachasylum.com/threads/18464-BLEACH-Official-Fan-Book-3-UNMASKED-v2?p=2785028&viewfull=1#post2785028. This is about the immediate aftermath of the Deicide battle and focuses primarily on Harribel and her fraccion. Kubo drew a new sketch for this short story, posted here at Bleachness: http://bleachness.livejournal.com/648058.html. Shunsui and Nanao do not appear.

Also, there is a novelization of the Hell Verse movie, which follows the fourth movie's plotline.

Question

[fyrjurai]

Thanks for info! Been looking for the novels for years. The second novel is now translated and the color pages are scanned. Haven't found the whole volume though.
Question: Is the first novel scanned and translated too? If yes, where?

Re: Question

[meroko26]

Where can you find the second volume? Thank you.

Re: Question

[fyrjurai]

"Haven't found the whole volume though" only the "color pages are scanned" here: http://www.animebleach.it/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1651&sid=bf7ca66c2d97197a2bc84f5fbdf5be14#p1651

Re: Question

[r_dahlia]

The Honey Dish Rhapsody is actually the second novel. The first novel, also written by Tite Kubo and Matsubara Makoto, is a novelization of the early Bleach manga, and it's called Letters From the Other Side. I posted links in a comment below to the only sections I know of that have been translated.

[meroko26]

I had no IDEA about this. Thanx for the link. the Shunanao scenes were great especially the last one!

[r_dahlia]

I'm glad you enjoyed the novel!