The Bleach manga was first released in August of 2001 in Japan's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. New Japanese chapters are featured weekly in the same magazine; 259 chapters have been released as of January 19, 2007. The manga has been compiled into 25 tankōbon by Shueisha. The first volume of the manga has sold over 1.25 million copies in Japan, and the series as a whole has sold over 34 million volumes.[1][2] In 2005, Bleach was awarded the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.[3]

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Isshin Kurosaki

Isshin Kurosaki  BleachIsshin is the father of three children (Ichigo, Yuzu and Karin) and is the head of the Kurosaki family. He is a skilled doctor and runs a private clinic in their home.

In the beginning of the series we see that Isshin is a loving father who takes keen interest in what his children are into, but his approach only seems to alienate his children from him. He also comes off as silly and seems rather fond of fighting (physically) with his son as a training or a showing off of his skill.

He also seems to embarrass his children by his all too positive all-too-happy tone and loves to make fun of Ichigo. But as we later discover Isshin can become serious and even severe at times, for Isshin seems to be an exiled Shinigami who is very aware of everything that happens in the Bleach universe.

Ryō Kunieda

Ryō KuniedaRyō Kunieda (国枝鈴, Kunieda Ryo)

Ryo is a tall girl that sometimes wear glasses but takes them off when she doesn’t need them. She hangs out with Chizuru, Orihime and the rest of the girls from their class. She is the 2nd best at school in her studies and can always be seen studying. She is also the school’s track star and she can run a 100 meters in 12 seconds flat.

Michiru Ogawa (小川みちる, Ogawa Michiru)

A cute looking girl that always hangs out with Ryo Kunieda. She is also in Ichigo’s class and remarks that she thinks that Ichigo has a scary face.



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Chizuru Honshō

Chizuru Honshō Bleach school character
Chizuru Honshō (本匠千鶴, Honshō Chizuru)

Chizuru Honsho is also a classmate who seems to be in love with Orihime. Yes, Chizuru is a lesbian and she is proud to admit it. She even calls Orihime by the name ‘Hime’ which means princess in Japanese. Chizuru can always be found crushing on Orihime and drooling over her rather curvaceous body. She has also hit on Kunieda, Mahana and Michiru on occasion and noted that Tatsuki is pretty but too tomboyish for her taste.

Mizuiro Kojima

Mizuiro Kojima Bleach school characterMizuiro Kojima (小島水色, Kojima Mizuiro)

Miuiro is also Ichigo’s classmate and Keigo’s friend. Unlike Keigo, Mizuiro is calm and has a gentle speech and has a boyish appearance. In contrast to that he is a real womanizer scoring with woman all the time and excusing himself because he has to go on a date with one or more women. Mizuiro also has a preference for older women.


Later in the manga it is revealed that he was very quiet in Junior High and did not have many friends before going to High School. Also we discover that Mizuiro like most characters that Ichigo comes in contact with later develops the ability to see hollows and Shinigami.

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Tatsuki Arisawa School Characters

Tatsuki Arisawa School Characters
Tatsuki Arisawa (有沢 たつき(竜貴), Arisawa Tatsuki)

Is a character in the manga and anime series Bleach. She is 15 years old, and a classmate and a childhood friend Ichigo.

Tatsuki, even though being a girl, is a tomboy who loves to practice karate and has a dream of becoming a vale tudo champion one day. Tatsuki is Ichigo’s childhood friend and they used to go to karate together and she used to beat him up. Then after starting High School, Ichigo and Tatsuki somehow grew apart.

Tatsuki is also best friends with Orihime, over whom she is very protective since Orihime’s endowments cause guys to stick to her like butter (not only boys but also Chizuru) When Orihime was young she was being bullied and they tried to cut of her hair. Tatsuki was the one that protected her and promised to protect her from anyone who dared to make her cry. She also taught Orihime some karate.

Tatsuki has blue hair in the anime and black hair in the manga. She doesn’t look very feminine but does write her name in hiragana instead of kanji because she believes it looks cuter.

Like most of the characters who come in contact with Ichigo, Tatsuki is also able to see ghosts, hollows and Shinigami.



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Monday, January 29, 2007

Yasutora Chad Sado

Yasutora Chad Sado major Bleach characterChad is a supporting character in the anime and manga series Bleach. He goes to Karakura Highschool and is in the same class as Ichigo, Rukia, Inoue and Ishida. His real name is Yasutora, but because Ichigo pronounced his family name Sado as Chado, he continues referring to him as Chad.

Yasutora Chad Sado major Bleach character
Character Outline

Even though Yasutora ‘Chad’ Sado has a Japanese name, he is of Mexican descent. Chad is a quiet and considerate person who truly cares a lot about his friends and has a weakness for cute things like little animals. After Ichigo becomes a Shinigami his energy affects Chad as well and he becomes spiritually aware and later in the series also gains power.

Chad is extremely tall, towering at a height of 6’5 ½ (197 cm) and is very muscular. He looks like a solid rock and at first appearance looks menacing and much older then he really is. But we later find out that even though he looks made for fighting, Chad never stands up for himself and refuses to fight, a promise he made to his grandfather when he was young.

Chad also has a tattoo on his left shoulder which reads: Amore e Morte (Love and Death in Italian) the tattoo consists of a heart, snake and angel wings that are around the heart. Chad usually wears his school uniform but most often he is wearing a Hawaiian shirt but changes shirts throughout the series.

Like Ishida and Inoue, Chad lives on his won. He is also very smart and is the 11th best student in his school.


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Uryuu Ishida

Uryuu Ishida Bleach Major character
Uryū Ishida (石田 雨竜, Ishida Uryuu)

Uryuu Ishida is a supporting character in the anime and manga series Bleach. He is in the same class as Ichigo, yet in the beginning of the series he and Ichigo were not really friends. Ishida is not simply a normal highschooler, we later find out that Ishida is the last of the Quincy.



Uryuu Ishida Bleach Major character
Character Outline


Ishida Uryuu in the beginning of the series appears rather withdrawn, shy and quite but can sometimes act high and mighty when around Ichigo (which only proves to annoy Ichigo) Ishida seems to never interact with anyone at school and hardly speaks to anyone. He wears glasses and is the top student in school giving him a kind of ‘nerdy’ air. He always seems to be serious and refuses to participate in things that he finds childish, and yet he is member of the fine arts club, where he patches up stuffed animals and sews clothes for them.

Ishida has black hair in the manga and blue-ish in the anime and he wears it longer in front then the back. He wears glasses (sometimes they refer to him as four-eyes) and has very pale skin compared to the rest of the characters.

Ishida is not a normal teenager, he is a Quincy and lives by the moral ethic known as the Pride of the Quincy (note the word pride, another of his characteristics) Ishida is in the beginning reluctant to help Ichigo in his quest, but his strong sense of justice eventually makes him join Ichigo and the rest.

Ishida also loves to try and act cool in front of people (even though some of them like Ichigo are not so impressed) for example wearing a cloak that has no other purpose then being aesthetically appealing.

Surprisingly, Ishida seems to be very poor even though his father owns a hospital (he does not even have enough money to buy a cellphone). Like Orihime and Chad, Ishida lives alone. Ishida does not have a good bond with his father but we know that he had great respect and love towards his grandfather who also showed him the way of the Quincy.