Friday, 21 August 2015

Bleach

If you know manga, then you know Bleach. There is an anime series and a set of movies, but the manga is without question the best source for story and plot.

The manga's art is unique, the story is written with multi-perspective views, and even the villains' backstories are clearly etched out. You feel for every character, even the ugly ones.

Every character has a secret history that you, as the reader are the only one to know and it is at times, heartbreaking. Sample - Rukia's brother.

The story starts off as simple but gains complexity with every new arc and the characters develop from young immature children to older, more nuanced heroes with ambiguous morality. Murder is not a crime, when you're killing criminals! LOL.

The story is about a young kid named Ichigo who meets a Shinigami - Death God named Rukia. She's injured and there's a Hollow in the house. The soul-devouring monster is really ugly. Ichigo borrows Rukia's Shinigami powers and becomes a Shinigami himself, kills the Hollow, and saves the day. Rukia joins his school and helps him patrol for Hollows while she recovers. Unfortunately or fortunately, he infects his friends with his Shinigami powers and they mutate into humans with spiritual power. Then, the Quincy classmate declares war. And that's just the first 10 chapters. There were 639 when I last looked.

Happy Reading. Huge Smile.






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