BLEACH anime!!
 

Awesome! Could you tell me how the animation is? And what about the voices? Do they fit each of the characters?

Well first off the animation is really well done. It is not spectacular, but the series are well done. There is a little bit of cging in certain parts that is hard to catch but it is there. Usually when I judge animes I look at how well they animate a fight scene. In Bleach the first one was well done but extremely short. I probably give more details when the seconds episode is aired. Voice wise I wouldn't of picked better. I swear I've heard some of the voices before but the point is they fit what mood is presented. If its a funny chaotic scene, you'll definately get the point through the voice acting. Same goes for a serious scene. It is well done and I will be looking forward to seeing more.

Thanks Uchiha! :cool: I wish I could see it. *dies* Yeah, the first episode's fight scene is short but the later scenes (at least in the manga) are much more longer and action-filled. Hopefully the anime won't stray too far from the manga. Thanks again! :D

I watched the first episode a little while ago and thought it was pretty good. The premise seems interesting enough, I just hope it doesn't desolve into typical fighting show ilk, although if it has a 26 episode run I don't think it could afford the time to do so. I know the first episode was meant only to introduce the story and I'm curious to see the direction the show could take.

What aspects of the manga did you like a lot, meryl? I'm curious to see what kind of anime it will be.

The animation was pretty good. It was clean and consistent but not really anything remarkable or new. I hope the show doesn't take the pretty standard second episode dive in quality.

Anyway, I'm going to keep watching this because it seems like it could be a good one. I got some of the manga but I couldn't find the first bunch of volumes so I haven't started reading it yet.

Because I don't know the characters too well yet the voices seemed alright. They fit and that's the really important thing, I guess.

Well, I'm pretty much a sucker for anything that is almost very...uh...Kenshin-ish so I think what I love about the manga are the characters, the "development" of the Shinigami process (like training and learning), the story overall (I mean, Ichigo's past is something which isn't anything new, but still...this explains why he particular is a powerful Soul Reaper). I can't say the fight scenes in the manga are spectacular because for some reason, I haven't found anything too "impressive" so far. Perhaps later on.

I hope so too. It's always annoying when that happens.

Well, Uchiha said they fit pretty well...but since I haven't seen them, I can't say whether they fit the sound in my head. Let's just say I imagine Rukia's voice to be somewhat soft, pitch-wise should be in-between, but also rough (not like tomboyish rough...that's for Tasuki, Orihime's friend) but yet knowledgeable and stern. Argh, I have the voice in my head...:P
For Ichigo, I imagine the typical loud teenage kid...slightly (and I do mean slightly) similar to Kyo from Fruits Basket and Midou, Ban from GetBackers. Again, I hear it in my head.

One more final thing I've forgotten to mention: there's a character later named Kon, which is a stuffed animal "turned to life" (you guys will see ;)) and the voice actor for him is the mangaka himself, Kubo Tite! XD

I watched the second episode a few days ago and it seems that this anime could be pretty interesting.

I understand now where you get the Kenshin comparisons from, meryl. The show seems like it could be pretty compelling but for me, it could still really go either way pretty soon.

Luckily, there was no major decline in animation quality. It was pretty much the same as the first episode, which is a good thing. Consistency is a plus.

I'll keep watching it for now at least. It's at least better than much of the other Fall series.

Bleach has been aired and subbed up to episode 5 already. :)

Manga still better though at the moment.

meryl, I started to read the manga and you were right about it. It's pretty good so far. I've read up to Volume 5 and so far it's quite a bit better than the anime.

The thing is, the manga has a really, really neat art style that the anime doesn't really do justice to. The storyline is pretty neat too. Once it gets going there's some interesting stuff. I really liked the story arc about Ichigo's mother and the fact that there's a Hollow he can't defeat right away now. It adds something more to the story and I like that they portray the characters as having real motivation and such.

Anyway, I'm going to keep watching the anime as I'm curious to see how it will continue to adapt the manga. I'm excited to see Kon animated as well. His origin in the manga was really neat and hearing the mangaka's voice as him should be entertaining.

Yeah, it is somewhat better than the anime...but, if the anime does follow the manga storyline faithfully, then the anime shouldn't be too bad. Though, as I mentioned earlier, there are a few parts cut out because of unnecessary details and lack of space, etc. I'm glad you're enjoying it Reid! :phew:

OMG! I'm so happy you said this! To be honest, the real reason why I picked up the series was because of the art style! I know that sounds really superficial of me, but because I don't have access to those manga magazines, I gauge mangas by their cover. Bleach, for some reason, really grabbed my attention. From the covers, I think I liked the very clean art and the single characters dominating each cover. Then, the actual manga art itself, really was just so...beautiful to me. I can't explain it, but I feel his style is somewhat unique (especially the way he draws his very angular, square jawlines and his light pen style...not too much pressure at all...very clean). And, I agree with you too; the anime is nice to look at (of course, it had to be this way due to the animation process) but the manga is more detailed and refined (like most mangas). ^_^

I think you'll enjoy the later chapters Reid. There are more sense of motivation and more sense of "responsibility" and growth on each character's part. Though Ichigo probably is the more developed, next to Rukia. Also, the manga flows along very well; there hasn't been many situations where I thought, "This is totally useless, what's the point?" As I said, some fight scenes are a bit dragged on/uninteresting, but overall, it's not too bad.

look there's going to be a bleach game for the PSP.

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