Tite Kubo’s Bleach has kept its fans fired up years after the original series ended, and a large part of that is due to Kubo’s cool character designs drawing fans’ eyes back to the series.
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New seasonal additions are coming to Bleach: Brave Souls, and the series is celebrating the addition of their Swimsuit 2018 versions of Orihime, Soifon, and Harribel with great looking spreads of these new designs (as spotted by @JaymesHanson on Twitter).
Bleach: Brave Souls: Swimsuit 2018!…. Thank me later pic.twitter.com/JMRrFnEdwU
— JaymesHanson (@JaymesHanson) June 27, 2018
As for Bleach: Brave Souls, KLab Games is celebrating the third anniversary of the game, with as special collaboration with series creator Tite Kubo on an original character for the game.The live action Bleach adaptation is currently scheduled for a July 20 release in Japan.
The live-action film has released its first full trailer, along with two other new ones released at the same time. The movie will adapt the first arc of the series, the “Substitute Shinigami” arc. Early reactions to the film have been positive overall, with there talk of even being a new trilogy of films adapting more of Bleach‘s material. If this is successful, then a sequel film with the Soul Society is definitely on the horizon.
The confirmed cast includes Sota Fukushi as Ichigo Kurosaki and Hana Sugisaki as Rukia Kuchiki, MIYAVI as Byakuya Kuchiki, Ryou Yoshizawa, as Uryuu Ishida, Taichi Saotome as Renji Abarai, Erina Mano as Orihime Inoue, Tomo Koyanagi as Chad Yasutora, Yosuke Egochi as Isshin Kurosaki, Masami Nagasawa as Masaki Kurosaki, and Seiichi Tanabe as Keisuke Urahara.
For those unfamiliar with Tite Kubo‘s Bleach, the series follows the young delinquent Ichigo Kurosaki, who had the ability to see spirits. He soon obtains the power of a Soul Reaper – one meant to usher lost souls to the afterlife – and now has the duty to defend the living world from monstrous dark spirits known as Hollows.
The manga was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from 2001 to 2016, and was collected into 74 volumes. It has been adapted into English thanks to VIZ Media, and has sold over 900 million copies in Japan. The series was adapted into an anime by Studio Pierrot from 2004 to 2012, and has four feature-length animations, rock musicals, video games, and a ton of other merchandise. The English language broadcast premiered on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim block in 2006, and you currently find the Japanese and English language versions now streaming on Hulu.
