'Bleach' Reveals New Colored Pages

Tite Kubo's Bleach may have ended its run a few years ago, but the series has had a recent [...]

By Nick Valdez

Tite Kubo's Bleach may have ended its run a few years ago, but the series has had a recent resurgence as new art has been released for the series after sometime. Each new look at the series is better than ever before, and such is the case with a new batch of colored pages.

The new colored pages feature fully colored, and tantalizing, sketches of the main cast (emphasizing a few of the women), and they look fabulous in full color.

【BLEACH イラスト集 JET】📷:Jump_Henshubu from r/bleach

These new color pages are print tests from the upcoming anniversary celebration artbook, Bleach JET, soon going on sale in Japan collecting 15 years worth of seen and unseen art. This new artbook has more than 700 pieces of art which includes brand new art, never-before-seen drafts and setting references, and totals at over 500 pages of goodness across two volumes.

The upcoming Bleach 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.

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