And now the 4th one in my Top Four in my Journey and the last one is: Bleach.
The year was the end of December 2003 and the beginning January 2004 and I went to my Main library to check out some books to read, I remembered getting: Redwall #17, Guardians of Ga'Hoole- The Capture+The Journey and 2 Comics of Bone by Jeff Smith; then I went to the manga section to see what's new came out then I saw the orange hair teen holding a sword, a dark blue short hair girl and a cute long orange hair girl laying on the floor, showing the manga covers in display on the manga section.
Needless to say, it caught my eye and decided to get 7 volumes, from 1. The Death and the Strawberry to 7.The Broken Coda; on a good cliff hanger too. So as I planned on getting more volumes decided to go on the web and find a: webpage, fansite and some forums to talk and make some bleach fans, and I'm glad I did because the first topic I saw was them saying the Anime as been announced, just in luck of me reading the series now, so as I found my fans(they were also all girls) and found some sick wallpaper for my computer; I continued reading the manga and up around October 5, 2004 it premiered the TV series in japan.
In 2005, I was watching TV late specifically Adult Swim as usual until I saw an Toonami Promo for Bleach coming in America in dub on September 10, 2006, never in life have stand up on my bed so quickly with excitement! As I was preparing for 2006, I started making bleach OCs with my own poems, finding and downloading fanart, talking to online girls about the manga, even finding and looking for other Anime and Mangas while I wait for the Bleach Anime, any thing to get ready.
When it finally September 10, 2006 it was a still a school day for me, so was tired and I almost forgot it until I saw my calendar and the date and suddenly remembered, so I Quickly got out of my bed and rush to the main TV and saw my dad watching, so I told him that there's a anime wanted to watch and he told me:"the Bleach Anime, yeah I want to see it too." Well why didn't he say so! So wr change the channel to Cartoon Network and waited to switch to Adult Swim; then we saw the Opening ~Asterisk~ by ORANGE RANGE and dad and I knew this Anime is gonna be special. I mean it was dripping with style and coolness with some awesome action moments, great characters and philosophical quotes.
Still in 2006 I checked the forums and read the reactions to the dub (as usual) some liked it others been hated it and for me? It was find for me (Ichigo Voice Actor was Johnny Yong Bosch, who will soon be a Major favorite of mine), I mean it was a few Characters, so we got a long way to go. And during that time that means finding and joining the fandom; looking for AMVs, funny parody videos, Cosplay videos and pictures and favoriteing fanart.
In 2007 while going to my usual fandom fun and forums to talk about the latest Bleach chapter I've noticed a big change of attitude from certain groups: and there (of course) all teen boys, and not only that apparently Bleach all though being in the Big Three it was the so called Black sheep of the three and now everyone makes fun of, poorly criticized it and full on ignore it being in the Three; I know people make fun or have certain troll to try to be noticed, but was insane hate, So I tested myself: if they continued I need to find an all girl group for me to feel sane...
That didn't took too long...I mean HOLY CRAP!!
It was so bad, we and my online girl friends made fun of the guys on how they keep complaining about the current Arc or the next arc or even the story and Characters were so "predictable" and "boring", but still read it OR even they just quit and read or watch something else...and it's still Shonen! Trust me honey, if you really want something unpredictable just read josei or Seinen Manga/Anime!
But on October 13, 2007 I decided to go back to the toxic haters forums and saw the first news that read: Adult Swim stopped broadcasting the English adaptation. Well this sucks, so now I need to find the sub episodes of Bleach which usually take a long time for me, until I saw an post about fansubs of Bleach to go watch online, I talked to them on where to find them and showed me the way. Once I found it here's how the conversation ended.
Me: Thank you so much for the help and being completely sane about it.🙏
Them: Anytime 😊 And well, you know our fans: there either trying to gain attention or just have bad taste😋
Me: 😂
Still during in 2007 the fandom heard the news of Bleach first movie: Memories of Nobody is coming to America on on June 11 and 12 in 2008 and it was about time too!
So as it was June 2008 11 and enter our governor square Movie Theater, I've quickly noticed alot a fans were here; it a the same excited me and confused me: excited me cause it fother proof that people love Bleach, and confused me because...well you know, I finally realized that the people do realize what they getting there self into, get disappointed of what they thought in there head and just leave the theater (fans still do that) thankfully there was still a full theater of fans who had a blast, lots of cheering and laughter even hear some sniffles and crying, it was really memorial.
Then 2010s appeared and alot was happening, Toonami came back from the dead in 2011 which means Bleach is coming back, the manga ended on Fullbringer Arc in japan, but English released is coming while the Anime is beginning on that Arc in the US, then in 2012 once Toonami aired and finished the Fullbringer Arc.
It was silence. (well not really reruns still played but still.) Pretty much half of the fandom thought it was canceled or dead
But It was around 2016 when we heard that the manga was still continuing and was entering it's next arc: The Thousand-Year Blood War Arc.
And during that year in 2016 was crazy! There's alot of moments in that Arc with its highs and lows with a bit rushed ending in my opinion but the other parts was the best half of my wishes came true, but with alot of questions along the way.(also, I want to thanks the online girly for not losing there minds over the ships being Cannon cause we pretty much ship the same ships💕)
And then the fandom waited...and waited....and waited for any news about a possible Anime for the Blood War Arc, but nothing came up; then a whole mob of haters pretty much did there thing and just troll us: like making fake art/posters about the anime coming, saying the anime was really canceled and saying the Bleach fans were delusional and will always remain the weakest in the big three. It was...a busy day for us Bleach fans. And try my best to think positive and to my online friends for now.
Then during all the dreadful moments diring in 2020, a miracle happened. On March 2020 it was finally announced not only a new story from Tite Kubo, but also getting the anime series adaptation of the Thousand-Year Blood War and huge army of fans celebrated and pretty much fighting back the trolls and proving them wrong after all those years. It was glorious day!
And I think from that moment, Bleach was really back! We got 3 cour of this Arc (with the last part coming in 2026) 2 new video games, a Manga one-shot/possible continuous of the Hell Arc by kubo himself and many more soon!
You know, It's really amazing how this series went from the most pick on/black sheep of the big three to now gaining the respect, love and hype of Bleach...took them long enough! 😆
So as of right now, never give up hope, protect the ones you love and stay Golden. 💛
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