Bleach, Volume 7: The Broken Coda

So, I wanted to finally give my thoughts on Bleach because I think I'm 7 volumes in, and I still like it.

I didn't really read manga or watch anime that much in the early 2000's partly because I probably couldn't read until 2005-2006 and the only anime that I could watch at the time was Yugioh. I was only 1 month and so many days old when Bleach came out in 2001, but growing up I knew what Bleach was. Bleach is known to be a part of the Big Three, three Shonen Jump manga/anime that were extremely popular. I was growing up while the Big Three were at their peak in 2004, and around the late 2000's I knew what Naruto was, but Bleach and One Piece were not really on my radar. Yet, if you had shown me a picture of Ichigo back in 2007-2008 I show more could probably tell you he looked familiar to me. When I finally did start reading manga and watching anime, Naruto was ending or had just ended, and Bleach, well Bleach was on the down hill slope, also I had no way of watching the shows legally and I didn't know where manga was at my local library. The Big Three were no longer this powerful entity in the West, and for me as a new anime fan I was looking for what was new.

It is now 2021 I have three library cards and two of my three libraries have been building up their digital collection of manga. Now, I know my local library probably has Bleach and Naruto, but since the Pandemic I have mainly been reading manga on my Kindle, and I feel uncomfortable checking out books from the library. So, when I did see Bleach as an option, and for over a month no one was checking it out of the digital collection so, I decided to try Bleach. I was intrigued, and I decided to read more. Since 2007-08 I have learned a lot more about Bleach and how the ending is almost universally loathed so, while watching the Trash Taste Podcast and through simple research I learned that you should stop reading Bleach after you finish the Soul Society arc, and that is exactly what I am going to do. I plan to read Volume 20 then stop because that is when the Soul Society arc ends. show less

I was so captivated by this. I am so ready to move on and find out more about what happens. Will things go tords good or will they fall tords the darkness?

I was so captivated by this. I am so ready to move on and find out more about what happens. Will things go tords good or will they fall tords the darkness?

I thought that they were never going to go to the Soul Society, but apparently they are.

Rukia has been captured by soul society and is charged by a death sentence in 27 days.

I really recommend this series. A teenage boy helps direct souls in the afterlife to soul society where they can live peacefully. Only Hollows (corrupted souls) get in the way and even harm innocent souls. Ichigo relies on friends and family to fight for what is right.