Bleach


Bleach
Beach Official Character Book: SOULs
Beach Official Character Book: SOULs 
Anime Book Review 

Cliff Notes is a literary guide that is generally useful for students or readers studying nuances of a particular title or series, so reading through cliff notes explains everything about a particular title. If readers don't fear massive spoilers, then it is useful. For a reader of Bleach's Official Character Book, the assumption is they are fans for this series, and want to be reminded more of why they became fans of the series in the first place. 

Since it began its serialization since 2001, Bleach as a Shonen Jump title has enjoyed a strong fan base population, and has been ranked among the top ten series for Japanese and American viewers. One point about shonen series is the immense cast of characters, and adventures that can happen. So if fans want to keep up with so many characters, there is typically a character book/guidebook published. 

Beach Official Character Book: SOULsA character book has similarities and differences to an art book. There are more than images in a character book, as this book is a depository of information that sums up the series as an information book. There are color images, bonus comics, Tite Kubo and Masakazu Morita interviews, translations, chronologies, and countless pages of recaping or previewing the first twenty one volumes of this fifty volume continuing series. 

So if you are a novice to the world of Bleach including what the Soul Society is, then this is the book for you. If you have consumed this series' other media and want to zip through the manga, SOULs is a good option. SOULs is the first of four character data books that has been published in Japan. 

Reviewed by Linda Yau, September 2011



Beach Official Character Book: SOULs

Bleach
Bleach
Anime DVD Review 

You know, if FLCL had been less science fiction and more supernatural, it could be Bleach.

Ichigo Kurisaki has enough problems without dealing with Lovecraftian horrors. It's not enough that he's a 15 year old, high-school freshman. Whether he likes it or not he also has to be a Soul Reaper. He's got to hunt down Hollows, evil spirits who devour wayward ghosts. (The thing is, those wayward ghosts? It turns out when they get devoured by Hollows, they become Hollows. And if that isn't bad enough, if a ghost hangs out too long in the material world, it becomes a Hollow anyway. This is for all of you who didn't know that there was a "Catch-22" for ghosts.)

BleachThe Soul Reaper job was supposed to be Rukia Kuchiki's. It would have stayed hers if it wasn't for the injury. She was forced to transfer her Soul Reaper powers to Ichigo. Now she's forced to stay over his place and sleep in his closet. The thing that gets her is that Ichigo is getting very good at this in a very short period of time. She wants to know what's up with that.

Can Ichigo battle the forces of evil? Can he free his town from supernatural menaces? Can he get a moments peace in his own household? And what does any of this have to do with Bleach?

The Bleach anime series is based on a very popular manga created by Kubo Tite. It pulls many a twist and turn as it combines action, comedy and adventure. If you're into horror/fantasy adventure with a dash of the absurd, then you better check out Bleach.

Reviewed by Lawrence Sufrin, November 2006 


Bleach




Bleach

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Beyblade Metal Fight





Beyblade: Metal Fusion



Story 
Beyblade: Metal Fusion (Metal Fight Beyblade)
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GenreAction, Adventure, Comedy, Manga
TV anime
DirectorKunihisa Sugishima
StudioTatsunoko
Synergy SP
LicensorNelvana
English networkTV Tokyo
YTV
Cartoon Network
Original runApril 5, 2009
May 15, 2010
 –March 28, 2010
March 12, 2011
Episodes51
Succeeded byBeyblade: Metal Masters
Beyblade: Metal Fusion (Japanese: Metal Fight Beiburedo) is an anime spin-off of the original Beyblade anime series and is based on the Japanese manga, Metal Fight Beyblade. It is created by Tatsunoko Pro, Synergy SP, and is co-produced by Nelvana. Beyblade: Metal Fusion Saturdays at 7:30 on Cartoon Network in U.S. This Beyblade series features a complete new set of characters, and a new story. With a new series being developed in 2008 from the Beyblade series that once concluded with the original Beyblade series, a media mix developed with the anime as wellmas the manga. In contrast to previous work which uses the Four Beasts as motifs, Beyblade: Metal Fusion uses constellations as motifs. Also, in the previous work it was mainly team battles, but in this work it is mainly individual battles. Furthermore, Japan was the setting in the first series up until the end.
The first part was from Chapter 1 to Chapter 7 which became the original, and from Chapter 8 was the second part, becoming the Battle Bladers arc. In the anime, from Episode 24 became the Battle Bladers arc and was released on DVD as well from Vol. 01.
Although Battle Bladers was held as a tournament, the battle combinations in the anime and manga differ.

Nelvana's Beyblade: Metal Fusion promotional poster featuring the main cast, from left to right GingkaBenkei,KyoyaMadoka, and Kenta.

The Metal Fight Beyblade anime was broadcast by TV Tokyo from April 5, 2009 to March 28, 2010. From April 4, 2010 a new series, Beyblade: Metal Masters (Big Bang Bladers), It premiered on June 26, 2010 in U.S. and ended on March 12, 2011.
It is followed by Beyblade: Metal Masters.

Episodes

Manga and Anime Details

The chapters of the Beyblade: Metal Fusion manga are written and illustrated by Takafumi Adachi. In Japan, they have been published in Shogakukan's Monthly CoroCoro comics since September 2008. The plot follows the adventures of Gingka Hagane, a beyblader who meets up with a boy named Kenta Yumiya, and the two become fast friends. They also meet a Beyblade Mechanic, Madoka Amano, who also joins them. Kyoya Tategami, andBenkei Hanawa from the Face Hunters become good guys and aid Gingka on his quest to defeat the evil Dark Nebula organization. An airing anime adaptation, produced by Tatsunoko Pro and Synergy SP, co-produced by Nelvana premiered on TV Tokyo on April 5, 2009. Beyblade:Metal Fusion's twenty chapters have been released in Japan so far. In the monthly CoroCoro comics, the chapters do not have specific chapter titles and are grouped by story arc name and chapter number instead. The chapter names are only in the Shinshoban manga volumes. The individual chapters are collected by Shogakukan in a series of Shinshōbon volumes. The first volume was released on March 27, 2009. Volume four is the latest collection to be released to date. It was released on March 26, 2010. The anime version of Beyblade: Metal Fuison's plot is written differently than in the manga. One notable difference is that in the manga, the character's Beys' transform for its upgrade, while in the anime, they just switch parts or get an entirely new Bey. Another notable difference is that in the manga, the characters started off with the Metal System, (4-piece top) while in the anime they started with the Hybrid Wheel System (5-piece top). Some parts of the story are different in the anime version than in the manga, but overall the plot is the same.
Opening Beyblade Metal Fight

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