BLEACH’S MASSIVE COMEBACK!

I feel like throughout the last

 two years or ever since I started to 

make videos on bleach the public

perception of the series has actually

changed drastically and this is in

comparison to how people had perceived

the series towards the latter half of

the Thousand-Year blood War Arc so back

in 2015 and 2016. back then the series

had just concluded and the ending of the

Thousand-Year blood War Arc was very

controversial with the series ending

with a lot of loose ends we didn't know

the fates of several characters there

were plot points that were building up

that Kubo just didn't expand upon there

were several characters that honestly in

the end felt like had a lot of wasted

potential and there was this feeling

like there should have been more a

selfish and as entitled as that

sentiment is considering that Kubo has

given 15 years of his life for producing

weekly manga chapters for us it just

felt like there was more of a story left

to be told and it's for this reason that

the public perception or opinion of

bleach was really muddied by the time

that the series had concluded with fans

obviously dropping off after the ending

of the anime and then with the manga

starting off really strong with the

Thousand Year blood War Arc and then

then with the story arc not really

concluding the way that we had expected

it to there were so many mixed opinions

about the series I remember when the

fall of Bleacher dropped back in 2016

and I'd watched that video and I

genuinely was relating to some of the

feelings that I had about the series at

the time with super eyepatch wolves

rarely poorly researched video to be

honest I think all of this is a result

of just having so much fatigue with the

series with kubo's health declining and

the series not ending well and with that

being no signs of the anime returning it

genuinely did feel like bleach was in

the mud and it was dead and it was never

going to come back and a lot of people

had seen fit to actually capitalize upon

this opinion and this is why there were

so many similar videos to the fall of

bleach releasing at that time and while

the general opinion of bleach was so low

within the wider anime Community now

obviously there are still some people

who don't really think too fondly of the

series but in general there's been a

huge shift in the perception of bleach

over the last couple of years I know

that I really started to gain an

audience onto YouTube when I had counted

super eye Patrol's opinion by releasing

my ruined reputation video at the time

there was no nobody really talking

positively about bleach I mean James

Hansen was keeping us up to date about

any developments or news regarding a

upcoming Bleach anime but at the time

back in 2019 there were no signs that

the series was ever going to come back I

mean I remember the dark ages for the

series back in 2017 and 2018. it was

literally just looking forward to

uploads from Clyde James Hansen or Soul

Madness and hoping that there was going

to be some news for Bleach during the

jump faster and seeing how ichigo's face

was no longer on the actual Billboards

for jump faster how his face went from

being pushed all the way back to not

even being on the actual billboard for

the event so now it's surreal when I

look at my anime list and I see that the

bleach thousand year blood War Arc is

the number one ranking top anime series

I know that some of this is due to

recency bias because a lot of the new

series that come out are rarely widely

hyped and end up being voted really high

up this list but this is just absolutely

insane how people have really changed

their opinions on the series and how

much the Thousand-Year bloodwall Arc is

being received well by the general

public before the actual release of the

anime people were having issue with

bleach being dropped from Crunchyroll

and it being acquired by Disney plus and

there were a lot of posts or sentiments

like this where people have felt that

bleach would pass over potential viewers

because it was not going to be on

Crunchyroll because most people who

watch anime are not going to be getting

a Disney Plus subscription they're just

going to watch the series on Crunchyroll

where all of the popular anime from The

Fall season are going to be on including

chainsaw man the third season of mob

psycho as well as my hero Academia and

spy family cartoon but these opinions

could not be further from the truth

because on every Monday bleach is

typically the number one series being

streamed on Hulu and this is insane it's

competing with all sorts of other

mainstream titles and seeing an anime

series that you grew up with being

number one on a huge platform like Hulu

is just surreal especially after all of

those years where people have thought

that the series was dead and that it was

never going to come back in general

bleach is outranking other series like

my hero Academia while bleach is

typically the number one series on the

day that a new episode premieres on Hulu

with it dropping down with it dropping

down a couple of rankings but typically

the series is doing really well to be

within the top 10 on such a large

platform like Hulu that has so many

shows on it it's not just me that has

noticed that shift in the perception of

bleach over time in March of 2020 the

new anime was announced and I know that

a lot of content creators including

myself were keeping the discussion about

bleach alive and were building upon the

hype until the anime would return by

releasing different character analysis

videos and explaining various different

topics within the series that were

highly requested by all of you I

remember when I started to do my

character analysis videos and there was

just so much demand for deep dive

analytical content based upon bleach and

it's the perfect series to make

analytical content on because there's so

much depth to the series and a lot of

people who criticize the series only

look at it on a surface level bleach is

a story that doesn't spoon feed you in

general so I found great success in

actually breaking down and talking about

the various different story elements

that Kubo incorporates into the manga as

well as trying to convince people to

actually check the manga out because I

believe that it's far more Superior than

the original 2004 anime so in general

the perception of bleach had gradually

shifted with that being way more

positive takes on the series now on

YouTube before when you used to search

Bleach onto YouTube you'd have several

different videos talking about the fall

of bleach how bleach lost its theme or

why bleach is just not a good series

even reading through a lot of these

Twitter comments on this post people are

talking about how the final Arc of

bleach is really bad but it's still

exciting that the anime is going to come

back and I think that Kubo knows that he

didn't get to tell all of the story

within the manga and that's why he's so

heavily involved with the anime

production with seven episodes having

released thus far you can tell that he's

made a lot of changes with a lot of

comedic elements being cut from the

story with the anime maintaining the

serious tone while selectively removing

content but then purpose for the adding

in additional material the notable

additions within the anime for me have

been all of the scenes involving uriu

and ryuken the flashback where we got to

see chojiro uses Bankai of course the

incredible original gote 13 flashback

that we had in the most recent episode

as well as all of the content that is

building upon and expanding on the fight

that we didn't get to see within the

manga as we learned that many Nas was

actually facing off against rookia and

additionally ichigo's encounter with

yuhobach was expanded upon I'm just

really excited to see what they do with

the story during Core 2 and core 3 and

in particular core 4 if they've expanded

upon ichigo's first encounter with

yuhobach just imagine how much more

they're going to add to the final battle

during the Thousand-Year blood walk a

fight that a lot of people had felt was

really anticlimactic and had ended way

before its time there's a Twitter

comment here that confirms exactly what

I was talking about as they say that

their perception of the first invasion

of the Quincy has really changed as

within the manga you kind of felt sorry

for the Shinigami but after seeing this

original gote 13 flashback it kind of

feels like they deserved what the Quincy

had done to them especially considering

how brutally the Quincy were defeated a

thousand years ago so this added

material really helps to flesh out and

change people's opinion upon the story

and in general this just builds upon the

positivity surrounding the series at

this time and it's all just such a

contrast against all of the Nega

negativity that was being perpetuated

during the time when the manga had just

concluded I mean nearly all of the

episode reactions that I've seen from

people like Mr Tomo James Hansen have

all been really positive I know that

channels like Simo urohara were really

upset about all of the cut content

within the anime but I see that he's

really loving all of the new additions

that they are making so there will be

some sacrifices that need to be made but

it's also that some unnecessary scenes

can be removed so that's some major new

additions can be made like this gote 13

flashback in general there's a lot of

recency bias within the YouTube

Community a lot of the opinions about

bleach have changed whether if it's

because a lot of people are just excited

and they're checking the series out and

YouTubers are just capitalizing on the

views and they're only being positive

just because bleach is the new hot thing

right now because a lot of big YouTubers

have shifted their opinions conveniently

for views like gigguk but what matters

the most is the opinion of Japanese fans

it would be really interesting to see

how the ratings from the new anime are

doing because I know that it's airing at

a different time slot than usual it's

airing at 12am whereas the original 2004

Bleach anime used to air in prime time

7pm in Japan it would also be

interesting to know if the Bleach Manga

sales have increased ever since the

release of the anime what if people are

going back and buying odd volumes again

similar to the hype surrounding season 1

of Demon Slayer where people just bought

so many back issues and skyrocketed the

manga sales one thing is for certain the

fact that bleach is number one on my

anime list at least shows that the

public perception about the series has

completely changed I am well aware that

it's only going to be number one for a

short period of time and the success of

the Thousand Year blood War Arc anime is

really going to rely upon the anime

staff and Kubo making some drastic

changes to the manga during the later

portion of the Thousand-Year blood War

Arc because of their straight one-to-one

adapt a lot of the stuff that's in the

manga then a lot of people will be

annoyed again because even as a die-hard

bleach fan I know that some changes need

to be made to the ending of this story

arc the number one review on my anime

list speaks about how breach has made it

to return to the mainstream as well as

discussing how people had thought that

this was impossible since bleach was

apparently dead but now that October

2022 was rolled around suddenly bleach

has become popular anime release of this

year the material that's currently being

adapted into anime form was released 10

years ago so it's been a really long

time since all of us have been waiting

for an anime release of this material it

feels incredible and really vindicating

to know that bleach has returned and

it's back in a huge way we know that

during the release of the first few

episodes a lot of other production

companies were actually complaining that

bleach has stolen all of the voice cast

because it has such huge names attached

to the series voice actors were up and

coming during the mid-2000s what voiced

iconic characters within bleach and now

huge voice actors were highly sought

after and attached to other anime titles

and because of all of the voice actors

attached to the series it had caused

delays in the production of other anime

series with bleach being owned by Studio

Piro there was some concern as well

about the quality of the series but with

big names like tomohisa tuguchi attached

to the anime and in all honesty it was

an excellent choice by Piro to not have

noryuki Abe the old series director

return to Gucci has a very refreshing

new outlook on the series and you can

tell that he's a fan and he's giving it

his all some of the episodes that we've

had are absolutely mind-blowing but I

was not expecting how incredible episode

7 was going to be it makes me look

forward to the remaining six episodes of

this first call and in general I'm just

really glad that there's so much

positivity surrounding the series and

it's a great time to be a bleach fan

because back in 2017 and 2018 I know

from discussions with a lot of other

fans people were ashamed to admit that

they were a fan of the series and this

was just because of all of the

negativity surrounding it at the time

opinions about bleach are being formed

from people who have never even seen a

single episode or read a single chapter

of the manga because of how widespread

the negativity was on YouTube and other

platforms but now week on week bleach is

the top anime of The Fall season with

the Thousand Year blood War Arc

remaining on the top spot for the sixth

straight week with it having over 20 of

the total votes outnumbering other major

fall anime releases like blue lock and

Chainsaw man during the time leading up

to the release of the village anime we

had Kubo release burn the witch we had a

special One-Shot chapter new breeds from

Hell released in August of 2021 and most

recently Kubo has drawn this full color

manga spread of the original gote 13.

now this drawing had caused so much

Opera within the community people were

just so excited to see these character

designs finally and of course recently

we've had all of the names released of

all of the captains and I know a lot of

the predictions that I made in my video

didn't come to be true I assumed that

there were going to be several members

of noble families within the original

gote 13 but it seems like there's only

one person representing the noble

families with the leader of the second

division chikashi homin there have been

a lot of fan arts drawn of the original

gote 13 with the rear car lookalike

Captain being a huge fan favorite there

are several incredible fun arts of her

and you can see all of these several

different examples of drawings and all

of this is just from a single drawing

done by Kubo which just made all of us

lose our minds yeah so the eyepatch girl

rurika look like is actually called

cytophorofushi and it's quite

understandable why there have been so

many fun arts made of this character and

this is just within the span of one week

so with the anime continuing to adapt on

average 5 five chapters per episode and

with the Thousand Year blood War Arc

expected to last for 54 episodes we can

expect the anime to add a lot of content

especially if they remain consistent on

this pacing during the second third and

fourth call in its entirety the Thousand

Year blood War Arc spans for 206

chapters if they continue to adapt five

chapters per episode and if it's going

to last for 52 episodes that means we're

going to get 260 chapters of content

within the episode length now this means

that we'll have a total of 54 additional

chapters which is like five to six

volumes of extra content now all of this

is just additional material for the

Thousand Year blood War Arc and it's not

even including spin-offs that they might

do if they do decide to adapt the con

for your own world light novels into

anime form since a lot of important

story elements and plot points missing

from the main Bleach Manga are included

within cart for your own world we know

that the anime has paid very particular

attention to how butterflies whenever

they're included in scenes and with the

reveal of the original gote 13 I'm not

going to be surprised if we see these

characters actors again in an upcoming

hell Arc within the manga it's a great

time to be a bleach fan with so much

content to look forward to it's quite

understandable why the perception of

many people who are critical on the

series has now changed hopefully a lot

of their concerns are going to be

addressed with future releases of the

anime and I really hope that the anime

just continues to build and improve upon

the manga if there are any emissions or

changes to the anime and if you feel

like it's not following the story of the

manga then just know that Kubo is

actually overseeing the production of

the anime and any changes that are being

made are done through his supervision I

know a lot of people were upset about

the comedic elements being removed or

certain scenes like biakya's eulogy

during sasukebe's funeral being removed

but I'm pretty confident that major

scenes like this being cut are only done

through the approval of Kubo I was

initially quite annoyed about all these

changes and cuts but it's just

reassuring to know that Kubo is actually

overseeing all of it so in general what

are your thoughts about the perception

of bleach and how it's changed since the

anime release or even how it's changed

over the past two years since the anime

was announced do you feel like YouTubers

like myself Mr Tomo and James Hansen

have had any effect in changing the

perception of the series do you feel

like people are just liking the series

more with the anime's return or do you

feel like people were just really young

when they had first experienced bleach

and now that they are older they are

revisiting it and appreciating it in a

different way because I know that when

I'd initially first seen bleach I was

only watching it for the fight scenes

but when I got older and I reread the

manga I felt like I was reading a very

character-driven story and I related far

more with the emotions of the characters

story segments like ukiara understanding

the meaning of the heart were just

totally different in my mind after I had

more life experience and I was able to

understand what he was going through so

yeah do you think that people are just

liking the series more now that they're

revisiting it or do you think all of

this change in perception is because of

the anime?