Book review

Book review

The book that I’ve chosen is called “Bleach” it’s a Japanese manga created by Tite Kubo in 2001.I chose that manga because I’m a huge fan (close to being a fanatic) of it since more than 1 year, and now I’ll do a short review.
  Spoiler alert!!

Author and first steps:

Before starting working on Bleach, Tite Kubo had already a manga called   “Zombie Powder”, it was published in Japan for a few months, but finally was cancelled due the unpopularity. Then, he created a pilot chapter of Bleach, but firstly wasn’t accepted by the publishers because it seemed to a manga that already existed. After that, Tite Kubo felt in a depression and didn’t worked much, but one day, Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball, (The most important shonen manga in those days) encouraged him to keep working hard and try some things. Tite took his Bleach pilot and changed It a lot, and finally in 2001, Bleach was published in the “Weekly Shonen Jump magazine”, and became in one of the most important Shonen mangas.

Story:

The story of Bleach focuses in a 15 years boy, Ichigo Kurosaki, who has the ability to see, touch, and talk to the spirits of the death people. One day, helping a spirit who was getting disturbed by some boys, he meets a shinigami (A Japanese death personification,) called Rukia Kuchiki. In an incident with a devil spirit (Hollw) she traspasses her shinigami powers to Ichigo in order to defeat the Hollow and save his family, who were'd been attacked by the hollow. Now with shinigami powers, he will help to Rukia till she recovers her powers while he learns the office of a Shinigami. But what Ichigo don’t knows, is that the shinigami powers trespass is a levy delict in the Soul Society (The place where the shinigamis live) and then, he will have to manage a situation where he’s being pursued by the Soul Society, and try to save Rukia, who’s been condemned to death for her delict.

Main characters:

Ichigo Kurosaki:

He’s the older son of the family, he has two little sisters. Since he was a child, he got bothered by some guys because he has the hair orange, due to his hair color, he has developed a rebel character, because the professors consider him as a rebel, but he’s a very good person and always is trying to help the others.
In his childhood, he wasn't able to differentiate between alive and death people, finally, in a try to help a "spirit" that was about to suicide, his mother died trying to protect him in front of him, after that, he took the blame of his mother's death, and he swore to help and protect everyone that he could.

Rukia Kuchiki:

Rukia Is a 150 years old shinigami, during her childhood in the Soul Society, she lived in on of the poorest districts of the Rukongai (The place where all the souls that are not shinigamis live), constantly forced to steal or do anything to survive. When she grew up, she decided to become a shinigami, because she had spiritual powers and could live In the Seretei (A part of the Soul Society reserved only to shinigamis). The Kuchiki family, one of the four great nobles houses in the Soul Society, decided to adopt her, and then entered in the thirteen division, where she became a true shinigami. In a mission to patrol in search of hollows in Karakura, she met Ichigo, and the history of Bleach began.

Actually, Bleach has more than 60 volumes, where which one contains more than 10 chapters, and it’s not finished yet, a new chapter is published every Thursday in the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. An anime adaptation of Bleach was started in 2004, but was cancelled 1 or 2 years ago.