Bleach

The next anime on my list of top five is Tite Kibo’s Bleach. The reason that I chose this anime as my second one is that like Naruto the anime has a good story line but not as in depth as Naruto. Instead the fighting sequences are what I like about this anime. The story revolves around Kurosaki Ichigo, a high school student who can see ghosts. One day he meets the Soul Reaper Kuchiki Rukia who was on a assignment to destroy a Hollow, but because of Ichigo’s high spiritual pressure (the hollow’s eat the people with the highest spiritual pressure) the hollow attacks Ichigo’s family and when Rukia tries to defend them she is mortally wounded and is force to stab Ichigo with her Zanpakutou just off his hart to transfer her powers into him for a while, but Ichigo ends up and takes out most of her power and becomes a Substituted Soul Reaper and in dragged deeper and deeper into the affairs of Soul Society (the home of all soul reapers, a sort of after life).






Fish Bone D: The first Hollow Ichigo Encounters

The Soul Reapers have two main jobs: to perform Soul Burial on Pulses (good souls) which sends them to Soul Society (which is like I said before the after life in the Bleach universe), and Hollow Cleansing which means destroying the Hollows (souls which have lost their harts to despair and became evil) with their Zanpakutou.

Ichigo performing the Soul Burial on a Plus.

Guess I should explain what a Zanpakuto is now. A Zanpakuto is born with the soul reaper, it is part of there soul and cannot be replaced. Each Zanpakuto is unique in their abilities; they are in the shape of a sword but while they are in the soul reaper’s “inner world”, but they sometimes take a physical form (such as Ichigo’s Zangetsu). Their shape and ability is based on the soul reapers soul and once they learn the Zanpakuto’s name they can grow stronger together. They have two stages of release: Shikai – is when they soul reaper learns the Zanpakuto’s name and is able to change the shape of it a little and gain some of it’s powers, and Bankai – which when release not only does the Zanpakuto changes but in some cases the soul reapers cloths as well. In Bankai the soul reaper power increases 5 to 10 times.

Ichigo in Shikai

Ichigo's Bankai

Right with all the explanations out of the way time to say why I like it. Like I said before it is a good anime when it come to the story line but I don’t find it as good as Naruto. The main reason I put it in second place is that it has good fight scenes and again like Naruto it has a variety of power’s that keep it interesting. One thing I will say that is annoying is the fillers (the anime story lines that have nothing to do with the manga)