Then again, Bleach's PG-style censorship feels highly dated, as though the Bleach anime didn't trust viewers with some truly visceral and bloody combat.īy contrast, modern shonen titles such as Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen and certainly Attack on Titan don't shy away from gore, and for each series, the gap between the manga's and anime's graphic content is relatively small compared to Bleach. On one hand, graphic violence in shonen action manga is hardly new, and even modern shonen anime tend to have at least light censorship with graphic and sexual content. The Bleach anime will need every tool at its disposal to overcome its iffy reputation and remind everyone why it's truly a big three series. In so doing, studio Pierrot may prove why Bleach is an equal to Naruto and One Piece, not a wannabe of them. The story and fans alike have grown up, and they're not afraid of some R-rated action to help this wayward anime put itself back on the map.Īmong the "big three" of shonen, Bleach felt like the runt of the litter, especially anime-wise, so a visually brutal, censorship-free war is just what Bleach needs to grab modern viewers' attention. Besides, most of Bleach's fans are much older now, and seeing characters suffer bruises and light burns instead of serious injuries almost feels like an insult, or at least a waste of Bleach's potential. It's not quite on Berserk's level, nor should it be, but this visual brutality set the TYBW arc apart, and the new anime is Studio Pierrot's perfect opportunity to ditch the original anime's censorship and make this shonen war feel real. Bleach has always been a manga with top-tier, highly detailed artwork, and Tite Kubo made the war painfully but also excitingly real for readers with these cool action scenes and graphic content. The original "Thousand-Year Blood War" arc in Bleach's manga was a bloody, brutal and drawn-out affair with many casualties and tragedies on both sides, and the gore, violence and destruction helped drive that point home. The new season of Bleach will be an all-out war pitting the Soul Reapers and Ichigo's squad of friends against their greatest threat yet: the mighty Quincy empire, called the Wandenreich. This certainly made the Bleach anime a bit more kid-friendly, but by now, the overall Bleach anime has outgrown that visual censorship, and many fans would argue that it always held the Bleach anime back. However, in countless scenes, the original Bleach anime toned down the graphic content of all these fights, such as eliminating a great deal of blood or not showing characters having body parts hacked off in battle. The original Bleach anime featured plenty of high-octane action sequences lifted directly from the source manga, such as Ichigo Kurosaki's final duel with Captain Kuchiki in the "Soul Society" arc and Ichigo's final duel with his Espada rival Grimmjow in the "Hueco Mundo" story arc.
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