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This is a list of all current volumes of the Japanese manga Bleach, as well as the titles of the chapters contained therein. The plot follows the adventures of a teenager called Ichigo Kurosaki who becomes a Shinigami and assumes the duties of the Shinigami Rukia Kuchiki.

Background

The series is written and illustrated by Tite Kubo and was published in the Japanese-language magazine Weekly Shonen Jump. The individual chapters are collected by Shueisha in series of tankōbon volumes, which also include a poem by the character of the cover.^[1] A few chapters have a "-" before the chapter number, which indicates a negative number. These "negative" chapters show events as they are occurring before the start of the main story and are not truly flashbacks. Chapter names in English have katakana above them to indicate how they are read in Japanese, similarly to furigana for kanji. The first volume was released on January 5, 2002^[2] while as of August 4th, 2009, forty volumes have been released.^[3] An anime adaptation, produced by Studio Pierrot and TV Tokyo, was aired on TV Tokyo, with the first episode shown on October 5, 2004.^[4]

The plot follows the adventures of a teenager called Ichigo Kurosaki who becomes a Shinigami and assumes the duties of the Shinigami Rukia Kuchiki.

The distributing company Viz Media has been releasing the Bleach manga volumes in English in the United States. Viz releases the chapters in their Shonen Jump magazine as well as in tankōbon format; the first volume was released on June 1, 2004^[5]. The most recent volume released in the US was volume twenty-eight, released on September 1, 2009.

Volume list

Volume 1: The Death and the Strawberry
Volume 2: Goodbye Parakeet, Goodnite My Sista
Volume 3: memories in the rain
Volume 4: Quincy Archer Hates You
Volume 5: Rightarm of the Giant
Volume 6: The Death Trilogy Overture
Volume 7: The Broken Coda
Volume 8: The Blade and Me
Volume 9: Fourteen Days for Conspiracy
Volume 10: Tattoo on the Sky
Volume 11: A Star and a Stray Dog
Volume 12: Flower on the Precipice
Volume 13: The Undead
Volume 14: White Tower Rocks
Volume 15: Beginning of the Death of Tomorrow
Volume 16: Night of Wijnruit
Volume 17: Rosa Rubicundior, Lilio Candidior
Volume 18: The Deathberry Returns
Volume 19: The Black Moon Rising
Volume 20: end of hypnosis
Volume 21: Be My Family or Not
Volume 22: Conquistadores
Volume 23: ¡Mala Suerte!
Volume 24: Immanent God Blues
Volume 25: No Shaking Throne
Volume 26: The Mascaron Drive
Volume 27: good bye, halcyon days.
Volume 28: Baron's Lecture Full-Course
Volume 29: The Slashing Opera
Volume 30: There Is No Heart Without You
Volume 31: Don't Kill My Volupture
Volume 32: Howling
Volume 33: The Bad Joke
Volume 34: King of The Kill
Volume 35: Higher Than The Moon
Volume 36: Turn Back The Pendulum
Volume 37: Beauty is so Solitary
Volume 38: Fear for Fight
Volume 39: El Verdugo
Volume 40: The Lust
Volume 41: Heart

Chapters not yet in graphic novel format

These chapters have yet to be published in a tankōbon volume.

References

↑ Bleach (manga) - Anime News Network. Anime News Network. Retrieved on 2008-01-15.
↑ BLEACH―ブリーチ―／1｜久保　帯人｜ジャンプコミックス｜BOOKNAVI｜集英社 (Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
↑ BLEACH―ブリーチ―／36｜久保　帯人｜ジャンプコミックス｜BOOKNAVI｜集英社 (Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved on 2008-07-01.
↑ Bleach (TV). Anime News Network. Retrieved on 2008-07-06.
↑ VIZ Media . products - Bleach, Vol. 1. Viz Media. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.

[ANNBleachManga-0] Bleach (manga) - Anime News Network. Anime News Network. Retrieved on 2008-01-15.

[JP1-1] BLEACH―ブリーチ―／1｜久保　帯人｜ジャンプコミックス｜BOOKNAVI｜集英社 (Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.

[JP36-2] BLEACH―ブリーチ―／36｜久保　帯人｜ジャンプコミックス｜BOOKNAVI｜集英社 (Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved on 2008-07-01.

[ANNAnime-3] Bleach (TV). Anime News Network. Retrieved on 2008-07-06.

[US1-4] VIZ Media . products - Bleach, Vol. 1. Viz Media. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.

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