This year's 35th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is revealing on Monday that the next game inspired by Tite Kubo's Bleach manga will be for the LINE social media and messaging app. The game, titled Bleach: Paradise Lost, is slated to launch for iOS and Android devices this year.
The "Bankai 3D tag role-playing game" will be free-to-play with in-app purchases. In the game, players will become Shinigami (Soul Reapers) to protect the real world from Hollows. The game will use GPS location data to allow players to defend their own neighborhoods from Hollows.
The Soul Society's 13 Court Guard Squads and group from the World of the Living will also appear in the game. The story mode will recreate famous scenes set in the town of Karakura and the Soul Society. Battles will be turn-based, and players will be able to use their own unique decks and character skills in battle.
KLab Global launched the English-language version of its Bleach: Brave Souls iOS and Android game worldwide in January 2016. The game launched in Japan in July 2015, and it has more than 22 million downloads worldwide.
Kubo launched the original Bleach manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2001, and ended it last August. Viz Media published the manga in North America digitally in English as Shueisha published new chapters in Japan. Viz Media is also publishing the manga in print.
A live-action film of Kubo's manga will open in Japan in summer 2018. The manga has also inspired a television anime series, four anime films, novels, several video games, and a series of stage musicals.
The "Bankai 3D tag role-playing game" will be free-to-play with in-app purchases. In the game, players will become Shinigami (Soul Reapers) to protect the real world from Hollows. The game will use GPS location data to allow players to defend their own neighborhoods from Hollows.
The Soul Society's 13 Court Guard Squads and group from the World of the Living will also appear in the game. The story mode will recreate famous scenes set in the town of Karakura and the Soul Society. Battles will be turn-based, and players will be able to use their own unique decks and character skills in battle.
KLab Global launched the English-language version of its Bleach: Brave Souls iOS and Android game worldwide in January 2016. The game launched in Japan in July 2015, and it has more than 22 million downloads worldwide.
Kubo launched the original Bleach manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2001, and ended it last August. Viz Media published the manga in North America digitally in English as Shueisha published new chapters in Japan. Viz Media is also publishing the manga in print.
A live-action film of Kubo's manga will open in Japan in summer 2018. The manga has also inspired a television anime series, four anime films, novels, several video games, and a series of stage musicals.
The manga had 12 million copies in print as of March 30.
Murata's manga series adapts ONE's original web manga of the same name. Murata's manga is currently running on Shueisha's free Tonari no Young Jump spinoff website. Shueisha published the 13th compiled volume in Japan on April 4 and the 14th compiled volume is set for release on August 4.
Viz Media is publishing the original manga series digitally on its Weekly Shonen Jump anthology, and it is also releasing the series in print. Viz Media released the manga's 12th compiled volume digitally on July 18 and will release it in print on September 5.
Madhouse and director Shingo Natsume's first 12-episode anime adaptation aired in Japan from October-December 2015, and a second season has been green-lit.
The Characters
Like many anime cartoons that I come across, the characters really come to life and provides comic relief as the story progresses. Their interactions are so cute and yet at the same time, unpredictable.
The Story-Line
When I first watched this anime, I thought that it would going to predictable. But I was wrong in the end, the story is about parental love and friendship. Along the way, it changes a young girl's life as she found out that she is actually a princess!
Happily Ever After
Although this article is short, while writing it brings back memories of this wonderful anime, the characters and the music. Check it out!