Bleach movie Jigoku Hen chapter (Hell verse) BD/DVD will come out on December 4

Warner Home Video revealed in a newsletter on Wednesday that the fourth Bleach film, Bleach the Movie: Hell Verse (Bleach: Jigoku-hen), will be released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on December 4 in the US

The Blu-ray Disc will have a retail price of US$24.98 and the DVD will be sold for US$19.98.

Viz Media released the third Bleach film, Bleach: Fade to Black - Kimi no Na o Yobu, in November 2011. Viz Media has also released the first two films.

Yes, notice that Warner Brothers bought the rights of the Bleach series in order to get the live-action movie going. However, there hasn't been any news on this for months.

(and hopefully stays that way)

Screenwriter Dan Mazeau on Bleach live action movie: we want to avoid the failure of Dragon Ball movie

Dan Mazeau is known as the screenwriter for the Wrath of the Titans movie and is currently working on the live action adaptation of Bleach.

Mazeau explained that both getting the rights and the scriptwriting itself were a long process for Bleach: "But early on we set down with Tite Kubo the creator and the publisher of the series, and we had a long meeting, making sure we're respectful to the property. Nobody wants to, well… Let's just say that if you enjoyed [the live-action] Dragon Ball Z movie, that's great, but I thought it was a noble effort that ultimately didn't succeed. That's what we're trying to avoid. We want to make sure this movie lives up to what the manga is."

He added, "I'm currently working on Bleach and the idea is to set it in Japan and really be respectful to the source material. It's an amazing story. I've been shorthanding it as an 'action-adventure Sixth Sense,' but obviously on a bigger canvas than that. So I'm incredibly excited about that. It's a good one.”

Bleach anime March 2012 schedule (FINAL)

So these are the 4 final episodes of the anime. It's been quite the run. There's the remaining final arc of the manga, we still have to see whether it will be made into an OVA or a movie.


Episode 363 "Fierce Fight! Shinigami vs. XCUTION!" (激闘！死神vs XCUTION)  March 6, 2012 


Episode 364 "Desperate Struggle!? Byakuya's Troubled Memories" (絶体絶命!?記憶を挟まれた白哉) March 13, 2012 


Episode 365 "Ichigo vs. Ginjō! Secret of the Substitute Badge" (護VS 銀城！代行証の秘密) March 20, 2012 


Episode 366 "Changing History, Unchanging Heart" (変わりゆく歴史、変わらぬ心) March 27, 2012

Bleach anime is listed to end on March 27, replaced by Rock Lee Spinoff

Yes, this is to be expected.

I had a feeling when I started reading the first page of the last arc in the manga, and I figured that this is pretty much it, folks. The manga is going to end sooner than we all thought.

And it's highly likely that the last arc is going to be made into a movie?

A recent television program listing in Japan reports that the Bleach television anime series will end its run in TV Tokyo's 6:00 p.m. Tuesday timeslot on March 27. When a Twitter follower of Bleach animation director Hiroki Takagi sent him an image of the listings, Takagi responded by saying, "So quick. I was going to paste it… /(^o^)\"

Shueisha had already announced that the weekly Naruto SD: Rock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden anime will premiere on TV Tokyo on Tuesday, April 3 at 6:00 p.m.

Bleach live action adaptation is already in motion by Warner Bros studios

OH DEAR GOD NO!!!!! O_O

"The Variety entertainment trade news source is reporting on Wednesday that American film studio Warner Brothers licensed the live-action feature rights to Tite Kubo's supernatural action manga and anime Bleach. Warner is now developing the project and has assigned Dan Mazeau (Wrath of the Titans remake) to write a script. Peter Segal (Get Smart remake, The Longest Yard remake, Anger Management) is attached as a producer with a possibility of being the director as well.

The other producers include Segal's Callahan Filmworks partner Michael Ewing, actor Masi Oka (Heroes, Get Smart), and Jason Hoffs (The Terminal) at Viz Productions (a subsidiary of Bleach's North American publisher Viz Media). Branon Coluccio will be an executive producer.

Segal told Variety, "I've always been a huge fan of Bleach and have great respect for its creator Kubo-sensei and the truly original and amazing world he has created in this manga."

Oka, who acted in Heroes and Segal's Get Smart film, is a well-known manga fan. He drew inspiration from Dragon Ball for his Heroes character Hiro Nakamura, and he describes himself as a Naoki Urasawa and Shonen Jump "geek." He brought the project to Callahan Filmworks.

The Hollywood Reporter newspaper's Heat Vision blog reported in 2010 that Warner Brothers was "in the process of securing the movie rights to" Bleach. Heat Vision had reported then that Segal was lining himself up to produce, but not direct. "