Probability's not zero percent that I will insert NikBabble™ into this stopgap shopping list later. Even if it's only to threaten Narumi if he doesn't shape up in Namida Usagi volume 8 and/or to invite you to giggle at It is a time of civil war, and the young warlords running Japan are... hopelessly stupid
Sengoku Basara: The Holy War in Dance—oh, you wanted Bleach? *throws Rangiku-san atch*
Update: Hella long NikBabble™ (you have been warned)
Bleach © Kubo Tite/Shueisha
[Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump]
Published in Indonesia by Gramedia/m&c!
Commander Yamamoto launches his final attack. Ichigo takes advantage of the opportunity window to slash Aizen but the wounds he inflicts heal before his disbelieving eyes. Who should barge in before a shocked Ichigo but...
As for why 10th Division lieutenant Matsumoto Rangiku is the Bleach 46: Back from Blind cover girl, Wikipedia offers: Meanwhile, a wounded Matsumoto tries to get to Gin.
Bleach 46 compiles chapters 396 through 404: The Bite,
Edge of the Silence,
Back from Blind,
Deicide
and Deicide 2–6.
[*NOT m&c!'s chapter titles] Fifty-four Bleach volumes have been published in Japan; Volume 54: Goodbye to Our Xcution released last March. Volume 55 streets 4 June 2012, the same day the BLEACH Spirits Are Forever With You I and II novels—a 10th anniversary effort between Kubo Tite and author Narita Ryohgo (Durarara!!, Baccano!, Vamp!)—release.
Namida Usagi ~Tears of First Love~ vol 8 of 10
By Minase Ai
Momoka is stunned to learn that the photographer Narumi sooo10 admires is a 16 y.o. school girl, which sends her running to some retail therapy—STAT! On her way home from therapeutic shopping, Momoka blunders on to a girl collapsed from hunger. Imagine her Shock #2 when she meets the same girl hanging on to her boyfriend. What's worse, Hungry Girl turns out to be the rumored Hiroki. Jealousy floods Momoka as she watches Narumi gaze—stars in his eyes—at his idol...
Namida Usagi ~Tears of First Love~ 8 collects Stories 42–47 and somewhere within that span, I wanna see Narumi redeem himself :P Does he?
My Namida Usagi vol 8 report card × impreshuns
Instead of the Saikyou rival toujou!!
(The strongest rival appears!!) that opens the Japanese volume 8 blurb, I'd substitute wif: Everybody here lurves Momoka. And I mean everybody. Our much in-demand heroine channels her—as another romance protag calls it—"stupid and psycho possessive" but you can't blame her because Narumi's feigning supreme oblivious of her angst.
Does Narumi succeed in taking the edge off Momoka's agitation? I leave that up to you to discover. Yes, that means GET! While I might've wanted to bop Narumi on teh head (numerous times) and cringe over the Shutterbug Nuisance mini-arc continuing for at least a volume more, I still grant Namida Usagi 8 a grade of 7.75 of 10, equivalent to a B+.
New m&c! titles and mangazines
Mentioned the seinen Sengoku Basara: The Holy War in Dance at the top of the post, but m&c! also launches the next martial arts manhua from Andy Seto, God's Domain: The Warrior of Fate, as well as the shoujo Kirarin Revolution Special Edition or Kirarin Revolution: Tokubetsuhen, solely credited to Kirarin Revolution manga-ka Nakahara An (when the Japanese volumes add Ikeda Taeko as collaborator), and Suddenly in Love, Konno Risa's Sweet Boy ni Goyoujin that you might've already read if you're a Cherry regular (m&c! wrapped the first ex-Betsucomi manga to serialize in the formerly exclusively Ciao / ChuChu / Sho-Comi / Flowers mangazine last March).
And speaking of Cherry, the May 2012 edition streets this week, too. Nakahara An-sensei's Rainbow Prismatic Girl (Nijiiro Prism Girl, ongoing serialization in Ciao) debuts, and 3+1 (mini-series) end. Cherry deets, as well as newb previews—I'm drawing out the suspense on Sengoku Basara :D—after the release list.
m&c! manga (2012.05.23)
- Bleach vol 46 of 54+ by Kubo Tite
- First Love Lesson (Hatsukoi Shinan) vol 4 of 4 by Yabuuchi Yuu [Finale]
- Flower and The Beast (Hana ni Kedamono) vol 2 of 6+ by Sugiyama Miwako
- [Series Premiere] Kirarin Revolution Special Edition (Kirarin Revolution: Tokubetsuhen) vol 1 of 6 by Nakahara An
- Namida Usagi ~Tears of First Love~ (Namida Usagi ~Seifuku no Kataomoi~) vol 8 of 10 by Minase Ai
- [Series Premiere] Sengoku Basara: The Holy War in Dance (Sengoku Basara: Ranse Ranbu) vol 1 of 3 by Shimotsuki Kairi
- [Premiere] Suddenly in Love (Sweet Boy ni Goyoujin) by Konno Risa
 | Hatsukoi Shinan 「初恋指南」 |
Other languages
German (Egmont Manga & Anime: Love Love Mangaka, four volumes per 2011.08)
 | Hana ni Kedamono 「花にけだもの」 |
 | Kirarin Revolution: Tokubetsuhen |
Related series
Original story: Kirarin Revolution (14 volumes)
 | Namida Usagi ~Seifuku no Kataomoi~ |
 | Sengoku Basara: Ranse Ranbu |
Related series
Based on Capcom's Sengoku Basara video game series
Other languages
English Devil Kings Basara (Udon Entertainment: (out of print volume 1 per 2009.10), traditional Chinese (Tong Li Taiwan: 戰國BASARA ~ 亂世亂舞 ~, three volumes as of 2007.04)
 | Sweet Boy ni Goyoujin |
Serializations
Serialized in the Indonesian Cherry (concluded)
Hong Kong manhua (2012.05.23)
- [Series Premiere] God's Domain: The Warrior of Fate vol 1 by Andy Seto
 | God's Domain: The Warrior of Fate |
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Mangazines (2012.05.23)
- Cherry May 2012 Edition (Indonesian Ciao, ChuChu, Sho-Comi, Flowers, Betsucomi)
Bleach 「ＢＬＥＡＣＨ－ブリーチ－」
by Kubo Tite
Shueisha Weekly Shonen Jump, shounen
Volume 46: Back From Blind (chapters 396–404) first published in Japan 2010.08
Awards
Winner, 50th Shogakukan Manga Awards in the Shounen category
Other languages
English Bleach (VIZ Media: 39 volumes as of 2012.04 • volume 40 street date: 2012.06.05), French (Glénat: Tome 48 shipped 2012.05.09 • Tome 49 street date: 2012.09.05), Spanish (Glénat in Spain, Grupo Editorial Vid in Mexico), German (Tokyopop Germany: Band 51 per 2012.05.09 • Band 52 street date: 2012.07.11), Dutch (Kana), Russian (Эксмо), Polish (JPF), Portuguese (Planet Manga) and simplified Chinese (Chuang Yi Singapore: Bleach #53: The Deathberry Returns 2 released 2012.01)
Related
Kubo Tite and Makoto Matsubara co-authored two Bleach novels: BLEACH-letters from the other side: The Death and The Strawberry (Japan release: 2004.12) and BLEACH: The Honey Dish Rhapsody (2006.10).
To celebrate the 10th anniversary, Shueisha is scheduled to release the BLEACH Spirits Are Forever With You I and II novels written by Narita Ryohgo (Durarara!!, Baccano!, Vamp!) under its JUMP j BOOKS label. Street date for both volumes: 2012.06.04.
The Bleach All Colour But The Black artbook, compiling color spreads from manga volumes 1 through 19 with original art and author annotations, released in Japan (2006.12), USA (The Art of Bleach, 2008.10) and France (All colour but the black: Recueil des illustrations de Bleach, 2008.11).
Companion guidebooks have also been published: Bleach SOULs and Bleach VIBEs released 2006.02 in Japan (The English Bleach SOULs. Official Character Book shipped 2008.11 in North America, while the French version streeted 2009.11). A third Bleach Official Bootleg: KaraBuri+ guidebook released 2007.08 in Japan. (English Color Bleach+: The Bleach Official Bootleg released 2010.08.10.) The fourth and fifth Bleach: Official Character Book 2: MASKED and Official Character Book 3: UNMASKED streeted in Japan on 2010.08.04 (same day as Volume 46: Back From Blind) and 2011.06.03 (along with Volume 50: The Six Fullbringers).
Adaptations
Studio Pierrot's anime adaptation first broadcast in October 2004 and ended with episode 366, which aired in Japan in 2012.03.27. Seiyuu Morita Masakazu and Orikasa Fumiko star as Kurosaki Ichigo and Kuchiki Rukia, with Park Romi playing 10th Division captain Hitsugaya Toshiro. Two OAVs and four theatrical movies—Memories of Nobody; The DiamondDust Rebellion, Another Hyōrinmaru; Fade to Black, I Call Your Name; and Bleach: The Hell Verse—have been released. (Novelizations of these movies have also been published by JUMP J Books: Fade to Black, I Call Your Name in December 2008 and Bleach: The Hell Verse in December 2010.) Additionally, Warner Bros. has confirmed it will be producing a Bleach live-action film.
At least eight drama CDs have been produced. Featuring the original anime cast, the drama CDs were bundled with the DVDs.