A bit of background: I discovered Bleach back in high school, through my school's library. I enjoyed it casually, but never really dove that far into it, and after graduation and the end of Deicide I kind of lost interest. Fast forward more than a decade, I'm getting nostalgic about an old Bleach RP board I was briefly in, go back to casually browse the wiki, suddenly get OBSESSED with a certain character I never paid much attention to before, and after some chatting with friends I decide, "You know what? I kinda wanna go back and read this again, and see how it holds up from when I was an edgy teen who didn't really get nuance."
So here we are--me, my inane little jokes, and speculating way too hard about minor aspects of the world of Bleach like a Skyrim player spending more time picking flowers than actually getting through the story. The only physical medium I have right is a few volumes kicking off the Arrancar arc, so I'm mainly reading a translation of the colorized volume, plus screenshots from my library copies when I can get my hands on them. Technically I know the gist of how things go up til the end of TYBW, but my memory post-Deicide arc is much like a fishing net--full of gaping holes. So this will be as much a catch-up for me as it is for nostalgia and maybe getting some conversation out of it. (I technically started this re-read on Discord with a few friends, but I was also SUPER sleep deprived at the time for health-related reasons, so the earlier chapters will mostly be me rehashing what I said there, but also adding more stuff now that I'm catching up on sleep and getting more brain power back.)
If this is your thing, then grab your snack of choice, get comfy, and let's be goofy little dorks about it.
