Bleachness

Omg, this one is sooo good. It's a nice long CM of the new Bleach movie! The Lust arc is being reanimated, and Rukia witnesses Ichigo turning (she is screaming "turn back Ichigoooo!") and there's omg ULQUIORRA and a bit of Ishida and Orihime at the end.

Go to the movie's official website and click the latest update on the screen left after the preview:

http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/bleach/

for a translation of the CM, follow this link (to the IchiRuki FC at Bleach Asylum) and thank Nacchan for her translation.

eta: oh and for you TM Revolution fans (there seem to be quite a few of you!) there are two limited CDs coming out by them with the Hellverse theme music. The following from the IR FC at BA (thanks Annie and esp Nacchan for translations): ( TM revolution Bleach goodies info )

Still bored? Unexcited about the Bleach movie?  Welp, I have nothing to occupy you during the manga hiatus (other than previously announced contest!contest!contest!) so I bring you some, er, Bleach advertisements.

The first is for the Bleach movie again and doesn't feature any chalky Hollowfied Ichigo or fugly villain sidekicks but all the NAKAMA and our first ad with Chad and Orihime! Also Hitsugagya and Bayakuya in all their prettiness: (scan from WSJ thanks to poppy_moon)

( BLEACH ADVERT )

And also Bleach 2011 calendar A is out. It's not as pretty as Calendar B in my view. It features six Bleach guys (Ichigo, Ulquiorra, Gin, Byakuya, Hisagi, Hitsugaya, and Grimmjow). You can preorder from YesAsia or amazonjp,


( calendar boys Ulqui and Gin )

New poster for Bleach 4 Movie !

If you look to the left you can see Yuzu in a little cage contraption. I didn't notice this at all until Annie pointed it out to me. Of course I didn't even notice Rukia in the poster because all I could see was ISHIDA!ISHIDA!ISHIDA! (and he's fighting back to back with Renji <3 and he's in his Quincy clothes not his school uniform. No confirmation of Ulqui or Grimm in cast alas. No Chad or Orihime in poster or cast list. Oh yeah--ISHIDA!ISHIDA!ISHIDA!


Info from Annie:

A Japanese friend scan a movie page from WJ for me. There will be a road show starting from Dec 4th and there is the official cast list at the bottom left of the page:

Cast list goes in this order: Ichigo, Rukia, Kokutou, Shuren, Renji, Ishida. The official site has the same cast list only different in Rukia's order that she's listed fourth after Ichigo and two OCs. But all in all, seems like these six characters are the ones with most active roles in the movie.
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A road show is where the cast seiyuu go from town to town to promote the movie. The poster is also the cover of a movie calendar coming out but it's not available for pre-order yet. (I was not paying attention to Annie! The poster will also be used as Tsutaya calendar cover That calendar is a desk calendar only available at Tsutaya. You will get it if you buy Hell Movie ticket through them).

In other pressing ISHIDA!ISHIDA!ISHIDA news, some of you old members may have noticed that the annual Ishida birthday contest announcement is late. That's because I've been frightfully busy despite my daughter being in school--my son is preparing for his bar mitzvah in December! Yeaaaah. I'll get something up soon. This year the contest will be purely IshiHime though and the posting date will be my birthday, Friday, November 19 (it's my party and I'll IshiHime if I want to--sorry RenIshi fans, I'll catch you later!) instead of Ishida's bday since I was so late getting my act together. Prizes will be humble because I and mods and other regulars of bleachness  are saving our monies this year for SDCC but I don't want to miss the annual Ishida bday celebration. I'll have contest rules up this week.

Also, because I'm spoiled rotten, I'm getting bday presents already. Looky what lovely custom dolls a dear friend overseas has made for me!

( dolls )

Crunchyroll has a subtitled video up of an exclusive interview with Masakazu Morita from his recent visit to LA for AX

*squee*

He speaks about how the Grand Fisher fight is responsible for the essential character of Ichigo and how he feels sad that Ichigo lost the fight. He also comes down hard on illegal scans and videos. <.<

oh and HQ of Bleach Movie 4 teaser (yep, all gleaned from IR FC at BA XD)

Yesterday, at the premiere of the Naruto movie, a trailer for the Bleach 4 movie premiered and pamphlets about it were given out. Thank you to syneiam  of the BA IchiRuki FanClub for securing this scan of this pamphlet and the translation from poppy_moon /Ku. You can see the scans at this post at the IR FC HERE. (keep clicking to enlarge and you'll see Rukia being stabbed O_O)

Executive Producer: Kubo Tite
"I have participated in this movie from the project & the scenario. I have strong feelings for this movie. I think that It becomes the splendid movie which is good for the tenth anniversary. Please look forward to."

It is decided by full-scale cooperation of Mr.Kubo that the stage of this time movie is HELL.
HELL is not drawn in the original.
There was the unimaginable dreadful world of SHINIGAMI.

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eta: anon comments to this post are automatically screened. Please do not spam this post with GOOGLE translations from 2ch. I expect better from bleachness . I'll post reliable information about the CM when I have it.


ooh, also HQ scans of Bya Rukia Renji movie ticket posters from poppy_moon at this post here.

So it's the "Hell Chapter!"  Morita-kun tweeted about being in the studio for the trailer the other day. Apparently the trailer for the new Bleach movie will premiere in theatres before Naruto Shippūden: The Lost Tower  this July 31.

Read all about it here at this link over to Animenewsnetwork

Advance tickets to the Bleach movie will come with promotional posters. These posters come in sets of three featuring characters in Shinigami/Arrancar wear on one side of the poster and casual clothes on the other. Grimmjow and Ulquiorra are featured in the pics so there's speculation that they may appear in the movie but no one knows for sure. Here's a sample of the promotional advance ticket picss (Rukia looks exceptionally hot in tiny shorts!)

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