Bleach (TV) Set 1 (BD)

If you're looking for a good alternative to the DVDs, anime Blu-Ray buyers, this is a really good release to get. It's done by the same people who remastered Death Note for its Blu-Ray release, so you know it's in good hands. Now, the show didn't go HD until episode 168, so it'll be a while before we get the actual HD-produced episodes. Not to say that this is bad. The upscale is really well handled. Certainly watchable & enough reason for me to replace the DVD sets I have & buy the releases for the ones that I don't have. My ultimate hope is that the sales from these will continue to have these come out, as well as the first 2 movies, since they've been released on Blu-Ray everywhere EXCEPT here in America. I mean, come on, Viz. First Naruto's first 4 movies & Bleach's too? What's the deal? Anyways, yeah. It's upscaled to great quality. Yes, It's 4:3, but the fact that some people think HD means something has to be 16:9 right off the bat *cough* EDM *cough*, is completely ridiculous. There are PLENTY of older TV shows & movies that have been remastered in HD, but aren't 16:9. Now, this wasn't remastered in Japan, but it's no DBZ Blu-Rays. Trust me, those were awful, to say the least. Not remastered in the least, just painted over with watercolors that oversaturated the colors in the images, then don't even get me started on the cropping. If you can't handle an old show having at least a LITTLE amount of grain, & isn't in your precious widescreen, then you have NO right to call yourself a fan of visual media. This is a show from before the standard became widescreen & HD. Before 2009, only select shows started to be produced in widescreen, let alone HD. Before that, it was pretty much films that got that treatment. So, get over it already. Anyways, everything from the DVD releases have been ported over. The episodes & behind the scenes features are here & you get 7 more than the DVDs. I would recommend waiting for the price to go down if you're on the fence, but it's worth getting for those who're Bleach fans & want a good release of these, I recommend it.

Very clean remaster and removes the interlacing very well. This is the best way to watch season 1 now.

I bought the whole series for this Anime, but on season 1 disc 3 I couldn't watch a few Epsiode, they where freezing, I first thought it was my blue ray but amazon set me up and sent me a new one and it played with no issues, thank you guys for always having our backs

Bleach is a very lengthy series, not as lengthy as natuto but still very lengthy. It holds a special place in my heart, I used to watch the series weekly back when I was in middle school... Good times... . The entire series is 366 episodes with collection 4 coming up to episode 111 or something in may. So I will imagine that if they plan to put it all on bluray, it will be as much as the fairy tail blu rays were it has more than 10 collections, might want to buy them one at a time. The bleach anime isn't THAT old, so it's not that noticable that it doesn't seem like a dramatic HD improvement, but it is better. For one the animation is very crisp and clear, amost making it like a brand new anime in that blu ray quality, also the audio is very crisp and clear as well. My only complaint would be that there is no blu-ray + dvd combo pack, but I can forgive them due to the shear size on the series (well that and the series was cancelled before the final ark of the manga due to filters, only ending at the fullbringer ark or whatever you spell it) Anyways lets get a quick review on bleach. Here we have our protagonist ichigo, were just on one normal day all of the sudden some demon looking creature called hollows. Rukia, a Shinigami, was tasked on a "exorcism" of the hollow as the job of the shinigamis are to defeat the demon that has taken over a human soul and sending that human soul to the "next life" which is the soul society. She unfourtuntly gets stabbed by the hollow trying to protect ichigo from the hollow, so in order for ichigo to save this family and this mysterious girl he accepts Rukias power as a Shinigami. He defeats the hollow and is victorious. However since he took Rukias spiritual energy, he now has to temporarily do her job while she waits for her spiritual energy to return. This is were the series begins. Now ichigo tasked with doing Rukias job as a shinigami has to go and defeat hollows but gets caught up in something bigger along the way. This is pretty much the first ark of bleach, leading up to the rukia rescue ark were ruika is sent to be executed by the higerups because of the fact that she gave her power to a human.... Which will be on collection 2 were is the series really starts to pick up. Ichigo is very weak and underpowered at the start of the series, but he ends up being the most powerful soul eater in existance. Oh yes and ichigo has friends that also can use spiritual powers gradually in the series as well, though not all are shinigamis. Man this set reminds me how much I love bleach ❤ In any case this is a great set to have, the hell are you waiting for? Get it while it's still cheap!!!

Finally an anime blu ray from amazon with a slipcover!!!!

The video fidelity doesnt scream "HD" for anyone looking for an upgrade from their 10 year old DVD's. That's not to say the quality is bad, the series is 12 years old. For $35-$40 dollars you can't really complain. For not owning any of the Bleach DVD releases - I have no complaints with this set. Anyway, if you like Bleach, and you like anime and you want to continue to see it released stateside - buy it. If you're unfamiliar with bleach - this show early on was really very good. Like a lot of other long running anime the show struggles with pacing and filler issues after about 60-70 episodes. Definitely check out the first three releases without a doubt, proceed with caution from there on out.

I never review anything but when it came to this, I felt obligated to leave my thoughts. I've been a huge Bleach fan for years. So when I heard an official Bluray release was coming, I had to pick it up. I was so excited yet so worried. I've heard about a lot of series that had poor releases on bluray compared to their dvd counterparts. But After sitting down and binge watching this, I can wholeheartedly say this bluray release is amazing! I know it might sound like a weird worry but my biggest concern was that they might have cropped or edited the picture to 16:9 in an attempt to make it look better/newer but thankfully It's in its original 4:3 format. The menus are quick and easy to navigate. I especially like the option to only turn on subtitles for songs and written text in the show. The image quality itself is amazing. To get the picture to a beautiful 1080p without it looking awful or choppy truly shows they took care when making this product. But it does make me wonder. With the cancellation of the anime and decline in sales/popularity of the manga, why release this now? Is it because the manga is nearing it's end? Or.. Perhaps a hint the anime may return..? A fan can only hope. So to wrap up, I highly recommend any and all Bleach fans to pick this up. It is a must have for everyone!! I rate it 36.5 out of 10.

This review is purely on the video transfer. If you are here, you probably know if you like "Bleach" or not at this point. I am a super stickler for video quality, so take that into account while reading this. I feel most people will not find the things I mention as actual problems First off, I think this is a de-interlaced upscale of the DVD transfer. That irritates me because I have the DVD's already. I could run them through a player that does this. What I see is up-scaled compression artifacts, fairly strong banding, soft lines, jerky pans, and the aliasing that accompanies de-interlacing. It also appears that they ran it though some kind of softening filter to try to mask that they did this. It looks like they didn't even try on the credits/next episode bits. It's really bad there. That said, it's definitely better than the DVD's if you don't have a high quality, up-scaling player. The color, for the most part, is pretty good. I wish this was a new, HD scan of the masters. I kind of feel this is a cash grab release, though. I apologize if I got some terms wrong. I have a lot of experience encoding video, but I am by no means an expert. I can definitely tell, though, that this is not as good as it should be. EDIT: So, only the first episode was THAT horrible.The problems still exist in later episodes but are much less pronounced. Still not as good as it should be, but it's not making me cry for buying it anymore. I adjusted up to 4 stars for that.