Bleach Uncut Season1 Box Set
(Standard Edition) starring Bleach
Bleach Fans, What Are You Waiting For?
Episodes 1 - 20 now available in one box set!
For as long as he can remember, Ichigo Kurosaki has been able to see
ghosts. But when he meets Rukia, a Soul Reaper who battles evil spirits
known as Hollows, he finds his life is changed forever. Now, with a
newfound wealth of spiritual energy, Ichigo discovers his true calling: to
protect the living and the dead from evil. And when he vows to defend
Rukia from the ruthless justice of the Soul Society, he and his friends must
cross over and do battle in the spirit world...
Bilingual (Japanese & English) / English Subtitles

Personal Review: Bleach Uncut Season1 Box Set (Standard
Edition) starring Bleach
Bleach is an action packed anime that began in 2004 in Japan/2006 in the
US. At the time of this writing, the English language dubbed versions have
been announced to extend to 172 episodes (or 9 seasons), while the
Japanese version has 227 episodes (11 seasons) with no intention of
stopping anytime soon. For people who like lengthy anime this is definitely
one of the ones to choose but because of the lack of reruns ever
appearing on TV networks now is a good time to start.
I personally started watching Bleach after buying a copy of the monthly
Shonen Jump that is released here and seeing nice action sequences in
Bleach. I tended to avoid any of the hype associated with shows because
often times hype has lead me to be bored out of my mind. On that note,
Season 1 of Bleach (The Substitute) starts off on a confusing high, goes to
a slight droll, and then regains its high at the final 5 episodes of the
season.
The first episodes open with Ichigo, the main protagonist, being able to see
Souls. He meets another girl who is able to see Souls, Rukia, who comes
from the Soul Society, which is explained in later episodes to be this
gateway world that maintains a balance between the destinations of the
souls (yeah its kind of confusing, but the second season takes place in the
"Soul Society" so we will hopefully get a clearer explanation then). She
transfers her powers to Ichigo, making him a Soul Reaper, empowering
him with the powers to fight misguided souls, ie, evil souls known as
hollows. The rest of the 20 episodes explore his role as a Soul Reaper as
well as a student/friend. Several episodes have interesting plots as well as
interesting commentary on death and such. The main background plotline
in these episodes should be evident to most people. The final episode is a
cliffhanger, however, the "episode previews" at the end of the credits ruins
the "cliffhanger".
The series is written as Original and Uncut, this means that the episodes
have the original Japanese opening. All of the 20 episodes in this volume
use the original Japanese opening for Bleach, with the song, "Asterisk" by
Orange Range (they seem to have done an ending theme in Naruto); the
opening song will grow on most people after 20 episodes, even if it sounds
weird at first. The two ending themes are also Japanese, the first is "Life is
Like a Boat" by "Rie Fu" which has some English lyrics, and "Thank You"
by "Home Made Kazoku." The endings are more enjoyable. At the end of
each ending is an episode preview with hilarious commentary done by a
revolving cast of characters.
The voice actors are all amazing and a few of them have voiced roles in
other anime. For example the Johnny Yong Bosch who voices Ichigo
sounds exactly like the voice of Lelouch Lamperouge/Zero in Code Geass
(basically if you saw that anime, then his voice has not changed one bit).

The Derek Stephen Prince who voices Uryu in Bleach sounds exactly like
Ken from Digimo, and Shino from Naruto. The voice of one of the Hollows
in Bleach sounds exactly like Pakkun from Naruto. So the English cast did
well for this show. OF course since this is an ORIGINAL and UNCUT
boxset full Japanese vocals are included with English subtitles, so purists
should be proud.
The show has solid animation that doesn't fall apart in high action
sequences. The solid colors works in making this look like a modern
anime as well. Blood is also appropriately shown in this ORIGINAL and
UNCUT version.
Finally in terms of the product, a poster of Ichigo is included in which he is
wielding his zanpakuto "Zangetsu". Each of the 5 disc's has its own
graphic on it. The DVD boxset has an outbox that surrounds a case of the
5 discs. It is reasonably sturdy and nice looking.
Bonus features of the discs includes previews of various Shonen Jump
anime such as Naruto, as well as other VIZ media properties. There is
also an extensive section on the behind the scenes with the English
language cast, and lastly "clean" (creditless) versions of the ending
themes.
Ultimately this is a pretty solid boxset for the anime and is an appropriate
start for the series. It is suggested that anyone who likes previous Shonen
Jump anime, or even just Shonen anime in particular pick up this boxset
and start collecting them for Bleach.
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