bleach Fans have been buzzing about the possibility of a remake in recent weeks, but while a remake has some merit, it feels like the wrong direction for the franchise to be moving in. bleach It may take a better option: to move forward and dive into new content.
fans of bleach Their desire for a remake resulted in a 20th anniversary video that reanimated some of the series’ most classic scenes in a style more than Thousand-year blood warAnd the video looks incredible. It’s easy to see why long-time fans of the series might want this, as animation technology has advanced a lot since the original bleach Anime began production way back in 2004. However, this is an idea that is clouded by nostalgia, rather than one that would best serve the franchise moving forward.
A bland remake would completely miss the point of the original series
Bleach has always been a forward-thinking franchise
bleach is not a series that revels in nostalgia itself. The history of bleach is a story of always moving forward, despite what obstacles may lie in front of you. The franchise has something of a youthful energy to it, despite many of its characters being hundreds or thousands of years old, and this manifests as constantly moving forward into the future. It hasn’t been afraid of things like time skips before, and characters like Ichigo keep their eyes on the goal, struggling not to let the past affect their will to the future.
For this reason, go back to tell the beginning of bleach Feels like a step in the wrong direction. what bleach How it started and what it is now are two very different things, and going back to the original formula now would be a questionable choice. It is also important because bleach Is very, very long – 686 manga chapters. Even accounting for the adopted in thousand-year blood war, It is 480 chapters long, and if it reflects the rapid pace of Thousand-year blood warIt would still take nearly 100 episodes to adapt everything again. It would also require the better part of a decade to revive.
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Bleach’s anniversary one-shot sets up a new arc ripe for adaptation
Instead of going back to the beginning, bleach Should move forward, and adapt the content that currently exists further Thousand-year blood war. In 2021, Tite Kubo released a 20th anniversary one-shot, set 12 years after the end of the Thousand-year blood war arc. It features many of the fans’ old favorite characters, as well as some new faces, such as Ichigo’s son, Kazui Kurosaki, and Rukia’s daughter, Ichika Abarai.. The one-shot seemed to be setting up a new story arc centered on bleach‘s Hell, which is only explored in a non-canonical movie.
bleachCreator Tite Kubo has indicated that he has continued to work on the “Hell Arc” in private, and will only share it when he feels ready to do so. This gives bleach With an interesting opportunity to do that Dragon Ball So successfully pulled off with Super: Animate a sequel while the manga is still being written. with Dragon Ball Supers movies, series creator Akira Toriyama played a big role in their development and writing, similar to how Kubo himself had a hand in the creation of the movies. Thousand-year blood war Anime.
Kubo could take what he’s worked on so far for the Hell arc and use it as the basis for a script for a bleach movie, launching a new series of canonical bleach Movies just like Dragon Ball did. And this, of course, does not exclude the possibility of publishing it as a manga; Dragon Ball Supers manga and anime debuted at the same time, and sometimes have differences between the two media, but overall tells the same story. with super heroThe manga even adapts the movie almost 1 to 1, giving fans their choice of how they want to consume the story.
Bleach’s epilogue already hinted at the potential for a much larger sequel
The anniversary one-shot could lead to a whole new story
Kubo certainly does not want to return to the pressures of weekly (or even monthly) manga production, and given the health issues he suffered during bleachs closing chapters, it is easy to understand why. But it’s also clear that Kubo isn’t quite finished bleachAnd would like to do more with this world and the characters. The open-ended nature of the anniversary one-shot proves that. Bring bleachs continuation to a movie or new anime series is very much like the way to have his cake and eat it too – the story is there, but Kubo is not a prisoner to his plan again.
A canonical bleach Movie, continuing on from where Thousand-year blood war Let go, would definitely be a major event, much more so than a remake of the original anime would be. Everyone would go into the film on equal footing, with no one knowing what to expect. Demon Slayer Also proved that canon movies can not only work, but work very well, bringing in loads of money that can be used to finance the next film, or other anime projects. A movie also offers the opportunity to make the animation quality even higher than Thousand-year blood wars.
It simply feels like a huge waste to have the beginning of a bleach Revival is sitting there waiting when it can be adapted in such a way that it uplifts the entire franchise and helps keep the new generation of fans who Thousand-year blood war has cultivated. A remake of the original series is unlikely to retain the kind of fans who enjoyed it Thousand-year blood warWith its intense action and high-stakes storyline. bleach Certainly has the opportunity to move forward as much as back, so why not seize the opportunity to push forward into the future?