Bleach Episode 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39

Genres: action, comedy, drama, supernatural
Themes: dark side, developing powers, giant weapons, secret identity, shinigami, spirits, superhumans, swords

ブリーチ (Japanese)
死神 (Chinese (Taiwan))
漂靈 (Chinese (Hong Kong))
블리치 (Korean)

adapted from Bleach (manga)

http://www.watchanimeon.com/anime/bleach/


The story is another matter entirely. Why exactly are all these mermaids on land to start with, pretending to be schoolgirls? Lucia went up there to get her pearl back, but she has it now. And it is apparently a very important thing to find the other princesses and pearls, but Lucia is more concerned with how to handle Valentine's Day, whether she'll be in the same class as Kaito, or making him stew when he's sick with a cold. These are all very common to shoujo stories, true, but if the whole taking-over-the-ocean plot is so unimportant, why even include it to start with? Anything having to do with the “main” storyline is so sidelined that is seems like it was shoved onto a couple of pages just to say it is there. For instance, in episode seven, there is a story about how a mermaid girl is being blackmailed into capturing a princess so that she can find her mother. The villain appears on one page, captures a princess on the next two, Lucia appears on a two page spread in which the villain is vanquished. The next page has advance enough in the future for everyone to have changed clothes, and they have found her mother using some device that was barely seen, which they knew how to use because a jellyfish, also never seen before, explained that it could do that. It is then followed with five more pages of the girls in pajamas looking at mermaid horoscope magazines. I wonder what kind of paper mermaid magazines are printed on?

That's another thing: not only is the mermaid bit barely squeezed in; it barely makes sense either. At one point Lucia is in the ocean, in mermaid form, and she transforms using the power of her pearl, and turns into a human supergirl. She's underwater, in a palace, also underwater, with fountains. The battle system isn't executed well either, as in the previous example. Visually, nothing is shown to illustrate that the girls, or the people they are fighting, are actually singing. They just say something, usually really cheesy, and the villain gets rather faded, a sign of defeat I suppose, yells something along the lines of “I'll get you next time, you darn kids,” and the rejoicing happens about then.