I'm bumping this for the sole purpose of complaining about the new episode. Holy crap, that was bad...like, DBZ bad. They might as well have skipped this week, because nothing freaking happened. And with no Naruto tomorrow, I'm really feeling shafted.

Yeh there are definite shades of DBZ. You think that the decisive battle is going to come soon but then you get hit with a multitude of episodes where you are pretty much screaming at the characters on screen because the problem is so obvious. Oh well, I have faith in the writers abilities to make awesome fight scenes when the time comes so I guess I'll just be patiently waiting for that.

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Teal, huh? Nice.
Yeah, I'm confused about the ranking.
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Yeah, here's a picture that has the colors close to what Kubo used.



As for the ranking...

Oh hey, here's the Bleach thread! Yeah, I read 290 and had no place to express my psych-titude.

Bohahah, I found the Bleach thread. I only recently started watching it, but I got really into it really quickly. Up to episode 125 or something.

Anyway, I came here to ask a favor. Does anyone have a decent quality rip of the very first opening song -- Asterisk, by Orange Range -- in mp3? I downloaded one, but it sounds like somebody recorded it from a set of speakers. Volume's real low and everything sounds muffled.

But wait--there's more!

I got into Bleach very quickly, too. This anime just grabs you. And, I can't believe how long it has been running in Japan, both manga and anime-wise.

I had been watching Bleach on Adult Swim for the last year or so, but now that they've stopped airing it I've switched over to the fansubbed version. I don't know why, but for some reason it's more addicting to watch in this form (maybe because I can watch it at my own pace or something, which will suck once I catch up to the current episodes).

Also, I just had to throw in that I freakin' love the third OP, "Ichirin no Hana". This is quickly becoming my favorite anime OP ever.

Yeah, it's strangely addictive. I had a friend pestering me to watch it for months before I finally caved, and I caught up within only a few days. Sure it was only in the 60-70 range at the time, but that's an impressive pace for me.

"Rolling Star" is by far my favorite Bleach OP so far. It starts around the end of the Bound arc, and I think it's the 5th one.

They haven't stopped airing it. They took a break so the weekday episodes wouldn't out run the weekend episodes. They are only running weekday episodes, with Death Note airing on the weekend.

In fact, Bleach should be coming on in about 8 minutes.

That's a pretty good quality song. Thanks!

Although it seems I failed to clarify. :p Do you have just the TV edit? I think it's on the first OST's soundtrack, actually.

Nope, I never bother to keep TV edits around unless they're all I can find. Even if I download an entire OST I tend to seek out the full versions of the OP & ED to replace them.

Ah. I listened to the full version you linked, and it's a good song, don't get me wrong. Anyone happen to have a decent quality TV edit or Asterisk?

Comment probably driven on the fact that the beginning riff sounds better :)

K_ Tak delivers: ~Asterisk~ (OST Ver.).mp3

Gettin' it now. Thanks!

I didn't mean they stopped airing the series in general, I just meant they stopped airing new episodes. There hasn't been any word on when they'll start back to airing new episodes again, and all the ones they air throughout the week are still reruns (this is at least the second time they've cycled through episodes on the weekday, so I don't think catching up to the ones on the weekend was a concern).

I heard people say that one of the reasons they stopped airing new episodes is because they needed time to dub more episodes. Don't know how true that is, but I wouldn't be surprised since they've been showing a new episode almost every week for about a year now. Plus, Toonami stopped Naruto at a time for the same reason, so it's most likely true.

I don't like that version. I was really upset that the beat changed. I think they came out with the tv version first then re-did the song for the single, or something like that.

I prefer the tv version even if it's only a minute and a half.
So here's the TV-RIP version.
Asterisk~TV-RIP

I should of put in my last response that if you diddnt like this version, I'd do a tv-rip (which has already been done, thanks!)

Ah, I see what you meant.

I wouldn't say most likely--I would say it IS true. They did the same thing with InuYasha. I checked the Adult Swim website, and they have up to episode 30 planned for the weekdays. So, that takes us well into next month.

I wonder if they're going to do the Bleach movie?

I wouldn't be surprised if they did show the movie eventually, since they have a pretty good track record for showing the movies of series they air (I think the only ones they haven't showed so far is the FMA movie (they said they were going to sometime last year, but they never did) and the GitS: SAC movie (since Sci-Fi aired it)).

I have to say with the Naruto movies getting aired, the Bleach movie has a high possibility, though I don't imagine seeing that one up until this time next year at the earliest.

Thanks jouhou! That was exactly what I was looking for. K_Takahashi, thanks for your link too though, cuz I liked the song by itself anyway.