Bleach/Trivia


 * Fan Nickname: Bleach is full of these.
 * Uryuu Ishida is known as Arrowlad. When his father entered the storyline (arrows first), he promptly gained the nickname Arrowdad.
 * Ichigo's white inner hollow is often called Shirousaki (shirou = white) as a play on Ichigo's surname (Kurosaki, which means Black Promotory).
 * Germans Love David Hasselhoff: While Bleach is definitely popular in Japan, it typically ranks behind several other series. In America it's number 2, being beat only by Naruto.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Masashi Ebara does the voice for the Big Bad in the first Bleach movie. Of course, it's hard to take him seriously once you realize that same voice actor is shouting about the Glorious Springtime of Youth as Maito Gai in Naruto.
 * Shinichiro Miki, who voices Urahara Kisuke, did the voice of Mizuki in Naruto, the man who revealed the Kyuubi secret to Naruto in episode 1.
 * "Urahara Kisuke, sniping the target!"
 * Grim is Zommari.
 * Dean Venture is Nnoitra.
 * Japanese-wise, Nnoitra wants you to LISTEN TO HIS SONG!!!
 * Japanese (and Mexican) Uryuu is also Sasuke.
 * Nel was once a friend of Kyo and Zatch named Suzie.
 * Tia Harribel plays a children's card game in Japan and has knife fingers IN AMERICA.
 * Rangiku also plays a childrens card game...IN AMERICA.
 * Japanese-wise, Rangiku also used to be a flute-wielding sexy bodyguard of a cursed child of Hokage.
 * One has to wonder if Sosuke Aizen is so strong in America because he is the son of Goku, he's secretly drawing on the power of the Satsui no Hado, or if he still has that puppy or the fur coat. Japanese Aizen is drawing on another insanely strong, dastardly, and manipulative antagonist for his strength.
 * Or perhaps because he has the power of the Apsalus behind him...
 * Or maybe he's drawing upon the power of the spiral.
 * Faye Valentine is Yoruichi; they share the same hair color.
 * Japanese-wise, Yoruichi is pretty fond with a Paper Fan of Doom
 * Gi from Captain Planet is Ichigo's little sister!
 * What about Ichigo himself? You might be surprised to know this, but in America, our favorite aloof temperamental Substitute Soul Reaper is actually Zero, Nero and a completely different Zero. And he has a sixty billion double dollar bounty on his head. Not to mention that he has a bit of a history when it comes to superpowers you need to transform to use.
 * He's a silent protagonist and
 * In Spain, Ichigo once got dangerous.
 * Orihime's American voice actor also plays Kyrie, who shares a somewhat similar relationship to Nero as Orihime does to Ichigo. In Japan, she is a literal robot with chainsaws.
 * In a similar vein, Rukia's American dub actress tends to fight people, superhumans, mutants and gods with gadgets. Same goes her Japanese original.
 * Renji is also the current top-ranked assassin in Santa Destroy and Tallest Red. He's also fought against the Goddamn Batman! And Japanese-wise, HE'S NOT FAT, HE'S JUST BIG BONED!
 * Ikakku is Edward Elric IN AMERICA (even complete with an "arm and a leg" joke in a filler dub episode) while Hitsugaya can commiserate with the oft-belittled, but overall badass alchemist in Japan.
 * Hitsugaya is the Master Mage of Cephiro.
 * Several Prince of Tennis Characters; Byakuya Kuchiki is Tezuka, Grimmjow is Atobe, Zommari is Sanada, and Hirako is Momoshiro.
 * Ichinose shounds like a scarier Donatello.
 * Leonardo is an Arrancar.
 * Kokuto from the new movie is Zoro, yes, that Zoro.
 * In the english version, he's Roy Mustang, believe it or not.
 * Shuren from the new movie hangs around with a cat namd Puar and lost his girlfriend to the Prince of Saiyans and FUCKING RIBBONS.
 * Ulquiorra is Lupin and The Fourth Hokage. He is also AN ALMIGHTY NINJA WHO EVIL WITH THE POWER! OF JUSTICE!, was once a giant robot computer. And... PASTAAAAAA!!!
 * Gin is the son of the Third Hokage and was Team 10's Sensei until he was killed by The Akatsuki
 * Barragan is The Third Hokage
 * Tatsuki is Haruhi Suzumiya, Orihime is Mikuru, Rukia is Nagato and Ichigo is Itsuki, Coincidence?...Yeah Probably
 * Starrk is Lord Death in Japan, and Johan Liebert in America.
 * Japan's Hisagi is Kamina, and Ikkaku is Viral. Shinji is... a gay mechanic.
 * In the English dub, Hitsugaya is Neji Hyuuga and young Byakuya is Sasuke Uchiha and he's also Keigo...yes, KEIGO.
 * Nel and Orihime are Chiyo and Osaka.
 * From Episode 190 onwards, Szayel is Sai.
 * Would you believe that he's Numbuhs 1 and 2?
 * And as of Episode 216, Baraggan is the Lich King. Which is so ridiculously fitting, it's almost hilarious.
 * Yumichika is also Mizuiro. And a manipulative, chess-playing, mind-controlling genius. And a certain rogue transgender shinigami...
 * Ginjo and Tsukishima are Baldroy and Sebastian, this explains so much.
 * Ginjo and Jackie are also Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine.
 * Before he died and became an Arrancar, Grimmjow was once Happily Married, an Indian, Chinese-American, and so on. However, he was also once a swordfighter with an affinity for ice and was insane. Hmm... While in Japan, he's also an even more insane Puppet Master and the definition of "GAR", but he was much calmer... the things turning into a Hollow did to you...
 * For Zanpakutou Spirits, Zangetsu is a God of Thunder.
 * Haineko is a Boobie Cat!. While English-wise, she existed in the same universe as a blind redhead fighting for justice.
 * There's even MORE street-fighting Zanpakutou spirits (aside of Rukia's gadget-powered spirit), like Muramasa the Bruce Lee Clone, Hyourinmaru the Jamaican dance dude, Tobiume the Kunoichi and Houzukimaru the ultra badass.
 * Muramasa's master (Kouga) is Dio Brando. So Dio proves himself Eviler Than Thou than Hazama... with a Road Roller. WRRRRYYYYY!!!
 * Tsukishima tells you to bring it on!
 * Hitsugaya is Romi Park and Karin is Rie Kugimiya, making the character's Ship Tease, very strange.
 * Recycled Script:
 * Ichigo gathers a ragtag group of friends from his school to enter another world and fight unsurmountable odds to rescue a friend, continually getting stronger after each opponent up to a climactic clash that ends with an Anticlimax. The Soul Society arc, or the Hueco Mundo arc?
 * Even the details are similar. It all starts when two uniformed baddies, one rowdy and one emotionless, show up in the human world. Defeated by them, Ichigo goes through Training from Hell to gain new power. Once on the other side Ichigo gains a small, friendly tagalong, while one of his True Companions gets to defeat the murderer of their mentor.
 * Ichigo fights the stoic guy who kidnapped the damsel in distress. He is temporarily defeated, only to  The next fight is him and others being
 * In order to put an end to a Complete Monster, the hero must use a Dangerous Forbidden Technique that will make him lose his powers forever. Supposedly.
 * As a matter of fact, . And it was epic.
 * A White-Haired Pretty Boy wants to take over Soul Society because he and his kind were exiled long ago. The Bount arc (Jin Kariya, Bounts), or Memories of Nobody (Ganryu, Dark Ones)? The English dub even uses Troy Baker as the same voice actor for both characters.
 * The Third movie, Fade to Black, is intentionally filled with deja vu to repeat lots of older scenes throughout the series. Though the is just simply recycled.
 * Lampshaded and combined with an Omake Brick Joke in Episode 287.
 * The Hero is confronted by a group of superpowered humans who continuously trick him, but after the final battle, it's revealed that the hero's Trickster Mentor was behind it the whole time. His intention was to make the hero think about how he couldn't always use power to win fights. Am I talking about the beginning of the Bount arc, or Chapter Black from Yu Yu Hakusho?
 * While the latter example is much more dramatic, both the Zanpakto Rebellion arc and the Hell Chapter movie involve
 * The Other Darrin: In the American dub, Chad's and Ikkaku's voices were replaced only temporarily, but Kaien, Kenpachi, and Urahara each have a permanent Other Darrin for any particular reason. This is not helped by the fact that nearly no one in the course of the show in Japan had any voice replaced except for temporary occasions.
 * What Could Have Been: The first draft for Bleach was very decisively different than Bleach is as we know it today: Shinigami shrunk when exerting too much power. This happens to Rukia in "chapter zero" where she is then washing herself with Ichigo's toothbrush in a coffee cup. Ichigo seems far more interested in girls, especially Inoue (he denies it of course). Orihime dies at the beginning, being killed by her hollowified father, but instead of going to Soul Society decides to stay with Ichigo to cheer him on. This version was shot down by the publishers.
 * Other changes mentioned by Kubo include that Rukia was meant to be a more central character, as in the lead character, that most shinigami used firearm themed zanpakuto rather than swords whereas Rukia used a scythe. This character sketch was the one used as a base for the "Dark Rukia" in the third movie, Fade to Black I Call Your Name.
 * The Menos Forest mini-arc would have been in the manga had it not been for time constraints, thus forcing Kubo to take it out.
 * There are claims that Token Evil Teammate Mayuri Kurotsuchi was originally conceived as Ishida's personal villain, whom he would ultimately kill after a series of battles to avenge his grandfather. However some fans saw him as an Ensemble Darkhorse and saw him as one of the most brilliant strategist, leading to an epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech to his Evil Counterpart.
 * When in an interview about Shinji, Kubo mentioned that he wanted to do stories for Ichigo's classmates as well, directly implying story lines for Keigo, Tatsuki, and Mizuiro before the executives told him to move up the schedule and get to the Shinigami.