Bleach Uncut Season 2 Box Set |  | Director: na
Actor: Bleach
Studio: VIZ VIDEO
Category: DVD
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Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,251
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 5
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 525 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.8 x 1.8
MPN: 782009238393
UPC: 782009238393
EAN: 0782009238393
ASIN: B001ASQ9MY
Release Date: August 19, 2008
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Product Description
With the assistance of the death god Rukia, fifteen-year-old Ichigo uses his ability to see ghosts to protect the living from soul-eating spirits.
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In the second season of the popular fantasy-adventure Bleach, Ichigo,Chad, Ohime, Ishida, and Master Yoruichi the talking cat pass through the inter-dimensional portal linking Earth to the segregated world of the Soul Society. Lost souls are consigned to the run-down Rukon ("Drifting Spirit Town"), where Yoruichi obtains help from pyrotechnician Kukaku to get into the stronghold the Seireitei. Although the teen-agers have crossed space and time to rescue Rukia, no one knows where she's imprisoned--or where they are--in that city-sized compound. Ichigo and his new ally Ganju seize timid janitor Hanataro: He knows where Rukia is and secret ways to get there. Director Noriyuke Abe skillfully mixes overlapping movements, slow-motion, unusual camera angles, reverse colors, and black-and-white to heighten the drama of the sword fights between Ichigo's team and the bizarre-looking officers of the Soul Society. But the internal conflicts often prove more compelling than the external ones. Viewers learn why Chad never uses his awesome strength in his own interest; Ichigo discovers that he must use his sword as an ally, rather than as a tool. By submitting to Zangetsu, the spirit of the sword, he acquires greater power. But Bleach never stays too serious for too long: Ichigo and Ganju squabble, even in dire straights, and an overhead shot of Ichigo fleeing a squad of Soul Reapers looks like a table-top Pac-Man game.The satisfying balancee of comedy, adventure, and well-choreographed battles has made Bleach a smash hit in Japan and America. (Rated "Teen," suitable for ages 13 and older: violence, grotesque imagery, brief nudity, alcohol use.) --Charles Solomon
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 Excellent Box Set January 15, 2009
Matthew S. Beckham (Terre Haute, IN United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
What I fdind consistantly entertaining and fascinating about this series is the seemingling endless umbers of extremely intreresting charters and they are well developed even you don't know it yet yu get sense that eac has an extensive backstory. In fact I have found myself getting as engrossed with the backstories of Renji and Rukia and Momo as I am with the main plot of saving Rukia.
The fight scenes are excellent as epic and well executed as one could hope. And Ichigo's growth as a warrior and as a person is brilliantly executed, and on their ow would make this series on not to be missed.
But it's the bredth and depth of this world and its immense variety of characters that really make this series particularly great.
Picture and sound quality are excellent. There's a nice featurette introducing the English voice cast and this really is the best way to buy these. Not only is it muh easier on the wallet, but you dont really want to have to wait two or three weeks between sets of episodes. The way this series runs, you really want to go on to the next epiode after the previous one is done.
Bleach Box Set No.2 (Uncut) November 5, 2008
Nicholas Paul Holden Mcclelland (Wanganui, Manawatu, New Zealand)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Very well presented in a tight compact 5disc set that takes up no more soom than 3normal sized dvd cases. brilliant artwork on front cover and on disc trays themselves. Exceeded my expectations and well worth the buy for any tru BLEACH fann
I'm hooked. I admit it. May 21, 2010
W. Watson (Petersburg, VA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have to remember to kick my nephew's butt. He came over to my house and was parked in front of the tube watching Bleach. You know how you kinda are half watching something and you get roped into it? Well that's what happened to me. We'd missed some of the first season, so I bought it on DVD. I've actually watched through the third season on Youtube, but I started buying the DVDs. I WILL HAVE THEM ALL!!!
I don't go into technical details about the quality of the DVD or the extras. Truth be told, outside of the trailers, I don't watch any DVD extras at all. I like the English dub because I don't want to spend the entire show squinting at subtitles. All I can say is that it's a show that needs to be enjoyed as it is. Don't try to read too much into it. It's an adventure story about young heroes, and it's filled with everything that it entails. Ichigo, Chad, Orihime and Uryu are headed to Soul to rescue Rukia. You know, from the first season I thought it was just going to open with a few episodes to get her back then on to something else. Boy was I wrong!
Season two has them in the afterworld, or Soul Society, trying to find and rescue their friend. The plot isn't as simple as that. The Soul Society's 13 guard squads are determined to stop them. Add to that a mystery and a potential traitor in the squad's midst had me on the edge of my seat. It's a complex storyline and they aren't afraid to delve into the personalities of all the characters --no matter how minor they might be. Leave it to Tite Kubo to lay out a fantastic story!
Parents: If you are opposed to cartoon bloodshed, then you probably should watch this first and see if the level of violence is acceptable to you. This isn't American television --it's not edited for content. The heroes get hurt. They bleed. And yes they fail. I actually prefer it because it's in a sense much more realistic than American cartoons which seem to gloss over that fact. Superman and Batman never bleed on Justice League --You ever notice that?
It's a really good show, and I enjoy it thoroughly. I don't really have anything negative to say about it. It's one of my favorite shows.
An Excellent Anime, my current favorite! And about the fansubs being better than professionals... October 1, 2008
Mary Grayson's Little Robin
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Bleach is a great show. I love it to pieces. Episodes 21-41 deal with Ichigo, Chad, Uryu and Orihime entering the Soul Society to rescue Rukia Kuchki from execution. All the episodes are well done, the animation is fantastic. I love all the sword fights, it's just entertaining to watch.
As for the Japanese audio and English subs, I have to criticize all the so-called "fans" who just watch fansubs and have no intention of buying this set:
You're not a real fan unless you actually buy something to contribute to the original creator. If someone downloads a fansub and doesn't buy this DVD, they're only hurting the people who make the show. Sure, hate on the dub all you want, but if you like the Japanese language so much go take classes and become fluent so you can watch the DVDs without the subs, and to the reviewer who said that the English subs are similar to the English Dub, I'd say you're wrong, it's a WHOLE lot different than the dub, there's dialogue that wasn't even in the English version on the subs.
Yes, they say "Soul Reapers" instead of "Death Gods", but there is is a lot of dialogue that is not included in the English Dub, but the subs are professional, not those stupid inaccurate, clique-ish fansubs, it's still very good though, if you want to truly support Bleach and keep the DVDs coming, buy the DVD sets, I just did and I love it. But I prefer the dub because I, unlike a lot of these fans, do like shows in English. The average, non-die-hard person just getting into anime is not going to want to watch it in Japanese, they want to watch it in English, so hence, the REASON for English dubbing in the first place.
On another note, Bleach is not for young children, there's profanity, but not any more than a LOST episode. There's lots of blood, people get hurt and die in this show, so this is not meant for anyone under at least 12 or 13. Anyone younger should watch with a parent.
Bleach is awesome, can't wait for the next season.
bleach season 2 boxset October 9, 2009
Anthony Siano (usa)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
it is amazing a necessity for any bleach fan or anime fan i recommend it
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