History Bleach / TropesAToB

*** 20 years ago before the beginning of the main story, Aizen created a brand new type of hollow experiment that brought Isshin, Urahara and Ryuuken together, setting off the main storyline.

* ArcWelding: The manga looks like it's split into two parts, each with its own BigBad. However, the final arc ties together both parts and both villains. Events as diverse as the death of Ichigo's mother, Rukia's execution, Ichigo's substitute badge, Aizen's hollowfication experiments, Urahara's failure to save the Vizards, and Ryuuken's hatred of Quincies are all connected. WordOfGod is that the manga's end was being planned during the final stages of the Soul Society arc, but the Arrancar Arc suffered a period of ExecutiveMeddling before he could get the story back on track.

** Hollows of Menos class and higher shrink down and get less monstrous-looking as they get stronger: the ultimate Hollow class Vasto Lorde are essentially humans with masks. Rather than simply being equal to the captains of the Gotei 13, they have combat capabilities that are greater than even them. Also, Aizen unlocks the power of Hollows by removing their mask and the change in power is shown by them becoming more human-like.

** Hollows of Menos class and higher shrink down and get less monstrous-looking as they get stronger; the ultimate Hollow class Vasto Lorde are basically humans with masks. Also, Aizen unlocks the power of Hollows by removing their mask and the change in power is shown by them becoming more human-like.

* AnArmAndALeg: This happens a lot in the midst of battles. From minor villains to main protagonists, very few have escaped experiencing this. The severed limbs commonly get healed back on in a lot of cases, if the character hasn't died.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Rukia's zanpakuto power allows her to lower the temperature of her body cells to absolute zero. This renders them effectively "dead" making her immune to As Nodt's fear thorns. However, As Nodt's Vollstanding allows him to induce fear through the optical nerves of her eye to get around her power, indicating Kubo doesn't think optical nerves are cells.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Some of the names Kubo comes up with for characters seem to be completely made-up. One of the most notable examples is [=NaNaNa=] Nahjakoop.
* AssimilationBackfire: After Urahara comes with a way to [[spoiler:hollowify bankai, we find out that a hollowified bankai is poisonous to Quincy.]]

* AuthorAvatar: Kuugo, with the other fullbringers representing different types of misadjusted readers. Tsukishima, the self-insert fanfic guy etcetera. Hence, "Welcome to OUR execution".
* AwesomeButImpractical: There are a number of impractically huge weapons in the series, such as Renji's flail, Baraggan's axe, Nnoitra's sickle and Ikkaku's Bankai. Soifon hates her Bankai because it is so impractical for her preferred combat style, being huge, heavy, noisy, flashy, unhideable, and using too much power for her to do it again too many times.

** Due to the reincarnation cycle of souls, if living humans die, there's a chance they could crop up later on in the story as ghosts. Also, due to several characters being heavily involved in [[MadScientist highly creative]] [[ForScience scientific endeavour]] based on reiatsu and body experimentation, some characters that died have returned to the story as [[TheUndead undead]] beings. [[spoiler: Living humans returning as ghosts include Ginjou, Tsukishima and Giriko. Undead characters resurrected by science include Dordonni, Cirucci, Luppi and Charlotte.]]

* BarefootPoverty: Becomes a plot point during the final arc - the denizens of Soul Society's worst districts are disappearing en masse, leaving only footprints, including some shoe prints. [[spoiler: It's revealed that people who live within Districts 50-80 are so poverty-stricken, none have been known to wear shoes for 550 years. This clues in [[AwesomenessByAnalysis Lieutenant Kira]] to the fact that the conclusion villagers killed each other is wrong and that entire villages are being slaughtered by Soul Reapers. Thanks to Kira's revelation, it's discovered that, because a huge number of hollows were annihilated by Quincies, [[MadScientist Mayuri's]] men comitted mass murder to avoid a pan-dimensional disaster that could destroy entire worlds: killing spirit-dwelling villagers counter-balanced the destroyed hollows in a case of BalancingDeathsBooks.]]

** Ichigo's [[SuperPoweredEvilSide inner hollow]], being the personification of his aggression and bloodlust, fights relentlessly and mercilessly, and mocks Ichigo for not doing the same. Whenever it takes over his body it grants him great power and fights far more brutally than Ichigo is willing to and obviously doesn't care about Ichigo's goals. When the two of them fight for dominance [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind in Ichigo's inner world]], his body gradually transforms into a lizard-like hollow as it blindly lashes out at everything in sight.

** Aizen seeks to break the physical rules separating soul reapers from hollows. Much of his activity has been based on the quest to reach beyond the limits that shinigami and hollows are biologically limited by.

** Hollows of Menos class and higher shrink down and get less monstrous-looking as they get stronger; the ultimate hollow class Vasto Lorde are basically humans with masks. Also, Aizen unlocks the power of hollows by removing their mask and the change in power is shown by them becoming more human-like.

* BloodierAndGorier: The Thousand Year Blood War arc has really ramped up the violence by comparison to the earlier arcs, ranging from Zaraki and Unohana fighting with the flesh peeling off, Opie absorbing Ayon into him, Yamamoto burning Driscoll all the way to the bone, or Byakuiya imaging a picture of Rukia's face melting.

* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: Releasing bankai includes stating the command 'Bankai' to activate the transformation, which is completed when the Soul Reaper announces the name of the bankai's released form. Soul Reapers who do not possess bankai must also speak a verbal command to activate their shikai (bankai-possessing Soul Reapers can choose to skip it, although most don't). Arrancar Resurreccion count too as they always transform.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: The anime does this quite frequently as these examples attest.

** While less noticeable than other examples, in the anime, Kiyone and Sentarou (Ukitake's bickering third seats) first appear in Ukitake's debut when he hears about Aizen [[spoiler:supposedly having been killed.]] In the manga, a faceless messenger tells him, and Kiyone and Sentarou don't arrive until he calls them out of hiding a few chapters later.

* BecomeYourWeapon: The Arrancar all merge with their Zanpakuto when they want to go OneWingedAngel.
* BetweenMyLegs: Ichigo, Rukia and Yuzu had this shot.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Retsu Unohana, Shunsui Kyoraku, Sosuke Aizen, Jushiro Ukitake, Coyote Starrk, etc.

** Aizen seeks to break the physical rules separating Soul Reapers from Hollow. Much of his activity has been based on the quest to reach beyond the limits that shinigami and hollows are biologically limited by.

* BigBraToFill: The stage adaptation.
* BigDamnHeroes: This manga thrives on this trope with multiple examples that just keep on coming.
* BigNo: Multiple examples.

** Barragan suffers from this at the end of his fight, despite being untouchable to his opponents. [[spoiler: Hacchi realises that if Barragan's power is as dangerous as Barragan claims, then Barragan himself would be vulnerable to it. He uses kidou to expose Barragan to his own power and, sure enough, Barragan quickly dies.]]
** Aizen, who is usually very savvy, manages to get two of his own.
*** He's so focused on defeating the power of the strongest offensive zanpakutou in Soul Society history that he fails to think of what will happen when it's removed from the picture. [[spoiler: He takes out Yamamoto's zanpakutou very quickly, but Yamamoto points out that Soul Reapers aren't helpless without their zanpakutou and proceeds to prove it. Aizen fails to achieve his objective of killing Yamamoto and admits he underestimated the old man.]]
*** Aizen sets up an elaborate method of ensuring Ichigo can train for a power upgrade before they fight. [[spoiler: He was hoping Ichigo would achieve a level of power strong enough for Aizen to reach a new level of power. Unfortunately for Aizen, he completely underestimated Ichigo's growth potential and ended up being curbstomped.]]

* {{Bowdlerize}}: The anime is rather infamous for toning down some of the violence or nudity. Sometimes, it makes sense, like Harribel's girls and their arms turning into Ayon. At others, it clearly doesn't hold up to par. See [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Bowdlerise/AnimeAndManga trope page]] for full list.

** Directly after Grand Fisher's loss to Ichigo in the early episodes, he's held down and had his mask ripped off by at least two other Hollows. Two of these were Aisslinger and Di Roy, the latter shows up much later as Grimmjow's weakest Fraccion and the former shows up at the beginning of the Hueco Mundo arc, guarding the underground area of Las Noches.

A to B:

!!Tropes for ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', A to B:

* {{Badass}}: Who in this manga isn't? Even most of the minor characters or the most mild-mannered characters will get a brief moment to shine.

* ActionGirl: A major reason of the PeripheryDemographic -- the majority of female characters are rather {{Badass}}.

* AdaptationDyeJob: The anime does this a lot, changing hair colours, lightening Harribel's skin tone, changing the colours of Yumichika's feathers. They also assumed that Ryuuken's hair was white due to age, despite the flashbacks they animated showing his hair was still white when he was younger. They also assumed Gin's eyes were brown but, when the manga revealed they were blue, the anime changed his eye colour accordingly.

** Ichigo's decision to meet X-Cution receives a full anime episode. In the manga, Ichigo realises Ryuuken subtly decided to protect Orihime because he can't and immediately calls them for help. In the anime, a full day goes by, allowing him to fight the thugs who attacked his friends and family, be helpless against a Hollow that for some reason attacks him even though he has no spiritual power anymore, and meet Tsukishima, who flees from Ryuuken's sudden appearance. Ryuuken unsubtly tells Ichigo he's incapable of protecting others right now, which prompts Ichigo to place the call.

* ActionGirl: A major reason of the PeripheryDemographic -- the majority of females are rather BadAss.

* AdaptationDyeJob: The anime does this a lot, changing hair colours, lightening Harribel's skin tone, changing the colours of Yumichika's feathers. They also assumed that Ryuuken's hair was white due to age, despite the flashbacks they animated showing his hair was still white when he was younger. They also assumed Gin's eyes were red but, when the manga revealed they were blue, the anime changed his eye colour accordingly.

** Ichigo's decision to meet X-Cution receives a full anime episode. In the manga, Ichigo realises Ryuuken subtlely decided to protect Orihime because he can't and immediately calls them for help. In the anime, a full day goes by, allowing him to fight the thugs who attacked his friends and family and meet Tsukishima, who flees from Ryuuken's sudden appearance. Ryuuken unsubtlely tells Ichigo he's incapable of protecting others right now, which prompts Ichigo to place the call.

** The way he lost his mother as a child left Ichigo unable to handle being powerless to protect those in danger. Villains often use this against him, culminating in one ArcVillain's mind-bending assault on his family leading Ichigo into an HeroicBSOD. [[spoiler:Also, Yhwach's henchman traps him in a gaol of darkness where he's forced to listen to the dying screams of Soul Society, knowing he's unable to save them]].

* AlasPoorVillain: While most villain deaths in are happy moments, there are some who are written to be tragic.
** Early on there's Orihime's [[ICannotSelfTerminate hollowfied brother]] kills himself with Ichigo's sword in a moment of lucidity.
** In the Fake Karakura Town arc, [[spoiler:Ulquiorra and Starrk]]. The former dies [[spoiler:finally understanding what it means to be human]] while the latter dies [[spoiler:after only fighting to protect his friends.]]

** [[spoiler: For all of Charlotte's LargeHam behavior, he faced his death at the hands of Yumichika quietly and even with dignity.]]
** [[spoiler: In Shizuku and Homura's dying moments, the viewer learns the truth about their connection with Rukia, and their being possessed while saving her.]]

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: WordOfGod has said he has no interest in writing a romance. As a result, any romance that does get mentioned or hinted at either ends tragically or isn't pursued, not even by the one feeling the emotions.
** Orihime is in love with Ichigo. However, she also has no interest in pursuing a romance with him. So, not only does he not know about her feelings, but she also has no interest in making him aware of her feelings nor does she expect to have a romance with him.

* AnimationBump: In the Gotei 13 Invasion filler arc, the last part of Ichigo's fight with the final ArcVillain are almost movie quality.
** The end of Hisagi's fight with Findor.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Their personality, thoughts and beliefs are built from the soul of the Soul Reaper that created them and can represent the subconscious of that Soul Reaper.

* AnArmAndALeg: This happens a lot in the midst of battles. From minor villains to main protagonists, very few have escaped experiencing this. The severed limbs commonly get healed back on in a lot of cases, if the characters haven't died.

* BerserkButton: Several, [[BerserkButton/{{Bleach}} listed here]].

** Volume and chapter titles are usually inspired by music, especially album and song titles, and often include the terms 'mix' or 'reprise' to evoke musicality. He also inserts a lot of gratuitous 'language X' due to his love of languages and word play, and his desire to associate the "feel" of a language with a particular race: He feels German sounds like an organised, intellectual and efficient language, so it's the language of the regimented and militaristic Quincies. He feels Spanish has an EvilIsSexy flair, so it's the language of the Hollows, especially the fan-service Arrancars. He'll throw in English or slang Japanese for the "cool" characters and uses historical Japanese for traditional and spiritual characters, such as the Shinigamis' Tokugawa-era culture.

* AuthorAppeal:
** There's a reason why some fans call him Titty Kubo. He also likes to dress up his characters in different outfits on the splash pages.
** He's also got a thing for drawing closeups of people's teeth.

** The way he lost his mother as a child left Ichigo unable to handle being powerless to protect those in danger. Villains often use this against him, culminating in one ArcVillain's mind-bending assault on his family leading Ichigo into an HeroicBSOD. [[spoiler:Also, the BiggerBad's henchman traps him in a gaol of darkness where he's forced to listen to the dying screams of Soul Society, knowing he's unable to save them]].

* AscendedExtra: Tite Kubo's love of minor characters is well-known and oft-expressed, so it's not surprising that this happens a lot. Many of the captains and lieutenants from the 13 Squads are good examples.

* BringIt: Kenpachi Zaraki does this twice to Nnoitra during their duel in Hueco Mundo, once by gesture and once verbally.

* BackFromTheDead: Due to the reincarnation cycle of souls, if living humans die, there's a chance they could crop up later on in the story as ghosts. Also, due to several characters being heavily involved in [[MadScientist highly creative]] [[ForScience scientific endeavour]] based on reiatsu and body experimentation, some characters that died have returned to the story as [[TheUndead undead]] beings. [[spoiler: Living humans returning as ghosts include Ginjou, Tsukishima and Giriko. Undead characters resurrected by science include Dordonni, Cirucci, Luppi and Charlotte.]]

* BackFromTheDead: Due to the reincarnation cycle of souls, if living humans die, there's a chance they could crop up later on in the story as ghosts. Also, due to several characters being heavily involved in [[MadScientist highly creative]] [[ForScience scientific endeavour]] based on reiatsu and body experimentation, some characters that died have returned to the story as [[TheUndead undead]] beings. [[spoilers: Living humans returning as ghosts include Ginjou, Tsukishima and Giriko. Undead characters resurrected by science include Dordonni, Cirucci, Luppi and Charlotte.]]