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Poll
Question: Should Bleach be called Bleach?
Option 1: Yes votes: 6
Option 2: No votes: 3
Title: Why Do they call it Bleach?
Post by: White Wind 109 on February 14, 2007, 12:22:43 PM
Where did they come up with the name Bleach? It just puzzles me.
Title: Why Do they call it Bleach?
Post by: Nina Star 9 on February 14, 2007, 08:53:48 PM
that would be because the main character has that annoying hair colour where someone bleaches dark hair without doing anything else to it, so it turns that orangey colour. it was so distracting to the creators that they decided to name it after his hair colour. :P
Title: Why Do they call it Bleach?
Post by: Tsubasa on February 15, 2007, 07:26:06 PM
I like to think they mis-romanized "breach."
Title: Why Do they call it Bleach?
Post by: Moogleborg on February 15, 2007, 11:29:16 PM
I have read a few reasons for it:

1) The main character, Ichigo, has his hair bleached blonde orange.

2) When the Shinigami/Death God/Soul Reapers purify hollows, the nickname of it is known as 'Bleaching'

and 3) The author of Bleach Tite Kudo, is a huge fan of the band Nirvana. He is also a fan of rock music which is why he has rock music played for most of the major characters theme tune. Coinicidentally, his favorite album from Nirvana, is their first album: Bleach.
Title: Oh ok
Post by: White Wind 109 on February 16, 2007, 05:47:25 AM
It was just so puzzling how they would call it Bleach.  I have to do more googling. XD
Title: Why Do they call it Bleach?
Post by: Nina Star 9 on February 16, 2007, 10:23:06 PM
Quote from: MoogleborgI have read a few reasons for it:

1) The main character, Ichigo, has his hair bleached blonde orange.


wait... are you serious? that was the dumbest answer i could think of, as i have never seen the show before, and it could be right? XD
Title: Why Do they call it Bleach?
Post by: Spiritsnare on February 17, 2007, 01:44:33 AM
Quote from: Nina Star 9that was the dumbest answer i could think of...

Sometimes the dumbest answer is the correct one. ;)
Title: Why Do they call it Bleach?
Post by: LastElixir on February 17, 2007, 02:00:17 AM
Quote from: MoogleborgI have read a few reasons for it:

1) The main character, Ichigo, has his hair bleached blonde orange.

2) When the Shinigami/Death God/Soul Reapers purify hollows, the nickname of it is known as 'Bleaching'

and 3) The author of Bleach Tite Kudo, is a huge fan of the band Nirvana. He is also a fan of rock music which is why he has rock music played for most of the major characters theme tune. Coinicidentally, his favorite album from Nirvana, is their first album: Bleach.

that is very accurate. :)

and yea, nina was right lol.

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Title: Why Do they call it Bleach?
Post by: BP! on February 17, 2007, 05:40:07 AM
Being someone who posts so much on GameFAQs' message boards, seeing this instantly got me a little frustrated. Reason being that on ASA*, this question has been asked so damn many times since the dub started that many of us on there feel that a topic answering that deserves a sticky.

Anyways...

The main reason that it is called Bleach is because of Ichigo's hair and Nirvana's 1st album. Kubo Tite is a Nirvana fan, and he named the series after their 1st album, how Ichigo's hair is bleached, and the nickname for the purification of spirits.

I know it's already answered, but this is to make it a bit more clear and easier to understand.

Anyways, there's one more thing I want to say about this.

When you don't know about something in a series, Wiki first, ask later. Saves people the trouble of answering things more than once.

*ASA = Adult Swim Action
Title: Why Do they call it Bleach?
Post by: Mew on February 18, 2007, 06:15:52 PM
It's funny because I have a BLEACH t-shirt I bought in Japan and on the tag, it has the BLEACH logo and also says, "Do not bleach." X.D Ironic, isn't it?
Title: Why Do they call it Bleach?
Post by: ced1106 on February 19, 2007, 03:30:30 PM
Quote from: Nina Star 9wait... are you serious? that was the dumbest answer i could think of, as i have never seen the show before, and it could be right? XD

At least it wasn't a typo caught after the title was finalized.


aka. Washu! ^O^