A Bleach album featuring Rukia...and Byakuya! It's about time!

In the words of Hiro Nakamura, “やった!!” The first ever Bleach Beat Collection CD, 4th Session #1, featuring the Captain of Squad Six, Byakuya Kuchiki, along with Rukia, came in the mail a couple of days ago! I was so happy when I opened it! The CD isn’t actually what I was expecting, but it’s worth it. The CD contains 4 tracks: 夜空の川, 天の星, Listen to ONE story, and a “talk session” with Byakuya and Rukia’s voice actors, or Seiyuu, Ryotaro Okiayu (Byakuya) and Fumiko Orikasa (Rukia), which is something like the Bleach “B” Station CDs with “radio interviews” with the character’s Seiyuu.

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The first Bleach movie, “Memories of Nobody”, was acquired by Viz for a North American release in theaters his Summer and on DVD in the Winter. The second Bleach movie, “The Diamond Dust Rebellion”, is no longer in theaters in Japan and DVD release is assumed to be “around the corner”, thanks to a certain group of fans (hint: “Believe it!” in Japanese) we all know and don’t love. While we are waiting for the next Bleach movie to be released, let’s speculate, shall we? ^_^

Warning: May contain mild spoilers.

I do not exactly know when the next Bleach movie will be released, but we’re due for an announcement. The fifth Naruto film got the thumbs up for a summer release…what about us Bleachers? The Diamond Dust Rebellion will probably get a DVD release around the same time Memories of Nobody came out, which was in September of 2007. In the second movie, it focuses on Captain of Squad 10, Toshirou Hitsugaya. The first movie had the camera on Ichigo the whole time, of course, seeing that the lead characters get all the attention in the first movie of a series…

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That’s right…Byakuya can sing! How is this possible?! It’s all about Bleach Soul Sonic. It’s a live, radio-style drama featuring the Seiyuu of Bleach. Many of the recordings are parodies of episodes, like this video featuring Byakuya and his Seiyuu, Ryotaro Okiayu, on the career of an Enka singer…

A reminder to Byakuya fans girls: tomorrow is his birthday! Happy Birthday, Captain Kuchiki! ^_^