Bleach Chapter 569

Absolutely nobody can tell me that Bleach isn't about Rukia as well as Ichigo.
Her bankai name is Hakka no Togame, which roughly translates to "White Haze" + "Judgement/Reproach"
So basically: Bleach.

Can we just have a fucking shonen style manga with a female as its main character already?
Actually, Kill la Kill may just fit the bill.  It only took until 2013, but it is also superior on many other fronts, such as equal opportunity fan service, wicked soundtrack, and constantly dialling it up to 11.  Kill or be killed, ladies! (and gentlemen.  I'm not sexist)

Hold on to your trapper hat

Have y'all seen my girl Rukia being a total badass in Bleach chapter 566?
There is some hardcore Sternritter retribution coming and I am fangirling so hard.  If Renji won his fight with brute strength, I want to see Rukia win her fight with a combination of strategy, attitude, possibly some magics and a touch of sweet, sweet vengeance.

I am feeling the winter gear, Rukia: it is snowing every other day over here.

Still here, still alive. Still hopin, still shippin

Just a doodle, "The Ecstasy of Kurosaki Ichigo"
Based on Bernini's sculpture Ecstasy of Saint Teresa for all you art history nerds out there.

Anyone....?
Fine I will go back to comparing Bleach moments to religious art all by myself then (it is a lonely world)

It's my blog and I will ship IchiRuki if I want to

They are kissing in my sketchbook :O

Anime nerd meet Fashion nerd

High Fashion: Bleach

Evening dress collection inspired by characters from Bleach.
Watercolor, color pencil and ink.

When I went to fashion school I didn't really fit in anywhere.  I loved illustration and actually making clothes: material buying, sewing, handwork, the whole bit.  But I sucked at pattern grading, terminology and complying with industry standards.  Creativity was utterly stifled.  My business classes were a joke.  All that for a ridiculous tuition.

But that year I attended the university's anime club.  For $5 a month you could sit in on weekly 3 hour screenings of fansubbed anime projected on a big screen in one of the auditoriums.   And that's the first time I saw Bleach. (2005)  When the first season's punchy, stylish, kinetic opening set to Asterisk's "Orange Range" hit my ears and eyes, I was hooked.  I promptly went to the nearest bookstore and bought the first 4 volumes of manga (luckily for me, manga sections in big book stores were beginning to explode at around that time).  I went back for more each week until I was caught up.
That was also the same year I got into Death Note.  Other big names come and go but none of them quite hit all the notes for me like Bleach does, especially when clothing is used within the story to express concepts, character development and ideas.

Eight years later, Bleach still inspires me when fashion doesn't.

memento mori

My mortality tattoo design.  Time flies, beauty is fleeting, etc etc.  There is so much personal symbolism and meaning embedded into this design that when I look at it I get that super-hyper-anxious feeling that I need it tattooed NOW NOW NOW.

I admire the hell out of sugar skull-painted girl tattoos but was never sure if they would suit me, or if I was badass enough to rock one.  But then I realized: why the hell not?!
My only regret with my current tattoos is that I did not go bigger and better.  So I might as well start somewhere.

Wondered briefly if I would regret having Rukia tattooed on me, but my husband brought up a good point: "You will never stop loving anime".  It's true :)
And outside of a Bleach reference, people will see a tattoo of fierce, short-haired asian woman with sugar skull makeup, on a fierce, short-haired asian woman.
That's not going to change :)

Will hopefully have this on my right thigh by the end of the year.  Biggest tattoo yet.

Chigo & Ruki Ruki

I am particularly proud of how this came out.  And I got to draw a hookah.

Alternate universe!  This couple is canon wherever they may be.
Didn't you love how they would make entire filler episodes based on Kubo's color spread art or pencil doodles?  :P

This again...

Just a reminder that I ship IchiRuki... in sexual ways.
Self-indulgent nekkid drawings result.

Not-quite-SFW behind the cut

Bleach RPG-style

Yeah, so this just happened. (why do I do all my best drawing between midnight and 2 am?)
From left to right: White Mage, Barbarian, Dark Mage, Paladin, Ranger, Monk.  The adventure practically writes itself.

Been watching Game of Thrones and the Lord of the Rings movies (director's cut/extended version all the way!) as of late and reminiscing about D&D and the Final Fantasy games when they were good.  Just can't get enough of that pseudo-medieval fantasy RPG style.

Just looking at this picture makes me want to write up stats for the dream team and storm a dungeon with them.  That may have been the nerdiest thing I have ever admitted.

Uryu....

Someone needs to tell Uryu that if he is planning a double-cross, he needs to make sure Bach doesn't know about recent pop culture.
I would cry for days if he pulled a Severus Snape.
O_____________O YEAH HARRY POTTER REFERENCE.  I JUST WENT THERE.

....sorry.
I'm gonna put this out there cause it's my blog- I hope Orihime is gonna be the one who brings him back to the good side.

my one and possibly only fanfic

Behind Closed Doors, begun Feb 2013, completed May 2013.

Summary: Rukia thinks she's alone and focuses on her desires for a change. Ichigo finds out. It's the start of something new, but there are many factors against them. Love doesn't come without consequence, but it is worthwhile nevertheless. Set in two parts: pre- and post- Thousand Year Blood War arc. 

Contains LEMON and is rated M for mature readers only.  

Genre: Romance, Drama and Smut.
Words: approx 40,000
Chapters: 8

Like so many other fanfics, it contains my personal interpretation about how their relationship would progress once it got physical (if Bleach was a hentai, maybe :P)
Also a lot of my personal headcanon, i.e: how Orihime's character would be better if she managed to get over Ichigo, pro-IshiHime, Central 46 being bureaucratic dickbags (Soul Society's government is messed up, guys), and Ichigo being a young adult with hormones.
Some of it was simply created by the urge to circumvent the cliches out there (am I the only one who thinks Ichigo would not make a great division captain?  And that he's not just going to stay in Soul Society and that will be the HAPPIEST ENDING) ...and to give Rukia a more balanced role of career ambition/personal responsibility and not just want to pop out kids.  Fuuuuuck.

I'm happy it's out there.  I'm happy I did it but I'm also happy it's done.  You won't see much writing from me for a while :P

Oh yeah, and manga chapter 537? Omigod, Kubo.

Thank you for this face. DAT FACE. Shit, I'm freaking out about how grown up Ichigo looks.

I got a few things wrong in my Masaki theory post because Kubo.
What I knew for sure:  Masaki could have easily defeated Grand Fisher, but Juha Bach did sort of kill her indirectly.  It's simply a good reason for Ichigo to get involved on a personal level.
Hear that Quincy King?  You just made shit personal.

It wasn't a surprise to see Uryu doing the 'betrayal' thing but it still made my heart sink.  I have no doubt that he has ulterior motives but of course it's going to be dragged out forever again.
Did you do it for the uniforms, Uryu?  I don't blame you.  Dude looks like a GQMF.

Bleach theory re: Masaki

WHOA you guys.  WHOA.  I just realized something about Masaki Kurosaki.  (Ichigo's mother)

Spoilers up to chapter 530

Death of a Shinigami

Dead or just unconscious?  You never know with Ichigo...

So.  I'm a little worried that Ichigo will never be a shinigami again.  R.I.P. Zangetsu.  Who knows when we will see him again?!?

This drawing was modeled off of Michaelangelo's 'Pieta'.  I'm not saying that Ichigo is Jesus but maybe I am.

Another Manga Edit

Lyrics: "Dark Paradise", Lana Del Ray

Bleach: Chapter 423

Fact: If you replace the text in these two pages with Lana Del Ray lyrics, you will cry.

I've been cycling her albums on repeat as I write fanfic. 

I think it would be a good combo for a disgustingly melancholy AMV.

Aizen vs Urahara: Bleach/Sherlock mashup

Yes, you read that title correctly.
Because I just find it fitting.  They are the master manipulators of this story.
How many pieces does Aizen still have on the board?? How many does Urahara??
Is Ichigo one of them?

Manga panels from Bleach, chapter 315.
Quotes from Sherlock (UK) TV series, season 2, episode 3 "The Reichenbach Fall"
(the exchange is between Sherlock and Moriarty, btw)

Manga edit by me.  Because I'm insane.

IshiHime... i do what i want

If anyone notices that this was inspired by the running joke in Guillory/Layman's "Chew" (Image Comics), you win a GIANT INTERNET COOKIE.

Ahhahahaaahaaa. Had to/wanted to draw it. No apologies.

IshiHime is not totally convincing but I love these two characters.  Uryu's crush on Hime is adorable.  Until their characters are developed more (i.e: Orihime gets over Ichigo, preferably in a very self-confident, sick of one-sided relationship way) nothing is going to move forward. 

I am going to say something that is going to get me internet murdered, but I don't get UlquiHime.  *ducks*

It has inspired some really smoking hot fanart, that is truth.

But Ulquiorra is dead.  Dead and gone.  

I don't deny that Ulquiorra might have fallen in love.  (but this is a shounen manga so any romantic developments have to be KILLED PRONTO)

Orihime was sad when it happened but she didn't mourn afterwards.  She went right back to doting on Ichigo.

If you have been keeping up with the manga up to Chapter 528 and want to know my thoughts, please

Ichigo Kurosaki v.s: The World

This is my most favorite Bleach crossover vid EVEEERRRRRR.
Masterfully done and shows true fandom of source material <3
Also IchiRuki FTW, duh


  omg Rukia Flowers you dated like three Espada?

IchiRukiHime: Fetish edition

Yup... this is how I view their relationship sometimes.

Not explicit.... but slightly NSFW

the Kurosaki family

A cute, fluffy scenario that gives me the feels.
ICHIGO! WHEN YOUR DAD CALLS A GIRL YOU BRING HOME HIS 'THIRD DAUGHTER' YOU OUGHT TO KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS
These two.  Shipped so, so much and so obviously.  I can't even.

If none of you have tried drawing Isshin before, I highly recommend it.
PS: If Karin turns out to be half as badass as her brother Karakura town will be safe forever and ever.  We will be watching your career with great interest.

Rukia + Freaks on a leash

Don't get tangled, boys

I love drawing fun, cracked out Rukia-centric things you guys.  I luuurve it.
This slightly sketchy style is closest to my regular drawing style.