Thursday, June 10, 2010

4-1: Weekly Written Analysis 4


For this week analysis I m going to continue on the super hero theme and introduce a Managa character I enjoy following. Since last year, my husband has introduced me to the Manga Bleach series by Tide Kubo. The main Character of this series is Ichigo Kurosaki. He is portrait as the ultimate defender of Karakura town.

This Manga covers the story of a normal fifteen old teenager boy who lost his mom at an early age. While growing up, he discovered his ability to see and communicate with spirituals. After being in contact with so many spiritual, he has awaken energy within himself and made his soul exposed to the evil hollows who want to absorb his delicious soul. At the same time, he was introduced to a Soul Reapers (death god) Rukia Kuchiki who transferred almost all of her Shinigami powers in order to protect Ichigo and his family against the hollows that attacked him. With his new power, Ichigo has gained enormous extermination powers and become a Soul Reapers to protect his town and help all spirituals beings cross over to the Social Society where souls live after death.

Rukia Kuchiki as a result lost all her powers and become a normal human that guide Ichigo through his quest to defend the town. However, with her transferring her powers to a mortal human, she was called back to Social Society and condemned to death for her forbidden action. Ichigo has changed his quest to rescue Rukia and transport her back to Karakura town. In his new quest, he has to battle with captain level Soul Reapers (Shinigami) who are far stronger than himself. For that reason he has to train himself to overpass their powers. Therefore, he achieved a Bankai level that only captain level Shinigamies can attend. As a result he was able to rescue Rukia to only discover that the reason of her execution was to unseal the Hukuko powers. Those powers were to be used by Captain Aizen a formal Shinigami captain to break the barrier between Shinigamies and Hollows and create a more powerful species: the Espada. In addition, Aizen want to use all the hundred thousand human souls from Kurakura town to create the King key and destroy Social society as a whole.

Moreover, Ichigo has united with his former enemies from Social Society to rescue the two worlds and save all innocents lives from Aizen evil plans. He has conducted himself into intensive training with the help of his town friends and become aware of the hollowfication process with which he becomes a dual Hollow and Shinigami.

The series is still is published weekly every Thursday since 2001. In this week episode Ichigo has entered the final battle with Aizen to discover that the former captain’s power is a way superior to himself. Finally, after his dad’s speech of how he can be sorry for not trying to save his town, his friends, and his family if Aizen successes with the execution of his plans. Ichigo has gain strength and decide to enter the battle with all he got till the end.

I am still waiting on how Ichigo can strategize the battle on his favor and save the world from an ultimate destruction. He always gain his strength from wanting to protect his friends and loved ones, and I m sure that he will manage to achieve piece once more in Social Society and Kurarkura Town.

Reference:
Kubo, T (2010). Bleach. Jump Commics. Volume 1-10. Sheisha. Japan

1 comment:

  1. I really enjoyed your hero analysis! I have actually never heard of Manga, but I definity want to learn more! Manga's creation seems very interesting and his battle to save the world is intense. A superhero is always looking out for their family and friends and thay is definitely what Magna is doing!

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