Bleach One-Shot: No Breaths from Hell, 20th Anniversary Special (Manga Review)

This review does contain some spoilers for the Bleach manga and the No Breaths from Hell one-shot.The Bleach manga, by Tite Kubo, initially ended back in 2016 after a 15-year run. With well over 600 chapters, it was one of the biggest shonen manga series of the 2000s and early 2010s. It certainly had a massive following! So, with the 20th anniversary approaching, it was really exciting to see that a one-shot was released that picks up two years after the ending of the original manga.With the final chapter of the manga presenting us with a time skip that took main characters like Ichigo Kurosaki, Orihime Inoue, and Rukia Kuchiki into the future, the No Breaths from Hell one-shot offers 73 pages of catching up and new soul reaper concerns.Bleach One-Shot Gets Right into ItWhile the one-shot does initially pick up with Ichigo and Orihime’s son, Kazui, before shifting over to Rukia and Renji’s daughter, Ichika, it does a good job of balancing out these new characters with a number of chara...