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76 free Bleach trivia questions with answers. A Bleach trivia quiz for anyone who has followed Ichigo Kurosaki from the night Rukia handed him her powers to the final chapter's ten-year time skip. The questions cover the manga's 74 volumes and the anime's 366 episodes: the Soul Society rescue and the Sokyoku, Aizen's betrayal and Kyoka Suigetsu, the Vizards, the Espada in Hueco Mundo, Yhwach's Wandenreich in Thousand-Year Blood War, plus the four animated films, the 2018 live-action movie, Burn the Witch and Brave Souls. Easy questions ask which studio animated the show and what animal Yoruichi turns into. The hard ones want the length of Gin's Bankai, the architect behind Grimmjow's name and the Tokyo district that hosted the first Bleach rock musical. Difficulty runs from casual-viewer to volume-74 completionist, so it works as a solo test, a group-chat challenge or a round at an anime night. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its characters, seasons and films, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01In which magazine was Bleach serialized from 2001 to 2016?
Weekly Shonen Jump
Bleach shared the magazine with One Piece and Naruto for its whole run, and the three were marketed together as Jump's 'Big Three'.
Q 02How many tankobon volumes does the complete Bleach manga run to?
74
Those 74 volumes collect 698 chapters, ending with a ten-year time skip and the next generation of Kurosakis and Abarais.
Q 03What was the working title of the early Bleach concept in which Soul Reapers used guns?
Snipe
The gun idea was dropped after the one-shot, but the name Bleach was chosen partly because it was less obvious than 'Black' or 'White'.
Q 04Which manga legend wrote Kubo a letter of encouragement after Bleach's original pitch was rejected?
Akira Toriyama
The Dragon Ball creator's note reached Kubo at a low point, right after his first series had been cancelled, and Bleach was picked up soon after.
Q 05Which earlier series by the same author was cancelled shortly before he pitched Bleach?
Zombiepowder
It managed only 27 chapters, and its cancellation is the reason Bleach's first pitch landed on an editor's desk at all.
Q 06Which animation studio produced the Bleach anime?
Pierrot
The same studio handled Naruto, giving it both halves of the mid-2000s Jump boom, and it returned a decade later for the sequel series.
Q 07How many episodes did the original Bleach anime run for between 2004 and 2012?
366
The run ended without adapting the manga's final arc, which is why the story sat unfinished on screen for a full decade.
Q 08Which band's single 'Asterisk' served as the anime's first opening theme?
Orange Range
The single went straight to number one in Japan and stayed in the top 20 for 22 weeks.
Q 09In which year did Adult Swim begin airing Bleach in the United States?
2006
It debuted on September 10 of that year and stayed on the block until November 2014, outlasting the Japanese broadcast by more than two years.
Q 10Which prize did Bleach win in the shonen category in 2005?
Shogakukan Manga Award
The prize carries a rival publisher's name but is open to every house, and Bleach took the shonen category in the award's 50th year.
Q 11How many copies of the Bleach manga were in circulation worldwide by 2022?
Over 130 million
That total places it among the best-selling manga ever, behind One Piece and Naruto but ahead of most of the Jump catalogue.
Q 12In what year did the Bleach manga end its run?
2016
The final chapter arrived on August 22, and the missing final arc did not reach television until 2022.
Q 13Which anime-only race, the focus of the fourth season, consumes human souls to extend their lives?
The Bount
Their leader Jin Kariya wanted revenge on Soul Society, and each of them fought through a summoned Doll rather than a sword.
Q 21Byakuya Kuchiki's Zanpakuto Senbonzakura literally means 'a thousand' what?
Cherry blossoms
Its blade dissolves into countless petal-like fragments, which is why fights against it look like a pink blizzard.
Q 22Byakuya Kuchiki is the 28th head of the Kuchiki clan, one of how many great noble families?
Four
He broke clan rules twice: marrying a commoner from Inuzuri, and then adopting her sister into the family.
Q 23How did Kenpachi Zaraki take command of the 11th Division?
He killed his predecessor in a duel
It is the only division where the job can be taken by force, and Zaraki did it without even knowing his sword's name.
Q 14Who composed the music for the Bleach anime?
Shiro Sagisu
The Evangelion composer gave the show its Spanish guitar and choral cues, and returned for the sequel series.
Q 15Which manga did Kubo cite as a major influence, Shigeru Mizuki's tale of a one-eyed yokai boy?
GeGeGe no Kitaro
The other big influence he names is Saint Seiya, which explains a lot about the armour and the ranked warriors.
Q 16In which Japanese prefecture was Bleach creator Tite Kubo born?
Hiroshima
Kubo, whose real given name is Noriaki, was born there in June 1977.
Q 17What is the name of the Zanpakuto belonging to the Soul Reaper who gave Ichigo her powers?
Sode no Shirayuki
Its name means 'sleeved white snow', and it is often called the most beautiful Zanpakuto in Soul Society.
Q 18For what crime is Rukia sentenced to death in the Soul Society arc?
Giving her powers to a human
The sentence was quietly engineered by Aizen, who wanted an object hidden inside her gigai far more than he wanted her dead.
Q 19What is the name of Rukia and Renji's daughter, seen in the epilogue?
Ichika
She turns up in the final chapter as a small, loud Soul Reaper who has clearly inherited her father's manners.
Q 20What is Renji Abarai's segmented, whip-like Zanpakuto called?
Zabimaru
In Bankai it becomes a giant skeletal serpent, and its inner spirit is a baboon with a snake for a tail.
Q 24What does Kenpachi Zaraki's eyepatch actually do?
Absorbs most of his power
He wears it so opponents last longer; removing it is the moment every Kenpachi fight turns lopsided.
Q 25Kenpachi's surname, Zaraki, is taken from what?
The lawless area where he grew up
It was District 80 of Rukongai, the most violent of them all, and he left it as a nameless child.
Q 26Kenpachi finally learns his Zanpakuto's name after a duel with Unohana. What is it?
Nozarashi
The name translates as 'weather-beaten one', fitting for a blade that had been swung for a century without ever being asked its name.
Q 27Which Zanpakuto was voted the most popular in the series?
Hyorinmaru
The ice dragon belongs to the 10th Division's captain, whose Bankai turns him into a young adult when it reaches full power.
Q 28In the early-2008 popularity poll, which character displaced Ichigo as the series' most popular?
Toshiro Hitsugaya
The youngest captain in Soul Society's history was popular enough to be handed his own feature film that same period.
Q 29What does Kanzen Saimin, the ability of Aizen's Zanpakuto Kyoka Suigetsu, translate to?
Complete Hypnosis
Anyone who has seen its release even once can be deceived at will, which is how Aizen fooled every captain for a century.
Q 30Aizen arranged Rukia's execution to obtain which object hidden inside her gigai?
The Hogyoku
It was Urahara's creation, and Aizen later embedded it in his own body to trigger a chain of transformations.