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Director
  
Noriyuki Abe

Adapted from
  
Bleach

Country
  
Japan

7.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Animation

Duration
  

Language
  
Japanese

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Release date
  
December 13, 2008 (2008-12-13)

Based on
  
Bleach  by Tite Kubo

Writer
  
Natsuko Takahashi (screenplay), Tite Kubo (manga)

Cast
  
Fumiko Orikasa
(Rukia Kuchiki),
Masakazu Morita
(Ichigo Kurosaki),
Kentaro Ito
(Renji Abarai),
Aya Hirano
(Homura),
Hiroshi Kamiya
(Shizuku),
Mitsuaki Madono
(Kon)

Characters
  
Ichigo Kurosaki (Masakazu Morita), Rukia Kuchiki (Fumiko Orikasa), Byakuya Kuchiki (Ryotaro Okiayu), Renji Abarai (Kentaro Ito), Toshiro Hitsugaya (Romi Park)

Similar movies
  
Manga movies, Animation

Bleach: Fade to Black (BLEACH Fade to Black 君の名を呼ぶ, Burīchi Fade to Black Kimi no Na o Yobu, Bleach: Fade to Black, I Call Your Name) is the third animated film adaptation of the anime and manga series Bleach. Directed by Noriyuki Abe, the film was released December 13, 2008 in Japan, later to be released in the US. The film's theme music was "Koyoi, Tsuki wa Miezu Tomo", performed by Porno Graffitti and its screenplay was written by Natsuko Takahashi, who is a screenwriter for the anime series. The DVD was released on September 30, 2009 in Japan, with additional footage of Ichigo, Rukia and Kon leaving for the World of the Living. The English dub was released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 15, 2011 in the United States and on May 28, 2012 in the United Kingdom.

Contents

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Plot

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In the Soul Society, Mayuri Kurotsuchi is attacked in his laboratory by a pair of mysterious siblings wielding a scythe that erases his memories, with only a few exceptions of what memories matter most. In a frightened panic, Kurotsuchi damages one of his machines and causing a massive reiatsu explosion that covers much of Soul Society in a milky layer of giant serpents made of a foamy materialistic type special spirit energy, killing and freezing many Soul Reapers, including Kenpachi Zaraki. Rukia Kuchiki is the next to be confronted and attacked by the siblings, erasing her memories and those of everybody that has memories of her, and is carried away to a rundown area of the Yukon District by the siblings. As they depart, seemingly everyone in the Soul Society has their memories of Rukia erased.

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In the real world, Ichigo Kurosaki briefly forgets Rukia but Kon, being a Modified Soul, is unaffected by the memory wipe and reminds him, and the point is further emphasised through a disturbing dream. Troubled, he and Kon go to Kisuke Urahara for information. He tells Urahara of the situation, but he does not remember Rukia despite having her listed as a customer at his shop. Ichigo and Kon travel to the Soul Society with all the captains disoriented and unable to remember Ichigo, believing him to be a threat. These included confrontation with Shuhei Hisagi, Renji Abarai and Sajin Komamura, even after Ichigo is forced to use his Hollow powers, but still no one remembers him and is branded an intruder by the captains of the Gotei 13. Meanwhile, Rukia wakes up in the Rukon District with no memory of being a Soul Reaper. The nameless siblings, a sister and a brother, remind Rukia that they used to be close friends living together and she was to give them names, although she has forgotten them. Ichigo is healed of his injuries by Hanatarō Yamada, who seems to have recalled healing him before. Ichigo then goes to Byakuya for help, but he does not remember Rukia either. After a direct confronting with Renji again, Byakuya directs Ichigo to his wife, Hisana's, birthplace, where they are briefly reunited with Rukia before the siblings flee with her from Ichigo and Kon.

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Ichigo and Kon are attacked again by other Soul Reapers Tōshirō Hitsugaya, Ikkaku Madarame and Yumichika Ayasegawa, but are saved by Renji Abarai, who follows his gut instinct to trust Ichigo. Commander-Captain Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto and other captains arrive to capture Ichigo, but Urahara arrives dressed in his old uniform when he was a captain prior to his exile. He sends Ichigo, Renji and Kon off to save Rukia, and explains to the anxious captains that he studied a parasitic Hollow which could erase memories with its scythe-like tentacle, but it escaped and appears to be influencing the siblings' actions to an extent. The siblings go to Kurotsuchi's lab in order to fully destroy the Soul Reapers with another spiritual machine of Kurotsuchi's, under the belief that the Soul Reapers were responsible for taking Rukia away from them when they were younger. Rukia suddenly objects to this, and Ichigo and Renji's arrival prompts her to remember them and her entire past, with both the siblings and her time as a Soul Reaper. The female sibling succumbs to rage, and she forces herself, her brother and Rukia to all fuse into one, creating "Dark Rukia". Dark Rukia, seemingly hollowified, unleashes the weapon upon Soul Society before battling Ichigo.

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The weapon takes the form of a giant, deformed monster, and the Soul Reapers fight against it, including Yoruichi Shihoin who had arrived with Urahara and a freed Kenpachi. Ichigo fights Dark Rukia and holds back initially to refrain from injuring her. Byakuya arrives and claims that he should be the one to finish this, but Ichigo intervenes and manages to free her with his own similar spirit energy, destroying the Hollow; Byakuya and Renji also destroy the monster. Rukia regains her memories, but the siblings are left mortally wounded, though they are regretful for their actions. Urahara arrives and explains that the Hollow attacked her and the siblings while controlling a Soul Reaper's body previously, but when the body was destroyed, the siblings trapped the Hollow in their bodies and were sent to Hueco Mundo for a time, managing to escape after a hundred years to reunite with Rukia because of their strong desire to be with her. Rukia tells the siblings their names, Homura and Shizuku, but the two die from their wounds, much to Rukia's despair. She sobs melancholy as rain begins to fall.

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Ichigo asks Rukia at the hill shrine where she previously visited before, about the shrines were made in remembrance of her childhood friends who died during adolescence due to poverty, reminding her that her memories of the siblings will not fade. Kon, who was frozen during the climactic battle, breaks free and cries out to not be forgotten by everyone, especially Rukia.

New Characters

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  • Dark Rukia (ダークルキア, Dāku Rukia)

  • Bleach: Fade to Black Bleach Fade to Black Wikipedia
    Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa, Aya Hirano, Hiroshi Kamiya (Japanese); Michelle Ruff (English)
    Dark Rukia is a Hollowfied form of Rukia created when Homura, enraged by Ichigo's attempts to restore Rukia's memory, wished to merge herself, Rukia, and Shizuku into a single being. The process ended when Ichigo infused Rukia with his reiatsu and she regained her memories.
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  • Homura

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    Voiced by: Aya Hirano (Japanese); Laura Bailey (English)
    Rukia and Shizuku's "sister". She and her brother died defending Rukia from a parasitic Hollow, but were revived by absorbing it into their bodies. She is able to grant any wish Rukia makes. She received her name after Rukia recovered her memories.
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  • Shizuku
  • Voiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya (Japanese); Richard Cansino (English)
    Rukia and Homura's "brother". He and his sister died defending Rukia from a parasitic Hollow, but were revived by absorbing it into their bodies.

    Novelization

    A full coloured novelization has been published.

    Reception

    The film opened in second or third place at the Japanese box office (sources vary) and held a top ten location until its fifth week.

    References

    Bleach: Fade to Black Wikipedia
    Bleach: Fade to Black IMDb Bleach: Fade to Black themoviedb.org