Colourful Bleach

The Colourful Bleach was a series of two page Bleach chapters that were serialised in V-Jump on a monthly basis for a period of two years starting circa summer 2005 and ending sometime in 2007. The series was discontinued by Tite Kubo due to time pressure with promises of continued production should circumstances change. The chapters were collected in a Tankowbon around July 2007, with the advertising for it appearing in Bleach manga chapter 285.

These chapters generally concerned the daily lives of the Gotei 13 Shinigami but a few did feature non-Gotei 13 characters such as Ganju Shiba and the Kurosaki family. The Colourful Bleach chapters often broke the forth wall by incorporating such things as the Jump Fiesta, as well as Bleach video games. The Shinigami Women's Association and it's members featured heavily in the chapters. Many of the Colourful Bleach stories have been animated as end of episode gags in the anime.

Story Arcs
While many of the Colourful Bleach chapters were self contained, it did feature stories that spanned multiple chapters to become something of an arc. There were four such arcs.

The first concerned the creation of a game about the Gotei 13 that spanned two chapters and featured ideas for a video game as put forward by each of the squads. The second arc involved attempts by the Shinigami Women's Association to raise funds by creating trading cards based on the Captains and Vice-captains of the Gotei 13. This arc went for seven chapters.

The third arc also went for seven chapters and involved the Shinigami Women's Association led drive to have Gotei 13 stalls at the Jump Fiesta because Ise Nanao wanted to make the living world youngsters spiritual slaves of the Gotei 13. The last arc spanned for two chapters, which were also the last chapters in the series, involved the Shinigami Men's Association attempting to design a manly cellphone for the benefit of the modern male shinigami. This was also chronologically the first time the Shinigami Men's Association was introduced.