Bleach Wiki:Volume Summary Project

This is a Policy & Standards Committee project that aims to provide the summaries for Manga chapters currently lacking such summaries. This is the successor of the Volume a week club and works on the same principles.

How to Participate
If you want to participate in this project just claim a chapter from either the main volume or the alternative volume below by putting your name next to the chapter and list the status as incomplete. When you have finished adding the summary for the chapter, just change the status to complete. Once all the chapters are done, we can move on to the next volume. The goal would be to get one volume done per week. But of course if it is done sooner then we'll move on to the next volume sooner. Of course, if you are done with your chapter and want to do another one (that hasn't been claimed yet) then you can do so. But remember! This is suppose to be fun and not stressful! So if you claim a chapter but find that the week has become busy, just unclaim it and don't worry about it.

Also, you do not have to be a committee member to participate. However, please be aware the committee members will be reading over all summaries, including those by other committee members, for quality assurance purposes. This is all for the sake of making the summaries the best they can be for the benefit of all wiki users.

Suggested Article Guidelines
These are some friendly suggestions to keep in mind when writing summaries and they are also things that might be helpful if you writing a chapter summary for the very first time. They are also designed to comply with wiki best practice.

This section is a work in progress. Please feel free to add your own suggestions, tips and tricks.

1. Please keep in mind that this is a wiki and so please do not speculate when writing the chapter summary. Just describe things as they unfold, and when in doubt, go for neutral tone and wording.

2. The chapter summary is not suppose to be a substitute for actually reading the chapter. As such, there is no need to give minute details of everything that's happening. Remember, it is a summary only.

3. Links - please consider providing one where you think that the reader of the summary might want more information on either a character or a term.

4. Adding Chapter covers - as we go through the volume, you will find that come chapters are missing the chapter cover. Chapter covers should be thumbnail of 190px and left aligned. If the chapter does not have a cover but does have a page where the chapter number is visible, that page can be used as a chapter cover. If in doubt about which page to use as a cover, for chapters that do not have a clearly identifiable chapter cover, then leave it be and flag the issue in the discussion for input.

Chapter Cover Licensing
In line with the new Image Policy, all chapter covers must have licensing information affixed to them. The following example is taken from chapter 386. Most covers currently do not have the license affixed.

== Summary ==

Volumes with all covers with licences
Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 21, 22, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42

Cross-linking to Episodes
Per the discussion on the talk page, it would be beneficial if the is link from the manga to the anime episode that contains elements of the story. Important point to remember, some chapters have been animated multiple times. The one that comes to mind is chapter 0.Side B which was first animated in a sequence of flashbacks in episode 109 and then again as part of episode 227 (this time the entire episode was a flashback episode).

Volumes with links
Volume 1, 17, 36, 37

Completed Issues Summary

 * Volume Layout - all volume pages should now have the same layout
 * Bleach All Star consistency - the Bleach All Star's template was changed and should now be more consistent and hopefully not overlapping with the info box for the majority of browsers and users
 * Chapter Cover Images - all volume pages now have title cover pictures for each chapter

Access to Online Chapters
Mostly for the "anime only" fans who might want to help us out but not know where to read the chapters to summarise. Here are the links to places you can read Bleach online.


 * One Manga
 * Bleach Exile
 * Read Bleach

Current Volume of the Week
Volume 11: A Star and a Stray Dog

089. Masterly! And Farewell! — Yyp  *complete*

090. See You Under a Firework

091. KING OF FREISCHÜTZ -- Tinni  *complete*

092. Masterly! And Farewell! [Reprise] -- Tinni  *complete*

093. Steer For the Star

094. Gaol Named Remorse

095. CRUSH -- Tinni  *complete*

096. BLOODRED CONFLICT -- Tinni  *incomplete*

097. Talk About Your Fear

098. 星と野良犬

Projected Finish Date: Jan. 15th, 2010

Alternative volume
This is to encourage other editors who might be more familiar with recent chapters to jump in and start writing summaries.

Suspending Alternative volume for a little while.

Finished Volumes

 * 1. The Death and the Strawberry - completed previously by Ichigo kurosaki1979, Ancient Chaos, Twocents


 * 2. Goodbye Parakeet, Goodnite My Sista - completed previously by Tinni


 * 3. memories in the rain - completed by Tinni  and  Twocents


 * 4. Quincy Archer Hates You - completed by Tinni,  Yyp  and  Twocents


 * 5. Rightarm of the Giant - completed by Tinni ] and  Twocents


 * 6. The Death Trilogy Overture - completed by Tinni,  Yyp  and  Twocents


 * 7. The Broken Coda - completed by Tinni  and  Twocents


 * 8. The Blade and Me - completed by Tinni  and  Yyp


 * 9. Fourteen Days for Conspiracy - completed by Tinni,  Twocents   and  Yyp


 * 10. Tattoo on the Sky - completed by Tinni  and  Twocents


 * 36. Turn Back The Pendulum - completed by Yyp


 * 37. Beauty is so Solitary - completed by Yyp


 * 38. Fear for Fight - completed by  Tinni  and  Yyp


 * 39. El Verdugo - previously completed by IchigoKitty


 * 40. The Lust - previously completed by IchigoKitty


 * 41. Heart - previously completed by IchigoKitty


 * 42. Shock of the Queen - previously completed by Agate genbu, Bttb333, and IchigoKitty

User Comments
Yahoo! Volume 1 to 10 now will all summaries! Thanks Yyp for finishing up the alternative volume. Thanks Twocents for working on the regular volume, awesome job as always. I have put up a new alternative volume and move the current volume to volume 11. This time the deadline is until the end of the year because well it's a season to be jolly and so I doubt very much volume summary writing will be done. Anyway, once again, great job and we are getting there! Tinni  (Talk)  15:41, December 15, 2009 (UTC)

Yup, making good progress considering there are only really 2 and a half regular contributors (me being the half). I don't know how many of these I'll be able to do over the next few weeks, but I'll get a couple of chapters done whenever I can. I won't claim any until I'm actually starting to write it, in case I end up not doing it. I'll see about adding some more of the chapter covers too. -- Yyp  (Talk)  18:54, December 15, 2009 (UTC)

The Turn Back The Pendulum chapters are summarized on the Turn Back The Pendulum Mini-Series page, but they need to be corrected before any more of them are added. It's a bit more work than I expected, so I'll deal with it later on. But once they're fixed, they can be used. Some of them might be alright, but some of them definitely need work. -- Yyp  (Talk)  12:14, December 28, 2009 (UTC)


 * That's great! If they can be worked in with minor adjustments then that would finish off volume 36 with minimum effort. Which will be great. In fact, I'll put volume 36 in the list as a "special" issue and copy over the summaries word for word for now with the status *needs checking and correcting*. How about that? Tinni   (Talk)  12:23, December 28, 2009 (UTC)


 * Sure. Chapter -99 is rather short (I haven't checked, maybe that is all that can be written about it), and others need some wording improved and I already took out some speculation, but they should be fine to use. -- Yyp  (Talk)  12:30, December 28, 2009 (UTC)

I am increasing the time for all projects just because I can't really work on any more summaries until next Monday. Twocents is away and with the New Year around the corner everybody is likely to be too busy and there is a lot of small tedious things that also needs to be done. But on the upside, we are still making great progress all things considered. Tinni  (Talk)  06:12, December 29, 2009 (UTC)

Minor milestone reached: I've just added the chapter cover images for volume 17, as well as a couple of chapters (mainly special ones) that were missing them. So that means that we now have images for all of them. Thanks to all those who have helped with adding the pictures (Tinni, Twocents, IchigoKitty, Logeys, Ju gatsu mikka, and anyone else I might have missed). -- Yyp  (Talk)  18:53, January 4, 2010 (UTC)

Those Turn Back the Pendulum chapters are turning out to be a lot of work. I think I've almost completely rewritten the ones I've got done so far (-108 to -103). I should be done with vol36 today and then I can unlock it. I'll sort out the other 3 chapters after that (though I won't lock that page). -- Yyp  (Talk)  12:19, January 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Yyp. I'll take care of editing Patrick Espada's summaries. So don't worry about those. I'll edit his summaries after completing the 322 summary. Thanks again. Tinni   (Talk)  12:36, January 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Volume 36 is done and protection has been removed. I'll do the other three during the week. I think I already rewrote one of them when I discovered them, so hopefully it shouldn't take too long to sort the remainder out once I get around to it. Also, I'm "unclaiming" Six Hearts Will Beat As One, as I don't know if I'll get it done. -- Yyp  (Talk)  20:37, January 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Great job Yyp! I just finished reworking Patrick Espada's summaries. Almost all of it was unusable. I think by the end only one line of his original summary was left. I also got the impression that he might have wrote the summaries based on the anime because he mentioned Omaeda panicing about the pillars being destroyed but in the manga he did no such thing. Nor did the hollow manage to do any damage to the pillars before they were disposed. In the anime they did chip the pillars before the four shinigami stepped-in. I'll complete the remaining two chapters in that volume later today. Take your time fixing up the three remaining turn back the pendulum arc chapters. We are still making good progress! Tinni   (Talk)  03:19, January 11, 2010 (UTC)

Extremely minor milestone, but just drawing your attention to the fact that all volumes WITH summaries now also have licenses affixed to the chapter covers. So from now on, as we do next volumes, we'll just have to make sure that the chapter covers have the licences as we are doing the summaries. Tinni  (Talk)  12:21, January 11, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Yyp! Great job! I have suspended the alternative volume for a little while because 36 and 37 were done this time. Will resume the alternative volume once we have moved from volume 11 to 12. But we are getting there! Tinni  (Talk)  16:14, January 12, 2010 (UTC)