Bleach Wiki:Volume Summary Project

This is a Policy &amp; 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.

Contribution Box
Those who participate in the project may choose to use the following contribution box on their userpage. If you wish to use it, you can use it using the command

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 title consistency
Chapter titles have to be checked to make sure that,
 * 1) Chapter titles correspond to how they were listed in the volume (not the weekly Shonen Jump release)


 * 1) Titles originally given in Japanese are listed in Japanese


 * 1) The translation of Japanese titles are presented in a consistent manner

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 → 22, 34 → 43

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
 * Characters in Order of Appearance - all volume pages now have the characters listed in order of appearance
 * Cross-linking to Episodes - all chapters that have been animated now have links to the episode(s) they were featured in

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 19: The Black Moon Rising

159. LONG WAY TO SAY GOODBYE -- Tinni  and Agate genbu *Complete*

160. Battle On Guillotine Hill -- TheDevilHand888 *Complete*

161. Scratch the Sky -- TheDevilHand888 *Complete*

162. Black Moon Rising -- TheDevilHand888 *Complete*

163. THE Speed Phantom 2 [Denial by Pride, Contradiction by Power] -- TheDevilHand888 *Complete*

164. The One Who Change the World -- Agate genbu *Complete*

165. Dark Side of Universe 2 -- TheDevilHand888 *Complete*

166. Black & White 2 -- Tinni  and Agate genbu *Complete*

167. Death Chamber -- DeliManjoo *complete*

168. Behind Me, Behind You -- DeliManjoo and Agate genbu *Complete*

Projected Finish Date: Feb. 28th, 2010

Special volume
Let's complete the Soul Society Arc!

Volume 20: end of hypnosis

-12.5. Blooming Under a Cold Moon -- previously completed by Twocents

169. end of hypnosis -- Tinni  and Agate genbu *Complete*

170. end of hypnosis2 [the Galvanizer] -- TheDevilHand888 *Complete*

171. end of hypnosis3 [the Blue Fog] -- TheDevilHand888 *Complete*

172. end of hypnosis4 [Prisoners in Paradise] -- TheDevilHand888 *Complete*

173. end of hypnosis5 [Standing to Defend You] -- TheDevilHand888 *Complete*

174. end of hypnosis6 [The United Front] -- Tinni  and Agate genbu *Complete*

175. end of hypnosis7 [Truth Under My Strings] — Yyp  *complete*

176. end of hypnosis8 [the Transfixion] — Yyp  and Agate genbu *Complete*

177. end of hypnosis9 [Completely Encompass] -- Tinni  and Agate genbu *Complete*

178. end of hypnosis10 [No One Stand On the Sky] -- DeliManjoo and Agate genbu *Complete*

Projected Finish Date: Feb. 28th, 2010

List of partially completed volumes
These are volumes that have one or more chapters that were written outside of the project.
 * 24. Immanent God Blues - one chapter written but will probably have to be rewritten - Rewritten by UltraSaint4121
 * 26. The Mascaron Drive - one chapter
 * 29. The Slashing Opera - one chapter
 * 30. There Is No Heart Without You - four chapter, all written by User:Saru_Lunarjack333, who has expressed the desired to finish the volume

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


 * 11. A Star and a Stray Dog - completed by Tinni,  Yyp  and DeliManjoo


 * 12. Flower on the Precipice - completed by Tinni  and DeliManjoo, with  Twocents  having previously completed chapter 0.8


 * 13. The Undead - completed by Tinni  and DeliManjoo


 * 14. White Tower Rocks - completed by Tinni  and DeliManjoo


 * 15. Beginning of the Death of Tomorrow - completed by Tinni  and DeliManjoo, with  Twocents  having previously completed chapter -17 and Gran Danku having previously contributed to chapter 129.


 * 16. Night of Wijnruit - completed by TheDevilHand888, DeliManjoo and Tinni


 * 17. Rosa Rubicundior, Lilio Candidior - completed by TheDevilHand888, DeliManjoo and Tinni


 * 18. The Deathberry Returns - completed by TheDevilHand888, DeliManjoo and Tinni


 * 34. King of The Kill - completed by TheDevilHand888


 * 35. Higher Than The Moon - completed by UltraSaint4121, TheDevilHand888, Yyp  and  Tinni


 * 36. Turn Back The Pendulum - completed by Yyp


 * 37. Beauty is so Solitary - completed by Tinni  and  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


 * 43. Kingdom of Hollows - previously completed by Ancient Chaos, IchigoKitty, Ceronoble117 and Tinni

User Comments
Ok, thanks to help from DeliManjoo, volume 11 is finally finished! Yay! Now on to volume 12 and resuming the alternative volume with volume 35! Tinni  (Talk)  06:14, January 22, 2010 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, every chapter now has its "Characters in Order of Appearance" section filled out, so I'm marking it off the list of issues. -- Yyp (Talk) 16:15, January 25, 2010 (UTC)

Yeah! Another volume on the "done" pile! A big thanks to DeliManjoo for doing the chapters so quickly! We are getting there! Tinni  (Talk)  11:20, January 31, 2010 (UTC)

Not nearly as quick as you Tinni. I just turn my head away for a few minutes and when I came back the volume was already done. And there were 3 chapters left before! DeliManjoo 11:42, January 31, 2010 (UTC)

Well originally I thought those chapters would be hard to write but when I got started I found that they were actually easy to summarise and so was able to do them fairly quickly. So all credit goes to Kubo for giving us some easy to summarise chapters! ^.^ Tinni   (Talk)  02:38, February 1, 2010 (UTC)

Hey, I got a question, the Volume I have just requested to summarise (307, bite it, slash it) contains one of the character popularity contest results at the beginning. Should I omit/add that to the summary? Thanks, UltraSaint4121 19:20, February 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * My apologies, I didn't notice the comment until now. Yes, please omit the popularity contest results as they aren't really part of the chapter but sort of an omake accompanying the chapter. Tinni   (Talk)  07:18, February 5, 2010 (UTC)

Yay! Another volume hits the pile and the new volume already has two chapters done. Although chapter 129 needs some minor editing. I'll do that when I write my summaries. As always, all chapters with Gin belong to me!!! You guys can have everybody else but Gin's mine! Hands-off! ^.^ Tinni   (Talk)  03:59, February 7, 2010 (UTC)

Aw, can you share? I like Gin too^^ DeliManjoo 14:11, February 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * grumble* *grumble* Fine! I'll let you have some chapters with Gin in them. ^.^ Tinni   (Talk)  14:30, February 7, 2010 (UTC)

Yay, thank you^^ DeliManjoo 11:09, February 8, 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for not getting many chapters done lately, but I've got a couple more done now and will try to do more later this week. I had to restart 315 from scratch, in part due to what was written needing extensive work, but also because it was a though chapter to do with that awkward conversation jumping from one person to another all the time. It might need a bit of tweaking, but I think I got the jist of it across. Also wanted to say thanks to DeliManjoo and UltraSaint4121 for your work. -- Yyp (Talk) 00:12, February 9, 2010 (UTC)

No problems Yyp! Thanks for the summaries you have done. So we are upto volume 16. Which is great! That means four more volumes (including the current one) and we'll reach the end of the Soul Society arc! That will be a significant milestone. We are getting there! But remember to take it easy and don't get burnt out! Tinni  (Talk)  14:55, February 10, 2010 (UTC)

Wow! Big thank you to TheDevilHand888 for doing the bulk of the chapters for the current week. Thank you also to DeliManjoo for finishing off the last two chapters in the volume, meaning this was a very easy week for me because I only did one chapter ^.^. Thanks for the holiday guys! So now on to volume 17 and one step closer to finishing off the Soul Society Arc! Tinni   (Talk)  04:41, February 16, 2010 (UTC)

Ok, so I have put the alternative volume to bed. So yeah for another volume done! Just on the alternative volumes, once the current volume reaches volume 21, the alternative volume will be discontinued. This is because at that point both the alternative volume and the current volume will be from the same arc. Rendering the idea behind the alternative volume somewhat meaningless. Hopefully, volume 34 will be done by the time the current volume reaches volume 21. But one volume at a time! Thanks again to everyone for all the hard work! Tinni  (Talk)  15:45, February 16, 2010 (UTC)

Wow! That was fast! Good work guys! Thanks heaps for doing the summaries promptly and accurately! So on with volume 18! Tinni  (Talk)  18:51, February 18, 2010 (UTC)

Great job folks! I have put volume 19 as the current volume and volume 20 as a special volume because that's the last volume of the Soul Society Arc. So feel free to spread your efforts across the two volumes. Thanks again to TheDevilHand888 and DeliManjoo for continuing to assist with the project. Hopefully Yyp will be able to take a few chapters from the last two volumes. Like always, have fun writing the summaries and don't hesitate to leave chapters you find boring/don't really want to write the summaries for, for me! Tinni  (Talk)  01:33, February 21, 2010 (UTC)

Thank you TheDevilHand888 for completing volume 34! As I said before, that's was the last alternative volume. After the current two volume set is done. It'll be just one volume focus starting from Volume 21. But we are getting close! Only 15 volumes to go! Tinni  (Talk)  01:33, February 22, 2010 (UTC)