Tedious Everyday Tales Colorful Bleach

is a series of full-color, two-page chapters that were published in Shueisha's V Jump monthly magazine 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. Colorful Bleach has been collected in a tankōbon volume titled. This was published around July 2007, with the advertising for it appearing in Bleach manga chapter 285. While not officially a Colorful Bleach chapter, a two-page Colorful Bleach-like story with similar art style appeared in Bleach manga chapter 337.

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 stories were unrelated to the main plot of the manga, but in terms of the main manga plot, the events depicted in the Colorful Bleach took place largely after Aizen's betrayal was revealed. In at least two separate chapters, Izuru Kira and Momo Hinamori's mental state after the betrayal of their respective captains formed part of the chapter. The Colorful Bleach chapters often incorporated such things as the Jump Fiesta and Bleach video games. The Shinigami Women's Association and its members are featured heavily in the chapters. Many of the Colorful Bleach stories have been animated as end of episodes, as gags in the anime.

Story Arcs
While many of the Colorful 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 Nanao Ise 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, and involved the Shinigami Men's Association attempts 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.

The Game Part 1
Yamamoto decides to have each captain of the Gotei 13 to think of and idea for a video game.

11th Division: Zaraki decides on a game where the goal is to slice up everything. When Ikkaku asks how to beat it, he responds with once you have nothing left to cut, it's game over. Ikkaku states that actually means game clear, and then yells at Yachiru to stop running around, which she was doing the entire time.

12th Division: Mayuri decides on a game where the player performs experiments and dissections on everything from people to bugs. He then states when there's nothing left to dissect, it's game over. Nemu agrees on this, while Ikkaku and Kenpachi state their games are no different from each other while looking though their window.

8th Division: Shunsui thinks of a game where all the women of Soul Society confess their love to him. Nanao asks what happens after that. He replies that it's something he can't really say, causing Nanao to reply that the game won't work if it's something that can't be said in Public.

6th Division: Byakuya decides on a game where the player has infinite wealth and goes around buying everything. Renji asks if that's supposed to be fun. Byakuya replies thait's realistic and the game lacks fun as a result

After going over the ideas. Yamamoto throws them away. None of them were any good.