After 8 Years and 350+ episodes, has the Bleach anime series finally hit its end? The seemingly un-ending series is scheduled to air it's last episode on March 27, 2012. After that it will be replaced by a Naruto spinoff which follows the antics of Rock Lee. It was inevitable for the series to come to an end considering that the manga it's (sometimes loosely) based on announced it's final story arc recently. However the announcement is still quite unexpected considering its track record with filler episodes. Rumors say the series may be going on hiatus or will release several OVAs to finish up the story but they remain unconfirmed at the time of writing this.

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Mother of god… Bleach, a series that has been on-going for over a decade is finally coming to an end soon! The magazine known as Weekly Shonen Jump will bee announcing on Monday that the epic series is soon coming to a close.

P.S.: Wow, I remember watching Bleach years ago. I can’t even believe it still went on for this long.

Alright my non-American friends, take your bandwidth caps off, we're in for a wild ride. Anime streaming site, Crunchyroll has added full 1080p streaming for some of their anime titles. As of press time, we are not aware of any other anime streaming site that allows this kind of bandwidth abusing but eye pleasing streaming.

They plan to offer the 1080p option to paid subscribers, starting with approximately 20 titles which include Naruto Shippuden, Bleach & Nisemonogatari. HD-philes should probably take note that it's rare for 1080p to even be broadcast on TV so it's possible that Crunchy's 1080p option is really an upscale from either 720p or 1080i.

via UK Anime Network

Nick Simmons, pictured above, has issued a statement in response to recent allegations that he plagiarized Tite Kubo's Bleach and other manga. The statement, released through one of Simmons' representatives has been confirmed to be legit and can be found below.