Bleach Vol. 21
- ISBN
- 9781421511658
- Publisher
- VIZ
- English release
- Pages
- 200
- Chapters
- 179–187
- Anime
- Season 3: Soul Society, The Rescue ep. 42–63; Season 6: Arrancar, The Arrival ep. 110–131
Bleach 21 brings Ichigo back to the living world and returns the story to familiar surroundings. The homecoming follows the Soul Society rescue, so it works best as a change of setting for returning readers. VIZ also includes this paperback in Box Set 1, whose coverage ends here. That makes the book a packaging endpoint, without making it the final volume of the continuing manga.
Spoilers — why this volume matters. Tap to reveal.
The transfer student carries a Soul Reaper weapon outside school and wears a Hollow mask. VIZ's description makes those combined signs the disturbance in an otherwise ordinary return. School is consequently useful as a setting because it supplies a familiar routine against which the contradiction can register. The new figure matters as a question about categories, before any answer about identity or allegiance. Box Set 1's endpoint should therefore not be mistaken for a promise that every question is settled. A collection can end exactly where the next uncertainty becomes visible.
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