NY Comic-Con: More Bleach, Black Lagoon Manga from VIZ

Saturday’s manga publisher panel marathon kicks off with VIZ Media’s panel, and there a healthy dose of new manga releases announced for the rest of 2008. From the sounds of it, the rest of 2008 will be big for Tite Kubo’s Bleach, and manga from superstar manga-ka Takehiko Inoue, Arina Tanemura and Akira Toriyama.

Bleach Books and Movie News - The full-color Bleach artbook, All Color But the Black and the Bleach fan book, Souls: The Rain Drags Black Sun Down will both be released in October 2008. As previously announced, the Bleach Movie, Bleach: Memories of Nobody will get a special nationwide theatrical release on June 11 and 12, 2008, with the DVD release to follow in October 2008.

Quotation:Bleach -102 Discussion / -101 Predictions

Quote:I may be wrong as well, but 2nd Division vice-captain wasn’t related to this 4th family?
Wikipedia doesn’t help me to understand.

Anyway, back on topic: I predict Isshin coming out somewhere in this gaiden, but the end seems obvious to me.
The soon-to-be Vaizards will be pwned by some zampakuto power (whose shinigami will be eliminated and treated as scapegoat by Aizen and Gin), Urahara will be exiled for knowing-but-not-helping and Yoruichi… dunno, I’m curious

In Soul Society, you have the Rukongai in which reside the souls of people who die in the real world entering SS as peasants. Beyond the Rukongai, spearated by a great wall is the Seireitei, where the shinigami and noble families live (reminiscent of how the samurai and daimyo where seen as being of greater status in feudal Japan). Among the noble families, there are four most prominent noble families.