Our new download server is in! Special thanks to all the generous donors of our first month of donation run. Both high-speed and free speed-limited downloads are faster than before, and we have more download slots for free downloads.

I hope we can keep up with the donations in the coming months to continue providing fast downloads for everyone!

Today, we are officially announcing our new sister site, NarutoPod.com!

Both Bleach and Naruto are among the most popular anime right now. And I know many of our members are avid Naruto fans as well. So I’m sure BA fans will love something that is just like BA, but for Naruto!

The site is still new, so please bear with us as we gradually put up more information and fun stuffs.

See you on NarutoPod’s forum soon!

April Fool’s! It’s interesting to see many of you actually think that this might be real. The clues were:
- Hidden text on the main page’s post. Highlight to see.
- Bolded letters on the forum post join to say “April Fools”.
- The Naruto images on both the main page and the forum are named with ‘april_fool’ in them.

But the fact is, it was only half a joke. No, not that we will be adding a Naruto section. But instead, we have a new Naruto sister site in the pipeline. It’s going to have the same look and feel as BleachAnime.org, so I hope all of you who loves BA and Naruto will like it.

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Looking at how we have no news if there would be a new arc after the Arrancar, Espada and Aizen arc, we have decided to drop Bleach in favor of Naruto. Naruto Shippuuden is only at episode 52 and has a longer story ahead.

Yeah it’s silly to have a Bleach url as a Naruto site, but still we gonna do it. From today, 1st April 2008, onwards, we will be gradually changing everything on our site to Naruto.

April Fool’s!

Along with our anime episodes, our Bleach MP3 collection is now on our new download server too. You can now download the whole album in one file too.

Check it out now! And we’ll be adding more albums to the collection soon.

We’ve added a new server! Many have commented on our previous system of download, which I truly agree is not the most elegant system out there. So we listened, and finally we have here a second server dedicated to anime downloading purposes.

Full-speed downloads still requires BleachPoints like before. But we now have additional speed-limited downloads that are free for all forum members.

Go ahead, try it now at our new direct download page.

Yes, we have put back the direct download section. This time, with a little twist.

From the poll we’ve conducted, we realized that it is almost a tie between those that wanted the direct download only for loyal visitors and those that wanted the direct download to remain free-for-all.

What I have eventually decided, is to allow direct downloads for registered forum users who “pays” for the download link with BleachPoints. Points are earned by simply participating in our forums. Be it starting a new thread, replying others threads, or simply viewing threads.

As a start, the points to “purchase” download links is 100. By simply registering as a forum user, you will have by default 100 points. Just join in discussions and before you know it, you got tons of points!

Are there plans to make the downloads free-for-all in the future?
Definitely! I certainly love to be able to provide free downloads for all. But alas, bandwidth can be very expensive for video downloads. So in order for that to happen, I need to depend a lot on everyone of you to grow this community into a strong one. And hopefully with a little donation from everyone, we can eventually afford to make the downloads free-for-all to spread the Bleach-love to everyone!

The points are costing way too much/little!
Yes, I will be tuning the cost as we move along. You can be sure I’ll tune it so that as much bandwidth can be used every month, and no bandwidth would be wasted.

Any suggestions, feel free to post in our Feedbacks & Suggestions subforum.

Visit our Bleach Anime Direct Download page now!

Well, on my side it seems like the domain has successfully propagated to the new server. If you see this post, you are already viewing BleachAnime.org on our new server!

Yes guys, we are moving to a better server! From a shared hosting to a VPS server in fact. So there *may* be a bit of downtime, but hopefully not. After the move, we should be expecting better performance. I’ll post again once the move is completed.

According to Bleach7, Tokyo TV has announced that for the next two weeks, there will be no Bleach! This blows!

Here’s the screening schedule:
Episode #78 - May 2nd
Episode #79 - May 9th
Episode #80 - May 16th

As mentioned in the screening schedule in this post three weeks ago, there will be no episode #73 this week. Instead, we’ll get to enjoy an 1-hour (#73-74) special next week.