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I've seen almost all of the _Bleach_ anime (at least what's been released
dubbed), and I'm now interested in reading the manga. However, when the manga
closely follows the anime I've already seen, I tend to get bored quickly.
Thus, I'd want to pick up the manga at a point right before the anime began to
diverge.

At what point in the manga is this?


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Where and how does the Bleach anime diverge from the manga?


I only watched the anime, but I know it stopped in March 2012, when they
caught up with the manga. It was the 'Lost Agent arc'.

So I suppose you best bet is to start reading the manga that was written from
around that time. Volume 49 of the manga is also called 'The Lost Agent', so
that seems where they left off.

But again, I did not read the manga, so this is only a guess. I also cannot
tell you how much the anime diverged from the manga.


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Bleach anime ended in March 2012, with the episode 366. It ends after (spoiler
if you haven't finished the anime yet)

> Ginjo dies in his battle vs Ichigo

In manga, that arc ends with chapter 479, _"Goodbye to our Xcution!!"_. The
anime is not airing now, but the manga goes on, with the new arc starting with
chapter 480 called _"Final Arc - The Thousand Year Blood War"_.


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I've read all of the manga and am currently watching the anime. It has been
pretty dang accurate up until the episodes in the 60's where they kind of went
off and created these whole other bad guys and this big plot that wasn't in
the manga (the soul sucking vampire things... I can't remember their name).
But apparently by episode 110 the anime starts back up and continues with the
manga plot line and everything. But besides that I think that the manga and
the anime are pretty similar :)


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The answer best showing where the anime and manga differ, while also answering
where to start reading (manga chapter 480 BTW) is the answer by Logan M to
this question : [Which episodes of Bleach are
filler?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3018/which-episodes-of-
bleach-are-filler)


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