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The original Bleach anime ran from 2004 to 2012 across 16 seasons but never caught up to the manga source material.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Needless to say, there’s a lot going on in Butler’s busy, occasionally dizzying script, though compressing the approximately 550-page source material was surely no easy task.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
A major challenge of adaptation is to capture the spirit of the source material without being a copy of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Flanagan has brought other Stephen King novels to the screen before, but those have tended to be much more faithful to the source material.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
As source material, they mined the roster of National Research Fellows.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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