You know you are obsessed by Bleach when…

1. You have read the Bleach manga and watched the anime so many times that you've lost count.

2. You bought the Japanese version of the manga even when you didn't understand the language.

3. You vowed to learn Japanese to be able to read these newly bought but not understood manga volumes.

4. Even though you hate the Bounto filler arc you still watch it again and again in your Bleach viewings because you can't bear to miss out a section.

5. You have memorised every line so you can lip synch with the characters.

6. You have found the lip synching cool.

7. Your friends who had been innocent are now hardcore Bleach fans, like you.

8. You have started a Bleach fan club in a special room in your house, wholly devoted to Bleach-ness.

9. You have called the room 'The Shrine', and have posters of your favourite characters stuck everywhere.

10. You go in there every morning to say hi to the Bleach gang, who aren't really there.

11. You have thought up of a secret Bleach language with your friends.

12. You use it all the time in speech, even to the teachers.

13. Your teachers now understand it.

14. You are known as 'The Bleach Girl/Boy'.

15. Your friends and yourself are known as 'The Bleach Crew'.

16. You have been called a Bleach freak more than once, often by your own family.

17. Your family are scared of the Bleach ideas that you will come up with next.

18. Or your family now love Bleach as much as you, and love your Bleach ideas.

19. Your Bleach ideas include having a Bleach dedicated day.

20. You think that Bleach should be made into a religion.

21. You refer to the anime/manga as 'The Anime/Manga'

22. You understood what I just said about 'The Anime/Manga'.

23. You have all the Bleach songs on your Ipod, and listen to it ALL THE TIME.

24. You take this to the extreme and listen to it as you sleep, because you need to hear it to survive.

25. The songs are in your top 10 favourites.

26. You use the songs for your ringtone, message tone, alarm, doorbell…

27. You have made up you own Bleach song, and sing it all the time.

28. You are hoping that it will be made into a proper record and sold in shops worldwide, so everyone else can become entranced in Bleach.

29. You want to marry Tite Kubo.

30. You will give anything to find out what will happen to the characters in the end, even your life.

31. You forgot that if you give your life, you would never find out, because you would be dead.

32. You are reading this and nodding along.

33. You have tried to change your personality to be more like your favourite character.

34. The above tactic failed so you decided to change your personality to fit the soul mate of your favourite character.

35. You love Hitsugaya Toushirou so much that you now call all short guys 'Whitey', regardless of their hair colour.

36. You hate Hinamori for stealing 'your' Toushirou away.

37. You search for short, white-haired, antisocial guys to date.

38. You secretly wish that your boyfriend was just like Hitsugaya.

39. You haven't felt guilt for thinking the above.

40. You've hunted for Bleach themed Christmas cards, because ordinary ones just won't do.

41. You have a Bleach themed desktop background.

42. You change the Bleach themed desktop background every month to another Bleach themed desktop background. In fact, you have them all lined up, and never use the same one again.

43. You have named/renamed your pet after a Bleach character.

44. You have decided that calling your cat 'Yoruichi' doesn't count because she can turn into a cat anyway.

45. You think that the above logic makes sense.

46. You know every fact about your favourite character, and boast about it all the time.

47. You know the blood type, birthday, likes and dislikes of most of the characters, even though many of these weren't mentioned in the manga or the anime.

48. You had specifically searched for these on the Internet, and found that Wikipedia is a good website for Bleach information.

49. You celebrate their birthdays in your Shrine room, and buy them a cake.

50. You giggle every time your favourite character is mentioned, or thought of, or if you see something that reminds you of them.

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What do you think? It's been fun thinking of these. Of course, I'm not really a Bleach mad fan. I'm actually a Bleach mad fan in denial, which is slightly different. I might carry on with this list; I've got a few more that I want to add. Please send me your suggestions. All are welcome!

le.papillon.blanc.