Entertainment company VIZ Media LLC has secured the license from TV Tokyo Corporation, Shueisha Inc. and Dentsu Inc. for Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody in the Americas, Europe and Oceania. The feature film, which will be aimed primarily at teens, will have a limited theatrical release in major cities throughout North America this summer with the DVD release to follow winter 2008. Subsequent details will be released in coming weeks.

Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody is inspired by the successful animated television series “Bleach,” airing on Adult Swim, which is based on the best-selling manga series by Tite Kubo, also published in North America by VIZ Media.