Bleach #41 was published by Shueisha on October 1, 2009, as part of a series that began in 2002. Tite Kubo writes. This 187-page issue features Ichigo Kurosaki, Orihime Inoue, Rukia Kuchiki, Yasutora Sado and Uryu Ishida, among 11 characters cataloged on VerseDB.