Bleach fans in Europe have a couple of reasons to be happy as Sega just announced two new titles based from the animated series. The new video games are namely Bleach: Shattered Blade and Bleach: The Blade of Fate for the Wii and Nintendo DS respectively.

This time, the Bleach storyline follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki who has the power to see spirits from the afterlife, including warriors called Soul Reapers. Our main hero meets female dead warrior Rukia and received her powers. Kurosaki is then tasked to continue Rukia's mission of defeating the enemies known as Hollows.

"The content of the Bleach story lends itself perfectly to an action packed arcade fighting game with a heavy dose of mighty sword battles. Both the flexibility of the Wii and the portability of the DS have allowed us to bring the intense action of Bleach to a wide variety of gamers," commented Sega European Marketing Director Gary Knight.

The following are some of the features specific to each title. Both will be released during the early part of 2008.

Bleach: Shattered Blade

• Enables players to wield the Wiimote and Nunchuk as their weapons - slashing, jabbing, and lunging in furious battles like a real Soul Reaper
• Exclusive storyline created specifically for the Wii with 32 characters to choose from
• Once a new character is unlocked, players can replay the story episodes utilizing the characters special moves and weapons adding a whole new perspective to the storyline

More features and screenshots after the jump!

If you still haven't caught on with the whole Bleach craze, no worries. The anime series just came out at Adult Swim just a few days ago. So, if you want to follow the trials of Ichigo Kurosaki, better hit yourself up with the schedule. For those of you, on the other hand, who have been fortunate enough to have started watching already and are now avid fans, you can wait just a few more months for the video games by Sega.

There's one coming out for the Wii, but what we have today for you is the trailer for the DS game, Bleach DS 2nd. It's a hack-and-slash, playable with four gamers taking a shot at each other. There will also be a mode where you could battle the hollows (those weird black ghost thingamajigs). Of course there's still going to be a story mode, where players will experience being in the Soul Society. How's that for a Yu Yu Hakusho come back?

Battling phantoms, soul reapers, and undead societies? We wouldn't mind at all...

Download: [Bleach DS 2nd trailer]
Buy the other Bleach game: [Nintendo Bleach DS]