The Bleach Anime!

The Bleach Anime!

Title: Grim Reaper (The Bleach) / 死神 / BLEACH – ブリーチ –
Category: Anime
Region: Japan
Year: 2004
Director: Abe Nomoyuki, Tachikawa Joe, Ima Chiaki, Kosaka Haruno

Cast: Morita Seiichi, Orikasa Fumiko, Matsuoka Yuki, Ito Kentaro, Sugiyama Yuki

Introduction:

The orange-haired boy Kurosaki Ichigo is a high school student with a strong sense of justice. He lives with his father and two younger sisters. Since he was a child, he has been able to watch…

Synopsis:

The orange-haired teenager Kurosaki Ichigo is a high school student with a strong sense of justice. He lives with his father and two younger sisters. He has the ability to see ghosts since he was a child, but he doesn’t take it seriously. One night, a monster named “Xu” attacked Ichigo and his family, and Rukia Kuchiki, the god of death who followed the monster, was seriously injured, so he had to transfer his spiritual power to Ichigo, and he took the place of the god of death. Unexpectedly, the “substitute” was out of control. After a period of time, the ghost world discovered Rukia’s violations, and someone came to arrest her.

In order to save friend, Igo, with the help of Kasuke Urahara, the owner of shop owner Urahara, summoned several friends including Inoue Orihime, Ishida Uryu and Chadu Tiyawa, and they went to Soul Soul together. At the same time, a terrifying conspiracy in the spirit world of the soul world is slowly unfolding…

The “Bleach” manga began serialization in “Shounen Jump Weekly” in 2001, and the animation began in 2004.

Plot:

Ichigo Kurosaki is a teenager from Karakura Town who can see ghosts, a talent allowing him to meet a supernatural human Rukia Kuchiki, who enters the town in search of a Hollow, a kind of monstrous lost soul who can harm both ghosts and humans. Rukia is one of the Soul Reapers (死神, Shinigami, literally ‘Death Gods’), soldiers trusted with ushering the souls of the dead from the World of the Living to the Soul Society (尸魂界 (ソウル・ソサエティ), lit.

“Dead Spirit World”), the afterlife realm from which she originates and with fighting Hollows. When she is severely wounded defending Ichigo from a Hollow she pursues, Rukia transfers her powers to Ichigo, so he may fight in her stead while she recovers her strength. Rukia is thereby trapped in an ordinary human body, and must advise Ichigo as he balances the demands of his substitute Soul Reaper duties and attending high school. For aid in hunting the Hollows, the pair ally with a trio of other spiritually empowered allies: Ichigo’s high school classmate Orihime Inoue, best friend Yasutora “Chad” Sado and Uryū Ishida, a Quincy classmate with the ability to control spiritual particles.

Eventually, Rukia is arrested by her Soul Reaper superiors and sentenced to death for the illegal act of transferring her powers into a human. Ichigo and his friends enlist the help of ex-Soul Reaper scientist Kisuke Urahara, who trains Ichigo to access his own Soul Reaper powers, to enter the Soul Society and rescue Rukia. Shortly after the party’s arrival in the Soul Society, conflict arises among the captains of the Thirteen Court Squads when the captain of the fifth company,

Sōsuke Aizen, is apparently murdered; the captains believed that the intruders might have been responsible, which causes the Soul Reapers to begin fighting amongst themselves. Thereafter, the Captain Commander Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto, issues the Soul Reapers to arrest Ichigo and his friends as suspects. However, Ichigo saves Rukia and manages to stop the war against the Soul Society. Aizen reappears and reveals his intention to obtain the Hōgyoku (崩玉, lit. “Crumbling Orb”), an orb of immense power Kisuke planted inside Rukia, by faking his death and arranging the execution.

Aizen accompanies his fellow conspirators, Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tōsen, who are the third and ninth company’s captains, as they use Hollows to cover their escape into the Hollows’ realm, Hueco Mundo (虚圏 (ウェコムンド), lit. “Hollow World”). Afterwards, Ichigo and Rukia reconcile with the Soul Reapers, who view the former as a powerful ally and designate him an official title as Substitute Soul Reaper.

Ichigo soon finds himself and his friends in escalating skirmishes with Aizen’s army of humanoid Hollows, the Arrancar, as they are joined by the Vizards. Soul Reapers who were victims of Aizen’s experiments in creating Soul Reaper/Hollow hybrids. When Ulquiora, one of the Espada (Aizen’s ten most powerful Arrancars) kidnaps Orihime, Ichigo and his allies enter Hueco Mundo to invade Las Noches. However, as Ichigo rescues Orihime, Aizen reveals her abduction was a distraction as he launches an attack on Karakura Town, in order to sacrifice everyone and create a key to the Soul King’s Palace, so he can kill the Soul King who reigns over the Soul Society.

Anticipating Aizen’s attack, the Thirteen Court Squads had already been waiting for him by moving the entire Karakura Town to the Soul Society prior to his attack. When the Vizards join the remaining Soul Reapers, Gin reveals his agenda of killing Aizen. The latter uses the Hōgyoku to become a Hollow-like being. However, Ichigo sacrifices his power to defeat Aizen and reverts to a normal human.

Months later, preparing for life after high school, Ichigo is called back into action when Xcution, a gang of Fullbringers—supernaturally aware humans like Chad—manipulate him and his loved ones in a scheme to siphon his Fullbring abilities. After his Soul Society allies restore his Soul Reaper powers, Ichigo learns that Xcution’s leader, Kugo Ginjo, was his predecessor. It is revealed that the Soul Society did not trust the substitute Soul Reapers, so they used the badge given to the Substitute Soul Reaper to monitor and restrict his power output.

Ginjo felt betrayed and swore vengeance to all Soul Reapers. Despite knowing the truth, Ichigo decides to trust his Soul Reaper friends and defeats Ginjo. With his power restored, Ichigo once again is reinstated as a Substitute Soul Reaper.

After Ichigo regained his powers, an army of Quincies known as the Wandenreich (見えざる帝国 (ヴァンデンライヒ), lit. “Invisible Empire”) appear and declare war against the Soul Society, having already enslaved many Arrancars in Hueco Mundo. The group is led by Yhwach, the ancient progenitor of the Quincies, who seeks to kill the Soul King and rid the world of death and fear. In their first invasion, the Wandenreich kill many Soul Reapers including the Head-Captain, Yamamoto. Uryū joins Yhwach and learns the truth behind the death of his mother. Later on, Ichigo and his friends aid the Soul Society in fighting the Wandenreich’s second invasion, but Yhwach succeeds in invading the Royal Palace and killing the Soul King.

In the final battle, the surviving Shinigami, along with Ichigo and his friends, assault Yhwach’s new palace and defeat his most powerful Sternritter. Yhwach returns to the Soul Society to destroy it, but Ichigo defeats him with the help of Uryū and Aizen, after the latter was temporarily released from prison.

Ten years later, Rukia becomes the new captain of the thirteenth company and has a daughter, an apprentice Soul Reaper named Ichika, with her childhood friend Renji Abarai. Meanwhile, Ichigo and Orihime have a son named Kazui, who is also a Soul Reaper.

Two years later, Ichigo attends the Soul Funeral Ceremony for Jūshirō Ukitake. While the Captains are waiting in the Soul Society to perform the ritual, Ichigo joins the Lieutenants at Karakura Town to capture Hollows that will be used as a sacrifice. They are ambushed by the Beasts of Hell, led by the late Octava Espada. Even though the lieutenants managed to easily suppress them, it is revealed that the ceremony is a process of sending the late captains to Hell.

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