1st Division

1st Division Captain: Yamamoto Genryuusai Shigekuni

First Division Captain and founder of the shinigami academy. By virtue of his position and seniority, he is also the supreme commander of the Gotei 13.

Yamamoto-taicho looks like a very old man, almost after the fashion of the Taoist Immortals, but under his shinigami robes he still has a strong body that has not decayed with age. His spiritual pressure is possibly greater than any other being in Soul Society; it was enough to paralyze Ise Nanao--the Eighth Division Vice-Captain--with a mere glance. He wields Ryuujin Jakka, the strongest of all fire-type zanpaku-to. His skill in kidou is unknown, but probably as formidable as his swordsmanship, as he appears to embody the convention of the "old master."

Kyouraku Shunsui (8th Division Captain) and Ukitake Juushiro (13th Division Captain) seem to have a particularly strong relationship with Yamamoto-taicho. He mentions that they were the first graduates of his shinigami academy to rise to the rank of captain, and some clips from the anime show Yamamoto-taicho sparring with the two (and easily winning).

1st Division Vice Captain: Unknown

Not much is known about this man, other than his outfit, which is somewhat different and more formal than those of the other vice-captains. Judging from his appearance, face, and weapon, it is probably a safe guess that he is a sophisticated sort of man.

Shinigami court divisions

Quincy

Quincy

The Quincy (滅却師 kuinshī) are a fictional sect in the animated and manga series Bleach. The Quincy are a race that are originally a mixture of survivors of the hollow attacks and those who’d lost their dear ones to hollows. Because of the emotions that they held towards the Hollows who nearly robbed them or had already robbed them of their loved ones, they developed a variety of supernatural powers that allowed them to hunt and kill the hollows before they attacked humans (or to destroy them if they were late) The Quincy became nearly extinct due to the examinations done by the Shinigami 200 years prior to the Bleach storyline.

Amongst the main traits that sets the Quincy apart from the Shinigami is that they actually kill hollows instead of cleansing their spirits. The Quincy were slowly disrupting the balance of souls between the two worlds, and would have destroyed both worlds. This difference was led to the Quincy-Shinigami war. The victors of the war were the Shinigami and the Quincy line was closely monitored over the decades.

Later Quincies advocated the idea that since they were more numerous and already among the living, that they could act as the ‘first responders’ to the hollow attacks, since the Shinigami were less in number and could not respond to all the Hollow attacks prioritizing the more dangerous and current hollow attacks. The Quincies would be the first ones to attack while the Shinigami would send a representative to finish the Hollow off. But this was not accepted among the Shinigami who still decided to follow old procedures.

Mayuri Kurotsutchi, the Captain of the 12^th Division preformed experiments, (some of them cruel) on 2,661 Quincies.

Another difference between the Shinigami and the Quincy is that the Shinigami are dressed in black traditional clothing while the Quincy wear futuristic white uniforms. Another peculiar reoccurring motif is the cross that seems to appear on the Quincy uniforms.

Also, the Quincy usually use bows and arrows as weapons to fight against the hollows, which are made from spirit energy, while the Shinigami have sword-Zanpakto who can be considered allies.

The Quincy are also a very proud clan and there is an ethic called the Pride of the Quincy that by which the last Quincy, Uryuu Ishida lives by. The Quincy can be compared with knight as well as priests and crusaders.

Uryuu Ishida- Ishida’s character page can be found on the Major Character page of this site.

Ryūken Ishida (石田竜弦, Ishida Ryūken)

Ryuken is the father of Uryuu Ishida and the son of Soken Ishida. He is now the Director of Karakura Hospital and is also known as the last Quincy (a status contested by his son)

Ryuken appears to be a cold, workaholic who is very estranged from his family. He hates his status as a Quincy because it simply does not bring any money on the table and prefers to focus on saving the living rather then the dead. He is also against the idea of his son associating so much with his own father Soken and tells Uryuu Ishida not to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps.

Not much is known about Ryuken except that he helps his son regain his powers if he agrees not to associate with the Shinigami (manga) and that he has a special training chamber underneath the hospital.

We also know that despite Ryuken being a rich man, his son is rather poor and lives alone and not with his father. Uryuu Ishida had a strong bond with his grandfather who he describes as a warm and gentle man while stating that his father is cold and uncaring. Uryuu probably also dislikes his father since he was probably never there for him and his mother (we later find out in an episode in the Bounto Arc)

Sōken Ishida (石田宗弦, Ishida Sōken)

Soken is Ryuken’s father and Ishida’s grandfather. He was a kind old man that truly loved his grandson (and probably his son as well) He was an advocate for the Quincy idea to become the first responders and he truly believed in his cause to save people from hollows. He also instructed Uryuu and trained him to become a Quincy.

Sadly Soken died when battling a Hollow and the Shinigami did not come to save him in time. This has lead to the fact that Uryuu hates the Shinigami and he blames them for the death of his grandfather and the unnecessary suffering of other people because the Shinigami are slow to respond.

Soken was the last specimen that Mayuri Kurtsuchi obtained for his study on the Quincy.

Urahara Shop

Urahara Shop

The Uruhara Shop is a store in Karakura town run by Uruhara Kisuke that sell Shinigami items. It serves not only as a store but it also has a huge training ground underneath in the basement and it serves as headquarters in times of trouble. The store is run by Uruhara Kisuke with help of Jinta, Ururu and Tessai.

Kisuke Urahara (浦原喜助, Urahara Kisuke)

Kisuke is the main owner of the Uruhara Shop in the anime and manga series of Bleach. His store specializes in selling Shinigami items and serves as a home to the other workers of the shop.

Kisuke Uruhara in first appearance seems like a weird old guy, since he wears traditional Japanese wooden sandals, a cylinder hat and has grey-ish light hair. This appearance has earned him the nickname of geta-boshi or sandal-hat. He is a generally laid-back cheerful fellow that seems to dislike chaos and upheaval. He is first introduced as the person from which Rukia has bought her not so functioning items from.

Kisuke has a great sense of humor (loves to play pranks on Ichigo) and tends to hide his smile behind a fan he always seems to carry around. He can also go over the top with whatever he becomes passionate about, as Yurouichi notes and Kisuke once described himself as a ‘mere honest, handsome, perverted businessman.’ Even though Rukia complains that whatever she buys from his doesn’t always function properly or is overpriced.

But Kisuke can also become deadly serious when the situation warrants it, and as it is later revealed in both manga and anime, Kisuke is the former Captain of the 12^th Division. He also has a Zanpakto that is hidden in the cane he always carries around with him. It is also one of the rare female Zanpakto’s.

Kisuke always seems to appear near the scene of an important event, but never steps in to intervene, preferring to be in control from the outside. But he did on numerous occasions help Ichigo and the rest and trained Ichigo on to become strong enough to save Rukia from Soul Society.

Yoruichi Shihouin (四楓院夜一, Shihōin Yoruichi)

Yoruichi is not really a member of the Uruhara Shop, but she can be seen hanging around it a lot, usually in the form of a black cat. When she was introduced into the series she appeared as a black cat that came to the Uruhara Shop and Kisuke was delighted to see the cat and was playing with it, to Jinta’s embarrassment.

As a cat she appeared before Orihime and Chad and offered to train them to become stronger so that they could go to Soul Society. It is only later revealed that her cat form is not her true for and that in fact she is a beautiful dark-skinned woman (the fact that she was a woman shocked everyone the most since the cat had a male voice)

Yoruichi is actually the former leader of the Special Forces and she is also a descent of one of the four noble families of Soul Society, but unlike other nobles (e.x. Kuchiki Byakuya) she doesn’t like being all formal and wants people to call her without her honorific suffix. She is intelligent and witty and seems to have no shame as she playfully teased Ichigo when she saw his reaction to her naked body.

She is also aware of everything that happens within Soul Society and is also a former Shinigami. Yoruichi is Kisuke’s childhood friend and the two of them seem to be very close and she seems to come to him in times of trouble, and Kisuke always seems to be happy to have her there, but that also means that something big is about to happen.

Yoruichi, like Kisuke does not like to intervene in battles but will step in if she thinks that her side won’t win. She is also an instructor and trains Ichigo, Orihime and Chad for their trip to Soul Society. She was also helped Ichigo to achieve his final release Bankai.

Yoruichi is also very good friends with Ikkaku Shiba, and it seems that Ikkaku, Yoruichi and Kisuke seem to have been friends together in the past.

Ururu Tsumugiya (紬屋雨, Tsumugiya Ururu)

Ururu is a young and quiet girl who lives along with the other memberes at the Uruhara Store. She is often bullied by Jinta who never stops reminding her that he is better and that she is stupid and useless. But according to Uruhara, that seems to be far from the truth. She is supposedly powerful enough to easily fight with a Shinigami and as later shown in the series when Ichigo undergoes the training with Uruhara to rescue Ichigo, she possesses great strength and speed.

In battle she uses a bazooka that resembles a giant lit cigarette. She is also powerful enough to harm a gilian-class arrancar. It is not certain if Ururu is human and not much is known about her past. But if we look at the fact that Uruhara Kisuke was once the former Captain of the 12^th Division and invented modsouls and other things, we can speculate that Ururu might be one of Kisuke’s inventions, but that isn’t certain.

Ururu has a weird hairstyle that resembles a cockroach and is used for visual gags. She usually wears a white plain t-shirt with Uruhara Shop written on it and wears a pink skirt with white dots on it.

In her free time she helps out sweeping and working in the Uruhara shop and in times of danger aids Ichigo and the rest in battle.

Jinta Hanakari (花刈ジン太, Hanakari Jinta)

Jinta also works at the Uruhara shop and can be usually found teasing Ururu or Kon and since Renji came to live with them in the Bounto arc, he has been under constant attack from Jinta’s pranks. Jinta thinks highly of himself and boats over his achievements, bringing the usually out of proportion. He is a huge baseball fan and his weapon is a hexagonal club or “tessen”. He is strong enough to defeat weak hollows with it.

Jinta has also met the two Kurosaki sisters Karin and Yuzu. He seems to have a crush on the former one, and always blushes when he sees her, while he battles for the title Karakura Red with Karin.

Jinta has red hair, a big mouth and loves to swing his broom at people. He seems to be rude and loves to pray pranks but showed genuine concern when Ururu was wounded. He has a higher spiritual awareness then most human but it is not certain if he is/was a Shinigami.

(Tessai Tsukabishi (握菱テッサイ, Tsukabishi Tessai)

Tessai, is a fellow co-worker in the Uruhara Shop and is the most dedicated employee. He is always by Kisuke’s side trying to aid him whenever possible. He also cooks and cleans and stocks up the supplies in the store, and seems to be the only one after Rangiku Matsumoto that likes Orihime’s cooking.

Tessai is a massive, muscular man who wears slim rectangular glasses, has a darker tan, finely braided cornrows and a mustache. He always wears an apron and is never seen without it (not even when he is completely undressed) It is very likely that Tessai is a Shinigami, perhaps Uruhara’s former lieutenant, since he was able to use a level 99 kido binding spell, and only Shinigami can use the art of kido.

Masaki Kurosaki

Masaki, the mother of Ichigo, Yuzu and Karin died sadly when they were still children. Her death left a deep scar on her family. Isshin, their father keeps a large poster (that seems to change in manga) on the wall and talks to it occasionally. Karin finds that childish and Yuzu seems to have taken over her mother’s role in housework.

Ichigo on the other hand was there when it happened. His mother died trying to save her child and the memory of it is still imprinted in his mind. Ichigo blames himself for his mother’s death, the sadness he has brought upon his family for taking their beloved Masaki away who was the center of everyone’s universe. Ichigo truly worshipped his mother and so did the rest of the family.

It was because of her death that all the children’s personalities changed completely. Ichigo who had always been a terrified little boy, turned into his scowling short tempered self, carrying a burden of guilt for her death. Both Karin and Yuzu who had always been crybabies became more responsible and mature.

Yuzu Kurosaki

Yuzu, the younger of the Kurosaki twins, is very soft spoken and very feminine compared to her tomboyish sister Karin. She decided to take over the housework after their mother died and takes care of cleaning and cooking and chases Ichigo around worrying about him like a mother.
Yuzu is very emotional and very childlike compared to her sister, for example she still likes to play with dolls and stuffed animals (much to Kon’s misfortune) Like Karin she is a member of Don Kanonji’s Karakura Superheroes, who took up the role of fighting Hollows when Ichigo and the rest departed to save Rukia.

Karin Kurosaki

Karin is the younger sister of Ichigo and the older twin of Yuzu. She is cynical, sarcastic and loves to play soccer and excels in it. Actually, her kicks are so powerful so that she can even fight weaker hollows and defeat them with her kick. She is also very spiritually aware and can see ghosts and Shinigami. But Karin acts coolly when it comes to the subject of ghosts claiming that she does not believe in them even though she can see them. She later on confronts Ichigo telling him that she knows that he is a Shinigami and wonders why he is suffering so much.

Karin tries to act all cool and grown up at times acting like she does not really care. But we late discover that her attitude became like that after their mother died and Karin became very adult like and decided to become a responsible person.

Her name is a homonym in Japanese for the fruit quince, just like Ichigo’s name is for strawberry.

Isshin Kurosaki

Isshin is the father of three children (Ichigo, Yuzu and Karin) and is the head of the Kurosaki family. He is a skilled doctor and runs a private clinic in their home.

In the beginning of the series we see that Isshin is a loving father who takes keen interest in what his children are into, but his approach only seems to alienate his children from him. He also comes off as silly and seems rather fond of fighting (physically) with his son as a training or a showing off of his skill.

He also seems to embarrass his children by his all too positive all-too-happy tone and loves to make fun of Ichigo. But as we later discover Isshin can become serious and even severe at times, for Isshin seems to be an exiled Shinigami who is very aware of everything that happens in the Bleach universe.

Ryō Kunieda

Ryō Kunieda (国枝鈴, Kunieda Ryo)

Ryo is a tall girl that sometimes wear glasses but takes them off when she doesn’t need them. She hangs out with Chizuru, Orihime and the rest of the girls from their class. She is the 2nd best at school in her studies and can always be seen studying. She is also the school’s track star and she can run a 100 meters in 12 seconds flat.

Michiru Ogawa (小川みちる, Ogawa Michiru)

A cute looking girl that always hangs out with Ryo Kunieda. She is also in Ichigo’s class and remarks that she thinks that Ichigo has a scary face.

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Chizuru Honshō

Chizuru Honshō (本匠千鶴, Honshō Chizuru)

Chizuru Honsho is also a classmate who seems to be in love with Orihime. Yes, Chizuru is a lesbian and she is proud to admit it. She even calls Orihime by the name ‘Hime’ which means princess in Japanese. Chizuru can always be found crushing on Orihime and drooling over her rather curvaceous body. She has also hit on Kunieda, Mahana and Michiru on occasion and noted that Tatsuki is pretty but too tomboyish for her taste.

Mizuiro Kojima

Mizuiro Kojima (小島水色, Kojima Mizuiro)

Miuiro is also Ichigo’s classmate and Keigo’s friend. Unlike Keigo, Mizuiro is calm and has a gentle speech and has a boyish appearance. In contrast to that he is a real womanizer scoring with woman all the time and excusing himself because he has to go on a date with one or more women. Mizuiro also has a preference for older women.

Later in the manga it is revealed that he was very quiet in Junior High and did not have many friends before going to High School. Also we discover that Mizuiro like most characters that Ichigo comes in contact with later develops the ability to see hollows and Shinigami.

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Tatsuki Arisawa School Characters

Tatsuki Arisawa (有沢 たつき(竜貴), Arisawa Tatsuki)

Is a character in the manga and anime series Bleach. She is 15 years old, and a classmate and a childhood friend Ichigo.

Tatsuki, even though being a girl, is a tomboy who loves to practice karate and has a dream of becoming a vale tudo champion one day. Tatsuki is Ichigo’s childhood friend and they used to go to karate together and she used to beat him up. Then after starting High School, Ichigo and Tatsuki somehow grew apart.

Tatsuki is also best friends with Orihime, over whom she is very protective since Orihime’s endowments cause guys to stick to her like butter (not only boys but also Chizuru) When Orihime was young she was being bullied and they tried to cut of her hair. Tatsuki was the one that protected her and promised to protect her from anyone who dared to make her cry. She also taught Orihime some karate.

Tatsuki has blue hair in the anime and black hair in the manga. She doesn’t look very feminine but does write her name in hiragana instead of kanji because she believes it looks cuter.

Like most of the characters who come in contact with Ichigo, Tatsuki is also able to see ghosts, hollows and Shinigami.

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Yasutora Chad Sado

Chad is a supporting character in the anime and manga series Bleach. He goes to Karakura Highschool and is in the same class as Ichigo, Rukia, Inoue and Ishida. His real name is Yasutora, but because Ichigo pronounced his family name Sado as Chado, he continues referring to him as Chad.

Character Outline

Even though Yasutora ‘Chad’ Sado has a Japanese name, he is of Mexican descent. Chad is a quiet and considerate person who truly cares a lot about his friends and has a weakness for cute things like little animals. After Ichigo becomes a Shinigami his energy affects Chad as well and he becomes spiritually aware and later in the series also gains power.

Chad is extremely tall, towering at a height of 6’5 ½ (197 cm) and is very muscular. He looks like a solid rock and at first appearance looks menacing and much older then he really is. But we later find out that even though he looks made for fighting, Chad never stands up for himself and refuses to fight, a promise he made to his grandfather when he was young.

Chad also has a tattoo on his left shoulder which reads: Amore e Morte (Love and Death in Italian) the tattoo consists of a heart, snake and angel wings that are around the heart. Chad usually wears his school uniform but most often he is wearing a Hawaiian shirt but changes shirts throughout the series.

Like Ishida and Inoue, Chad lives on his won. He is also very smart and is the 11^th best student in his school.

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Uryuu Ishida

Uryū Ishida (石田 雨竜, Ishida Uryuu)

Uryuu Ishida is a supporting character in the anime and manga series Bleach. He is in the same class as Ichigo, yet in the beginning of the series he and Ichigo were not really friends. Ishida is not simply a normal highschooler, we later find out that Ishida is the last of the Quincy.

Character Outline

Ishida Uryuu in the beginning of the series appears rather withdrawn, shy and quite but can sometimes act high and mighty when around Ichigo (which only proves to annoy Ichigo) Ishida seems to never interact with anyone at school and hardly speaks to anyone. He wears glasses and is the top student in school giving him a kind of ‘nerdy’ air. He always seems to be serious and refuses to participate in things that he finds childish, and yet he is member of the fine arts club, where he patches up stuffed animals and sews clothes for them.

Ishida has black hair in the manga and blue-ish in the anime and he wears it longer in front then the back. He wears glasses (sometimes they refer to him as four-eyes) and has very pale skin compared to the rest of the characters.

Ishida is not a normal teenager, he is a Quincy and lives by the moral ethic known as the Pride of the Quincy (note the word pride, another of his characteristics) Ishida is in the beginning reluctant to help Ichigo in his quest, but his strong sense of justice eventually makes him join Ichigo and the rest.

Ishida also loves to try and act cool in front of people (even though some of them like Ichigo are not so impressed) for example wearing a cloak that has no other purpose then being aesthetically appealing.

Surprisingly, Ishida seems to be very poor even though his father owns a hospital (he does not even have enough money to buy a cellphone). Like Orihime and Chad, Ishida lives alone. Ishida does not have a good bond with his father but we know that he had great respect and love towards his grandfather who also showed him the way of the Quincy.

Orihime Inoue bleach major character

Orihime Inoue (井上 織姫, Inoue Orihime)

Orihme Inoue is a supporting character in the anime and manga series Bleach. She is Ichigo’s classmate and after Ichigo becomes a Shinigami his spirit energy awakens her own hidden powers. As the series progress (manga) Orihime appears more and more often in contrast to previous volumes where she plays only a minor role as a supporting character.

Character Outline

Orihime is Ichigo’s classmate and like him goes to Karakura High School. There she hangs out with Tastuki Arisawa, Ichigo’s childhood friend. Orihime may somewhat appear to be an oddball, making the most stupid remarks and appearing to always be clueless to what others are saying. But Orihime is actually much more intelligent then she appears, having the third highest scores in school.

In appearance Orihime has long brown hair in the manga and orange hair in the anime which she wears with hairpins. The hairpins have a sentimental value to her as we find out in the second and third episode, and we find out that she wears it in memory of her late brother. The reason why she wears her hair long is in honor of a promise to Tatsuki who protected her when she was teased because she had long hair and other children were jealous of her. Orihime is rather well-endowed and this trait is often a subject of jokes in the series.

Orihime has a friendly, sensitive and kind character. Most of the times she seems clueless and naïve, and her actions usually lead to embarrassing consequences due to the fact that she rushes into things without thinking. She also has the weirdest taste for food mixing things that obviously do not go together and grossing her classmates out it.

Orihime also has a wild imagination (when she pictured herself as a robot in the future that shoots missiles from her chest) and she is also a member of the Handicraft Club that is lead by Ishida Uryuu.

Another interesting fact about Orihime is that she is in love with Ichigo, and as the series progress we see her feelings become stronger.

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Kuchiki Rukia Bleach character

Short Summary

Is a major character in the manga and anime series Bleach, by Tite Kubo. Rukia is a shinigami. She meets Ichigo Kurosaki, an everyday high school student, and through a set of circumstances, he obtains her powers, forcing her to take up residence in his home and him to take her place as a shinigami.

Character outline

Initially born into a lower class, she still retains her modesty even as a member of the nobility: she is graceful and "clean," yet chooses to talk to ordinary people.

Although she tells Ichigo that she is nearly ten times older than him, she is endearingly clueless about the ways of the world (especially in the case of juice packets) and learns to speak modern Japanese through the manga she reads.

She is an accomplished actress, being able to act her way through a number of tough situations. Ichigo seems to be the only one to always pick up on it and accuse her of pretending. She also seems to enjoy drawing (rather badly). Rukia loves Chappy the Rabbit and is rather put out when she is unable to obtain Chappy Soul Candy because of its popularity in Soul Society.

Her attitude towards Ichigo varies throughout the series. At times, she is a bickering adversary, and at other times, she worries about him and dispatches advice like a wise old sage. Most scenes are shown with her and Ichigo yelling and making faces at each other. However, there is a deeply serious side to Rukia as well, best shown during the time she was taken back to Soul Society for giving her powers to Ichigo. In her time in Soul Society, which she spent in various holding cells, she is constantly seen resigned to her fate or in deep thought.

She and Ichigo have similar feelings of loss and guilt. Ichigo thought he was responsible for his mother's death and Rukia thought she was responsible for Kaien's death.

Due to her circumstances during the early story and the anime Bount arc, Rukia lives in Ichigo's closet with Kon; she uses the bedroom window as an entryway into the Kurosaki household. Additionally, she has obtained casual clothing and school uniforms for her day-to-day activities, some of which were stolen from Ichigo's sister Yuzu, and the rest of which were supplied by Urahara on credit.

Several months after the incidents at the Soul Society, Rukia returns to the living world with five other shinigami to combat the rising arrancar threat. She manages to convince the Kurosaki family to let her stay with them (albeit using a flimsy sob story that instantly convinces Yuzu and Isshin), and moves out of Ichigo's closet and is to share a crowded room with Karin and Yuzu

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Kurosaki Ichigo

Short Summary

Ichigo is the leading character in both the manga and anime series Bleach. Ichigo is a 15-year-old highschooler who has the uncanny ability to see ghosts. He lives with his father and two younger sisters in Karakura town where his father has a clinic. Then his entire life changes when a girl waltzes into his life and he discovers the world of Shinigami (death Gods) and Hollows (evil spirits). When Rukia becomes wounded she decides to transfer her powers to the boy she just met so that Ichigo could save his family. Ichigo soon becomes a Shinigami and along with his new identity and huge sword (zanpaktou) he fulfills his Shinigami duties by eliminating hollows and sending Pluses (pure souls) into the afterlife.

Character Outline

The term ‘tough’ would be a rather accurate word to describe Ichigo’s appearance and behavior. Ichigo tries to be promote a kind of detached image that he shows to those around him. He has spent a great deal of effort maintaining this image, of which his furrowed eyebrows and the scowl he always keeps on his mouth are the main characteristics. But as the story develops, we also get too see inside of Ichigo and beyond his defenses and find out that Ichigo is actually a very caring person who would go to the greatest lengths for those he holds dear. He is also very short tempered, impatient, easily embarrassed when it comes to naked or scantly clad women, is sometimes rude and loves to argue with Rukia. But he can also become serious, is overprotective over his family and holds himself responsible for the wellbeing of his friends and teammates. Ichigo has also a strong sense of moral that makes him strive in fulfilling his duties as a Shinigami.

In appearance, perhaps the most noticeable thing is his hair, which is orange and spiky (and he has probably inherited it from his mother who also has orange hair). This fact has brought Ichigo many troubles, as it seems to upset many off his upperclassman who enjoy picking fights. Ichigo on the other hand claims that he could not care less what other think about him (his hair or other subjects) and seems to enjoy fighting against the bullies.

In school (Karakura High School) Ichigo has a few friends from his class with whom he hangs out with. Even though it seems that he isn’t interested in school, Ichigo manages to get good grades, a result of studying at home. This fact seems to upset some of his friends who are not so fond of learning.

Ichigo’s family consists of his father, Isshin:Kurosaki and his two younger sisters: Yuzu and Karin. His father, a doctor, has a small medical clinic in their house and all of the members of the Kurosaki household help from time to time. Ichigo’s mother: Masaki died when Ichigo was small so his younger sister Yuzu has taken over the role of ‘housewife’ cleaning and cooking and summoning Ichigo for meals. Ichigo has a rather competitive bond with his father, and the two of them can be constantly seen engaged in some hilarious one on one combat which is always light-hearted.

Like Ichigo, some members of his family have also the ability to see or communicate with ghosts to some extent. But out of them all, Ichigo seems to be the most gifted and sees them wherever he goes.

After Ichigo becomes a Shinigami and his spiritual power is released, this begins to effect some of the other characters, mainly people from his class. Because Ichigo, unlike most Shinigami (there are of course exceptions), constantly produces high amounts of spiritual energy (reiatsu) his body cannot sustain it and it constantly leaks out making others also spiritually aware, but also making him a target for the hollows which are attracted to reiatsu.

This is the character guide for the anime and manga version of Bleach. In here you will find all the information you need about your favorite (or not so favorite) Bleach Character. The character guide is very simple to use because it's organized in different categories (e.x. Main Characters, Villians, Soul Society-Captains etc) which makes it easier to find the character you're looking for. (^-^)/