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.