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One of the main characters of the anime, Kurosaki Ichigo is introduced carrying an image of a teenager with weird orange hair that carries a heart of gold. He beats up people who disturb the resting place of innocent souls. Ichigo is not your average 15 year old high school student. What separates Ichigo from regular people is that he has the ability to see supernatural entities due to his high spirit energy commonly referred to as “reiatsu” in the anime.


Ichigo is a student in the local high school of Karakura town where he studies there and does some minor exorcising jobs after classes. Ichigo’s life takes a drastic turn when his town starts experiencing strange occurrences of earthquakes and random explosions. However when Ichigo was actually at the scene when the occurrences happened, he sees a huge monster wearing a white ghastly mask on its face and has a hole in its body. Not knowing what was going on, Ichigo runs for cover but is saved just in time by a girl dressed in typical black Kendo uniform ( minus the armour plates) holding a katana in her right hand. The girl then leaves without saying a single word.

Back at home, Ichigo ponders the events of the day when all of a sudden the very same girl who had saved him evidently walks through the wall of his bedroom. Obviously surprised, Ichigo calls out to the strange intruder but receives no answer. The intruder seems to be talking to herself. Ichigo finally gets her attention when he gives her a kick to the back of the head.

The girl introduces herself as a death god , or as a “shinigami” in Japanese romaji terms. She came from a place called “soul society” and is here to exterminate monsters which she refers to as “hollows”. That would be the same monster that attacked Ichigo and caused damage to Karakura town earlier. Suddenly a scream is heard from somewhere within the house and Ichigo and the female shinigami rush to its source. Outside, Ichigo sees his sisters Yuzu and Karin being attacked by another huge and monstrous hollow.

Ichigo tries to rush to their aid but is held down by the shinigami saying that he can’t possibly defeat the monster. Ichigo refuses to accept that and picks up a chair to confront the hollow with. He challenges the monster and is nearly killed by its rushing attack but once again, Ichigo is saved by the shinigami. Taking a hit from the monster’s jaws in return from protecting Ichigo, she is unable to continue on with the fight. She then concludes that the only way the hollow can be killed is to make Ichigo a shinigami as well. She does that by piercing the tip of her sword or “zanpakutou”( once again in Japanese romaji format ) into Ichigo’s heart and then spiritual power will be transferred.

The female shinigami introduces herself as Kuchiki Rukia just as she plunges the blade into Ichigo’s heart. Ichigo is transformed thus into a shinigami wielding a huge zanpakutou with a rectangular blade. He then goes on and defeats the hollow single handedly. Rukia watches in awe at the size of Ichigo’s zanpakutou. The size of a shinigami’s zanpakutou is relative to the amount of reiatsu of its wielder. Also, Rukia only intended to transfer a small amount of her powers to Ichigo but unfortunately for her, Ichigo naturally absorbed all of Rukia’s powers into him during the transfer. Leaving Rukia as just a common soul with very low reiatsu.

The next morning, Rukia erases the events that had happened the night before from Ichigo’s sisters for the sake of everyone and she decides to stay with Ichigo for awhile to recover her powers before she returns to Soul Society. Ichigo’s journey as a shinigami now begins.

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