
Urahara transforms Ichigo into a Soul Reaper, who then battles the Hollow.
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The Kurosaki family and some of Ichigo's friends watch a live filming of a TV program about spirit medium Don Kanonji, who unknowingly turns a spirit into a Hollow during the show. "Second Contact (it was beyond the scope of our understanding)"

Recovered from his injuries, Ichigo admits that he wants to stay a Soul Reaper so he can protect others. Grand Fisher tries to use his mother's image to distract Ichigo from fighting back, but he overcomes it and continues attacking, forcing Grand Fisher to flee. As Ichigo saves them, he learns the Hollow is the same one that killed his mother. While visiting the gravesite, Ichigo's younger sisters, Yuzu and Karin Kurosaki, are attacked by a Hollow named Grand Fisher. When Ichigo tells Rukia about his mother's death, Rukia suspects that his mother was actually killed by a Hollow. Ichigo and his family visit their mother's grave on the anniversary of her death to pay their respects. The artificial soul named Kon is put into a stuffed lion plushie, and Ichigo keeps him in his room. 9 A Fighting Boy 2" ( 戦う少年2 "Tatakau Shōnen 2" ?) (The Cigarette Blues Mix) 7 Sharp Will, Dull Blade" ( 意志は鋭し、刃は鈍し "Ishi wa Surudoshi, Yaiba wa Nibushi" ?) 5 A Fighting Boy" ( 戦う少年 "Tatakau Shōnen" ?) He returns the artificial soul to the candy, which Rukia then takes from him and gives back to Ichigo. The soul is then captured by Kisuke Urahara, the shopkeeper who accidentally sold the candy to Rukia. Ichigo finds and saves him from a Hollow attack. The new soul is faulty, however, and only aims to do whatever he wants, such as playing around the city.

Rukia gives Ichigo a special candy to allow him to leave his body, and another soul to take control of it, to transform into a Soul Reaper when she is not around. Ichigo arrives and defeats the Hollow, allowing the young boy's soul to move on to the Soul Society, where he can rest in peace. New Girl, Part 2 (The Substitute)"Ĭhad is attacked by the unseen Hollow that as a human murdered the boy he protects. Yasutora "Chad" Sado, another of Ichigo's classmates, later finds a parakeet harboring the soul of a boy who is also haunted by a Hollow and commits to protect him from it. With his new found abilities, Ichigo discovers that one of his classmates, Orihime Inoue, is haunted by the spirit of her older brother, and defeats him. Rukia appears at Ichigo's high school the next day, telling him that he is to become a Substitute Soul Reaper while she recovers. Ichigo defeats the Hollow with his zanpakutō, a sword used by the Soul Reapers. As an evil, soul-eating spirit called a Hollow attacks Ichigo, he absorbs most of the injured Rukia's powers and becomes a Soul Reaper. Ichigo Kurosaki, a teenager who can see ghosts, meets Rukia Kuchiki, a Soul Reaper who is responsible for protecting spirits. The company released a hardcover "collector's edition" of the first volume with a dust jacket on August 5, 2008, followed by a box set on September 2, 2008, containing the first 21 volumes, a poster, and a booklet about the series. Viz Media released the first volume on Jas of Jthirty-one volumes have been released. The latest volume is forty-six, released on August 4, 2010. The first volume was released on January 5, 2002.
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The individual chapters are collected by Shueisha in a series of tankōbon volumes, which include a poem based on the cover character.

North American licensor Viz Media has been serializing the individual chapters in Shonen Jump since November 2007 in the United States. An airing anime adaptation, produced by Studio Pierrot and TV Tokyo, premiered on TV Tokyo on October 5, 2004. These "negative" chapters are side stories and consist of events that precede the start of the series. In addition to the main series chapters, some chapters are published with a negative chapter number. Most chapter names are in English and have katakana above them to indicate how they are read in Japanese, similar to furigana ruby characters used with advanced kanji characters. Since Bleach 's premiere, four hundred chapters have been released in Japan. He also encounters former Soul Reaper Sōsuke Aizen, who created an army of powerful hollow called arrancar to destroy the Soul Reapers' organization, Soul Society. Since that event, Ichigo has to fight hollows, evil spirits that attack people. The plot follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki, a teenager who accidentally steals the powers of the Soul Reaper Rukia Kuchiki and subsequently assumes her duties while she convalesces. In Japan, they have been published in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump since 2001. The chapters of the Bleach manga are written and illustrated by Tite Kubo. Cover of the first tankōbon for Bleach, released in Japan by Shueisha on January 5, 2002
