The teenaged cast of Bleach's first arc in their high school uniforms. Left to right: Rukia, Ichigo, Chad (top), Tatsuki (front), Uryū, Orihime, Keigo (background) and Mizuiro.

The and created. The series takes place in a in which the characters are split into various factionalized. Star trek voyager ost download. All these races are subdivisions of humanity, but are distinguished by whether they live on earth or in one of the, by possession of thematically contrasting, and by the use of aesthetics drawn from the artistic traditions of different real-life regions. The main character of Bleach is a Japanese teenager named who has the ability to. One day he is visited by a spirit named, who is a Soul Reaper from the Soul Society whose mission is deal with hungering lost souls known as Hollows. When he sees Rukia getting grievously wounded by a Hollow in his presence, Ichigo is granted her powers of and to carry out Rukia's Soul Reaper duties as she recovers. As Ichigo guides the recently deceased to the afterlife while contending with Hollows, he clashes and forms alliances with the other supernaturally powered residents of his city, namely three of his high school classmates.

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Many individual Bleach characters and the series' character design work have been praised, though Bleach 's constantly-expanding character roster has been a point of criticism in the press. The size of the cast has been explained by author Kubo as the result of his writing process, in which he first creates new figures, then writes their personalities and character arcs, and finally assembles these interactions into a new plot. The overall response to this technique is mixed, with some reviewers believing the resulting characters are still relatively stereotypical and often get little individual focus, while others have remarked that even secondary characters feel like protagonists of their own stories. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Creation and conception [ ] Bleach's creative process is focused around. When writing plotlines or having difficulties generating new material, begins by thinking of new characters, often en masse, and rereading previous volumes of Bleach. Kubo has said that he likes creating characters with outward appearances that do not match their true nature, an element that can be found in many Bleach characters, as he is 'attracted to people with that seeming contradiction', and finds an 'urge to draw people like that when [he] works.' When creating characters for the manga, Kubo first designs character appearances and only then decides what their personalities will be, in reflection of what he drew.