Tite Kubo

Immediately after checking into the Kurosaki Clinic with a mysterious scar on his back, the muscle-bound Chad goes AWOL. Accompanying Chad is a talking parakeet imbued with the soul of a young boy named Yuichi. It doesn't take newbie Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki long to surmise that a Hollow must be involved. Ichigo is about to sidcover that not every soul is bound for the Soul Society, especially if it's tainted with innocent blood.

A new reality-show craze is sweeping the nation, garnering legions of screaming fans (the majority of them being teenaged girls). But this program comes with a supernatural twist--the host, a media-savvy spiritualist, travels to local hotspots and performs exorcisms, live on national TV! Surly Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki has his doubts about this primetime prima donna, and his assumptions are about to be put to the test--the show is heading straight...

Rukia's childhood friend Renji makes a rash decision to kill the captain of his own squad in order to save Rukia from her death sentence.

Ichigo and company meet their first obstacle on the road to saving Rukia from the Soul Society: Jidanb?o, the monstrous guard who has not let anyone pass through the Western Gate in more than three hundred years.

Honing his fighting skills and spiritual energies for the day he will have to enter the Soul Society's world to retrieve Rukia, Ichigo finds himself battling to keep his Chain of Fate from consuming itself and turning him into a Hollow.

While Ganju experiences difficulties with his opponent and Ury?u gets the opportunity to prove his strength, Ichigo defeats Ikkaku and discovers where Rukia is being detained before her execution. Presented in graphic novel format.

Ichigo Kurosaki, born with the ability to see ghosts, is given the power of a Soul Reaper by shinigami Rukia Kuchiki so he can save his family from a Hollow, a malevolent lost soul, but Rukia's decision to give Soul Reaper powers to a human has angered the Soul Society which wants to eliminate Ichigo, and make Rukia pay for her crime.

With the thirteen court guard companies on the verge of a civil war, soul reaper Ichigo Kurosaki battles Byakuya Kuchiki and the fate of Rukia is decided.

Ichigo Kurosaki learns the truth about the collapse of the Soul Society, uncovering a far-reaching conspiracy that threatens the Soul Society's future and their attempts to help tortured spirits find peace.

Soul reaper Ichigo Kurosaki asks the Visoreds for help in controlling his inner hollow in order to become stronger.