leadpencils | bleach bible

• “We fear that which we cannot see”
• 2.23am Friday – Rukia arrives in Karakura Town
• “And so fell the sword of fate”
• 7.30pm Friday – Ichigo exposes goons to little girl spirit
• ICHIGO IS 15 YEARS OLD
• What was rukia doing between 2.23 in the morning and 7.30 in the evening
• Kurosaki Clinic
• Shinigami walk through walls in the physical realm at will
• Hell butterflies unbound by normal laws of physics too
• As soon as Ichigo mentions ‘invisible woman in samurai gear’ Isshin knows what’s up
• “I would kill an insolent fool like you, but the provisional spirit law forbids unauthorized executions.”
• Soul Society is where all souls go
• Konsou – soul funeral
• Whole (Plus) – Normal spirit, standard ghost
• Hollows (Minus) – Hollows attack the living and the dead indiscriminately to devour their souls (spirit energy)
o Drawn to high levels of spirit energy, but will not hesitate in snacking.
• Shinigami in real world have two duties:
o Send Pluses to SS via Konsou
o “Vaporize” (cleanse?) Hollows
• Breaking kidou through force of will possible, but will damage soul to some extent
• Rukia turned her back on a Hollow. Bad Idea.
• How to become a Shinigami:
o Be a human with high spiritual energy levels
o Find a Shinigami willing to turn you
o Get stabbed through the heart with a zanpakutou
o Survive being infused with a portion of the shinigami’s spiritual energy
• Ichigo absorbs all of Rukia’s reiatsu, leaving her as little more than a Plus
• Urahara shows up after all the ruckus is over
o Who else sensed the Hollow?

• Isshin does not remember getting hurt.
• Karakura High has classes on Saturday
• Rukia started classes that day, blending in successfully as a HS student, meaning that she’s already met all Ichigo’s friends
• Gigai – temporary body Shinigami inhabit until their powers return; implying that all kidou are cast from hp
• Gigai disguise Shinigami from Hollows completely (maybe?)
• SHE KNOCKS HIS SOUL OUT OF HIS BODY AND LEAVES IT THERE
• THAT’S NOT A GOOD THING
• PEOPLE NOTICED
• Yumizawa Children’s Park
• Spirit phones receive messages about Hollows crossing the border between spirit world and human realm
o Accurate to specific area, and time ± 15 minutes

• Orihime nearly gets hit by a car the night before
• Ichigo smacked every ball, despite being told to only hit the ones with heads on them; he protests that rukia can’t draw for shit (next day)
• The head is a Hollow’s weak spot, the best way to defeat them is from behind.
• “Save the code of bushido for human foes!”
• Ichigo concerned about Orihime constantly getting hurt, offers to walk her home
o She declines (has a crush)
• Orihime bffs with “one guy I’ve known since 8th grade” (ishida?)
• Older brother died three years ago, in a car accident
o Orihime carried him to the Clinic
o He died before they could get him transferred to the hospital
o Ichigo + Orihime witnessed the death?
• Yuzu + Karin in 5th grade
• Rukia living in Ichigo’s closet, stealing Yuzu’s clothes
• The reason you hit a hollow from behind is so you never see a hollow’s face
• Orihime’s teddy bear gets a rip down its face where acidwire gets slashed

• Tatsuki is giving Orihime advice on how to ‘seduce’ Ichigo
• Acidwire shoves his hand through Orihime’s chest, KOing her
• Tatsuki is unaffected, but freaked out
• Hollows eat everyone after they eat their own families
• “They don’t eat souls because they’re hungry. They eat souls to ease their pain. Hollows are fallen souls. Souls that were not admitted to the Soul Society by a Soul Reaper… Souls that were left behind… Souls that weren’t saved from other Hollows. These fall, lose their hearts, and become Hollows themselves. Then the Hollow souls forever strives to fill the emptiness inside. It stalks the people it loved most in life. You’ve heard of widows who soon follow their husbands to the grave? Their husbands ate their souls.”
• Tatsuki is getting slashed up, but cannot see what’s attacking her.
• A human soul that’s knocked out of their body quickly tires
o Is connected to physical body by a chain, connected to the heart
• Orihime lives in an apartment (no. 202!)

bleach bible

volume 1

CHAPTER ONE

chapter 2

chapter 3

Chapter 4