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The Bleach anime and manga series features a large number of characters created by Tite Kubo. The series takes place in a fictional universe in which the characters are divided into various factions and fictional races with distinct themes. All these races are human beings, that in the moment they died, they were able or not to rest in peace. Souls who manage to rest go to a place called Soul Society where they live for a long time until resurrecting in a new body or they instead can become Soul Reapers, who take care of souls.

The series opens telling how a teenager called Ichigo Kurosaki is given Soul Reapers power by Rukia Kuchiki. As he assumes the duties of a Soul Reaper, Ichigo has to fight against giant creatures called hollow which are really dead people who are not able to rest in peace. As he faces several hollows, some of his friends awake their own powers due to being close to him and start helping him. However, Soul Society, a type of military of Soul Reapers arrests Rukia for giving her powers to Ichigo and prepare to execute her. Unwilling to let her die, Ichigo and his friends go to rescue her to Soul Society, causing them to face several Soul Reapers. As the storyline continue, a former Soul Reaper called Sōsuke Aizen gathers a large number of hollows called arrancar, who obtained Reaper powers and prepares to attack Soul Society.

When creating the series, the author Kubo, is focused on around the a large number of new character designs and deals with making them participate in the plot. The characters have received praise and criticism by reviewers from anime, manga and other media. While some reviewers considered some of them "relatively stereotypical" of manga characters, most of them remarked how each of them had their own characteristic and praised their illustration and how they fight.

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