

It is not uncommon for captains to not see each other as a whole group for long periods of time, except for cases involving a threat to all of the Soul Society, a captain's punishment, or to a lesser degree, a captain's promotion. The only general authority to call forth a combined front would be that of an edict from the Central 46 Chambers, or more often the Head-Captain. In addition to these duties, Shinigami also have to deal with the business of being assigned to the World of the Living. The Gotei 13's main duty is to defend the Seireitei but they are also allocated districts in the Rukon District to defend. The command of the divisions are generally left to the discretion of its particular Captain, who commonly runs it whatever way he or she sees fit, allowing for the change of a division's traditional duties to an entirely new set and even the creation of a separate institution connected to the division. The Thirteen Court Guard Squads, in contrast to the normal operations of modern-day militaries, does not operate as a cohesive unit normally.

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While there's no shortage of series with simple titles like that ( Darker than Black, Black Clover, Black Butler), just Black came across as too generic. The color black often has associations with death in Western cultures, and the Soul Reaper's outfits at this point were black to reflect that, so it seemed fitting. Of course, that meant he needed a new title again, and his next choice was Black.

With gun-wielding shinigami in mind, Kubo came up with the title Snipe, as in "sniper." Guns didn't feel quite right, however, especially in conjunction with a more traditional outfit like a kimono, and so Kubo ended up changing their main weapon to swords, known as Zanpakuto. As the idea for Bleach grew more solid, Kubo contemplated what kind of weapons these Soul Reapers might use, and surprisingly his first idea wasn't swords-it was guns.

In an interview with Liveabout, Kubo revealed the origins of the manga series. Related: Bleach Has Never Looked Better in Art From Naruto and One Piece Creators Indeed, one of the manga's first panels is Rukia in that outfit. One of the trademarks of Kubo's writing style has come to be designing and creating new characters as a means of dealing with writer's block, so it's only fitting that the entire series would start off that way as well. The concept for the series was quite a bit different than what it ended up as, but the seed for what fans know as Bleach started with a sketch of a shinigami/death god (Soul Reapers, as they'd come to be known) wearing a black kimono.
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Manga fans are used to weird titles, from full sentences like That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime to nonsensical English phrases like Darling in the Franxx and simple transliterations of Japanese words like Inuyasha, but it turns out Bleach is one title that has a bit more going on than it appears on the surface.īleach began serialization in 2001, and was the second series created by Tite Kubo, after the short-lived Zombiepowder was dropped in 2000.
