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but there WAS a Japanese live-action movie released in 2018, which covered the first arc of the series. On February 22, 2012, Warner Brothers Studios announced the licensing and planned development of a live-action Hollywood movie.
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This arc is infamous for introducing Loads and Loads of Characters (tripling the previous cast manga author Tite Kubo has admitted that when he creates new characters, he does it to avoid writers' block), drastically changing the formula and tone of the series, and for its sheer length, which coined the meme, "Are they still in Soul Society?" Training montages, Shonen Upgrades and ridiculously complicated plans ensue.
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Naturally, Ichigo wants to mount a rescue. In it, Rukia is arrested by her fellow Shinigami for the crime of transferring her powers to a human, and taken back to the afterlife ("Soul Society") to be executed. Unfortunately, his abnormally-high amount of spiritual energy absorbs all of her power instead, forcing him to take up her duties until she can recover and return home.īleach starts off as a quirky Urban Fantasy action-comedy, but soon becomes a much more standard Shonen Fightin' Anime with the start of the Soul Society arc. When Rukia is injured while trying to slay a powerful Hollow about to kill Ichigo and his family, she offers the boy a portion of her powers to defeat it in her place. This is all he knows of the spirit world until the day he encounters Rukia Kuchiki, a Soul Reaper whose profession requires her to destroy evil spirits ("Hollows") and send good spirits ("Pluses" or "Wholes") to the afterlife. Unfortunately, his ability to see and hear ghosts (and his orange-colored hair) kept getting in the way of a normal life. Ichigo Kurosaki would have liked to have been an Ordinary High School Student.