Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Vintage:
October 5, 2004
Status:
Still Airing
Summary:
Kurosaki Ichigo is a 15 year old boy that has an ability to see ghosts/spirits. Because of his ability, he is able to meet a female death god (a.k.a Shinigami) named Kuchiki Rukia. To save his family and friends from unwanted soul-eating spirits (Hollows), Rukia transfers her Shinigami powers to Ichigo. As Rukia takes on a human shell, together they solve mysteries involving spirits and hollows until from the spirit world comes 2 other shinigamis explaining that it is illegal to transfer Shinigami powers to humans and Rukia exceeded the time limit to stay in the human world. After they sentence her death for breaking the laws, Ichigo snaps and swears to everyone he will retrieve Rukia by breaking into the spirit world.
While the series keeps us entertained with the many fights and the animation shows the fights happening it proves to be very entertaining. Nonetheless there are some faults with the series too, such as the pace of the manga constantly going from very slow to very fast then back, as is such the animation overleaps too far many times and so fillers are made so that the manga can continue to progress.
However overall it is well worth watching the anime and reading the manga to see the development of the story and find new characters along the way.