The Bleach Character Book [Discussion]

Hermie · Feb 12, 2006

That's right, first databook released. You can order it here: http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4088740793/deedee-22/ref=nosim/250-9875433-7467423

What we have found out so far:

Djudge said:
A few of these are common sense confirmations from the Bleach character book VIBEs which was published and released earlier this week, but I thought they'd be nice to share with the community (Original source, Bleach Notes blog):

* Only a small amount of souls which house superior spirit powers and thus carries the capacity to be a Shinigami graduate from the masses of Rukongai.

* Furthermore, of these graduating Shinigami, only a select few have the talent to join the Gotei 13.

* All Shinigami find existance as a sort of aristocrat and are allowed to dwell inside of the Seireitei.

* A soul which has passed a "fixed period" in Soul Society will eventually reincarnate back to the Living World.

* If a soul is born within the Seireitei, it will automatically gain nobility in Soul Society.

* There is a royalty class in Soul Society.

* It's unclear what the King actually does, other than he has a specific system of "specialy duties" which are actively carried out. The duties apparently require a very high level of competency or skill of some sort.

* In the Four Noble Houses, it is clear that the only ones revealed are the Kuchiki and Shihouin families.

* There were Five Noble Houses at one time, but the Shiba family fell into ruin...

* While the Gotei 13's main duty is to defend the Seireitei, they are also allocated districts (Rukongai?) to defend.

* In addition to these duties, Shinigami also have to deal with the business of being assigned to the Living World.

* Each Division is made up of just over 200 Shinigami, with the Gotei 13's standing force being just around 3000 total enlisted troops.

* The Central 46 deals not only with the judicial system, but also with general administration and legislature.

The Soul Society Hiearcy:

LiveJournal Society said:
- We finally know the 1st Division fuku-taichou's name: 雀部長次郎 (Sasakibe Choutarou)
- Hantarou's zanpakutou (so he DOES have one -.-; name: 瓢丸 (Hisagomaru)
- Soul Society has a royal family in the administration hierachy ... so there's a king? o_o
- Shiba family used to be the fifth noble family ... not one of the four as the fans speculated. Interesting. So out of the four families, the only ones revealed so far are the Kuchiki and Shihouin family.
- Members of the noble family are born in Soul Society.

Here's a link in Japanese with, among other things, the characters height and weight. needs translation!

A lot of people now guess that Isshin may have been in the royal guard...

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Merged the previous "Bleach Character Book" Thread with the "Discussion [Bleach Databook]" Thread... they were both the same thing. :smile-big