Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7136323-20130414003028/@comment-29770394-20141111010057

1. The shinigami from the Rukongai are dead, at least from our perspective. (They probably don't see death the way we do.) But I'm not too sure about the nobles. In chapter -12.5, Hitsugaya said that the nobles were born in the Sereitei. So the nobles probably never lived a life in the World of the Living, which means that they can't be considered dead. 2. I think they're reborn in the World of the Living after they die. What bothers me is the amount of presumably dead children in Bleach. Judging from the parakeet boy that Chad befriended, when you go to the Soul Society you maintain your age. In the very first episode of Bleach, there was the ghost girl that was presumably the same age as when she died. So that means Matsumoto, Gin, Hisana, Rukia, Renji, their group of friends, Hitsugaya, Hinamori, her friends, Hisagi, his friends, and the various ghost children in Karakura all died very young, since Matsumoto, Gin, Hisana, Rukia, Renji, their group of friends, Hitsugaya, Hinamori, her friends, Hisagi, and his friends were all shown growing up in the Rukongai. 3. The aging is unclear. I made a similar post in the Visoreds Don't Age discussion. 4.1 Well...Ichigo is special. That's pretty much all I can say. 4.2 Like Isshin said, Ichigo has gotten most of his abilities through brute force, without much communication with his zanpakuto. He never really learned how to control his reiatsu. 5. Kaien Shiba, Byakuya's parents, Kenpachis 2 to 10, Kaname Tousen, Gin Ichimaru, Chojiro Sasakibe, Genryusai Yamamoto and many other unnamed Soul Reapers killed by Vandenreich and Aizen's Hollowfication experiments as Will-o-Wisp said, Ginrei (or so I assume), Ulquiorra, Masaki, Katagiri, Chad's parents and grandfather, Soken (Ishida's grandfather. He's a minor character but he played a big role in Ishida's life so props to him.), Sora (Orihime's brother), Unohana, Ginjo, Tsukishima, Giriko, Barragan and his fraccions, Grimmjow's fraccions. I can't list all of them, that would take hours. 6. I will later! 7. People tend to forget that Quincies are a type of humans. Technically, Ichigo is a soul (shinigami), human, and hollow (visored). I'm not sure, though.