Bleach Pilot Chapter

The Bleach pilot chapter (also known as Chapter 00) was the chapter that Tite Kubo submitted to Weekly Shōnen Jump's editors after the ending of his previous project, ZombiePowder. The chapter was later included with the Bleach: Official Character Book SOULs.

Major Differences
The pilot contains a number of differences that were later dropped by Kubo. Some of those are:
 * Ichigo's hair is colored black on the cover as opposed to his orange hair.
 * After giving her Shinigami powers to Ichigo, Rukia shrinks in size.
 * Orihime dies and is taken to Soul Society at the end of the chapter.
 * Instead of performing konsō, souls are given a ticket to enter Soul Society.
 * Hollows do not have masks.
 * Ichigo's Shihakushō has a white star under both its sleeve well Rukia's has a white flame.
 * Ichigo's Zanpakutō is the size of a standard Zanpakutō.
 * Orihime's father, who had died three years before Orihime's death, arrives to take her to Soul Society. Rukia identifies him as a Hollow and reveals that he killed Orihime so that she would stay with him forever, because she had stopped praying for him and seemingly forgot about him. He is then defeated by Ichigo. This concept was later adapted into the official, with the character of the father being replaced by Orihime's brother, Sora Inoue.