Dead Girl

Dead Girl is a Plus type spirit of a recently deceased little girl. Ichigo Kurosaki helped her get rid of three skateboarders who disturbed her resting place.

Appearance
This Plus has the appearance of a small girl with ponytails and long fringes. In the manga, the left side of her face was covered in blood, but this was altered in the anime. Also, in the anime she wears a red-white striped tank top and shorts as opposed to the manga, where she wore a knee length dress with a collar.

Synopsis
The Dead Girl is the first spirit of any kind to be seen in both the manga and the anime series. She is introduced after Ichigo is seen beating up Yama-Bro, Mit-Bro and Toshi-Bro, a skateboarding gang who knocked down the flowers that were left for her. In the manga Ichigo seems to posses the ability to make the gang see her, effectively scaring them off. In the anime however, he uses a threat to achieve that.

The next day, in a scene loosely based on the Bleach pilot, when Ichigo goes to bring new flowers for the Dead Girl's memorial sight, he is alarmed by the sounds of a near by ruckus and goes to investigate. The ruckus is caused by an unnamed mantis like Hollow that appears to be chasing the Dead Girl. While they are running the Plus trips and falls and Ichigo, who stops to help her, is about to be attacked by the Hollow when Rukia Kuchiki arrives and purifies it. After the Hollow is defeated the Dead Girl is nowhere to be seen.

That night The dead girl is attacked by yet another Hollow, Fishbone D. In the manga she is shown being hit by a yet unseen assailant on his way to the Kurosaki Clinic, and it is assumed the Hollow devoured her. In the anime the Hollow chases her but lets her go once he senses Ichigo's high Reiryoku.

According to the anime, the Dead Girl holds a key roll in the series, since it was Ichigo's scent on her that drew the Hollows to Ichigo and prompted Fishbone D's attack on the Kurosaki Clinic. This attack set into motion the series of events that brought about the Shinigami Saga and the arcs that followed it.