Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24726378-20150102200745/@comment-25227771-20150103053207

If we're talking strictly about the concept of Shinigami, I'm going to go on a whim and say that perhaps it's someone we don't know. Perhaps the entire concept of Shinigami has, in fact, existed since the dawn of Soul Society because that is basically Bleach's version of heaven and for as long as there has been life and death, there must have been someone to play Charon/Grim Reaper/Angel of Death to ferry or accompany souls of the deceased to their (not so) final resting place.