Ichigo Kurosaki, a teenage boy who can see ghosts, helps a young girl ghost when some skateboarders knock over a vase offering for her. The next day Ichigo sees the young girl being chased by a big monster called a Hollow. Ichigo goes to help the girl but when the girl is just about to be eaten, a female Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki, appears and saves them. That night Rukia visits Ichigo's room and is surprised when she realizes she is visible to him. While they are conversing a Hollow appears and terorizes Ichigo's family and household. After receiving a terrible injury from the Hollow, Rukia makes a final attempt to save her life, as well as that of the Kurosaki family and transfers her powers to Ichigo so he can save his family.

Bleach Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - The Day I Became a Shinigami
• s01e02 - A Shinigami's Work
• s01e03 - The Older Brother's Wish, the Younger Sister's Wish
• s01e04 - Cursed Parakeet
• s01e05 - Beat the Invisible Enemy!
• s01e06 - Fight to the Death! Ichigo vs. Ichigo
• s01e07 - Greetings from a Stuffed Toy
• s01e08 - June 17, a Memory of Rain
• s01e09 - Unbeatable Enemy
• s01e10 - Assault on Trip at Sacred Ground!
• s01e11 - The Legendary Quincy
• s01e12 - A Gentle Right Arm
• s01e13 - Flower and Hollow
• s01e14 - Back to Back, a Fight to the Death!
• s01e15 - Kon's Great Plan
• s01e16 - The Encounter, Renji Abarai!
• s01e17 - Ichigo Dies!
• s01e18 - Reclaim! The Power of the Shinigami
• s01e19 - Ichigo Becomes a Hollow!
• s01e20 - Ichimaru Gin's Shadow

Bleach Show Summary

From creator Tite Kubo, comes the story of a world where passing lurks impalpable to an everyday human's eyes. Ichigo Kurosaki helps run a local clinic with his family but Ichigo has the unusual ability to see poltergeists but rather than react with surprise he merely sees it as an annoyance. Ichigo helps those when he cares but can't bring himself to care enough... until one fateful day. A small, mysterious woman appears on duty inside his room, a Soul Reaper known as Rukia. Soon enough Ichigo and Rukia get formal in the oddest of ways and in such an untimely matter the losses begin. The Kurosaki family is soon attacked. This leads Ichigo on his first step to accepting the roles and responsibility's a Soul Reaper must uphold.