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Rukia Kuchiki started out as a
Shinigami (Death God), but in the
first episode she gives her powers
to Ichigo Kurosaki. She met Ichigo
and when they were fighting a
Hollow, and when she got hurt she
told him to stab her sword into him...
and he did, which changed him into a
soul reaper! She then enters a faux
body and convinces Ichigo to help
her in her work as a Shinigami until
her powers return.
After a while, her older brother
comes and takes her back to Soul
Society. Giving away her powers was
a serious crime punishable by
execution. Ichigo and a few others
then go to Soul Society to rescue
her.
Rukia Kuchiki,...

Confronted by a home intruder, Jake Terrey tipped the odds in his favour by pulling down the replica anime sword hanging on his wall and brandishing it.

"It's not that dangerous but it's quite intimidating," the 21-year-old said of the timber ornament, modelled on Japanese manga series Bleach.

Mr Terrey, a fan of manga, told ninemsn he came upon the alleged burglar after returning home to his ground floor apartment in Summer Hill, in Sydney's inner west, after a jog shortly before midday on December 20.

As a professional fashion photographer, his first concern was his laptop and the $10,000 worth...