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Soul Society
All significant characters in bleach possess some degree of paranormal and superhuman abilities, and these are explained by their souls generating higher than usual levels of a paranormal energy called reiatsu (霊圧, lit. "spirit pressure"). The three predominant character types in Bleach are humans, Soul Reapers, and hollows.
The humans of Bleach are much like the residents of modern Japan. A normal human cannot see or sense spirits in any way unless that spirit possesses an artificial human body called a gigai, so humanity remains unaware of the existence of the spirit world. Very rarely a human like Ichigo Kurosaki is born who is able to see, interact, or fight with spirits, and others can gain these abilities by exposure to large amounts of spiritual energy, which happens to a number of Ichigo's friends during the course of the series.
The Soul Reapers (死神, shinigami, lit. "death god") are a military order of psychopomps based in Soul Society (尸魂界(ソウル·ソサエティ), Sōru Sosaeti), a sort of heaven.Soul society also has an academy for souls called ''Soul reaper academy''.Soul Reapers escort the souls of the dead to Soul Society through the ritual of soul burial (魂葬, konsō). Their other major duties are protecting humans from hollows, and maintaining order in Soul Society. Soul Reapers all possess supernatural powers, which manifest through their zanpakutō swords, and kidō magic spells. Several factions of ex-Soul Reapers are featured in Bleach's story, most prominent among them the members of Sōsuke Aizen's rebellion and the Visoreds, former Soul Society elites who were exiled after obtaining hollow powers. Soul Society resembles feudal Japan, and consists of two major portions: eighty residential districts called the Rukongai (流魂街, Town of Wandering Spirits), which are inhabited by the souls of the dead, and the walled city Seireitei (瀞霊廷, Court of Pure Souls), the home and military base of the Soul Reapers. The Rukongai districts are ordinally ranked, with the lower-numbered districts being more peaceful. Soul Society is nominally ruled by a king, who resides in another realm within Soul Society, but in practice is controlled by the Soul Reapers.
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