42 Facts About Ichigo Kurosaki

Ichigo Kurosaki is a fictional character in the Bleach manga and anime series and its adaptations created by author Tite Kubo.

Ichigo Kurosaki is the main protagonist of the series, who receives Soul Reaper powers after meeting Rukia Kuchiki, a Soul Reaper assigned to patrol around the fictional city of Karakura Town.

Ichigo Kurosaki is voiced by Masakazu Morita in the Japanese anime adaptation; Johnny Yong Bosch in the English dubbing; and played by Sota Fukushi in the live-action film.

Ichigo Kurosaki's character has been well received among both readers and reviewers.

Ichigo Kurosaki featured often in Weekly Shonen Jump character popularity polls, and was consistently ranked as the most popular character in Bleach.

Ichigo Kurosaki is known as one of the big three anime characters, including Naruto and Luffy.

Merchandise based on Ichigo Kurosaki's likeness has been released, including toys, clothing and action figures.

Ichigo Kurosaki mentioned that as people read more about him they will discover that he is a warm and kind-hearted person.

Ichigo Kurosaki said that Ichigo leads the story and introduces readers to the events in it.

Ichigo Kurosaki is voiced by Masakazu Morita as a teenager and Yuki Matsuoka as a child for the Japanese anime.

Morita said that Ichigo was one of his favorite characters he ever played, alongside Tidus in Final Fantasy X Johnny Yong Bosch voiced him as a teenager and Mona Marshall as a child for the English dub.

Ichigo Kurosaki is one of the students attending Karakura High School and having the ability to see ghosts.

Ichigo Kurosaki meets a Soul Reaper named Rukia Kuchiki from a secret organization called the Soul Society, who are in charge of sending souls to the afterlife.

Ichigo Kurosaki's past is revealed as he faces the Grand Fisher, a hollow who killed his mother when he was nine years old.

In training with Kisuke Urahara in order to rescue Rukia, Ichigo Kurosaki obtains his own Soul Reaper powers and learns the name of his Zanpakuto, Zangetsu.

Ichigo Kurosaki is confronted by members of Gotei 13, the main military force in the Soul Society.

Seventeen months later, Ichigo Kurosaki becomes a senior in high school.

However, Ichigo Kurosaki later learns that Ginjo and his ally Shukuro Tsukishima, a Fullbringer with ability to change people's memories, used him to take Fullbring powers for Xcution's use.

Ichigo Kurosaki goes to Hueco Mundo with his friends to liberate it from one of the Wandenreich's high-ranked officers Quilge Opie.

Later, Ichigo Kurosaki finds out that the Quincies are attacking the Soul Society.

Ichigo Kurosaki returns to the World of the Living, where he learns the truth that his mother was a pure-blood Quincy who was on a verge of hollowification after she was infected by White, Aizen's experimental Hollow.

Ichigo Kurosaki was saved by Isshin at the cost of his Soul Reaper powers.

Ichigo Kurosaki later learns that entity he believed to be Zangetsu is actually the embodiment of his Quincy powers while his inner Hollow is the True Zangetsu.

Ichigo Kurosaki gets overwhelmed, but Tsukishima and Orihime's combined efforts fixed his broken True Tensa Zangetsu.

Ichigo Kurosaki appears in four films for the series, including Memories of Nobody, The DiamondDust Rebellion, Fade to Black and Hell Verse.

Ichigo Kurosaki appears in both of the original video animations; fighting against a Hollow called the Grand Fisher in the first one and combating the rogue Soul Reaper Baishin in the second.

In Rock Musical Bleach, a musical based on the Bleach series, Ichigo Kurosaki is played by Tatsuya Isaka.

Ichigo Kurosaki's character is featured in two volumes from the Bleach Beat Collection CD soundtrack series which features themes composed by his Japanese voice actor, Masakazu Morita.

Ichigo Kurosaki appears in the first volume of Bleach Breathless Collection CD soundtrack series together with the embodiment of his Quincy powers that posed as the Zanpakuto spirit Zangetsu.

Amongst the Bleach reader base, Ichigo Kurosaki has been always highly ranked in the Weekly Shonen Jump popularity polls for the series.

Ichigo Kurosaki has usually taken first place, though in early 2008 he dropped to third.

Ichigo Kurosaki ranked tenth in the category "The Character I Want to Be My Groom" from the 2008 survey and eight in the 2009 poll.

Ichigo Kurosaki was 20th in IGN's "Top 25 Anime Characters of All Time" with comments focused on his design and personality.

Ichigo Kurosaki has appeared twice in the Anime Grand Prix polls, ranking as one of the most popular male anime characters.

Various merchandise based on Ichigo Kurosaki's appearance has been created, including action figures, plush toys and key-chains.

Los Angeles Timess Charles Solomon comments Ichigo Kurosaki's character has little in common with protagonists from other series due to his bad temper and how he tends to fight.

The way Ichigo Kurosaki becomes a Soul Reaper was found to be relatively common by Carlos Alexandre.

Ichigo Kurosaki noted that Ichigo's character of a "tough guy with a heart of gold" had already been done in several series.

Charles White from IGN praised Ichigo Kurosaki's climactic fight against Byakuya Kuchiki as one of the best fights in the Bleach series, and later Ramsey Isler gave additional praise to both the design and voice acting for Ichigo Kurosaki's inner Hollow.

Ichigo Kurosaki praised the scenes in which Ichigo manages to stop Rukia's execution and his subsequent demonstration of his Bankai as one of the "eminently satisfying landmark moments in the series".

Anime News Network criticized the handling of how Ichigo Kurosaki faced off his biggest nemesis in the following arcs, Aizen and Ginjou.

Comic Book Resources noteda a common complaint the fandom has had about Ichigo Kurosaki is that he is overpowered when in the narrative as he constantly gets new power with ease.