Interesting how vastly different it is to how the manga adapted into.
I don't clearly remember the Bleach lore of the hollows, but it felt very different from what I remembered until I informed myself again through wiki.
Nonetheless, it's intriguing how different it is overall while being more comedic like early Bleach before a villain arc starts.
Ichigo being more involved with ghosts is cool and would have been great as a concept of a protagonist empathisizing and comprehending and helping the dead ghosts which isn't exactly the case in Bleach.
The difference of how he becomes indebted to Rukia is far less dramatic and more comedic than Bleach, where here she castes the ghosts following him away which causes her to shrink as Mini-Rukia which is hilarious.
Unlike the original where Rukia takes the chance to turn Ichigo into a Soul Reaper so they can both survive and defeat a Hollow.
The kinda earlier hint of Orihime's crush on Ichigo was sweet, but crazy that she was used as a ghost heroine from the start after she died from her father's wish (shoving her down stairs) as a (unmasked) hollow to be with her.
It's odd to see a father become a hollow and kill her daughter as one of temporary Soul Reaper Ichigo's first event, but overall it was decent and had cool concepts.
Although, the manga is far superior which I prefer and am glad how it evolved from this...
I personally liked how this prototype had Ichigo as more of a Ghost-Helper which could have been cool if it was included more in the manga.
A father turning into an evil father wanting to kill his daugther as a hollow due to jealousy feels excessively ridiculous... a ghost heroine is sad but a powerful introduction in its own way, while Rukia's involvement was decent comedically. 6/10. |