Part-time student full-time Soul Reaper Ichigo is one of the chosen few guardians of the afterlife Ichigo Kurosaki never asked for the ability to see ghosts-he was born with the gift When his family is attacked by a Hollow-a malevolent lost soul-Ichigo becomes a Soul Reaper dedicating his life to protecting the innocent & helping the tortured spirits themselves find peace Find out why Tite Kubo's Bleach has become an international manga smash-hit! The feud between the Soul Reapers & Quincies is as long as it is complicated & for Ichigo Kurosaki it just got personal His mother was from a Quincy family before she married his Soul Reaper father & now Ichigo's dual heritage has been unleashed in the form of his true Zanpaku-to But while Ichigo is fighting to come to terms with his real nature the countdown to the last nine days of the world has begun Best-selling paranormal action-adventure series now available in a bargain 3-in-1 omnibus edition Releases 4 times a year for 25 volumes Series ends at 25 Volumes 1-17 of the omnibus edition have sold through over 113000 copies in the US to date (Book Scan 117) Volumes 1-69 of the single volumes have sold through over 2529000 copies in the US to date (Book Scan 117) Awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award in the shonen (boys) category in 2005