Lance Caselman

Immediately after checking into the Kurosaki Clinic with a mysterious scar on his back, the muscle-bound Chad goes AWOL. Accompanying Chad is a talking parakeet imbued with the soul of a young boy named Yuichi. It doesn't take newbie Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki long to surmise that a Hollow must be involved. Ichigo is about to sidcover that not every soul is bound for the Soul Society, especially if it's tainted with innocent blood.

A new reality-show craze is sweeping the nation, garnering legions of screaming fans (the majority of them being teenaged girls). But this program comes with a supernatural twist--the host, a media-savvy spiritualist, travels to local hotspots and performs exorcisms, live on national TV! Surly Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki has his doubts about this primetime prima donna, and his assumptions are about to be put to the test--the show is heading straight...

As the execution of Rukia begins, Ichigo is nowhere to be found.

Ichigo Kurosaki, born with the ability to see ghosts, is given the power of a Soul Reaper by shinigami Rukia Kuchiki so he can save his family from a Hollow, a malevolent lost soul, but Rukia's decision to give Soul Reaper powers to a human has angered the Soul Society which wants to eliminate Ichigo, and make Rukia pay for her crime.

With Rukia's execution looming, Ichigo and the rest of the rescue squad must find a way to break her out of the prison as her sentence has been moved up and imprisonment is close to breaking her spirit.

"Ichigo may have thought getting into the Soul Society was hard, but it did nothing to prepare him and his friends for the reality of the Seireitei! Now the rescuers are all split up, forced to take on battle-hardened Soul Reapers without backup. Can Ichigo train hard enough and fast enough to take down Rukia's jailer before it's too late?!"--Back cover.

In order to qualify for the "Shaman Fight in Tokyo," Yoh must defeat Silva and the five animal spirits he controls, or wait another five hundred years for the next tournament.

Kazuki and Tokiko fight Dr. Butterfly and his humanoid homunculus soldiers who plan on attacking a high school.