Ichigo Kurosaki

* Pre-Timeskip
* Post-Timeskip
* Epilogue

This is a profile for *Ichigo Kurosaki* the character from the series *Bleach*.

## Summary

Ichigo Kurosaki, a seemingly average High-School student, but secretly was born with the ability to see the souls of the dead and other Spiritual beings. After his encounter with the Shinigami Rukia Kuchiki during a life or death situation, he had awakened his powers as a Shinigami, which was from his father. He would go on many adventures, struggle and overcome many adversaries to protect his hometown and friends.

## Items

He is equipped with a soul-bound Zanpakuto, after his timeskip he would develop two Zanpakuto.

## Powers/Skills

**Energy Source: Paraphernalia, Internal**

**Divinity**: Extrasensory Perception (With his special heritage, Ichigo is able to see the Souls of the Dead and other Spiritual entities) Energy Blast (Ichigo using Getsuga Tensho with his Zanpakuto, and later Gran Rey Cero after merging with his Hollow powers post-timeskip) Mode Change (Ichigo possesses many different superpowered forms over the course of his work) Berserk Mode (When he loses control, His Hollow Powers would take over and achieve his Vasto Lorde form) limited Regeneration (Low-Mid, with his Vasto Lorde form can regenerate his wound in his chest)

**Nature**: Superhuman Physical Characteristics (Ichigo with his Spiritual powers possesses increased physical characteristics above human level) Pseudo-Flight (Ichigo like most Soul Reapers can form footholds in the air with their Reishi) Superhuman Speed (With his Bankai allows him enhanced movement and combat speed) Weaponry Mastery (Ichigo is well skilled with using a sword, he recently mastered two swords)

## Stats

**DC:** **Multi-Continent:** Ichigo Post-Timeskip should be close to this level relative to Yhwach after gaining the Soul King's power to lift the Quincy City and he acknowledges his strength. **Island:** The Strength of Ichigo after his Dangai Training could match the strength of Sosuke Aizen with the Hogyoku Transformation (Even higher with Mugetsu). **Mountain**: Ichigo with his Vasto Lorde form could overpower Ulquiorra in his Resurrección: Segunda Etapa, while his weaker Visord form barely survived his Cero Osculas (Should be around this level after Timeskip and regained his powers). **City**: with his Bankai and Visord powers could match the strength of 6th level Espada Grimmjow with his Resurrección and other Captains. **City**: Ichigo after his training and achieving Bankai could match the strength of a Captain level Shinigami. **Town**: After his training with Urahara Pre-Timeskip could match Lieutenant level Shinigami. **Building**: Ichigo at the beginning could hold off an attack from a Menos Cero.

**Durability:** **Multi-Continent:** (Ichigo managed to survive against Yhwach's attacks after his final training at the Soul King Palace). **Island**: (Ichigo after his Dangai Training tanked Aizen's Fragor Blast in his most powerful state at the time). **Mountain**: Ichigo in his Vasto Lorde form destroyed Ulquiorra's strongest attack with his barehands. **City**: Ichigo with his Bankai could tank attacks from Captain level characters with their Bankais (Higher with Virsord powers). **Town**: Ichigo took attacks from Renji pre-timeskip with his Shikai. **Large Building**: At beginning of series could hold off an attack from a Menos.

**Speed:** **Massively Hypersonic +:** Ichigo Kurosaki with his Bankai has the attack speed and movement speed of Lightning (Likely higher with other forms and future training). **Superhuman**: Ichigo with his standard speed is faster than normal humans.

**Range:** Likely Thousands of Kilometers.

## Techniques

Shinigami:

* **Shikai**: After his Bankai's sword is broken, Ichigo discovers he does not possess a true Zanpakutō, but instead wields one formed from his inherited fusion of his Shinigami/Hollow powers. Later, Zangetsu is personally reforged by Ōetsu Nimaiya, using an actual Asauchi. In his inner world, Ichigo, coming to terms with his heritage and powers, gains access to his true Zanpakutō, which had been suppressed all this time. His actual Zanpakutō takes the form of two separate, purely black blades. One is the size of his previous sword, once again in the shape of a khyber knife, with the grip at the base of the blade and a handle extending back from this about roughly the width and length of Ichigo's forearm. There is a thin, hollowed-out portion running along the back edge of the blade from the base to the middle of the blade. The second blade is relatively small, about the size of Ichigo's arm, and is similar to the first blade, but resembles a trench knife more than a sword. Unlike its counterpart, it has an enclosed handle, with a portion acting like a hand guard. Both blades represent a different facet of Ichigo's powers: the larger blade represents his inner Hollow (the manifestation of his Shinigami/Hollow powers) and the smaller blade represents "the old man" (the manifestation of his Quincy powers). After gaining his new Zanpakutō, Ichigo wraps the hilts of both swords in cloth, and now carries the larger blade on his back and the shorter blade on his right hip.

**Shikai Special Ability**: Zangetsu's Shikai is largely used for melee combat, but possesses two known special abilities.
* **Getsuga Tenshō** (月牙天衝, *Moon Fang Heaven-Piercer*; "Piercer of Heaven" in the English anime): At the instant of the slash, Zangetsu, absorbing Ichigo's spiritual energy, releases highly condensed spiritual energy at the tip of the blade, which, magnifying the slash attack, flies forward. This slash takes the form of a crescent moon or the shape of a wave. Ichigo uses this ability without knowing its name several times, but masters the technique later on during his Bankai training. As stated by Zangetsu, knowing the name of an attack heightens its power compared to its strength when the wielder does not know its name. The Getsuga Tenshō is a powerful technique with great force, capable of causing large-scale damage and destruction. Ichigo has used this technique in several different manners, such as striking the ground, creating an omnidirectional blast which knocks away incoming attacks, or slashing at the ground, upturning it and crushing everything in its path. After Ichigo regains his Shinigami powers for the second time, his Getsuga Tenshō is noticeably larger and stronger than it was before he lost his powers. A single strike from it cleanly cut off the top portion of Tsukishima's mansion and dispersed an entire rainstorm. After gaining his true Zanpakutō, Ichigo can fire a **Getsuga Tenshō** by simply pointing his smaller sword at the enemy and making a small slash with it. He can also fire a **Getsuga Tenshō** with his larger sword; this version is completely black, and is powerful enough to blast a large hole in the Soul King Palace and knock someone as powerful as Yhwach several meters back.

* **Getsuga Jūjishō** (月牙十字衝, *Moon Fang Cross-Shaped Piercer*): By firing a **Getsuga Tenshō** with each blade of his true Shikai, Ichigo can fuse them into a large, cross-shaped blast of energy. It is powerful enough to disperse Candice Catnipp's **Electrocution** technique and completely destroy her left arm on contact.

* **Bankai**: **Tensa Zangetsu** (天鎖斬月, *Heaven Chain Slaying Moon*): To activate his Bankai, Ichigo places the two blades of his Shikai side by side, causing a surge of energy to engulf him and the swords. **Tensa Zangetsu** takes the form of a khyber knife variation; the smaller black blade comprises the inner part of the sword and has the handle fixed to it, while the base of the sword is slanted and the blade continues with a section jutting out from the underside as a guard, with a chain attached to it that loops over the top and attaches right before the point of the blade. After Yhwach tries to destroy **Tensa Zangetsu** a second time during his final battle with Ichigo, only the outer white portion of the sword breaks off instead, revealing a blade matching the original form of Ichigo's Shikai, **Zangetsu**, underneath.

**Bankai Special Ability**: While the power of the true **Tensa Zangetsu** is currently unknown, a Soul King-empowered Yhwach considered it dangerous enough to necessitate immediately breaking Ichigo's Bankai following its activation during their battle.
Dangai Powers:

* **Saigo no Getsuga Tenshō** (最後の月牙天衝, *The Final Moon Fang Heaven-Piercer*): By using this technique, Ichigo becomes **Getsuga** (月牙, *Moon Fang*) itself. It is referred to as the **Final Getsuga Tenshō** because if Ichigo uses it, he loses all of his Shinigami powers. For the duration of the ability, Ichigo's hair becomes waist-length and turns black. Light bluish-gray bandages form around his body, tightly wrapped around his torso, right arm, and face, ending just beneath his eyes. Black flame-like markings spread across his chest and wrap around his left arm, and the remains of a tattered black cloak cover his lower body. In this form, Ichigo's body constantly emits smoky black Reiatsu, most of which is focused around his right arm. Being in this form allows Ichigo to use **Mugetsu**. Once it is used, the transformation dissipates. He will lose consciousness, accompanied by intense pain, with the loss of his Shinigami powers following. Any remaining Reiatsu stabilizes, and he will awaken sometime later (roughly a month), followed shortly by the loss of his remaining Reiryoku. When Ichigo lost his Reiatsu, a tiny portion of it accumulated in a single location inside of him over time, and he began to regain it slightly after a year and a half. While using this technique, Ichigo's Reiatsu turns completely black.
	+ **Mugetsu** (無月, *Moonless Sky*): Generating a blade of deep black spiritual energy in his hand, Ichigo swings it at the target. Doing so causes a massive veil of black spiritual energy to erupt upwards and approach the target, darkening the sky and heavily damaging anything caught within the blast. The energy continues to rise, dissipating into the sky.

True Power:

* **Merged Hollow Form**: After Ichigo learned the truth about the source of his Shinigami powers and reforged his Zanpakutō, his Hollow and Quincy came into balance with one another; however, should Ichigo's inner Hollow be woken by large amounts of Quincy Reiatsu, this balance will be disrupted, and Ichigo can meld with his inner Hollow, resulting in a powerful transformation. In this form, the left side of Ichigo's face and neck change to resemble the form his inner Hollow took on while fighting Ulquiorra Cifer, as well as his former Hollowfication; his left eye inverts in color with a black sclera and yellow iris, he has dark marks running down his face and along his neck, and he gains a long, forward-pointing horn on the left side of his head. While in this form, the larger blade of **Zangetsu** turns white.
	+ **Combined Gran Rey Cero-Getsuga Tenshō**: By using the longer sword of **Zangetsu** as a substitute second horn and with his blood as a catalyst, Ichigo can fire a **Gran Rey Cero**; moreover, he can combine it with a **Getsuga Tenshō** to create a massive slashing attack powerful enough to wound a Soul King-empowered Yhwach; though the latter quickly brushed it off, he noted that it was nonetheless a potent technique and proof that he had to begin taking Ichigo seriously.

Hollow Powers:

* "**Cero**" (when Vasto Lorde): Ichigo can fire off a wide yet focused beam of Spiritual Energy from his horns which when made contact expannds outward in a violent explosion of a large scale, it was enough to obliterate large potions of Ulquiorra's body.
* **Hollow Mask**: Ichigo's Hollow mask has the appearance of what could best be described as a menacing skull. The mask is white, and originally had only three red stripes on the left side, which have since increased in number. The stripes change in thickness after he subjugates his inner Hollow. It eventually covers almost the entirety of the mask's left half during his third battle with Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez. While pure white on the right side, the mask possesses a total of ten red stripes spread across three spots on the left side of his mask.

Because Ichigo's inner Hollow took a new form while facing Ulquiorra Cifer, Ichigo's mask has changed again. Where his mask once had a series of thick red stripes which covered almost the entire left half of his mask, there are now only two thick vertical black stripes, each on one half of the mask, which are interrupted by the widened eye-holes and the jaw.
The Hollow mask was originally a sign of Ichigo's possession by his inner Hollow, but after his training with the Visored, it merely indicates he is utilizing his Hollow powers. To access his inner Hollow's power, Ichigo must summon the mask onto his face. He normally does this by placing one of his hands over his face, and concentrating spiritual matter on it in order to manifest the mask (previously, it had appeared on its own before he mastered the Hollow within him), summoning the mask in a "ripping" fashion. With the mask in place, Ichigo's eyes irises become yellow, and he has black sclera and pupils. His voice has a slight Hollow echo to it. With the mask, he gains access to increased physical enhancements. Strangely, though most of the other Visored have been able to shift the position of the mask while apparently still retaining the abilities of their Hollowfied state, as well as using general Hollow abilities, Ichigo has never done either.
Quincy Powers:

* **Blut Vene** (静血装 (ブルート・ヴェーネ), *burūto vēne*; German for "*Blood Vein*", Japanese for "*Stilled Blood Guise*"): One of two Blut abilities, Blut Vene is the defensive Blut. Ichigo's imprisonment by Quilge Opie transferred some of Quilge's Reiatsu to Ichigo, which awakened the memories within his Reiatsu left by his mother, who was a Quincy. This has given him access to the defensive Blut. He has used it to survive an attack from Yhwach's sword, which only left a small cut. This power can also be used to aid Ichigo against critical wounds that have already been inflicted, able to stop the severe loss of blood that would be caused from said wound.

Fullbring Powers:

* **Energy Blast**: Using his incomplete Fullbring, Ichigo can unleash spinning, propeller-like blasts of black spiritual energy, outlined in red. Ichigo compares the feeling of using these blasts to that of using **Getsuga Tenshō**. By charging up this attack, the tsuba becomes bigger and more jagged, with six bars, before launching a larger blast. The attack is flawed, due to its inconsistent power. Its power is determined by the number of blades in it, six being the maximum. If fired in succession, the number of blades decrease, with the attack becoming more fragile with each one it loses. If the attack has anything less than three blades, it can be shattered with ease. Ichigo and Jackie Tristan both conclude if he fires three shots in a row, he leaves himself wide open to attack. With his completed Fullbring, Ichigo can produce the Reiatsu tsuba from his sword's guard-badge and fire a barrage of these blades with a single swing, with each one apparently retaining full power, as none lose any blades. Similar to **Getsuga Tenshō**, Ichigo can keep the energy of his attacks in his sword to augment his sword swings.

* **Getsuga Tenshō**: In his completed Fullbring form, Ichigo can fire off a blue wave of energy from his blade. Though the attack is not as large or powerful as it is with his Shinigami powers, Tsukishima notes how fast it moves, and it can still cause some considerable damage.

## Feats

Ichigo managed to defeat many strong Hollows, Shinigami, Arrancars and Quincies, Master various powers that he had within him overtime and saved the world from destruction.

Blocked an attack that is said to be equal to a million Zanpakuto.

Defeated both the person that *manipulated* him and the creator of the Quincies.

## Weakness/Limitations

Ichigo during some fights can be brash and rush into battles without thinking and baited by others with taunts or psychological manipulation.

Ichigo struggled with maintaining control while the Hollow within him tries to take over at times, either when he pushes himself too far or when he is severely hurt.

His Visord Mask can only be sustained for so long before crumbling away even with training or experience.

## Gallery

Standard Shinigami FormShikai FormBankai FormVisord Mask IchigoVasto Lorde IchigoDangai IchigoFinal Getsuga formFullbringer ModeRegained Shikai form (Post Timeskip)Regained Bankai form (Post Timeskip)Duel wielding Shikai Shinigami FormShingami/Hollow Fused form.Shinigami/Hollow Fused Bankai