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OTHER CHARACTER


Don Kanonji

• Don Kanonji (ドン・観音寺 Don Kan'onji?) – Voiced by: Shigeru Chiba (Japanese), Michael Sorich (English)
Don Kanonji is a popular spirit medium who has a television show called Ghost BusT that, at the time of his introduction, is watched by 25% of Japan's population. He later formed the Karakura Superheroes, which consists of the Kurosaki sisters and the children at the Urahara Shop, to get the show's declining ratings up. The method in which Don Kanonji used to rid ghosts, thinking he was sending spirits to heaven, actually quickly caused those spirits to become hollows (he would take his cane and forcibly rip open the holes in spirits that hadn't fully changed into hollows yet). He found this out when he and Ichigo Kurosaki fought a hollow that appeared because of Don Kanonji during a television taping at Karakura Town. His special attack is "Golden Kanonball," a tiny ball of golden light that moves slowly and explodes with surprising power. He speaks in a mixture of Japanese and English. His trademark pose is to cross both arms over his chest and laugh boisterously and deeply. His most famous sentence is Smells Like Bad Spirit!, that is a tribute to Smells Like Teen Spirit, one of Nirvana's songs.

• Yūichi Shibata (柴田 優一 Shibata Yūichi?) [Deceased] – Voiced by: Makoto Tsumura (Japanese), Colleen O'Shaughnessey (English)
A supposedly cursed "parakeet" (actually a cockatiel) that found its way into Chad's protection, Yūichi is actually the ghost of a young boy tormented by a vicious hollow. He is guided into Soul Society by Ichigo and eventually meets up with Chad again.

• Oscar Joaquin de la Rosa - Voiced by: Tadashi Hirose (Japanese), Kim Strauss (English)
Often referred to as Abuelo, (Spanish for grandfather), he is Yasutora Sado's adopted grandfather, living in Mexico. He teaches Chad to be gentle and not use his physical strength to hurt and intimidate people. Chad honors his memory by protecting a Mexican coin given by De la Rosa with his life.

• Midoriko Tōno (遠野 翠子 Tōno Midoriko?)
Midoriko is Yuzu and Karin's friend and schoolmate who has seen Ichigo while possessed by Kon's spirit. She is frequently threatened by Karin into forcing herself to believe she has seen nothing out of the ordinary whenever something strange happens, especially when it involves Ichigo. According to her diary entries found during the sketches of volume 14, Midoriko is also usually blamed for Karin's carelessness (such as forgetting to water the class' chrysanthemums) and also has a crush on Keigo Asano.

• Sora Inoue (井上 昊 Inoue Sora?) [Deceased] – Voiced by: Yuji Ueda (Japanese), Liam O'Brien (English)
Sora is Orihime Inoue's older brother. He raised her for most of her life, and died in the Kurosaki Clinic from wounds suffered in a car accident three years before the series begins. He enters the story quickly as a hollow, Acidwire. In the anime, he is seen dragged to Hueco Mundo to be turned into a hollow at the behest of Grand Fisher. This is not shown or even suggested in the manga; one can assume that his feelings of being forgotten by Orihime were what prompted his transformation in this case. His name is Kakei in the official English-language manga translation, but he is still called Sora in the character popularity polls. Curiously, before being purified by Ichigo, Sora was able to remove his hollow mask and recover his original personality. While such an act has been described as the process which creates an arrancar, Sora remains in hollow form, albeit with a human head. Presumably, this is because of Sora resisting his hollow self, rather than the hollow itself removing the mask.

• Yama, Mit, and Toshi
Yama, Mit, and Toshi are three skateboarders who briefly appear in the first chapter and are beaten up by Ichigo for breaking a bottle with flowers that he put as a memorial for a ghost. In the English translation, they are referred to by one member as "Li'l Yama," "Li'l Mitch," and "Li'l Toshi" respectively.

• Shigeo and Harutoki – Shigeo: Voiced by: Brad MacDonald , Harutoki: Voiced by: Steve Staley
Shigeo and Harutoki are two friends of Chad. Shigeo lives on the money he makes from his part time job and is easily upset when he does not get to eat.

• Raku, a.k.a. Karakura Lion Jet
Raku (named "Cammy" in the English version, as raku means "camel") is the spirit of a cat that Yuzu Kurosaki once fed. In its attempt to follow Yuzu home, it was killed by a passing car. It returns sometime later as a spirit of itself with unusually high spiritual power, attracting hollows. When the hollows endanger Yuzu, it transforms into a lion to protect her. Don Kanonji, who organized the Karakura Superheroes in response to the hollows it was attracting, dubs it the "Karakura Lion Jet" upon first seeing it. He also claims it as the team's "hero mecha" (a common staple in Super Sentai-styled anime), despite it not being mechanical. Transformed, Raku exhibits impressive speed and can surround itself in flame. After the hollow is defeated, Raku, having fulfilled its purpose, passes on. Nobody other than Yuzu knows that Raku is actually the "lion jet". Yuzu and Karin compare Raku to their brother, Ichigo.

• Ganryū (巌龍?) - Voiced by: Masashi Ebara
Ganryū is the leader of the "Dark Ones" in Bleach: Memories of Nobody. In the film, he tries to use a shinigami named Senna to disrupt the balance between the worlds, collapsing both