Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Vintage:
October 5, 2004
Status:
Still Airing
Summary:
Kurosaki Ichigo is a 15 year old boy that has an ability to see ghosts/spirits. Because of his ability, he is able to meet a female death god (a.k.a Shinigami) named Kuchiki Rukia. To save his family and friends from unwanted soul-eating spirits (Hollows), Rukia transfers her Shinigami powers to Ichigo. As Rukia takes on a human shell, together they solve mysteries involving spirits and hollows until from the spirit world comes 2 other shinigamis explaining that it is illegal to transfer Shinigami powers to humans and Rukia exceeded the time limit to stay in the human world. After they sentence her death for breaking the laws, Ichigo snaps and swears to everyone he will retrieve Rukia by breaking into the spirit world.
While more of a action anime, there is an interesting plot behind the fighting, the will and reasoning is explained and placed in black and white; and while a parent may say that this anime may be too violent for kids, the moral standards are very high, similar to the cartoons of old where there was a distinct good and evil. Though everything may not be in black and white (figuratively speaking) it exposes the mentality of persons in our society to an extent and has the view that everyone is good, they just need to know when they're wrong, or when they make mistakes. Kind of like "Right what you have done wrong before the consequences grow beyond comprehension".