Ichigo is often featured in Weekly Shōnen Jump character popularity polls. His character has been well received among both readers and reviewers. In the live-action film, he is played by Sota Fukushi. In the English adaptations, he is voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch. In the animated adaptations of Bleach, Ichigo is voiced by Masakazu Morita in Japanese. Kubo said that Ichigo was created to replace Rukia as the protagonist of the series because he felt she was not suited for the role. In addition to the manga series, Ichigo appears in many other pieces of Bleach media, including the anime series, the four featured films, the two original video animations, rock musicals, several video games, light novels and the 2018 live-action film.
These powers come at the cost of Rukia's own, and as a result, Ichigo concedes to work as Rukia's stand-in, fighting to protect people from evil spirits called Hollows and sending good spirits, wholes, to a dimension known as the Soul Society. He is the main protagonist of the series, who receives Soul Reaper powers after befriending Rukia Kuchiki, the Soul Reaper assigned to patrol around the fictional city of Karakura Town. Ichigo Kurosaki ( Japanese: 黒崎 一護, Hepburn: Kurosaki Ichigo) is a fictional character in the Bleach manga series and its adaptations created by Tite Kubo. Ichigo Kurosaki as illustrated by Tite Kubo
