Gin Ichimaru

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Gin Ichimaru is a male anime and manga character who features in Bleach.

Biography

Origin

Gin Ichimaru (Japanese: 市丸 ギン, Hepburn: Ichimaru Gin) was a male shinigami who came to be an inhabitant of the Soul Society.

As a child, he was living in Rukongai where he found a young girl named Rangiku Matsumoto who had collapsed on the ground. Gin came to offer her some dried persimmon that he was carrying and told her to eat it as she would collapse from the hunger. He then recognise that she had a notable spiritual pressure to her with Rangiku noting that Gin possessed a similar energy himself. He then introduced himself to Rangiku where she commented on the strange nature of his first name.

From the shadows, he came to spy the shinigami rendezvousing with Sōsuke Aizen where they came to give him a ball of pink energy. Gin came to determine that the man was their leader and resolved himself as he vowed to kill Aizen.

Around 100 years ago, he came to graduate from the Academy after only one year and was given a seated position within the 5th Division. One night, he came to battle and kill the 3rd Seat of the division when he was found by Aizen who praised him for his skill. Aizen came to inquire about Gin's impressions on the former 3rd Seat to which Ichimaru said that the warrior was worthless. This saw Gin being immediately promoted to the rank of 3rd Seat and hid the death of the previous holder of the position. Around 9 years later, Gin came to be a close subordinate to Aizen where he was privy to his superiors experiments in Hollowification of high ranking Shinigami in the Soul Society. This culminated in the Hollowification of the investigation team that had been sent by Captain-Commander Yamamoto.

It was noted that around 49 years ago that Gin came to rise to the position of captain of the 3rd division around the same time as Byakuya Kuchiki came to head the 6th division. Despite his advancement, he maintained his close ties to Aizen and even still referred to him as 'captain'. During this time, he accompanied Aizen and Tōsen as they secretly travelled to Hueco Mundo in order to establish a bas of operations there for Sōsuke's future plans. This led them to them confronting Baraggan Louisenbairn who ruled as the King of Hueco Mundo and Lord of Las Noches. Aizen attemped to enlist the Hollow's loyalty but Baraggan refused an alliance leading to Gin and Tōsen decimating his army. Thus, Baraggan was forced to swear loyalty to Aizen who began the next stage of his plan in secret in Heuco Mundo.

Soul Society

Later on, he was present in the Soul Society where he joined Kenpachi Zaraki in teasing Byakuya Kuchiki over his sister Rukia Kuchiki being sentenced to death. Byakuya came to brush them aside with this leading to Kenpachi looking to fight him but Gin took Zaraki away from the scene to prevent a battle being waged between the two captains.

Hueco Mundo

He saw from the shadows as Aizen oversaw Kaname bringing Grimmjow back to Hueco Mundo with him commenting to his lord on how he liked to have his subordinates fight one another thus keeping them in check.

Fake Karakura Town

Rangiku then arrived where she screamed Gin's name as she held him in her arms and cried. Gin's injuries were fatal where he thought on how he failed in the end and was unable to give back what was taken from Rangiku. Despite that, he was glad that he managed to say he was sorry to her back when he first left the Soul Society. At that point, Ichigo arrived at the scene where the dying Gin could see in his eyes that the substitute shinigami had gained new strength. This power was strong enough for him to fight and win with Gin taking solace that he could die and entrust the task of killing Aizen to Ichigo Kurosaki.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Gin Ichimaru was a male shinigami in his early to mid twenty-year-old person where he was unusually thin and tall with very sharp features that gave him a skeletal appearance along with unusual silver hair. He also keeps his face set in a wide mocking smile that he only wipe off on rare occasions of annoyance, surprise, confusion, or even sadness. Tus, normally, he kept his eyes constantly narrowed to slits and rarely ever opened his eyes enough to reveal their bright sky blue-color. Typically, he was fairly ordinary in terms of clothing and did not wear any unique items.

Ichigo claimed that normally he could read a person's thoughts and intentions in the way they battled but in the case of Gin he could not pick up anything from him. Thus, he said that he could not gauge the reasons why Ichimaru fought.

As a captain, Ichimaru was shown to go out for walks around the Seireitei in his free time. It was claimed that this was part of his hobby which was watching people. However, in reality, he enjoyed hunting around and searching for an opportunity to create mischief for anyone who spied upon.

On himself, Gin compared himself to a snake who was cold of flesh and devoid of heart. With his flickering tongue, he said he would go back and forth ever in search of new prey with anything he liked he swallowed whole.

Rukia Kuchiki and Wonderweiss Margela were both shown to had been rather frightened of him. In fact, Rukia came to note that whenever Gin spoke she felt like she was being strangled by snakes even if he was not speaking to her directly.

Since childhood, it was shown that his favourite food were dried persimmons.

Powers and abilities

It was said that he was a child prodigy who had surpassed the previous holder of the position Kaien Shiba. From a young age, he was shown to had progressed rapidly within the Soul Society to the point that he graduated from the Academy after only a year and secured a position within the 5th Division after graduation. In fact, his skill was great enough that he easily was able to best the 3rd Seat of the Division who he remarked as being a worthless fighter and saw his promotion to the position. He was also a master at toying with his opponent's mind and weakening their resolve.

Gin was also knowledgeable on Kido with the spells he knew including:

• Hakufuku (白伏, White Crawl; Viz "White Concealment") :
• Sentan Hakuja (千反白蛇, Thousand-Coil White Snake) :

He was a wielder of a zanpakutō that was called Shinsō (神鎗, Shinsō, literally "God Spear") that in its unsealed state took the form of a wakizashi where the guard was shaped like an 'S'. He could trigger his shikai by saying the command phrase 'Shoot to Kill' (射殺せ, ikorose). his caused the blade to glow white and extend is length to up-to one hundred sword lengths with this occurring at such high speed that it could impale his opponents. This made it to be a deadly long-range weapon but it also carried with it tremendous force without effecting Gin. As such, it became a useful tool in dislodging heavy objects due to the force behind the blade upon impact. Once extended, Gin was able to maintain the blade's length and swing Shinsō in wide arcs allowing him to simultaneously strike multiple targets with speed and ease.

Gin's bankai Kamishini no Yari (神殺鎗, Kamishini no Yari, literally "God-Slaying Spear") whereby the length of his sword was greatly increased. Originally, he claimed that his blade could go up-to 13 kilometers (8.07 miles) where its length and force behind it was able to bisect a whole stock of buildings through a single swing whilst being far away. The speed trough which he could extend and contract his sword was said to be 500 times the speed of sound (171,500 meters per second). It was able to reach its full length in less than 1/10 of a second making it the fastest zanpakutō. Gin though downplayed the speed of his sword and instead emphasised its length and cutting power in order to distract his opponent and catch them off-guard thus giving him a psychological advantage.

A further trait of his zanpakutō that he could embed a piece of it within an enemy after stabbing them. This piece then dissolved where it produced a deadly poison that broke down cells slowly killing his quarry.

Notes

• Gin Ichimaru was created by Tite Kubo where he featured in the setting of Bleach.

In other media

Television

Video games

Appearances

• Bleach:

External Links

• Bleach Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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